#epic the musical Circe

[dearqueerheart]

sorry just let me infodump for one second, ok? ok.

epic the musical has me in a chokehold (spoilers ahead, PLEASE GO LISTEN if it seems like something you’d be into). and i was rethinking on the song Monster. specifically, the part where he begins to justify being cruel by comparing himself to the foes he’s faced. polyphemus, circe, poseidon (i 1000% think the order matters, ill get there in a second). and all of that just shows how his, like so many dangerously intelligent men in greek myths, big flaw is hubris. overwhelming hubris. he thinks that he’s allowed to be cruel because a cyclops, a witch, and a god are allowed to be cruel. he is just one of so many greeks who think they’re as good as — or even better than — the gods.

and there are hints of this throughout the entire show up until that point. he attempts (and succeeds in, after facing tragic losses) to deceive polyphemus by drugging him with the lotus fruit, believing that he is more powerful and intelligent than the cyclops. he tries to reason with poseidon after being asked by the sea god for an apology for blinding his son, but he does this in SUCH a manipulative way. poseidon tells him, “i won’t kill your men if you apologize to me,” and ody goes, “alright bet,” and gives him such an incredible non-apology (“poseidon, we meant no harm”). he is too fucking proud to apologize, and will attempt to MANIPULATE AN OLYMPIAN GOD in order to protect that pride. it’s wild.

he actually does successfully “defeat” circe, but only by literally begging her (“i beg you circe, grant us mercy”) to save his men and help him get home. he wins this fight because he puts his pride aside for once in his goddamn life, and rescues the scouting party because of it.

so here’s why the order matters in the song monster: he’s working himself up to comparing himself to an olympian. he doesn’t list his foes in chronological order. he lists them in amount of power and intelligence. if you just take what he’s saying at face value, he says “well, polyphemus was justified, and circe was justified, and poseidon was justified, then i must be, too!” but if you read deeper, he’s comparing his evil deeds to the evil deeds of people far more powerful and complicated and experienced than him.

in the thunder saga, both scylla and zeus manipulate this pride. scylla uses it to drop odysseus’ guard, inviting him to compare himself to her, and to find kinship with her, as they’re both “monsters” (“deep down, you know that we are the same”). and zeus tests his pride, to see how deep it fully goes, and possibly to reveal to odysseus himself how prideful he is. like poseidon and athena, zeus may be trying to teach odysseus a lesson, albeit significantly harsher than the latter. (“if i had to make you choose the lives of your men and crew or your own, why do i think they’d lose?”) it’s one of my favorite moments in that song, because it’s really just zeus pushing all of odysseus’ buttons to force him to make the choice that zeus wants him to make.

anyway that’s all. it’s just so cool and i have a lot of thinks!! i could make a whole essay just about the gods’ desire to teach odysseus but i’ll save that for another time.

[patches4thechaos]

Epic fans how we doing

[dusty3llipsis]

there are other ways 🌸🌈🗡️✨

(no vines or flowers version below)

[anxiety-problem]

They work at Papa’s Wingeria

Designs by @gigizetz

[doppy-enjo]

Circeposting

[collagedotorg]

Circe?

Circe

[thisismyfunblog]

I thought this might be funny

[blitzosicedcoffee]

Poseidon Eh? There might be a way to evade him~ There might be a way to geeet, home~ Though this other way's very dang'rous~ It might be your one final hope!~ I know of a Brilliant Prophet~ Problem is-This Prophet is-

*DEAD*

[dictatorshipper]

If I recall correctly, Circy is Apollo's descendant, so I like the idea of her taking the power ftom the Sun

And also being a smug cunning bitch to really make a good opponent to Ody, yes

[danianise-cosplay]

More photos from the Circe closet cosplay shoot!

It was super rainy that day and it was a long way to the location but it was very worth it still! We weren’t just going to the location to take cosplay photos, we were also going as tourists, it’s a beautiful place and I highly recommend visiting it if you get the chance. Also don’t worry I was wearing a jacket over the dress for most of the day, just took it off for the photos! I didn’t get sick or catch a cold or anything.

First post

📍 Abbaye de Jumièges, France

[feathers-silly-rambles]

Here are the designs I made for a good chunk of the characters. I have some more, but I'll post those tomorrow. They were all based on the appearance of their voice actors (except Polites because I couldn't find his VA until after- whoops-), art/statues I found on Google from like- Greece or wherever they're from, and other designs people had made for them.

They're probably not the best or most accurate, but I like them and that's all that matters I think. This is all for fun anyways.

[mudpuddlenl]

Might make a cosplay sideblog at some point but:

Current cosplay plans!

- Mad Hatter (Wonderland Musical). The red chess outfit specifically. This will likely be my cosplay for Heroes Dutch Comic Con Summer next year if everything goes right (and if I can get time off from work to go to cons. I might go multiple days this year but there’s a festival that was in the same weekend this year that might also be in the same weekend next year, and that’s like my “home” festival/con)

- Circe (Epic the Musical) - likely as a closet cosplay and not to an event/con. The dress I’m thinking of is a bit too naked for me to feel comfy wearing it to a long con day. Maybe if I can find a way to make it (non-permanently) more modest though. The main problem in that regard is that it has a pretty deep cleavage and I’d have to wear a wire bra. I really don’t want to wear a wire bra to a long con day. :/

One of my cosplay friends is going as Odysseus to HDCC next year, so if I can make it work it might be nice to do a group/duo cosplay for the day (only if I’m doing multiple days though, because I do want to do Mad Hatter at that con too). Sadly he lives too far away to just. Meet up and take pictures together outside of cons.

[pizzaplexmechanic]

have these been done yet

[doppy-enjo]

I passed out last night and when I woke up I found this Circe concept on my tablet and blood on my hands.

Come inside~

[the-mori-arty]

HERE. IT. IS.

THE. ART.

[collagedotorg]

I saw you did one for epic but I was wondering if you could do the cercie saga specifically ?

I sure can!

The Circe Saga