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"Odysseus when you come home, I'll be waiting. Even if you're the last thing I see, I'll be waiting."

"I'm right here, Mom. Can't you see I'm waiting? ...I took too long."

Jay, come here a second. I would like to have a word about why I'm silently bawling my eyes out at 1am because of Anticlea saying she will always love her son whom she died waiting for.

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“A mission

To kill someone’s son

A foe who won’t run

Unlike anyone you have faced before”

FUCK YOU ZEUS FUCK YOU ACTUALLY

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The fact that both Penelope and Anticlea were waiting for Odysseus, they sang with longing, waiting, no matter how long it would take before he came back home. Only one will ever see him return back home, and even then he is a changed man, he’s no longer the same-

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dreamworks please make an animated movie for Epic: The Musical

done properly it could rival The Prince of Egypt, i'm so serious

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I am CONVINCED that the right answer in Ruthlessness when Poseidon asked for an apology was "actually fuck your son, I wish I killed him, you're right!" and to prove that he had FINALLY got the point all the gods are trying (and failing) to teach him because Polites got to him first

(although Poseidon was always going to kill his men and try to kill him, this was a test, but there was never a chance Poseidon wasn't going to take his OWN advice)

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Shoutout to odysseus's massive, rippling, thighs

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Odysseus: It's a long story. Just hide, quick, please. Penelope: Oh, okay. Telemachus: I love how mom will hide from any authority figure under any circumstance. Odysseus: Oh yeah, she'd take him out if we told her too. Penelope: What? We're taking him out? Odysseus: Not this time.

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Criticize Athena all you want but being this family's patron must be so frustrating.

"Hold fast to the rock. Hold to the- it's literally in front of you HOLD HARDER. Why are you drowning??"

"I've got you the people, the ship, I've literally prepared it and pushed it to the sea with my own hands. All you had to do is put a sandwich in your bag. What do you mean you are too shy to talk to Nestor?"

"You go to sleep, now."

"Odysseus swim UP. If you'd stop drowning you'd see the coast. It's right there. No I cannot touch you, it's RIGHT THEREEE!"

"Penelope go to sleep."

"Just say hi. Just say hi. It's not scary trust me."

"No I didn't abandon you, Odysseus. It's complicated. You know it's me, right? You know this humble little sheppard is about to deck you."

"I'm about to cough syrup you, ma'am. Go to bed and stay in there!"

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Listening to Epic’s Underworld Saga, and I just.., the background creaking of the boat through out ‘The Underworld’ makes everything even more heartbreaking.

I can just imagine Odysseus seeing his lost loved ones and walking along the length of the boat as they pass them, trying to stay with them as long as he can. Until he’s at the back of the boat, watching his mother fade in the distance.

“Bye mom…” fucking killed me 😭😭😭

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THEN I'LL BECOME THE MONSTER I WILL DEAL THE BLOW AND I'LL BECOME THE MONSTER LIKE NONE THEY'VE EVER KNOWN-

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Epic: The Underworld Saga

The Underworld Saga slaps. But I'm gonna drop another bucket of feels to The Underworld number.

Remember to get to the Underworld, you have to cross the River Styx. Odysseus is going by ship, but most of the time, it's just dead souls moving on to the afterlife, so they cross with Charon the Ferryman.

Thing is, though, you have to pay him.

Part of the burial rites in Ancient Greece was placing a coin in the mouth or near the body of the deceased so they could pay Charon to bring them across the river. No coin, no crossing.

Polites was killed by the Cyclops and left behind.

The 558 men drowned in the ocean after Poseidon's rampage.

His mother Anticlea drowned herself off the shores of Ithaka. (At least in versions of the story I remember. Somebody who's actually read The Odyssey will have more accurate information on her fate.)

None of them received a proper burial.

So all those souls they encounter in that number are trapped in limbo for eternity because they can't pay for the crossing.

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I like how I can read a greek myth and I'll be like "Oh, well that was nice" but then someone writes a musical based on the same myth and I can feel it rewriting my cells on a molecular level

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Odysseus: the Gods have allowed me to live another day and I’m going to make it everyone’s problem

The Gods, getting ready to boot him to Calypso’s island: actually we did not allow that

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Can we talk about how amazing Jorge’s mom can sing? Cause not only was it a heartbreaking moment, but her voice is so pretty too?!

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Odysseus watching the suitors

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I must get to see Penelope and Telemachus

So if we must sail through dangerous oceans and beaches

I'll go where Poseidon won't reach us

And if I got to drop another infant from a wall in an instant so we all won't die

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Then I'll become the monster

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How am I expected to go about the rest of my day after hearing the underworld saga