#stray gods aphrodite

[kaywinnit]

Yo! Hey! So, now that Stray Gods is out and most people have played it (if you haven't, get on it! GOTY, people!) I'm going to share the artwork I made for it! Shoutout again to the team at Summerfall Studios for what was such a wonderful task! Each stained glass piece represents a part of Aphrodite's story. Initially, she is adored and worshipped. But, after Ares' betrayal, it all fell apart for our beloved Goddess of Love. The last piece features a threatening Athena, with the rest of the cast below.

#stray gods #aphrodite #stray gods aphrodite #stained glass #stained glass art

[soumarhea]

Aphrodite's stained glass. Its so ✨aesthetic✨

The Trial family photo stained glass is my favorite because,

Even in stained glass Apollo is big sad boi

Eros looks so tired

Tell me that doesn't look like one smiley Hermes. They're so 😄

Also, squint and you'll see Medusa uwu

#stray gods #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #stray gods aphrodite #stray gods hermes #also also like OSP said; Athena the Goddess of Speaking to the Manager #she looks so pissed lol #when mom wants a perfect family photo but everyone is just... everyone

[onehopefuldreamer]

Stray Gods Hugs

#stray gods #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #stray gods eros #stray gods aphrodite #stray gods venus #stray gods grace #stray gods freddie #stray gods persephone #stray gods calliope #i just love collecting all the hugs in this game and thought i'd share #these are all such lovely moments in game #whether happy or bittersweet i love them all #my one teeny tiny complaint is that grace and persephone never got a hug like this #but hey i guess you can't have everything #right?

[vaguely-concerned]

Stray Gods Character Design Thoughts

In order we're going Pan, Apollo, Persephone, Eros, Aphrodite and a little bit of Venus! Disclaimer that I have no professional experience in character design at all, so these are only my vibes-based ramblings and observations purely for fun and because my brain simply won't shut up about this game haha. Also I will freely admit Pan probably gets the most attention in this because of who I am as a person and where my heart truly lies at the end of the day lol

PAN

Ok, first of all I have so many questions and they all delight me. This guy is the god of the wild places ("Where else would I be, but among the trees and the wild things?"), he lives in a magical garden on top of an office building... and he’s walking around everywhere in an expensive three piece tailored suit (when Freddie accuses him of being a sleaze in a cheap suit he protests mildly that his suit is anything but cheap haha). The cut of it is really carefully thought out and planned, but the bold colours under the grey coat and (studied I am sure) careless details like the tie also make it fun and playful. Which is pleasingly coherent with the general theme of his character in the writing too and I adore it.  

This is not the point, I know, but I’m wondering how he makes that work just like. Practically now. Has Athena fixed up Olympus with in-house laundry service? And other sentences I did not expect to type out today lol. Ah well he’s wily I’m sure he has his ways. 

I can't heap enough praise on it, this design is SUCH an interesting and elegant marriage of the immediately recognizable satyr features and thus animal symbolism with all its added pagan weight in a post-Christianity setting, and the sort of ‘man of wealth and taste’ imagery of the devil at the crossroads they clearly want to evoke, especially in his first scene. And partially through his mannerism there’s also an added element of like… eccentric but surprisingly competent college professor — just look at the way he carries himself whenever he isn’t putting on the charm or when he’s being guarded and self-contained. That little hands resting on his back pose exudes ‘nerd’ so deeply to me haha. (Incredibly fuckable nerd, to be sure, but still!)

you don't fool me buddy I know what you are. I know all the trouble you went to to get a book.

His body language shifts very quickly between wild playful expressiveness and a sort of nonchalant urbane detachment that borders on coldness sometimes, and it fascinates me. Especially since that more refined unavailable side seems to be something he’s deliberately cultivated, to some extent. When Grace calls him out on how boring it sounds to just let yourself go numb and distant to survive, he doesn’t deny that at all, only saying that at least it’s been quite effective. 

Putting the rest under a cut to save people's dashes! I may, as they say, have gotten a tiny bit carried away.

Physically he’s not very imposing — he’s only a little taller than Grace, and the shortest of all of the love interests, which I find somehow very charming and also plays into him being more of a guile-based character. “Seeing as I am neither big nor truly bad, it behooves me to be wary of those who are both” indeed!

I’m fairly sure he’s the character wearing the most layers. Even his hands are mostly covered by gloves. He partially covers up his eyes with the tinted glasses — interesting, as one of the features that most give his real nature away with their sidewise pupils, and the lenses are tinted purple as the complimentary colour to yellow, so it downplays just how bright they are. All together it’s very much a ‘well, he’s certainly got to be in there somewhere’ sort of vibe at times. (Since he also seems to care about his clothes quite a bit — he complains about scuffing his pants during the climb in the Medusa mission if you go the lockpick route — I have drawn the conclusion that getting him out of all of that must take quite a bit of time, no matter how much practice he’s probably put in over the years of meeting 'delicious people' lol) 

It’s a design that manages to give, at the same time: animal-featured ancient god, deal with the devil, teacher, overtones of con man if you’re inclined to be Freddie-levels of uncharitable lol, eccentric rich weird uncle… there’s a lot going on here and somehow it all works haha. He isn’t wearing any jewelry at all unless you count the glasses, which now that I’m looking at the rest of the character designs in this game is actually fairly rare among them!

His eyes really are incredibly bright when uh naked as it were, though. I like the implication that he is aware of this and actually goes out of his way to downplay it, even when he’d normally be wearing glamour anywhere it would strictly matter for it to show. Between that, the meaningful zoom in on him at the Underworld when Apollo says that all the Idols can be themselves there even if they don’t look human, Pan claiming he’s been distrusted and side-eyed by the others basically since the beginning and seeming kind of frustrated and hurt about it, in his deflecting way, and the implication of a hierarchy among the Idols at least under Athena’s leadership in this stained glass painting (notably all the visibly non-human Idols/hangers on are at the bottom, and Hecate, Asterion and especially Medusa are the characters most affected and confined by the oppressive status quo Athena upholds)...

this one! sing it with me now EVERYBODY LEAVES THIS PLACE ALIVEEE ok we can move on

you know, some possible Subtext and Implications going on here, I’d say. (It is only potential subtext and implication, though, so, you know, take my extrapolations here with a grain of salt!) He certainly doesn’t do himself many favors with the persona he’s built up in regards to being trusted and included either, but his status as a little bit of an outsider does seem to precede that so I feel like it’s more of a response than the main cause. Along the same lines he gets much more testy about the Green route of ‘I Can Teach You’ than he does about you just not choosing him in the Red one, he takes that pretty gracefully. So it is the being deliberately kept on the outside and openly distrusted and dismissed that gets to him. (To be clear I don't think openly distrusting a strange guy showing up in your living room like that is at all unreasonable either haha I just think the nuances of his response are enlightening as to where he's really coming from)

this one isn't even to illustrate anything it's just because I love him so much and think he's pretty I'll be real with you all

Anyway I just keep thinking about how incredibly tender it would be if sometimes, when they’re in private, Grace takes his glasses off to see his eyes better and he lets her. That shakes something deep in my soul apparently. That fucks me up but like in a good way.

APOLLO

- Apollo’s style of dress leaves his navel helpfully exposed for the copious amounts of depressed gazing he habitually subjects it to. (I say this not entirely without affection.) 

a crumpled tissue of a man

In keeping with his incredibly emo mode, there’s very little colour involved and he doesn’t take much care to present anything with care (look at the state of that shirt and tell me if Apollo has picked up an iron in the last forty years), BUT interestingly he’s not entirely open and unadorned, he does wear that network of jewelry across his chest and neck. Which I think is to show that the old Apollo is not entirely gone (“There he is, god of the sun”), even if he has been a sack stuffed with sad for a long time now. I wonder how many of these things are leftover preferences from being only Lucas — presumably the tattoos at least are from before he fished Apollo up from the sea? If I’m reading the vibes right on that, the blue of the tattoos and the gold of the sun… thingy he wears with the jewelry are the main splashes of colour in his design aside from his hair, and they’re both ‘leftovers’ from both his previous lives, surfer bro and solar deity recently fallen on hard times. Physically he would be tall and imposing, parodically built, except that he carries himself with all the confidence and panache of a damp depressed dishrag. 

Also I can’t believe this guy is walking around everywhere in sandals. Apollo makes sad flip-flop sounds wherever he goes, including when he steps up during ‘The Trial’. That’s so amazingly pathetic (affectionate). 

We can see from the photo with him and Calliope that he wasn’t always quite this much of a mess. Once, he did his shirt up a whole maybe four buttons and wore something that wasn’t beige!

Intellectually I acknowledge that it's a design meant to provide fanservice, even though I personally could not consider this guy in a sexual or romantic light if you gave me a thousand years to build up to it. (I've said it before but if he's anything to me, he is the incredibly fail father figure continually letting me down in tiny ways I never had.) Godspeed to the Apollo-enjoyers out there, though, Summerfall gave him those abs and that poor little meow meow energy just for you and it's your right to enjoy that

- Pan and Apollo also bring out some really interesting contrasts both as characters and designs when you hold them up against each other:  

Once you scratch the surface a tiny bit Pan clearly has just as much self-loathing as Apollo (“If Athena had taken me up on my offer, the Idols would have been better off” uh. Okay buddy we’re gonna have to process that one together later what do you say), but where Apollo is completely helplessly open in his misery at all times, you need to unbutton Pan at least three layers until you get a honest or straightforward emotion out of him and I think that’s amazingly carried through into their visual designs. It's Good Visual Storytelling Brent   

PERSEPHONE

- I’m fairly sure the colour of Persephone’s suit is supposed to evoke pomegranate seeds. See and judge for yourself I suppose: 

She also has details on her coat that depict foliage and growing plants, but colour-wise they and the rest of the detailing is in the blue-green that symbolizes the Underworld and so death. Her jewelry is gold, which — and I’m about to do some reaching here, I’ll be big enough to own — could play in with Hades being the god of riches as well as of the dead/the underworld. Probably it’s because it works well with the colour scheme, but I’m going to pretend that it’s because even if she didn’t get the throne she did get that motherfucker’s hoard when she killed him <3 Love that for her. Her jewelry is more rose gold than Apollo’s yellow gold, too. Watch me go for even more of a reach: between the necklace and the watch, those round discs of gold remind me of the coins put on the eyes of the dead but like you know repurposed since she doesn't need them to pay the Ferryman. I never promised I'd be reasonable in this did I.  

The short hair works real well for the butch vibe and looks amazing no notes, but I think it’s also a deliberate way to differentiate herself from her younger self — when speaking of Demeter’s death, she says that moment was also the final death of that young her, ‘that girl with the long hair who loved her gardens’. Clearly the Idols do a lot of reinventing themselves over the ages in more and less conscious ways.

She has a tattoo of what looks to be foliage and a skull across her left chest and arm. I really like that idea of her having the testament to both sides of her — goddess of spring, queen of the underworld — directly on her skin, under two layers of clothes that each represent those aspects. The one on her arm looks like stalks of grain tied together to resemble the bones of the hand/forearm, maybe? which is metal as fuck, needless to say. 

She is TALL and scary and the staging always plays that up, Grace tends to look up at her like O.O. I love how sharp she is too. 

Also she is incredibly hot but you don’t need me to tell you that you all have eyes I assume. 

EROS, APHRODITE and VENUS:

- I love literally everything about Eros’ design except his hair. Not even the concept of the haircut and colours or anything, just the way it’s rendered. It looks like one strange flat cap I can’t quite make understandable in three dimensional space as hair in my head lol. Other than that it’s a banging design though, the delicate see-through material over the leather BDSM harness is genius. Choosing this form of sensuality and attractiveness for him to embody -- one that is so deeply queercoded -- also works super well. The warmth and vulnerability of his body language on top of it is *chef's kiss*. just. please define his hair a bit more and it's perfect haha.

- I'm not sure I have that much to say about Aphrodite’s design except that of course she is beauty she is grace etc., it takes a lot of thought to make such a simple design shine and by god did they do it she’s so stunning. Also interesting how her dark blues and greens with cool/silvery details contrast with Venus’ warm reds and pinks and… brass? Idk I don’t really understand jewelry haha. All warmth and soft romanticism, anyway, it looks nice. (Side note but I love Venus’ rose tattoo.) Eros and Venus have much more matching colour schemes and they both bring those islands of warmth standing around Aphrodite in her shimmering ocean coolness. (Which of course is something she has to deliberately put on before going into public these days, and is unselfconsciously glamorous in the way of an old timey Hollywood starlet, as the blue route of 'The Ritual' lampshades)

:') *whisper* everybody...

Venus is wearing pearls, which is pleasing considering her connection to Aphrodite (and the backgrounds of the 'Lost in a Moment' variant of 'The Ritual')! and both of her and Aphrodite's outfits go for a shoulderless look to great effect.

ETA: When the camera is close on Aphrodite you can actually see that she has dark circles under her eyes, only partially covered by the makeup :'( I didn't notice that before I played through 'The Ritual' on a bigger screen today

All in all I just want to acknowledge what a fantastic job the character designers at Summerfall Studios have done! There are some really fresh new takes on these mythological figures here, and it makes so much sense within the world the game presents without resorting to well-worn and tired iconography, I really do admire it greatly.

#stray gods #stray gods pan #stray gods apollo #stray gods persephone #stray gods eros #stray gods aphrodite #sorry about the varying quality of the screenshots I have done my best lmao #if there's anywhere you can get the sprites in high resolution I couldn't find it so uh well be gentle lol #it's SO hard to track down scenes where you see them all in full figure and decent clarity #stray gods meta #meta #i don't even know if this is coherent anymore but it IS out of my head which is what I needed it to be haha I am free!! for now

[that-ari-blogger]

The Ritual Breaks Story

If you hadn't guessed by the two other posts I have made on the song, The Ritual is my favourite song in Stray Gods: The Role Playing Musical. I would go as far as to argue that it is the best song in the musical as well, but that isn't the point of this post.

This post is to gush over why I love the song so much. Specifically, this post will talk about how The Ritual messes with the commonly used story structure, in its placement in the musical, and in the song's actual structure.

Let me explain.

SPOILERS AHEAD

This post will focus on three of the most common story structures, the Monomyth, the Three Act Structure, and the Freytag's Pyramid. But first, I would like to do some contextualisation.

These structures are not rules.

Anyone who tells you that a story "should" or "must" or "can't" do something is talking out of their arse. As such, these structures are to be used as analytical tools, rather than ratings. I am not going to be scoring the song as to how many points on the Hero's Journey it hits, I will be looking at how the musical as a whole uses the monomyth and how it doesn't and to what effect.

That felt like it needed to be said.

The Monomyth, or Hero's Journey, was presented in Joseph Campbell's 1949 book: The Hero With A Thousand Faces and it was, in my opinion, rather unrefined. Or more accurately, overrefined.

What do I mean by this? I mean that Campbell's monomyth was incredibly overdetailed and ridiculously prescriptive as Campbell tried to squint and put every story ever written into the same mould and make judgements about society at the same time.

It also had elements in it that haven't aged well at all. For example, one element that Campbell proposed every story had, was called the "woman as temptress" which is... not just sexist, but also inaccurate. I'm glad the modern monomyth has mostly avoided this.

As such, the monomyth concept is what I will be using, much like other modern interpretations, and either scrapping, or ignoring, certain elements. It is a medicine journey with a few more steps along the road. Ted Ed has a fantastic video on the subject, as does Overly Sarcastic Productions.

In any case, The Ritual, according to this model, fits into the "Trials" section. It's unimportant, and not typically a challenge for a character. This is the start of Empire Strikes Back, when Luke has to get out of the frozen cave. It's tangential.

But The Ritual is what several of the main characters have been leading towards. Eros and Aphrodite and to some extent Apollo have all been gearing up to this moment. You could read this as the result or crisis in their arcs, but I don't think that fits. It's its own moment, but it's its own moment in someone else's story, not Grace's.

The three act structure is the most famous, and is almost synonymous with writing as a whole, but it isn't as ubiquitous as you would think. James Cameron (who wrote The Terminator and Alien) offers this piece of advice:

"I firmly believe in the three act structure. I have just never written one."

The structure boils down to three sections of a story, each culminating in its own climactic event, that build into the third act climax. These don't have to be fast paced, but they are emotional beats. It could be a fight, or a quiet, retrospective moment.

There are then plenty of elements that are usually relegated to a specific act. For example, a villain might have a third-act breakdown, or a hero might discover their magical powers or something in the first act. And the mentour usually dies either in the first or second act climaxes, or quietly at the start of act three.

I would say that The Ritual hits the second act climax, possibly. Because Stray Gods almost intentionally avoids this structure. The closes thing it has to a first act climax is Challenging A Queen, which isn't really a climax, its more of an individual challenge that sets up something later. Similarly, Old Woulds might fit that first act climax, but it also sets up other stuff in later parts. It's deliberately unclear.

But you know what isn't unclear? The structure of The Ritual itself fits firmly into the three act structure, and so do a ton of other songs in the musical, most notably Phantom Pains. I would say the two songs are linked by grief and cycles, but the entirety of the musical is linked with that, so it's not really a unique thread.

The Ritual begins with exposition in the form of those stained glass windows about the war and the idols' place in it. Then it switches to a different location based on a choice you make.

Then there is a lull as Eros (Or whoever you choose if you get to a point where you can choose) begins to speak, before the final act gets decided, and it is here that all the decisions come to fruition. Everything up to the third act is set up, and it all pays off here.

Freytag's Pyramid is a lot less complicated than it sounds, and it is one that you have probably heard of, if not by its actual name.

This is the Freytag's Pyramid. I've heard people call this the five act structure, and I disagree with those people, but I can see where they are coming from. There are five main sections of this, but they aren't acts, they are descriptors.

The Freytag's Pyramid model is a graph. And yes, I am going to bring maths into this. (I can count to 12 and a half, so I assure you I am quite qualified)

The horizontal axis of the graph is time. As the story progresses, usually, you move from left to right on the scale. The vertical axis is tension. The more tense an event is, usually, the further up on the graph it sits.

As you can see in the diagram above, a story tends to progress towards a climax, with tension rising as the story picks up speed, until the story closes, and the stress drops to the denouement, which is just a fancy word for the finale. These lines can be a bit wavy as you see fit, but the general direction is fairly standardised.

So where does The Ritual fit into this?

Trick question, it doesn't. I would argue that The Ritual is its own climax. It should (if we were using this model) fit on the "rising action" section of this. But it doesn't, it's its own thing.

Ok, I've harped on long enough about theoretical stuff. The point I am getting at is that Stray Gods isn't Grace's story. That's a weird way of putting it but let me clarify. Stray Gods is the story of Grace convincing this messed up family to get along and get over their problems.

The Ritual feels like a climax because it is. This song is the climax of a different story that Grace stumbled into and helped change the direction of. It's the climax of a tragedy that Grace managed to avert.

Stray Gods functions like people watching and doesn't fit with the story structures because people watching is exactly what this story is. This is several different stories that have stretched and stretched until they have warped beyond comprehension and lost all meaning.

The stories you watch are trying desperately to stick to these pre-existing patterns, and they aren't working. Stray Gods is a musical about change. You don't fix these people's problems for them, but you convince them to change and to adopt a different story structure. To try things a new way. To try and fix themselves instead of running face first into each obstacle over and over again until either it crumbles, or they do. The Ritual is this concept put succinctly and powerfully.

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#rants #literary analysis #literature analysis #greek mythology #what's so special about...? #stray gods #stray gods spoilers #stray gods the roleplaying musical #stray gods aphrodite #stray gods eros #stray gods the musical #stray gods the ritual #the ritual stray gods

[dumpster-druid]

The Stray Gods green soundtrack is absolutely WILD storytelling wise. You telling me we get a romantic song with Apollo after we let Aphrodite DIE?? We FORGIVE Athena for basically killing Calliope AND Freddie?? Insane choices green!grace.

#stray gods #stray gods apollo #stray gods freddie #stray gods calliope #stray gods aphrodite #voice actor #laura bailey #troy baker #game #visual novel

[setsailforthestars]

Stray Gods went so hard with Aphrodite and Hephaestus I need the sequel about him ASAP

#stray gods #stray gods spoilers #stray gods Hephaestus #stray gods Aphrodite

[mimocrocodilelol]

"The ritual"

#stray gods #stray gods game #aphrodite #stray gods aphrodite #my art #i made something #rewatched stray gods playthrough #love it #designs and songs and characters are wonderful! #if you haven't seen it #check it out it's so good #i personaly like the green path throughout the hole game #cuz it gives you more satisfying ending #click for quality cause mobile is stupid #sorry for rambling

[floramisu]

Everybody wants to see you fall in love, so don't get lost in a moment. Moving on is the only way to go.

Version without the colored lights under the cut!

#digital art #my art #arte digital #digital artist #art #fanart #Stray Gods #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #Stray Gods Aphrodite

[libitelnitsachaiynikov]

SPOILERS

(Questions)

Is it possible to save Aphrodite, but with blue final choise? I want it to be her decision

I has replayed this song so much times. In my first game there was "You need to live", and i couldnt click it, i realy think, that i cant do this choise instead of her.

(i found line with more acceptable wording, but still want to save her by her choise)

But she is passing her eidolon over and over again!!!!!! I'm in tears(((

#stray gods #stray gods aphrodite

[lylathewise]

HEAVY SPOILERS FOR STRAY GODS!!!

TW: Suicide

My final point is that she hasn't been the least bit proactive in finding Hephaestus. In the end game, it's discovered that Hephaestus is being kept by the government, who easily offer this information up and everyone is surprised, which tells me no one was looking into it. If she can't let go until she sees him again, shouldn't she be doing everything in her power to find him?

So, in my first playthrough of Stray Gods, going to Aphrodites' party and listening to everyone, I couldn't help but feel outraged at Aphrodites' selfishness. Let me be clear: What happened to her was truly horrifying, and I understand she tried every method under the sun to overcome her memories. I'm also not saying she's selfish by committing suicide, as someone who has severe depression, I know that everyone deserves to rest if it truly becomes unbearable.

What enrages me, is that she is consuming people. She can only handle everything for 20 years, meaning that if the ritual is successful, Venus herself will be, most likely, 40 something when she does this all over again. This is the 4th time she's done this, and she's not choosing people made of stronger stuff, she's purposefully choosing people who are innocent and naive. What's more, she's completely blind to the emotional suffering she's putting her "son", Eros, through. He's stood by her, watching her literally kill herself over and over again.

If I could draw worth a damn, I'd draw the people she's consumed drowning in black sludge, and Eros sinking, while she is standing, radiant, her eyes covered by a black blindfold.

#stray gods aphrodite #stray gods #tw: suicide

[soumarhea]

Alternate take for Orpheus,

yea I cheated with the "c" so what

[Part 1]

#stray gods #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #excuse the subpar quality #this is mostly because I don't want to leave anyone out #stray gods aphrodite #stray gods athena #stray gods asterion #stray gods medusa #stray gods orpheus

[techtainia-makes-things]

Let it be known that I’m borderline obsessed with the Stray Gods character designs (and the music).

I want to hug both of them, but I can’t, so I will draw them.

#stray gods #stray gods persephone #stray gods aphrodite #Tech’s art #They make me feel so gay it’s not even funny. They’re just so pretty. #I’ve also never seen a non-pink Aphrodite design before #10/10 would wear Persephone’s outfit #Okay #thats enough nerding out over them for now #Stray Gods is supper cool #One of the only video games that I want to go out of my way to buy

[warlock-main]

I can't be the only one that thinks that Aphrodite from Stray Gods gives the best hugs, right? she's got to just by the looks of it she just puts so much emotion into every fucking hug she gives and you can clearly fucking see it in the way she hugs both Eros and Grace, like fuck this, i need to be hugged, i have been deprived of Hugs that actually mean something for so fucking long and i feel like if Aphrodite hugged me i'd just cry my heart out, i'm sure there's going to be people who think i'm implying something but there is zero attraction there for Aphrodite for me, she's absolutely fucking gorgeous, i can get behind that but she really does seem like she'd give the best hugs, rant over, i just had to get that out there

#stray gods aphrodite #stray gods grace #stray gods eros #stray gods game #summerfall studios #give me hugs

[enby-andi]

Ask me about my Stray Gods Musical Face Fan Cast.

.......

Okay don't strong arm me 😅

I only have the Chorus fancasted rn. This is based on how closely the choices resemble the characters, if they have theatre experience, and how close their voices are to the original voice cast.

For Athena:

Look up "Hannah Waddingham Into the Woods" and tell me her rendition of "Last Midnight" doesn't remind you of "The Trial"

Persephone:

Sara Ramirez has the Belting Broadway range that is needed to hit some of Persephone's songs, plus she has a darker tone to her speaking voice that fits. Look up "Diva's Lament Holy Grail" to see what I mean.

Aphrodite:

This is one I'm most torn on. While Danielle Brooks has the stage presence and voice to be Aphrodite, Angela Bassett has the presence and can portray that "old hollywood glamour" that Grace talks about in her journal entries.

Apollo:

This is the laziest of my casting 😂😂😂 Chris Pine can sing, looks like Apollo, and he can play Sad Boys. The end 😂😂😂

I honestly have no idea who would play the the rest of the characters, let alone Grace. My mind is drawing blanks.

#stray gods #stray gods athena #stray gods persephone #stray gods aphrodite #stray gods apollo #stray gods face cast

[strivia]

if i may ask about Stray Gods, of all the playthroughs you've played and seen, what is your favorite version of Aphrodite's route? your favorite choices during her song The Ritual and its outcome?

Of course! Personally, I really love Green choices with a red final choice. I love the Lost in a Moment version, and Eros' part in that version, I just 🥺😭

But I really like the opening parts of the blue versions too, not the blue chorus though. 😅

Eros' part in a red/blue first choice, green chorus and red fourth choice also hits hard. I heard that version in this compilation.

Admittedly I have a hard time wrapping my mind around all the potential variations of the songs @_@

#ask strivia #alittleflashvibe #stray gods #stray gods spoilers #stray gods Aphrodite