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Hmmm thinking about this owl mask idea inspired by @musical-ingenue-wannabe cuz ITS LITERALLY PERFECT FOR MY ATHENA DESIGN HOW HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT-

Have some Athena doodles on collanotes while I was in class dnskksj

Oh yeah also my calypso design is there ig

Ok so like. A while ago I saw this one Athena character analysis video on YT, specifically the thumbnail showed that the analysis was about Athena (or the Gods?) not having something to fight for, or a purpose. I’ve avoided watching it for a while (irrational fear, doesn’t matter) but I thought I’d saved it to watch later. Earlier today I suddenly remembered it and went to look for it in my watch later list and it wasn’t there? I cant find it by searching for key words either and I have no idea who made the video. If anyone knows what I’m talking about can y’all send me the link? Or, if the video really was taken down, does anyone know what happened?!

I’ve been struggling with the colors of my calypso design for soooo long… maybe I can throw her here and let tumblr decide for me LMAOO I actually need help 💀💀

Jelly fish inspired because she and jellyfishes both look ethereal and pretty and soft and bubbly but actually carry a toxic sting 👀 her necklace/bracelets/ankle ring things are like cuffs and the cape thing is supposed to look like dolphin fins lol

More @irunaki’s baby Owlthena au on @gigizetz Circe’s island LMAOOO This time she’s meeting some of Circe’s nymphs (who are, for once, my own design)

Part 1

Considering changing my avatar to this (my post god games Athena design)

@irunaki’s Baby Owlthena au if Athena went on her own journey to go look for Odysseus and came upon Circe’s island (beautiful Circe design is of course by @gigizetz)

(I like to think Athena was told about the Pigs and Circe was told about Athena’s identity)

@midnightsays you hit the nail right on the head with that lol

Part 2

Somewhere in Apollo’s hospital on Olympus

I’m not usually opposed to hcs but this “Ares used dark quick thought to help Odysseus in 600 strike” and other divine intervention theories are getting OUT OF HAND ITS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE (TLDR at the end)

To start, Vengeance saga hit as hard as it did because Odysseus is all alone. Just listen to the intro of dangerous, the pause where the crew should’ve sung in response like in Full Speed Ahead. Because of all the choices he’s made, he’s fully alone now, and this is the first time he’s ever had to fight without his crew. Charybdis being a mortal facing up against a huge unsurvivable monster AND WINNING is what makes it so POWERFUL, and same goes with GITW/ 600 Strike. It’s the most impactful as a 1v1, Odysseus facing the cause of all his grief throughout the musical, he himself delivering every blow onto Poseidon on behalf of his dead crew. It’s CATHARTIC for him, and for us as the audience, because it’s a perfect ending to what Poseidon started in Ruthlessness when he taught Odysseus to be ruthless.

Dark Quick Thought also just kinda. Cheapens his character development. Dark quick thought inherently causes rage according to Jorge, basically making them more ruthless. If we relegate the reason Odysseus was so enraged and ruthless in straight up torturing Poseidon to Ares’ Dark Quick Thought, that just makes all the build up of Odysseus learning to use ruthlessness and to be a monster worthless. Dark QT isn’t why he’s acting so cold and ruthless; it’s all that he’s endured, forcing him to transform into a monster that disregards all morals just to get home, just to survive. It was Odysseus’ own decision to become a monster, like he literally said “I’m gonna use ruthlessness” in the song Dangerous, not because of any Dark QT influence. The fact that all his rage is coming only from himself, from his grief and exhaustion, and not Dark QT makes this moment all the more haunting.

The fact that this is the climax of his transformation is, and I’m not joking when I say this, illustrated by the line “next to my wife”. The whole musical “sleeplessness” (lol) has always been an indicator of guilt. E.g. “until it is said I cannot rest” “I no longer dream only nightmares of those who died” “I could sleep at night” etc. Even in LiP he was still haunted by guilt, since he’s trapped in Ogygia it feels like all he’s sacrificed has been completely worthless — he killed his whole crew for nothing. His response to Poseidon asking him how he’d sleep at night was “next to my wife”, showing he’s truly “thrown his guilt away” all to get home to see his wife — the only thing he cares about now.

Last thing, the gods just don’t like directly interfering in each others business. Hermes gave Odysseus a windbag and advice but that was it, hes still on his own at the end of the day. There’s a reason for why Athena didn’t ask Zeus to tell Poseidon to chill, why Hermes didn’t directly beat Zeus up for Odysseus. That helps make God Games MORE IMPACTFUL, because here are the gods, stubborn and set in their ways against directly helping mortals, and here’s Athena going through the trouble to request divine intervention ANYWAY, all for her friend. It makes no sense for any other god to randomly come and help Odysseus when they don’t even know the man.

I have no problem with people having fun imagining what would happen if the gods had helped Odysseus fight Poseidon, I’m just really frustrated bc I see so many people say this is “what actually happened” or “what should’ve happened” instead of being a fun hypothetical. There is no proof at all that any other gods came to help Odysseus in 600 Strike; the red eyes in the animatic is literally just symbolic and acts as contrast to Poseidon’s blue glowing gills on his shirt during the darkened torture scene.

TLDR: Direct divine intervention in 600 strike makes Odysseus’ isolation less impactful, cheapens his transformation into a ruthless monster and is just not realistic for the gods to do since they don’t interfere with each others business much.

I am absolutely freaking out about the implications of this one line btw

“We went through so much to get this”

“WE”. WHOS WE HERMES. WHAT HAPPENED IN OLYMPUS AFTER GOD GAMES. DID YALL ACTUALLY HELP ATHENA AFTERWARDS?? DO YOU ACTUALLY FEEL CLOSE ENOUGH AS A FAMILY TO FEEL BAD SEEING HER GET SMITED?? WILL JAY EVER TALK ABOUT WHAT THE GODS DID AFTER GOD GAMES???? AJRHEKBDK???????