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Tomorrow, Odysseus will be home.

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So I cackled the new clip of jorge’s cut song that’s about achilles facing off against hector and this line is so abysmal it wraps back around to perfection and I just… I just had to make this

the most insane thing about moby dick is that i have never, ever felt more of a personal connection with a narrator - in the way that i feel like ishmael really is telling me the story. that i'm some stranger that happened to sit beside him, maybe ask his name, and suddenly he's taken my hand and telling me his story. except he suddenly disappears from his story, and it barely seems about him anymore. it's about the crew, it's about queequeg, it's about the young boy pip, it's about starbuck and the family he'll never see again, it's about ahab, it's about the ship, it's about the brutality of the whaling industry, it's about the beauty of these men who take it on, and the beauty of the creatures they hunt, and it's about god and how small and insignificant we are. and suddenly ishmael allows himself back into the story but it doesn't change anything. everything and everyone is dead and gone. 'and i only am escaped alone to tell thee.' the drama's done and the sea rolls on just as it did 5,000 years ago. the story is all ishmael has left of them. it's all he can give you. 'do you understand?' ishmael is asking you. 'can you bear the weight of their story? when remembering is all we can do to give any of this meaning? can you give any of this meaning?' and it's too late for you. you carry the story now, too. now you have to remember. grieve and remember and give it meaning.

So…so unwell. An audience of shades we’d be.

Having the little pauses in Dangerous was great because not only does it leave the listener at home just vaguely hearing the chorus of Full Speed Ahead in their minds but you just know that if it was played on stage the audience quietly droning after Jorge would go fucking insane

“Six hundred men…six hundred deaths under my command, cause I had one goal in mind…”

The audience gently: “…make it back alive to our homeland…”

Like an echo of ghosts haunting him for his decisions in the back of his mind, the wind underneath his sails, the only thing Odyessus has left

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Am I going crazy or does thw beginning of Odysseus’ part in 600 strike sound a bit like the beginning of Athena’s verse in Little Wolf?

Like… “I don’t think you seem to get it” sounds similar to “I’ve no respect for bullies”…

Who knows I guess.

I keep seeing many theories as to how Odysseus was able to defeat Poseidon in 600 Strike and I desperately need Jorge to confirm at least one of them.

So far the two I’ve been seeing a lot are what I’ll call the “Boon of Ares Theory” where Odysseus is being blessed by Ares as well as what I’ll call the “600 Shades Theory” in which The Shades of Odysseus’ fleet (and Anticlea) are are empowering Odysseus, hence the name “600 Strike”.

High key like the 600 Shades theory more, and I also need an explanation as to why the voicelines change for both Polites and Eurylochus. Why now does Polites say “you can relax, my friend” and why does Eurylochus say “after all we’ve lost and all we’ve learned”? Why those lines specifically???

Actively filing a request to Jorge. Every detail that’s written in Epic is INTENTIONAL.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR LEGENDS ARCEUS AND THE INDIGO DISC

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Ok. It's confirmed by the indigo dial dlc that if you bring out Ogrepon when fighting Kieran, his AI will change and he gets special dialogue

So what if you could do that with nicknames?

What if in legends arceus, you named a pokemon after Emmet (or even use his Japanese name, Kudari), and Ingo has special dialogue about that name specifically. Like it triggers something in his fragmented mind that makes him remember more. What if you name a pokemon after him? What reaction would he have?

Or even for legends ZA if Emmet makes an appearance? Like, he hasn't seen his brother in....we don't know how long, at minimum over a year, and then we pull up and name something after his brother. It would be so interesting if he had some sort of reaction. Even more so if we send out a pokemon like chandelure which was his brother’s ace.

I desperately need a rendition of “Survive” in Ithaka Saga’s song “King”. Let me hear Odysseus unleash his remaining rage and fury on the Suitors, the only things standing in between him and the end of his journey home.