Alright my brothers listen closely...

This AU has been in the works since early January and I drew half the art in the car all the way back then. I hate most of the art lmaooo

Not everyone is included ATM, but my idea is for Ryn to MAYBE be Calypso (I HATE doing that to my girl tho), Furfur will be Aeolus, Caim will be Polites, Azrael will be Tiresias, and Flauros will be complicated.

(What that means is I want Finch to be the baby dropped off the tower, but for Flauros to be Zeus taking the form of an older version of the baby to haunt our Odysseus. Y'all get what I'm saying?)

ANYWAYS ONTO THE ART!

"I'm just a man..."

Will is our Odysseus!  He's smart and crafty but also a fucking menace sometimes.  And can't keep his mouth shut.  He's the most likely to give the cyclops his social security number and home address out of the whole DRGO cast.  Also, it makes picking a Penelope incredibly easy.

This is the ONLY AU where Wilben gets a happy ending. You're welcome.

"I opened the wind bag while  you were asleep..."

Newer art obviously lmao. Dana is our Eurylochus!

It should be noted that in this au, Dana actually has REASONING for her actions.  She is the ONLY woman in Will's army.  And she's Will's right hand woman so she has a lot of responsibility.  She is desperate to prove that she's worthy of being here because a lot of the crew doubts that a woman should have the role she does. She opens the wind bag because the crew is skeptical and getting angry. She kills the cows to feed the hungry crew. She fights Will because everyone is outraged by him sacrificing six men.

If you know you know.

"Have you forgotten the lessons I taught you?"

Stolas is Athena because who the fuck else.

He is named after a fucking demon OWL (I'm not referring to the Helluva Boss one I swear to FUCKING GOD.). His canon mentor in DRGO has EPIC'S ATHENA AS A VOICE CLAIM.  It would be a crime if he wasn't god of wisdom and battle strategy.

"But Athena is a girl" ok but gods can change forms <3

Anyways silly bird boy

"Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves!"

Ew ugly art

But Tristan is Poseidon because anger issues. I would've made him Ares but Ares gets thirty seconds of screen time

He's the kind of guy to laugh and be like "oh you're so funny blinding my son" and then go APESHIT because he's fucking PISSED

Here was the oldest art of him but I like it better tbh

"You make one wrong move, and you're done for."

Evangeline as Circe!  SHE'S EVEN BRITISH!

Evangeline hates men because A. Her ex (I'm going off of the book "Circe" for this bit) and B. They harass her nymphs which is a HUGE Nono.

Dana didn't "get away" from her, Evangeline doesn't fw women like that. She supports women's rights and wrongs.

And like the one man Evangeline lowkey tolerated she only found out AFTER she turned him into a chimera. (You'll never guess who...)

This is what an autistic chimera looks like trust me

Lesbian tries seducing a gay man with a husband

"I must say, what a brilliant speech you gave~"

Rori as Hermes because hell yeah

That's his og design but I fixed him

Really wanted to keep Rori's DRGO fur hood thing so I gave him whatever the fuck that is

And in this AU lightning scars from Zeus glow (Stolas and Rori's are most noticeable, and whether or not some of Tristan's scars are from Zeus too is TBD)

He's Evangeline's ex because he sucks ass at relationships

This is where Azrael would go but sadly I'm missing like half the cast, mb chat

"We must do what it takes to survive"

Ughhh I hate this art lmao

But Iris is Scylla because I couldn't think of anything else.  It does reference DRGO in the sense that when you first see him, you're like "oh it's a little twink" and then when you see him for what he is you're like "OH FUCK"

Also Anya Pineborough is Charybdis trust me bro 🙏

Skipping wisdom and vengeance sagas because nobody new and I wanna introduce all the Ithaca people together

ITHACA SAGA!!

"Let the arrow fly, so you know that your aim is true."

Man I bet none of yall expected Zeben as Penelope.

Will's badass husband who ages like the finest of wine

Mistaken for a woman constantly

When he was giving the challenge he strung Will's bow with ZERO difficulty. No sweat. No heavy breathing. Effortless.

"I know life and fate are scary, but I wanna be legendary!"

Genderbent Sophie as Telemachus, trust me on this.

He's determined and a little clumsy but has a big heart.

"Why is Sophie the Wilben kid?" You may be wondering.

Well remember who becomes Telemachus's mentor at the end of the musical.

THAT'S RIGHT BABY, Stolas is Sophie's mentor once more!

Also what the fuck do I call m!Sophie

Them together

"Here and now, there's a chance for action..."

Did this one digitally

En as Antinuous!

Because out of all the misgendering En has been called a girl only once, I decided to make them a lot more feminine for this au.

Well that's not the whole reason but still.

Just a reminder that En's pronouns are they/them and that's not optional !!

Anyways En knows EXACTLY which of m!Sophie's buttons to push and can kick his ass in that fit.

Also in this version of Epic the meaning of "Hold them Down" is changed.  En is an organ harvester.  "I will not let any part go to waste" is En saying how they're gonna sell/use Zeben's organs, bones, etc.

Their goal is to kill both m!Sophie and Zeben (probably torture Zeben until he marries them so they can marry into the throne) and seize the crown.

Anyways that's all and holy shit 1k works holy YAP

Buh byeee