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Maybe not in epic but I went to cirque recent’s and saw this

And I just had to share

See, every time Jorge mentions Cirque du Soleil being a possible inspiration for a live stage version, I get excited all over again by the possibility of puppetry. The show Awakening is a great example of what can be done with large puppets, both remotely controlled, and those moved by humans!! I think that style of puppetry would be amazing in Epic, particularly for all the creatures such as Polyphemus, Scylla, and maybe even some of the gods. And the fight between Circe and Odysseus too!!!

(shown below are two examples of Puppets from Awakening that I adore, and whose technology I can 100% see being in Epic!!!!)

I can’t stop thinking about the drawbacks of the other two kids you already mentioned evans memory problems so

Michael:

- gets very exhausted when he uses his “raw power”

- has an adverse reaction to the animatronics electronic remnant

Elisabeth:

- just like the other two her powers are exhausting when she overtaxes herself

- I headcannon that after she warps through space she sometimes is dissociated and doesn’t know where she is so her brothers have to calm her down

Mutant!Afton Children AU:

So uh… I have a mostly developed AU idea that I partially got from FE3H and X-men that I’ll call the ‘Mutant AU’ where the Afton kids have a “remnant mutation” that grants them superhuman abilities pertaining to the integral elements of time, energy (power) and space. Originally it was a crack AU, but like all my AU’s, it slowly starts to transition into not a crack AU anymore-

The Bite of ‘83 happens, but at the EXACT PINTPOINTED MOMENT/MILISECOND IN TIME where Evan’s head gets crushed/bit, a ‘dormant power’ laying within him suddenly awakens and triggers itself, and time stops.

His spirit temporarily sort of ‘astral projects’ ascends to the plane above the mortal/physical world, and after learning of the situation, he uses his newfound power/essence and rewinds time to before Michael and his friends confront him- it is a steadily evolving ability since it has just spawned within him, triggered by the enhanced/mutated remnant in his body manifesting as an ability symbolized by a crest- his crest depicted as a triskelion.

When Evan reawakens back in his body, he’s shocked to learn that it actually worked- he’s back in the moment where he’s sitting on the floor cradling his Fredbear Plushie to his chest. However, he also learns that no one but him remembers that he ‘branched’ the timeline, as he still sees Michael and his friends snickering at him from across the Pizzeria and walking up to him. 

BEYOND pissed and rageful, and realizing with a newfound flame burning within that he’s not going to take his cruddy life circumstances lying down anymore- especially now that he has the knowledge that inexorable predestined fates NEVER existed- Evan basically tells them to screw off if they don’t have anything nicer to say. When they try and grab him, the kid basically bites down as hard as he can on Andrew’s arm, shoves Dorothy and Elijah away rather roughly, and kicks Michael in the crotch as hard as he can muster the effort to do so in his attempt to escape.

Both Michael and Evan are grounded after that. Ooh, boy, who would’ve thought, eh?

Well, there’s also the fact that Evan literally falls asleep and doesn’t wake up or even stir until the next evening due to the amount of effort he exerted by, y’know, LITERALLY performing chronokinesis.

Evan thinks he’s going crazy afterwards and doesn’t have a firm grasp on his powers, having really bad memory lapses, accidentally rewinding back or speeding time up forward a couple minutes when he doesn’t mean to, etc- this means his nights of fending off his nightmares go differently and are screwed up as well, and as a result of time itself being altered, his nightmares and hallucinations begin to weaken and distort, much to his shock. There are also more amusing symptoms, such as flowing water in the shower occasionally stopping in time. His perception of time becomes really screwed, and he becomes a bit concerned and occupied with buying clocks and experimenting with them to see if he really gained a newfound, mayhaps slightly overpowered ability out of the blue, all while trying to keep this madness a secret from his family.

But what NOBODY knows is that Evan awakening his power would prompt the power laying dormant within his siblings to awaken as well, affecting them in a catalyst-type fashion. His brother Michael would gain the ability symbolizing raw power, such as monstrously superhuman strength, a noticeably unusually robust constitution, and energy manipulation (being electrokinesis as well as the manipulation of potential and kinetic energy). This power would consolidate into the form they take today and would be awakened by remnant, as well as a crest within him resembling that of an Eye of Horus.

Meanwhile there’s Elizabeth with astrokinesis consolidated into form by her crest- a scarab beetle. There's her, who literally can warp through space, send objects into zero-gravity and ‘teleport’ to anywhere depending on the energy she exerts- and in the beginning, all three siblings can’t control their abilities and try desperately to keep it a secret from one another and everyone around them, while trying to figure out what’s happening to them as well. Michael and Elizabeth also discover their powers via eventful and shocking ways as well.

William is heavily suspicious, while Eleanor and the rest of Hurricane remain blissfully unaware of the fact that, possibly because of all the half-supernatural, half-sci-fi shit going on beneath the surface, they’re accidentally housing three spiritually mutant superhuman siblings that are panicking so hard because oye, they don’t know what the everloving fuck is happening to them either.

Reach revenge and alcohol

Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this

Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”