God Games | Aphrodite and Ares | EPIC: The Musical ANIMATIC 

It really plays into her role on the pantheon. She's the goddess of love and fertility. She's not meant to be imposing

Ares - Always Angry. All The Time.

It’s also really funny how on the end card Ares was sweating through the helmet, as though it’s part of his head.

@@epicgamernoisesintensifies6238 tbh it probably is

@@WooffzTheCoon he is a god after all. He probably has the ability to change his physical form.

poor guy is already bullied by everyone on Olympus, no wonder he's gonna hide the baby chin too

​@@adelinaiftime3152maybe that's another reason why Aphrodite fancy him

@@yesikanarvaez5027 maybe she definitely fancies him more than her actual husband Hephaestus

thats just one depiction of him. the second and more popular depiction shows him as a grown handsome man with a beard...

Perhaps to represent how many youths were sent to their deaths in wars.

We can cry about it together because that line always hits me like a bus

Please Athena just use that word to manipulate Aphrodite and Ares. Aphrodite is the goddess of love, so firendship is important for her, Ares is the god of war, what means that Friendship also matter for him. but Athena dont have the ability for fellings she is all about cold logic. she has no friends, that is why she is alone.

@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd she later comes to direct Telemachus how to fight to save his life and comes presumably by the song snipets to fight by his and Odysseus side. She came to protect Telemachus, I'd say that's a pretty friendly thing. And gotta add, Athena is a goddess of war too, Ares is known for reckless bloody war, she is known for won war, for planned and strategized war. To her it makes more sense for friendship to be important then Ares gotta be honest right there because as a goddess of wisdom she should know best that friendships helps in fights especially since a lot of spartan warriors werent just friends but even gay lovers who protected each other which made this so unbeatable. It makes more sense that she is taking friendship now more into consideration as a thing that can help her train a new "general" like she did with Odysseus but this time do it as a friend and not just a mentor because it grants her a greater understanding of the person she's training.

@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd i dont 100% believe that since in the actual myth she considers Telmachus her friend

Unrelated but i Iove your pfp

is that a Heathers refrence?

@@plantlover3741”he is the smartest guy on the football team, which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf…”

1:14 - timestamp also the end card with them going “she’s scary”

@@iamacollective5940 What did you say to me, skank?!

LOLLOLOLOL

Also the seashell bed to match her whole seashell thing and the fact that her bed is literally on a pedestal because she puts herself on a pedestal cuz she's better than everybody😂

Can you explain the whole "has broken hearts and deserves what's coming to him" bit? /gen

@@cezar3169I think it’s because his men trusted him and he let them down, he left his mother broken-hearted. It was all unintentional but it still hurt those people

Deserves? I don’t follow you... what do you mean by deserves?

@@Princessallstar365he doesn’t know, he’s just talking

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Yep, quick thoughts, giving here more time to try to persuade aphrodite (and maybe manipulate her) before she gives a negative response and sentence odysseus to eternity with calypso (and a broken heart), though ares breaks it.

Being the goddess of wisdom and strategy and apparently able to manipulate time (courtesy of her grandfather, most like), I suspect she's *very* good at getting people to see her point of view. And for those she can't, she's *also* the goddess of warfare...

@@CteCrassus TACTICAL warfare to be specific

@@xnellsbellsx Tactics and strategy, i.e. the "thinky" aspects of warfare, while her brother Ares was all about the "stabby" part.

People put her blame in the war as high as Athena and Hera's. But, didn't Aphrodite technically win fairly ? The three each offered the guy something. But being the goddess of love, it's her job to know what goes in a person's heart, so of course she offered the best option to a simple, stable man like him, which was love. And by the myth, Eros's arrows only seem to amplify what you already feel. But most importantly, while maybe not for the most selfless reasons, she did defend Troy. Doesn't she deserve to have some slack cut ? Of all myths I saw, she seems to be tamer compared to other gods. Not Hades tamed, but still tamed.

OP, you make a good point. She also has a tendency to overlook/ignore circumstances, from the versions that I've read, so her not caring that Odysseus didn't know that she died or was suffering is still in character.

This is such a good point!!

ehh idk bout tame she was definitely not a girl's girl. I would say she won fairly, but she knew Helen was married and she know how the greeks would all fight to get her back.@@JabamiLain

That’s Ares

Yes, let's go! Someone else agrees too!❤️

I just want her and Odysseus to be friends but that’s probably saved for the end

Character development at its best

@@NoRegs30 we just have to wait and see… (sad)

Love Athena for that

Idk if you know, but they technically are the same goddess. Venus is just the Roman version

@@erifox3626 i do haha, that's why it stuck out to me in the animatic :>

I wasn't sure, so I felt I should say just in case 😅

Ye :D

Also he is very unpopular among gods. Like leave him in bucket for months because you can't be bothered kind of unpopular. So always helmet, strict and serious personality fits like a glove.

Exactly. He is literally the father of fear and terror (Phobos and Deimos, their mom being unsurprisingly Aphrodite), so him being this faceless, eerie figure, almost resembling an executioner more than a soldier, is a nice touch.

Funny things is that he's described as being one of the most beautiful gods along with Apollo and Dionysus. Aphrodite and Hera are the most beautiful of the goddesses.

@@lordhades8025 As a Percy Jackson fan, I can't believe Dionysus is supposed to be pretty.

I like to think that Athens is more open so she can plan in battle while Aries is more closed of only needing to focus on the enemy infront of him

I like how Athena's helmet makes her look like an owl

I would say less rage, but more scruffy. Either way, it makes sense considering that Athena represented the strategic side of way (hence, representing wisdom) while Ares represented the fighting and brutality aspects of war (hence being associated with courage).

People put Aphrodite's blame in the war as high as Athena and Hera's. But, didn't Aphrodite technically win fairly ? The three each offered the guy something. But being the goddess of love, it's her job to know what goes in a person's heart, so of course she offered the best option to a simple, stable man like him, which was love. And by the myth, Eros's arrows only seem to amplify what you already feel. But most importantly, while maybe not for the most selfless reasons, she did defend Troy. Doesn't she deserve to have some slack cut ? Of all myths I saw, she seems to be tamer compared to other gods. Not Hades tamed, but still tamed.

There is this miss conception because every love godess in every culture also had a war aspect in them so I loved how they took her as the hardest since in every war is also love involed.

If we go solely on domain or just general worship Aphrodite is by the most powerful goddess only second to Hera with the influence she has on mortal lives. People need Aphrodite and all the lower god that overlap with her domain to live their lives with a modicum of joy.

Never underestimate the power of love and friendship… *never*

I also love how- whether or not this was intended- it looks less like Aphrodite let her pass because she was convinced, more like because Ares was and she loves Ares

I wonder why? I was making out with Aphrodite as usual lmao

She’s probably mad she can’t sting arm her , two on one she can’t win

@@sheepj2464I mean realistically you could argue that Aphrodite could beat Athena in this confrontation since she is an older goddess, has all the cards since Athena needs her to do something and not the other way around on top of Aphrodite being a goddess who can influence other gods even if they are stronger than her because of how universal love is.

@@joshuafrazier3904 but in the actual Greek lore, Aphrodite has no power over Athena and Aphrodite is one of the only people immune to her abilities

@@user-rj5hz2ct6xmainly cause she’s such a miserable person that powers over love don’t work. She only likes winning.

To be fair, the Trojan War had JUST happened, man was busy.

@@igorgracchia5788 that was 10 years ago

@@shipperina2213In god timeline 10 years is nothing

@@shipperina2213and also ares cleans himself max every 20 years

He broke her power ,

Not because of any god/domain reason, shes just annoyed at how much of an idiot her brother is

Ik!!!!!! It really is 😍

The definition of “looks like a cinnamon roll, would kill you”

@@Camp_Half_Blood_Is_Herereal

They are half-siblings, but then again, so are Aphrodite and Ares, I believe. If nothing else, Aphrodite is Ares' sister-in-law, since her husband is actually Hephaestus, Ares' brother and the god of fire.

​​​@@BPJD2004 Aphrodite is more like his grandaunt, if i record correctly, i think she was born when Uranus' severed penis fell into the sea, and Uranus is Chrono's father, so she's Ares' great-grandfather's daughter. Also worthy of note that she didn't exactly have a choice in marrying Hephaestus, and i'm pretty sure she did divorce him after her affair with Ares was exposed.

@@fulana_de_tal The myths are varied, so there's different versions of each myth. Just depends on which one you hear

@@BPJD2004 yeah, but i'm pretty sure Aphrodite is almost always a daughter of Uranus

@@fulana_de_tal Not always

She also probably has to be just as direct and confronting as Ares just to win him over.

Well, Athena, being logic itself, is supposed to be uncapable of feeling love. So for her to use friendship as an argument, it means she's learning to feel love, which surprises Aphrodite, because she's Athena's opposite just as much as Ares, if not more.

@@JabamiLain I think while she and Athena are complete opposites she ares are a lot closer when you view them as gods embodying concepts of human passion be it in the form of violence or love or both. Love and hate aren't really different in the grand scheme of things.

i agree so much (also i love your profile pic lol)

She was only saying that to manipulate, if you can't tell, her whole personality has to do with pride of herself and manipulation through the whole musical. It's sad to know but she was manipulating Aphrodite and Ares throughout the whole thing 😢😢😢😢

@@Dennie-neale the point of her getting angry at Ares here for insulting Telemachus is that she has changed, in the past she wouldn't even call Telemachus her friend, much less go to such lenghts to help the man that insulted her to her face not to long ago (from a God's perspective), a lot has changed for her to be even atempting this in Odysseus behalf she is manipulating Athena, or trying, but Ares ends her attempt early and gets her actually angry with his insults, so the manipulation failed it shows that her old tricks just won't cut it anymore and she has to make an actual effort to save Odysseus

@@NoRegs30 She didn't get angry and hasn't changed any, actually she favors pride over anything and was manipulating Aphrodite in the beginning. That's when Ares stepped in, to stop it. She might have got mad but it was only because she was trying to save her own pride, it shows how manipulative and horrible the gods are. That they would stoop to such low lies that mean nothing to them, only to cover their own backs and make themselves feel good. She is only helping because she tried so hard and they are basically shoving in her face that she failed.

@@NoRegs30 She's the goddess of wisdom, she knows how to think quickly about these sorts of things. Ares stepped in and Aphrodite even walked over to him knowing that she proved a point, Athena would never beg. Especially not to Aphrodite, that's why she was telling her to reconsider with such a prideful tone. And that's when Ares stepped in.

@@Dennie-neale I feel like you might be looking a bit too much into it, Athena is meant to have a small character arc where she goes from someone unwilling to admit her friendship to Odysseus to someone how acknowledges a friendship to his son Also the Goddess of Wisdom didn’t seem very wise or manipulative when she got mad at Odysseus for the Polyphemus thing, she felt like a child who had a bit of a point but not fully The Gods a dicks that’s what gives them humanity and Athena is meant to understand her friendship with Odysseus by the end of the musical

They both are gods of war, so it makes sense that they have similar armor and designs

Aren’t they siblings?

@@Kingelijah555 yes. half siblings I believe.

@@Kingelijah555Half the Olympians are Zeus’s children and the other half are his siblings.

​@@Kingelijah555 Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera (one of the few kids he actually had with his wife), while Athena sprung out of his head fully grown and armored after Zeus consumed (absorbed?) Metis, his first wife

Athena was designed to be tall just like in her animation “warrior of the mind” and the design for Aphrodite in her live stream was meant to be short

Ares' face is too delicate and innocent for a god of war, so he hides it with his helmet

"On-century" ?

@@JabamiLain Aphrodite: nice argument, unfortunately your mom is dead

I am imagining Ares just shows up and everyone is just suffering, like Ares: hi guys so I- Athena, Apollo, Diyonisis, Hermes, and Artemis: *on the floor in pain* Ares: .... a

The way she like caresses the mirror before she spins it is *chef's kiss*

She is promiscuous, but motherhood is still her whole world.

Protective mama bear instincts are kicking in

That’s so clever! Love the little details!