| “ | No I’m not a player, I’m a puppeteer! No, I don’t play, I puppeteer, yeah! | „ |
| ~ Circe's signature line in "Puppeteer" |
Circe is a major antagonist in EPIC: The Musical, a musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans that is an adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. She serves as the titular main antagonist of the Circe saga. A lower goddess that rules over an island, Circe has many nymphs under her care and seeks to protect them from humans after a previous encounter with them turned to tragedy. She caused the conflict of this saga by seducing Odysseus' men and turning them into pigs.
She is voiced by Talya Sindel.
What Makes Her Magnificent?[]
- Has noble, sympathetic motives. She views the nymphs on her care as her own daughters, and when having trusted the wrong men, a great tragedy befell them, so she seeks to protect them from such an event happening again.
- She seduces sailors who come to her island and palace, such as Odysseus' scouts led by Eurylochus, deceiving them into being an ally when in truth, she fed them food enchanted with a spell that turns them into pigs when they least expected.
- She is so cunning, Eurylochus even said she is one of their toughest opponents, having already faced gods and monsters, because her malice is that hidden that it is easy to be fooled into thinking she could be a friend.
- Even when Hermes gives Odysseus a moly root to empower him when facing Circe, he makes it clear that Circe's cunning grants her numerous ways to kill him so the battlefield is truly not even.
- In a hilarious tidbit, she instantly picks apart Odysseus' boast on being a god like her to pluck the moly root being a sham and he only got it from Hermes.
- Even when defeated and at swordpoint, she only speaks of protecting her nymphs and how she still doesn't trust him, she immediately moves on to seducing Odysseus in an attempt to lower his guard to stab him in the back.
- Unlike in the original The Odyssey story, she doesn't pressure Odysseus into sex, in which canon annotations makes it clear she is only doing so to make him easy to kill. When Odysseus explicitly refuses her advances because he is a married man who only wants to return home and reunite with her, she respects his decision, admiring his loyalty, and frees his men and helps him meet Tiresius in the Underworld to escape Poseidon's wrath and return to his home of Ithaca.
What Makes Her a Baddie?[]
- Turns Odysseus' men into pigs out of paranoia, the process noted to be slow.
- Attempts to kill Odysseus in "There are Other Ways".
External Links[]
- Circe at the EPIC: The Musical wiki
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