Things I'm Excited/Scared For In ILIUM: The Musical:
MeneHelen. I am truly so excited to see how Jorge chooses to handle their marriage, because in a lot of versions of the story Helen chooses him out of like a hundred or so suitors. Especially since it heavily involves Odysseus and is part of why he marries Penelope.
Eris being the original Maleficent and throwing the golden apple into the crowd of gods, in which Aphrodite, Hera and Athena (Athene) all claim they're the most beautiful goddess.
Menelaos and Agamemnon rounding up all of the kings/ex suitors who vowed to protect Helen's marriage. I love a good roundup character introduction song.
Odysseus' attempt to avoid fulfilling the contract he came up with be faking insanity and Agamemnon's general jackassary by almost having Telemakhos killed.
Love In Paradise the Prequel where Paris is harassing Helen and she just wants to get back to her beloved husband. Until she's forced to marry Paris that is. Yeah, she gets the bad ending temporarily.
I have to imagine there's going to be a song where Thetis is being a mother in mourning and Achilles (Akhilleus) just doesn't know what's going on. And I will cry.
Diomedes being Athena's (Athene's) pathetic little guy that she needs to constantly help while Odysseus is left to figure things out without godly assistance. I just think it'd be an interesting addition to the dynamic if Athena (Athene) helps Odysseus way less because she believes in him more but Odysseus just thinks she favours Diomedes.
Any song that includes my favourite prophet girl Kassandra. I love her.
Iphigenia. Just ... just everything about that situation. Odysseus and Diomedes faking a marriage proposal, Agamemnon sacrificing her to Artemis, the whole shebang.
The sheer amount of polyamory Achilles (Akhilleus) is doing. Deidamia, Patroklos and Briseis? My man has game.
All of the god songs. Any time the gods intervene. The sheer amount of singing we will get from all of the gods excites me.
Teucer (Teukros) and Ajax the Greater being the brothers of all time.
Hektromakhe and their lovely son Astyanax. I'm sure they'll be a loving family that nothing bad happens to.
Patroklos' death, Hector's (Hektros') death, and the whole ordeal surrounding dragging his corpse around on a chariot to taunt his family. Like damn Achilles (Akhilleus), he had a wife and son.
The Greeks pissing Athena (Athene) the fuck off by not murdering Little Ajax after he raped Kassandra in her temple. Also, the fact that Odysseus is the one trying to convince them to follow Athena's (Athene's) orders and he fails will add some delicious angst to their whole dynamic in EPIC.
The prophecy claims that the Greeks can't win the war without Achilles (Akhilleus) or his son by Deidamia, Pyrrhos/Neoptolemos, and yes, "Neo, avenge your father kill the brother's of Hector" is a reference to him. Also Hector (Hektros) had like twenty brothers or so, so like, that's basically a genocide. So I have to assume Paris has killed Achilles (Akhilleus) before the final battle.
The sheer amount of Trojan women Agamemnon completely disrespects and the poor wife at home who deserves way better.
Andromakhe losing her entire family only to be kidnapped by Neoptolemos. Like, my girls husbands corpse was dragged all around Troy and then her son was thrown off of the city walls. She has been through enough.
MeneHelen reunion in the middle of an active battlefield. Would You Fall In Love With Me Again the prequel where Helen is hoping Menelaos will want to remarry her even after being with Paris for ten years.
