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Published: 2019-09-16 04:59:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 8623; Favourites: 118; Downloads: 4
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It was so much fun listening to the Hadestown soundtrack while I worked on this.If you're unfamiliar, I strongly recommend you check out this amazing musical. Here's the soundtrack on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgsfT2…
No surprise, I'm in love with the Hades and Persephone plot line (though truth be told, every inch of this story is gold).
Hades is a character that I feel could really benefit from being animated. During his song "Papers" and the "Chant (Reprise)," I can easily see his features distorting the more agitated he gets. I'd like to try and make a more exaggerated drawing of him, but for now I settled for a pair of beautifully haunting eyes
Hope you like it!
And go check out Hadestown!
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Yessssssssss fanart of them 
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You're very welcome!
I'm actually only 3/4 through the soundtrack right now cause it's so intense, but I am so impressed, it's so lovely (even though I know the Pain Train is coming). I also love how this take on Hades and Persephone holds the balance of the world with their love, and how important that is, even if things are dark for them right now.
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Oh maaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!!
So clearly I put off finishing listening to it for a while, despite my enthusiasm (I tend to put off painful experiences, even fictional ones). I was finally ready today though, and damn. I am wrecked and impressed.
I just think they did an amazing job and I have no idea where to start....
Okay, so, the song. I was surprised and heart-breakingly delighted when they revealed where it came from, and the fact that its purpose was to heal the world specifically by healing Hades and Persephone. Looking back, I'm having lots of "duh, of course!" moments about that, but I definitely didn't see it coming at first and I LOVE how after that, Hades' heart had changed, but not enough to be like "Freedom for everyone, woo!!" That just felt very real, as did Persephone's reaction to what he decided for Orpheus and Eurydice, and their tentative reunion as they watched them walk away (as Persephone was leaving for Spring, that is) was so beautifully done too. I love that in that, "Wait for me" became theirs, too, so it endures even though Orpheus failed Eurydice moments later.
And on THAT note, I think they handled that well, too. With the music, especially, it was made veryveryvery clear that in this trial we were switching gears and something different was happening than what happened up until that moment. It wasn't about the fate of everyone in the Underworld anymore, though that would be impacted - it came down to one man vs. himself. And even though Hades clearly has a looooooot of growing to do, still (and being someone who likes closure, I hope things do improve for the people under his reign) I'm glad it wasn't about that anymore. That way, it made the personal impact of his failure SO strong. Instead of worrying about everyone in Hadestown, we were once again just focused on him and Eurydice, as it needed to be for that tragic moment to really strike.
So not only do we get this amazing show about love and poverty and fear and sacrifice and the need to heal the earth (through love, yay!), we also get the message that we are our own worst enemies, in the end. MUCH yay. And even after that, they still manage to end it with beauty and respect, with that last song (and Persephone herself singing it).
Part of me hopes they'll do a sequel, somehow, about what happens to Orpheus now (like his adventures with the Argonauts) and Eurydice too, since she didn't escape, but I don't know how that would fit into what they've already built, and I think they did an amazing job setting up a hopeful message about how things might get better in general, and leaving that up to us, now, having finished watching/listening to it.... which might be the point in the first place.....
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OKAY YES we did talk about this. I thought I was going crazy. This is what I get for taking 8 years to catch up on messages.
Also, re-reading my commentary and having JUST listened to the soundtrack a second time (right after our social isolation started ^; ) I can't believe I missed, earlier in the show, that Hermes TELLS Orpheus that the song came from Hades and Persephone. .....I'm gonna say I was distracted by all the gorgeous perfectness.
Oooh and I like your thoughts about the cyclical nature of it, being *performed* over and over. I'd love the hear what the actors have to say about that too!
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Thank you for the tip
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