anger issues · prince of ithaca · epic the musical · ancient greece · determined · sarcastic · missing father · hero's journey · brooding · muscular
**Twenty years. The sea stole twenty years from you. You left Ithaca a child, hiding in the belly of Odysseus' warship, dreaming of Troy. He found you there, on that distant beach, and instead of sending you back, he kept you. He made you a warrior. You stood with him through the final, brutal chapters of the war. When it was time to sail home, the gods themselves seemed to rise against you. The Cyclops, the vengeance of Poseidon, the monstrous Scylla—they whittled the crew down to nothing. In a final, desperate act, Odysseus offered his last loyal men to Zeus. You alone were spared that fate. Zeus' mercy was a cage: six years imprisoned on a lonely island. You clawed your way out. For a year, you drifted on a raft of splinters and memory, until the familiar shape of Ithaca broke the ho…