I'm totally normal about Epic, I swear-

Anyway, enjoy :)

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Song: Puppeteer from Epic: The Musical (Circe Saga)

(With some slight adjustments in the lyrics to better fit characters and avoid as much repeating in some spots)

Characters: Nico, Ingall, and Neva

Context: Uhhh, the whole rant that I did, haha. Also, don't mind me, I'm just gonna casually genderbend Ingall real quick XD

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Neva, approaching Nico nervously: "Captain, I have something that I must confess, something that I must get off my chest, until it is said, I cannot rest... Captain?"

Nico, looking distant as they speak, waving Neva away: "Neva, go make sure this island is secure."

Neva, slightly confused: "But captain-"

Nico, turning, expression grim: "There's only so much left we can endure, whatever you need to say can wait some more, of that, I'm sure."

Neva, sighing and nodding hesitantly: "Okay."

*Only a few minutes go by before Neva appears again, she looks dirty and out of breath as she approaches Nico with wide eyes*

Nico, brow furrowing as Neva comes into view, noticably alone: "Neva, back so soon? Where's the rest of your crew? And by the gods, what happened to you?"

Neva, slightly panicked: "We came across a palace, inside we heard a voice, it seemed to show no malice! To greet it was our choice, but nothing could prepare us for the power that awaited inside!"

Nico, growing concerned: "What did this palace hide?"

Neva, already kind of making excuses as she speaks quickly: "Mx, since we left home, we've faced a variety of foes from a wide range of places! Gods, monsters, you know the roster, hostile creatures that we could resist, but this was a hell of a twist, 'cause we are weak to a power like this!"

Nico, slightly nervous but intrigued: "What was it?"

Neva (our bi queen), dead serious: "A woman."

Nico, genuinely prepared for anything but that: "What?"

Neva, nodding seriously: "She had us in just two words! "Come inside!""

Nico, honestly kinda impressed: "Damn."

*Jumping between Nico and Neva and Ingall, who's welcomed the whole of Nico's crew into her home and is very much manipulating them, believing them to all be untrustworthy and evil men*

Ingall, smiling sweetly: "Welcome to the best part of your lives, go ahead and rest wherever you like! I've got you, don't worry, Ingall's got you now!"

Neva, nervously explaining to Nico: "Only I stayed outside, but the rest went in!"

Ingall, gesturing toward a table full of food, which is all laced with magic: "Take a seat, let me bring you all something to eat! I bet you're tired from the years spent on your feet. I've got you, don't worry, Ingall's got you now!"

Neva: "By the time they ate, it was far too late, for inside the meal..."

Ingall, smiling as she watches the crew eat, her friends, who she's taken under her wing from bad situations, all watching in amusment: "Think of your past,"

Neva: "She had cast a spell!"

Ingall, tilting her head as the spell starts to set in: "And your mistakes!"

Neva: "They began to squeal!"

Ingall, chuckling: "They'll be the last..."

Neva: "And grow snouts and tails!"

Ingall: "Mistakes you'll make."

Neva: "She changed them!"

Ingall, chuckling as the crew all change into pigs and are rounded up by her friends: "I've got all the power, yeah, I've got all the power! No, I'm not a player, I'm a puppeteer, no, I don't play, I puppeteer!"

Neva: "They transformed...."

Ingall, well aware that the crew is likely in pain during and shortly after the transformation: "This is the price,"

Neva, nervous but angry: "And it wasn't quick!"

Ingall, regretting nothing, believing none of the pain could equal what she and her friends went through: "We pay to live!"

Neva: "She turned our men..."

Ingall: "The world does not..."

Neva: "From men to pigs!"

Ingall: "Tend to forgive."

Neva: "She changed them..."

Ingall, nodding to her friends as the entire crew is shoved into a small pen: "I've got all the power, yeah, I've got all the power! No, I'm not a player, I'm a puppeteer. No, I don't play, I puppeteer!"

Nico, determined: "We have to save them!"

Neva, almost desperate: "No, we don't! Look at all we've lost and all we've learned! Every single cost is so much more than what we've earned, think about the men we have left before there's none. Let's just cut our losses, you and I, and let's run!"

Nico, shaking his head: "Of course, I'd like to leave now, of course I'd like to run, but I can hardly sleep now knowing everything we've done! There's no length I wouldn't go if it was you I had to save, I can only hope you'd do the same..."

Neva, slightly panicked: "I can hear her still!"

Ingall, chuckling: "No one will find,"

Neva: "And her voice deceives!"

Ingall, determined to protect herself and her friends: "Their way between,"

Neva: "What if she can't be killed?"

Ingall: "My nymphs and I,"

Neva: "Will you choose to leave?"

Ingall: "Their loving queen!"

Nico, thinking: "I don't know..."

Ingall, gesturing for her friends to join her at the table and feast, showing them again that her promise of protection still stands true: "I've got all the power, yeah, I've got all the power! No, I'm not a player, I'm a puppeteer, no, I don't play, I puppeteer!"

Neva, taking a deep breath, starting to see Nico won't give up: "She's a clever witch,"

Ingall, smiling as her friends start to eat, a small feeling of pain in the back of her mind at why she does what she does: "This is the price,"

Neva: "And she's hard to slay."

Ingall: "We pay to love."

Neva: "It's a game of wits,"

Ingall: "We draw the line,"

Neva: "But you don't have to play!"

Ingall: "Watch from above!"

Nico, refusing to give up: "I have to try!"

Ingall: "I've got all the power, yeah, I've got all the power! No, I'm not a player, I'm a puppeteer! No, I don't play, I puppeteer, yeah!"