Someone who's not afraid to... send a message!—Hermes (Wouldn't You Like)
Hermes is the god of merchants, travelers, and thieves, and serves as the Messenger of the Gods. He is one of the Olympians, a son of Zeus, and great-grandfather of Odysseus.
Biography[]
Act I[]
After Odysseus and the crew arrive on an island after escaping from Poseidon, Hermes appears to offer help to Odysseus and defeat Circe by giving the flower moly, thus rendering her magic powerless against him.
Act II[]
Together with the Winions, he meets Odysseus again in Dangerous to give him the windbag and instructs him not to open the bag if he wants to go home.
Abilities[]
- Super Speed: As the God of Travel, Hermes is capable of moving at superhuman speeds. He is fast enough to create afterimages in order to trick his opponents.[1]
- Used In: Wouldn't You Like, Dangerous
- Illusions: As the God of Trickery, Hermes can create illusions of himself to trick opponents, including creating clones of himself and throwing "glitter" at them.[1]
Appearances[]
The Circe Saga[]
- Puppeteer (Musically represented)
- Wouldn't You Like (Debut)
- Done For (Mentioned)
The Vengeance Saga[]
Trivia[]
- In EPIC, Hermes' caduceus can be reverted to a mini size and is able to be worn as a necklace.
- Hermes originally only made a small cameo in the middle of Puppeteer.[2]
- In a snippet shared by Jorge, he was characterized as very quirky and nerdy. However, after Jorge started writing Dangerous, his personality changed into the Hermes that we know today.
- When Jorge trying to figure out how Hermes' music would sound, he began fidgeting with an app on his phone, making the light bulbs in his lamp rapidly shift colors.[3]
- This inspired Jorge to base Hermes' music on 80s Synthwave.
- Though it is never mentioned in the musical, Hermes is the son of the nymph Maia and the great-grandfather of Odysseus. Anticlea, Odysseus' mother, is Hermes' granddaughter through her father, Autolycus.
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