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Richard Gere and Michael York, as Max, in the original Broadway run of BENT, by Martin Sherman.  Directed y Robert Allan Ackerman.  New Apollo Theatre.

I say Ixion’s Remorse.

Ixion was a guy from Greek mythology who was an absolute shitshow of a man.

He didn’t pay his wife’s dad the Dowry (basically a gift to the other family after marriage), so her dad took some of Ixion’s horses. Pissed off by this, he manages to kill the father by pushing him into a fire of coal and wood.

He goes mad, and the neighboring princes were so disgusted by him and his breaking of their laws of hospitality that they refused to do a ritual that would cleanse him of his guilt and was shunned from society. By killing his father-in-law, he was the first man guilty of kin-slaying in the Greek Mythos.

Despite the serious punishment this required, Zeus took pity on him and brought him to the table of the gods. Instead of being rational and thankful, he started getting horny for Hera, another hospitality violation.

Zeus made a copy of hera out of clouds, and tricked ixion into having the devil’s tango with it.

He was cast out from Olympus and was bound to a firey winged wheel, always spinning nonstop across the heavens.

The name, Ixion’s Remorse, can imply that he felt pity on the humans and mutants, and allowed them to use the wheel as a home.

(Obviously not true, but a pleasant thought.)

I am a butter of my word

NAME THIS FUCKER!

(it is too fucking late for me to make this digital so here is sketch design-)

I will gather up all the names and make one giant ass poll

(though if you all get too silly during the poll I will have to put you in the corner and pull a name outta my ass)

you can be as silly as you like with submissions though I love a good giggle

submit via asks, replies, reblogs- hell skywrite it if you want