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Bout to start writing a time travel fix it fic for epic where some random crew member gets sent back in time after being murked by zeus. His name is Steven-dave and I love him already.
Whilst Eurylochus isn't as faultless as my baby Polites, doesn't mean everything was his fault. Did he open the wind bag? Yes, yes, he did. Did that directly lead to poseidon killing of the crew? No, it didn't. Poseidon would have taken revenge on Odysseus and his crew either way, not just because they were pushed further away from Ithaca. As observed in the snippet of 'get in the water', we've seen that poseidon is more than capable of appearing anywhere in the ocean. Ergo, he was going to kill them all anyway, Eurylochus just spiced things up by changing the location they died. Furthermore, he wasn't wrong to mutiny against Odysseus, and realistically, he wasn't the one fully at fault for zeus and 'thunder bringer'. Now, I'm not saying he's faultless because most of the blame definitely falls onto him. What I am saying is that he was tired and hungry, and he'd given up. Think about it, he'd probably not eaten in days if he stopped off at the first island he came across and killed the sun God's cows. He'd just mutinied against his captain, his friend. Suddenly, the lives of all the crew rest souly on his shoulders. And he's just so tired. Tired of Odysseus ignoring his concerns, tired of seeing his friends and comrades die, tired of seeing Odysseus change for the worst and tired of being hungry. He wasn't in the right state of mind, he'd completely given up by the second half of 'mutiny'. During 'thunder bringer' he doesn't sound angry or even very betrayed. He just sounds apathetic, he's entirely given up at this point. He wants it all to end, and I can't say I blame him. What I'm saying is that, in this situation, would anyone have done anything different? With several gods already looming over you, wishing for your destruction, being so tired and so hungry, and having seen so many of your friends die would anyone really have left those cows?
Tldr; Eurylochus isn't entirely at fault, nobody is entirely at fault. All the actions taken are understandable. They are just humans and they make mistakes.
Imagine at one point the instrumental of when we get introduced to Eurylochus (Eu-ry-lo-chus) plays in the background
Imagine at the last song you hear the faint instrumental of Open Arms and Luck Runs Out somewhere.
Odysseus has a habit of looking to Eurylochus for things (see: ‘Eurylochus get the harpoons’ ‘Eurylochus go make sure this island is secure’ and ‘Eurylochus light up six torch-)
Anyways
If Odysseus at some point in Act 2 turns around to ask for something from his second in command and realises he’s not there anymore I’m going to curl up in a ball and cry.
Odysseus: fine take my sister then...
Okay but does anyone else think that Odysseus was full on planning on letting Eurylochus get snatched by Scylla?
My thought process is that right after Eurylochus tells Odysseus that he opened the bag, Odysseus tells him to light 6 torches. Right? So wouldn't you expect Eurylochus to hold one of the touches and therefore getting pick off the ship by Scylla since she seemed to only grab the ones with the touches?
I live for this au
fast sketch for manwhore au by @anniflamma because it’s hilarious
I need yall to understand when babygirl Ody is having his theatre kid singing at the edge of a cliff moment and he says “all I hear are screams” this is what i imagine
That or Polities when Eurylochus arrives in the underground after explaining how he ended up there. “YOU DID WHAAAAAAT?!” He’s greeting him with closed fists
Oh great, now BOTH of his boyfriends and his mom are haunting the narrative! Literally.
✨️ Things I found in the EPIC The Musical: The Wisdom Saga Livestream✨️ Pt.2
Surely, this will end differently this time. (Song: Polyphemus)
Let's elope. (Song: Puppeteer)
Hermes and his drugs. Remember, kids don't do drugs (Song: Wouldn't You Like)
Telemachus is so princess core. (Wisdom Saga)
I am SICK and TIRED of unjustified eurylochus slander. No, he was not the reason Odysseus wasn't able to make it home, his crews growing fear and discontent was. Eurylochus is such an interesting character because he represents the crew as a whole. Not only is his designated instrument the crew itself, but everything he does is for the benefit of the crew. From wanting to raid the lotus eaters island to get as much food as quickly as possible for the crew, opening the wind bag to satiate the crew's curiosity, wanting to protect those who were left and leave Circe's Island, and killing the cattle not just for himself but for everyone else who was starving. Eurylochus was justified in declaring mutiny against Odysseus, because the whole crew agreed. He speaks for them, so nothing Eurylochus did would have gone directly against their wishes. I sincerely believe if Eurylochus hadn't declared mutiny, someone else would have. Odysseus was not a great captain to begin with, and Eurylochus' constant questioning of his decisions proves this. The crew was always discontent with his leadership especially after the cyclops!!!
If you want to point a finger at a villain point it at Zeus or Poseidon or if you really want to go back Agamemnon or Aphrodite or Paris but not my boys
Guys PLEASE just because eury can't turn pigs back into people doesn't mean he would sacrifice his friends to a sea monster. That doesn't make him a hypocrite PLEASE
I won't be settling for anything less than an Odysseus level of obsession from my future husband thank you very much
Just saying...
but technically...
TECHNICALLY...
Odysseus' crew isn't supposed to make it past the River Styx because they didn't have proper burials and don't have the coins to pay Charonte (????????)
Just saying they'll never see their loved ones again because most of them are probably able to get proper burials (:
it’s so jarring in the song puppeteer when we hear eurylochus without his signifying backup of the crew members; the eeriness we get with it and the fact that it’s the first sign of trouble: as well as the first time we really see eurylochus at a loss
I don’t blame him, Sun-God Beef Stew sounds like it’d have a legendary flavor :D
Odysseus is probably just hangry and homesick, I think he needs some beef stew to calm down. Beef stew always calms me down :3
i think eurylochus also wanted some beef stew
Okay so, personally, I think that in some way it could be true that he figured it out and that Ody knew before Eury confessed it to him.
But also in the "Scylla" song as Eury says "I've opened the windbag while you were asleep" we can hear like a sudden "dun" sound, as if this information hit Ody in some way
Still, it could be like the person wrote that he could knew, but it just hurts to hear it outloud.
Anyway, what I think is interesting in this is that is that I don't think Ody would be as shocked. We can hear it in his voice as he commands Eury to light up the torches. Like.. this unbotherness in it is kinda.. eerie. Also his lack of response to Eury's apology- I don't think it's caused by the shock of finding out. I think it's caused by shame.
Here Eury is apologising to him, not aware of what's about to come. Imagine the kind of pressure and shame, the stress inside Ody's head that he's bottling up, trying to numb himself out to be able to complete his sacrificial plan. "Leaving them feeling betrayed" doesn't point to Eury's mistake. It points to Ody's secret plan and the guilt that he's feeling deep down yet repressing 'cause "what if I'm the one who killed you, every time I caved to guilt" and also "If I became a monster and threw that guilt away" (Monster song)
Which is kinda ironic because in this song it indicates that Ody is willing to change his ways and become less remorseful/merciful to save his men and himself ("If I became the monster to everyone but us") yet as the time passes he becomes more and more desperete to get HIMSELF back home, to his wife and son. (" Please don't do this (...) I need to get home"- Mutiny)
He's so desperate that he's willing to even turn against his own crew members, sacrificing few for the "greater good". ("You miss your wife so bad, you trade the lives of your own crew" and "I am not letting you get in my way" - also Mutiny)
Tbh I have a lot more to talk about here but it would be going off topic haha
I just love analysing lyrics of the songs in this musical as it's so fascinating to see these seemingly harmless phrases starting to make a whole picture as you put them together- like a puzzle! The way the lyrics are so open for many many interpretations is such a cool thing. Jorge is a lyrics genius <3
Personally I think Ody already knew Eury opened the wind bag, initially bc there's just something about his tone and the way Ody cut him off in the beginning of Puppeteer that felt... deliberate? But it's also mirrored in Scylla and Mutiny
It's just a little thing in Scylla but when Eury first tries to confess in Puppeteer Ody gives him a task instead "go check out the island" vs "light up six torches" instead of talking about it, like he's avoiding it
But more prominently is "whatever you have to say can wait some more of this I'm sure" sounds to me like "don't tell me. If you don't tell me we can pretend I don't know and I don't have to do anything about it. Lie to me (by omission)" vs Eury's "tell me you did not know that would happen" and "then you have forced my hand" while said in anger can also totally be ready similarly. I've already seen others talk about how he was basically begging Ody to lie to him so like, "lie to me so I don't have to do anything about it" again
(whether or not Eury would've been able to play along, assuming he did want that, I don't know, and ig we'll never know)
Also Ody's total lack of reaction. Sure Scylla had "leaving them feeling betrayed" but having it said out loud could still sting. It could also be a "I thought we had a deal to not talking about that" type betrayal.
Anyway many thoughts head full
Redesigned Polites for my prince of Troy AU, currently plotting out a comic but for now I’ve just made some doodles :)
A lot of stuff for this au might not be supper realistic but it’s mostly for the sillies and not supposed to be taken seriously
At first Perimedes and Eurylochus really didn’t like Polites but that dislike lasted for maybe a month
In this au, since Polites is a prince he doesn’t have the best self control so the moment Perimedes asked to try the Lotus fruit with him he gave in 😔
(Also so sorry for my horrible posting schedule 😭 I keep forgetting to post here and I have school, but hopefully I’ll start posting here more 🥲)