Odysseus Said He Was Gonna Become The Monster To "everyone But Us" But Neglected To Inform His Crew That

Odysseus said he was gonna become the monster to "everyone but us" but neglected to inform his crew that "us" had three members and the other two are in Ithica.

Yes I know the cows were Helios’ shut the fuck up

jonathan sims plays the spooky music when he gets to the dramatic parts in his recordings. this is real

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There’s something to be said for that Different Beast is the first time since leaving Troy that Odysseus and his crew are a united front, without any dissenting voices, only for Odysseus to betray them in the very next song.

maybe this has been said already but i think that addition of penelope’s voice at the end of thunder bringer is really neat because while it is the siren’s words, odysseus might be attributing them to actual penelope, now. it’s put over the “when does a man become a monster” because it’s the two warring thoughts in odysseus’ head at that moment. he could do this, and truly become a monster, but…if he really can get to see penelope at the end, then she can take his suffering. soothe the crushing pain of everything he’s had to do and lose to get back to her.

and then, once he makes his decision, penelope’s final line doesn’t get to finish saying “you.” because, well. to odysseus, the person she’ll be comforting at the end of this will now most definitely no longer be him.

There’s something terribly poetic in the inevitability of events in EPIC. The choices Odysseus is given lead to no win situations. They aren’t really choices at all.

Kill a foe’s child or witness the death of your own. Sacrifice six men or sacrifice them all. Allow your crew to starve or watch as they slaughter sacred cattle.

Sacrifice your friends, your brothers, or give up your last chance at reaching home.

In the end, the result is always the same. He destroys himself