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saixria · 16 days ago

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Don’t think about how most friendships in Epic are/ end up one sided one way or another lolololol (more in the tags I went a little crazy oops)

The way friendship is a recurring (literary) motif in Epic like light vs darkness and “sleeplessness” kills me. Like yeah this is a tragic Greek myth story about gods and monsters and war and bloodshed and death and gore, but also friendship and love. It’s not just the friendship between Athena and Odysseus/Telemachus, but Odysseus and the crew, Odysseus and eurylochus and Polites. Even after sacrificing his whole crew to get home, betraying them and being betrayed by them, Odysseus still sees them as his friends in WYFILWMA. Athena still sees Odysseus as a friend regardless of if Odysseus still sees her as a friend. Hermes flippantly calling Odysseus “old friend” vs Athena genuinely, wholeheartedly calling Odysseus “old friend”. Odysseus calling Athena “mentor” instead of a friend in Monster after My Goodbye thinking she never saw him as her friend like he saw her as one (you can also argue this is just bc he already called Polites his best friend and it would be weird to use the word friend again but still)

Just. URGH. Friendships in epic.

#really fitting for a musical with a whole song about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer huh lmao #Ody and Polites? ody didnt truly embrace open arms until Polites died and by then I’d call their friendship one sided #ody may have always seen the crew as friends but he certainly didn’t treat them as such by distrusting them #blowing eurylochus off several times and keeping his SECOND IN COMMAND #HIS BROTHER IN LAW #in the dark #and yet even after everything he’s done even after the whole crew publically expressed distrust and fury towards him and tried to kill him #ody Never stops calling them his friends.#by the end of thunderbringer there when the crew charged at ody I think his thought was Theyre my friends but i don’t deserve to be theirs #idk if you’d count Circe and ody as friends by the end of Circe saga but Circe did NOT risk giving ody and his crew open arms just for #ody to bring her up in Monster as an example of ruthlessness /j #*gestures broadly at odysseus and athena #yeah THEY sure count lol #epic the musical #analysis #epic the musical analysis #jorge rivera herrans #epic odysseus #xria rambles

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