#And them becoming fish to continue being with each other is really sweet 😭❤️

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I love tragic love tbh so when you said Orpheus x Eurydice for Jalim, it also made me think about Alcyone x Ceyx. They were another happily married couple that were very devoted to each other, but their hubris got the better of them. They called each other "Zeus" and "Hera" which pissed off those 2, and Zeus struck Ceyx' ship while at sea and he died, and when Alcyone found out she threw herself into the sea and drowned, but, unlike Orpheus and Eurydice, their tragedy does have a semisweet lesson of their love triumphing over their tragedy, because the gods' had enough compassion for their tale afterwards that they transformed them into 2 kingfishers, or the Halcyon birds, named for Alcyone. So the morale of the story basically, their love and devotion was enough so that neither the gods' nor death kept them apart, and lived on despite their tragedy.

AUGH, this has the perfect balance of sweetness and tragedy !!

I can definitely envision Jalim here as Jason jumping back into Hell to save Salim perfectly mirrors Alcyone throwing herself into the sea - I'm interpreting this as her trying to seek out her lover rather than having done this to kill herself.

Thanks for the nice summary and your knowledge in Greek mythology coming in clutch 🌸🩷🌸