#BUT HOWD HE SURVIVED THE GODDAMN CHEST BLOW AND NOT DROWN

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So I went and found the watch party on YouTube that contained Vengence Saga and from what I can tell from the various animations, apparently Odysseus was stabbed through the chest by Poseidon during ‘Get In The Water’ and thrown to the bottom of the ocean.

He opened the wind bag to push himself to the surface again and strapped it to his back to fly around like a jet pack to beat up Poseidon during ‘Six Hundred Strike’.

And the torture of Poseidon was Odysseus stabbing Poseidon with his own trident again and again until he agreed to let Odysseus go. And for some unexplained reason, Odysseus’s eyes glow blood red the entire time. I’m not sure how to feel about this.

This might sound weird (because it’s fantasy, I know) but my main contention with all that is that Odysseus is supposed to be mortal. Specifically, he’s completely human. He does not have godly parents at all. That doesn’t sounds like something a mortal could plausibly do?? At least not the whole “survive being stabbed by a gods spear that’s the symbol of their power and tossed to the bottom of the ocean” part. Also, why were his eyes glowing red?? Mortals eyes don’t glow.

I know, I know, it’s silly to be picking at this when it’s mythology that has cyclops and sea monsters and sirens and journeys to the underworld, but I can’t stop myself from poking at the unexplained plot hole.

Everything else so far has had some plausible fantasy explanation given for how it worked. The cyclops was drugged and stabbed in the eye with it’s club that multiple men had to carry. They escaped Poseidon using the windbag they’d gotten from Aeolus. Circe was defeated because Odysseus ate a root Hermes gave him. They were told how to enter and leave the underworld by Circe. The men filled their ears with beeswax so they could talk to sirens without being lured to their deaths. The sea monster was distracted with six sacrifices as they outran it. Each one of these had a base for how they survived.

But surviving a battle with Poseidon, A GOD, because ghosts hugged him and he somehow managed to shake the chest blow from a godly powered weapon off just seems kind of flimsy?? Also why the fuck are his eyes glowing guys???

Someone in the comments said maybe Hermes gave Odysseus more moly which would have made a bunch of sense and I’d instantly accept that as the plot hole filled since it would explain Odysseus survival and him using Poseidon’s power against him, but at no point during ‘Dangerous’ or ‘Chyribdis’ did I hear Hermes say, “Here have some more moly!!” All he said was, “Here’s the wind bag. Don’t open it.” And then laid out the plan for odysseus to get home.

Maybe it was just that specific animatic??

My current theory for what the fuck is happening to Poseidon during ‘Six Hundred Strike’ while Odysseus is obviously torturing him, is that Odysseus is strangling him with the bag from Aeolus which is, presumably, indestructible, considering it can hold an immortal’s storm at bay. Why else would so much attention have been brought to the bag thus far. And why else would Odysseus have released the storm??