#Eurylochus they could never make me hate u I’m so srs

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This is made even worse because a lot of people interpret Odysseus’ lack of acknowledgement as something Eurylochus could see as a good thing. Like, Odysseus isn’t angry when he says to light up six torches and there’s nothing that would’ve led Eurylochus into believing it’s a bad thing; it’s just an order.

And Eurylochus could see that order as Odysseus reassuring him that they’re alright— that Eurylochus is still his right hand and Odysseus is still his captain, despite this mistake.

And, then, Eurylochus realizes the truth of it and he has reckon with the grief of killing his comrades all over again. Only this time, it’s so much worse because Odysseus is the one who caused it and he knows they can’t move past this together— not anymore.

I am horrifically late to the party and I’m sure this has already been said. But man. I cannot stop thinking about the song Scylla from Eurylochus’ POV

This man has spent gods know how long blaming himself for opening the wind bag, the guilt of knowing his mistake led to the deaths of 500+ of his comrades, everyone he’s spent the last ten years fighting alongside

He’s finally reached his breaking point, the guilt and shame has been eating him alive this entire time. So he tells his captain, his brother in law and in arms, exactly what he did and how he inadvertently killed most of their crew

And Odysseus doesn’t even acknowledge that, he just tells him to light six torches. Okay, weird, but he trusts his captain. He lights the six torches and hands them to six men, six of his comrades. Only to find out that he’s once again directly led to the brutal deaths of more of his men

He’s spent the entire time dying inside knowing that he killed them, and now Odysseus had him kill six more without even knowing it. Gods, no wonder the guy started a mutiny, I would be devastated too