#Idk killing a literal infant is pretty ruthless
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do you ever think that Epic Odysseus spends a good deal of time trying to be extra “greet the world with open arms” after the war because he can’t look at the world the same way when there is a crying in his ears? He sees the blood streaming down the giants face and all he can see is the crushed and bloody and small body? That every time he thinks of his son, his tiny heart beating in his arms, he hears the heartbeat that rang in his ears as he held a swaddle of cloth over a wall, trying not to think about what lay inside? As he spare another life he thinks about the one he didn’t? As they sail through the underworld there is a form the swirls along side the others, one that he purposefully doesn’t acknowledge, a tiny thing wailing and oh gods it sounds like his son. And then he stops, he decides to “be the monster” and he stops holding the infant, he finally drops it and the blood on his hands is brighter and it won’t come off and he can’t touch his son cause he might drop him too. But Telemachus isn’t a baby, the crying sound is just in his head, besides Odysseus couldn’t hold his son like that anymore. Odysseus is a different man, and stopped trying to balance the universe by saving another when he already has so much blood on his hands. What is another drop going to do?
or are you normal?
#Poseidon: ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves#odysseus: promise?#Idk killing a literal infant is pretty ruthless#But that might just be a me thing#I just like to torture my favorite characters by giving them more trauma :)#epic the musical#Odysseus#odysseus of ithaca#idk how to tag this#Giving Odysseus my period cramps#anyways#I’m also giving him survivor’s guilt#Like he fought hard to keep that baby alive#He was ready to adopt it#And then like#baby pancake#On top of dead trojans#He’s so silly#I may or may not delete this later#Depends#This will either do great or get like 4 notes and there will be no in between cause that’s how all of my posts have gone
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