#also yall should watch the film itself because it is an absolute delight

[acediscowlng]

i have a pet headcanon that when Charles says he never finished the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, what he actually means is that he never finished 1989 punk rock film Shredder Orpheus which features, among other things: life and death skateboarding, the underworld being the literal underworld for dead people but also a corporate television channel, and a special magical Jimi Hendrix guitar

he watched it in St. Hilarion's basement on an old CRT TV where half the screen is purple and the speakers are on their last dying breath and he was only half paying attention because he and his friends were passing a joint around and he needed to study for a math exam so he catches the scene where orpheus and Eurydice reunite and thinks "huh job officially jobbed. good for them 👍👍" and completely misses the fact that they reunited because orpheus was dead and that the last ten minutes of the movie involved the logistics of how a group of punk kids ended up with his skull as a symbol of rebellion against The Man(TM)