#ngl it bothers me that the core of the show flew over some people's heads

[glisten-inthedark]

I'm still not over the fact that Odysseus tried to offer Poseidon an olive branch.

We start his story following a man who thinks that no one needs to die, no one needs to get hurt.

Then he loses his best friend - his light. And the scales tip, he starts to associate losing him with extreme goodness, with mercy in despite of circumstances and of threats.

And he's desperate to get home, he needs to see his wife and his son.

But a god shows up and tries to teach him a lesson about ruthlessness and the lack of kindness, and he loses most of his men because of it.

He faces a goddess, he saves his men.

He goes to the Underworld and once again comes across the person that taught him the philosophy he's currently clinging onto. He then hears his mother.

And that's when the scales tip too much to the opposite direction and he decides – screw this, I'll be the monster.

He's not a man, he's not a god. He's something else.

He sacrifices his men, and then chooses himself over them.

But when he finally faces the god that killed his men, that made his life hell, he still tries to offer him a way out.

He still tells him they can stop this, they can have peace.

And when Poseidon says, DIE.

That's when Odysseus takes a stand and stabs him. That's when he realizes there's a point in which ruthlessness is necessary, but not before he tries to offer people a way out.

Odysseus said himself a while ago - he's neither man nor mythical.

Tiresias wasn't wrong when he told Odysseus that he saw a man that was no longer him (which is why his motif plays in 600 hundred strike).

He's not a man nor is he a complete monster.

Odysseus is something else.

[rin-solo]

I'll reblog later with a proper analysis bc damn this is spot on, you get it 👏👏 TYSM FOR THIS

I'm still not over the fact that Odysseus tried to offer Poseidon an olive branch.

We start his story following a man who thinks that no one needs to die, no one needs to get hurt.

Then he loses his best friend - his light. And the scales tip, he starts to associate losing him with extreme goodness, with mercy in despite of circumstances and of threats.

And he's desperate to get home, he needs to see his wife and his son.

But a god shows up and tries to teach him a lesson about ruthlessness and the lack of kindness, and he loses most of his men because of it.

He faces a goddess, he saves his men.

He goes to the Underworld and once again comes across the person that taught him the philosophy he's currently clinging onto. He then hears his mother.

And that's when the scales tip too much to the opposite direction and he decides – screw this, I'll be the monster.

He's not a man, he's not a god. He's something else.

He sacrifices his men, and then chooses himself over them.

But when he finally faces the god that killed his men, that made his life hell, he still tries to offer him a way out.

He still tells him they can stop this, they can have peace.

And when Poseidon says, DIE.

That's when Odysseus takes a stand and stabs him. That's when he realizes there's a point in which ruthlessness is necessary, but not before he tries to offer people a way out.

Odysseus said himself a while ago - he's neither man nor mythical.

Tiresias wasn't wrong when he told Odysseus that he saw a man that was no longer him (which is why his motif plays in 600 hundred strike).

He's not a man nor is he a complete monster.

Odysseus is something else.