#odysseus and eurylochus

[therandomfandomme]

I think a large part of why Eurylochus feels so betrayed in Mutiny is because he has put Odysseus on a moral pedestal and Odysseus just put more blood on his hands. Like, in Scylla it's clear he still feels a lot of guilt about opening that windbag, inadvertently killing a large part of their fleet. He let those men die in his eyes, he sacrificed them. And for him, Odysseus is better than him, because he wouldn't do that, which is why Eurylochus brings up the Cyclops and Circe, where Odysseus went the extra mile to ensure the safety of their men. Yet, here he let six men die, but not only that, he asked Eurylochus to light up six torches, to give those orders, to pick the men who were to light their way. Odysseus unknowingly put Eurylochus in a situation where he also had a hand in a situation he never wanted to go through again and he only followed those orders, because he believed that Odysseus would never do such a thing. It's such a gut wrenching mix of emotions, that betrayal, from both sides.

[otherthingys]

Okay so we’ve all learned that there is indeed a length that Odysseus would not go to to save Eurylochus

HOWEVERRRRRRR

I NEED TO KNOW

Would Odysseus still choose to sacrifice his crew if Polites was still alive ??! He hasn’t partaken in any wrongdoing, doubted Odysseus, etc; he just managed to stay alive up til thunder bringer.

Is Odysseus sacrificing his best buddy 🥺???

[luolii]

thinking about eurylochus and odysseus

[helpmeplzimbeggin]

“I OPENED THE WIND BAG WHILE YOU WERE ASLEEP!!!”

Imagine staying up for 9 whole days to get back to your family, ACTUALLY almost getting there, and then getting completely set back to further than you were when you started.

And then you find out that your second in command, your right hand man, your brother in law, your BROTHER IN ARMS— was the guy who couldn’t trust you enough to listen when you told him to just keep the damn bag closed.

(And then you realize he was right to not trust you. After all, what kind of captain would knowingly sacrifice six of his brothers?)

[viablemess]

Something I keep thinking about and want to see discussed. What do you think would have happened if Odysseus talked to Eurylochus about the problem of sailing through Scylla's lair?

I feel like if Odysseus and Eurylochus discussed scylla, eurylochus would have, either by peer pressure or his own will alone, share that info with the crew. It would have turned onto a public discussion even if it started out as a private disclosure between Odysseus and eurylochus.

At that point, I can see it going one of two ways.

One - either Odysseus asks for volunteers and enough folks to offer to by scylla's targets with torches as they sail "full speed ahead" to get by her, or, I could also see eurylochus offer up himself and then more crew members follow his lead. He thinks he opened the wind bag, he might as well do that. Odysseus might try to stop him but does not try as hard as he would have previously. Try as they might, the volunteers (eurylochus or otherwise) die. This makes it even harder for Odysseus to give up the crew, the crew feels more betrayed because their friends sacrificed themselves for Odysseus and now he casts them aside? Odysseus is hurting much, much worse afterwards.

Two - eurylochus and Odysseus decide to sail by charybdis, and inevitably this goes very, very wrong. Cue most of the crew dying in the whirlpool that is not quite strong enough to take out the ship, but certainly damages it quite a bit. When Zeus shows up, half the crew is brutally wounded, and Odysseus still gives them up but maybe logics that it is more of a mercy killing because of how much pain they are in.

Thank you for asking!!:)

[anniflamma]

Odysseus is "There are other way"-ing Zeus This is to everyone in that comment section!

There is a part 2 now...

[messymoonmad]

Now tell me he wouldn't do that

[incognito-duo]

[walfah]

“You made it,Captain.”

[indivdualwalkingby]

Eurylocus: I opened the windbag when you were asleep…

Odysseus: shh he doesn’t know I know this hack

Odysseus: Eurylochus, light up six torches

[kokii-omii]

more of these silly doodles of the screenshots from the Livestream

[christart14]

Canon

[roseofithaca]

Odysseus crew: *watching him from the afterlife*

Elpenor: Look, he's hunting down the suitors! He's gonna kill them all!

Eurylochus: Maybe you were right, Polites. Violence has only lead to more violence. Perhaps the Captain would be better off showing mercy before he goes too far.

Polites: Are you fucking kidding me?! You heard what they were planning to do to Penelope and their son!! He should butcher every one of them!!!

[luolii]

for the eurylochus fans out there… i wrote a precanon (trojan war) fic abt him

[notsolonedesert]

All of them lived happily ever after and nothing bad ever happened, trust me 🥹

Follow up: The wedding

[kazimir29]

Finally done with this! I planned this around Thunder saga but go to lazy/busy to finish it 🤡 so here it is now.