#oh and also my interpretation of Orpheus and Eurydice is inspired (?) by Hadestown

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having thoughts about Hilson in parallel to Orpheus and Eurydice but .. who out of the two of them is Orpheus, and by proxy who’s Eurydice ?

like I’ve already said it on Twitter but my gut reaction is to say that House is Orpheus, because realistically he’d go through hell for Wilson only to look back because he underestimates Wilson’s devotion . Wilson’s analysis of House in season 3 (‘the coma guy’s son’ is the ep I think ???) where he argues that House pushes at relationships until they break so he can ‘say he was right’ comes to mind

but then you have Wilson with his hero complex and universal donor blood type and his need to do anything and everything for the people he loves - with House’s record of relapse and stubbornness … I wonder if he’d turn around bc he knows that even if he takes House out of hell, House will put himself back in it

This could very much just be my interpretations of Hilson (I haven’t finished season 3 yet) so this is an open question lol

who is Orpheus, and who is Eurydice?

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naur 😩 I just read Eurydice and it’s so soo good!! I’m in distress, I was so into it I didn’t realize it was coming to an end. I only knew the story vaguely so you can imagine when I read the end of your story I went hysteric trying to find out why people think he turned, and most seem to think it’s because of lack of patience or distrust. But if you don’t mind me asking what’s your interpretation? why did he turn around? why would she ask him to turn around ? at least in your story what was the reasoning? maybe it’s right in my face and I just missed it, maybe I’m just bad at interpreting symbolism.. idk. But I really absolutely loved it so much!! I can’t wait to read your other works! Thank you for writing 💖

oh my goshhhh thank YOU for leaving me this I’m so speechless rn. as for the interpretation of why orpheus turned,, I don’t honestly have a solid theory when it pertains to the actual myth but I recommend you look at the interpretation from portrait of a lady on fire and from hadestown because those two were some of my inspirations for the fic

(im gonna call the characters of my fic eurydice and orpheus bcs I have two vers of the fic posted but pls read it as whichever version you read and note that the reader character in the fic is gender neutral,,, I’m only calling them eurydice and orpheus here for my own ease okay moving on)

I do wanna start with saying that this explanation is just how I interpret my own story. you’re not bad at reading symbolism or missing anything anon ! Orpheus’s reasoning for turning around was purposefully left vague, and the reason for that is I wanted readers to make their own assumptions and interpretations ,,, idk I just think a story is more fun when it’s left up to your imagination. So that being said if you or anyone else reads my explanation and thinks it’s lame or it’s not what you want, feel free to ignore it. seriously! the ending of the story and the driving force behind the choices that the characters make are ultimately up to YOU

and now for my interpretation: so it’s hinted that eurydice died very suddenly, so I imaginee that in my story orpheus going down to the underworld was mainly done out of shock. he seems like a pretty cool-headed dude, I think if he gave his grief and shock more time to settle he would not have gone to be honest. but on the flipside, it’s almost like he felt this obligation to go. and what I mean by that is like he knew he could find a way to get eurydice out of death so he HAD to at least try. also in the flashback of their first meeting eurydice says something along the lines of ‘if I die before getting to center circle I’ll walk all the way back from hell’ . so its also sort of like orpheus was keeping eurydice to that word and actually giving them a chance to walk back.

and that line about walking back from hell was very purposeful! eurydice really cared about their dream of getting to center cicle when they were alive. before eurydice met orpheus, they would have been jumping at the chance to make this walk back to the real world, jumping at the chance to come back to life and achieve their dream. but as eurydice says later: ‘dreams change’ . after meeting oprheus, eurydice’s priorities changed. eurydice’s life had more meaning and purpose to it than just longing after a life in center circle, and orpheus was the reason for that change in thinking.

so the way I see it when Orpheus found eurydice in the underworld, eurydice only agreed to make the walk back as a way to say goodbye. like this entire walk was never gonna end with eurydice coming back to life. its only real purpose was to give these two a little bit more time to make peace with eurydice’s death and to say good bye

OKAYYY sorry that got so long omg, but thank you for liking the piece and sending this ask in. this might be very confusing so do let me know if you have any follow up questions haha I could talk about this piece for ages. and if you or anyone else has a different interpretation, id love to hear it ! pls send it in