#putting a long ass tag here so that i can cover maybe potentially spoilery stuff

[isp-annafer]

Okay, so thoughts on No Longer You from the Underworld saga, specifically, this one part:

I see the sacrifice of man

Like, what was he referring to? I considered, briefly, the infant from the first song, but it didn't seem to fit.

Of course, the next (and most likely) assumption was Polites. And it fits! Kinda! A lot of animatics reference him during that part. You can also say the other people who died on Odysseus's crew can also kinda fit that line. But. like. the wording: They used the word sacrifice. That's a deliberate action. Something you do on purpose. They died (presumably for Odysseus) on purpose. But the crew dying has always been framed as a consequence of Odysseus's decisions, so not sure about them either. Back to Polites, I always assumed Polites had been killed by an act of chance. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe the closest to Polyphemus without realizing. There'd been no hint of him sacrificing himself in Survive. But you know what other song referenced a sacrifice? That removed song Your Light, which was about Odysseus's and Polites's friendship. You know, where when they were children, Odysseus jumped in the way of the boar 'so you [Polites] could live'.

So if Polites did sacrifice himself for Odysseus during the events of Survive, it would have provided a neat parallel to what happened in their childhood during the events in Your Light.

Of course, I could be wrong and Polites and the crew really were sacrifices to Odysseus's mistakes. But like. Idk man sacrifice doesnt seem like the right words for it if that were the case.

who knows i could be wrong. Or maybe i could be right and Polites sacrifices himself for Odysseus in the official version of the musical, lol.

(Hey wait didnt they release a screenplay version or was i just trippin. i cant remember)