#so does thunder bringer wouldn't you like and even Remember Them even if I spent 3 paragraphs yelling about it

[tumblerosestudios]

Okay so I've been listening to EPIC the Musical recently and can we talk about how it wasn't Ody's mercy that destroys him but his hubris and eventual ruthlessness? Like he would have gotten away from the Cyclops Scot free and saved most of his men had he not, after already doing his "nobody" trick, shout his fucking full legal name and zip code! Warrior of the Mind my ass you stabbed his eye not his ears!

Had he not done that one stupid thing out of callousness and hubris even with his crew being idiots and opening the windbag he would not have angered Poseidon, which would have meant he didn't have to deal with Circe, The Underworld, the Sirens, or Scylla, which wouldn't have lead to the mutiny which had his gaggle of idiots piss off Zeus and get themselves axed.

Odysseus' fatal flaw was neither mercy nor malevolence, it, like most Greek heroes, was Ego.