#this is not a coherent comparison but I've spent the whole afternoon inking vaguely sad shiyong art and listening to hadestown

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The Tai Sui ending is like. What if Orpheus and Eurydice were brothers instead of lovers. What if Eurydice wanted to go to the underworld, and knowing Orpheus would do anything to chase after her, she sought him out before she died and told him that he musn't? What if Orpheus fought every instinct in his body and didn't go after Eurydice because he trusted her? Because she'd promised they'd see each other again if he'd only loosen the gates to the underworld while she was gone?

What if Orpheus never once looked back because he trusted Eurydice so perfectly, until hundreds of years later the underworld opened its gates to him entirely, and he entered to find no Eurydice after all. What if Orpheus saved every single person in the world except his brother and himself, and Eurydice was the only soul he never got to see again?