#yeah she's a victim but also a monster and odysseus should get as far away as he can

[theballadofmars]

I didn't see anyone mention this, but in 'I'm not sorry for loving you', when Odysseus says 'I love you' to Calypso, I don't think he's being nice to her, but on the contrary. I think he's trying to hurt her.

It doesn't makes sense that Odysseus would say that to her, unless he knows that's the best way of getting revenge on Calypso. He gives her hope, just for a moment, and you can see the excitement on her voice, before breaking her heart and leaving to never come back.

Odysseus was never going to say goodbye to her, SHE is the one who goes to the beach to talk to him one last time.

And Calypso, who until this point has been sinning about how she doesn't regret falling in love with him, suddenly changes after he tells her 'But not in the way you want me to'. She hates to be in love with him now, she regrets it, not only because she knows that Odysseus is never going to love her, but also because is the first time Odysseus is able to hurt her.

After all, this is the Vengeance Saga. Odysseus starts by getting revenge on Calypso, the goddess that keep him away from Penelope for years, and he choose the most effective method; and the saga ends with him getting revenge on Poseidon, but this time with physical torture.

Odysseus is smart, he doesn't say that just because, he tries to hurt his enemies, Calypso is just a different monster, one that he can't defeat in a combat or by rejecting her, but by letting her know that he's never going to love her, no matter what, and he's always going to fight to leave her side.