#Eurylochus they’ll never make me hate you

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What if I tell you the only time Eurylochus was on the wrong was in Keep your friends close?

In full speed ahead he was the first to realise they needed to stop to get food because they had SIX HUNDRED MEN TO FEED, it wasn’t the amount of food you can simply go and ask some island people for, so they had to raid the island (they just got out of a war where they killed thousands of people, it wasn’t a really crazy idea)

In luck runs out when Eurylochus approached Odysseus he was ready to go to that island and he stop him on the spot like any other person would, and he had really good arguments about WHY GOING TO SOME GOD ISLAND (island you threw harpoons at btw. If it were any other god you would’ve been smited just for that) was a really bad idea. Odysseus just gave a SHIT argument and ignored him, so he had to keep talking. Maybe he didn’t thought about how the crew listening would affect their trust in the captain, but at that point who really cares? If you go to that island maybe there will be no captain to not trust or even no crew. Or maybe he didn’t thought the crew would be eavesdropping.

HE NEVER PLANNED ON THE CREW LISTENING TO THEIR CONVERSATION. IT WASNT HIS INTENTION FOR THE CREW TO REALISE THAT THE CAPTAIN WAS BATSHIT CRAZY AND HAD POOR SURVIVAL INSTINCTS.

Also, when Odysseus took him away to talk HE NEVER EASED EURYLOCHUS WORRIES. He told him to just listen to his orders and shut the fuck up, thing that came to bite him in the ass when years after years of shutting his mouth up Eurylochus couldn’t just hide how much the Captain’s choices were affecting the crew.

I ALSO HATE when people gives the argument of “just listen to the captain” or him going against the captain in every move.

ODYSSEUS WASNT RIGHT IN MOST OF HIS MOVES. He always left the fight just because he was resourceful (by straight up divine intervention) but that doesn’t mean the plans were good. Also what would you do in his position? Your captain is telling you the most batshit crazy idea you’ve ever heard that will possibly get your whole crew or himself killed and he doesn’t even want to listen to your opinion (His SECOND IN COMAND i remind you)

“Oh but he wanted to leave the crew with Circe” Circe was a goddess who did not care about the crew when she turned them into pigs. The idea of trying to talk her out of that was crazy and Odysseus only won that fight because of Hermes’ help. He accepted the fate that was given and tried to escape with the remaining crew before Circe did something to them too. It was the only logical choice.

Mutiny is the song that made me realise that Eurylochus wasn’t really the bad guy y’all paint him to be.

Odysseus (as usual) didn’t communicate his plan to Eurylochus and then he found out that the sacrifice of 6 of the men he tried so hard to protect was alway on the plan. If something like that happened in modern day all of you would go crazy just like he did. In his mind Odysseus was nothing more than a monster who cared more about going home to his wife than the lives of 6 men who also had wives and children to go to.

He even gave him the chance to explain himself, for god’s sake, and Odysseus only said I CANT ????? He even got out of his way to bandage him and KEEP HIM ALIVE after what was a horrible betrayal.

The cow incident is controversial but just look into it from his perspective.

They’re not going home either way. If they don’t kill those cows they are going to die slowly and painfully from starvation on their way home

Ody has done crazier things and he always came out victorious, why would this go wrong?

Also, i fully think the people that heard the lines “How much longer must I suffer now? How much longer must I push through doubt? How much longer must I go about like this when people die like this?” and still think Eurylochus is the villain, hasn’t listened to Epic the musical at all.

Opening the wind bag was stupid? Yes. Just as stupid as not killing the cyclops and giving your name and address to him, going against the orders of the literal GODDESS OF WISDOM, trusting some little drugged things to tell you were to find food, throwing harpoons at a god’s home, playing along into said gods name, NEVER REALLY TELLING YOUR SECOND IN COMMAND (WHO YOU KNOW IS STARTING TO DOUBT YOUR ACTIONS) THE WHOLE STORY, trying to talk a goddess into set free your men immediately after that instead of trying to keep alive the men you have left, trusting that goddess to send you and the crew she just turned into pigs to the LITERAL UNDERWORLD, sacrificing 6 men without telling your second in command or ANY OF THE MEN YOU WERE SACRIFICING beforehand and telling your men to suck it up and stay hungry until they reach home in who knows how much long.

Odysseus kept his plans close to his chest and expected Eurylochus and the crew to follow him blindly and without a word of protest.

Odysseus talked more about the crew that died that he didn’t focused enough on the crew he STILL HAD.

The only difference is that we had an explanation of why Odysseus does what he does, Eurylochus doesn’t.