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He...uh, isn't doing too well

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Tiresias: I see your wife........ with a ruthless man who has killed hundreds of people

Odysseus:

Odysseus:

Odysseus: *Monster starts playing* I will ensure that this man will be me

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Tiresias: the person who makes it home...will not be you...

Odysseus: WHAT??

Odysseus, one song later: I am going to become a monster

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Something I adore about this saga is how the songs all end with such powerful and forceful singing. It almost feels like Odysseus is trying to drown out the screams he hears by being louder with his own pain and convictions

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ODYSSEUS SCREAMING “WHO?” BUT IT'S HIM. THE HAUNTED MAN WITH A TRAIL OF BODIES STANDING BESIDES HIS WIFE IS HIM.

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The thing about Odysseus is that he was so proud to be able to take all six hundred of his men through a horrific war and survive. And then he lets a cyclops live and he gets into the underworld and one of the first things he hears is the souls of his dead crew accusing him "558 men who died under your command". The baby he killed.

and then Polities shows up. telling him to lead from the heart because that's what he's been trying to tell Odysseus for so long. All of his regrets, all in one place to torment him

im not okay about this

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"WHO?!"

Odysseus asked calmly.

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Underworld Saga Memes

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when the stream was 3 minutes late chat started spamming "CAPTAIN" and i vote we add that to the hoard of Jorge's nicknames

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When Tiresias mentions seeing his wife with a man haunted and with a trail of bodies and Odysseus screams “WHO?” because oh he is a jealous monster risking it all to get home. His family has been his motivation since the start. He is becoming a MONSTER to get home to see his wife and his son. And here is the prophet saying she is with someone else? Because Odysseus hasn’t decided to become the monster yet. He hasn’t made the fundamental shift in his core values yet. He doesn’t know that he’s willing to do that. Yet. Not yet. So he SCREAMS and he is jealous and he is halfway to being a monster but not quite yet.

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The drop and yell with the final “all I hear are screams”

Straight up chills every time. And no I will not shut up about it

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“I took too long…”

Jay you will be sent my therapy bills I hope you know that

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He got. His mother. To play Odysseus’ mom. Who only sings in the Underworld bc she passed away waiting for him to get back from war.

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sooo no longer you amirite?

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About the lines in "No Longer You" that go

Tiresias: I see your wife with a man... with a trail of bodies.

Odysseus: WHO!?

*half-beat*

The wording here and the half-beat are VERY INTENTIONAL, I think. The half-beat gives you JUST enough time for your brain to auto-fill an answer, and the word "who" rhymes with "you" (plus the fact that the word "you" has already been lingered on once or twice by this point in the song). All this comes together so that, when you hear this line, you instinctively want to shout back "You!" because you KNOW the answer and it's SO OBVIOUS, but Odysseus can't see it!

10/10 amazing artistry

(Also, most of us have seen this before. I won't explain it, but...)