#and of course the fact that immediately after the circe saga we have odysseus's descent into the Underworld and into monsterhood | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

stormbreaker101 · 5 months

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I still can't get over the Circe Saga.

Hermes gives Odysseus a tool to even the playing field. He anticipates and encourages Odysseus to overpower her on a physical, magical, and sexual level. He phrases this help as "us[ing] more than words." He wants Odysseus to give up speech and mercy as much as the other gods do.

But ultimately it's Odysseus's words that save him and his crew. It's him telling Circe about his faith to Penelope that convinces her to help him.

There are other ways of persuasion, indeed.

#leah speaks :3 #epic the musical #is this a surface level analysis? yes.#does it make me go feral over odysseus's arc regardless? YES #and of course the fact that immediately after the circe saga we have odysseus's descent into the Underworld and into monsterhood #and he CITES CIRCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF BEING A RUTHLESS MONSTER...#someone he has to EMULATE...#even though CIRCE WAS ULTIMATELY HANDLED WITH MERCY #AND CIRCE HERSELF SAYS 'Maybe showing one act of kindness / Leads to kinder souls down the road'#CONVINCED BY ODYSSEUS #AND NOW IN MONSTER HE'S GIVING THAT UP ENTIRELY #it's TRAGEDY and it KILLS ME and i LOVE IT and I WANT TO STRANGLE ODYSSEUS AND TELL HIM TO KEEP SOME MERCY #anyway im shouting in the tags so much bc this tangent abt the underworld felt kinda disconnected #sorry ive been obsessed with the theme of mercy vs ruthlessness in my own writing too so this musical is thematic catnip to me #leah speaks: tag edition

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