#udad ulysses

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober Day 8: Fav Album

I absolutely adore Ulysses Dies At Dawn 💙💙💙

[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

ulysses uses "a faint, almost inaudible signal" to drive the people in ilium crazy and kill each other. there's no indication as to what that might have been, so i'm choosing to believe it was the whispers of yog-sothoth. odin made it out somehow and ran off to start up her own kingdom. and to build a train.

this leads to the logical conclusion ulysses is secretly odi--

- mod fen

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

I think about how udad has not only the most hopeful ending of the mechs album, it is also the only one where the Main Character sings. Like in ouatis and hnoc it is the narrator who sings of the tragedy (with Mordred having a few lyrics in bg) and Lyf actually does get a say in the tbi ending, but they dont really sing and their narration is that of just pure horror.

In udad Ulysses sings and they sing about their coming death, and they sing about how they are truly about to be free, and they sing about them being reunited by their lover, but most importantly they sing about how they are going to have an eternal rest, never to be disturbed again, about dying a true death, a right that was stolen from everyone on that planet. I think about how they end their life and the album singing.

I think about how this story is told by a crew of immortal space pirates. These space pirates have lived longer than some of the planets and stars, sometimes even helped in their early destruction. They only bother with tragedies, stories of dying love, of inescapable violence, of atrocities in name of knowledge, of doomed dreams, because in their own words happy endings are 'boring'. I think about how these immortals also curse their immortality, how they welcomed their deaths. How despite revelling in violence and doomed love and tragedies, they chose to tell this story of someone who found peace in their true death, a simple nobody to them yet gained what they couldnt have. They chose to tell their story and they sang their ending and they sang with hope.

I just think about Ulysses Dies at Dawn a lot

[rocksanddeadflowers]

so i've been listening to elysian fields way too much lately and thinking how fucked up that song is for the mechs to perform. like put death to the mechanisms out of your head (bc that basically didn't happen yet with udad) and listen.

they're immortal. they can't die. the song is all about the sweet release of death, and arguably a gentle one at that, cradled in the fields on a world were nature ceases, next to the grave of your deceased beloved. it's a beautiful song, and arguably, ulysses got their happy ending.

the mechanisms don't get that, though. most didn't even get the option of keeping mortality. they're stuck on the mortal plane, in flesh and metal, with no escape or release within reach.

their finale performance of this album is the bittersweet comfort of mortality and endings, something they're well aware they will never be granted.

[brainrotwall]

His name is WHAT???

Here's Paris udad because I felt like it

(killing him kissing him)

[twentysidednerd]

this post is gonna sound like a broken record but i just find it so POWERFUL how Ulysses Dies at Dawn ends the way it does. not just in the sense of “oh the mechanisms always end their albums with pretty much everyone dead and the whole situation is hopeless” but in the sense that the City is meant to chew everyone except the Olympians up and spit them out and Ulysses gets the ending they do.

yes, they’ve been messed up by the war with Ilium and the circumstances of the City but in the end, they aren’t condemned to the hell of the Acheron. they aren’t condemned to watch the Suits take the vault away from them. they get what they got to give to Penelope years ago when her time came: a true, peaceful death. away from the toil and strife of the City. saved from the destruction of the planet by the Mechs as well when they leave. they don’t have to suffer through the new horror that burning down the Acheron brings to the end of the story. they get what’s probably the most peaceful end to a horrible beginning out of every single ending the Mechanisms have come up with

this album makes me cry too much and this is how i cope lmao. anyway stan UDAD

[chess-draws]

ulysses before they died at dawn or smth, idk ive never listened to the album

[miralines]

…so did Ulysses know Hades was fully aware of their vault or did they just have to have a heart attack when they petitioned Hades and they just casually mentioned the thing they’d made that they hoped could bring down the Acheron

[jonsmissingribs]

It's like-

Oedipus started out trying to save and help the community he grew up in, only for the scandal orchestrated by the community he was born to turn the community he was raised in against him

Heracles wanted to help his family, his father and his children, only for his father to kill slaughter his children and blame it on him

Orpheus loved and was loved for his songs so much only for all of it to leave him when his true love and muse died and he couldnt handle it

Ariadne wanted to help herself and to escape the crimes of her parents only for it to further damn her when Theseus used her help and then rejected her

Ulysses was so worn down by the guilt of their crimes, of how they destroyed Illuim by turning all of them against each other and then Daedulus does the same thing to the Suits. They saw this and just killed everyone including themselves

[arktixx]

i am having certain thoughts about udad

"long ago i sought to share it, the death might not be mine alone. but the labyrinth spawn, they could not bear it"

ulysses had gone to hades before, some time before the war (they were much more hopeful at the time), trying to make the vault more accessible, trying to share the gift of a proper, final death. but of course, that would make bad business for hades, and they still had some things they wanted to do so of course they declined. they let ulysses go maybe with a few threats, some bargaining, but over all nothing big, so long as ulysses kept quiet. they did end up putting cameras throughout the area just to be sure, but something in them knew they needed to keep this for later. and eventually that time came around.

not sure if this has already been thought of or anything but i think its kinda cool.

[reegis]

Have you considered volunteering for Acheron Pre-Selection lately?

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober Day 8: Ulysses Dies At Dawn

Very quick one today bc I had stuff to do,,

[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

Heracles drinks the exact same amount of alcohol as Ulysses, he just handles it better

ulysses is a lightweight

-mod fen

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Any udad fans out there who also watched Autodale dystopian series and vice verse?

[fayzart136]

Ulysses And The No-Good, Very Bad Day 30 Years

The Mechanisms albums are so much fun to make character designs for!

Design details pointed out under the cut

[dumbasswithapen]

Gods above I am so fucking stupid (but how could I resist) Based on this tweet. Unfortunately I could not extract the mandolin

[ID: a tweet by @neitherabaron on twitter replying to a reply on another post by Jessica Law. Her tweet reads “Stop taking my lyrics and making them weird!” The tweet in response, by Kofi, reads “my rewrite of trial by song: I’m not a man/i don’t have hands/thought I could speak (followed by 3 mins of dead silence)” end ID]