Ok, also with the Theseus slander.
How? Is it possible? To boil down a Greek hero so much that it’s actually possible to just flat out detest them.
I find it impossible to take the characters personally. Like people seem personally offended characters and I don’t get it. The characters are all so complicated that it’s impossible to just broad stroke psychoanalyse, and THEN proceed to act like the character has personally wronged you due to this diagnosis you have them based on your version preference when reading. Damn.
Yeah fun fact the villain in the story is Minos. The victims are the Athenian youths, the Minotaur. Theseus is the Hero, Ariadne is the Heroine. But Ariadne represents the suffering of the Athenians when she gets on the ship with them, even though she saved them, and Theseus’s dealing with that represents his tendency to make some very bad decisions, something that will haunt his character for the rest of his stories.
Maybe it’s the fact that I base my enjoyment of a character on how interesting they are. But Greek mythology is set up with these extremely complex characterisations alongside this tendency toward a deeply flawed hero. Not necessarily glorifying the fallenness, but using it to explore what happens to exceptional men when they are deeply flawed. That’s Theseus. He’s not a psychopath, not a narcissist. The texts paint him as a youth who began his ventures to find his place, who stepped up to save his kin, but whose chief and detrimental weakness was not thinking, and making bad decisions with big consequences based on just not fucking thinking anything through. He is a gut reaction person, he makes big moves based on where he finds himself in the moment. His character is glorifying the strength of the hero and, as so many men in mythology ARE WRITTEN, a cautionary tale against the flaws that lay a hero low.
Achilles is also one of these. Agamemnon is one of these. Hector, a great guy, but he has some flaws that get him in trouble. Jason too. Odysseus! And Theseus, a monumental figure, is one of these characters that implore men to be strong but to be wise, to think before they act.
his wig reminds me of Elrond
and yes the it looks like crap
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it’s not a plot hole the reason old Erik had a British accent was because he spent so long with Charles that he picked up on his accent.
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I think Ryan is such a neat little dude because he’s absolutely a red herring—based on his introduction in The Rising, we think he is going to be a toxic jerk whose actions are solely dictated by his ego and who will get some sort of comeuppance from our main cast.
Instead, Ryan is loud and full of himself but in a really charming way, he’s shown to have a really good sense of his ability (including its limitations) and uses it strategically in his particular environment (I’m thinking here about The Rising where he uses his gravity field to pull a collapsing building towards objects that can act as supports, etc.).
He’s very personable and emotionally attuned to others despite being a straightforward talker (e.g. he quickly picks up on Barnaby’s complicated feelings towards Kotetsu, and never tries to pull the two apart even when he’s Barnaby’s partner, outside of the occasional teasing). And in Season 2, we’ve seen how close he’s gotten to the other heroes (e.g. defending Barnaby from Subaru’s caustic questions because he knows Barnaby’s been through a lot) and how he’s open to reevaluating his own perspectives of others when he messes up (specifically with Karina).
On the last point, I like how he, like the other main male heroes in the show, isn’t weirdly patronizing or rude (or, god forbid, perverted for misogynistic fanservice) towards the main female heroes. When he is acting weird about the idea of Karina partnering up with Kotetsu, it’s shown to be the result of a traumatic experience that he himself hasn’t properly processed with the support of those he can trust, rather than some ingrained trait of toxic masculinity. And Karina directly calls him out on the biases he does have towards “protecting” her, which is like, fantastic? Their partnership is equal, and when push comes to shove with our main villains this arc he doesn’t question Karina’s abilities and uses his gravity field to support her. He doesn’t “hog the spotlight” because he believes in his team. He’s the one who apologizes for treating Karina like a newbie who needs protecting, after he sees how independent she is, how much trust she has from her family, and how much she’s sacrificed from her own life in order to pursue what she wants. And I know we’re meme-ing the moment where he calls himself a feminist, but it’s clear that Ryan genuinely respects Karina, and by the end he really becomes the mischievous older brother figure that I think he fits perfectly.
Anyways Ryan is such a refreshing spin on a design that screams “asshole” but in reality is “big puppy who is just The Best Boi.”
having a blorbo in greek mythology and epics is like the ancient world version of realizing the tv show had a different writer for the one episode your critter was wildly out of character and everyone is like "oh that's so them!" ??? did we watch the same show? helen of troy/sparta is a slut no wait she is a perfect woman no no she is a flawed human being no hold on she's a woman making her way in a man's world wait no she is the archetypal victim no wait-
not coincidentally i am reading madeline miller's the song of achilles for the first time and odysseus just showed up halfway through and odysseus'ed across the page so hard he made me fall in love with him all over again. achilles/patroclus is some foundational tragic queer romance, yeah i respect that, but odysseus. the laughing snake that tricks you into forgetting he is always ready to bite. my man
i bet he is a tricky character to write well but as long as he falls somewhere on the wile e. coyote <--> bugs bunny spectrum he is probably in character. because his character is to be tricksily varied. is he just a dude trying to get home? is he a larger than life hero? a rat bastard nobody can trust? the one male in hellas with a working brain who doesn't listen only to his dick or his overinflated ego? a wifeguy (positive)? a wifeguy (negative)? athena's special boy in this generation (telemachus and orestes wiping their noses on their blankets still)? or her latest mortal hackeysack, legs blurring in a looney tunes run between zany schemes, just a bit faster than the other doomed shmucks? all are intensely valid interpretations and go all the way back to homer 2800 years ago. incredible.
someone in the book is making fun of odysseus for bragging about how much he likes the ship, fresh from ithaca!! penelope modeled for the figurehead!!! he gets to see her while they're apart!!!! and that's why i set the book down for a minute. hgn. hdmahflshsk. odysseus sweetie pie i hope you still like it twenty years from now. the ghosts of my middle school english notes defining "dramatic irony" scream in ecstasy from the great beyond