Videogame Story Analysis

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spoilers for the vengeance saga!!!!

what i love about the poseidon and odysseus dynamic is that throughout the sagas they both used each others words/threats back against them/each other.

like in remember them in the cyclops saga you have odysseus shouting to polyphemus

"I AM YOUR DARKEST MOMENT"

which in ruthlessness in the ocean saga, poseidon doesn't shout it but does coldly repeat the words back to odysseus after murdering 500+ of his men.

and of course you had poseidon also saying (before the murder of 500+ men)

"so close your heart, the world is dark and ruthlessness is mercy-"

and now in six hundred strike in the vengeance saga, the tables have turned and poseidon is at odysseus's mercy (and very clear lack of) that while STABBING HIM WITH HIS OWN TRIDENT REPEATEDLY, odysseus throws poseidon's words back at him (while being all stabby stab stab)

"told me to close my heart"

"you said the world was dark"

"didn't you say that ruthlessness is mercy upon our-"

like damn odysseus, impaling a god repeatedly with his own weapon ain't enough huh?

Remember when in the Sinner's Pit Hua Cheng fought Ke Mo while holding Xie Lian, and he was all "you should put me down, I can't imagine you enjoy fighting someone with another man in your arms" but Hua Cheng kept doing that, because he did, in fact, enjoy it?

Btw here's why

Sure, Hua Cheng is the more ~suave~ between him and Xie Lian but sometimes Xie Lian will drop the most romantic, heart-wrenching, soul inspiring line on him out of literally nowhere

Theyre strolling through the forest near Puqi shrine one afternoon and Xie Lian looks at the trees with a smile and says "I love autumn the most out of all seasons. Because the breeze is gentle and the leaves are all kinds of red, so it feels like my San Lang is everywhere even when he is not here."

And Hua Cheng immediately trips on his feet

stop

Put your fucking knight on a leash it keeps trying to duel mine

Starlight. Who do you see? Who do you smile for?

I hope it's me.