Basically Orpheus and Eurydice is as follows:
- Orpheus was the son of Apollo and some nymph
- He was crazy talented at music
- So good that Apollo gave him his own lyre
- He was also really pretty cuz that’s the Greeks for you
- He went on many journeys
- (He mostly played the lyre)
- He came back and met the nymph Eurydice
- She was also surprise surprise very pretty
- They marry
- Except that Hymen’s torch releases a bunch of smoke aka a bad omen for their marriage
- They forget about it
- Honeymoon phase for y’all
- One day, Eurydice goes back to play in the woods since nymphs are all apparently jobless
- Unless you count playing around and being generally pretty a job
- And since 90% of shepherds are messed up in some way or another, this guy chases Eurydice
- She runs
- Except she’s extraordinarily short-sighted and steps on a snake
- It bites her
- She dies
- Orpheus is now added onto the growing list of depressed musicians
- Fame has also apparently gotten into his head and now he thinks that he can defy death
- He goes up to Zeus
- Since he’s the golden child of pretty much all the gods, of course Zeus says yes
- He gets a pass to go to the underworld
- He plays so well a bunch of criminals stop thinking about their eternal suffering
- Persephone weeps, and Hades is like, “Chill our dude. Just take your wife. But since I love having extra conditions that make you doomed to fail, you have to do it without looking back at her.”
- And Orpheus is like, “Potassium. Why not?”
- And Hades is like, “K just leave me alone in my eternal sadness now.”
- And Orpheus is like “okie”
- “Just take your wife and leave!”
- Anyways, Orpheus takes Eurydice back and it’s low key creepy?
- Like who just takes their dead wife along to escape the underworld?
- Orpheus apparently
- It’s Greek mythology
- It’s Greek mythology
- IT’ GREEK MYTHOLOGY
- So of f***ing course he looks back
- Last second too
- Time to say bye to your wife again!
- Poor Eurydice though
- Poor girl dies twice but no one blinks an eye
- Because eVeryTHinG iS ceNtERed aRoUNd orPheUS
- Girl doesn’t get enough credit for that
- I mean, she’s just so chill about everything?
- I’m rambling again
- So Orpheus is back
- And you know what else is back?
- His depression
- So he plays a bunch of sad songs
- #EmoForLife
- Dionysus comes along with his followers, and since it’s Dionysus, they’re all drunk af
- Cuz why not?
- Basically it’s just a bunch of drunks m angering along
- And at first they’re fine with said song choice
- But then they get madder than racist girls when I spam them with f(x) and Dreamcatcher
- So they throw rocks at him
- But his music is not ordinary
- Oh no
- It has to be charmed
- We gotta be special here
- So then they just throw themselves at him and kill him and dump his body into a river
- The end!
- But wait, there’s more!
- Introducing the gods’ newest feature, making constellations out of whatever they want!
- So they add his lyre in the sky
- Becoming Lyra, which just makes me think of SoulSilverShipping tbh
- And yeah