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

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