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You’ll be hearing from my lawyers jsyk

Ok but if Polites lived until Mutiny, it would've been so much more tragic.

He would've been defending Odysseus' decisions out of loyalty to his friend but also 100% understanding Eurylochus' very valid concern of starving to death. He would try to stay as neutral as possible and talk both of his friends down but would ultimately be unable to stop their sword fight. They are way past listening to his reasoning.

As a last-ditch effort, he throws himself in between them.

Right into Eurylochus' sword.

Odysseus and Eurylochus freeze as Polites clutches his stomach.

It was a strong thrust, intended to kill, and cut right through Polites' worn-down armor. As he falls back, both of his friends rush to his side in terror and guilt. His voice is wet and warbled by the blood seeping between his lips as he tells them they need to be kind. They used to all be brothers. What happened? How did such a big rift grow between them? Please, please swear to him to stop fighting.

They both swear and Polites' eyes glass over, a ghost of a smile on his lips.

There's a moment of silence broken only by the rumble of thunder.

Odysseus fails at choking back a sob.

He looks up at Eurylocus, tears and rage in his eyes. "You did this," he whispers.

Just realized The Underworld Saga feels like the antithesis of the Troy Saga (All of Odysseus men still alive hoping to get home fully trusting their captain while he struggles to maintain his humanity and compassion x Almost all of Odysseus man dead while he fully embraces being the monster).

Meanwhile the Thunder Saga feels like the juxtaposition (not sure this is the word in English) of the Cyclops Saga (similar narrative structure with opposite endings: meeting an unexpected foe who ends up killing some of Odysseus man and ends with a God teaching Odysseus a lesson, but in the first his mercy and, perhaps, pride were his downfall while now he shows no mercy, makes the sacrifices and makes it out alive, internalizing the lesson the God wanted to teach him)

Thomas O'Malley is and always has been the Best Disney Man because, although he is clearly attracted to and interested in Duchess throughout, it's never his primary motivation.

Sure, he's flirting with her when they first meet at the start, and she's clearly enjoying it (she's a sheltered pedigree cat, and a single mother with three kids— chances are it's been a while). But then when the kids show up and he realises that she's probably not looking for casual relationships at the moment, she graciously gives him a way out.

She makes it absolutely clear that she doesn't blame him for being put off by the kids, or expect anything from him. They're both adults, they both want different things, and he doesn't owe her. There is nothing wrong with his initial impulse to wish them all good luck on their travels and then go back to whatever he was doing before.

But he doesn't do that.

Instead we get the "you're not a cat, you're a rat" moment, followed by him rushing back with an offer to guide them to Paris.

Pretty everything else he does in the film moving forward is motivated purely by the fact that he couldn't live with himself if he left this nice but clearly out of their depth family stranded like that. It's entirely selfless.

Later on, we have the roof scene. They've been travelling together for a while (alright— pretty sure it's less than a day, but we're working with Disney Time here) and he's genuinely come to love and admire her. He makes another offer— this time he's willing to try for a more serious relationship, and be a father to her children.

She turns him down.

She loves him, he loves her, but she's not willing to give up Madame. She's rejecting him, again, for reasons that he can't really understand ("you're just her housepet!") after he just poured his heart out to her.

And I feel like, in most other Disney films, this would be the part where we have the 'protagonists argue before the climax' moment. Like, this is his cue to point out all that he's done for her, and for her to point out that she never asked for it, and for him to storm off in a huff and leave them to go the rest of the way alone, only returning at the climax to save them all dramatically.

But that never happens, because Abraham De Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley is a perfect gentleman, thank you very much.

He never had any Nice Guy-level assumptions about 'earning' her love when he made that offer to escort her to Paris, and he's not going to back out of it just because she rejected him. He may not understand her reasons for doing so, but he understands that she is as disappointed by how things turned out as he is, and he's not going to make things worse for her.

And then, at the end, he fucking moves in with her.

He fully respects that she's not willing/able to sacrifice her relationship with Madame, and so decides to sacrifice his own life as a street cat (despite his suspicions about humans) in order to be with her. You can see at the end that he's still getting used to his new situation, but he's fully prepared to try and make it work for her.

Seriously, Best Disney Guy hands down.

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Although I would like to add KOSA is still a big threat any Pro Palestine content will be wiped out please stop KOSA

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.