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Hey Supergiant Games? About Echo and Narcissus?
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Greek Myths and how long ago they were written, and what we've been able to rediscover is actually quite fascinating and inspiring. Also, it's important that some of you consider the need to disregard things you may have been once told about how it's impossible to know, or discern or learn things about the distant past. Which brings me to some childhood memories I will now share here with the hope that SuperGiant reads them... or anyone really, because I can't seem to find any trace of what I read anymore online... but just because you can't find something on "The Interbutts" hardly means something doesn't exist, or never existed does it? No, of course not!

So... a strange version of the Myth of Echo and Narcissus I will share the details that I can remember about here with you all... I read this SO MANY YEARS AGO!!! I was in English class in my 6th grade year MAYBE... and I was reading a part one of the English books by myself unprompted instead of following along with everyone else and the teacher because...because the story they were all covering wasn't holding my attention! ANYWAY...

I miss that version of the myth and wish it were more prominent actually!
Fans of Greek Mythology/History might feel a PAINFUL ironic agony if they know anything about King Oedipus for instance, and what he wound up being named after in Freudian Psychology? Has anyone ELSE ever read anything to suggest that the concept of Narcissism, and the idea/version of Narcissus that claims he ever fell in love with his own reflection ironic in that painful way? I have!

I read a version of these intertwined myths that not only accounted for Echo having had her speech taken away by Hera, but that placed a curse of not falling in love with one's own reflection truly but of SEEING A DIFFERENT PERSON AND FALLING IN LOVE WITH THAT ILLUSION IN PLACE OF NARCISSUS' REFLECTION! That is the version I remember most poignantly... I remember because in the version I read... Echo more or less either kills themselves in utter despair because of not being able to speak the way they used to... which actually is REALLY tragic when combined with another detail about Narcissus that I remember reading?

So in THIS version I remember getting really shook when I read about Narcissus too! In this version he wasn't really in love with himself AT ALL! He was actually quite bummed out/depressed... he just DID NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY FOR ANYONE HE HAD MET YET as anyone who was falling head over heels in love and/or lust with him!

Which brings us to ECHO...Who was SO GOOD at socializing/talking/interaction BEFORE HERA MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO SAY ANYTHING THAT ISN'T AN ... ECHO... ???

I have trouble NOT imagining what could have been between these two, and I see why in the version I read that Aphrodite cursed Narcissus... because it's after Narcissus rejects Echo, that Echo begs for death and Aphrodite either grants that ...or she unalived herself in the version I read... I can't remember that part specifically...but I remember that Aphrodite was distraught over the loss of Echo, and that she took it out on Narcissus. The book I read had notes about other versions where Narcissus was said to have either fallen in love with their own reflection of their own accord, or through a curse by either Nemesis or Aphrodite...BUT... The one I was reading in this book... I specifically remember details about this MUCH DARKER and MUCH SADDER twist to what happened to Narcissus!

Instead of seeing their own reflection I read about them seeing a water Nymph whom they fell in love with, because Aphrodite designed the curse in such a way that they would call out to Narcissus and make Narcissus curious and try to give chase or call back to this Nymph drawing Narcissus into the depths... Eventually they either waste away in front of the water, or even drown, but the book I read seemed to suggest that in some versions that Narcissus dies of unrequited love not for themselves but for this illusion that they sometimes even learn just before dying that it was an illusion all along and they even sometimes pass away bitter and sad wondering if this was the kind of pain and longing others had felt for him!

Another thing I found particularly dark, and haunting about these other versions of Echo and Narcissus were the THEMES.. .

There's these tragic THEMES of being STRIPPED of your power and your agency and your ability to communicate for Echo... that is UTTERLY HORRIFIC...

For what I recall about Narcissus there's this theme of isolation, and loneliness and "Why haven't I fallen in love back yet?", "Can I even love?", "What even IS love?", "Do these people even love me? Did any of them, or did they just love what they saw?" There was a real sense of a lack of mental stimulation and more when it came to what I found when I was younger, and what I read about regarding Narcissus and most people hardly ever get the chance for the kind of exposure I have had... and I find that to be both massively frustrating and broodingly sad.

So.. .yeah... I think that how they've done Echo is EERIE UNCANNY ACCURATE to what I read and remember...AND what I feel to be MY FAVORITE VERSION... but I am MORE THAN A BIT thirsty for a deeper, sadder, and darker Narcissus with maybe a chance to do something for the two of them.... What does anyone else have to think, or say about all of this?

Not trying to make this hard to follow, or rant... this is hard to unpack and share as it is... There were a LOT of bad things happening in my life at that time so it's hard to remember 100%...
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