I feel like the one I would choose Xolotl. I am someone with has made few friends but who stands up for them all and who has been durable in doing so, and to this end have found myself opposing newly appointed leadership almost to the death.

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    Sisyphus

    Not sure what I did, but man it is getting tiring pushing this boulder up this hill.

    Note: Holy damn, never much for myth etc, all I ever knew of Sisyphus was the endlessly pushing a rock up hill. Now, after reading a very concise sentence, he DID deserve what he got. TIL

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      I read someone’s further analysis in which they describe how his punishment fits his crime. Because he outwitted death he has such supreme self confidence that THIS time he will get the boulder to the top. The only thing he has to do to break his curse is to stop.

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        22 hours ago

        That is beautiful and concise. Funny how our hubris blinds us

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        Although the whole random guest murdering thing is worse IMO. Tricking the manifestation of death into restraining himself probably counts as self defence, in my books.

        The story where he seduces his niece in order to father children that were destined to kill his brother (her father) also isn’t great.

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          Oh, he’s definitely a class A scumbag. It’s unfortunate that most people just know the boulder part when there’s so much more of a lesson in morality to be gleaned from the full story.