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For me, the hound is either MC or ML. So if it's Ml, it means he is under the order of someone else who hasn't been introduced yet. It also mean the relationship dynamics would be completely different depending on the answer. ( either ML being manipulating MC af or he IS being manipulated by someone else and teach will try to save him) ARRRRRGGHHH THE MORE WE DISCOVER THE BETTER IT GETS!!!!!
We know from this last chapter that the Hounds are the supply runners. We find out early on that there are 10 of them, and we see them with Guwon in the beginning when he picks up Jinwoo. Since then, we haven't seen Guwon go on a supply run, and everyone in town refers to Guwon as the Boss so I don't personally believe that Guwon is a Hound at all. He's the Boss of the Hounds (Which would be Hades in mythology but in this story it's Guwon who is the ruler of Stillwater, and he is obviously not Hades. Everything implies that he is Sisyphus.)
The significance of the Hounds is unclear. They mean something, they're in the title after all, but the part they play has not been revealed yet. They're supposedly the supply runners, but we don't know what they actually get up to out there.
They, with Guwon, picked up Teach after all which has nothing to do with getting supplies, so I'm suspicious of their true roles.
Sorry, I'm rambling again.
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wow! i really like your analysis of greek mythology and how it will tie back to this story. its been years since i read about sisyphus’ story, so the boulder in the manga totally flew over my head.
i definitely agree with your last point: guwon has been consistently mentioning how he hasn’t been able to get any rest while managing the town (to the teach), and likely the town will never ‘get better’ (the rock never reaches the top) despite guwon’s (sisyphus’) efforts.
my question though is how the teach will change things. he has a completely different view on the way things are run in the town, and has enough influence (personal connection to leader guwon) to maybe turn things around. additionally, teach doesn’t have a parallel in sisyphus’ tale (unless i’m missing something) so my guess is that the teach is here to change guwon’s eternal hell. just wondering how he’s going to go about doing that
There is no parallel that I've found either. Sisyphus' story isn't a long one. There's Zeus and Aegina the Nymph, then there's Sisyphus and Thanatos (or Hades), then Persephone and Hermes. As far as I can tell, Teach doesn't fit with any of them.
Jinwoo means True Friend though in Korean, and Guwon means Savior and in Sisyphus' story, not a single person or God assists him at all. Sisyphus was seen as selfish and punished for his hubris, but the thing is that Guwon isn't those things, is he? He cannot be a savoir and be selfish, they don't mix.
I guess it depends on just how much inspiration 945 took from the story. If this is any sort of retelling, then maybe there is an even darker side to Guwon that we haven't even see yet. Because Sisyphus is a trickster.
Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra (Corinth), betrayed Zeus, by revealing the whereabouts of a nyphm he had kidnapped. His punishment was to be chained in Tartarus. Thanatos (or Hades depending on what you read) was tricked into demonstrating how the chains worked, and Sisyphus took the opportunity to attack Thanatos and trap him in the underworld.
Thus, no one on earth was able to die.
I.e. Zombies.
Ares, the God of War, was pissed and intervened, freeing Thanatos so people can die again and turning in Sisyphus who was then taken to the underworld, but escaped death once again by tricking Persephone and refused to return until he was dragged back by Hermes.
As punishment, he was made to roll a boulder up a hill, where it would roll back down every time it almost reached the top.
A man who dies, but constantly comes back from the underworld would also be undead, would he not?
We see Guwon escape death in the beginning, crawling out of the rubble, and we know he's different. So I'm wondering if we're in the after Thanatos part but before the Ares and boulder-up-a-hill part, since we have "maggots" and Guwon is always watching that boulder.
In the beginning, Guwon also asks Teach how he feels to have "made it out on the other side of hell" which insinuates that they've all escaped hell (the underworld), which Zeus (or some other power) doesn't like, and they're all going to pay for it because there is someone who is going to come seek retribution from Guwon, but instead of waiting for the other shoe to drop, it's going to be the boulder that drops, and poor Guwon is going to keep pushing it up the hill, trying to fix it.
I don't know where the Hounds come into play though, because Hades is the only one in Greek mythology who had "hounds" (Cerberus) and thus they'd be the Hounds of hell, and unless Sisyphus has become the new ruler of the underworld, then that doesn't quite make sense to me yet. Is Hades chained up and Sisyphus is the one in charge now?
Will "Hades" break his chains and come after Guwon?
The interpretation of Sisyphus' story is that all of this consigned Sisyphus to an eternity of useless efforts and unending frustration, which does not bode well for the story. I think all his efforts to keep the town safe (beating someone to death) is going to be for nothing.
I don't know I'm just rambling, ignore me.