Fun Fact

Oedipus

My adopted parents named me Oedipus because of my feet. Oedipus means "swollen foot". My parents named me that because when they got me, I had swollen feet because of my biological father. 

The Beginning of my Story

The Prophecy 📝

I grew up believing that Polybus, the king of Corinth and his wife Merone, were my biological parents. This was until the Oracle of Delphi told me a prophecy. The prophecy was that I would kill my father and eventually sleep with my own mother. I didn't quit believe what the Oracle of Delphi told me, but I didn't want to risk anything. I decided to leave the land of Corinth to avoid the prophecy. This way I felt safer and I knew i couldn't hurt my parents this way. Time passed, and throughout this time I had killed men and married my beautiful wife Jocasta. Jocasta and I both had four children. There was a plague going around my land. The plague wouldn't go away unless someone found out who killed the former king Laius. I asked around, and soon a messenger arrived and told me about the prophecy that King Laius was told. I immediately made a connection with both prophecy's that were told. This is how I eventually found out that I killed my own biological father King Laius and married my own mother Jocasta. I thought to myself that this was all insane, especially because I had left my land back in Corinth for this very reason. I didn't want to kill my father or marry my mother, but somehow it happened, and it didn't feel great at all. Part of me wished, I had stayed back home with my adopted parents. 

Birthmark?

Is it a scar or birthmark? 🤔

For as long as I can remember, I always had a birthmark on my feet. Or at least I thought it was a birthmark. When the Shepard told me that he found me abandoned with my feet pierced on a mountainside. I immediately knew that my "birthmarks", were not birthmarks but scars from the wounds I had.  I don't remember feeling any pain, which is good but I do feel pain knowing that I had been abandoned.

I think about if it was easy for my dad to get rid of me. Now that I think about it, he was being selfish because he only cared about himself. But yet again, if I was in his shoes, I would have probably done the same. It's though when your the one that got abandoned but I would have never known this unless the Shepard told me.

Part of me wonders, if my biological father was never told anything about the prophecy, if everything would be different. 

Map of Thebes and Corinth

I was originally born in the land of Thebes, but I was told my father didn't want me anymore because I was a threat to him. So my father King Laius, left me alone. Soon a Shepard found me and took me to Polybus and Merone whom adopted me. They both lived in the land of Corinth.

The Murders

Who were the men I murdered?

As I was leaving the land of Corinth to get away from my parents. I had traveled away and I was at the land of Davlia, were three roads crossed each other. On the road, I encountered a chariot driven by an old man and his servants. I ended up killing the men. At the time, I didn't know who these men were and I wasn't interested in knowing. After they were all dead, I kept on walking as if nothing happened. I didn't look back, all i did was wipe the men's blood off of my hands.

If Only...

If only I had known ahead of time, that the man I murdered was my biological father, I would have never killed him. Once I found out that the plague that was going on in my land, was happening because the former King Laius was dead. I knew i had to find out who killed him. I just had no clue that I was the one who killed Laius. I felt shocked once I found out. I just couldn't believe it.

The Sphinx

When I killed the old man (King Laius), I kept on walking and headed toward the land of Thebes. At the gateway of Thebes i encountered a Sphinx. The Sphinx killed alot of people, there was dead bodies all over the floor. The Sphinx said that I was going to be asked a riddle, if I answered correctly id be free to go and defeat the Sphinx, but if I answer wrong it will kill me. So the Sphinx asked the riddle. I ended up answering the riddle correctly and defeated the Sphinx. The people of Thebes thought of me as a hero and crowned me there king. I was a hero to them because since Laius was dead, the Sphinx was picking on the people of Thebes. I felt powerful, heroic, and intelligent since i defeated the Sphinx. 

Thebes

The Plague

There was a plague going around Thebes. When Jocasta and I found out that the only way to stop the plague was to find out who was the killer of the former king Laius. As the king of Thebes, I immediately got on the case. I questioned people, I did my own research. I asked my wife if she knew how Laius had died. She said that Laius had been murdered a while back. I asked her to describe his looks to me. So she did. The way she described him from head to toe made me remember that a couple years back, on my way to Thebes, I had seen a man that looked exactly like that. I thought it was just a coincidence, I didn't really think much of it. Several conversations later Jocasta mentioned that there was a survivor but he had moved away from Thebes because he feared. As a king and leader, I ordered for the survivor to come and be questioned. The survivor came, but what he had to say didn't please me at all, in fact it surprised me. He told me that I had been the one that murdered King Laius. I remembered, that I did kill him and his men but I didn't know that their had been a survivor. 

              

Jocasta

Death

When I found out Jocasta had killed herself, many things went through my mind in just a couple of seconds. I felt gross, ashamed, sad, etc.... She was the love of my life, but she was also my own mother. I had a feeling to why she killed herself. I think it was because she wanted to get out of this whole mess.

My Eyes

👀 I ended up blinding myself permanently, because I couldn't believe that I've been blind to all the signs I encountered on my way to Thebes. If maybe I would have asked my parents about the scars on my legs, then maybe they would have told me about how I was abandoned and they adopted me. If i would have known this, I would have never believed the prophecy and never would have left Corinth. I blinded myself as soon as I found out that my wife/mother had killed herself due to the mess she was in. I stabbed myself in the eyes to blind myself. It was a fast reaction, it didn't hurt at the moment. I had blood dripping from my eyes, I obviously couldn't see this, but I was able to feel it.

Blind to the world