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Someone should write something where it's the Greek heroes from the Iliad watching odysseus during the odyssey from the afterlife. like achilles and company just being like yea fuck that guy up man. u got that. or he's crying over missing penelope and telemachus and they just feel bad for him or smth.

could also be them all listening/watching the epic songs/animatics 🦭

(even tho a lot of them don't die it's a fun idea in theory)

your honor, they have matching necklaces

The way evne-lo-pe played in my head instantly

My epic ass thought it says "Penelope"

theyre literally already married

Do you ever think about it if either Odysseus or Penelope were disappointed when they reunited? Did they both yearn so much for so long for one person they accidentally remembered them like a fantasy? Did they reunite and get a rude awakening to each other's flaws once again?

Did they forget that each other was still human after so much time yearning?

Penelope and Odysseus matching eachothers freak by commiting crimes is something I need to see maybe in the epic universe

Like I know all the songs are fixed but Mr. jalapeño did say that he might make a prequel about eurylochus so maybe one about them courting eachother by commiting crimes can also be done

Consider young odysseus and Penelope courting by going on adventures together (committing crimes)

I feel like young Odysseus would actually unironically do that

Imagine Penelope sitting there watch her cousin getting all these beautiful presents and compliments.

And then Odysseus just shows up with a bunch of dead rats and confesses, asks her to marry him

She looks at this man, this king, who was originally here to seduce her cousin. Who looked at her and wanted her instead. Who thought the best way to seduce her was to present her with a bunch of dead rats.

And she laughs.

She agrees to marry him...cuz he made her laugh

Getting love advice from the goddess of eisdom

Penelope:what you looking at pretty boy ?

Odysseus:so you think I am pretty ?

Penelope:I mean, you are

Odysseus:

Odysseus is the type of guy who oozes rizz and can and will say the sweetest shit to Penelope and revels in her being happy with it ("You're beautiful in red" when she blushes. THAT type of cheesy bullshit. Have you READ the shit he says to her in the Odyssey?) but if she gives it back, he just freezes and Odysseus.exe stops working. Especially since he was the one doing all the flirting in the beginning until she finally chills out and "allows" herself to have a crush.

Penelope: ...You know, I don't really know if your name fits you. Odysseus: Oh? You don't think "Pain in the ass" is a good fit? Penelope: It definitely is...But...I don't know. Maybe it's because when I think of you, I don't think of pain, I think of joy... Yeah, instead of "pain giver", you're a giver of joy."Joy Giver" perhaps? Odysseus:

Penelope: ...Are you okay? Odysseus: *completely red and continues to make a high-pitched squeaking sound like air being let out of a balloon*

He gets more used to it as they get further along in their marriage but in the beginning, this guy was screaming into his pillows and kicking his feet and twirling his hair and being stupid :D

You get it

So, don't mind me lying on the floor because Francesca by Hozier with odysseus and penelope

Hhhhh the lyrics-

"Did you think I'd give up?

That this might've shook the love from me

Or that I was on the brink

How could you think, darlin, I'd scare so easily?

Now that it's done

There's not one thing that I would change

My life was a storm ever since I was born

How could I fear any hurricane?

If someone asked me at the end

I'd tell them, "Put me back in it,"

I would do it again

If I could hold you for a minute

I'd go through it again"

Yeah I need to lie down for a minute

The Trojan war AUs that I wanted vs The Trojan war AUs Hollywood gives me

…what if Penelope had been the one abducted to Troy

Me reading the end of the Odyssey:And there lived Happily ever after Person:Actually- Me: THERE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Stanning Odysseus is embracing misery. I cannot keep going through these raw levels of pain.

The effort it takes to live in denial. I'm spent. Nothing outside Homer is real. No, Odysseus never visited Thesprotia. No he didn't marry anyone but Penelope. No he didn't father epigonoi. No he wasn't killed neither by Telegonus nor a stingray. No he wasn't exiled to Italy by Neoptolemus. NO HE'S NOT ON THE F* MOON WDYM

Odysseus arrives in Ithaca

Athena: Odysseus/Penelope mutual pining, angst with a happy ending, graphic depictions of violence, and there was only one(olive tree)bed

Odysseus about talking to his wife after 20 years:Finally a conversion with somebody that's not an Idiot

how the fuck do you look at such a beautiful quote like that and thing "this is so odysus and peleople''. G*d you theyfabs are all the same, go and experience some actual culture rather then making everything about characters from whatever shitty 2000s thing convinced you you were a 'cute boi'. 'enbies' and fandomites have ruined every online space theyve touched. please read little women or pride and prejudice or something that will make you actually feel like a woman

Hate to break it to you terf, but Odysseus and Penelope aren't from the 2000s.

Don't pretend to be cultured just because you read that one mediocre Victorian woman book in high school if you don't recognize the names of characters from the foundational text of all western literature.

Also note that every single fascist movement claims its targets are ruining intellectual spaces by existing in them. You aren't special because you're painted pink.

I don`t kow why but this

is giving me Odysseus and Penelope

This is true

Penelope is the measure of all the things

-Penelope to Palamedes

tragic: the prettiest man you know is completely off his rocker. just absolutely, totally batshit crazy. he is a good lay, though.

I am convinced that Ody was hallucinating Penelope in Thunder Bringer. his wife was not there. no one was trying to trick him. she did not reach out from across the sea. he just needed to hear her say that she'd still love him after he chose. he needed her permission.

Yes!!! OMG!! YES!!!!

Do you want more angst????

In the Odyssey he was unable to send every letter so Penelope was heartbroken since she wasn't receiving anything at all for all the Odyssey. T T

Waiting for Love (an Odypen fanfiction)

[Okay so I'm writing this fic for EPIC/the Odyssey. And ... it's angsty. I'm posting it in discord lol but I though i'd post it here too :D it's gonna be LONG but yeah hope u enjoy. here's part 1!]

What if Odysseus and Penelope wrote letters to each other while they were apart?

Part 1: Troy

Odysseus was excited, to say the least.

For ten years, all throughout the course of the war, all he had thought about were his wife and son at home. And now he was finally going to see them again.

In the meantime, he wrote, as he had for the past decade.

Dearest love of mine…

Every last letter, from the beginning of the war until the end, had started off the same way. This time, however, Odysseus’s joy knew no bounds.

Dearest love of mine, The war is over. We have won. After all these years of turmoil, Troy and Achaea are finally at peace. How is our son, Telemachus? Surely must have grown into a fine prince by now. How are matters in Ithaca? Hopefully, all is well and you are living in peace. Although, I’m sure you have ruled well even in my absence. I deeply admire your courage and strength. There is so much more I want to ask you; so much I want to say. But I will wait. I’m coming home, Penelope. I’ll finally see you again. Wait for me.

A knock at his door made him jump. The door creaked opened as Eurylochus appeared belowdecks. “Captain?” he prompted. “We are ready.”

Odysseus rose from his chair, his smile nearly spreading off his face. “Full speed ahead, brother.”

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As you may have seen @katerinaaqu and I have been discussing about a head canon of hers, tatted Odysseus.

For a while we searched for Scythian tattoos as they are the closest society that allowed tattoos, we weren´t sure if in Mykenean Greece they were frowned upon but in classical Greece they were (criminals, shady or barbaric people wore them).

So to make it plausible we came up with this idea: in the middle of the Troyan war in a resupply day, Menelaus and Agamemnon find Odysseus been tattooed an olive tree by a Scythian, perplexed by this they told him that it was a nothing a king should do, shady look.

But Odysseus told them it was a memory of his home of Penelope and Telamachus, that at least if he died there it would have died with his family. Also is a display of Ody´s more flamboyant personality traits, he didn´t tattoed a small olive or branch, nonono, he tattoed a whole tree!.

As the real design is composed of branches inspired by Scythians tattoos of deer´s antlers, (the lack of trees in the steppes prevented them from forming a more floral and plant style; being deer's antlers where we find more plant 'like designs),

The olive flowers are simplifications of the actual flower,

Flowers for my beautiful wife, whom I longed for, for years

The leaves are blackouts of the originals and the olives are also simplifications.

The sweet fruit of my dear Telemachus whom I never saw growing

The images below are the sketches I made for having an idea of the placement and elements we wanted to include.

We chose the upper arm as it was more concealable and only be fully revealed to Penelope.

As you can see there´s a swallow drawing, it has it reasons, swallows (Hirundo rustica) have a year migration and came back to Europe and Greece in spring, being heralds of the season and all that entails (hope, regrowth, fertility...) but the most important attributes for us were; (Athena transforms into a swallow and flies away from Telemachus in the Odyssey). Also it is mentioned that the chord of Odysseus's bow "sang like a swallow" when he used it to kill the suitors symbolizing his homecoming.

Swallows have always been linked to journeys specially to homecoming. They idea was of one swallow (Odysseus) but swallows are paired and as a small reminder, the biggest and most ornate is Penelope, fully in flight and more artistically and Odysseus is the one below more naturalistic as he is lesser in his eyes than her. The swallows are more linear and not painted as it also seems more secretive and blank spaces for everyone except him (So he can say everything I have been writing to her)

These is the final rendition of the idea!

I hope you have enjoyed and that it becomes your new headcanon!

@katerinaaqu thank you so much for everything! It has been a pleasure!