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Another day Another reson to hate the Telegony
waiting.
odysseus gets sent to the underworld after his death, only telemachus and penelope were both made immortal in the telegony so now HE'S the one waiting for them.
he's eternally looking to the edges of elysium, just waiting for their figures to come across the horizon and being able to hold them in his arms again.
This
i have a lot of mixed opinions about the telegony. on one hand - give my man a break ffs. allow him to finally live in peace with his family. but on the other - there is something about the idea that odysseus never truly finds peace and that trouble always follows him even when he thinks he's escaped it. always scorned by the fates.
i just think that there are other ways to show that concept other than the "illegitimate son unknowingly killing him" thing.
Why are you writing about the forbidden play?. it´s not real, it´s an hallucination, the Telegony was lost for a reason, also is way more modern than the Epic Cycle, is bad fanfiction, like a shipper´s dream making not canon relations, Odysseus was s.a, Circe´s didn´t have a crush on him in the Odyssey.
In the Telegony, they have a child Telegonus, the boy is not bad, but a little mary suey, like everything he does, is good, like killing his father because he became mad (Odysseus) and didn´t know it was Circe´s child. Like man please let Ody and Pen have a happy live and the same for Circe´s.
And I, enjoyed Madeline's Circe, until the Odysseus part because then I realized it made canon the Telegony!, arrghhh, welp sorry for the rant, but yeah that´s the reason they´re in hell and burning for all eternity. :D
waiting.
odysseus gets sent to the underworld after his death, only telemachus and penelope were both made immortal in the telegony so now HE'S the one waiting for them.
he's eternally looking to the edges of elysium, just waiting for their figures to come across the horizon and being able to hold them in his arms again.