I wanted to draw them with some more detail and colour so it is easier to tell them apart and to share some small fun facts about them :3
Clothes aren't historically accurate.
Starting from oldest to youngest:
Even in his early twenties he already had some stigmas (or tattoos meant to hide actual stigmas). He would let Halimene do his makeup or wear anything made by Ctimene and Alkmene (he was their proud dress-up doll)
I gave him a sprinter physique since I found it fitting for his younger years (since we know he won a race against Icarus). He most likely became wider and bulkier during the war since the priorities would change. He also had quite a small waist in his youth
The tattoos are supposed to explain why he was seen as a shady person despite being a trusted ally/advisor in Iliad. It is also my explanation why Athena was constantly changing his appearance and yet she didn't hide his most obvious scar.
I imagine him trying out many different types of fashion. (Especially rocking Minoan and Egyptian skirts in his youth).
Clothes and fashion were always a big part of him. From wearing things made by his sister(s) to then wearing things made by Penelope.
Also fun fact: he started wearing Minoan fashion after Alkmene was stealing his tunics (so she would not burn her clothes while working).
Another fun fact: he started wearing his hats because those were some of the first things Ctimene was learning to make and so he was wearing them to encourage her :3
She is the tallest of the sisters and taller than Odysseus. She sees herself as most responsible out of the siblings and loves to take care of them. She is also quite thin.
She uses makeup to hide her freckles. She enjoys painting and helping her sisters with designing some patterns.
When she got married, her family knew she was in a happy relationship when after a visit they saw her husband also having some makeup on. (She also enjoys painting her husband but those portraits are private 🤭)
She loves adding Egyptian style eyeliner to the makeup she does for herself or others.
Also Halimene is rather afraid of water (she isn't the best swimmer). She only started to overcome her fear after her marriage since she wanted to keep in touch with her family.
She was the first to get married out of the siblings and despite Laertes being the one to arrange the marriage she was the one to choose the husband. (One day me and/or @ulises-aithon will explain it in greater detail)
When Odysseus was gone she tried to be strong for her family but she was grieving for the entire time and cried when painting a mural because she realised she painted her brother.
She is equal height to Odysseus and strongest out of sisters. She is proud of her physical strength since she shares her grandmother's passion for metalworking.
She convinced every single family member to pierce their ears so she could make earrings for them. Her arms are covered in small burn marks and cuts caused by her work in the forge.
Alkmene is still rather girly. She loves feminine clothes (even if she picks the most comfortable ones) and jewelry.
To Laertes' horror she chose a husband for herself without letting anyone in the family know until she was about to introduce her "fiancé" to them. One of the minor reasons she picked him was because he had tin🤭(Laertes would later try to act as if it was his plan all alone). She also made sure to bring dyed fabrics and many other gifts to her siblings at any chance she could.
As previously mentioned she had the tendency to steal Odysseus' tunics when they were younger since she didn't want to burn her clothes. Odysseus retaliated by rocking Minoan skirts (and stealing one of hers)
She and Odysseus were both troublemakers as little kids and continued to tease one another for years to come.
All the siblings were gifted Obsidian blades but she cares the least to hide it in public.
When Odysseus was missing she was the one who refused to believe that he was dead and she expressed how she was going to punish him for scaring them like that. She also regularly polished a "welcome home" gift she had prepared for him.
(I'm using Polish writing of his name.)
He is the tallest out of all the siblings and despite not being related by blood he is treated as one of them. (Laertes didn't officially adopt him to not cause problems with succession and slightly because of the possibility that "one heir curse" could harm him if he became officially his son)
He is quite lean and sisters were convinced that he isn't eating enough (he eats a normal amount. It's just that Laertes, Odysseus and Arcesios have a huge appetite.) because of it he is constantly given some light snacks that he makes sure to eat in front of them. (And when sisters wanted to eat separately from men, they forgot that it includes Eumajos, making all siblings sad until it was agreed that he can join them regularly)
Eumajos is rather timid. He is most bonded with Ctimene since they were nursed at the same time and they both for the longest time were treated as youth.
He only moved out of the palace after Ctimene got married and Odysseus went to war. It was too depressing for him to stay in the palace when all of his siblings were gone and his parents were also saddened by their children not being there.
He visited regularly to help out his parents, Penelope and little Telemachus.
Eumajos was the one to provide siblings with the freshest gossip since he spent a lot of time outside. (Just like his older brother he was "One of the girls" hahaha)
No matter how much Eumajos tries to prove that he is just a humble slave/swineherd he is always adorned in jewellery and expensive clothes made by his family (not to mention him canonically having his own slaves 🤣)
He probably s**t talked Odysseus the most about his tattoos and reckless behaviour.
On a less serious note, when Tele went to Sparta he gave him Ody's old clothes (yes, the Minoan skirts). And based on how popular he was in Pylos and Sparta, we can assume that it was a good call hahaha
Also any time Telemachus asked him about Odysseus he was the only one to not talk about him as a noble hero but simply his menace of a brother.
The youngest and smallest out of siblings. Her clothes also hide wide hips, soft belly and generous breasts.
Ctimene is most polite and soft spoken out of the entire family. Also Eurycleia and Anticlea were almost in tears seeing that at least one of their little girls actually enjoyed weaving and spinning. (Other girls also can do it but they don't like it and only do the bare minimum of it.)
She only didn't hesitate to nag her family if they ruined her clothes.
She and Eumajos are most modest when it comes to exposing skin.
She was the last to get married.
Eurylochus' family was in a good relation with Laertes and Eurylochus was in their youth assigned as her guard (mostly because he was at the age when men were seen as too young to marry and not that interested in girls). When it was becoming clear that Eurylochus was developing (mutual) interest, his father was sweating bullets since he feared the possibility of Laertes burning their island if Ctimene would be made sad by him.
While she made for Odysseus many clothes that were up to date with fashion trends, she was gifting Telemachus with clothes that were the exact opposite (long tunics, chitons etc) because it was already painful how much he resembled Odysseus, and she could not imagine him also wearing same clothes as him.
She and Eumajos had the tendency to follow other siblings around when they were little kids.
She was most open about her grief. For the first few years of war she stayed in Ithaca so she and Penelope can help one another with raising the kids. Then she regularly visited her. But was forced to limit her visits when suitors arrived (around 3 years before Odysseus coming back)
Once again I want to thank @ulises-aithon for helping me out with them. Those goofballs are as much theirs as they are mine :3
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