So this might ruffle some feathers in the Epic community, but:
Athena should NOT be Odysseusā patron goddess. It should be HERMES.
Like yeah yeah ācunningā and ācraftsyāand ābrain over brawnā whatever.
But cāmon! That is JUST as Hermes-coded as Athena-coded.
Odysseus did close to nothing in the Trojan war that actually involved WAR. This man did not pull up there as a military specialist. He TRICKED the trojans. While everybody brought LEGIONS, this man, as far as Iām concerned, showed up with what feels like a moderately armed boyscout camp.
For all we know he and his buddies spent 10 years singing kumbayah around the campfire, getting absolutely wasted until Ody saw one of his (equally stoned) men fuck around-and-find out with a knife and piece of wood and went:
āGuys!! I have the FUNNIEST ideaā
Point is: heās not someone very⦠military-y.
And in the Odyssey my guyās constantly:
lying
stealing
TRAVELING
tricking
trespassing
persuading~
Just, you know. Standard racoon behaviour.
Athena just did a bad job at keeping his prize winning pet human alive (Achilles) so on the way home she stumbled into this permanently exhausted, runt-of-the-litter dumpster cat of a man and decided:
āWeāre gonna be BEST FRIENDS!ā
Athena just shotgunned him way too fast and my poor boy Hermes was stuck trying to therapy him out of this CLEARLY toxic relationship with his sister like:
āDarling, youāre hurting him.ā
*Athena choking the dear life out of Odysseus*
āBut heās SO CUTE!!ā















