Do you think wifies knew what he was writing would 1000% be viewed as Gay As Hell?

Like. My aro ass is perfectly happy with it being platonic, in fact, I think it being platonic makes it more potent, but teenage me would be all over this gay shit

I'm just. Yeah yeah, risks life to save lover is nice and all, but it's a dime a dozen as they say but like

Risks life, soul, entire Being, to save Just Some Guy?

That's the good shit

Just Some Guy you know inside and out against your own will, who you've never met but already know everything about, whose best and worst moments you've seen over and over again in your head and now you can't help but be fond of them

And he doesn't know you, doesn't even know your real name, but you can't help it; you'd happily unmake yourself if it meant he got to live

I made a kinda crappy gif you! @destiny-islanders

I’m really loving this au and all the angst that comes with it!

One of my little pet headcanons about Athena is that she has very birdy mannerisms e.g. in the way she moves her head, amongst other things, and I like the idea of her students sort of picking them up.

Like, something Ody's men have to get used to is their captain tilting and turning his head in those sudden jerky movements that owls do, and him puffing himself up to look more intimidating when he's irritated.

And then, when Ody gets home, after the slaughter, he can almost immediately tell that Athena has been training Telemachus in how his son bristles when they first see each other, in how Telemachus tilts his head curiously in the moment after, just before the recognition hits.

Penelope found comfort in it, I think, in Telemachus beginning to show the same kinds of strange body language that her husband had when the two were growing up together. And maybe Ody told her, when they were younger, the reason for those mannerisms, so she was able to tell that Athena had begun training her son.

Telemachus may have only really known Athena for maybe a few months at most, depending on how long it took Ody to get from Ogygia to Ithaca, but the man is clearly a very fast learner, so I imagine he picked up on Athena's mannerisms amusingly quickly, too.

Like, I imagine it starts as mild to moderate paranoia about Telemachus' wellbeing; making sure they have plenty of stuff to treat any wounds his son might get, but Penelope sees how caring for the bees seems to calm Odysseus down on his bad days and encourages it.

I imagine him working more closely with the remaining servants than before he left, in the gaps between doing King Stuff, because it keeps him busy, keeps his mind occupied, keeps the screams at bay.

I imagine Penelope teaching him to weave at some point, too, for similar reasons, once his hands stop shaking too much to hold the needles. And we already know that he's adept at woodcarving from the wedding bed, so I like the thought of him really throwing himself into crafts just to keep himself distracted.

So I was doing some thinking dangerous I know about Epic and Jay's character/instrument pairings again, and that led to me thinking about how Eurylocus' instrument is The Crew, which led to me thinking about Mutiny and how, since he serves as the voice of the crew, any opinion Jay has him voice is very likely something everyone in the crew agrees on.

And that made me realize something about Keep Your Friends Close:

The bag was always gonna be opened that night.

The fact that Eurylocus opened it likely means that he was the last holdout; that every other man on that ship wanted it open. If Eurylocus didn't open it, someone else would. It was inevitable, the only way that bag would have stayed closed was if Ody had trusted Eurylocus enough to sleep in shifts with him, so he wouldn't have to have been awake for 9 days straight and would thus have had enough of his faculties to keep Eury trusting him, and even then it would have been a long shot, because, again, Eury is the voice of the crew.

At the absolute minimum, their ship had like 40 guys on it after Polyphemus, so Eurylocus would have had to fight off 39 desperate men, with weapons, to keep that thing closed and, though our guy might be The Goat, he's only one man.

Odysseus inherited the trickery aspect of the Hermes bloodline, but Ctimene inherited the thief part. That is to say, Odysseus can talk his way out of anything, but Ctimene won't get caught in the first place; she's sneaky as hell, even as a kid, but once she's a grown woman she can damn near turn invisible if she puts her mind to it.

What if, and hear me out on this

Politeseas