#phemius

Daily life at Ithake (post-Odyssey)

Characters: Penelope, Odysseus, Telemakhos, Eurykleia, Medon, Laertes, Phemios, Philoitios, Eumaeos, Autonoë, Hippomedeia and three other servants

The structure is inspired by Mykene's wall structure and the lion gate while the palace is a mix of the basic palace plan. The murals are based on: Orkhomenus' boat mural and Minoan dolphins.

Meanwhile the patterns are all based on Mycenean textiles I was able to find while I was unable to find veils for Penelope so it's quite basic while Laertes' crown's based on sea people's headgear.

What's happening here is that Odysseus and his family where about to go down to the agora but one of Eumaeos' pigs just "escaped" and Odysseus's checking the animal, (some callback to Circe), Telemakhos' is tired and Penelope embarrased as she has weaved his tunic and is afraid of him . Meanwhile Eurykleia is just "like father like son, help me the gods". While Laertes' talking to Philoitios about something without caring about the commotion Odysseus' making hehehehe. He's such a farm boy I swear.

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I'm gonna draw ocs now

Also me, the moment I get free time: ✨random ass comic thing✨

aka an excuse to draw @messymoonmad's Melantho (and Eurymachus ofc)

(and my Phemius is here too for non suspicious reasons ;) )

(and bonus: the rat! I'll draw him for real at some point I swear)

But....uh yeah cat is out of the bag lmao

My random ass Phemius lore includes mr songbird having a big ol crush on a certain maid

he....does not have a chance in Hades LMAO.

And he is in fact very jealous of Eurymachus (because of that and also the fact that bro's really good with words and while Phemius can sing/recite poetry he has a stutter when he's tries to speak, especially when he's nervous.)

So he just admires from afar and composes poetry in his head that will never see the light of day 👍

Been missing the suitors recently had to draw my boys. Probably gonna draw the rest of them but art block is killing me rn (and the Squad comic stuff gulp)

*looks at last post date*

...okay listen college (and crippling anxiety) is kicking my ass

(Guess who's Vitamin D deficient and low in iron!!!)

....uh ANYWAY have a break from my regularly scheduled OC content because I became obsessed with a side character from the Odyssey and I had to design him

So here's my Phemius! (The bard that unwillingly entertains the suitors)

....he is everything to me

(now you may be asking....Robyn, did you really design the bard before the other suitors? And the answer is....yes :) )

rendered the piece with lighting too because I have problems

Despite being hella busy this man has dominated my notebook doodles for the past like month and a half lmaooo

fun fact, the lyre is based on one of the few depictions of Phemius I could find?

but outside of that I (yet again) took a page out of @messymoonmad's book with the animal design inspo (sue me it's a cool idea)

So he's based on a European Robin! (Bc....songbird? Also I liked the color scheme :)))))

such a delightful lad

yes he is part of the bird boy squad (I'm making this a thing. Kidding. Mostly.)

Some headcanons (liberties were taken because The Odyssey doesn't give me a lot to go off of)

- 28-29 years old

- 5'9" with just a little chub. He's got a lil dad bod

- beautiful singing voice. I keep thinking of Damon Dauno's Orpheus (AKA Off-Broadway Hadestown Orpheus. Exposing my Hadestown love ig lmao. I love Broadway Hadestown but if you HAVEN'T listened to the Off-Broadway Epic III it is ETHEREAL)

- Very gifted with words…but only through music. Outside of that he’s more reserved and soft spoken

- He can't speak to save his life and has a speech impediment that gets much worse when he's nervous (most of the time)

- He has so many thoughts in his head but the words get all jumbled up when he tries to speak, leading to a LOT of stammering and repeating words

- (Because of this, he avoids speaking in front of the suitors at all costs lmao)

- Unfortunately he does have to sing for them

- He's the PALACE'S bard. He works for the Ithacan royal family specifically (idk if patronage was a system in Ancient Greece but something along those lines makes the most sense to me here)

- therefore he's obligated to perform for them for hospitality reasons(like how the staff has to serve them)

- He LOVES singing and also memorizing/reciting epic (heh)s. He's a massive nerd and would ramble about historical events for hours if you let him

- he also writes songs of his own but he doesn't share those much

- He dislikes the suitors immensely and hates performing for them. He would tell them off if he could but even if he tried he'd just stammer his way through it

- He's a doormat. Not because he doesn't CARE about the way he's treated but because he can't speak up about it

- (He mostly just seethes in silence)

- He dislikes Eurymachus in particular (presumably because of how smoothly he's able to speak and charm people?)

- (.....that may not be the only reason though)

- A sensitive and sweet soul, feels emotions through music very strongly

- A MASSIVE romantic and adores love songs, but too shy to actually pursue anyone

Don't mind him his shy

Nikolas: *blinks, and then smiles warmly* Ah, that was very kind of you. *accepts it*.

Lysandra: *narrows eyes skeptically* ....this better not be poisoned, diviner. *pauses* ....thank you. I suppose.

Rhexenor: ....cake? You made me CAKE? *big goofy grin* OH, HADES YEAH! We're friends now.

Thaleia: Ah...thank you. *soft smile* It looks very nice.

NOT TECHNICALLY AN OC BUT I HAD TO INCLUDE HIM BECAUSE THIS SILLY LITTLE BARD IS MY BABY:

WOAH