My Telemachus is 100% my own reading of Odyssey Telemachus. Which means it may clash with the fandom image of him as a cute, permanently troubled teenager.
HBYS / What’s Between Pylos and Ithaca Telemachus has Odysseus’ fire running through his veins, shaped by his own history.
He has agency, anger, warmth, and vulnerability.
He’s rebellious. He struggles to sit quietly while others abuse him.
And he’s still too inexperienced to hold all of that together.
So a heads-up: Here by Your Side / What’s Between Pylos and Ithaca is not a damsel-in-distress story.
You won’t find a child. You won’t find a twink.
And as the story moves toward its end, he becomes even less of a “troubled teen.”
In the Odyssey, once Telemachus returns from Pylos, he stops trying to reason with the Suitors and starts thinking in terms of war. He openly defies them.
That’s the Telemachus I’m writing toward. It's perfectly fine if he's not your cup of tea, but it's the truest Telemachus I could write.
