#“Oh Diomedes

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

Incorrect Odydiopen Quotes pt 2

Odysseus: Do you ever think before you speak?

Diomedes: I have never thought about anything, fuck you

Odysseus: *smol and buff*

Diomedes: *has a thing for Odysseus’s buffness*

Diomedes: mild mannered and friendly like 99% of the time

Odysseus: The only bastard that can get a rise out of them

Poseidon to Odysseus: You and your dreadful little polycule haven’t seen the last of me

Penelope: I need to go into town to get some things, can you two promise me not to kill each other while I'm gone?

Diomedes: Please, we're not children.

Penelope: *suspicious glare at them before leaving*

Odysseus*the moment the front door closes*: Eat shit and die.

Diomedes: Yes, fuck you too.

*comence gay laughter”

Diomedes: There will come a soldier, who carries a mighty sword, he will tear your city down, oh lei, oh lai, oh lord

Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lord, he will tear your city down, oh lei, oh lai, oh lie, oh lord

Penelope: There will come a poet, who's weapon is her word, she slay you with her tongue, oh lei, oh lai, oh lord

Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lord, she will slay you with her tongue, oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lord

Odysseus:There will come a ruler, who's brow is laid in thorn, smeared with oil like David's boy, oh lei, oh lai, oh lord

Oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lord, smeared with oil like David's boy, oh lei, oh lai, oh lei, oh lord

The three genders:

Penelope: Princess 

Odysseus: Slut

Diomedes: Loser

*Odydiopen at the movies*: Three tickets to Barbie

Diomedes: The best way to gain someone’s undying loyalty is by saving them from a perilous situation.

Penelope: So you’re going to wait until Ody is in danger and save him?

Diomedes: Of course not, I’m going to create a situation that puts him in danger then save him.

Penelope: …

Penelope, under her breath, snickering: oh yes, this is gonna be fun

(Normalize Diomedes being a little (huge) bastard)

Odysseus: What did you two do?

Penelope:

Diomedes:

Odysseus: you’re not in trouble, I just need to know if I need to lie to Athena again or not

[miyetko]

my three girlfriends, and yes, they smoke weed

[friedmagazinebouquet]

Diomedes from the perspective of the Trojans vs the Greeks never fails to be entertaining, because on one hand you have the Trojans comparing him to Achilles, and saying how completely terrified they are of him

And then you have the Greeks.

[kidnoodles]

odypen but modern day high school volleyball team au (penelope is still a badass, odysseus is still down bad, and diomedes is just vibing)

bonus:

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

When odydio fuck, both of them tend to moan Athena's name out of everyday habit and let me tell you she hates it

Odysseus : I didn't know you're homophobic ://

Athena : I hate both men and sex whether these matters are individual or linked together. Now stop blaspheming my name before l revoke your god-favoured privileges.

[bellonasceo]

i'll never forgive lysander for taking possibly the funniest trio in the whole series away from us

[roachcicle]

CHAT !!!!

[sagegreenconverse73946]

Hear me out

Odypendio modern AU where

Ody is an architect

Pen is a chemist, what field exactly? I'll come back to you on that

Diomedes is a MMA fighter/boxer with John Cena levels of fame BUT Tydeus was even more famous so he lives in his fathers shadow and its a rlly big thing on the internet where ppl scream into the void on how its possible for Diomedes to stand alone from Tydeus

(i love me some Dio angst)

[deadbaguette]

I got a DM asking if I could elaborate on the dynamic between OdyDio in my ‘Diomedes goes to Ithaca’ AU, so I thought I’d do an elaboration post about it!

Is it romantic or platonic?

It is romantic! Considering this IS an Odypendio AU I wanna make a dynamic between all of them :) OdyDio in this AU a little more explicitly romantic than PenDio, but there is a level of yearning that isn’t quite there with PenDio. Between Pendio there is a mutual understanding of what they are, and PenOdy are married. And while Diomedes and Odysseus are definitely more than friends in this AU, it’s still unclear what exactly they are to each other.

Does one love the other more/Feel their feelings more strongly?

Generally I don’t believe in this idea that in a relationship there is necessarily someone who feels more love than the other. But since they don’t actually really know what they are to each other, I imagine Diomedes is probably pining more? Well, he doesn’t exactly know this lmao. Odysseus knows what it means to love someone like this, and he treats Diomedes as such. But Diomedes? He’s never experienced this before. He’s never heard someone speak so lovingly of someone, has never been on the receiving end of someone who knows how to show their affections like this. It’s not like Sthenelus or Eurylus, this is Odysseus. For the first and very frightening moment, Diomedes realized he does love Odysseus. There is different kind of camaraderie, admiration, and love between them that Diomedes doesn’t know how to deal with. They’re more than friends, and in a way family but like… not in the platonic way?? Still, he yearns and loves the best he can. Odysseus was his first love in a way, I’m such a sucker for first love as a trope :)

Is it an unspoken love?

Yeah,,, I fear I am a sucker for unspoken love. Actions speak louder than words type love. But there it’s a little more explicitly romantic than PenDio as previously said. They’ve probably kissed and cuddled… but I’m very bad at romantic kinda stuff so that’s all I’m elaborating on AHGSGDHAGA

How much do they love each other?

A lot!! Odysseus would tell stories of his family to Diomedes, and Diomedes knows Odysseus better as a father than he did Tydeus. He knows more of Penelope than he does his own wife. Odysseus loves his family so wholeheartedly that Diomedes cannot help but love him for that. In a way, Odysseus is accepting Diomedes into the family. He’d tell him things like “my wife would love you” or “you should meet my son when this whole war is over”. I talked about it in my Diomedes and Telemachus post, but Diomedes carved a place out for Odysseus in Telemachus’ life. But in a way, Odysseus gave him the love and carved Diomedes’ place out in his life.

This isn’t my typical dynamic for OdyDio!🙏 But when I make a found family, I will make the familyism strong.

Ask by @differentnerddiplomatopera in DMs

[fangirlofallthefanthings]

Do you have any headcanons about the relationship between Diomedes and Athena? I feel like their dynamic is incredibly compelling and under-explored

Oooooo... That I do!

From what I've gathered from the Iliad, Diomedes' relationship with Athena is much more formal than Odysseus' relationship with Athena. So here's what I've got:

I imagine Athena sees Dio as an obligation. She feels that she must watch over Dio as an obligation to his father (despite Tydeus going a little coo coo at the end there). When Tydeus dies, Diomedes is a little boy of four with only his mother, sister, and grandfather to take care of him. Because of the Seven Against Thebes' failure, very few could protect her former bestie's son. So she felt the need to at least watch him.

Athena was very distant from him, though. Conversations were rare and usually only happened if she was helping him in battle. To be blatantly obvious, Athena was hesitant to interact with Dio. Because of what happened and how Tydeus died, she sees the family as tainted. She can't shake what happened (I go into more detail here). So she just watches.

Because she's so distant, Diomedes sees her as above him. She's a god. He's a mortal. That's all they ever will be. Yes, he knows he has a stronger relationship with her than most (one of his eyes turned grey, so her influence is evident), but she's not a friend. She's a protector and ally, sure, but far from someone he would consider a friend.

That starts to change over time (partly thanks to OdyPen and partly because of Athena's growth), but I won't totally give it away.

[lyculuscaelus]

Thinking about how Menelaus talked of his good old friend Odysseus in book 4 of the Odyssey

Thinking about how he would’ve offered Odysseus an Argive city and asked him to move in along with his wealth and his son and his people, how they would’ve met each other frequently, delighted in each other’s company, until death enfolded them both

Thinking about the possibility of him actually doing that after Odysseus’s return and Odysseus actually going there with his family and people. Once again Penelope would return to her homeland for a visit though oftentimes she would just chill with Helen, and Telemachus would be able to visit Pylos once in a while, and Odysseus would be thrilled to meet up with all the friends he had made during the war, Menelaus, Nestor, and especially…Diomedes. Yes, Diomedes—but as he found out his dear friend was no longer in Argos. Now what would happen if Odysseus went on another journey to seek him out, maybe taking Telemachus along perhaps Peisistratus too— (Diomedes’s exile probably didn’t happen in the Epic Cycle but nevertheless…) Anyways everybody reunites with their friends and they all happily live ever after—

I need to see this so bad.

[restlesskeychains]

Either Patrochilles or Odypen for the doodle requests !! :3

Idk if this counts but like relationship goals

[nyxinastris]

thinking about the heroes of the iliad and damn none of them really get to be happy in the end huh

okay technically some of them do, but are you really happy with all that trauma baggage???

is it just karma from fate? maybe,,,, are the furies out to get them for their warcrimes? probably,,, (looking at u house of atreus)

[ilions-end]

Odysseus and Diomedes capture Dolon

Illustration by Helen Maitland Armstrong from the book Achilles & Hector: Iliad stories retold for boys and girls (1903) by Agnes Cook Gale

[minlicious]

i just know that both diomedes and odysseus and achilles and patroclus constantly gossip and talk shit about the other generals

[backpackingspace]

Listen can we talk about the fact that odysseus, Penelope, and telemculus all cry at a drop of hat and then you have Athena and diomedes sitting there like :/// embarrassing