#Athena epic the musical

[iiinkos]

[lelekasalreadyexist]

Young Odysseus trying to get that high five from Athena

[minlicious]

why isn’t it socially acceptable to dramatically lip sync to music you’re listening to in public because sometimes i just need to nahhh don’t be modest👋🏻🙂‍↔️i know you‘re a goddess!🤭 so let‘s be honest!☝🏻😁YOU ARE ATHEENA! 🫵🏻BADASS IN THE ARENA!!UNMATCHEDWITTYAND QUEEN OF THE BEST STRATEGIES WE‘VE SEEN!! without feeling judged

[fistfightinganxietyandlosing]

God games is unrealistic because there's no way Athena would simply march into Olympus and demand Odysseus be freed

What would actually transpire is her preparing a 300-slide PowerPoint presentation on all the reasons why they should release him and all the other gods agreeing immediately because they don't care enough to sit through it

[awnrii]

more band au - gods edition

[nyssasatelier]

Poseidon? Back so soon? Where's your trident? And by the king of gods what happened to you?

Inspired by @lemonpoet

[starsintheendlessnight]

Telemachus telling Athena how he was born 😭🙏🏽

[massiveladycat]

if you didnt get a coin in your mouth when you died in ancient greece, you weren't able to go to the underworld, and no men at sea got a burial (elpenor was actually very VERY lucky) so technically polites and all the others are just wandering alone and afraid and confused in their death places. polites sits in the cyclops cave, eurylochus and 580?? men are forever at the bottom of the sea, and 6 are still near scylla

[seeminglyseph]

Athena meets Telemachus and begins realizing the cycles of abuse she and her family have been trapped in and that Odysseus' single-minded obsession with protecting and getting back to his family makes perfect sense. Telemachus is absolutely worth all the sacrifice and pain that Odysseus put himself through, and Odysseus hasn't even gotten a chance to get to know him yet.

And so she goes to challenge her father, despite the risks involved. And his unbending pride that trapped them all in this cycle to begin with.

Because she's seen just a glimpse of the mistake she's made and what a father can be for his children.

[jugganautism]

epic art dump

[onlymimiwastaken]

Warrior Penelope stuff cause I've been listening to too many EPIC genderbent covers, and I wanted to give my take on it (also cuz I kinda want to draw it one day)

- Ares as Penelope's patron, absolutely! But Ares didn't have a huge cult in Sparta, although he wasn't hated. So my lore take version thing is that ATHENA wanted to be Penelope's patron (she had already an eye on Ody kinda) but Ares saw his chance, got to it first and became attached to Penelope without wanting to admit it, also because she saw the good and useful in him. Athena still watches over Penelope (especially after her and Ares platonically break up, which she finds really stupid) and is the one who does her best to protect Ithaca while she's gone. She's by Ody's side while he misses his wife and is mostly the reason why the Suitors hadn't taken over yet.

- To get Ares to realize his mistake, Athena tricks him into helping Telemachus defeat Antinous in Little Wolf because free bloodshed, only to end up sensitized by Telemachus because holy shit, my friend's son is here almost dying to this ASSHOLE who thinks he's so much stronger than MY friend the queen and even me like who tf does he think he is. Athena makes Ares fucking rational for once. And maybe even Aphrodite, as well, gets some damn sense in his mind like "they love each other like you and I and my girl is doing her best to get home you're going to apologize rn"

- ctimene holds a claymore double her height with no problems

- penelope is more "cold ruthless" than Odysseus, in a way that she's still poised (until the end or when she's really brought to her knees which is disturbing) while doing merciless stuff. She's emotionless a lot more (just on the surface)

- Ares was the one to give Penelope the idea of going to war instead of Odysseus, for obvious reasons. And Pen is really a mastermind among the Greeks ofc

- Ares and Pen fought in their My Goodbye version because she "held back her power while her friends got devoured" "she didn't even fight Polyphemus, didn't even TRY to kill him" "hid behind her wits to get things done". Because when fighting Polyphemus, she knew that if she tried to kill Polyphemus while he was asleep, they'd be stuck in that cave forever (like in the real Odyssey). And knew that fighting while her friends got killed would slow them down and probably get more people dead. And when they ran away, she didn't go back to kill the Cyclops even if she could've because of yes, mercy, but also because she would've awakened all the other Cyclops and sailing away was faster, better. Ares deemed this cowardice. Crazy thing, since one of the most important things to him is courage.

- Ares overstimates Penelope's power. Like, yes, she's exceptional, but still HUMAN. With her limits. He hasn't dealt with a human personally in years so he doesn't understand this, so his expectations are ridiculously high, which ends up breaking Penelope.

- During 600 strike, Penelope can actually breathe underwater and not hold her breath for such a long time and be fine because she's half naiad (yes, they are fresh water nymphs but still). Also this may make her even stronger around water (to a certain degree, she's still very mortal)

- calypso is pansexual

this is already a lot, ill add more when i think about it lol (also if i realize any of these ideas don't make sense)

[driedlillies]

Ik we’re all joking that Apollo doesn’t care and just makes up an argument on the spot in god games but guys. He already knows what’s going to happen. HES THE GOD OF PROPHECY. One of his guys even already told ody what his future’s going to be. His argument doesn’t matter; Athena’s going to refute it, and Odysseus is going home

[kyleetryme]

[sssnakeparty]

someone please for the love of god explain to athena thats NOT how you say 'fight'

[awnrii]

Hi! I hope ur okay and first i love your art. Now in your band AU Athena and Telemachus know each other? Athena is like his mentor too or?

I think it would be funny like Athena preparing her next private lessons just to see her student and BOOM is a mini Odysseus

i'd like to think considering band!athena knew odysseus from young, she would've been considered a close family friend of theirs, which is why she winds up tutoring/babysitting telemachus.

thanks for the ask!

[sensitive-shark]

goddess of wisdom, master of waaar~