#Helen did not expect penelope to disappear but she probably should have....it'll probably be fine. Right?

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Okay so with the line "the olive tree where we first met" we have two equal hilarious options.

When penelope was sassily like oh I'll marry you if you make a living bed out of this tree right here! Cue penelope stumbling over odysseus very very carefully digging up the tree "because how else is he going to get it to itacha we can't have a wedding bed out in the open in sparta duh"

Or

2. Penelope, knowing that Helen's suitors would soon be arriving to take over her home for a while. Snuck out and went on her own wacky shenanigan filled journey where she scoped out all the major players. Odysseus caught her spying in an olive tree. And when she got back she told Helen she had dibs on the cutie from itacha.

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EXCUSE ME?!! You cannot leave these in the tags? \/

Young odypen courting was filled with wacky nonsense basically canon confrimed

The line “....where we first met” implying that they first met under that specific olive tree

Which has to have some absolutely insane logistics that only odypen (and maybe Athena) could pull off

Odypen being 🥰 🤝 rat bastards in love

Option one--Odysseus: Athena please please please helpppp me pen said she'd only marry me if I made a wedding bed out of this tree

Athena: once again I think you are praying to the wrong person but fuck it how do you think you're going to keep that tree alive

Odysseus: ....a large bucket?

Athena: gimme a sec okay I need to go have ares bash my skull in before I watch something this stupid

Athena: checking in on Penelope her chosen weaver only for her to be pulling her hair out

Penelope (to her cousins): why did I fucking say that! Beating fathers already an impossible challenge why did I say that! He's going to think I was making fun of him! He's not going to want to marry me now!

Helen: weren't you? Making fun of him?

Penelope: That's not the point!

Clytemnestra: Hey, he's digging the tree up and has the biggest bucket I've ever seen.

Penelope: what?! *Trips over every item in the room and gets tangled in her curtains blushing like crazy*

Athena: ....it's been a while since I checked up on diomedes training. He'd never put me through this nonsense

Option 2--Helen's maybe a little nervous and wants to know more about who she has to potentially marry and Penelope promises her she'll get a rundown.

Helen did not expect Penelope to disappear but she probably should have....it'll probably be fine. Right?

Some of the kings Penelope just straight up greets, some she stays hidden and spies

Odysseus is the only one who catches her (he trains with Athena in the olive Grove)

She was not happy when Odysseus nearly tripped onto her spear point face first when he saw the strange pretty girl)

And Odysseus who's been king for a few years now knows every lady's face because he'll probably have to marry one of them someday

Okay so with the line "the olive tree where we first met" we have two equal hilarious options.

When penelope was sassily like oh I'll marry you if you make a living bed out of this tree right here! Cue penelope stumbling over odysseus very very carefully digging up the tree "because how else is he going to get it to itacha we can't have a wedding bed out in the open in sparta duh"

Or

2. Penelope, knowing that Helen's suitors would soon be arriving to take over her home for a while. Snuck out and went on her own wacky shenanigan filled journey where she scoped out all the major players. Odysseus caught her spying in an olive tree. And when she got back she told Helen she had dibs on the cutie from itacha.