#Monster Ody

[nightmarearian]

have Odysseus become an actual monster. It’s another way Greek Monsters are made. Humans lose their humanity and slowly become actual monsters.

Their teeth might sharp more and more, everyday.

Maybe how the speak has this enchanting (encompassingly off) tone to it, one day.

Their eyes are eerily blank, and their sclera & iris are getting closer in color every day…

They start walking on what seem like their tip toes, but they don’t seem to notice;

The way they walk gets more predatory; Leaning forward, shoulders first and with a slight glare that isn’t in their eyes but definitely in their body.

Imagine; that’s how (for a random example) Sirens (the birds) spawned off from a woman being hurt one to many times, trapped somewhere, neglected or unwanted, so she flew away free with an enchanting voice. For there, other sirens where born ‘naturally’, from others like her (rare), in nature as a monster (most common) or spawned of from them.

For the sake of, I guess it doesn’t always happen, or more likely those who lose themselves like this usually don’t live long enough for a full transformation.

I guess not transforming halfway and finding one’s humanity again could be plausible, but would entirely be verrrrrry hard work. I think one work around* would be centering your moral and humanity on others: This would be (if he does get out of it) how Ody gets out of a full permanent transformation, Penelope (& Diomedes, in my hc) are his moral compass & heart. *this would require a lot of devotion, I suppose. So perfect for PenOdy & Diody, really

Ody gets snake fangs, sharper nails/claws & wolfish ears at minimum, ig. By the time he's off Ogygia, he probably has siren-adjacent voice-powers. Not as potent or completely-hypnotizing as their singing, just verrrry persuasive. Like. Extra Charisma points. Not that he knows, considering he's been living & interecting with gods for the past seven years and then next few days, so.

[hawkeye221b]

Also not fucking Poseidon being like "you cant kill me" and oDY GOING "EXACTLY" LIKE SIR??? SIR

[hollenka99]

Telemachus: I wanna be legendary!

Odysseus, whose soul feels like it has aged 200 years in the past 20: No son, you really don't.

[tagzpite]

chimera odysseus!!!!

[mystigaron]

forgot to post this but since this year's college results are out and over and done with i think i can finally post this piece i did for my final first year project ... done entirely in ms paint with the airbrush tool with only some color correction done afterward in csp

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

I recently saw the Community episode this meme is from and this is all I could think of

[personbutnotreally1002]

Ody in Monster:

Ody in Suffering, one song after Monster:

[koifishhies]

I love how Poseidon’s lesson about ruthlessness turned from something he was imposing to something he was trapped in.

When Odysseus says, “we’re both suffering, why not leave this here?” he doesn’t say “I won’t,” he says “I can’t.”

I wish in six hundred strike Ody would have used the line “the next time that you dare choose not to spare” or any callback to “remember them” because it would have been such a good loop. Such a good way to say to Poseidon that there could have been another way. But instead, he’s stuck here of his own doing, with this monster of his own making, being tortured over and over again. Because ruthlessness isn’t mercy. It’s damnation.

[gece-misin-nesin]

lowkey think that if jorge really wanted to sell us on the "odysseus is a monster thing" he should have had odysseus continue to stab poseidon even after he begged. bc like. Looking at odysseus now? he's less a monster and more like a morally grey protagonist. All of his questionable actions have pretty good explanations behind them. if you want to tell me he's a MONSTER, you need him to do something really fucking vile. without good justification. killing the baby? (also. he fought in a war. i reckon plenty of babies died indirectly as a result of his actions somehow) zeus literally told him he and his family would die otherwise. blinding the cyclops? pretty self-explanatory. sacrificing the men to scylla? bad, but has an understandable reason behind it and you can theoretically justify it. choosing the crew to die? saving his own life+you could argue they are the ones at fault for eating the cows anyway. torturing poseidon? there's literally no other way poseidon would let him go at that point AND he immediately stops after he begs.

point is, if you're going to tell me a character is a monster then at least make them do something that cannot be defended. something that CANNOT be justified at all. continuing to stab poseidon after being begged would have done that. but who knows, maybe the suitors being killed will be shown as something like that? still unlikely though considering they plot to kill telemachus and rape penelope.

[nightmarearian]

live up your life as a wraith

half assed render of a line from Scylla that I kept imagining with naga Ody (as a proper monster, I mean. Like. Basically Ody as Scylla) that would nooooot get outta my head

idk how to draw boats :,)

also close up of Ody's face cause I like how i did the expression.

additional hc: Ody's iris are realllly light, being grey from Athena's blessing. They're basically 1.5 shades darker than the whites of his eyes, and only distinguishable in harsher/colored lighting, and the slight hazel glint of Hermes' bloodline. In contrast, Ctimene's iris are realllllly dark, near pure black (like dried blood, per being Ares' favoured). Both their eyes are quite piercing when directed at someone, especially with eye contact. Ctimene looks particularly threatening & serious, Odysseus looks quite unsettling.

[princess-aziza]

I feel like a lot of this might have gone differently if maybe

Just MAYBE

THEY APOLOGIZED TO EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF TAKIN THEIR PAIN OUT ON EACH OTHER

Someone call Hades, I need to borrow Polites for a therapy session. Or twenty.

[fluffypotatey]

Eurylochus: but nothing could prepare us for the power that awaited inside Odysseus: what did this palace hide? Eurylochus: *sweats* Odysseus: Eurylochus: Eurylochus: *inhales* sir—

[theoakleafpancake]

I would like to say that I will NOT be taking any Eurylochus slander

[distant-screaming]

this line by antinous compared with the fact that although odysseus has done everything right (gone to war, kept his men safe, won) he still doesn't get to go home for years on end? this line compared to 'the line between naïveté and hopefulness is almost invisible'?? yeah I'm like okay and feel normal about this overall (lie)

[mystigaron]

more stuff i'm discovering i never posted here that i think deserves some spotlight... i used to be obsessed with elfilis like a year ago or so after forgotten land came out and at some point for whateve reason i was suddenly inspired to make a design fusion between it and ruiner nergigante and these were the result

[bpmbea]

i just realised Odysseus did the Siren equivalent of Shark finning

can someone kill him please?