#Ody Answers

[odyooles]

koichi and yukako as the one thing about the dwarf rabbit obsessed with his giant gf. Is this anything.

LITERALLY PART OF WHY KOICHI IS A NETHERLAND DWARF AND YUKAKO IS PART ONE OF THE BIGGER BREEDS!! YESSS anon you GET it

i originally had a wip that was just me drawing over the img itself, buut instead i drew smth original for it - here, anon! :D

they are snuggling <3

[odysseusonmoly]

kiss marry kill: Circe Antinuos Poseidon

oooh tough

But also very obvious

marry circe, kill poseidon, and kiss antinous i presume.

[reigning-kingof-ithaca]

taps ur shoulder. hi odyy <33 can u post more of your art in the future? i love your work :)

I'll see! I'm not too confident of my art just yet, and I also don't do much of it because I'm pretty busy. But I could try! :)

[bigidiotenergytm]

so when can my poseidon chomp on your ody… he’s hungry.

be fed giant fish idiot

oh but also

[somereaderinblue]

Odysseus of Troy AU

Inspired by the Warrior!Penelope AU, @maggie44paint's Malewife Menelaus AU & @theblindgoddess + DaughterOfDungeonBat's Penelope of Troy AU.

So instead of Helen, Paris chooses Odysseus, thinking he's the safer option because he's just the king of small, barren Ithaca & super smart. Baby Telemachus is also spirited away as extra leverage.

Paris thinks he's being cunning, hoping this choice can somewhat ease Athena's wrath as well.

At first, Athena is furious....but then she gives the go-ahead for 3 reasons.

Odysseus will give Paris hell.

Hera will give Paris hell.

This one is important: Penelope will give Paris hell.

Paris tells himself he's doing Penelope a favour! Now she can find another, more powerful husband & have another kid with him. Plus, she's a woman with a tiny kingdom, it's not like she'll come knocking on Troy's walls.

Newsflash: a furious Penelope comes pounding on Troy's walls with a vengeance.

(Bonus if she isn't even being backed by Ares here. Oh no, all that unstoppable rage is 100% pure Penelope.)

In Olympus, Hera & Athena are cackling and high-fiving over a bucket of popcorn. In Troy, Ody is going full Mission Impossible, being a monster (rawr rawr rawr) to Paris, mapping out servant passages, calculating how much cloth it'll take to make a long enough rope & hoarding tiny paper scraps and crumbs for bird feeding.

He goes all: Yes, I need more clothes. It's not my fault my clothes keep ripping. *wink wink*. Oh, I'm not supposed to be here? Silly me, I'm hopeless without Athena's wisdom now! Look at the cute birdie, little wolf! *slips a message onto them while his son's buried under feathers*

Athena is very proud of her master liar.

Bonus:

Hector & Ody ironically become good friends because they're both dads and loving husbands. Hector tells himself he will NOT get attached to the man who's singlehandedly screwed him, his family & Troy over......only to pat the guy's back as he sobs for the nth time over missing his wife. It's hard not to empathize with him & feel a little sorry for the kid who doesn't even remember his mom.

And maybe when Hector senses that the end is coming, he & Andromache ask Ody to take Astyanax with him. He won't have a future in Troy, but it's better than no future, period.

Thus, Penelope returns to Ithaca with her family one member bigger than before.

[backpackingspace]

Odysseus with his head in his wife's lap, happily not paying attention to anything, humming one of athenas song and carving something

Some random guy: your majesty----

Odysseus: not bothering to sit up: whatever my wife decided is fine.

[canisalbus]

Vaschete irl

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[roseofithaca]

Eurylochus: Captain! Something approaches...

Scylla: Hello.

Eurylochus: Oh gods! Is this why you told me to light six torches?! Do you intend to sacrifice us?!

Odysseus: Did I say torches? I meant candles.

Eurylochus: What...?

Odysseus: Just watch.

Odysseus: *faces Scylla, clears throat*

Odysseus: 🎶 There are other ways of persuasion... 🎶

Scylla: 😳😳😳

[gingermintpepper]

I haven't read the Odyssey so I'm asking you. Are you telling me besides Athena, Apollo was the god who helped Odysseus and his family the most? Indirectly at least.

If that's true it's really a missed opportunity in EPIC.

No, no, the god who assists Odysseus the most after Athena is unquestionably Zeus.

Zeus genuinely has no problems with Odysseus and makes it very clear that he finds the man brilliant and would have already had him home and safe if he had his way, but he makes it clear that he's deferring to Poseidon who actually has the problem with Odysseus because, ultimately, the sea is Poseidon's domain and kingdom and Zeus doesn't intend to step on his brother's toes.

(Od. Book 1 trans. Robert Fitzgerald)

I'd definitely give third place to Apollo however. The big bug-bear about Apollo in the Odyssey is just that he's much less tangible than Athena or even Hermes who appears to Odysseus multiple times to help guide him/give him proclamations. His presence is everywhere though; like I've previously mentioned (and like he did with Jason) it's Apollo protecting Odysseus from Poseidon as he sails the sea after Odysseus blinds Polyphemus. It's also Apollo keeping Telemachus safe. His most vital role by far is when Odysseus returns to Ithaca in time for the challenge that will determine the next king. Not only is it a shooting contest whose first hurdle is to string a bow, the challenge itself takes place on a festival day for Apollo. Athena is there with Odysseus and Telemachus physically, but Apollo is looking after them in spirit, sending signs and signals to keep Telemachus especially safe.

(Od. Book 15, Telemachus warns about the state of Odysseus' house to Theoclymenus, a son of one of Apollo's prophets.)

There's also the fact that Odysseus makes sure to pray to Apollo before he attempts to string the bow:

(Od. Book 21. Beggar-Odysseus petitions to shoot his shot)

Likewise, before he slays the first suitor, Odysseus again prays for Apollo's guidance and gaze to guide his arrows:

(Od. Book 22. Odysseus commits the first of many (divinely-sanctioned) murders)

Also, as an additional thing, have Telemachus invoking Zeus, Athena and Apollo that he could see the suitors have their asses beat:

(Od. Book 18. Telemachus excitedly gushes to him mom about his cool new friend (Odysseus. Odysseus is the friend.)

There's a lot of minimisation of Apollo's role in the Odyssey because it isn't as bright and showy as his role was in the Iliad but hey, even there people tend to minimise how truly present Apollo is for the duration of the war when they're doing adaptations. Within Epic, the stage is already more than set for both Apollo and Athena to be there at the advent of Odysseus' revenge but none of that matters if that's not the creator's intention, y'know?

[dark-side-of-the-moon-ody]

"Everyone! Meet Polites and Eurylochus. Please ask them questions!"

Stack of pancakes with glasses: ...

Coconut with a lightning scar: ...

"...Okay! I'm gonna go slaughter some naughty suitors, be right back!"

Odysseus exited the room, leaving the two behind.

"...does he know our ghosts AREN'T stuck in those things?"

"I-I think it's his way of coping."

[theglassesgirl]

I’ve been thinking about how after calypso mockingly told Odysseus that goddesses can’t die he spent the next seven years in a hopeless funk where his only real option was repeatedly to attempt suicide so i imagine that when Poseidon said the same thing, years of pent up rage snapped into a realization that that was also a drawback for the gods

Because if we think about it. He drew his sword on calypso immediately so it’s not as if her being a woman mattered, because she openly declared her intent to take his autonomy away, he was absolutely willing to kill her. It’s only her revealing her godliness that he essentially was struck w fear and despair. He couldn’t kill her, but in focusing on that aspect only, he negated to consider that he could also force her to let him go.

It wasn’t until Poseidon repeated her taunt that it fell into place. Because in the animatic, Odysseus is essentially stuck in a small rock island WITH Poseidon, and it’s very likely that it would’ve been the god’s intent to keep him there forever. With or without Poseidon in a weakened state, his options were once again to stay marooned.

Basically I fully believed it triggered him. He was essentially where he started. On an island with a god who can’t die and won’t let him go. But 600 strike solidified in him that being pacific with gods of all levels was never going to get him home.

[vroomian]

How does Telemachus feel about his father, especially when growing up under YRZ for most of his life?

nervous about being a Good Son. He's trying really hard to be someone ody could be proud of, but he has no idea what his famous father wants out of a son. They take a long time to get familar with each other despite yrz facilitating things.

(yrz, after years of writing a journal that's basically and Telemachus highlights reel/developmental journey to give ody when he gets back: this a perfectly amount of effort to put into another person's child. also to do for the love of my life's husband.

ody:

ody: fuck.

penelope: i know right? it's infuriating. )

[odysseusonmoly]

i just found out antoinusxtelemachuz is a thing...

SAVE YOUR F*CKING SON

WHAT

EXCUSE ME

WHY IS IT THE ONE TIME I LEAVE FORE TWENTY YEARS SOMETHING STUPID LIKE THIS HAPPENS

WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL

[reigning-kingof-ithaca]

You should have started eating the suitors

Wouldn't be worth my time

[bigidiotenergytm]

how do you think Poseidon feels about Zeus getting a free pass to kiss ody in @anniflamma ‘s new animatic? :)

i listened to hellfire while drawing this so i think that should tell u how he feels bout it

[unch4rtedwxters]

I see you’re handling the Ithaca saga well

“well” is a word for it, it’s just not the one i would use to describe it