#Odysseus and penelope being ���🤝 rat bastards in love
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backpackingspace · 14 days ago
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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"
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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.
#epic the musical#epic spoilers#Itacha saga#penelope#Odysseus#Odypen#odysseus x penelope#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 rundown#Helen did not expect penelope to disappear but she probably should have....it'll probably be fine. Right?#Some kings penlope just straight up greets some she stays hidden and spies#Odysseus is the only one who catches her (he trains woth 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
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backpackingspace · 2 months ago
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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.
#the odyssey#epic the musical#Odysseus#Penelope#Odypen#Post-canon my beloved#Odysseus tried to hold court exactly one time before he 1. Realized he's very out of date with everything and#2. Remembered that these meetings sucked so much#Odysseus then quickly climbed into his wife's lap and was like penelopes been ruling for 20 years she's got this#The first time someone tried to insist that it wasn't acceptable for penelope to answer ody nearly killed the guy#Nobody tried to force the issue after that#The only time odysseus sits up to contribute is to be like 'no no we can take that route now I killed the monster that lived there years ag#This is not to say he isn't listening and paying attention! He is! He's just scoping everybody's out#Noticing who's more pushy when they're trying to deal with penelope than they are with him#He's got twenty years of politics to catch up on! And he's going to be sneaky about it#Odysseus post return gaining a reputation for being uninvolved and uncaring only to pull the rug out from underneither the other person#Penelope is a okay with this for many many reasons#First off her system is one of beauty and the fact that her husband didn't spend all her hard work to take back over the second he came bac#Is rare and penelope is grateful everyday for who she married#Second she gets to show off look at how well she did odysseus look at how clever she is ody ody watch as I scam these people isn't that hot#(It is and yes of course odysseus was watching)#Penelope enjoying how odysseus lays out over her like a lazy lion#It scratches her possessive side to show him off like this and she gets to play with his hair#Telemachus attending some of these meetings to learn (tm) and spending the whole time deeply embarrassed#Odypen being 🥰🤝 rat bastards in love
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backpackingspace · 2 months ago
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Of course post-canon odysseus and penelope love each other (they are a little bit insane about the other. Neither is allowed to leave the others side for months after odysseus gets back. They cycle between sobbing on one and another and aggressively making out. ) but it's true that they have both changed. It's been twenty hard years after all. So
Odypen courting each other again just for the fun of it. Odypen deciding to act like teenagers again and make elaborate plans pretending to sneak into the others room.
Odysseus sending penelopes 90 year old dad a letter challenging him to a race for penelopes hand in marriage. (This does not go over well but penelope though it was hilarious)
Odysseus begging Athena to help him win penelopes heart/hand again. (Athena: What no why you're already married I don't understand you ) (she helps anyways)
Penelope weaving all of odysseus's clothes. Penelope hauling out every tapestry she made of telemachus's childhood (she made one for every year. To gift odysseus on his birthday when he returned.)
Odypen leaving telemachus incharge while they go off on dates (to harssass, cause problems, and badger other people into giving them things). It should be fine Athena has been sticking close to the house lately. And it's only for an afternoon anyways (at first. Headcanon that penelope came with odysseus when he had to go plant the oar and call it a windmill quest.)
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backpackingspace · 3 months ago
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More of penelope and odysseus being rat bastards in love please. I know for a fact that these two were menaces to any neighboring kingdoms. They were pulling scams, they committed crimes, I know these two are just the most obnoxious people at a party.
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backpackingspace · 2 months ago
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Okay yes odysseus absolutely fumbled first meeting with penelope. He was an absolute goof. Tripping over himself, blushing, loosing games because penelope waved at him, getting caught mid lie ect ect
But have we considered penelope was equally a mess?
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backpackingspace · 2 months ago
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Okay listen odysseus is ha! I was lying to you wasn't that funny rat bastard and penelope is no no I was telling the truth it's not my fault that you didn't catch the deliberate misinformation rat bastard
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backpackingspace · 7 months ago
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Odysseus: rolling on the floor doing an impeccable oh woe woe woe scene
Penelope: get up. I've changed my mind I didn't fucking miss you you heathen the floors still covered in blood
Odysseus: you're just mad that I beat you to the theater scene. You are aren't you
Penelope: grinding her teeth about to cry lying badly: NO
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backpackingspace · 7 months ago
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Okay it's always odysseus:thank fucking god someone who's not stupid when he gets home and never
Penelope: thank fucking god someone who likes and appreciates my mind games
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backpackingspace · 7 months ago
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Penelope 🤝 odysseus being a rat bastard together
Telemculus: their son who somehow grew up normal if a little traumatized, crying: mom what's going on why are you being this way???
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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.
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