#Odysseus needs a hug

[gothamite-rambler]

A year later after Odysseus makes it home. It never gets easier, but it gets more manageable.

Penelope: Are you okay?

Odysseus (faint smile): Yeah. Yeah.

---Two weeks later---

Penelope: Are you okay?

Odysseus (forced smile): Yeah, I'm fine.

---The next day---

Penelope (taking her husband's hand): Odysseus, you're not okay... And that's okay.

Odysseus (stammering, tears forming around his eyes): I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm sorry.

Penelope smiled softly and hugged her husband.

Penelope: I'm here for you. I'm not leaving you anytime soon. And we will go to elyusim together when our time comes.

Odysseus sniffled, resting his head on his wife's shoulder.

[haley-harrison]

the girlies when overthinking the implications of Love in Paradise

and Ody's traumas in general

[pennysucks]

GUYS POLITES ISN'T IN THE UNDERWORLD, HE'S IN MY SCHOOL BOOK! 1? 1! 1? 1? 1? 1? ? 1? 1.1 TELL ODY

Lost the opportunity to write "this book is amazing when you greet it with open arms" I'M SO SORRY

[blueberrymuffin674]

Imagine this (Warning: ANGST)

What if after the men died in thunder bringer they were able to track down his journey and watch what happens to Odysseus after they died. Not only would they gain sympathy for their captain that caused their death but also see his time on Ogygia (I think that's the name) IT WOULD BE HEARTBREAKING for them to see their captain suffer to the point of attempted suicide. (Imagine how guilty they would feel for stabbing him in Mutiny now) They would find a way to break in at (Love in paradise) and help him contact Athena (As if Calypso cast a spell making him unable to reach Athena in the earlier several years) which would be why Odysseus heard voices. And why Athena realized Odysseus needed her help. (Imagine if they also broke into her consciousness or were around her to hint at her to look at Odysseus's journey) Basically their presence, and helping guiding the Musical from Mutiny and onward.

[leynaeithnea]

“Just break it.” – he uttered coarsely in the momentary silence. – “I can’t stand. I wouldn’t be able even if you gave me more time. And even if I could, and I was lying about it, you don’t need an excuse.”

He was forced to stop and take a sharp breath against the vertigo and the headache. He pushed himself to lift his eye, despite the headache, to meet Ektor’s. He took another strained breath and spoke. “You won and I lost.” – he gestured vaguely about himself. – “This is your prize. I’m yours to break. Just… stop playing around and get it over with.”

Fanart of @holy-mother-of-whumpers 's "Odysseus in Chains"

[norasgalaxyart]

What’s this? A normal one shot and not a series? More likely than you think.

[kittenninja14]

OH MY GOSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

JUST LISTENED TO The Underworld (first song from underworld saga) and mY HEARRTTTTTTTTTTT

POLITESSSS MY BABY!!!!

AND HIS MOMMM 😭😭😭

ODY NEEDDS A HUG PPL HE NEEDS A HUGG 😭😭😭😭😭😭

https://kittenninja14.tumblr.com/post/731916269075480576/hey-yall-i-just-found-this-incredible-video-and

[blueberrymuffin674]

OH MY GOD I FOUND THIS AND IT TOTALY FITS THE IDEA I HAD EARLIER!!! Sobbing rn

Finally done with this! I planned this around Thunder saga but go to lazy/busy to finish it 🤡 so here it is now.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

EPIC fans: what else was Odysseus supposed to do?! Scylla was the only way home!!

Me, an intellectual: there WAS a way for Odysseus and crew to get past Scylla without one crew member dying. They previously had a bunch of Sirens at their mercy, so if they so wished, they could have used six sirens to satisfy Scylla’s price.

After all…ruthlessness (to others) is mercy upon ourselves

[spineless-lobster]

When mel said that odysseus was like a brother or an uncle to her but she’s not really sure because she has no reference for family relationships guys remember when she said that

[haley-harrison]

Epic the musical memes - Part 4

[vyunok-obyknovenniy]

Literally tho 😭

This line was in the very beginning of the Odyssey:

doodle got out of hand haha

[gothamite-rambler]

Athena pretended she didn't notice Odysseus glaring at her with hatred in his eyes. She tapped her foot, pondering what to say to break the ice.

Athena (tight smile): I get the feeling you're mad at me. Your face is contorted.

Odysseus (enraged): Don't pull a Zeus on me. I'm mad at you, Athena! You left me! You left me without telling me who the cyclops was related to! I did not have you for over twenty years! Twenty years during which I watched my friends die! I was stuck on an island with a five-stage clinger, and I missed… everything! I missed everything about them.

Odysseus shook as he fought back tears, thinking about how he wasn't there for his family.

Athena (sincere): I'm sorry.

Odysseus (surprised): You—What?

Athena: I'm sorry. I abandoned you at the worst time, and then when I arrived, all that insanity and pain had happened to you. You didn't deserve any of that. I'm sorry for everything, and if it means anything, my uncle deserved what he got. I can't say sorry enough either, but I am, and I understand if you never forgive me.

Odysseus (sniffling): None of you have ever apologized to me… No, no! I'm mad at you! I'm mad! I'm—

Odysseus began crying, making Athena frown. She dropped her weapon and hugged Odysseus—something he hadn't gotten in actual freaking decades!

[diiambee]

she had a friend once

[leynaeithnea]

Solace or Sorrow?

She embraced him suddenly and tightly and apologized that she could not help him. Her words felt hollow, her grip was choking him.

At first he was glad to get a break from the terrors of his journey on this island of paradise, he thought once he asked her to leave she'd help. He had thought wrong.

Or

A short tale of the seven years Odysseus spent on Ogygia.

[kittenninja14]

I KNOWWW RIGHTTT!?!?!?!? THIS ABSOLUTELY GOT ME IN A HURICANE OF EMOTIONS BECAUSE DUDEEEEEEE THAT IS SOO FREAKING EPIC?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

THE FACT THAT POSEIDON IS SOO DARN PETTY TO THE FACT THAT HE USES ODY'S WORD (the words that he said when he avenged his friend's death) AND USED IT AGAINST HIM WHEN POS. KILLED MORE OF ODY'S FRIENDS!!!!

NOT TO MENTION... POS. USED ODY'S WORD THAT HE SAID IN HIS WEAKEST MOMENT (when does a ripple become a meteor.... when does a man become a monster) THE MOMENT WHERE ODY' HAS TO CHOOSE WHO'S BLOOD HE WANTS ON HIS HAND!!! THE WORDS THAT SCARRED HIM--- POSEIDON USED THOSE WORDDSSSSS!!!! THOSSSEE WORDSSSSSSS!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

THIS GREEK MAN NEEDS A HUG PPL!!!! HE NEEDSS A HUGGGG

https://kittenninja14.tumblr.com/post/731916269075480576/hey-yall-i-just-found-this-incredible-video-and

At the end of Remember Them, Odysseus calls out to Polyphemus that he is his darkest moment iconic, slay king.

“Remember me!

I’m the reigning king of Ithaca,

I am neither man nor mythical,

I am your darkest moment,

I am the infamous,

Odysseus!”

Then, at the end of Ruthlessness, after brutally murdering most of Odysseus’ men, might I add Poseidon tells Odysseus that he is his darkest moment!

“What have you done?

When does a ripple become a tidal wave?

43 left under your command.

When does man become a monster?

I am your darkest moment,

The monster that always draws near!

Any last words?

All I gotta do is open this bag!

What?

Remember me.”

I know I’m probably not the first person to notice this/point it out, but I can’t believe that I’ve listened to these songs so many times and yet I only just recently noticed this!

Also, the fact that the both say “remember me”? Chills.

Jorge, why do you do this to my silly little brain? It’s no wonder I’m obsessed with this musical.

I wasn’t gonna make a post about this, but the last few days this has been bouncing around in my head and wouldn’t leave me alone. So now you get this.