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backpackingspace · 4 days ago

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Hey in my 'Penelope slipping into monsterhood is her unweaving her work for the first time fic' what if I made Athena/feel/ the snapping of the thread, she can feel the unraveling in her soul. What if I made it so that Penelope had taken a vow as Athena's blessed weaver. What if Athena was /pissed/ about this

#Penelope #Athena #Penelope unweaving her work and how it fucked her up an essay by me #Athena: already upset because she cannot stop fucking thinking about her stupid (ex) champion/best friend/pet #Last week she had to witness some stupid shit and was halfway to Ithaca on automatic to complain about it with odysseus #Got half way there realized what she was doing and has been in a rage since #Like hell is /she going to reach out/ not before odysseus is fucking groveling and begging for her forgiveness #She is the goddess here after all.#And no it does not fucking matter that she hasn't slept since then (she cannot stop thinking about odysseus about what ifs #And why he hasn't prayed yet and she has just the awfulest feeling that something is wrong but like hell is she ever going to admit that #And it's not a problem fuck off Apollo #And she's in the middle of this sleeplessness restlessness when she feels one of her vows /snap/#Like a thread unnerving #From Ithaca #Athena gets a glimpse of penelope /her weaver/ purposefully ruining a beautiful weaving /done with thread Athena PERSONAL SPUN #Thread that she gifted penelope to be used only in the specialist of occasions or when she is /making something for Athena's personal templ #And just like that she's rages again. She gave these two EVERYTHING AND THIS IS HOW THEY REPAY HER WITH BROKEN VOWS #AND DISOBEDIENCE AND BETRAYAL HOW DARE THEY #later #Athena will calm down #Later Athena will learn of the true circumstances of the suitors and the treats of murder and rape and the sheer amount of desperation #And she will drown in guilt that she had so throughly abandoned her own #That she did not swoop down in that instance and slaughter all of the disgusting men hounding /her mortals(family)/#But in this moment in her rage she is not listening closely enough to the prayers she is not taking in details and she'll regert it later #Some of her hurt/rage is spilling over from odysseus onto penelope and #Athena is convincing herself that odysseus probably made it home fine by now #(She knows that she's kidding herself but that denial is running deep right now)#Penelope to be fair knows this is going to be pallas athenas reaction. She knows but what other choice does she have?#Penelope: if it's monstrous to throw away your gifts to choose my husband over the favor you have shown me #Then I must become the monster

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