#antinous of Ithaca

[tagzpite]

i feed t he crowd

[hiko-the-teacup]

speaking of Penelope, here's a few doodles of my own Warrior! Penelope au :3

(you can talk to this Penelope at @penelope-is-at-sea btw,,,, if u even care,,,,, :3c)

i wanted to use Odysseus' other name bc it rhymed better,,,

also some characters are swapped and others are replaced,,, I'll upload a list at some point,,, maybe :3c

[vincentthepooh]

YALL I REALISED JUST NOW THAT ODYSSEUS BLINDED POSEIDON TOO

Damn Ody has a problem with blinding Poseidons' family (except the brothers considering... zeus and hades yk)

[australet789]

Wanna entertain me?

Full body design of Antinous, i gave him more curls to make him a parallel to Odysseus' hair

Also yes, he basically goes semi-naked around the palace showing off his body against the other suitors, and that he doesn't need anything more than his words, his charisma (and his dagger) to win.

[onlymimiwastaken]

In the warrior Penelope AU, Does Odysseus have to deal with Antonius and the other suitors while his wife’s away? Also how would the challenge go in this AU?

hii, tysm for the interesting question! I'll explain how it goes in my version of the AU below!

Basically, yes, Odysseus still has to deal with the Suitors and Antinous, but with different circumstances to fit the whole thing better.

The Suitors aren't at Ithaca because a king can't rule without a queen, but because Odysseus can't rule without Penelope. They are a team, Odysseus doesn't do it all alone, he knows how smart she is. So without Penelope, the kingdom is crumbling, because half things aren't getting done and the other is neglected by a man who is depressed without his wife. The Suitors go to Ithaca to take over, but it's not that they want to marry Ody (not that they can, though I like to imagine Antinous as a close minded bi man and the Suitors as the LeFou to his Gaston), but rather, they want to be nominated sort of his advisors, someone really close to Odysseus to "help him", to then kill him secretly.

This is where Athena comes in. Athena is there at Ithaca, always has been, to do her best to help Odysseus and buy time. But she's disguised as , guess who, Mentor! Remember him from the myth? Odysseus said that once Mentor is finished weaving, he will choose a suitor, but Mentor is never done weaving. He's the goddess of weaving herself making her secret plan work. Also, Mentor just never fucking dies in 20 years and that's suspicious to the Suitors, since he's not really young. They wait for him to die and he never does, and to that Mentor claims that it's the "will of the gods, probably". Telemachus doesn't know that the man who grew him together with his dad is a goddess.

Now, the challenge. In EPIC (unless Jay changes it but from the snippet it's this), it's "whoever can string my husband's old bow, and shoot through twelve axes cleanly, will be the new king...". In this AU, it's basically the same, since one of Penelope's weapons is the bow. The Suitors are a bit weirded out, because how could a woman be that strong right, but they accept because they think it's too easy. Until Penelope disguised as a man comes and does it better than them. Another way I could twist it up is to make it a weaving challenge instead, and make the Suitors super bad at it because they are warriors, but I feel like we have the weaving theme already and something different is better!

This is my idea for now. Subject to change, like always. If you have any other ideas or want to share your own things, I'd be happy to hear 🫶

[the-cooler-kizy-art]

Attempting to design my own Antinous design hehehehe

[yui-onnero]

I'm officially helpless. Something that has been in my mind for the past few days now is if Antinous made his own version of "Peaches" (from the mario movie) for Penelope. If you would, could someone PLEASE make an animatic of this?!

[telemy]

"B- But your Au antinous-"

ACOB!Antinous if he ever Saw Epic!Antinous:

[captain-will]

I finished it >:) 👍👍👍

[cotton-candy-anon]

Antinous Art

Silly boy, silly silly boy, could never do anything wrong 🥰🥰

(Unless your Penelope of Ithaca, or Telemachus son of Odysseus, or Odysseus son of….)

[coquexari]

Sips apple juice

[massiveladycat]

jorge riverra herrans i will never forgive you for making calypso say "stay here in my open arms" and then in a second later polites's voice appears

[nuviwixx]

All the drawings I made in traditional

(The Troy saga - The Ithaca saga (except thunder saga))

simple drawings what i made with water-based pencils

I am very proud of the result of the drawings x))

(poseidon's design is by @/neal_illustrator (instagram))

[vincentthepooh]

After a quick thought, I've changed a few things on my Ithaca saga bingo,,, 🫶

[too-much-flynnolium]

THE ODYSSEY SWAP??????

Hera: MARRIGE BRINGER HERE TO RING YOUR-

[enbeemagical]

Idk if anyone's talked about this before but the Wisdom saga made me think about how Penelope isn't just being a loyal wife. I mean, there's loyal, and then there's "Your Majesty your husband is almost definitely dead by now we really really need a new king can you *please* legitimize someone to rule who is actually old enough to do that" the Ithacans probably think she's delusional for insisting that her husband is coming home after twenty years.

Penelope's not stupid, she hopes beyond hope, but she knows the chances of Odysseus making it home dwindle every day. Things happen, out at sea, ships never make it home. She knows there's a much greater chance that she's faithful to a ghost.

But it's not just loyalty. These men courting her would kill her son.

He's Odysseus's heir. All the men who trusted and followed Odysseus, well, Telemachus is his son. He can call on those other kings' friendship with his father. He has Odysseus's legacy behind him. Odysseus's friendships. He's young, but if he's inherited half his father's cleverness, half his father's strength, he's on the way to becoming a powerful king in his own right. A threat to his stepfather's rule.

And the suitors know this. If one of them became king, Telemachus wouldn't be likely to survive-- and if he did, it'd probably be in exile.

And Penelope knows this. So as she watches her son grow up, she says Odysseus must be coming home soon. She says she's waiting for him. And when that won't hold water, she stalls, and watches her son grow into his father's son. Anything she can think of, to give him more time.

She's ruled well, alone, but Ithaca must have a king.

She doesn't tell anyone why she's stalling, not even Telemachus. He's like Odysseus- he needs someone to protect, and right now that's her. Let him defend her virtue against the suitors, and she'll keep stalling, keeping them away from her son's throne until he can claim it.