#ares is odysseus' mentor au

[numbuh24insane]

Ares: Do you know why I made you my champion?

Odysseus: Because I impressed you?

Ares: Ha! Impress me? A god? No, I chose you because my sister was looking to take you under her wing.

Odysseus: *Raises a brow* I see . . . Do you regret your patronage?

Ares: . . . You have surprised me on the rare occasions keep it up, Little Warrior.

[fairytale-luka]

Warrior of the Heart AU or Mentor Aphrodite AU

(Sorry for any misspelling and grammar errors)

Instead of Hermes helping Odysseus in the Circe and Vengeance Saga It's Ares. The reason why Ares decided to help Odysseus is because of Aphrodite

Aphrodite after 'My Goodbye'(note: happens almost the same in this AU) is very heartbroken and depressed. Her and Odysseus relationship was more like mother and son. She doesn't have worthy to speak with Odysseus again after hurting his feels. She ignored Odysseus until 'Love in Paradise' happenes.

Ares tried to cheer her up, it work but it didn't completely fix her heartbreak. Ares wanted to check on Odysseus to make sure he was still alive for her. When Ares find out about Circe and pigs he decides to help Odysseus just for this time.

Ares didn't really know how to help Odysseus without doing the job for him. So, Ares when to Athena for help, reluctantly. He doesn't tell her what was really going on but Athena helps him otherwises and tells him about Holy Moly. But before Athena could tell Ares what could happen when a mortal ate it, Ares left

I'm not sure how 'Wouldn't You Like' would happen because I cannot find a way to make the Ares themed without making a new song. Ares still gives Odysseus the drug and then dips.

'Dangerous' on the other hand is mostly the same only with Ares being more violence. Also Ares does tell Odysseus that Aphrodite was the one who fought for him.

(Feel free to add or suggestion anything. If you wish to make anything of this AU, like a fic please credit me. I am making some art, which may take a moment to get out. And I'm not sure about a fic)

[fangirlingpuggle]

Very silly Epic AU/fic prompt idea where after god games while Odysseus is on way home since Athena recovering other gods decide to check in on Penelope and Telemachus, cue them seeing suitors plotting and Hera going 'Fuck no' (Also Ares because Penelope was one of his favorites and there is going to be so much murder)

They aren't allowed to do anything major because of divine intervention rules, and laws of hospitality mean they can't just murder everyone.

So they start in small ways stopping suitors, Aphrodite making a good number fall in love with others and they nope out of the contest for Penelope's hand. She has far to much fun and gets very creative with the matchmaking (she has full on conspiracy board as she makes all the new ships)

Ares waiting until any suitors leave place so he can kill them without breaking any rules, multiple servants think they've hallucinated when seeing the god of war dragging multiple bodies away from the palace.

Hera is chilling with Penelope, she's disguised as a servant but Penelope sees right through her and she's not making much effort to disguise form the olympian of equivalent of wearing fake glasses and a mustache .

Hephaestus making Telemachus and Penelope new weapons and armor just in case.

Ares is open day away from chasing suitors out with a broom when Odysseus finally gets back. All the gods are watching eating popcorn Ares is totally cheering.

(He shows up alter and tell Odysseus that he now approves of him, he sulked before because Penelope married Athena champion he thought she could do better but she loved him, he now very mcuh approves also wants to co mentor Telemachus Athena does not approve)

[zzzaru]

epic the musical actor AU anyone

Odysseus (Lead Actor): 

talented emotionally complex actor, juggling weight of being the lead while trying to be a good husband and father

he and penelope had telemachus when they were young, and his career took off shortly after, pulling away from family life

trying to reconnect with them while facing his own insecurities about being enough for them

during the scene where odysseus reunites with telemachus, the emotions hit just a wee bit too close to home, which leads to an actual breakdown

stays late a lot after rehearsals, reworking scenes, trying to be a perfectionist

Penelope (Actress)

fiercely intelligent actress, odysseus’ real life wife

balances being a mother to telemachus, acting career, and the occasional media frenzy over their relationship

while she loves odysseus a lot, struggles w the resentment of his absences

tears up during penelope’s monologue about loneliness (hits too close to home 👎)

shares quiet, intimate moments with odysseus between takes (the directors are TIREDD)

Telemachus (Actor)

a young actor breaking into the industry, cast in the musical just bcuz of his parents’ influence

determined to prove he earned his place on his own

doesn’t love being in his father’s shadow, but he looks up greatly to him

love-hate relationship with his dad

emotionally charged performance during telemachus’ ‘confrontation’ with odysseus

is more lighthearted with the rest of the cast, poking fun at odysseus’ dramatic tendencies

Eurylochus (Actor)

one of odysseus’ oldest friends, cast as his loyal (combative) right hand man.

serves as the group’s voice of reason, but his blunt honesty sometimes causes tension

uses dry humor to diffuse tension between odysseus and telemachus but privately encourages odysseus to make amends

finds himself unexpectedly emotional during luck runs out and mutiny

Polites

comedic glue holding the cast together

actually everybody’s favorite castmate

feels overlooked compared to the larger personalities around him

offers emotional support to telemachus after a tenser rehearsal

can keep his eyes open for a concerning amount of time. very good at playing dead?? actually scared his friends during the cyclops scene

Zeus (Actor)

charismatic, laid back veteran actor

mentor/dad figure

LOVES cracking dad jokes, bringing snacks to rehearsals much to athena’s embarrassment

ATHENA’S DAD STILL

incredibly approachable 

competes with poseidon during press tours

Athena (Actor)

fiercely independent (still zeus’ daughter)

trying to prove herself as a director in her own right

perfectionist

cares for the cast and crew, hates showing it

sometimes teases zeus for being overbearing

lighthearted banter with zeus on set

quiet moments where she talks to hera about living up to her father’s reputation

Poseidon

zeus’ brother and self proclaimed ‘cool uncle’ of the cast

charming, mischievous

lightens the mood during long rehearsals

him and zeus = playful rivalry

leads karaoke nights occasionally

bonds with eurylochus over their mutual love of seafood and practical jokes

Hera

graceful and respected actress

unofficial ‘mom’

ready with words of wisdom

helps penelope and telemachus work through their nerves before emotional scenes

scolds zeus and poseidon for goofing off sometimes

Aphrodite

rising star in the acting world

social media sensation

glamorous and confident, but genuinely kind to everyone

posts behind the scenes and blooper reels

teaches telemachus how to handle social media fame

organizes a cast photoshoot to help everyone look their best for promotional materials

Apollo

multi-talented ‘golden boy’ of the cast

known for singing, acting, guitar solos during breaks

effortlessly charming

somewhat competitive (friendly) with ares

challenges polites to a ‘sing off’ during a wrap party, turns into a cast wide jam session

writes an original song for the cast

Ares

high energy

loves keeping everyone entertained

fiercely loyal to his crew. also dating aphrodite

playful rivalry with apollo

surprisingly good with kids

starts a nerf war on set during downtime, with the entire cast getting involved

improvised ‘is she dead’ in god games, everyone couldnt help but laugh

Antinous

charismatic, mischievous, well liked

known for polished performances

naturally confident

relationship with telemachus started through rehearsals bonding over shared family pressure

admires telemachus’ raw talent

fiercely protective of telemachus

on stage chemistry. directors hate them

Hermes

quick witted, flamboyant

hard worker (in his own. way)

flirty. flirts with half of the crew. especially odysseus and polites

never takes things too seriously

sees himself as the ‘glue’ of the cast (he is not, it's polites)

little scenarios i've been cooking up

during god games, where athena and zeus fight physically, i'm thinking one of the props go askew. athena and zeus are fighting in scene, and then one of the props from above suddenly fall, hitting athena in the head, causing panic from the rest of the crew- she's fine of course, she wasnt hit too hard, but panic ensues for everyone, esp zeus and hermes, since athena is family. (athena is zeus' daughter, hermes is athena's brother). and of course the rest of the crew like odysseus, ares, etc)

zeus’ relationship with ares in th is AU is very much like jay’s and mitchell’s from modern family

scene with the cyclops, where the 'cyclops' is supposed to kill polites, when polites is lying there on the ground with fake blood on him he makes it seem a little too real. he gets 'crushed' by the cyclops, and then he rasps out "captain" to odysseus, desperately (acting) like there is dark fake blood dripping from his head, his fake glasses are broken and then his character dies. polites can keep his eyes open for an unnaturally amount of time, and he can make them seem lifeless so after the scene is done, odysseus and eurylochus both go to hug him just to make sure he's there and fine. they cling to him for a bit. polites is very confused, but the hugs are welcome!!

[dynasty889]

(I have an updated, finished version of this drabble: https://www.tumblr.com/dynasty889/771873983315542016/love-in-paradise-warriorpenelope-au-updated

Working on a thingy. The Time Dive but it’s warrior!Penelope. Do I like it? Mayhaps. Anyway:

Ares’ eyes glared down into the abyss as he stood upon the edge of the hour glass. He had never anticipated to be bothered with Penelope again, but her son had the same ability of convincing people that she did. So, here he was.

Ares put his helmet on. All around him, Penelope’s memories jumped out at him. “Old friend, it’s been ten years since I last saw you,” he said softly. Even so, he remembered it vividly. Those feelings of anger, frustration, and disappointment as he watched Penelope make that mistake.

“Remember me! I am the infamous Penelope!” She stood at the entrance of Polyphemus’ cave. He had just warned her not to, but she did it anyway. He was furious.

He sighed. Ares leaned forward, lifting his arms up, and fell into Penelope’s memories. “Let’s see where you’ve been!”

Penelope held a bag in her hands. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!” Aeolus sang. Too cheerful for it to be a good thing. Ares knew something had gone horribly wrong.

Next up: Poseidon. “Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves!” he shouted. Waves lunged at Penelope’s fleet. Bodies and debris littered the ocean. Ares paused momentarily to watch Penelope unleash the wind bag to escape the sea god.

“One wrong move and you’re done for! Anything I—!”

“—Song of past romance. I see the—“

“—We won’t take more suffering from you!”

“Drown in your sorrow and fears!”

The next several memories whipped by him. A witch who transformed her crew into pigs, a prophet in the underworld, the killing of sirens, and a run-in with a six-headed sea monster.

“Captain?” Ares barely recognized that voice. But he knew it was one of Penelope’s comrades. Thunder roared above the crew as Zeus’ hands lingered over Penelope and forced her to look at her crew. Ares had not been so angry in a long time. To see his father’s hands on the girl he had mentored sparked a fire inside him, one full of rage.

“I have to see him…” Penelope mumbled. Tears streamed down her face. Her face and clothes were torn and bloody. A black eye and a stab wound. The anger Ares had felt dissipated as he realized what happened.

“But we’ll die.”

“I know.”

Lightning struck the boat, and it exploded into hundreds of small fragments of wood. Again, bodies and blood covered the ocean. He couldn’t find Penelope among the wreckage.

“Penelope…” he started. Ares was almost shocked by how concerned he sounded, for her of all people. “Where did you go?” One more of Penelope’s memories gravitated towards him. Perhaps this one would tell him what had happened to her…

Penelope swam until the darkness of the night made things too hard to see. Until her legs gave out. She had managed to drag herself to the shore of an island, where she passed out. The next day, Penelope awoke to the sounds of gulls crying and the waves breaking on the shore. The light of the sun was nearly blinding. Every muscle in her body ached.

A stifled, low chuckle echoed in her ears. Blinking, she looked up and saw a man sitting beside her. “Morning, sleepyhead. You’ve been resting for quite a while, haven’t you?” he teased. His voice was deep, but despite that and his gruff appearance, it carried a humorous air. It was one Penelope did not like at all.

The man laughed again. Penelope’ confusion was adorably amusing to him and he decided he would savor it as long as he could. “You know, I swore that you were dead when I found you on the beach this morning,” he mused. “Did you know you talk in your sleep? Tell me, though, who’s Odysseus?”

Odysseus. That name, like sweet honey, lingered in her ears. It was like medicine to soothe her aching head. Though she was still groggy and dazed, her senses were slowly coming to her. “He’s my husband…” she murmured. It was at that same moment she realized how close the man was to her and that his hand was gently resting on her thigh.

He blinked, like he was confused. Penelope, equally confused, stared back. They exchanged stares in awkward silence before the man spoke again. He pulled Penelope up to her feet and dragged her behind him. “Anyways, I’ve got all you could want here, all you could need here. Just you and me, my dear, my love in paradise.” His hands trailed down her body and he brought her close to him, like an embrace. “Soon, you will join me in bed and we’ll spend our time.”

[anerdyrat]

Mentor Ares! AU

Practically, an AU where when Athena was teaching Odysseus, Eurylochus accidently also got Ares as a mentor.

Eurylochus and Odysseus would unknowingly get pinned agasint each other (mostly by Ares) so often.

-Also after the events of puppeteer Ares and Eurylochus have their "My Goodbye" moment, since Eurylochus was willing to leave beind the crew members who were turned into pigs.

[somereaderinblue]

in your warrior Penelope au is Athena still Odysseus's mentor? or did she up and leave again but for a different reason?

If this has been answered already oops

Well, since Ares takes Athena's role, she's largely absent through this AU. Like canon, she still wanted to create the greatest warrior but after Ody's crippled during the Trojan's ambush, he's no longer able to fight, much less contribute to the war or become said warrior.

Naturally, Athena is less than pleased at everyone's hubris & as if to rub salt into the wound, Ares is given the spotlight now. Because this is pre-development Athena, she has no problem dragging Ody over the coals for letting his guard down & wasting her efforts. She's unempathetic to Odypen's separation, coldly saying it's Ody's fault it had to come to this.

Odysseus, in turn, retorts that Athena was also present with Hera & Aphrodite during the Golden Apple fiasco which started the damn war in the first place. One thing led to another, a more private but no less intense vers of 'My Goodbye' which ends in Athena leaving & ghosting Ody.

The falling-out would do wonders for his deteriorating self-esteem & trust/attachment issues. Esp when another god comes knocking, this time, in the form of a vulture.....

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

Can you imagine post-Odyssey life for Telemachus though?

You're just sitting in your palace having lunch, trying to ignore your very much in love parents who have absolutely no shame whatsoever; Athena, who's both your friend and your dad's kind-of-friend-former-mentor-turned-sort-of-mother, is just chilling; Hermes, who's your dad's great grandfather, is laughing as he causes some kind of chaos and you think might also be giving you drugs (?); Ares, who for some reason has some weird fanboy puppy crush on your dad, is playing with your dog as if that's completely normal, and of course Aphrodite is with him because why not???

You decide that maybe you'd just take a walk along the harbour - for some reason the ocean has been unnaturally calm ever since your dad came home.

yesssssss! i love love love this! (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

i love to think that after everything, ithaca just becomes the hotspot for the gods & goddesses to hang out. telemchaus keeps collecting them as friends like pokemon. odysseus is very wary at first of course, but calms once he realises they aren't there to cause any harm to his famiy or island. he deffo makes sure to tell hermes to stop trying to slip telemachus some moly though dhdhdhd

and yes i would like to think poseidon also eventually makes a physical appearance, curious as to why all his family keep taking holidays trips/visits to the island to hang out with odysseus and his family

(i was also actually thinking of eventually heading in this direction in my silly "friends in higher places" au, that i keep yapping about in my posts dhdhdhd) (really gotta write out the rest of the dinner scene first though)

[thesunlistens]

I really love @gigizetz’s Warrior Penelope AU (for those who don’t know, it’s Epic/The Odyssey but Odysseus and Penelope swap places and some of the other characters swap too) and I have some questions that would have been too long for an ask:

• Is it based more on Epic or the original Odyssey? (If it’s more the original then you can disregard some of my Epic-specific questions.)

• I’ve seen you post a drawing where Ares is Penelope’s mentor (side note: I love that you accurately represent Ares supporting women! It really annoys me when people assume that male+violent=misogynist when actually supporting women is his main trait after violence!) Is Athena still Odysseus’s mentor in this AU? Because I’ve been giggling to myself imagining this happily married couple whose divine mentors are huge rivals and don’t like each other! Like, they would both invite their mentors over whenever they had a party or something and the two gods would spend the whole time glaring at each other while their mentees are in love and oblivious to the tension. It’s making me laugh!

• If this is the case, who does Ares have to convince instead of… well, himself, in God Games? You could just switch them, but if Athena is still Odysseus’s mentor, she wouldn’t really need convincing because she wants him to be happy, and besides, I can’t see her being paired up with Aphrodite. So who takes his place (is it someone else with a connection to Aphrodite, or is it reworked so she and the new god have separate verses?), and what’s their argument?

• I saw that you posted a really cool Iris design with Penelope - am I right in assuming she’s this AU’s version of Hermes since they’re both messenger gods?

• Are Odysseus’s suitors the same people as Penelope’s suitors, or do they swap places with the people who tried to seduce him in the original (Circe and Calypso)? And if it’s the second, how does the slaughter of the suitors work considering that, as Calypso says, goddesses can’t die?

• Are the crew the same people, or does Penelope have her own friends? And if they’re different people, who are they?

• Are there any other characters who swap places? Considering that the roles that are swapped mostly seem to be gender swapped, I can see Cassandra taking the place of Tiresias if her curse ended when she died, but that’s just an idea.

• Have you thought about reworked lyrics, e.g. a few times in Epic, “my wife” is used as the rhyme, what would the rhyme be for “my husband”? Or when the name of a character who’s swapped with another is the rhyme, e.g. what would replace “arena”? (I’m imagining something like “fight if you dare, he’s” something, but again, just an idea.)

• If you haven’t thought about reworked lyrics yet, can I work with you on it? I like writing, especially lyrics!

• Are there any major changes to the plot aside from the role swaps?

[mer-acle]

So a while ago Jorge talked about scrapped ideas for epic and one of them was Telemachus and Athena going to the lotus eater Island and um! Oops AU spawned!

Basically after killing Pallas, Athena runs away and stumbles upon the lotus eater island, unaware of what the fruit does, she eats some out of curiosity and well, the lotus fruit does what it does and Athena stays there for centuries and the world slowly forgets about the goddess of wisdom and none of the other gods really bothered looking for her after she killed Pallas

Que many years later, Odysseus and Polites finding her when they visit the island and upon seeing a human there (as I’m going off of Epic’s depictions of the lotus eaters being little creatures) polites is like, “hm no we can’t leave her here!” And so they take her with them and it takes a while (not as long as it would for humans bc god powers) she sobers up from the lotus fruit! Yippee! Probably is….who was she again? She spent so long on that island with the lotus eaters she….doesn’t quite remember anything about her time before the island she can’t even remember her name….she thinks it was Pallas though…she does remember that name as it felt important to her! So she dubs herself with the name Pallas! She also can’t remember that she’s a goddess, she had no need to use her god powers well on the island so….she just forgot about it like she did her name

Also in this AU Ares is ody’s mentor instead of Athena :D

Guys wake up we've got a new AU!!!

I love the drama this is certain to bring when it comes out who she is. Like, Ares has a sister? Another one? He'll be so protective of her idndbdjdb

Ahhh I love this sm

Also imagine how high tech the lotus eater island is and Athena doesn't remember she just casually did this stuff (the lotus eaters are very well-dressed too) bc the lotus just messes with her brain in strange ways.

Oh also imagine she remembers her Mom first but doesn't remember she's dead 😭 Or she ends up being convinced her father must have been connected to water, so when the god thing comes out she guesses it's Poseidon and Ares is like fuck bc he took on the family drama with Poseidon (he won the fight on Sparta but Poseidon has Athens)

The drama

Oh and with the cyclops imagine she has a spear close by she could save herself with but she freezes up and doesn't take it cos trauma

But as soon as she has a sword in her hand she's a great fighter purely on instinct. (She can save Polites if we wanna be wholesome about it)

Ok lol that's my contribution hehe

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

what about hades?

So I’ve been seeing “600 Strike Inaccuracies which, yeah it’s is, so here is my take on it. I heard about the Ares mentor taking over for Athena thing and I really like that. Here is my mentor AU, something.

So we know about Diomedes and Ares, but that happened with Athena’s help. Both gods on the same level, (kinda) meaning not the big three. So it would make sense to me to have a member of the big three to help Odysseus. Hades, it seems, is the best and only candidate.

Hades could give Odysseus the ability to at least lay hands on Poseidon. And the line “600 strike” could be more impactful if Hades released all 600 souls through the water to attack Poseidon.

Also the stabbing part, i interpret that as “I’m letting you do this to see if you processed what I said.” Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves, but when Odysseus asked Poseidon if he could forgive, it’s like a “oh you didn’t comprehend what I said. You are still weak with emotion and mercy so die.” Something along the lines of that. Poseidon is letting Odysseus do this to see “are you going to be ruthless today so you can live tomorrow?” Poseidon telling Odysseus to stop is testing his self-control (is that what I am trying to say?) He is putting on a show of weakness to see Odysseus’s changing level of strength.

Poseidon: Stop (let’s see what you are gonna do)

Odysseus: continues stabby-stab

Poseidon: Nice

Also I think Poseidon was waiting for the “Ruthlessness is Mercy upon ourselves” line, to make sure it sunk in.

Poseidon internally saying yes, finally, you got it, you are good to go home.

The “Remember Me” line from Ruthlessness, I now interpret as, “Remember my ideals, my view on the world. Remember the way to survive.”

Finally the “How will you sleep at night?” question, I interpret as Poseidon trying to get a handle on Odysseus’s changing mindset, and his plan for dealing with his ruthlessness in the future.

anyway, hopes this makes sense.

cus Odysseus laying the smackdown of a big three member? By himself? Nooooooo……

[numbuh24insane]

Ares: You’re weak, pup. Your father was stronger than you and twice as smart as he was at your age. You bring disgrace to my champion, but we’ll fix that.

Telemachus: You know my father?

Ares: . . . You missed the part that I said I was going to make you strong.

[fairytale-luka]

More on Aphrodite as Odysseus mentor( The Warrior of The Heart AU) / (sorry if anything is missed spelled or the grammar is wrong)

This is about God Games, there was some changes that I mentioned but I’m going to expand on it more

Apollos trial is still mostly the same about the sirens. But Aphrodite fights back that the siren were using Penelope face to trick Odysseus

Hephaestus is replaced by Hermes, there is actually not much of a trial here. Hermes is just making pointless arguments and it’s quite easy for Aphrodite to counteract

Next, would be Circe since it couldn’t be Aphrodite. Circe argument is about Odysseus sacrificing his men despite fighting her to get them back(during the Circe Saga).

Aphrodite tries to counteract that he was forced to choose between himself and his men.(She’s used her Instant Love on Circe like Athena did with Aphrodite with her ‘Quick Thought)

That’s when Athena, who takes Ares place comes in. Athena argues about Odysseus failing to make smart decisions and that his son is just as foolish as he is.

Aphrodite is angered by this, she mangers to fight back and wins. Athena is impressed by Aphrodite winning and agrees for Odysseus release

(Also would like to mention that Athena and Circe have something going in. They may or may not be queerplatonic partners)

Hera is the same, nothing changed because I love this part too much to change it

The showed down Zeus is mostly the same for Aphrodite(sorry girlie :/). Aphrodite will does get injured like Athena did in the canon animatics.

But you may be asking, where is Ares in all this? Well, he was off doing something and comes back to find his wife injured by his father

(These are just some ideas, feel fair to change or add anything. Also once again, if you would like to create anything about this, please credit me)

[mythica0]

Dump of random epic stuff!

I’m making this because when I make individual posts of things like this they get like no notes. So! I put them together in hopes that it’ll get more attention!

First order of business, my new story board for wouldn’t you like, and some finished designs I haven’t posted yet! I’m aware the story boards are messy and might be hard to read, so just do your best!

On a relevant note, I still need some help figuring out how to draw a raft so I can do my storyboard for Dangerous! (And the rest of the vengeance saga, for that matter)

Next up, the fics in the works! I know I’ve said that I have a lot of drafts, but I’ve yet to say what they are! So here’s a list! (Title included if I’ve come up with one already)

-The Ruthless King: Ler!Ody, Telemachus, (edit: the suitors have some ler too, forgot to mention that) Lee!Suitors, Telemachus.- Odysseus alternate ending/more wholesome version!

- Switches Hermes and Aeolus- the two decide to have a tickle fight!

-Lee!Hermes, Ler Winions ft. Aeolus- during a hangout, the Winions decide some mischief is in order.

-Be Quiet!: Ler!Athena, Ares, Lee!Apollo- The war gods get irritated when Apollo plays his music to loud.

-Hey there, Handsome: Ler!Calypso, Lee!Ody- Calypso’s had enough of the silent treatment.

-Little Wolf: Ler!Antinous, Suitors, Lee!Telemachus- the suitors are bored, and mess with Telemachus.

-Nice try: Ler!Athena, Lee!Hermes- Hermes tries to Tickle Athena and she quickly turns the tables.

-Ler!Athena, Lee!Telemachus- Telemachus tries to start a tickle fight with his mentor and it ends up backfiring.

-Ler!Athena, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Lee!Hermes- Hermes asks for tickles after pulling a prank, and his siblings don’t agree.

- Too Serious: Ler!Aphrodite(might add more or change it), Lee!Athena- Aphrodite thinks Athena is too serious for her own good.

-Brotherly Teasing: Switches Zeus and Poseidon- the two are teasing each-other and settle it with a tickle fight

-Wondering: Ler!Penelope, Lee!Telemachus- Telemachus is wondering about his dad.

-Future son: Ler!Ody, Lee!Penelope- Penelope is 7 months pregnant with Telemachus.

-Ler!Artemis, Lee!Apollo: Apollo messes with Artemis.

-Ler!Hermes, Lee!Ody, crew- Hermes tickles everyone but Odysseus.

-Good Ol’ Times: Ler!Young Ody, Young Polites, Lee!Young Eury- the three reminisce on the first time they found out Eurylochus was ticklish

-Boo, Darling!: Ler!Apollo, Lee!Hermes-Hermes mocks Apollo.

And that’s all of them! In no particular order. (Told you it was a lot. All in various levels of progress.)

Next up: Chapter two of No More Suffering has been posted! Thought I’d inform ya’ll since it got like a singular note. You can find it by going through my masterpost, going to the part two of said masterpost, and then to the master post of No More Suffering: where you’ll find any updates to the fic whenever they’re made!

Also, just so ya’ll know! All my Tword fics are a spin off/take place in the above au! So no one has died in any of my tword fics! (I don’t like writing sad OKAY?!)

Next: PLEASE REBLOG MY STUFF IF YOU LIKE IT! This isn’t just for epic, but my fics usually get a bunch of likes and like no reblogs, which means 1- less people see it, and 2- I get a little de-motivated. So please reblog!! :3

Lastly! now that I have my own personal IPad, I might make tword art! But I’m a little nervous abt it, so it might take a minute and some requests to get me going.

Thanks for reading!

[cowboy-iliad-au]

Intro post!!!

My main blog is @please-be-nice-im-sensitive, so everything there applies here, but this is au specific!!

Here’s the community for this au:

Here’s the lore so far:

This is how it starts: There is an important man named Menelaus who owns an important insurance company focused on the potential of cowboy teams lose cattle so customers can be compensated for the loss of the cattle, and the cowboys can still get paid. So, of course he is vital for almost every cowboy out there. His wife is the leader of her own troop of cowboys, the Spartans, but one day her troop gets mugged, the cattle stolen, and everyone but her gets killed with her barely surviving herself. Soon enough, the owner of a popular railroad line, Aphrodite, notices her beaten up on the side of the road and takes her to a nearby town, Troy and has her apprentice, The mayor’s son, Paris, take care of Helen. Aphrodite believes since she and Paris helped out Helen so much, Helen should marry Paris so she can solidify a deal between the Spartans and the railroad company. But Helen is already married, and when Menelaus hears of this, he takes everyone who uses his insurance and takes them to Troy to get Helen back. In doing this, he sends some of his men out including his brother, Agamemnon, a famous gunslinger, who was able to trick Odysseus, leader of the Ithacan cowherds, into coming along. Eventually Odysseus himself is able to trick Achilles, a retired gunslinger, out of his job as a casino dancer by the name of Pyrrha, into joining the fight, and along comes his old troop, as well as his boyfriend Patroclus. A famous gunslinger named Diomedes joins the fight too because it sounds interesting to him, and this intrigues many rich folk into funding their side of the fight, while some decide to fund the trojans, who now have allied themselves with quite a bit of people as well. Soon, the mentor of about half of the major gunslingers in the country, Athena, joins the fight too on the side of the Myrmidons, and in return her rival, a retired famous wrestler, Ares, joins the Trojans. There is quite a bit of fighting, but nothing major occurs until Agammemnon steals the prize horse of a famous radio star, and has to return it. Enraged, he takes Achilles’s favorite horse and wrangler instead. Achilles is not happy by this happening, so he quits the fight but unfortunately doesn’t have the means to go home so he stays in his hotel room just outside of the fight with Patroclus. Patroclus himself is an incredible fighter so he does his best to make up for the loss of Achilles, but no one can match his aim, so after unsuccessfully begging Achilles to rejoin the fight, he takes Achilles’s hat, bandana, and one of his other horses and fights in his stead to build morale for the Myrmidons. Soon enough, Hector, the brother of Paris and sheriff of troy notices him and shoots him, mistaking him for Achilles. After finding out what happened to Patroclus, Achilles then finds new equipment and fights. He kills Hector and goes on a rampage including killing the bar tender. After about a week of nonstop fighting, Achilles collapses from exhaustion and Paris shoots him. However; Achilles put forward the turning point of the fight and soon enough Odysseus comes up with the idea of sending a caravan into Troy that was disguised as a shipment of gifts to Athena as gratitude for the help in the war, but was secretly full of cowboys. The trojans take the caravan and at night, the Myrmidons attack and take Helen back.

on his way back home from this, one of the smartest of the Achaean cowboys, Odysseus tries to head home to his wife and their separate herding business as the other cowboys try to overthrow their business and cause it to be bankrupt because they’re missing most of their employees at Troy. He meanwhile has to deal with a rich man who will stop at nothing to make sure him and his gang don’t succeed, a brothel owner who lets his men stay for the night but ends up making them pay the debt off tenfold, a one eyed animal who gives some of them rabies, and a crazy farm owner who kills and mugs most of his crew after they slaughter his cattle. He ends up stuck at a remote cottage with a girl who won’t let him leave and he lost his horse and they’re hours from anywhere so he can’t leave anyways but eventually he is able to hitch a ride to a town and overcome more obstacles before he gets back to his wife and fires the other cowboys

Thetis lore:

Thetis was the child of a wealthy cruise line owner and she had many sisters too. She worked on her father’s cruise ships for some time but soon enough she got tired of the incessant flirting from two specific people. Zeus, the untouchable politician, and his brother, the man who found large amounts of copper in mines near the Pecos river and had then struck up a deal to have complete monopoly of the river itself. One day, they cornered her and she revealed that she indeed did not want to be with a mega wealthy man like them. Because of this, they cut off all her ties with wealth and she was basically broke. Then she ends up in a small but powerful town called Pthia. The powerful casino owner took a liking to her and promised that if she was to marry him for one year, he could restore her connections. So she agreed. Nine months later, she gave birth to Achilles. A beautiful boy with golden hair and hazel eyes. She decided that she would dedicate her life to him. But still, when he is one year old, he loses his foot in a boating accident and is stuck with a prosthetic foot. She is devastated and refuses to let anything happen to him, and when Agamemnon steals his horse as well as the horse’s personal caretaker, Briseis. she begs Zeus to help her, in memory of the day he told her he would do anything for her, so he agrees to sabotage the Myrmidons until Achilles gets his horse and it’s caretaker back

Patrochilles lore:

Patroclus was the son of an infamous mob boss with a gambling addiction, and an unknown mother. His father would travel from town to town essentially robbing every casino of it’s riches and from an early age, Patroclus learned to do the same, though he was not as talented as his father. Unfortunately one thing he did get from his father was his temper. When Patroclus was eleven years old, he lost a gambling match, and went to grab the man’s gun and shot him dead. Patroclus knew his father would be angry, so he ran into the back of the Casino, and that is where Peleus found him. Peleus decided to take in this poor child with a sad backstory, and hired him to work at that casino. That is where Patroclus met Achilles, Peleus’s son and by his father’s request, a skilled sharpshooter and a master guitar player. They grew up together and seemed to grow closer by the hour. Achilles and Patroclus were taught by a famous man named Chiron who had trained all the greats of music and of shooting and soon they became masters, but Achilles was not happy. Achilles soon told Patroclus of his dream to be a dancer at a casino, but his father never let him dress up in the pretty skirts and dresses and jewelry. One day, Achilles and Patroclus visited a casino a couple towns away in Skyros and met the owner’s daughters: Deidamia. Deidamia hatched a plan with these two: Achilles was to marry Deidamia and she was to move in with him, they were also to move in with another couple: Patroclus and Pyrrha (Achilles in disguise). They were fine with this arrangement since they all had feelings for one another so the plan worked, for a while. Deidamia had a child who they named Neoptolemus, and they were all happy for a while in their polyamorous relationship. Though soon enough, Odysseus, who had heard of Achilles’s sharpshooting skills went looking for him. They say that Achilles is out of town, but Odysseus figures out one of the casino dancers is Achilles, so he tells the dancers that whoever can hold his gun correctly will get a caravan full of gold, and when Achilles picks it up, it is effortless. Odysseus figures out this is Achilles and blackmails him into joining the war or he will tell Peleus that he is secretly Pyrrha. So Patroclus and Achilles leave and Deidamia stays behind to raise Neo, nicknamed “Pyrrha” after his “godmother”. When Peleus finds out Achilles is going to war, he gifts Achilles with several prize horses that are incredibly fast and strong. Each horse had their own Caretaker. The horses were named : Ligyron, Pelides, and Podarkes. His favorite was Pelides, who had a beautiful and talented wrangler and caretaker that was specific to him named Briseis. When Achilles lost Pelides and Briseis, he lost his will to fight and stayed in his hotel room with Patroclus and cried for the loss of his favorite horse and his lovely caretaker who was also his friend. Patroclus though, had grown fond of many of the people on their side of the war and decided to fight while Achilles stayed back. He was incredible, but Achilles’s image brought glory and will to fight on their side, so Patroclus comes up with a plan. He is to wear Achilles’s clothes, ride Ligyron, put on his cowboy hat and bandana, and that way the Myrmidons would gain momentum. Unfortunately, though Hector sees Patroclus and thinks this is Achilles and shoots him dead, taking his clothes and his Ligyron with him off of the corpse of Patroclus. Achilles goes nuts. He does not eat. He does not sleep. He only fights. When Achilles rejoins the fight, the death rate in Troy multiplies by six, but after eight days of no food and no rest, he collapses from exhaustion, and Paris shoots him in the heart.

Clytemnestra lore:

Clytemnestra was a tomboy as a kid, but her parents didn’t mind much so she would remain that way. When she was nine years old, she saw her first rodeo show and was enamored. She immediately started doing everything she could to see these rodeos. When she was 14 years old, she had already created an alter ego, Clyton the abomaton Who would win every game and by 16 she became a bull wrestler. People would travel far and wide to see her, she loved the glory but she loved the job more. Soon, she started to gain notice from the son of the mayor, who fell for her even before she revealed that she was a girl. They were engaged but then she faced an issue, she was pregnant and could not pretend to be a man still. Somehow a famous wrestler named Agamemnon hears about this and he tells her that he can find her a job in wrestling even after she has given birth. She agrees, but does not realize she has to leave Tantalus behind for this. Soon enough though, Agamemnon uses his leverage on her to get her to marry him. Unfortunately though, she miscarries a week later. She is stuck in a town that he basically owns and her contract with him ties her down incredibly. Soon she is pregnant with his child and she is not ready for the world of being a mother and having Agamemnon be the father. But this child is different, she is sweet and cute and Clytemnestra’s whole world. Iphigenia is her name. Agamemnon seems to love her too, kissing her forehead before every match and buying her horses he will gift to her when she is older. When she is older, she is entranced by the horses and is soon the best horse wrangler in the town. Soon though, Agamemnon hears that his brother needs help with an issue with his wife, and he summons the whole town. One night as he is traveling to Troy, Iphigenia gets sick and instead of taking care of her, Agamemnon leaves. Iphigenia dies soon after. Clytemnestra shuts herself out, not letting herself give any love, even to her other children. She soon finds a rival wrestler to Agamemnon and they hatch a plan to kill him when he gets back from Troy, poison his drink. With a poison that would make him suffer the same way Iphigenia did.

Ithaca Family lore

Icarius and Tyndareus were the owners of one of the most powerful banks out there. Icarius was for the most part, an introvert who didn’t let the public know a lot about him, and rarely left the bank. Tyndareus was the opposite. He flaunted himself openly and hogged every bit of attention he could find. They were close as they could be. When they got older, they both had children.

Icarius married a beautiful but reserved woman named Periboea. They had several children, but seldom flaunted them to the public, to the point that everyone thought they only had one, Penelope. Penelope grew up along the children of Tyndareus and they did everything together. They shared their hopes, their dreams, their lives with one another. Helen dreamed of being a wrangler for a cowherd, Clytemnestra dreamed of being a bull wrestler, but Penelope did not know what she wanted. She was always close to Helen, so she decided that perhaps they could work together as adults, that she could manage financials and Helen could herd the animals. They did however lack the funding, so they moved away and almost gave up on their dreams. Almost.

Although Helen and Penelope can’t see Clytemnestra as much, they still go to her wrestling matches, even when she is forced to move by Agamemnon. At one of Clytemnestra’s wrestling matches in Crete, Helen is cornered by companies trying to hire her for their cowherd. She has a way with animals and they were also quite eager to hire her because of her beauty. There is one man, however who draws her attention: Menelaus. He offers to give her a loan to start her own cowherd and she falls for him instantly, however the other companies are quite tense about who she chooses, threatening a fight to break out. One of Menelaus’s friends, Odysseus makes a plan to stop the fight, and to impress Penelope, who he had developed feelings for. Helen was to make the choice to be with Menelaus, and Menelaus was to provide a discount on insurance for the cowherds in exchange for them leaving Helen alone. It works. And he most definitely impresses Penelope along the way.

Odysseus was a skilled forager and sharpshooter, who wanted a new job. So he suggests to Penelope that they could work with Helen in her cowherd. They work together for a while, but Odysseus misses his home. One day after work, Odysseus tells Penelope his feelings for her, but he also tells her that he wishes to go home. He tells her that she can come with him if she wishes to, but it is her choice. She decides to stay with him. They set up a checkpoint at Odysseus’s home, Ithaca for Helen’s business. They have stations for where cattle can eat, there is grass everywhere, and they have a small inn for Helen and her troop to stay. Odysseus handles the cleaning and the managing, and Penelope handles the business aspect. They receive profit from their little checkpoint and they become quite happy. They marry soon and not long after, Penelope becomes pregnant with their child, Telemachus. Unfortunately while Telemachus is still an infant, Helen is trapped in Troy, and a Odysseus has to come to help. Penelope is left to raise Telemachus and to manage their checkpoint on her own. She teaches Telemachus everything she knows, but they very much struggle, since she had very different expertise than Odysseus. Odysseus faces many challenges in troy and on the way home. After about seven years of Odysseus being gone, the employees and the men in their town start to try to take over Odysseus’s position as the checkpoint manager, and as Penelope’s husband. She is very much outnumbered, so she and Telemachus must come up with clever plans to stall until Odysseus gets back. Odysseus is taking a very long time to come home and they have almost left home when Athena, Odysseus’s old mentor visits them to help out. She doesn’t know much about hotel management either, but she provides a shoulder to lean on when she can be there, and when she can’t she leaves one of her owls with Penelope and Telemachus (she has quite a few, but her favorite, Pallas, is the one to stay with them.) When Odysseus finally gets home, he and Telemachus fake a stampede to scare the men away and they can finally be a happy family.

Diomedes lore

Diomedes grew up with a father who was a legend.

Tydeus was a former bank robber in his home town of Calcydon and a very successful one at that. He ran a total of 36 heists and only one of them was stopped. He was arrested, he fled, but he had to leave his hometown forever. Tydeus decided after this that he was going to start his life anew, in service to the law instead of against it. He was loyal to the mayor of the new town he was in, named Adrastus, and even ended up marrying his daughter. However one day, Tydeus was summoned to fight to help his brother in law, Polynices, get his town back (he had been a mayor previously, but a riot forced him out of Thebes) Tydeus and seven other men ventured off to help Polynices, but the rioting continued and all of the men were killed, leaving Diomedes with only stories about his father. Despite this, Diomedes decides he is going to get revenge for his father’s death and climbs the ranks in the town Argos until he has gotten himself to the seat of assistant mayor, and having the mayor suggest a marriage between Diomedes and his daughter.

Ten years after his death, the children of the fallen men sought revenge for the deaths of their fathers and were able to get Thebes back and establish it as a democracy with the new mayor being the son of Polynices. As Diomedes was gone, the mayor of Argos died, leaving him as the one in charge, but he felt opposition since his family line was not tooted in the town. Because of this, he followed the previous mayor’s instruction and married his daughter, Aegialia. They were not compatible. Though not related by blood, they grew up together and viewed each other as less of spouses and more of a sibling that they simply cannot get along with. The only solace Diomedes found between his taxing job and the toxic relationship he had with his wife was sharpshooting. As a child he had trained with the famous sharpshooter Athena so he could avenge his father, but even after Thebes was taken back, he found that sharpshooting helped him stay grounded, and he was not alone. Sthenelus, one of the others who went with him, soon joined in, until it became an expectation that if Diomedes was to go sharpshooting, Sthenelus would be there. And not just that, Sthenelus became Diomedes’s assistant mayor and helped him stay happy in his life instead of drowning in the stress of his job and marriage.

Athena visits Diomedes some time later to tell him about the war in Troy, and how he would have a chance to get in on the action and start training with her again. He agrees, and brings many people from his town with him, including Sthenelus. Diomedes is stressed by all the sudden changes and the enormous amounts of hubris on the side of the Achaeans, but Sthenelus and his new friend, Odysseus help him keep in touch with his humanity, and he helps them keep in touch with theirs. Odysseus and Diomedes would train with Athena, and they would all celebrate every victory with some beans and whisky. Odysseus tells stories of home, his wife, and the inn they ran, and Diomedes and Sthenelus would tell stories of Argos, the times they would stay up all night shooting pumpkins and laughing. Diomedes finds happiness, and because of his, he also finds success. He becomes the second best warrior of the Achaeans after Achilles, even injuring ones such as Ares, the famous wrestler, and Aphrodite, the railroad line owner who had backed in to save her son, Aeneas from dying. While the conflict with Achilles and Agamemnon is going on, Diomedes continues fighting, even reaching a point where he nearly kills Hector.

When the powerful senator, Zeus shows that he is siding with the Trojans, the Achaeans almost lose hope, but one day Odysseus and Diomedes are able to spy on the trojans and figure out a weak point of one of the allied towns nearby that provided great support to Troy and soon enough Odysseus comes up with a plan to overthrow Troy once and for all.

Troy was near a gold mine that had run out decades priar, but The Acheans set up a rouse. They were to acquire gold, take it to a nearby cave and “mine the gold” build a caravan that appeared to be full of gold, but really had a large central area built into it where men could hide, The Trojans took the caravan into the walls thinking it would help them gain riches, but in the night, the Achaeans took down the walls of Troy and get Helen back.

After all of this has gone down. Diomedes soon learns that he has been marked off as dead in the town census and framed for embezzlement by his wife. Because Diomedes can no longer go home, Athena offers him an apprenticeship so that he will one day become famous like her

Lore snippets:

Remember this: Athena in this au canonically has many pet birds, each are named after her epithets. The one who stays with Penelope and Telemachus while she is away is Pallas!!

Helen of Troy was the most talented wrangler out there so every cowherd wants to hire her, but one time she mentions to Menelaus that she would just like to own her own company, he gives her a loan for it and she falls in love instantly

As Odysseus is going home, he comes across an armed madman who thinks he looks just like his ex-wife and tries to kill Odysseus and his other cowherds and running away after stabbing him in the eye, Odysseus tells the man his name. Little does he know that the only bridge to cross the river he needs to cross to get back home is owned by the madman’s father

Aeneas is a furniture maker!!! He is a small business owner of a furniture store in Troy when his second cousin, Paris gets involved in this drama, and so he joins the fight, but often gets swept away by his mother who is scared for his safety.

Calypso is an independently wealthy plantation owner who lives hundreds of miles away from every nearby town and does not own any horses. So when she picks Odysseus up after he is mugged, he can’t leave, until someone comes by with a caravan across the road and takes pity on him

after lots of happenings, Odysseus and the cowherds are very tired and find the nearest place to rest, a brothel. But unfortunately the owner of this brothel charges incredibly high prices to stay there and it takes them forever to pay her back, and meanwhile they sleep in her pig Sty

used ideas made by @justvea18 and @nymphachilles and @nightmarearian and @brainrotroulette

[dynasty889]

Some Warrior!Penelope ideas

Okay so just quick let me say, I don’t really like to swap the gods out just because then it affects the whole Trojan War?? But ignoring that, I wanna include the gods who would be in this au’s version of God Games plus some other things? (With Ares as her mentor btw)

The gods I think would appear would be: Dionysus, Artemis, Aphrodite, Athena, Zeus, then Hera. And in that order.

Dionysus: He wasn’t paying attention. He’ll just half ass it, so he probably just brings up how she couldn’t save Melantho from the cyclops. (Bonus: Melantho was one of Penelope’s servants in the Odyssey and she takes the role of Polites, no I don’t care that the popular switcheroo is Circe)

Artemis: Artemis would liken the sacrifice of Iphigenia (or I guess it’s Orestes in this au) to the killing of Andromache’s son. I’m not sure exactly, but yeah, just really really fickle Artemis.

Aphrodite: Probably the same reason, but in my headcanon, one, Penelope’s mom is a Naiad so she can’t die(?) and two, I don’t really think Icarius (her dad) and Penelope had a great relationship, so I always imagine Penelope was cared for by Leda. So she’d probably mention something about Leda I guess idk.

Athena: She would argue that, because she stole the Palladium from Troy (with god knows who, maybe Clytemnestra idk), she deserves whatever punishment the gods have given her.

Zeus: She’s not fuckable enough no I’m just kidding— (I actually don’t know so help)

Hera: No. that’s the answer, no. Until she gets to beat up Ares haha then it leaves on a cliffhanger lmao.

Bonus, for Thunder Bringer, instead of Hera sending down a lightning bolt to smite the crew, she inflicts them with madness? I’m not too sure how that would go, but like I just imagine that they kind of just destroyed their ship because they were all mad. (Madness Bringer)

Also, just for some general other information:

Ctimene = Eurylochus

Melantho = Polites.

Antinous = Calypso

Calypso = Antinous

All of Penelope’s encounters with monsters and gods are the same. Except, Amphitrite is the one angry with Penelope (the unserious reason is because Poseidon is too lazy to go deal with her so Amphitrite deals with Penelope instead + Polyphemus was her fav step kid lmao). And Antinous is swapped with Calypso. I would’ve kept Calypso on Ogygia but then the suitors of Odysseus felt weird. Like I just can’t imagine Antinous leading a bunch of other men to marry another man. So that’s mostly just cultural/historical reasons I guess, but if not for that, I probably wouldn’t have swapped them.