#given that Odysseus lost ALL his Troy loot his boat and all his men that's good they still gotta pay that mortgage on Ithaca

[darkfrog24]

Most stories have the heroine set eyes on her true love and immediately recognize him but Penelope sets a trap for him in case he's an impostor, and Odysseus is like, "You're trying to cred-check ME?! Scan my retina, baby. I missed you so much."

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯