#naiad telemachus

[sloanslone]

Naiad Telemachus (au comes from my beloved anon yet again-they can cook fr)

Close ups:

I CANNOT draw seafood :D

[sloanslone]

OMGGGG ME AND NAIAD TELEMACHUS????

This is so cuteeeee

I'm so glad to be one of your favs 😭🩵🩵🙌

I’ve been Hades pilled for the past week and have seen studying the art. So I decided to make some of my favorite artists here on Tumblr some presents.

Merry Halloween

Hope y’all like them @gigizetz, @irunaki, and @sloanslone

[dootznbootz]

I’m listening now to the Wisdom Saga. Think Telemachus being part water nymph might be an advantage to him during his first(?) sea voyage to find his dad 😉. Maybe he knows some friendly water nymphs who can help ensure a safe sea voyage. Or maybe he’s a really strong swimmer and the least likely to drown if he falls overboard. Or maybe he swims fast enough to quickly rescue anyone who falls overboard. And adding to your idea of him eating fish whole: maybe he can catch and eat whole fish raw, so he’s the least likely to starve at sea!

Yes and no, in a way?

Naiadborn (freshwater) ARE still with an advantage even at sea BECAUSE of all you mentioned. Also would have SOME (I do mean some) manipulation of saltwater surrounding the boat.

BUT being freshwater, being in the sea/saltwater long would be really really bad for them. Just like real freshwater fish. (Best case scenario is if they have a raft/surfboard and never have to touch the saltwater)

This gal kind of explains it but if freshwater fish are in salt water too long, they can't really filter the salt and so it dehydrates their cells and then they will die.

The same would happen with saltwater fish in fresh water in a way, but instead, their cells basically get too engorged and then that's how they would die. (Why Achilles is really uncomfortable during freshwater baths :'( he feels sick/"bloated" afterward)

I guess you could say I want there to be a "power limit" or at least some difference between the different types of Water nymphs. As then, they would kind of be mini Poseidons/Gods/Goddesses (rule over basically all water).

So Naiadborn (depending on how much naiad blood they have in them. Telemachus would probably handle being in the seawater longer than Penelope because he has more mortal blood in him (37.5% Naiad, Penelope is 75%)) would need to have areas where they can soak themselves in freshwater for their scales while at sea.

BUT Naiadborns CAN gather seawater and basically filtrate it enough so they never run out of drinking/soaking water.

If Penelope were to say, leap into the sea as she sees Telemachus'/Odysseus' ship returning so then she can see them right away, she'll be uncomfortable and will need to soak in freshwater for a while as soon as she can, but she still can do that.

Nereids COULD possibly see a naiadborn on boats/in the water and then help them out if they see their cause and/or Poseidon is not angry. BUT there's also only 50 of them and they can't possibly be everywhere at once along with their usually duties/daily lives

I'm still working out some things with how my nymph lore works but that's some of the basics :)

[kindred-spirit-93]

penelope canonically retreating to her room and refusing food = she puts on some weight, the reason being both lack of physical activity as well as her body being on constant emergency mode (so what little she does eat ends up being stored away bc the body doesnt know when the 'starvation' will end). whats more her constant stress elevates cortisol levels which in and of itself leads to weight gain esp in the abdominal area.

tl;dr chubby penelope send fucking t w e e t

[wolfythewitch]

“I wonder if he's got any latent naiad traits from Penelope” may I present Odysseus ‘you could not get me back on a boat because Poseidon hates me’ and his son Telemachus ‘I have naiad blood so all the children of Poseidon just think I’m Neat™️.’

They go over to visit Menelaus one day just to let him know like hey! Your ole pal from the war is back and alive! Yippee!! And Telemachus is having the time of his life and odysseus is shitting and crying by the prow

[aaronofithaca05]

WATER WIFE SPOTTED!

@dootznbootz

"Deep down I would trade the world to see my son and wife."

[sloanslone]

I am in your walls…

- naiad Telemachus anon

Aahhhhh pls don't kill me 🥺

[daughter-of-the-hearth]

Telemachus should be able to go underwater and just be. Naiad. I’m bored idk. I showed some people this btw so if you have very epic!!

design by @sloanslone btw!

[kindred-spirit-93]

reigning queen of ithaca, the lovely penelope

@bookwormgirl123 hello sweet person. your reblog of my trio post yesterday made my heart smile so enjoy more of my naiad muffin <3

bonus mama and son doodle:

telemachus rarely sees his mother with her hair down both literally and metaphorically. single handedly ruling a kingdom is no easy task yet somehow she manages to do it whilst raising the sweetest boi ever.

here he asked for his favourite story of his father... how he won her heart :')

[dootznbootz]

He does Pottery in mine :)

Since Odysseus is into carpentry, Penelope is into weaving, what do you think Telemachus' art thing will be?

[onlymimiwastaken]

Warrior Penelope stuff cause I've been listening to too many EPIC genderbent covers, and I wanted to give my take on it (also cuz I kinda want to draw it one day)

- Ares as Penelope's patron, absolutely! But Ares was never too worshipped in Greece, not even in Sparta (no one kinda gave a shit about him except for during war and thought he was kinda gross). So my lore take version thing is that ATHENA wanted to be Penelope's patron (she had already an eye on Ody kinda) but Ares saw his chance, got to it first and became attached to Penelope without wanting to admit it, also because she saw the good and useful in him. Athena still watches over Penelope (especially after her and Ares platonically break up, which she finds really stupid) and is the one who does her best to protect Ithaca while she's gone. She's by Ody's side while he misses his wife and is mostly the reason why the Suitors hadn't taken over yet.

- To get Ares to realize his mistake, Athena tricks him into helping Telemachus defeat Antinous in Little Wolf because free bloodshed, only to end up sensitized by Telemachus because holy shit, my friend's son is here almost dying to this ASSHOLE who thinks he's so much stronger than MY friend the queen and even me like who tf does he think he is. Athena makes Ares fucking rational for once. And maybe even Aphrodite, as well, gets some damn sense in his mind like "they love each other like you and I and my girl is doing her best to get home you're going to apologize rn"

- ctimene holds a claymore double her height with no problems

- penelope is more "cold ruthless" than Odysseus, in a way that she's still poised (until the end or when she's really brought to her knees which is disturbing) while doing merciless stuff. She's emotionless a lot more (just on the surface)

- Ares was the one to give Penelope the idea of going to war instead of Odysseus, for obvious reasons. And Pen is really a mastermind among the Greeks ofc

- Ares and Pen fought in their My Goodbye version because she "held back her power while her friends got devoured" "she didn't even fight Polyphemus, didn't even TRY to kill him" "hid behind her wits to get things done". Because when fighting Polyphemus, she knew that if she tried to kill Polyphemus while he was asleep, they'd be stuck in that cave forever (like in the real Odyssey). And knew that fighting while her friends got killed would slow them down and probably get more people dead. And when they ran away, she didn't go back to kill the Cyclops even if she could've because of yes, mercy, but also because she would've awakened all the other Cyclops and sailing away was faster, better. Ares deemed this cowardice. Crazy thing, since one of the most important things to him is courage.

- Ares overstimates Penelope's power. Like, yes, she's exceptional, but still HUMAN. With her limits. He hasn't dealt with a human personally in years so he doesn't understand this, so his expectations are ridiculously high, which ends up breaking Penelope.

- During 600 strike, Penelope can actually breathe underwater and not hold her breath for such a long time and be fine because she's half naiad (yes, they are fresh water nymphs but still). Also this may make her even stronger around water (to a certain degree, she's still very mortal)

- calypso is pansexual

this is already a lot, ill add more when i think about it lol (also if i realize any of these ideas don't make sense)

[cjbolan]

Odyssey Mermaid AU ideas (inspired by @dootznbootz 's post and @tagzpite 's Fishysseus AU ):

On account of their naiad genes, Telemachus and Penelope can turn their legs into mermaid tails when wet.

Instead of sailing to find his father, Telemachus swims out to sea using his merman tail to find him. Meanwhile Penelope has to stay behind and rule Ithaca in his absence. And instead of asking Menelaus, Telemachus decides to ask Poseidon himself.

Instead of a sea nymph saving Odysseus from drowning, Telemachus in his merman form finds and saves him. As in the poem, Telemachus would swim them both to Phaecia as it's the nearest land, then his tail turns back into legs.

Once Telemachus and Odysseus are safely on land, they get to know each other. Cue emotional father-son reunion much sooner than in the poem. Telemachus would instantly get his dad up to speed on what's happened in Ithaca since his absence.

The rest of the story is just like in the original poem.

[the-prince-telemachus]

Open Starter — oh shit?

It was raining, storming, thundering. You had gotten soaked.

Telemachus was outside too. But you realized he didn’t get wet. Not even a bit. Not a single rain drop.

You thought it was because of the naiad stuff. But you were pretty sure naiad’s had no control over the raining.

He looked confused as you stared.

“Uh, you fine?” He smiled.

taglist: @penelope-is-waiting , @unhinged-waterlilly , @young-telemachus , @paris-you-idiot , @odysseus-of-ithaca-is-lost

[dootznbootz]

I need the matching set!

Really happy with how she turned out! I decided to give her some naiad features, inspired by this post and it was really fun! I hc that she can breathe underwater (even though she doesn't have gills. Do naiads have gills?), although I am not sure if she can do it freely or for a limited amount of time 🤔

The fabric piece covering her chest was loosely inspired by 18th century neckerchiefs, because I wasn't sure how the Mycenaean open chest fashion would fly with the censorship here or on other platforms ¯⁠\⁠_(•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[jarondont]

what if. when telemachus swims or something he just. naiad genes kick in. (NOT MY OG DESIGN, design by @sloanslone)

(*stares at my wips*)

hehehehehhee yessssss

also PRETTY ART

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

Scene 5

(Diomedes swiftly turned around to face Odysseus. Odysseus gasped at the sight. Diomedes, his Diomedes was a mess. Eyes bloodshot, under them puffy skin from crying, and mucus running down his philtrum. Odysseus broke at the sight, wanting nothing more than to wipe his tears. But he knows Diomedes, how he responds to affection. If Diomedes wants it, he is gonna have to make the first step.)

D: “…what?”

O: “ I said, " There are no words worthy of how I feel for you.” I thought that was only the case with Penelope and Telemachus, but I was wrong. So wrong. I will never be able to express how much I love you in words and that kills me, love.”

(Diomedes has never been a particularly loud cryer, he doesn’t even remember the last time he cried. But now, walls, his walls he put up are crumbling like they were weak from the start. It’s too much. Diomedes, overwhelmed by the emotional night, his conflicting emotions, and the unabashed honesty from Odysseus, his body could not handle anymore. In a blink of an eye, he drops to his knees, knees weak but his heart painfully full.)

O: Dio! What happened? Are you- hold on.”

(Odysseus quickly kneels down, in a weak effort to comfort this distressed man. He tries to whisper comforting words and soft promises but Diomedes couldn’t handle it.)

D: “get out.”

O: “…diomedes, please I,”

D: “Get out now! Please, I'm begging you. Leave me.”

(He is crying, on the brink of panicking. He would have stayed despite his words, but Sthenelus and Euryalus clearly heard. And if found in this situation, he might be speared to death.)

O: “Dio, I’m sorry. I will leave. If you need me, I will be in my tent. You won’t have to ask to come in, just do. I’m so sorry.”

(Diomedes' sobs are haunting as Odysseus leaves the tent. He hurries away before Sthenelus and Euryalus can ask him any questions about the commotion in the tent.)

(Odysseus ignores all the men on his way to the Ithacan camp. Agamemnon and Menelaus, wanting to talk to Odysseus, received the short end of his anger. He flops on his cot, exhausted from the night’s events. He thinks and reminisces of the words said. Finally, Odysseus feels the tears fall. But not just tears. Throughout the night, he switches through painful crying and hysterical laughter; the realization that the man that he loves, he broke. In his grief, the thought of his wife kept him from using the blade on his bedside table. He dreamed about Penelope, her soft hands, her sweet naiad smell, and her wise advice on how to go about the mess he made. Oh how he longed for her. How he longed for Dio to meet her. How both parts of his heart would have meshed together perfectly. Would have, never could be now. Hypnos, saw his anguish and carried him to sleep. He was so deep in sleep that he didn’t even notice the barely concealed footsteps and the shadow covering the outside of his tent.”