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Odysseus to Athena: Friends!?
Athena: Yeah, no. Student and teacher.
Odysseus: Aw...
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Hermes upon their first meeting(and every subsequent meeting): HELLO, MY FRIEND!
Odysseus: !!!!!!!!
#epic the musical#hermes#odysseus#athena#you can't tell me that man doesn't want to befriend a god like how most kids want to make friends with a dragon or some sh!t#part of Odysseus was stoked#part of him- like a petty b!tch- turned around after Hermes left and was like 'suck it Athena. HE wants to be my friend.'#Ody deserved to have his mean girl phase#odysseus & athena#odysseus & hermes#i mean... friend - grandson-- whatever. semantics.
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Trying to plan for tickletober, & my list is lookin’ real sparse. I’m mostly looking for prompts for the following fandoms:
Epic (even tho I already have a few planned)
Hatchetfield
Critical Role
Blood of Zeus
My Adventures with Superman
Slay the Princess
Villainous
Dungeon Meshi
The Amazing Digital Circus
The Magnus Archives
D&D: Honor Among Thieves
Game of Thrones (EARLY SEASONS, NO SPOILERS)
House of the Dragon
Deadpool & Wolverine
& some obscure ones that would really make my day
Wolf 359
Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas
Night Film
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Stoked
Prompt list under the cut
1. Anticipation- Fjord & Jester (critical role)
2. Chase- Heron, Hermes, & Apollo (blood of Zeus)
3. Prank- Elpenor & Polites (epic)
4. Hide & Seek- Pomni & Gummigoo (tadc)
5. Boo!- Bill & Ted ft. Paul (tgwdlm)
6. Cuddles- Steph & Pete (npmd)
7. Fidget- Hera & Eiffel (wolf 359)
8. Nuzzles-
9. Wake up- Eiffel & Minkowski
10. Spidering-
11. Hug- Ruth & Richie (npmd)
12. Mischief- Asterios, Elpenor, Odysseus, Polites & Eurylochus (epic)
13. Win-
14. Lose-
15. “Are you ticklish?”- Mark & Karen (Hatchetfield)
16. Cackle- Tinky & Ted (Hatchetfield)
17. Raspberries- Pomni & Jax (tadc)
18. Tickle fight- lords in black (Hatchetfield)
19. Secret-
20. Tease- Narrator, voice of the hero, & voice of the cold (slay the princess)
21. Costume-
22. Role reversal-
23. Sweet-
24. Joke-
25. New discovery- mermaid!odysseus & Penelope (epic au)
26. Ticklish kiss- Lois & Clark (maws)
27. Non-human parts- Asterios & Elpenor (epic)
28. Spooked- ghost!polites & Odysseus (epic au)
29. Magic-
30. Trick-or-Treat-
31. Aftercare-
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can I humbly request that Odysthe ramble? I am very intrigued and you brought it into my mind in exchange I can give you UHHHHH A worm on a string, if that strikes your fancy
i humbly accept worms on strings!!
so honestly most of my thoughts on them are just stuff i came up with in my head because they dont have any canon interactions :( but i dont think it's very far-fetched to say that they did interact, considering how close they both are to Diomedes.
i did say this in my other post but Sthenelus is violently jealous of Odysseus at first. he sees how well they get along, and how quickly they become close friends, and on top of that they share a patron goddess. so Sthenelus is maybe just a little bit afraid that Odysseus will steal Diomedes from him. Sthe does have friends outside of Dio (iirc somewhere the Iliad states that he is "kindred spirits" with another character named Deipylus) but Dio is his best friend, and he's maybe a little hurt and jealous when Dio referrs to Ody as his best friend.
Ody is pretty keen on sensing this jealousy (it's not very hard to tell) and isn't deterred by this at all. He probably thinks it's funny because he really has no intention of stealing Dio from Sthe, i mean, obviously. He has a wife and a son at home who he really misses. and flirting with Dio is fun, but most of it is kinda just going over Dio's head. Neither are really in it for any kind of commitment, it's just all in good fun. So Odysseus gets the bright idea that he's going to try flirting with Sthe. He's hot tempered and a little arrogant but Dio must like him for some reason and besides that Odysseus does think he's attractive. he's also trying to put himself between them so he can maybe play a little matchmaker because its utterly ridiculous how DioSthe are pining for each other, but these two don't really know anything about love and they're not budging.
But anyways, Ody flirting with him definitely doesn't go over Sthe's head as much as it does with Dio. It gets him flustered and riled up which is very entertaining to Ody so he just does it even more. and slowly over time Sthe stops resisting it so much and even pokes back at him sometimes. They become friends eventually, even if it takes Sthe a while to open up, but all three of them end up being really close.
and its sort of at this point where Ody is kinda like. well fuck. i might've caught feelings for both of them. which is really unfortunate for him because DioSthe definitely don't realize they've caught feelings for him too. these guys are in so much denial.
and i wish i could say they get a happy ending where polyamory wins! but the whole Palladium Stabbing Attempt happens, and that ends up being really fucking messy. Dio is utterly heartbroken and betrayed and Sthe goes back to violently hating Odysseus for trying to stab his best friend, and won't let him anywhere near Dio. it does bring Dio and Sthe a lot closer to each other though, even if its not necessarily the romance Odysseus wanted for them (that doesn't happen until after the war), so in a very bittersweet way Ody is happy for them.
and thats...kinda the end of it all, as sad as it is. canonically Dio goes to Italy after the Trojan War and they never see each other again. un-canonically he might go to Ithaka in the hopes of reconciling with Odysseus only to find out he's still lost at sea. Sthe probably goes with him and isn't stoked about it because he still really hates Ody but he's not about to part ways with Dio. But at least Penelope is there :)
#im gonna leave u with that last thought#do with that what you will#mj rambles#me showing off my rarepair like that one will smith gif#look at my guys!! <3#odysseus#diomedes#sthenelus#odysthe
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gep playlist explained.
safe and sound / taylor swift & the Civil Wars. thinking serval lullaby sort of vibes here. general war vibes is also very much gep coded in my brain bc fight fight war war.
would anyone care / citizen soldier. very much leaning onto the when you are strong for so long you are also suffering. people not seeing what he's enduring, how exhausting it is to push and push and the battle has no end in sight.
heavy is the crown / draughty. it's for this one verse specifically about soldiers for me, see those who are sent to war die like lambs sent to slaughter, the toy soldiers being the guard upon the preservations altar. there's a couple of other stray verses here which feel gep shaped to me. a shield always withstanding.
Army Dreamers / Kate Bush. there's alot of tiktok edits going around with this song rn and they're all regarding soldiers who die early and that's very guard shaped to me. the chorus is also showing what they could have been and what they won't be because they will die young, they will always die young.
Running up that hill / Kate Bush. again, emphasising the encouragement to not express how it feels, about how it does hurt, about how the deal they made is going to cost them their lives. and the if I only could make a deal with god to change their places being regarding those who have died and Gep could not save them.
hymn for the missing / red. this is very much grieving the lost, what it feels like to march on as a soldier when people you care about very dearly die and you see them die. the only place they meet again is in renditions of their death and life in dreams and it's just reaching for them but being unable to touch. you took it with you when you left being the bond and the happiness that others create in your life. scars referring to the ones that litter alot of gep's body from conflict.
little lion man / mumford and sons. the not as brave as you were at the start really does speak to the way Gepard was when he joined the Guard and was filled with zest for protecting and where he stands now, the weeping could be grieving. you know that you have seen this all before, death, death more death.
avalanche / bring me the horizon. Am I broken, what's the chance I will survive reflecting onto processing grief, what it means to exist beyond the death of comrades, what it feels to be broken for the first time. the square doesn't fit the circle is very much Gepard needing to fit the paragim that's been inherited by his name and how he's not the perfect fit. the whole chorus just really reflects on inner turmoil, I cannot think how to precisely articulate it but it's like, the shaking of his world to the core by death and fighting and anguish.
monster / epic the musical. this is very much self reflecting on the things he hasn't prevented, the supreme guardian's corruption, working in tandem with that and realising how much you stand for isn't what you thought it was. men dying, again.
ruthlessness / epic the musical. this is sort of a aha the vibes are there for me but it's also Gepard father reprimanding him for being weak willed when you listen to it in my brain atleast.
my goodbye / epic the musical. thinking conversation between Gep and his father, thinking about how not viewing others as assets and weapons leads to being soft, sentimental, that he did not teach him this way. Odysseus' s part in this is him talking back to him, telling how he's enduing every single death that occurs on the front lines, that his father is blind to that reality.
just a man / epic the musical. survivors guilt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
remember them / epic the musical. this is very much the preservation of the will of those who perish on the battle field, even the way he sings it really slams that home to me. the fire they continue to stoke is the will they preserve and the way they push on is for the sake of their fall brothers.
playing his game / death note musical. i added this last night thinking about sampard LMAO i don't have an excuse this is just sheerly the vibe of understanding each other getting under each other's skin.
#32 fucking slides later.#anyway.#alot of it is just angst truly.#。 ‧͙*̩̩❆ ✧ study ‚ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ ﹐ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ʷᵒʳᵗʰ ᶠⁱᵍʰᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ / ᵐᵘˢⁱⁿᵍˢ#ok#now i stare at the wall for another hour.
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(because I am at heart basically here for sad reunions in all shapes. part one here. this is only the beginning of the second chapter and the full will be posted to AO3 also.)
His hands fumbled at her arms, her back, her sides; their trembling fingers told her more of his fear and relief than his words could have done. His head turned, and his face came to rest in her hair as it fought to escape its bindings, and his mouth found her shoulder and the hollow at the base of her throat. The heat of his lips on her skin stole the last strength from her legs, and if he had not caught her, held her fast, she would have fallen to the floor.
“My lord,” she murmured, voice heavy with tears and with longing that cut through her so keenly it was nearly a knife. “My lord.”
Her own hands, strong from years of weaving, clung to him, anchoring in flesh and hard muscle, and she had not ceased her weeping. Odysseus said nothing, only kissed her again and again, rising up her neck to her own lips. He, too, wept, and the tears falling from his eyes seemed to take the years with them until they were standing in the places of their long-past selves, dreading the looming war and scheming to escape it. There was a fire stoked within her, fed by every touch of skin upon skin, and she could not have released him if all the gods had demanded it of her. He had been washed up upon beloved shores, at last, at last.
“My labors are not yet done, my lady,” he said, after they had been silent and weeping for what seemed half a day but could not have been one-tenth of that time. He kissed her once more, drawing her back to herself, and her eyes opened to find his face so close that their lashes might have lain against his cheek. “The shade of dead Tiresias has told me what I must do, to free myself from fate and spend my years in peace.”
“And what is it?” she asked. “If one so wise has found you even after his ending, it surely must be heeded.”
“Must we talk of parting again, when you are in my arms after so long, when it will surely pain you to hear?” His hand, rougher than before, brushed a wayward curl from her face, and set a desperate, ravenous ache to burning in her belly. “Come to bed.”
“No.” She seized his hand, holding it as it trailed through her hair. “No. Speak, and tell all, else I’ll be weary with fear for you.”
“Extraordinary woman,” he said again, and when he kissed her this time the ache grew sharper and more needful. “No other would ask to hear such things.”
“I have been too long deceived and cruelly used, my lord,” she answered, and lay her head upon his breast as he spoke. “I would hear all now, and be spared from dread.”
“I am to sail to land,” he said, “and take an oar from my ship and carry it with me, until I reach a people who have never seen the sea, and do not spice their food with salt, and call the oar upon my back a winnowing-fan. Then must I fix that oar in place by driving it into the earth, and make sacrifices to the Earthshaker upon that spot, and journey home once more to do the same here in honor of every deathless god.” His arms were tight about her, and his voice thrummed in his chest.
“And then?” she asked. He turned her head up with his hand until she looked at him once more.
“And then I am freed from all obligation,” he said, “and may live with my queen until my passing from life to death.”
This time, it was she who kissed him, seizing him by the shoulders and drawing him back to the softness of her lips. Relief had turned entirely to hunger, and while his arms remained a haven they were no longer enough to sate her. He kissed her back in kind, letting his hands roam as they pleased, finding the curves of back and hip and breast, leaving her hot and slick beneath his touch.
“My lord,” a third voice said, “my lady.”
They stopped, too quickly, jerking up and apart from one another. Eurykleia stood by the stairs, bearing torches in both hands; she, too, had been weeping.
“Your bed is made,” she said, “and by able hands - myself, and Eurynome, and no others.”
She looked at him, and there was a fire in his eye to match her own need, and when his hand slid down to find hers it occurred to her, all at once, what it was that he meant to do.
“Attend me, my lady,” he said, and she walked with him to the stairs. They ascended together, Eurykleia before them, leading them to their chamber - theirs, no longer hers alone - as she had when first their lives were joined in marriage. If she had not known every step by heart, the tears that blinded her would have left her lost and groping in the dark, and the ever-louder pounding of her heart would have deafened her completely.
At last, they were past the doorway, and Eurykleia had left the torches fixed in place and burning brighter, it seemed, than they had in the house beyond. They were alone, truly alone, with none to see what was between them.
She sat upon the bed, trembling as she had so long ago, when first he’d lain her down and taken her to wife. He had unlaced his sandals, leaving them forgotten on the stone, and as he watched her, unblinking, drew the pin free of the brooch that held his mantle in place. She dug her hands into the furs beneath her, fixed in place, unable and unwilling to turn away. The wool she had woven and dyed and blessed was drawn back, and set aside, leaving only thin linen that did more to draw the eye than deflect it, and then this, too, was gone, and he was before her.
She said nothing, only looked at him, tears filling her eyes once more.
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Title: He Calls You Theseus (Now Call Him Odysseus and Welcome Him Home)
Chapter 1: In Which Technoblade's Narrative Crumbles
Summary: Technoblade's language is the art of combat and weaponry. Tommy doesn't understand, so Technoblade speaks in a way they'll both understand. Or, Technoblade’s been having strange visions while taking care of Tommy.
Tags: Technoblade, TommyInnit, SBI fic, Introspection, Flashbacks, Found Family, Brothers, Trauma, Alternate Universe, References to Greek Myth, Sleepy Bois Inc. as Family, Sleepy Bois Inc. Angst, Chat as Ghosts, Rose AU
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28786947
Author’s Note: This is my baby. I’ve worked for this on a while, and it’s about 5.1k words. I hope you enjoy the first chapter, I plan for around five in all.
A flurry of snow buffeted the snow banks around Technoblade's retirement home.
Technoblade had decided teaching Tommy the art of arrow fletching was important. He had come to immediately regret that decision. Tommy’s loud mouth and shaky hands were something manageable in the best of times, but when the time came for work to be done they became hindrances. Liabilities.
Technoblade didn’t take in liabilities.
“How’s this, big man?” The tooth-gaped teen asked smugly, holding up a shoddily constructed arrow as if it were made of gold.
Technoblade briefly considered how much easier this would have had he cleaved Tommy’s head clean off in the hole under his house.
> You can’t!
> The most efficient way to grind out arrows is village trading. Make one of your downstairs hostages a fletcher, trade sticks, build rapport, then trade in for arrows.
> Tommy pog
> would’ve been funnier if you did
“Chat, do you see what I’m dealing with?” He mumbled to himself.
“Oi Chat! Hey Chat, do you think Technoblade is a big bitch?”
“Tommy, you’re giving me a headache.” That wasn’t all that was giving him a headache: voices, the thousands of voices which were riled up by his every interaction with another living soul. Each voice was vying for a spot to influence his words, to have any effect on the outside world like they once were able to.
And the voices really liked Tommy.
“All I want’s an answer.”
He wouldn’t get one.
"How am I better at this with hooves?! Here, let me show you one more time.” Techno squatted beside where Tommy was sitting on the stone brick floor. “Two ties on each side over the flint. Three sharp cuts into the wood. Feather goes in between. Look, perfectly functional arrows! What part of this aren’t you getting? It’s not that difficult!”
Tommy picked up the tools from the fletching table. He took one look at the sticks, then picked up a fistful of feathers.
“Right—”
“Okay, that’s enough, I’m not going to let you keep massacring my feathers like this. What even is this?" He picked up a feather from the floor. It hung limp between the heel of his hoof, frayed and torn. "These chickens died for nothing!"
“What am I supposed to do while you do all the work if I can’t help?” Tommy was pouting, his face so full of vibracity and energy it looked as if he was choking.
That was it. Techno's face twitched.
“Maybe if you sit down and stay quiet for a minute, I can come up with an idea!”
Surprisingly, Tommy did. His face flushed red with embarrassment.
And Technoblade realized he had screamed at a scared, struggling sixteen year old child covered in scars.
> do you feel powerful now
> OOOOOOO
> You should kill him
> Betray Tommy!
> betray tommy
He dragged a hoof over his face. The gesture was easier with hands.
"Look. . . Tommy. You're clearly not good at fletching arrows. Why don't you go lay down in your racoon hole?"
Technoblade’s plan had been, surprisingly, one of altruism. He wanted to teach Tommy how to make arrows so he could value the ammunition. He had a tendency to complain about. . . well, everything, but specifically running out of supplies. Techno hoped this would teach him how valuable they were. Not in resources, but as assets. In the heat of battle, every shot mattered.
After Tommy had made a quiverful of arrows, Technoblade planned on taking him out to his practice range. Inexperienced hands nocking an arrow were shaking and quick to flinch. Archery hurt. It was a difficult skill to master; the art of shooting an arrow required the fletching to run through the archer’s fingers. If their hands were smooth and uncalloused, the projectile would cut through their fingers like a blade in water. His hands (and hooves) were roughed up to the consistency of leather from arduous repetition. Tommy hadn’t had that experience.
Technoblade had made leather gloves for that exact reason.
And now that plan was ruined.
While his retirement home was the definition of picturesque, Tommy had come to ruin that as well. The foundation had made Techno's house uneven. The ground was unstable and it had started to sag north.
Tommy had literally dug up and unsettled his life.
Somewhere in there was a metaphor and a moment for some much-needed introspection. Technoblade ignored it.
Snow had sloped onto the roof heavy, the sound of monsters outside crunching feet of the stuff. The cold had choked out the will of any invaders at the cost of isolating them together. The house’s floor was insulated with stone, then covered with wood. The chimney doubled as a source of light, warmth, and a way to heat the floor. Technoblade had learned how to make heated floors from Chat. The quality of life improvement was immense.
Tommy hadn’t understood how, but he did enjoy it. Too often he had slept in his boots, curled up into a jacket or blanket or whatever he could find. But this? This was a luxury that could lull him into a rest like no other.
And Tommy needed a good sleep after Logsteadshire.
Still, his spirit reignited despite his body's protests. He stretched his arms upward in attempts to hide his yawn.
He stomped his foot.
"I'm not tired! We need supplies, we need—We need to get back the discs."
That was going to be a hard habit to kick. The kid needed a break; his eyes were ringed in black. He sat hunched over with awful posture, looking pitiful. Technoblade held back the urge to call him a racoon again.
Despite the warmth, Tommy was shivering.
Exhaustion. Techno knew it all too well.
The Piglin man took off his cape, folding it over his arm. It helped increase his bulk, his size when intimidation was necessary. When he was home its purpose became a blatant unnecessity. Still, he often found himself falling asleep in it, curled up in a tiny pile against the wall where no one could hurt him.
It was important.
And he tossed it to Tommy.
"We'll get back the discs after you go to sleep. If you fall asleep in the snow you'll freeze to death and die."
Then he stoked the fire with an iron pole, minding Edward's head. He couldn't be bothered to kill the creature just yet. The flames roared up, consuming the cold air in the room and up the chimney.
Tommy held the crimson cloak in his arms. He stared for a second, then twisted to wrap it around himself. It was enormous, swamping his thin figure in fabric and comfort unknown for weeks in exile. He pushed himself further into the corner with the fletching table, close to his hiding box.
"The 'and die' is kind of redundant, 'innit?" Tommy muttered, head poking up from the fluff of the cloak’s collar.
Technoblade sighed.
They were going to keep talking in circles. He would make a general statement, Tommy would overload him with non sequiturs and nonsense sentences until Technoblade tuned him out with Chat. However, he couldn’t ignore Tommy here. If he did, the boy would never go to sleep, and the cold of the night didn’t need a cold shoulder on top of it. A cranky Tommy and an annoyed Technoblade was a recipe for disaster, overthrowing governments or otherwise.
There was only one way he knew how to talk in times like this:
“Let me tell you a story.”
It was an offer more intimate than Tommy knew.
Naturally, he rejected it.
“What if I don’t want to hear a story?” Said teenager shifted in his cozy corner.
“Too bad.” He pushed the crown up from where it was slipping off his head. If he was going to coax the world's most energetic child to sleep, he needed to let down his guard.
“Why do you even wear that thing?”
“What, the crown? It’s not like I use it in combat or anything, it's just for fun. Fun is banned? You're banning fun now?" He laughed. "Good luck getting anyone on your side."
“I don’t have a side. Or rather, my side is your side? Now you’ve gone and got my head all confused.” Tommy’s voice had grown softer.
Techno couldn’t have that.
“There’s no ‘our side’. We are not a team.”
Tommy huffed. “Until we get the discs back.”
“Will you let go of the discs for a minute? They’re not going anywhere.”
“Could go into a fire.”
Techno huffed heavier. Puffs of true flame curled out from his snout. Not the metaphorical risk clouding Tommy’s mind. He was already headed towards the pitfall he wanted to avoid. It was time to change the subject.
“Considering your limited knowledge of Greek classics, you wouldn’t happen to know Homer?”
“Who what now?”
A solid ‘no’ would have sufficed, Techno thought.
“You probably haven’t heard of Odysseus, then.”
“With a name like that, I reckon I should of. Wait, this is one of your myths again, isn’t it?” Tommy kicked himself up, back against the wall to look at Technoblade as they spoke.
“I like a certain section of stories. Is that so wrong?”
“Is this story about you?”
The Blade tutted. “No, no, no. I don’t have any family. Orphans killed my parents. Family is useless, it slows you down unless you’re exacting revenge. In that case, family is excellent. Nothing better than dead family.”
"That doesn't make any sen—"
"Keep interrupting and I'll make you sleep in Carl's stable."
Tommy pouted. His hair stuck up in every which way, active as he was.
“Odysseus was a king of his own island. He lived in peace with his family on Ithaca, and he was known as a wise man.” It had been a while since Technoblade had told a story like this. His rhythm was lacking. “He was the favorite of Athena, the goddess of battle and wisdom.”
“Gods aren’t real.”
“You’re looking at one.”
Silence. “Yeah, right.”
"Moving on.” He wasn’t willing to indulge Tommy in that story when he was preoccupied with telling another. “While Odysseus was a king, he wasn’t the chief king. At that point Greece was broken up into various city states, other little countries that refused to be conquered. While it was all Greece, there was a difference between a Spartan and an Athenian. Too many fights for power and the geopolitical landscape had torn them apart. Odysseus had his friends, though it would be more accurate to call them his allies, his country with whom he had sworn an oath to fight alongside. Each of those kings would be headed out their own separate way.” That felt right to Technoblade. “They were brothers in arms, finally called to war for the sake of their nation. But Odysseus ended up alone.”
“Why?”
“The people around him broke the rules. They went up against the sun god, and so they were punished.”
“What’d they do?”
“Oh, uh. Ate his cows.”
Tommy gasped.
“No!”
“Okay, so you get it. The Pet Skirmishes but on a much, much bigger scale.”
“Where’s Sapnap?”
“Tommy, it’s a myth, it’s not about your friends. They’re gods.”
“Dunno why you’d tell a story about a bunch of boring, stuffy gods. Hey, why’re you such a bad storyteller?”
That was it. "I'm trying to monologue here! Chat, Chat see how impossible this is?"
“Tell chat that you’re a pussy! And I’m the coolest! TommyInnit is the coolest, got it?” Tommy’s eyes, which had held the murmurs of sleep, were now alive and vicious.
Undoing all of Technoblade’s work. And proving he didn’t understand Chat.
“Bruh.”
“I am!”
“For the third time now, if you will let me talk, I’m trying to tell the story.”
“Right, right, sorry.”
“Odysseus was the only one who knew the warning signs. He had encountered the gods before, and he would rather starve to death than offend them. Because sometimes, Tommy, not offending people is a good thing, and making needless enemies makes the situation ten times worse.”
Tommy bit his lip.
Techno continued.
“But no one ever listens to Odysseus. That’s one of the ironies of the story, Tommy. Often being right lets the hero escape with his life. Doesn’t mean he can save anyone else. Most of the time he doesn’t even save himself.”
“What?”
“I mean, I tried telling you. Heroes are doomed the moment they call themselves heroes. Odysseus never did, he was smart. It was the people that came later and told the story that did that. A hero is born through the crossing of the stars, something divine. Special. For all of his worth, the burden of expectation is put on his shoulders and then he battles with his pride. The Greeks had a word: hubris. It’s the hubris that strikes the killing blow. It’s never the beast or the gods themselves, it’s someone the hero has wronged. Odysseus wronged a monster, a cyclops, but even that was too far.”
Tommy was quiet. All of his focus was pooled into Technoblade.
“Odysseus played the part of warrior. Now it was time for him to be a survivor. See, it didn’t matter what the gods put him through, the trials or the tribulations or the meaningless delays. He had a mental image of what his home was. Ithaca. It had stopped being a real place. Instead it was an idea. A concept.”
“Oh.”
“And even when he was gone, trapped by witches and beasts, he kept that vision of home in his head. Because he was going to get there no matter what. It was all he had left of the world he knew. Even when he was offered another life, another world in what might have been a better place, he turned it down. Because it wasn’t what he wanted. He learned what being a hero meant, and now what he wanted was the opposite: to go home. To be normal. But the thing is, life doesn’t wait around for us to come back.”
Tommy glanced down to his neck. The lodestone compass shimmered in the dim light. His Tubbo.
“The world doesn’t care what your aspirations are, your nation, or your ideas. It doesn’t even care about your friends. The world doesn’t care if what you want does not want you. It doesn’t care, period. It’s cold. Survival is survival.”
-
"I want to be a hero when I grow up!"
"Oh, you do?" The man chuckled, furloughing his spade to sit down on the steps beside him.
"What's the point of having a name like Technoblade if you're not a hero?" He shut the book in his lap, face beaming.
The young man's mouth opened before a scream rang out from inside the house, followed by shouting and yelling.
The blond haired man sighed. He smiled back, then rolled his eyes. The man reached out and tousled his hair.
Techno laughed as the man’s voice echoed:
"How are ÿ̸̻͓́̑͐́͗̽͝͠ö̶̝͖̱̫̈́̑́͌͒̋ǜ̴͍͖̝̑̋ ̴̢̛̛̮̼̲͖̠̻̼̝̥̗̻̩̲̼̂̽͌̾̇͂̈́̾͐̅͘̚t̷̤͔̥̤̫̫̟̀̐̈́̿͐ḧ̴̡̘̦͔̠͎̰̬̼̜̺̮͎͚͛̈́ͅȩ̵̦̦̠̬̼͔̰̩̯̻̍̈́͐̌̓͆̀̉̑͗ ̸̪̤̣̏͒̚͜ͅm̸̗͇̘̮̥̮̪̤̯̤̞͉͗̾́͜ą̸̡̖̭̣̭͉͎̥̫̝̑̿̅̄̓͐̽̊̂͂̆͠͝ͅţ̶̮͚̰̂̀̈́̐͆͑̍͆͗͝͠ü̶̢̻͔̼͓̹͖̺̯͙̅̂̔̊̐̅ͅr̴͔̐̾͛ẽ̴̱̰̣̀̓̉̀̆̓̈̄ ̸̛̱͇̺̂̿͑̏̍̋͊͊͗̋̇̆͝o̴̬̙͚͇̳͎͆̇̌̐̿͂̓̄͛͝ͅn̵̨̈́̈́̂̋̐ͅe̷̛̟̱͖͙͙̩͆̊̆̓̂͒̈̍?̸͖̟̺͇̬̗̰̭̺͇͆͐̀͊́̄̍̀̅́͜
-
> home.
> Tommy's still looking at you, you haven't spoken in a minute
> do you feel sick?? whats going on i just got here
“Blade?” And there was Tommy, with a drop of concern in his voice.
Technoblade shook his head. Late joiners. The memory crumbled to dust.
He continued. “The Isle of Ogygia. That was where Odysseus’s survival took him. He stayed there, in the lull of the witch Circe, who wanted him for herself—”
“That’s sexist.”
“W-What?”
“The witch!”
“You think the witch is sexist?”
“No no no, the hero! He gets called upon—lured—by this woman just because he’s what, the hero?”
He could not believe this. “Tommy. I didn’t write it.”
“I’m just saying!”
“The Isle of Ogygia. Or Atlantis, some people think it could be Atlantis, it honestly depends on what version you’re reading but that’s not important. Odysseus spent countless years there, safe but soulless. His heart was gone from his body, kept at bay with thoughts of home. Of family, of kinship. He was out of his body and mind for seven years. He was at the gods’ mercy, but fortune smiled upon him and he escaped.”
Techno took a moment to return his attention to his listener.
Tommy was transfixed, eyes wide.
For some reason, that made him smile.
“He made his way to one of his allied kingdoms. The gods, though, had shifted his appearance. This was to know how he still stood in their eyes. When so much time passes, relationships and bonds fade. Only his dog recognized him. The home he’d wanted for so long was plundered, practically destroyed. His wife—”
“He had a wife? That’s unrealistic.”
Technoblade repeated, annoyed: “His wife and his son didn’t recognize him. Only the dog.”
Tommy continued to ignore his point.
“Well dogs are good like that. I reckon dogs are better than most people."
Moving for the first time since the beginning of the story, he took a step towards the corner.
“Tommy, I’m trying to tell you that even though he won—He got everything he wanted, he got to go home—He didn’t win. His home was different. And he wasn’t the same man.”
“That’s—That’s sad.”
Tommy stood up and Technoblade crossed his arms.
“It’s not a happy story.”
"Then why are you telling it?"
“Forget about it.” If Tommy didn't understand, he wasn't going to waste any more time explaining.
Tommy moved, shifting the cloak on his shoulders crooked. He opened the spruce doors, a strange expression on his face. Like a mixture of horror, fear, and anger. Technoblade recognized the anger first. Tommy looked back, stepped into the snow, then shut the door.
Techno thought, what? He’s going to throw a tantrum because a story doesn’t go how he wanted—
-
A white substance flitted down through the air like snow. Small, unburnt hands grasped upwards to try and catch it. They had only seen snow, never this new, fluffy, off-white plume.
The boy coughed up ash.
“Hello? D̸̫̦̳̰͐̉ã̸̲̦̞̺͆d̶̗̒̐̕̕?”
-
Technoblade grabbed the edge of the box, stumbling.
The memory—No, vision—was incompatible with reality. How would he have gotten to the Nether as a child? And Techno never had a father, never depended on anyone, never needed—
Before he could even begin to understand the implications, he was thrown back in.
-
He was lost.
He was alone.
And he couldn’t have known that enough inhaled ash will scar your lungs, burn your skin, and bury you beneath a mountain of suffocating fire the moment you stop moving. He couldn’t have known that the Nether contains biomes of this stuff.
Ash has suffocated him. It burns, searing his skin and cooking him alive. It’s like the fall of Pompeii. He read a book on Pompeii once. Perhaps in some distant time an archaeologist will discover the hollow shell of his remains and theorize what happened here, or a traveler, a survivalist happening along the same paths years later when he’s just a mound.
He read another book, once. About a volcano. It’s similar to that pyroclastic flow, a mix of awful molten core and heat. There’s no way to swim in lava, not truly. It doesn’t stop a thirteen year old boy from scraping for the surface in a pit.
He was going to die here.
It’s his coat that saves him. Handcrafted and made with love. The bottom half tears, and he loses a precious gift but gets to keep his life.
Everything is burning. Is he screaming? His clothes are torn and he’s burning, he’s burning—
-
As quickly as it had come, it was gone.
Technoblade was instantly brought to the sensation of cracklings coals. He jumped at the sound, then looked down at his hands.
Hooves, right. Hooves.
This was too much to process.
Techno looked up.
He watched Tommy waddle to the front of the house in front of Carl’s stable, trudging through the snow the most inefficient way Technoblade could imagine. He was wiping his face.
For some reason, he thought it was something his good friend Philza would have a laugh at.
> PHILZA!!!
> Philza Minecraft?
> Philza would love it here
> The child is annoying, I hope he freezes to death
> I miss Philza
> Countdown to Philza visiting!
“Chat, you’re screaming into my ear right now.” He needed clarity, not a thousand voices in unison chanting for a friend.
Even from here, he could see that tears were pooling in Tommy’s eyes.
Technoblade didn’t bother with a coat. He ignored the sounds of the fire and how the heat made him feel uneasy, instead opting to climb down the ladder and go out the front door. Tommy was muttering to himself, a hand petting Carl.
“‘s not a happy story—What’s the point of telling a story if it’s not happy? I reckon he’s just one big downer. Downing all the time.”
It was then Techno decided to speak.
“I’d say talking to yourself is a bad habit but since I can’t really do that without coming off like a hypocrite, I’ll tell you that being quieter usually means people can’t overhear sensitive, secret information.”
Tommy didn’t jump, but his shoulders hitched.
“I don’t care about secrets.” Tommy crossed his arms.
“Everything’s a secret when you can’t understand basic information people are telling you.”
“You don’t tell me anything!”
“I’m trying to tell you why people tell sad stories.”
“If I were his family, I would have recognized him.”
“No you wouldn’t have! That is literally the point of the story. You’re like five now, you think you’d recognize someone you saw as a baby?”
It happens a third time and Technoblade’s world spins.
> Recognize recognize recognize
> Is he finally remembering????
> idk, not yet?
> Ugh, someone get me when something interesting happens
> your dead, whats stopping you from watching all the time?
> It’s actually ���you’re’
> where
> where?
> WHERE DID I ASK—
-
There is a house on a hill in the forest. It looks familiar, with a basement, a middle floor, and a top floor with stairs leading up from the outside.
There is a house beneath a hill in a fierce tundra.
There was a house on a hill in a forest. It was a home too, once.
Both can theoretically exist at the same time. The house on a hill in the forest is perfectly ingrained in his memory, enough for him to replicate it bit by bit.
There is a boy with a beanie, taller than him. He wears a scowl.
There is a boy smaller than him with a bandage on his cheek.
Sunlight flows through the curtains like honey, oozing in warm delight. There is something resting on the bridge of his nose, and his fingers fly to adjust it.
He laughs.
The tiny freckled boy smiles and it shows his tooth gap.
A deep, tenor voice calls from downstairs and they rush to where storage is, the chests the dining room.
Their father is tired. There are bags under his blue eyes, but his smile lights up the room like the honey-light and like his brothers’ faces. He takes off his hat to sit at the table, a cape swishing behind him.
They’re singing at the table. Four humans with perfect harmony. They sing together all the time, how could he forget?
The candles on the cake are flickering, and it’s a world away from the fires of the Nether.
“Happy birthday T̶̡͆̋́͝—”
-
Nothing else but static noise and Chat going wild.
“I’m sixteen! I am an adult man!” Tommy’s fists are balled as he stands, beating against his chest to each word and anger burns in his eyes until he sees his hero’s face. “Technoblade?”
His heart pounded.
-
The boy that Technoblade has been seeing through the eyes of is not an adult. Now he is a teenager. He is taller, the clothes more unfitting than before. There are stitches to fix the jacket, now forced to be a half-coat that tucks into his shirt.
He looks like the mockery of a man.
Actually, he doesn’t look like a man at all.
-
Technoblade remembered this part.
The rest had to be a daydream, the machinations of a tired mind. Separating his identity from his mask is impossible.
Literally.
-
He has forgotten what snow feels like. He has forgotten snow. There are many things Technoblade has forgotten, but the name of snow sticks. Snow. It sounds like a dream, like the deranged ramblings of a piglin who lost his mind, and like a fairy tale all at once.
He liked fairy tales, once.
Now they’re just unrealistic.
The piglin group he is trailing turn to look at him. He’s been following behind them, scavenging whatever food they decide to discard and bartering whatever he can get his hands on. Their eyes are vacant, white. His eyes are present, despite his appearance. Alert. He has to be, it’s one mistake and death.
The Nether is not forgiving.
He notices when their behavior shifts.
The piglins decide to attack.
Technoblade sighs.
He doesn’t want to attack this one. There have been too many packs, too many attempts at communication, too many tries at a family.
Technoblade has no tools. He’s forced to work with his fists and some metal the pigs scrapped, which with enough tempering he’s made into knuckles. Netherite knuckles, but that knowledge will evade him until years in the future.
He busts one of the pigs’ heads open, then shoves another’s head into the netherrack wall. Blood spills on his boots. A tusk is embedded in his hand; he puts pressure on the wound then yanks it out, stabbing it into the head of the third. The fourth pushes into his back, and Techno slams his head back into its skull until it fractures.
The fifth runs off.
And all at once, an uproar, a chant from a place and group he cannot see or hear.
It sings that Technoblade never dies.
-
All at once Chat was unanimous:
> Technoblade never dies.
> TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES
> technoblade never dies
> blood for the blood god!!!
> Techno never dies
> Technoblade never dies!
He nodded in agreement.
“Technoblade.”
Tommy laughed.
Techno realized he had convinced the child he was fine.
“Is that how you get the girls, Blade?”
“I’m not interested.” The art of combat and potato farming interested him more than girls. Or anyone, for that matter.
“Are you crying?”
“No.” Tommy sniffed.
“Here, let go of Carl.” Technoblade pulled Tommy away.
“But I wasn’t—”
“I killed everyone that ever touched that horse.”
“Okay, fine.” Tommy doesn’t move.
Techoblade can’t sigh because he’s already sighed too much and anything that exacerbates the situation will give him a headache. Instead, he picks Tommy up and lifts him over his shoulder. He chooses to say nothing in response as Techno headed inside and down, down, until they were both in Tommy’s little nest of shiny things and stolen goods.
Tommy struggled to stay on the bridge of consciousness. Technoblade takes his hand and walks him all the way there, staying down in the pitiful hole until Tommy has tired himself out from the sound of his own voice.
It was hours before he risked stepping away from the bed.
Snow fluttered down. It was cold and wet, but it was snow; a miracle all the same.
Technoblade stretched out a hoof. It was not the hand of a small child that was trapped in the Nether. It was a Piglin beast who had believed he'd never feel the cold again.
Technoblade glanced out the shutters. Tommy was inside, falling asleep. The silence of the home told him as much.
He pulled his hand back inside.
The fire of the top floor crackled. Techno dipped his head forward. His hands clasped around an invisible buckle, hidden underneath his hair.
As easy and simple as changing clothes, Technoblade the human stood in his retirement home. His height was the same, scars still present, but now a long unkempt braid of hair trailed down his back. It was ill-maintained, tangled and disgusting. A liability.
Without thinking twice, Technoblade took his sword and slashed the braid off.
-
“You don’t know when to quit, do you?!” Dream yells. It feels like the ground is shaking beneath them.
Techno stands firm. He’s towering above him, sword at his side.
“Nope. I’ve been told it’s one of my best qualities.” His voice is monotonous as always.
The green fiend stood hunched over his stomach, shoulders rising and falling to the tune of his ragged breaths. He knew that they didn’t need to breathe. It was all theatrics, even in the middle of a fight. Still, Dream’s voice was frantic, jittery, shaking, and loud; something Chat assured him they altogether had never seen in their combined existences.
Technoblade felt smug.
Technoblade made the grave mistake of hubris.
In a flash, the god is behind him. The god that can see the straps of his mask, the god that slices it off with a well-placed swordstrike and grabs him by his braid.
“Y’know, I really didn’t want to kill you. I’ve heard about you, a little bit. I just didn’t care.” He whispers into Techno’s ear as the pain tears into his scalp.
It only took a half-second for him to find a solution.
Dream was guarding from the left, expecting another hit to his mask.
Technoblade swiped at the right.
In a flash, he’s cut off his braid of pink hair and freed himself from the clutches of his enemy.
He smirks, and pulls out his axe. He doesn’t need the mask to fight, it’s already a part of him.
“C’mere, Dream.”
-
That one. That memory is real and he has all the proof he needs of that. He turned over his hand and pushed up the brass knuckles to see the gashes along his finger from where he held the grip. He sets the hand-to-hand weapon on the crafting table as he massages his hands.
Soaking his fingers in instant healing should alleviate the pain. Even for a moment.
Dream hit hard. The wounds never left.
But Technoblade hit harder.
A burned hand reached out to the snowfall.
The snow didn't burn back.
"He's not me, Chat. We're keeping it that way."
If there was one thing Technoblade was good at achieving, it was his goals.
#dream smp#dream smp fic#smpfic#sleepy bois fanfic#dsmp fic#Technoblade#tommyinnit#philza#wilbur soot#sbi#sbi fic
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Odysseus
yandere shouto x reader, background shinsou x reader
summary; im a lil too obsessed with greek myth and purple prose and shouto’s too obsessed with u. peep the title if u still dont know what this is abt
tw; blood, death
word count; 2.6k
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the cast
of course, we have our brave and guileful hero, Todoroki Shouto, as Odysseus himself, Nobody, King of Ithaca, and Son of Laertes. you play the role of sweet Penelope, Helen’s pretty mortal cousin. brash Antinous is portrayed by Yoarashi Inasa. and Shinsou Hitoshi is our silver-tongued Eurymachus
the first glance
Shouto first comes for the hand of your demi-god cousin, Helen, who is said to rival Aphrodite in beauty. you don’t like this farce your uncle puts on, summoning men from all over Greece to compete for Helen’s hand in marriage; she is still a child, only 16, and with no say in her future. still, you think, rather guiltily, better her than you. you do your best to avoid the suitors who come in hope of Helen’s hand, lest the see you and decide that they would like a consolation prize. downward gazes, veiled hair, and thick, draping robes all help to deflect attention, and you mange to pass unnoticed for the first couple weeks. all of this changes when he arrives. it’s said that nothing escapes his watchful gaze, and when his icy eyes sweep over you, you can feel yourself freeze as you pull your shawl just a little closer. he pauses for a fraction of a second, and yet you are unimaginably relieved when he moves on to inspect the crowd of nobles gathered in the corner
the pursuit
that night, you appear only as needed for the festivities before hurrying off to your rooms to weave. you’re rushing through one of the more abandoned hallways, preferring to walk a little extra rather than run into a drunk man, and when you turn the corner, room in view, Shouto stops you. maybe stop is too vague of a word; rather, he cages you in, not only with a casual hand against the wall, but also societal niceties. you desperately want to push him away, run for the refuge of your room, but to do so would be to slight all of Ithaca and bring his wrath down on your father. Shouto knows this, too. he tries to woo you first, honeyed words and a silver tongue, but you’re the daughter of a king. you’re used to gold. he tells you that the minute he saw you hiding away in the corners of shadows that his heart would beat for no other, and that he had to have you no matter what it took.
‘such a delicate thing, whose humble beauty is overshadowed by your cousin’s,’ he says. it doesn’t escape your notice how docile he makes you out to be, and while you were raised to be demure and refined lady, if Shouto really thinks you’re going to sit back and let him take you away, he’s wrong. he seems to sense the little fire of rebellion deep within you, but rather than putting him off, it only stokes his desire. lust flares in his eyes, and from that moment onward you know that you’ve trapped yourself in an obsessive relationship
the snare
Shouto leaves Tyndareus’ house with an alliance of the Greek city states and your hand in marriage. his quick wit and silver tongue allows him to secure the visiting nobles into a united agreement; Tyndareus will choose a husband for Helen, and all other men must leave without quarrel, and come when called upon. in return, Tyndareus will support Shouto in his pursuit of you. you know who the man is before your uncle even speaks, for in your agreement to marry Shouto, you asked that he might provide a kind and worthy man as Helen’s spouse. once again Helen lords over your life, but you cannot find it within yourself to hate her for it. after all, she is but a mere child, still too young to understand that her beauty is not really hers, that her life will always be in the hands of other men. still, one could argue that you are but a child, too. the ceremony is beautiful; you wear a dress of the finest fabric, a material softer and finer and lighter than any sort of linen you have ever encountered but one that Shouto assures you is worth it’s weight in gold. if he thinks to buy your love with material goods, you’ll allow yourself to be spoiled but you will never part with your affection willingly. at least, that’s what you think. Shouto has other plans
the early years
even from the beginning Shouto’s love is overbearing and extreme, but he’s a powerful king who treats you well and kept your cousin safe so there’s not much you can complain about. you’re just barely out of childhood, children who have been burdened with great power and yet the love and devotion he looks at you with is unparalleled. you have a feeling that he would fight even the gods to keep you. he’s kind and considerate; for the first two years of marriage he neither beds you nor tries do, despite the pressure he must feel to produce an heir and the weight of your family’s expectations. these gifts, these personal liberties he allows you to have, the way he lets you roam the island at your own leisure, this is why you fall in love with him. it’s odd; you never thought you would love the stoic king of Ithaca, but it seems that Aphrodite has other plans for you. on your twentieth birthday, you welcome him into your bed for the first time, and less than a month later, you discover that you are with child. it’s the next turning point in your marriage
the worse years
after the birth of Telemachus, Shouto’s love changes once again. once forgiving and relaxed about your interactions with others, he seeks to hide you away for only himself to see. the worst is when men approach you. it does not matter what their intentions are, nor their age nor stature nor standing; Shouto claims that his heart beats only for you, and thus yours should beat only for him. his demands to know where you’ve been and who you’ve talked to become more and more intense, until the island loses it’s queen. you are a prisoner in your own home, with Shouto smothering you in love, spending the whole of his day just lounging with you while he addresses kingly matters. bitterly, you think how you have never had any power to your name, not the way that men do and not the way that Shouto does. your rooms are nothing but a gilded cage, and you are almost glad when he is summoned for war. almost. after all, you do love the soft, kind boy that he once was
the war
throughout the war, you hear of your husband’s exploits. his bravery, his cunning, his skill. whenever you do not hear about him, your heart aches in fear, though you do not know if you wish him alive or dead. a year after the way has ended, when Helen has been reunited with Menelaus again, when Agamemnon is dead and Cassandra gone, when Aeneas has set sail for New Iliium, not yet Rome, the suitors come trickling in. at first, you do not know what to do, for festivities and mean both ceased to exist within the palace walls after the birth of your son. two catch your eye, bold Antinous, known as Inasa, sweet beyond his brash exterior, and sly Eurymachus, whose wit you see in your husband and whose charm is only his own. by the end of the second year after the fall of Troy, it is obvious who your heart beats for. the sight of purple sets your heart alight, and his small smiles are as sweet as the finest honey. you wonder if this is how Odysseus felt when he first saw you.
‘call me Hitoshi’, he says, and the way it rolls off your tongue is a sign that this love was meant to be. he asks for your hand in marriage three times. each time a flash of red and white causes your throat clog with fear, and though you know that you deny him out of protection, it makes the tears no less painful. even the loss of your husband cannot set you free
the reprieve
after Hitoshi’s third proposal, you set about weaving a shroud for your vanished lover. each day you weave ten rows, and each night you unravel five more. the sun-drenched days you spend with your violet-haired lover only fuel a blazing passion within you, but when he is gone, when you are alone in a cold room meant for two, the icy gaze of your husband haunts you, and you cannot help but delay the inevitable once more. you will bury your love, one day. you just cannot find the courage now. in the end of the fifth year after the fall of Troy, you finish the shroud.
Hitoshi is too respectful to rejoice, but you can see the relief in his eyes that you have finally put the memory of your husband to rest. plans are made, friends contacted, and suitors long vacated return to your halls in preparation of a beautiful wedding. the palace swells with life once more, the boisterous laughter of the men filling the halls and driving away the cold of the night. when night falls, you rest your head against Hitoshi’s chest, his arm slung carelessly across your shoulders, and you listen to the steady sound of his heartbeat, and rejoice in the constancy of his love.
where Shouto is the sun, bright and brilliant and life giving, but prone to flares of temper and burning those his affections focus on, Hitoshi is the moon; silver-tongued and soft, reflecting the radiance of others and giving the world a gentle glow. yet, despite your happiness, despite the love and life that is promised, you cannot help but feel a pit of worry in your gut
the unraveling
not more than a week after the former suitors’ arrival, your anxieties are confirmed in the form of a beggar. he is naught but an old man, merely claiming to know of the great king Odysseus, yet you cannot help but lean away from Hitoshi, your lover, and sit as if unhappy with the festivities. something about your mysterious visitor doesn’t sit right with you, and when he proclaims that Odysseus has escaped death, you know why. Inasa laughs, the scent of wine and honey heavy on his breath, and declares Odysseus dead.
‘his wife has burned the shroud she wove, not more than a month ago. dead men do not return five years after their fall.’ you want nothing more than to silence him, fear brewing in your stomach, and you are too busy giving panicked glances to your dear friend to notice how the stranger’s eyes train on you alone. a curt nod affirms Inasa’s statement, and your voice is steady when you answer.
‘less than a moon ago I laid the memory of my husband to rest. it has been ten long years, five years too long for a living man to return.’ you say this, and yet, you cannot wonder if this is a test . who is this man who claims to know of your husband, whose eyes burn like ice against your skin? you have to know, and perhaps it is your curiosity that causes your downfall
the slaughter
when the guests wake the next day, you propose a challenge. it’s selfish of you, borne out of a need for reassurance, a need to know that your husband truly is dead and that your love lives and will remain living. the great bow of Odysseus, only to be strung and shot by the man himself, is brought out, and forty axes are planted in the great hall.
‘this bow was my husbands, may his soul rest in Hades, and it was said that only he could wield it. who among you will try?’ man after man step up, failing good naturedly and patting Hitoshi on the back when he too does the same. you don’t mind his inability to wield the bow; in fact, it comforts you that your husband has been laid to rest, that his memory will not live on even in his weapons. then, the beggar from last night comes forward, and though you know that the decrepit body of his will be unable to sustain the force needed to even string the bow, fear runs thick in your blood. it is like you have been struck by Zeus, watching as the stranger strings the bow with ease, before launching an arrow straight through the great axes in the hall. your husband stands, and shakes off the illusion like a fur coat.
‘my love’ is all he says, and before you can react there’s an arrow buried in Agelaus’ heart and an expression of horror burned into his face. he orders you to the bedroom, your shared bedroom, but you stand still in shock, unable to move as he slaughters the men you have called friends in the very place you once called a prison. soon, far too quickly, there is none left save for brave Inasa and your lover Hitoshi. the look of disgust on your husband’s face as he rounds on Inasa, sword drawn, is unimaginable.
‘you come into my house, flaunt the rules of xenia, court my wife, and desire mercy? you will have no justice except for the bite of my blade.’ Inasa dies inelegantly, loud voice lost in a fountain of blood pouring from his throat. as Shouto stalks towards Hitoshi, it as all you can do to throw yourself around your lover, despite your please, Hitoshi steps out from behind you, hands placating and silver tongue spilling words of peace and goodwill. you want to tell him that silver tongues fail against tongues of gold, but it is too late and in the end all you can do is hold your love as the life bleeds from his eyes, forgiving and gentle to the very end
the ruins
the hem of your fine silk dress is soaked in blood when Shouto pulls you into his embrace, and you call brokenly for the servants to keep your son from seeing the carnage. he should never have to know the monster that his father is. as you look into his face, worn by the horrors of war and lined by time, you cannot help but hope that this is not your husband who has just perpetuated such a crime, that the soft red and white haired boy you once knew is dead, and a god holds you in their arms instead.
it’s a desperate, last ditch attempt to save the face of a man who once brought the life of Ithaca to you, and when you ask him to prove that he is Odysseus, that he is Shouto, your husband, you hope that he cannot speak anything but lies and half truths. he asks what you would want to hear from him, and you tell him that you have tired of sleeping alone and would like him to move to the bed in your bridal chamber, as only Odysseus himself would be able to lift it.
Shouto smiles, the years slipping off his face, and for a second you’re staring into the eyes of a man who helped your cousin, a man who waited two years to even touch you because he wanted to respect your decision to love him at your own pace, the man who gave you your greatest joy, Telemachus. he strokes your hair, love clouding his beautiful eyes, and tells you that it cannot be done, for he built the bed himself around a living olive tree. your heart sinks in disappointment, and you know that no divinity stands before you, only a god of a man. as you fall into his arms and sob, he holds you close, arms just a little too tight as he whispers soft comforts in your ear.
‘I am home, my love, and you have been here, waiting faithfully for me’
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LT Musical Concert Highlights
So I just watched the Lightning Thief Musical's cast concert on Facebook live and it was the best, and here were my highligts.
The cut song "Pick A Side" had so many good lines??? At one point, Clarrisse said, "Percy couldn't find his way out of a paper bag!" Another time, she sang, "Pick a side!" and then Silena Boureguard said, "Can't we just all pick flowers?" And finally, my favorite exchange, Silena said, "My mom doesn't believe in war!" And Clarrisse responded, "Oh yeah? Then why does she keep texting my dad?" I really wish it hadn't been cut it was a work of art.
THERE WAS A JOKEY SONG THAT KRISTIN STOKES SANG ABOUT THE MINOTAUR AND IT WAS AMAZING. KRISTIN IS SO ADORABLE!!!!
Chris was just a huge dork the entire show and he also changed the lines a couple times. In DOA he made Carrie laugh and in Son of Poseiden he made Percy a lot sassier and it was so funny.
George Salazar. Need I say more?
There was a cut part of My Grand Plan where Annabeth says something along the lines of, "Odysseus, Morpheous, Perseus. What do all these names have in common? They're all men." Then, at the end of the song, she says, "Odysseus, Morpheous, Perseus, Annabeth." It was amazing.
There's probably more but those were my favorite parts and it was absolutely amazing. I love this cast and musical and I'm so glad they did this concert.
#lt musical#lightning thief musical#percy jackson#pjo#george salazar#grover underwood#annabeth chase
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Ep. 2 - "You May be Hot but You Can at Least Pretend to Laugh at my Jokes" - Isaac
I am now in a trio alliance with JD and Lydia. We're like Destiny's Child, but I'm Beyonce of course. The strategy (originally thought of by JD), is what I've dubbed 'Destiny's Child and Destiny's Children'. Us three are the core three, who will each link up with another one of the children, to form a majority. We'll pool all the information together and control the tribe. Can you call us a thruple?
The next immunity challenge - Afterlife Crawl - is issued.
http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157844105761/immunity-challenge-2
Swedevivor. Whoever the branding team behind Swedish Survivor was needs to GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. Swedevivor is a genius name! Anywho, just did the Elysium part of the challenge and I think I did okay (even though I took probably too long...)... I've not too pressed about this challenge, as Aleeza is the unfortunate obvious first boot if we go to tribal anywho.
I'm feeling overwhelmed by this game, I haven't done anything for either challenge and I only know the names of three of my tribe members. It's like a ticking time bomb of when will I be voted off
I HAVE MY OWN WIKI PAGE, TAKE THAT HATERS!
http://tumblr-survivor-athena.wikia.com/wiki/Ali
My confession? I love Jay. Right now I love Jay more than I love Abbey. Mostly because Jay needs the extra support, but I do. Love u both sm have a great night babes
I just want my tribe to like me and I'm trying really hard because I feel like they don't™. Like lowkey everytime I make a joke it isn't acknowledged and I try very hard to come up with material. Also Samuel in particular I feel like doesn't like me. He kind of doesn't even acknowledge my existence? Like bye you may be hot but you can at least pretend to laugh at my jokes.
Whew i think this is my first one so We voted out Linus bc he wasnt there (and because me matt ryan and Owen alligned) and now we slayed this fucking challenge we literally did that whew. I trust my alliance for now but we'll see about that in the future ColinHEY I DID SOMETHING. I ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING TO HELP OUT :') I can't believe I did that. Im cryin. I did something productive y'all. i saved us from going to tribal council. Now we're the only tribe still completely intact. I'm also starting to talk a lot with the people on my tribe?? And I think I get along with like everyone?? To think last round I was crying about how I wouldn't fit in bc I'm new and all and now IM DOING THAT.
OH YEAH I ALSO HAVEN'T MADE A CONFESSIONAL SINCE LAST ROUND SO I'LL UPDATE YALL WITH MY NEW STRATEGY™. So I still love Logan and Trevor so much. I talk to them pretty much daily. Now I'm DETERMINED TO GET AN OFFICIAL ALLIANCE TONIGHT!!!! WISH ME LUCK YALL. Right now I still kinda wanna lay low. Like not to toot my own horn but I am a really good strategic player and manipulator, but I don't want to show that yet. I need to just play socially right now. I need to sit back, let others do stuff, and build a cute lil alliance around me. I'm stoked for this game now y'all have no idea
Boy do I have a lot to talk about. So first off YAY! First alliance! Me, Ali and Lydia are calling our selves Destiny's Children. Kinda because our plan was to baby the others in the tribe to make sure they were comfortable, then when we had to we'd start kicking them off. I don't think we're gonna do that anymore but we are three and we are with the newbies so I don't think they'll notice. Or one of us will get blind sides. But really... Why? The three of us were the strongest in the first challenge and we /almost all/ bombed the last one. Get rid of the person not playing, they are the weakest link, so good bye.
OKAY THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I'VE MADE A CONFESSIONAL IN LIKE THE PAST HOUR BUT I GOT A LOT TO SAY. Ok maybe adding Trevor and Logan into an alliance was BAD IDEA they seem awkward and they both told me they used to not get along so this is a weird alliance dynamic. But they both still cute and sweet so I'll try to make it work. If this ends up biting me in the ass I'll cry.
So gosh, I got a little worried earlier. Thought that my alliance member was picking a fight with one of the hosts. Dear god, worried as fuck I was. But that's what you get for only seeing one side of the conversation. I'm glad she spoke up, even if she didnt win the tie breaker and we still gotta go to tribal but it's alllll good. I'm glad she did it. Gave us a fighting chance and put two of our own in the labrynth too. And one of my own :D
Once again, I have no clue what's going on this game. I'm just trying to float on by and get through to the next challenge and hopefully get to play
I'm pretty sure Ali is in control of our tribe, which I'm okay with as long as they can keep me safe
George and Aleeza are removed from the Odysseus tribe after officially quitting, which will be announced later in the episode.
George and Aleeza just got removed from the tribe at the same time and then we were told a post was coming. Hopefully that means Aleeza was voted out or something because Aleeza is barely ever active in the tribe.
http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157888463891/results-immunity-2
http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157890146531/announcement-tiebreaker
http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157890928596/results-tie-breaker
my tribe won immunity I'm very happy but rip Lydia huh
*blink*blink*. The fuck just happened??!?!
So I’m pretty sure Trevor just went to everybody and told them about the labyrinth in the rules things because I was talking to Rob and he said that Trevor told him and Logan about the Labyrinth rule things and I was like hm that’s funny. And now I look at the wiki and our tribe is the only tribe to have pretty much everyone go to the labyrinth I think. I kinda know about the game Trevor plays because I read generations confessionals when I was really bored one day. I know something he likes to do to build trust with people is throw them information that you would think he would only tell you because he trusts you when in reality it’s something that he just using to make you believe that he trusts you with important information. For example the labyrinth being one of those things. You would think that only somebody who trusts you would tell you a way to get into the labyrinth. Well Trevor knows that, and he’s trying to use it to his advantage and he’s not being very sneak about it. I don’t blame him I do the same exact thing but I don’t go to literally everyone and tell them that. People talk and now he’s already getting caught trying to have his hand in multiple cookie cookie jars. I’m happy I decided to call with Rob because after this call I feel like I have a few plays that I can make to survive our first tribal council. Whenever that is at least. First Rob told me that Logan doesn’t trust Trevor and there’s some bad blood between them and Trevor. Now say like I said in my last confessional it does come to one of us three bangladesh peeps being targeted cause that’s really the only smart thing for these people to do. I can just pull a Cady Herron and shove Logan right in front of a bus and just tell Trevor that Logan doesn’t trust him because of Divergent which he knows will be true cause I know nothing about that game so there’s no reason for me to know that without actually being told it. If it has to be someone from bangladesh I want it to be Logan cause Rob is someone who I do really trust for now. I don’t know whether I should hold onto the information about Logan not trusting Trevor or if I should tell him whenever we end up calling like he wanted to. I do really like Trevor as a friend but I also am thinking it might be good to eventually take him out if I see that there is an opportunity to now or at a tribe swap. I’m hoping Lydia will really want to work with me because if she is willing to I’m willing to actually be loyal to her and be a close ally to her. But I know her and Trevor are like the bestest friends so there is no chance of Lydia being loyal to me over him which I don’t like. I’m such a selfish player lkvwcwkkw. I feel like I trust Trevor, and I trust Lydia. But for some reason when I think about playing with the both of them like together I don’t trust them as much as playing with just one of them at a time. Just cause I feel like if it is us three together than I will always be the musketeer that’s on the outs and they will definitely trust each other over me. I need to take Trevor out so that Lydia doesn’t have that person that she is comfortable with to run to once we swap or merge. I want to be that person that Lydia trusts the most if I do end up working with her and that will never be me as long as Trevor is in the game.
... in the words of a wise host called... Host 1... *" CATCH THESE HANDS"*
George and Aleeza officially quit the game, and a mutiny is offered in attempt to re-balance the tribes. Tribal council is cancelled.
http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157917281706/announcement
OH YIKES A MUTINY. Okay so unless Logan or Trevor both say they want to mutiny, I won't, under any circumstances. I don't see any benefit to mutiny at this point, like our tribe seems pretty solid and intact. I really hope no one from Oympus chooses to mutiny. It'd just be bad to lose someone at this point, I'd rather just wait for the tribe swap in a couple rounds. The only people on our tribe who I feel MAY leave would be Isaac and Sam. I'm not really that close with them but I still desperately want them to stay. Ugh yikes this makes things weird. There is a small sinking feeling inside of me that is saying Trevor will mutiny to be with Owen, his boyfriend. But I trust him enough that I think he'd at least tell me if he was going to, so then I can actually go with him. Then i'd at least be with Owen and Duncan, the only two people in this game I actually knew beforehand. But still, TL;DR, YIKES I HOPE NO ONE FROM OLYMPUS DECIDES TO MUTINY WE'RE DOING SO WELL. Sami guess now it's finally time to make a confession! so everything has been going relatively smoothly? i hasn't run into too much trouble because i haven't really given a reason for people to target me. however, the only person that i truly trust is trevor, but i feel like he's being highly targeted by all the others. that's frustrating. now, there's a mutiny offer, and trevor wants to go. i don't believe i have a target, but i don't want to lose him. and, i also feel that if i mutiny, i will create a target on myself. so it's very very difficult to make this choice. stay tuned, kids!
https://youtu.be/RnLuEORFH9M
Mutiny results: http://survivoremathia.tumblr.com/post/157927339256/mutiny-results
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