#young odypen

[the-storyteller78]

ODYPEN

He’s not actually that short (or is he 😏), he’s just bending down a lil

[aerbitions]

Odysseus may be the young king of Ithaca, but he’s also a nervous man with a massive crush.

[oatmealdoodles]

look at them so silly and nothing bad happened to them ever,

[cescalovestowrite]

So, we know that in the Odyssey Penelope sleeps a lot. This can be interpreted in various ways.

In some cases it can derive from fairytale themes, for example the heroine who sleeps during the final battle and when she wakes up everything is solved.

If we try to immerse ourselves in her psychology we can also imagine that sleep is a moment of escape from reality for Penelope. A reality that causes her such anguish that she often begs Artemis to kill her. More than once the queen of Ithaca falls asleep because she is exhausted from tears.

We could also talk about the fact that Penelope has a very particular relationship with dreams. Some of her dreams are prophetic, others are sent by Athena, others derive from her intimate desires, as when she dreams of making love with Odysseus, as young as when he left for Troy.

But ignoring all these possible meanings for a moment, it would be so funny if Penelope slept so much because she completely fucked up her sleep-wake rhythms while undoing her shroud during the night. She spent three years undoing at night what she wove during the day, and I'm not suggesting that it took her all night every night, but surely after a few days at the very least she will have started yawning at the breakfast table.

Can you imagine the suitors discovering the deception and her being like "I'll think of something else to fool them, but finally I can go back to sleeping like a person". During the Odyssey she is still getting used to it, it will take her a while.

AND IN FACT when Odysseus returns and the two spend the whole night talking and making up for lost time, Penelope doesn't bat an eye. She had just taken the nap of her life (during the day of course). The text says that it is Odysseus who at a certain point is too tired and finally falls asleep. Obviously the fact that she is also sleeping is most likely implied BUT my new theory is that she stayed up watching him sleep, heart-eyed and finally happy again.

Sometimes I enjoy imagining stupid things.

[yuywonzzz]

newlywed odypen and them cuddling on their wedding bed carved from the olive tree where they first met

[taiyouhimerich]

Odysseus first encounter with his future wife🩷

cr by: taiyouhime

tw: just pretty fluff, and only my hcs of this young sweet tooth nightmare (bcz hes so sweet i cant)

YoungKing!Odysseus who has really hard time after he inherited his throne while being very young and obviously so inexperienced in terms of ruling Ithaca even though his father prepared him for this and Athena was still helping him a lot with some of her advice.

YoungKing!Odysseus who keeps being told by all of the councillor that he has to find a proper girl to marry and the future queen of his to rule, and he’s really nervous about it because he’s told every young king in Greece are wooing Helen of Sparta so he’s now full spread ahead to Tyndareus’ kingdom.

YoungKing!Odysseus who has spent several hours at the most boooooring dinner surrounded by all the kings from all over Greece, and he turns out to be the youngest of them all! Like he’s only seventeen and everyone else are at their early twenties at least! And even though he proves himself as mature enough to participate, as great hunter and as cunning dealer, they still call him small and keep dangling his age in front of him!

YoungKing!Odysseus who stomps over the paths through the garden of Tyndareus’ palace into its depths, fuming about another discussion where his, his great and clever words are followed by complementing his intelligence and then goes some “not so bad for youngster” kind of stuff. King of Sparta is not even looking at him while the discussion is about what should be the way of choosing who gets Helen’s hand in marriage, isn’t he worth enough of at least being spoken to only because of his age? He’s the king, he’s a good athlete, he’s intelligent, he’s mature, he’s not worse than any of the other kings, he’s—!

The soft laughter in a distance interrupts his thoughts.

YoungKing!Odysseus who follows the source of this sound just from… curiosity maybe or wanting to leave this nasty feeling behind. He gets to the edge of the garden, reaching a beautiful olive grove. And he sees her, a girl, a very beautiful girl, with her hair done prettily that have wind playing with her locks, surrounded by a group of maids, considering their simple dresses. And then she looks around and meets his eyes and—

Okay. Maybe he’s not mature. Like not at all, because he can tell his face is blushing and his knees are trembling and he feels so little right now because she waves at him with this pretty smile and his heart is beating harder then after training Athena gives him and, and—

He can’t remember what was in between this and him standing in his room at palace of Sparta. YoungKing!Odysseus feels so stupid and weak while he keeps banging his head against his door because heaven strike him he just ran away! He just saw the prettiest girl in his life smiling at him and it was enough to make him flee like a coward!

He used to make fun of Eurylochus’ feelings for his sister, finding it absolutely silly how a strong, hard, bulky warrior can fall in love with a princess at one sight, but now, now YoungKing!Odysseus is sorry for all those words and wants to take all of them back because otherwise he is now blushing like a maiden caught bathing just over some kind of pretty girl who just hardly looked at him once as well….

YoungKing!Odysseus, who gets to embarrass himself even more when she and her father Icarius are attending the next dinner with other kings almost accidentally, and she recognises him and she waves at him again and he can swear she’s giggling and he just wants to run away again and—

But then she leans to Tyndareus to kiss his cheek and says goodbye to her dear uncle, and this is how it hits YoungKing!Odysseus. That she’s a princess and she’s suitable for the councillors of Ithaca to accept her as their future queen and most of all.

He now knows he wants to marry only her.

i gonna make several parts of this im still giggling hehehhee

[midnightlighthowlite]

Based on @gigizetz Warrior penelope au, this fic and a line from this one

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57580753/chapters/146514025

Au where Sparta attacked Ithaca before the two of them met and Ody managed to escape before he was captured as a prince. The spartans are looking for him

Ares is bummed that Penelope didn't get to participate in the ambush when he spots Athena and Ody planning an escape attempt

[cescalovestowrite]

My loves

two mimir

[foopsie-daisy]

Is this anything

Never forget what they took from you (wingman athena)

[insomniphic]

Take these pose studies of Odysseus and Penelope while I gather will to draw another comic LMAO

Fighting art block right now, and the only way I know how to attack it back is by going back to my fundamentals and practicing ToT

[nikoisme]

Drew them to remember how drawing works lmaoo

[backpackingspace]

Okay so with the line "the olive tree where we first met" we have two equal hilarious options.

When penelope was sassily like oh I'll marry you if you make a living bed out of this tree right here! Cue penelope stumbling over odysseus very very carefully digging up the tree "because how else is he going to get it to itacha we can't have a wedding bed out in the open in sparta duh"

Or

2. Penelope, knowing that Helen's suitors would soon be arriving to take over her home for a while. Snuck out and went on her own wacky shenanigan filled journey where she scoped out all the major players. Odysseus caught her spying in an olive tree. And when she got back she told Helen she had dibs on the cutie from itacha.

[dootznbootz]

Penelope in Odysseus' Pilos.

Whether he took it off and she was silly and put it on her head or if he puts it on her himself doesn't matter. He and I will have heart eyes regardless

[deathits3lf]

ok imagine this;

Young Odysseus asks Athena’s help to court Penelope. Athena suggests that he challenge her to a fight. She is from Sparta after all. He does, and Penelope absolutely beats his ass. This only makes him more attracted to her

[cescalovestowrite]

In my opinion we don't focus enough on this passage told by Pausanias. This is HUGE!Odysseus allows Penelope to choose who she prefers to follow, with the distinct possibility that Penelope will choose her father. In fact, in the "son-in-law's marriage" (i.e. the one in which the spouses move to the bride's father's house) the woman's position is much stronger than in the "daughter-in-law's marriage". By following Odysseus, Penelope chooses to abandon her family and will be asked to get used to a series of new habits, customs, even a different dialect.

So basically Odysseus makes a choice we wouldn't expect, Penelope does the same. Maybe it's just my impression, but it seems to me that one of the many things they have in common is doing things that were a little strange for the time. I won't go into this further, but there are many aspects of Odysseus to discuss in these terms, perhaps I will make a dedicated post later.

The veil is, we could say, the symbol that separates Penelope's life as a maiden from her life as wife of Odysseus.

I had also read an interesting comment about Penelope's use of the veil by an Italian scholar, which reads as follows: "Like her husband Odysseus once used to keep his eyes lowered, because he was thinking, and then his gaze would escape everyone; so Penelope, when she went down into the great room, lifted her peplos on the cheeks, so that the minimum of her expression could be seen".

Food for thought.

[periwinkle-the-11th]

im still so stuck on "there's a girl I have to see" btw