Jay: I'm a monster! Rawr rawr rawr!🦖🦖🦖

Me:

hi yes if ruereguard are the patrochilles parallel then percabeth are the Odysseus and Penelope parallel BUT (and I cannot stress this enough) annabeth is Odysseus

here's why:

Odysseus is a character who is the epitome of hubris. he's the smartest person in every room he walks into, he was the main strategist for the entire Greek army, everyone was looking to him for guidance and approval. he's Athena's champion (and pet liar) but eventually loses favour with her because pride comes before the fall. the overarching story of the odyssey is that he's trying to go home to his wife and will do whatever it takes with his cunning and wits to get there over the course of 10 years.

sounds awfully familiar to Annabeth Chase, favoured daughter of Athena, general and main strategist of CHB, smartest person in the room, prideful, strong and the person everyone looks to for approval. Athena holds annabeth in high regards but will put her aside the moment she "embarrasses her". and not only did Annabeth spend months trying to get Percy back, but its approx. 10 years from her arrival at CHB and the end of HoO, in which her overarching goal is to create something permanent - and she achieves that, though changed in unimaginable ways.

Percy and Penelope may be a bit of a stretch until you look at the main thing the two of them have in common - their unending and unconditional loyalty. Penelope sat and weaved day in and day out for maybe 20 years as men ate her out of house and home, because she would not abandon her husband and the hope that he would return home. by all accounts, it could have been easier for her to simply accept whatever offer suited her most as queen of Ithaca but she didn't. and we know that loyalty is our boy Percy's fatal flaw, and that one of the only things he could remember was annabeth.

I find it so hard to make people ACTUALLY look related cause i only draw found families instead of biological ones so this is the closest i will probably get lol

I don’t know what else to post sooooo <.<

(I’m only including mortals / demigods for this one cuz there’s probably already a poll for the gods out there)

(edit: goddamnit I forgot to add polites,,, oh well, #justiceforpolites)

having a blorbo in greek mythology and epics is like the ancient world version of realizing the tv show had a different writer for the one episode your critter was wildly out of character and everyone is like "oh that's so them!" ??? did we watch the same show? helen of troy/sparta is a slut no wait she is a perfect woman no no she is a flawed human being no hold on she's a woman making her way in a man's world wait no she is the archetypal victim no wait-

not coincidentally i am reading madeline miller's the song of achilles for the first time and odysseus just showed up halfway through and odysseus'ed across the page so hard he made me fall in love with him all over again. achilles/patroclus is some foundational tragic queer romance, yeah i respect that, but odysseus. the laughing snake that tricks you into forgetting he is always ready to bite. my man

i bet he is a tricky character to write well but as long as he falls somewhere on the wile e. coyote <--> bugs bunny spectrum he is probably in character. because his character is to be tricksily varied. is he just a dude trying to get home? is he a larger than life hero? a rat bastard nobody can trust? the one male in hellas with a working brain who doesn't listen only to his dick or his overinflated ego? a wifeguy (positive)? a wifeguy (negative)? athena's special boy in this generation (telemachus and orestes wiping their noses on their blankets still)? or her latest mortal hackeysack, legs blurring in a looney tunes run between zany schemes, just a bit faster than the other doomed shmucks? all are intensely valid interpretations and go all the way back to homer 2800 years ago. incredible.

someone in the book is making fun of odysseus for bragging about how much he likes the ship, fresh from ithaca!! penelope modeled for the figurehead!!! he gets to see her while they're apart!!!! and that's why i set the book down for a minute. hgn. hdmahflshsk. odysseus sweetie pie i hope you still like it twenty years from now. the ghosts of my middle school english notes defining "dramatic irony" scream in ecstasy from the great beyond

my emotional support couple

Characters in Epic/The odyssey that I wanna hug:

Telemachus

Polites

Odysseus

Hermes

Circe

Penelope

Lotus eaters

Aeolus

And I think that's it-

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has anyone else made the connection yet? personally I think it fits really well art credits go to @wolfythewitch

I love how we can all agree that some how some way Odysseus son Telemachus looks just like him. Imagine Penelope waiting for her husband to come home not knowing if he is alive or dead with no way to find out but to wait. And all you see day in and day out is that person you’re waiting for but it’s not him. Imagine her looking at her son and holding back tears every time he changes as he grows older . That sense of “ it’s not him” “ but it’s a part of him”.

Apart of him is always with me . The best thing he could have left with me .

Penelope, Clytemnestra, and Helen :)

I’m taking a motion graphics class and we have to do a 1-2 minute music video as a group project. I partnered up with a friend and she agreed to do a song from EPIC so we’re planning to do the first 1:30 of Keep Your Friends Close.

Before we start we each has to make a style frame to kind of show potential typefaces and colour palettes. This is the illustration part of mine (I’m going to add in the text when I have access to illustrator)! We chose to do the line “And if you win, you will get what your yearning” for our style frames mainly because I already had an idea for the scene and my friend didn’t mind it.

Idk why but in my mind, I really love the idea that when Aeolus present Odysseus with them playing a game, they pull out one of those metal serving dome things when they say “That’s what I’m serving”; like just as a little goof, they’re a silly little guy. So for this bit of the lyric, the idea is that Aeolus has pulled back the silver dome to reveal a little cloud-like version of Penelope and Telemachus to motivate/convince Odysseus to play the “game”. Ultimately, I ended up not including the text (partly because I was busy and forgot...oops).

I’m not gonna lie, as much as I love Telemachus, I struggled with his design so much 😭 I had no ideas for how I wanted to do his hair and clothes that k ended up scrolling through animatics and fanart for like an hour trying to get inspired 🤧

headcanon that odysseus and penelope were super competitive when they first met and super in denial about their feelings so them getting married was actually the worlds first game of chicken

“Iʼd rather die, than grow old without the best of you!”

— Penelope, The Challenge (from “EPIC: The Musical”)

Penelope of Ithaca was the original milf