So this might ruffle some feathers in the Epic community, but:
Athena should NOT be Odysseus’ patron goddess. It should be HERMES.
Like yeah yeah “cunning” and “craftsy”and “brain over brawn” whatever.
But c’mon! That is JUST as Hermes-coded as Athena-coded.
Odysseus did close to nothing in the Trojan war that actually involved WAR. This man did not pull up there as a military specialist. He TRICKED the trojans. While everybody brought LEGIONS, this man, as far as I’m concerned, showed up with what feels like a moderately armed boyscout camp.
For all we know he and his buddies spent 10 years singing kumbayah around the campfire, getting absolutely wasted until Ody saw one of his (equally stoned) men fuck around-and-find out with a knife and piece of wood and went:
“Guys!! I have the FUNNIEST idea”
Point is: he’s not someone very… military-y.
And in the Odyssey my guy’s constantly:
lying
stealing
TRAVELING
tricking
trespassing
persuading~
Just, you know. Standard racoon behaviour.
Athena just did a bad job at keeping his prize winning pet human alive (Achilles) so on the way home she stumbled into this permanently exhausted, runt-of-the-litter dumpster cat of a man and decided:
“We’re gonna be BEST FRIENDS!”
Athena just shotgunned him way too fast and my poor boy Hermes was stuck trying to therapy him out of this CLEARLY toxic relationship with his sister like:
“Darling, you’re hurting him.”
*Athena choking the dear life out of Odysseus*
“But he’s SO CUTE!!”











