Ten-tickles
🎂: Epic the musical
🧁:Poseidon, Odysseus
🍫: Poseidon, Odysseus, Crew
Summary: Poseidon decides that instead of murdering an entire fleet, he’ll just humiliate the captain instead. It backfires.
A/N: thanks to the Anon who gave me the idea! I hope it’s what you pictured! Once again not super proud of the ending but whatevs. Some of the lines might be used in No More Suffering, we’ll… sea. Anyway, Enjoooooy! :3
Cw: swearing and intense tickles!
Ten-tickles
A loud, roaring voice echoed over the water.
“ODYSSEUS OF ITHACA!… do you know who I am?”
It was Poseidon, god of the seas, and he was pissed, his voice full of malice.
‘Oh no..’ Odysseus’ thoughts rang like bells in his head, trying to think of some way out of this.
Time passed, the god ranting angrily about a ‘lesson’ and how Odysseus needed to be ruthless and cruel.
“Come here, Odysseus.”
He paused, raising an eyebrow skeptically.
“You’re… not going to kill me?”
Poseidon sighs. “Sadly, no. The fates have it in your future to get home safely. I cannot change that no matter how hard I try, so why bother.”
“Wait, really?” Odysseus grew so much hope at the words. He was going to get home. It was fate. But he was still confused. “Theeeeen… why?”
“You’ll see. I might not be killing you, but you do deserve a punishment, and I intend to deliver.”
Odysseus walks towards Poseidon, hesitant. But he doesn’t know what the god will do if he doesn’t obey, and how much worse it could be.
Once he’s in front of the god, he scoops up Odysseus, and taunts threateningly.
“I think a bit of public humiliation will be well suited~” Odysseus didn’t know why, but the tone he used sent shivers down his spine.
“what?”
With a sly, evil chuckle, Poseidon started to lightly scratch at Odysseus’ sides, forcing him to gasp and snap his mouth shut to prevent any more sounds from escaping. “Ah, I knew you’d fight~ makes it all the more embarrassing when you break, doesn’t it~?”
Odysseus was pursing his lips, struggling not to let the muffled giggles escape as he squirmed in place. Out of all the possibilities this was definitely not what he expected. He never would have thought Poseidon would resort to tickling of all things in a million years. And it made him feel a little more confident in what he could get away with. That’ll be important later.
In the meantime, Poseidon was still scratching gently against his side, getting faster and faster with each pass to increase how ticklish it felt. It was getting harder for Odysseus to hold back his giggles, muffled snickers and huffs of air that sounded more and more like laughter than breathing being released with every passing moment.
Then Poseidon worked his way under Odysseus’ arms- and he broke.
“Ppfft- fuhuhuhuck! Ehehahahahaha!”
Poseidon smirked, a smug expression dawned on his face as he spoke with a teasing lilt. “There we go~” he gave a sly chuckle before continuing, “I knew you’d break.”
“Shihihit- stohohop!” The unusual method of revenge was certain out working as intended, a blush dusting the captains face as he couldn’t do anything but laugh at the wiggling claws against his skin. His men looking on, confused and curious but also a little amused.
“Why should I? Seems to be working.”
Feeling a little emboldened by the lack of painful torture or murder, Odysseus decided to fight back. He started to move around and try to push Poseidon off, which wasn’t working. (At least not yet.)
The god let out another chuckle. “Oh? Trying to fight, are we?” After saying the words, Poseidon increased the intensity of the sensation, digging into Odysseus’ underarms with the exact pressure to make it extremely ticklish.
Odysseus twitched and let out a surprised bark of laughter before his giggles and laughs got much louder. “HOhoholy- gahahahah! Nohohohoho!”
“That’s what you get for trying to fight~”
Odysseus still felt that fire to fight however, and continued to do so, even though every time he did the tickles got more intense, making it harder for him to fight back.
“Ehahahahahaha fuhuhuck- ahahahahaha!”
“Stop trying to fight, stupid mortal. Every time you try I’m just going to make it worse.”
As Odysseus continued to struggle, Poseidon threw in some very corny jokes. “Seriously, Odysseus, you’d think you’d know better than to mess with a god, come on, water you thinking?”
If Odysseus wasn’t too occupied with being tickled, he would’ve blinked confusedly. “Whahahahat wahahas thahat? Thahat wahas hohohorrible!”
“I mean, you’re laughing. Can’t be that bad.”
“Thahahats Behehecause Yohoure tihihickling mehehehe!”
“Am I? I don’t know, sounds fishy.”
Odysseus groans through his laughs. “Uhuhugh, thahat wahahas wohohorse!”
Poseidon chuckled. What can he say? he loved a good ocean pun. “I mean, I like it, but that’s just how I Eel about it.”
Odysseus struggled even more, fueled by the amazing horrible puns. This led to Poseidon making the sensation stronger once again, forcing Odysseus into hysterics.
“Haha, I would stop struggling if I were you. You wouldn’t want to get yourself into even worse of a situation.”
But Odysseus continued to fight, and eventually going through the more intense feeling paid off, as he successfully got out of Poseidons hold and latched onto his side, quickly turning the tables.
“Whahahahat thehehe- hey!” Poseidon protested as Odysseus started to scribble and poke at his sides, flipping the situation to his favor.
“Haha, not so smug now, are ya?” He taunts with a chuckle, still scribbling his side. Odysseus turns to his crew. “Come help me with this, will ya?”
They immediately obey, a bunch of the men gathering around the now laughing, squirming god.
Poseidon could easily get out of this. Or at least he should be able to. He’s a god! But for some reason he finds that his strength is sapped from the tingling sensation, partially because.. he wasn’t sure he wanted them to stop.
“Hehahahaha dahahamn yohohou!”
Despite the protests, and despite the fact that he hasn’t really come to terms with the feelings himself, but Poseidon doesn’t entirely hate this. There are far too many men to count individually gathered around him and holding him there, scratching and scribbling on his whole torso, making him squirm and giggle endlessly.
But.. he found that he didn’t really want to make them stop. His angry mood from earlier was definitely fading, replaced by a giddy nervousness and happiness as the pleasant tingles zapped and sparked across his skin, sending him into fits of laughter.
Odysseus decided to use a bit of his own medicine, with a corny dad joke. “How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?”
“Whahahahat-?”
“Ten-tickles”
Poseidon wasn’t going to lie, he did laugh a little harder at the pun. Which Odysseus picked up on, of course.
“No way you actually liked that.” The captain teased with a laugh, only making Poseidon blush a bit.
The men continued to scratch and scribble and tickle the god of the tides, as he squirmed around.
“Hehehahahahaha shihihit! Mohortahahals- stahahahap!”
“Hmmm… I don’t think so.” Odysseus teased again, only increasing the intensity of his scratching. “You got me first.”
“Ahahahahahah shihit- nohohoho!”
Odysseus laughed with an overly dramatic scoff. “Um, yeah you did.”
“Yohou knohohow thahahats nohot whahat ihi meheheant- FUHUCK!” He was cut off by snort and louder laughter as someone started to lightly trace his gills.
“Haha, good job, Polites! Looks like you found a good spot.”
“SHiHIHIT NOHOT THEHERE- AHAHAHA!” The god’s laughter was much louder and more hysterical now, as one man, supposedly Polites, scratched around his gills and another traced his ear fins, some of his most ticklish spots.
And it wasn’t just those two spots either, there were also wiggling fingers on his ribs, stomach, sides, armpits, everywhere. It was so overwhelming, a strong sensory overload, but at the same time it felt… good. Poseidon found himself enjoying this, even though he was desperately laughing and struggling as he was tickled relentlessly by several men.
“IHIHIHI CAHAHANT- SHIHIHIT! STAHAHAHAP!”
“What’s wrong? The great god of the seas can’t handle a little tickling?”
The words made a blush spread on Poseidon’s face. “SHUHUHUT UHUP!”
Odysseus hummed and tapped his chin with one hand in mock thought, the other still teasing and tickling the soft flesh of the sea god. “Hmmm… let me think about it… no.”
“COHOHOME OHON! OHOHO MYHY- STAHAHAHAP! AAHAHAHAHAHA!” His laughter was loud and hysterical, tears starting to form in his eyes from the force of it. It tickled so much and they weren’t. Stopping. He was overcome with laughter and snorts, the electric, buzzing sensation never letting up around his gills or anywhere else.
He didn’t want to beg. That was so gods damn embarrassing, especially for a deity. But he was getting pretty damn close. It was so bad, yet so good at the same time, sending floods of happy chemicals through his systems from all the laughter. But despite that, it was still far too much for him to handle, so he eventually lost his grip over his words and self control, and… he started to beg.
“PLEHEHEHEASE- STAHAHAHAP! IHIHITS TOHOHOO MUHUHUCH PLEHEHEASE! IHIM SOHOHORRYYY!”
Odysseus smirked. “You’re gonna be nice? You’re gonna leave me and my men alone?”
“FUHUHUCK- YEHEHEHES! JUHUHUST STAHAHAP!”
Odysseus raises a hand to signal his men to stop, and they release Poseidon, who starts to breath heavily, giggles infesting every exhale.
“Hahahaha… hoholy fuhuhuck..you dehefinetly took my lesson in ruhuthlehessness..”
“I did, didn’t I?”
Poseidon eventually managed to cool his leftover giggles, and then perched himself on a pillar of water, holding his trident.
“Lesson fucking learned. I’ll leave you alone.” He chuckles a bit and then drops himself into the water, fading into the darkness of the ocean floor.
Odysseus chuckles as well, retaking his position at the wheel.
“That was certainly… an experience.”
“That it was.” Eurylochus confirmed. “It’s not every day you see a god begging and laughing hysterically.”
They continued on their way, sailing away towards a nearby island. Who knows what they’d face there.
———THE END————————————————