Epic The Musical - Character Specific Tickle HCs
A/N: omg guys these were sitting in my drafts for soooo long and I forgot to share them, so here you go! I’m gonna start to write more in the summer, so this is my opportunity to soft launch myself back into the community! Enjoy :)
Odysseus
Lee:
On the ticklishness scale he’s like 7.5/10, mildly ticklish everywhere but his thighs, back, and ribs are like 9-10/10
He’s more ticklish to rougher tickles
Always digs his own grave while being tickled, and it’s literally just instinct for himself to tease his ler
Has a ticklish neck, and he always squeals really high if someone gets him there (Polites always makes fun of him for that)
EXTREMELY ticklish back
That being said, he physically can’t do massages (one time Eurylochus offered a back massage, and he couldn’t stop giggling)
He holds in his giggles for the life of him (it doesn’t really work out that well)
He loves getting his head scratched by penelope, but sometimes she just lowers her hand slightly and tickles his neck
He gets very embarrassed whenever anyone tickles his neck because of how high pitch his giggles get, but that’s why everyone loves getting him there
Ler:
He’s an abuser of the tease “don’t? Don’t what?”
Will do/say things that would also apply to himself
He doesn’t do this on purpose, he's just incredibly hypocritical LMAOO
Always says “aww, someone’s having fun” while teasing someone he knows who’s enjoying themselves (i.e. Polites, Hermes, Penelope, Telemachus, etc.)
Always manages to switch the lee’s words to make it seem like they want it
“OHOHO NOHO- pleheHEHEASE!” “Please what? Tickle you more?” “WhaHAHAT?! NOHOHoho! Thahahats nohot whahahat I sahaid!” “Really? Cause that’s what I heard.”
Everyone always tells him to shut up whenever they get tickled by him (he never does, in fact he teases them more)
Loves to mock people /loving (for example, if someone goes “Ohohodysseus!” He would giggle the persons name back at them, also if someone goes “nonono” he’ll either tease “yesyesyes!” Or “no? Nonono? Why not?”)
He’s always tickling the crew (cough cough Elpenor) who cause trouble (but not in a serious way)
Once he decides he’s going to tickle you, he won’t stop until you beg him to
Polites
Lee:
He’s a 9/10 on the ticklishness scale, my poor boy is WAY too ticklish for his own good
He’s always being called cute, but will deny it till the day he dies
I’ve heard this before, he has a sweet spot near his ears/jawline where he will literally giggle soooo much like it’s just nonstop giggles
He’s also super ticklish on his hips, like his hips and his stomach are his top 2 spots
He squeals really often too, like every new spot you target he squeals/shrieks
He gets tickled for his constant swearing
Saying the word tickle while tickling makes him like jump a little and shake his head (also like blush like crazy obvi)
But he will never say “don’t say that!” because he tries to bring as little attention to it as possible
He’s the most open about being tickled out of the rest of the crew, he doesn’t admit it, but everyone just knows that he loves it
Always gets the “you’re way too ticklish to be acting this way” tease
Telling him how ticklish makes him the most flustered
Genuinely didn’t know that he was still ticklish as a ghost, until someone (probably Elpenor or Odysseus) tried tickling him
Being tickled as a ghost feels like constant buzzing, so it's like not as intense, but the buzzing gets more prominent when it’s over a spot that's really ticklish
He still has the same tickle spots as a ghost
He’s such a giggler, and he giggles the most at anticipation/air tickles, they get him SO bad (Odysseus loves to use that against him)
Extremely ticklish to lighter tickles, so spidering around whatever spots always works the best
Ler:
He usually tickles people lighter, but with Ody he goes all out
He starts giggling while he's teasing people
Tends to do things that other people do to him, not in a teasing way or anything, similarly to Odysseus, that’s just how he rolls
He always gets flustered, even when he’s a ler, but he still loves banter
His love language is physical touch, so naturally tickling is a huge part of it (he constantly tickles the crew to make them feel better, even as a ghost)
Despite how flustered he gets when he's teased using the word “tickle”, he always uses it in his teases
Like he’s always going “tickle tickle tickle!” And giggles along with the lee after (AHHHH /pos)
Eurylochus
Lee:
He’s a solid 5/10, probably the lest ticklish crew member
He literally can’t talk when he’s being tickled, all he can do is laugh
Gets suuuper embarrassed whenever he gets tickled
Not usually a lee, he catches the lers hands whenever they try to tickle him
Tickling in general makes him embarrassed because he thinks it's childish
But he sees Odysseus (his captain/superior/best friend) and Polites (his other best friend) get into tickle fights a lot, so he’s more open to it with them and sometimes joins in
Ler:
Has a soft smile while he's tickling people, it’s so cute
His teases are usually stating the obvious
“You laugh a lot when I get you here.” “OHohoho reheheally? I dihihidn’t nohohotice.”
He ends up accidentally tickling a lot more people than anyone else on the crew
He only intentionally tickles Odysseus and Polites
He's always getting both of them at the same time, it’s actually insane how easily he does it
Penelope
Lee:
She’s probably a 8/10 she is SO TICKLISH
She definitely snorts when she laughs, more than Odysseus, and he loves that about her
Her giggles are adorable, but also so pretty, and it’s one of Odysseus’ favourite features about her
One of my hcs is Hermes sometimes checks up on her so she's not so lonely in her room, and he has definitely tickled her to cheer her up
She scrunches her nose and shakes her head a lot when she gets tickled
She also gets very jumpy when someone pokes/squeezes her side or smth like that
When that happens she also lets out a squeak and she gets super embarrassed abt it
Speaking of she gets flustered rally easily
She will forever deny that she is more ticklish than odysseus (spoiler alert: she is)
If you get her long enough, and in a good spot, she starts like CACKLING like it’s so funny
It’s either cackling or silent laughter after a while
Ler:
Often teases people for being so ticklish (“My my, you sure are ticklish, huh?”, “Don’t think I forgot how ticklish you are.”, etc.)
She usually tickles Odysseus and Telemachus, but I won’t be surprised if she’s gotten a god (like Athena or Hermes) as well
She is SUCH a ler for odysseus like she will tickle him all day if he’d let her
She’s very teasy, but she’s also super smiley the whole time
She takes a lot of breaks while tickling people, so that they can breathe
She genuinely enjoys tickling people so much so that she can hear their laugh
She tickles people when they’re tickling her to try and get them off and is all like “I’ll stop if you stop!” (She doesn’t)
Telemachus
Lee:
Like his mom, he’s a good 8/10 on the ticklishness scale, just an extremely giggly guy LMAOO
He’s suuuper air ticklish like he can’t stop giggling
Giggles whenever he says tickle, even while he’s teasing someone he just can’t say it normally
Snorts just like his parents, but it’s a lot less often, only if you get him really bad
He’s mainly gets tickled by Athena, Penelope and Odysseus once he gets home
Odysseus tickles him really childishly/uses childish teases (using teases like “the tickle monster” and making silly “omnomnomnom” sounds if he's using his beard to tickle him)
Athena tickles him while they’re training
She either makes some training days more focused on “stamina” which means tickling him and seeing how long he can hold out
Or while sparring, she goes behind him and like tickles his sides to catch him off guard, and he usually like drops his sword so she goes “Okay then, I’ll randomly tickle you once in a while we’re sparring. Try not to get distracted.”
Now whenever he feels Athena tickle him during a sparring session, he lets out this overdramatic groan/whine combination, and he's like “Athenaaaa whyyy” (She just giggles at him because she knows he doesn’t mind it)
One time the suitors found out he’s ticklish, and humiliated him, and he like hated tickling for a while after that.
Athena helped him loosen up about it tho, and now he enjoys it again
A neat little trick Penelope found is how if someone uses 2 fingers and just dig into his ribs while vibrating their hand, he like screams so high that his voice cracks and it’s halarious
Ler:
He has definitely gotten Athena back more than once
He doesn’t tickle many people because he doesn’t have that many friends
But once Odysseus gets back, and they slowly begin to roughhouse a little more. He’s more than happy to get his father back
He gets such a big power trip while he’s tickling someone, because it doesn’t happen that often
He’s such a silly ler
He usually tries to start conversation with the lee
If he does tease, it’s teases he's picked up from other people (he learned the “don’t!” “Don’t what?” “Tickle me!” Tease from odysseus)
Overall more lee than ler, but he has his moments
Hermes
Lee:
On the ticklishness scale, he’s like 8/10
Has a very contagious laugh
Oh boy, he’s a squealer! Like more than Polites, his giggles are always spiking in volume and pitch
He’s really hard to make embarrassed, but anticipation gets him blushing
Can’t stand it when someone wiggles their fingers over whatever spot they’re about to tickle bc he just wants the to start, but the motion of seeing the fingers wiggling is so flustering to him
Apollo usually finds a way to make Hermes watch him as he tickles him, knowing that it’s the one of the only things that would get Hermes actually blushing
Whenever he gets tickled, his wings are always flapping to get away, and so if you only have his upper body pinned his legs will like levitate, making his body look like a ‘U’
You have to hold him down because he will unintentionally fly away
He uses his wings to cover his face if he’s blushing, but usually they’re pressed tight against his head, hoping the ler doesn’t notice them
That’s because they are DEATHLY ticklish, like it’s insane
Ler:
This. Man. Teases. So. Well.
He is not afraid to call people out if they like it
He laughs with the lees
He also will tickle people for no reason, just because he wants to
More often than not, he usually tricks people into getting tickled
Or most of his pranks end in the person getting tickled
He tickles Telemachus whenever he visits
He also loved to mess with odysseus and his crew, especially if they don’t usually laugh/smile often (cough cough Odysseus and Eurylochus)
But one day when he visited, Odysseus let it slip that Polites likes it, and the god’s eyes lit up with so much joy
Obviously he immediately went to wreck the poor guy (they both loved it)
He teaches Telemachus how to tickle people and uses Athena as a test dummy
He’s so silly and playful its actually insane
He’s like that with everyone, even Ody (ESPECIALLY Ody actually)
Overall just a fun and silly ler
Athena
Lee:
She’s like more of a 6.5/10
She definitely lets Telemachus tickle her, she enjoys how excited he gets to get revenge on her (she knows that he missed out on this when he was younger, and is happy to make up for lost time)
Odysseus has gotten her when they spar when he gets back to Ithaca
Odysseus is very cocky and confident about this because he was never able to before, so he’s all like “I learned some new tricks” and Athena can’t even be mad because she’s impressed
Like Ody, she teases her ler unintentionally, usually saying some sort of sassy comment
Ler:
She doesn’t really tease, but she’s really skilled at tickling
She always used to tickle Odysseus and mask it up as “stamina straining”
She now tickles Telemachus for “stamina training”, but doesn’t always mask it up as that (like she’s more open about wanting to tickle him)
She has long nails so she just like gently scratching whoever she’s tickling (Telemachus dies)
She’s also very playful with Telemachus, but everyone else she doesn’t usually tease
Other than Odysseus when he gets home and they get reacquainted, and even he made a joke about how she was “holding out on him” when she was his mentor
She obviously replies with something along the lines of “well you were too ticklish for me to unleash my full power”
She compliments lees as she tickles them, but it’s mainly kinda teasy/backhanded compliments (like “you’re holding up so well. That’s surprising, cause you’re so ticklish” or something)