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Penelope is watching you...👁️ (penelope re-desing- yes again)
| 20 years apart - royal paintings |
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM! no more waiting… <3
I feel like people give Penelope a lot of undeserved shit for crying a lot in the Odyssey. Like, imagine you're her:
You marry a man who loves you so much that he builds your home by hand and carves your marital bed out of a living olive tree (still living because it's a symbol of your love, this man is sentimental af)
Also said home that he built is a palace because he's the king and now you're the queen. So that's a bonus.
You have your first child together. You and your child both survive, and your child is a son who can inherit the throne! Your husband loves your son, and still loves you!
Your husband is being drafted into a war. He feigns insanity to try to stay home with you and your son. His dickhead coworker comes over and your husband has no choice but to drop the act to save your son's life. Dickhead coworker drags your husband off to war.
Nine years pass. The war ends! The soldiers come home! ...Your husband is nowhere to be seen. His coworkers say that he survived the battle (with all 600 of his soldiers!), so they have no idea why he isn't home yet.
Time passes. Everyone thinks your husband is dead. Every single bachelor in your kingdom is abusing guest hospitality to feast at your home, wasting your money and resources, bullying your son, harassing your servants, and demanding that you pick one of them to remarry.
Trying to buy yourself time, you ask them to wait until you finish weaving a shroud for your husband's father. It would be a tragedy for such a great man to not have a shroud, after all. They agree. You buy yourself several years by weaving during the day and secretly unweaving it at night, until one of your maids snitches on you. The suitors force you to finish it. You do.
Trying to buy more time, you set a challenge: string my husband's bow (war bow, requires strength to string) (foreign bow, requires knowledge to string properly) and shoot through twelve axes (requires precision and skill). Whoever does it will get to marry you and become king.
The suitors can't do it, and now they're planning to kill your son (who left to search for his father) so you have no one left to protect you.
Despite being the queen, you're still a woman, and have limited rights. You cannot protect yourself. The title of queen only makes you more vulnerable, because it means more people are preying on you, trying to become king by marrying you. If your son dies, you will have no protection.
It's been twenty years since you last saw your beloved husband. You don't even know for sure whether he's dead or not, or if you'll ever know. A group of brash, disrespectful men are taking up space in your home every single day. There is a plot by these men to kill your son and you can't even warn him about it. These men demand that you marry one of them, and none of them love you; they want you as an object, and they want the benefits that come with marrying you.
Like, shit, I'd be sobbing my eyes out too. Crying doesn't make her weak or helpless. She is a strong woman who is in a horrible situation, doing her best to keep her head above water, and it's understandable that she's emotional and miserable.
She is cunning, and clever, and she is buying her husband time, hoping he's out there, somewhere, and that he'll come home. And when he finally shows up, she doesn't immediately jump into his arms — she tests him, making sure it's truly him, truly her husband, before she rejoices at their reunion. Regardless of her emotions in the moment, she holds them back and makes sure that the situation is truly as it seems, that it isn't some trick.
Penelope is not a "damsel in distress" just because she cries. I mean, for one, she's not a damsel; she's a mistress. But she's a mistress in distress the same way that Odysseus is a master is distress: they are surviving using their own cunning, but boy are they having a bad time, and boy do they miss their spouse.
I made Penelope! And a head canon that Ody when first wooing her gave her flowers and she started putting them in her hair so he continued doing that as affection for her and when he left and Telemachus grew older, he started doing it for her too
PLATONIC TELEMACHUS WITH TWIN SISTER READER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHES BASICALLY A COPY OF ODYSSEUS AND A MAMAS GIRL WHO TRIES TO KILL THE SUITORS REGULARY
Napping || Telemachus
Synopsis → Telemachus with a twinsister! Reader who is a mini-Odysseus.
Warning → The Suitors, Voilence, Abuse, Telemachus lowkey being a hypocrite, Mentions of Monsters
A/n → Oh my god, I'm finally able to post, currently in English finishing this request. These two girls in my English who are sitting right next to me are rough housing and laughing so loud, its embarrassing. 🤡
Word Count → 697
↳ Oh my god, Telemachus would absolutely dote on his sister. Doesn’t matter if she’s the elder or younger twin.
↳ Though if she is the younger twin, he’s absolutely gonna be that brother who constantly reminds her of it. Doesn’t matter place or time.
“Y/n/n, I’m just looking out for you. It’s my duty as your big brother to defend you.”
“You’ve never even been in a fight.”
“Don’t change the subject.”
↳ He’s so hypocritical too, like yeah, sure, you’ve fought monsters and won fights against men larger than you, BUT, he advises you that climbing that rock could get you hurt.
↳ He’s such a dork though, and gets excited every time he finds something he thinks you would love. Like a cool rock, maybe something that use to belong to your father before he left for the war of Troy.
↳ Telemachus no doubtably defends you against the suitors, even if you’ve proven to be able to handle them in a fight.
↳ He’s watched you fight many battles, and win majority of them, so when an altercation starts up between the suitors and/or himself, he knows you’ll be there to end the fight quickly and swiftly.
↳ He fears for the day you come of age, worried that Queen Penelope can no longer prevent you from marriage.
↳ Even so, he knows that suitors could absolutely kick his ass, so he tries to keep you away from them at all costs.
↳ Telemachus loves spending time with both you and your mother. At least once a week, there will be a day where you three just do whatever. From spa sessions, to long walks alongside the shoreline, the same one in which Odysseus promised to return from.
↳ You both are constantly told of how you both resemble Odysseus, whether with your fighting skills, personality, traits or just overall everything that made the King of Ithaca so him.
↳ More than once, have the servants been spooked, especially those who have been serving the castle from before you and Telemachus were born, because of how much you two look and even act like Odysseus.
↳ It’s one of the biggest things you two are praised for, and one of the biggest things the suitors hate about you both.
↳ After a particularly hard day, whether from a fight gone wrong, the suitors were somehow worse than usual or just feeling gloomy, you both just rest with each other.
↳ You two just sleep in either your own or Telemachus’ room, or even the garden. One time, Penelope found you two sleeping against Odysseus’ statue.
↳ Argos' so cute, he switches between sleeping in yours, Telemachus and Penelope room. Absolute cuddle bug of a dog, he's so loving.
↳ Telemachus would be torn between wanting you to accompany him to get Odysseus back. He doesn’t want you to get hurt on the journey, but he also worries for what the suitors will do.
↳ Obviously you go with him, but he was still hesitant.
↳ After that whole ordeal, big family reunion with Odysseus!!
↳ You all cried, like a lot. Penelope and Odysseus have their lovebirds moment and it sends both you and Telemachus into tears.
↳ But yay! No more suitors!
↳ Its sort of weird at first adjusting to Odysseus being home again, considering you and Telemachus hadn't actually known him before the war, but you all fall into a nice routine.
↳ Odysseus makes up for lost time and takes old man naps with both you and Telemachus, roughly 2-5 times a week. Penelope joins most days.
↳ Telemachus trains a lot, wanting to get stronger, to protect you, Penelope and even Odysseus. Your father tries telling him that he can protect all of you, but everyone can see he's getting older. Even he.
↳ But, nonetheless, Odysseus humours Telemachus, and trains with him, giving great pointers and teaching him new tricks. Most days, you join in, and Odysseus loves training with his kids.
↳ You've managed to hand their asses to both of them, leaving them with sore muscles and aching bones. Both Odysseus and Telemachus are incredibly proud of you.
↳ Overall, Telemachus tries his hardest to protect you, even if you or someone else kick his ass. <3
thank you!! ♡
do you guys think the suitors thought Penelope was like Sisyphus. Every evening being like “well guys the shroud is almost finished” and then in the mornings saying “bad news about the shroud everyone”
I WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN I DONT CARE HOW WHERE OR WHEN NO MATTER HOW LONG ITS BEEN YOURE MINE DONT TELL ME YOURE NOT THE SAME PERSON YOURE ALWAYS MY HUSBAND AND IVE BEEN WAITING WAITING WAITING WAIIIIIIIIIIIITING OHHHHHH FOR YOUUUUUUUUU
Updating one of the most important chapters for the fanfic plot in 10 minutes because the university wants me dead