POLYBUS - the longest-standing suitor
Polybus is one of the first suitors (in my AU) who arrived at the palace when Odysseus left. He is the father of Eurymachus, is 58 years old, and stands 2.05 m tall.
He is the quietest but most respected person in the room
He is someone who is quiet, serious, with a dead stare that can intimidate anyone in the room. He is known not only for his personality, but also for coming from one of the most renowned and long-lived noble families in the territory
Among the group of suitors we know, he was the first to become a suitor at the age of 38 (Eurymachus was 5 years old) because he saw a million-dollar financial opportunity
As we have seen before, Polybus is a person whose only interest is his own benefit and keeping his family at the top, a greed that grows more and more regardless of anything else, including if that means making several sacrifices, as was the case with Eurymachus...
He had a total of five wives, the first four of whom he had abandoned when they failed to give him a male heir, until he met Eurymachus' mother, whom he married and had Eurymachus with, but she mysteriously disappeared (it is rumored that she ran away as soon as Eurymachus was born, or... perhaps it was something else)
If you're wondering, he raised his other daughters, and Eurymachus came to live with them, but they were forcibly betrothed to acquaintances of their father's in order to “preserve the family legacy,” and from that point on, the relationship between Eurymachus and him went downhill.
If he gets angry, he won't show it, but he will do everything he can to use his contacts to ruin your life.
His father-son relationship with Eurymachus is somewhat tense. One moment they can be calm, and the next they can be fighting and yelling like crazy, but in front of others they can put on a show.
Eurymachus sometimes has to control what he says because he makes many offensive comments.
He always criticizes anyone who is “inferior” to him, people who do not have the same high status as him. In his words, they are irrelevant people who should be grateful that someone like him even passes by them (he criticizes Melantho a lot for being a vulgar woman and for being a mere servant).
He knows how to put on a good front, too good...
No suitor wants to anger him or upset him, his name already carries enough weight, not even Antinous, who is the most disrespectful to his elders, dares to do (also because Polybus helped him and his father become nobles)
He died at the hands of Odysseus, seven arrows in his back
father and son