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Athena goes to Zeus in private to request Odysseus's freedom. Instead of striking Athena, Zeus offers her a deal. He will release Odysseus from Ogygia if Athena agrees to spend a year as a mortal in Odysseus's palace. With little say in the matter, she accepts.
On Ithaca, Athena awakes in the body of a 12 year old servant, specifically an orphan servant with a reputation for poor performance. Which is good because Athena has no idea what she's doing and doesn't have much time to learn. Suitors have infected the palace, Telemachus is waiting for divine help that will never come, and Odysseus will be home in two weeks. She has a lot of work ahead of her, and it won't end when Odysseus retakes his throne.
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Set in the same universe as A Goddess’s Childhood, what if Ares learned the truth about Athena's relationship with Zeus, before Odysseus was even born.
How would he even learn that? Well Zeus made a mistake...Series
- Part 2 of Brainwashed Athena AU
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Silent Wars- "If we have each other" by Mer_acle for Rowan_Brightwood
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
08 Oct 2025
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Athena and Ares are 12 and 10 respectively when their Mom is pregnant with a new sibling. And that's not the only big change waiting in the wings for the family... specifically Athena, who stands to gain a brother and lose a friend...
i.e exploring the time before Hephaestus is born as well as how Pallas and Athena grew apart, because everything tends to happen at once in life...
For Athena this means confronting the fear of not belonging in her own family, the fear of losing another mom, and the reality that her only friend might not be as much of a constant as she always thought. The owl is struggling-----
Part of my modern human AU
it's a mixed bag tbh, start whereever ;) Necessary notes in the chapter notesSeries
- Part 4 of Silent Wars - Greek Mythology Modern AU
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The Fates Of Athena by Dork_vio7
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
08 Oct 2025
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Injured, lost and mentally drained, Athena tries to gain some control over her life.
But how long will that freedom last, when you’ve embarrassed Zeus?
Updates Every Friday from now on! unless I have exams, then imma post once a week on random days 😅💛
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You'll be here in my heart by Grapejuciedog, MissDarhk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
07 Oct 2025
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Athena isn't looking to foster again. Her life is finally getting back on track and she's good with her routine the way it is. But when she gets a new student who is just a little bit too much like her, and needs a new home, she finds herself taking him in, offering him a place in her life she never thought she’d open to anyone.
Or: Athena fosters an 11 year old Odysseus. Fluff and Chaos (And hurt) ensure.
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Fighting to be loved by Mer_acle for EvermoreCatra
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
05 Oct 2025
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Athena's been hurt, much more thoroughly than she realized was possible. For the first time in her immortal life, she is fighting against her own body and mind, and she doesn't know how to win.
Odysseus is home. After two more weeks on sea, a fight with 108 suitors and reunited with his family, he’s quietly accepted that even a desperate prayer won’t bring his former mentor to come back. Little does he know, for two weeks, it’s all Athena’s been trying to do.
Or, what if after God Games, Athena doesn’t wake up in the infirmary? What if it’s up to a few mortals to take care of the goddess that just collapsed in their palace, looking like she should very much be dead?
Updates on Sundays :)
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Also sometimes it takes me a bit to respond to comments especially on earlier chapters bc as you can tell the amount of comments this fic gets is out of this world, but eventually I will reply, I appreciate them very muchSeries
- Part 10 of Warriors of the Mind
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you'll need a mindset change for this by figureitoutinthemorning
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
05 Oct 2025
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Athena has always told the mortals under her tutelage that in the midst of battle, pain should be disregarded. Push it aside, she’s always said. Turn off the part of you that hurts. Find a place beyond it and stay there. But she’s not currently in battle, and she’s certainly never advocated for ignoring wounds after the fact. For mortals, that’s a one-way passage to blood loss, infection and death — not necessarily in that order.
Yet Athena is not mortal, and she’s not technically wounded. Her burns have sealed up, leaving thick, uneven wads of scar tissue in their wake. They make her skin feel tight and sometimes they itch, but they are not open wounds. She’s not bleeding. Her insides are not exposed to the air. It all just hurts.
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More than three months after the events of God Games, Athena's scars flare up, leaving her with little choice but to come to terms with the long-term effects of her injuries.
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- Part 5 of Epic Post-Canon Fics
- Part 4 of three days
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Silent Wars- "The world would be changed" by Mer_acle
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
03 Oct 2025
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(Modern Human AU)
Ares and Athena have always been birds of a feather, and moving into an apartment together was the natural progression of things. If you ask Ares, things are going swell. He finally has his own place with his sister, and he recently found a perfect match in Aphrodite.But when his girlfriend and himself return home from a week-long trip, they don't find things as they left them. Mainly, they don't find Athena how they left her.
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in plain words, Athena's mental health is a mess and now Ares has to confront that he didn't see this coming.
Also this is the last part in the series, but only bc I put all my works for this series chronologically plotwise, this is actually the one i started with, so feel free to check it out first :3
More about the series in the notes.Series
- Part 10 of Silent Wars - Greek Mythology Modern AU
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Destined to hold onto things too long by ThinkOfItLater
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
03 Oct 2025
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Athena goes against her father for Odysseus' freedom.
One of them doesn't leave alive.
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Flawed Tapestry by AverageNeptunian
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
01 Oct 2025
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Every thought in her mind screamed that this was a bad idea, yet Athena had already made up her mind long before hearing the consequences of failure.
"Do you agree to the terms?" Her father asked with a smirk, the clouds of his hair retracting in a unified motion.
Athena took less than a second to answer, her decision having been made twenty years prior.
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Or: Athena cared for Telemachus deeply. Yet, the world is cruel; forcing the duo to navigate both the family drama and cruelty of Olympus in the god king's latest game. -
He must take more suffering from the Gods by FireLord1664 for girl_ibuprofen
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
29 Sep 2025
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I recently read Lavender_Hyacinths' AU of what if Percy Jackson is Odysseus reincarnated and I really love it! Read it if you haven't already.
Therefore, I'm making this what if scenario of how it could play out.
This is based on Lavender_Hyacinths' AU. I'm just making a what if scenario.
*Start of it*
"Poseidon, you cruel heartless bastard!" Athena yelled.
"Ah, so you've figured it out," Poseidon said with a chuckle.
"Yes, I have! How could you. Odysseus' family and friends have been waiting in the Underworld for literal millennia to come back to them! Penelope grieves everyday, Telemachus just wants to know who his father was, and this is what you do! You take his soul and reincarnate him over and over again so he can never reach them!?"
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We will be okay in the end by Phoenixflamz
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
28 Sep 2025
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The fate had changed odyessues never made it home...
Poseidon got his hands on him and was going to make him serve him in Atlantis..
But athena wasn't going to allow that so she resets the time.
Can odyessues change the past with the help of his mentor?
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Sharing is Caring (And Caring leads to Healing) by DorkyFangirl24
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
23 Sep 2025
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“How long were you there?” A long pause. Odysseus still wide eyed, staring blankly in front of him. As the silence grew, Telemachus almost asked again before a whisper cut through the silence. “7 years.”
When Odysseus gets home, he struggles with what has happened to him. Particularly with what she did. When he gets overwhelmed by his memories, he breaks down and tells his family just what he went through to get home to them. What he endured, and in turn learns how he got off the forsaken island in the first place. Just who exactly helped him and finds comfort in the fact that his family will always be there to catch him when he feels like falling into the dark pit he is sure he deserves to be in.
Athena is sure that after she tells them just what she did to help Odysseus they will reject her as their patron. She clearly wasn't strong enough so how could they ever want her as their goddess. She hopes they will at least let her train Telemachus. Maybe then she will redeem herself and be able to sleep at night.
This is a story of found family, love, acceptance, and healing.
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A breakthrough of not being lost. by Pjofan1
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
22 Sep 2025
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Odysseus wakes up in the modern world and finds out about musicals, instead of living like a normal person, why not retell his past life with the help of Apollos music and his family?
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- Part 2 of A journessy retelling through music.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 928
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 4
- Hits:
- 28
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in the next life, I'll say I'm sorry. by violetsandblues13
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
22 Sep 2025
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~ She turned to look at him again. They stood before each other and spat out venom, but no one would win. Only a battlefield of a boy’s fury and a goddess’s quiet regret.
“Your heart is cold. You fight and whisper wisdom to be known, like the rest of them.”
Odysseus once assumed she was untouchable. An immortal strength wrapped in bronze and wisdom. But no. She was human in her pain, and she had borne it alone.
And suddenly, all his cleverness—all his prized wit—was useless. What trick, what scheme, what plan could undo this kind of agony?
~(OR!!! After Odysseus and Athena's messy splitting in "My Goodbye", Athena finds herself spending each day trying to repay her debt to Odysseus without him even knowing it.)
(Basically an Athena-centric Fanfic based during and after "My Goodbye" with a lot of angst. Major focus on Athena, i'm terrible at summarising.)
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- Part 1 of ataraxia is fugacious.
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" Entre Alas y Acero" - (One-Shot Hermes x Diomedes) by Nia_Aizawa
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
19 Sep 2025
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Hermes tiene curiosidad de saber quién fue aquel mortal que se atrevió a lastimar a dos Dioses en medio de la guerra, para su sorpresa, Athena no se niega a la solicitud de señalarle en que parte del mar fue que Diomedes partió de regreso a casa.
- Language:
- Español
- Words:
- 13,221
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 15
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Irony is cruel, even for the gods.
For a year now, the golden blood in Athena's veins has turned red under influence of her father's golden lightning, and now she must learn to live with it. The idea of an immortal existence that suddenly turns into a time-limited life seems terrifying, but will she have to go through it all alone?
She is not the only god to suffer this punishment, now.
How did one decision make the lives of so many people and gods change track or make her see things she never saw before and learn to pass them on? Is this the only thing she'll pass when decides that the sands in hourglass are running too fast to live in her aching past? Will stripping a god of their divinity really be that simple and what consequences will it bring?
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Someone else follows Athena's path with also incurs the wrath of God King, and an ex-goddess herself decides that there are other values in life than wisdom and war which she would like to explore.
Interwoven with many canons from the Odyssey as well as headcanons that had to find an outlet somewhere.
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I'll Reach For You by Nobodyjorgesversion
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
14 Sep 2025
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A modern au where Pallas and Athena get a much happier story. Dw there will still angst (Sorry I'm bad at summaries)
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- Part 1 of Finfeather Modern AU
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What Doesn't Kill Ya Gives Ya Trama! by TheOnlyAardvark for WiFi
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
13 Sep 2025
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Aphrodite Weather has always wanted kids, so she and her husband, Ares Weather, decides to foster, a little while later, they decide to foster, Athena Forsythe.
Athena has been in the Foster system for four years, Athena has been jumping through out homes for four years, when finally, she gets placed with Aphrodite and Ares Weather, maybe things won't turn out so bad after all.
Nike has always wanted a friend, sure Artimes and Hestia are good ones, Apollo is a good friend too. It's just she doesn't feel like she really, truly, connects with them, until she gets to show the new girl around. Maybe things aren't gonna be so bad....
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Summary will be updated, but that's it for now! This is my first fic so be nice! Hope you guys like it!
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don't forget how dangerous the gods are by TheGrammarHawk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
11 Sep 2025
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As tensions continue to rise between Zeus and Poseidon, it is decided that the other Olympians should choose a side.
Ares makes his own.
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Odysseus barely agreed to two gods in Ithaca.
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- Part 8 of we could be kind