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It'll Take Me Twenty Years to Find the Words by MossArchivist for sillykeychains
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
13 Nov 2025
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Odysseus is book smart always and considers himself to be usually street smart...
"Un"fortunately, his intellect is starting to dwindle as he has more and more interactions with a certain Penelope.High school shenanigans with Odypen
First fic I'm figuring this out as I go (I'm going for a mixture of normal writing + chatfics)
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
SEXUAL ASSAULT - CHAPTER 15
SEXUAL HARASSMENT - CHAPTER 9, 13, 15
REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT - CHAPTER 16
SELF HARM - CHAPTER 12
BLOOD/VIOLENCE - CHAPTER 15 (BLOOD + VIOLENCE), CHAPTER 12 (MINOR MENTION OF BLOOD)Series
- Part 1 of Moss' High School Odypen
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Telemachus had been trained well since Antinous and the other suitors claimed him. Now that it was just his father he was waiting for Odysseus to stake his claim as well. But after a week with nothing? The boy starts to fear for his future.
Or; Telemachus thinks all men are out to rape him and Odysseus is oblivous to his sons expectations. He just wants to get to know his son.
(read the tagsssss pleaseeeeee)Series
- Part 1 of Wolf in Sheeps clothing
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We Will Rise One Way or Another by Superwaanjai
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
06 Nov 2025
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Telemachus will do anything to keep Antinous’s hands off his mother. Even if his dignity is the price to pay.
This is my first ever fic so it’s probably really bad lol
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Morpheus, the God of Dreams, takes pity on the King and Queen of Ithaca. Odysseus’s return is many years away, yet his and Penelope’s minds find each other in sleep. It’s both a blessing and a curse, and sometimes all that keeps them going.
Queen Penelope stepped into the dream as easily as crossing a threshold, and with her came the sun, as if Helios's carriage rode atop her billowing black hair. The carnage vanished in her presence, the ground no longer a battlefield but a sloping grassy hill dotted with olive trees. Her bright blue eyes almost glowed, searching the hillside with clear intent.
The King of Ithaca stood, gazing at her as if she were a vision of Aphrodite herself. The blood streaking his face and staining his hands evaporated in the wake of her sunlight, the dead bundle in his arms vanishing with it.
Morpheus stared as well, unable to believe that she stood before them. It was no shaped dream becoming a nightmare, no conjuration of the King’s mind to protect himself. It was her, slipping into his dream as if it were a room in their home. Answering her husband’s desperate cries.
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Fell In Love With You Again by My_Own_Effing_Deliverance for That_Gay_Unoriginal_Bastard
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
11 Oct 2025
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All Odysseus wanted was a relationship with his son.
That was exactly what he got.
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i don't wanna lose it (but i'm not getting through this) by Falcon (obligatory_word)
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
01 Oct 2025
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The night Odysseus came home is the night Penelope issued the challenge.
It is also the night where the suitors have had enough.
(Technically written for day 21 of Erostober, but this is my day 1 fic)
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- Part 3 of sing, o muse, of the cries of the broken
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My Doubtful Web by Poetry_Of_Apollo
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
23 Sep 2025
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“The physician came in earlier,” Odysseus explained, helping her up slightly enough just so she could swallow, tipping the contents into her mouth. “He said you had a mild fever.”
Fever. Penelope resisted the urge to groan.
She had not fallen ill — well, physically ill — when her husband was away, yet now only a few weeks after his return she falls victim to a fever. A part of her wished to find amusement in the irony of it.
(Penelope falls ill. Penelope has fever dreams. They are not pleasant — hardly anything is pleasant when it comes to fevers, really. At the very least, Odysseus is there).
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Telemachus has spent his whole life locked behind the palace walls, a prince in name but a prisoner in truth. With the fire of his father’s blood burning in his veins, he longs for the sea, for battle, for freedom, for a life beyond his mother’s grief and the suitors who mock him in his own halls.
But one night can change everything. One choice can turn a boy into a man, and a dream into destiny.
That's when he met him.
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All The Things I Might Not Be by thehouseofblack
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
13 Sep 2025
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“I am most delighted,” Penelope had said, fingers tightening gently around Ctimene’s hand, her voice earnest with joy. “Truly, most delighted – that Odysseus has a sister. For I–” and there she had laughed softly, as though confessing some girlish hope, “ –I was raised in a house of men, you see. Only brothers I had, loud and brawling, and no beloved sister. I had always longed for an elder sister. And now, the gods have granted one to me at last.”
She looked to Ctimene with wide open eyes, searching for the spark of shared sentiment. But the warmth she offered was not returned.
Ctimene had frowned, her lips parting with a slowness that suggested the words had waited long behind her teeth. She drew back just enough to reclaim the space between them, cold.
(or, in the early days after her arrival to Ithaca, Penelope talks to Ctimene in an effort to get closer to her new husband's sister - it does not go so well)
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- Part 2 of Days of Olive and Honey
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Strung Too Tight by enigma104
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
09 Sep 2025
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She sighs, “Why did you choose him?”
The goddess glances at her, an eyebrow raised, “Who else was there to choose?”Penelope and Athena discuss Odysseus.
Set during the Wisdom Saga.
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Twenty Years You Waited and Forever Will I Be Here by MossArchivist for thehouseofblack
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, The Iliad - Homer
26 Aug 2025
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Penelope waited twenty years for Odysseus. And now he's home. Of course she loves him, but sometimes a thought -- one laced with sadness, pain, and resentment latches in her mind. Odysseus sees it, he feels it, but doesn't know how to respond as his own fears begin to grow.
The story of Penelope's vulnerable moments and Odysseus' attempts to help his wife -- reaching a boiling point that puts them both at their limit. Despite it all, though, their love continues on.
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come and get some (skinnin' the children for a war drum) by Falcon (obligatory_word)
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
22 Aug 2025
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Hermes was not expecting Circe to tell him Odysseus was missing.
He was also not expecting to find the palace in shambles.
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The start of the domino effect that lead Athena into setting Odysseus free. Or, well, near the start of the domino effect. Hermes knew that without Circe, this would have gone on for much longer.
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- Part 2 of sing, o muse, of the cries of the broken
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Penelope thinks her husband is finally home.
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someone who reaches out to my weakness (and won't let go) by cosmotron
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
05 Aug 2025
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It has been over six months since Odysseus returned, and the happiness of having him home is almost too much to be believed.
Though that doesn't stop Penelope's nightmares. Or the awful clawing fear that reaches for her whenever she is alone, when he or Telemachus are out of her sight.
But what does it matter? She wishes to soothe their pains, not burden them with her own. She is fine. She is fine.
(Or, a fic in which Penelope is the one being cared for and comforted for once.)
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Cruelty of the Mind by whenthepawnn
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Odyssey - Homer
01 Aug 2025
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Odysseus has returned, the suitors are dead, and her family is now complete.
Yet, Penelope is still haunted by memories of the wretched men that overtook her halls for years.
One night, after a nightmare, her mind plays a cruel trick on her.
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To Die, To Sleep, Perchance To Dream by Poetry_Of_Apollo
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
23 Jul 2025
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“Will my father really return?”
The world itself seemed to pause at the sound of the question. The winds soften, the grass stilled, the distant bird songs grow quieter, and Grandmother was still silent, pondering.
The silence stretched over the hills, over the planes, over the island, over the vast expanse of the very ocean.
Still, he waited, waited because he had been waiting all of his life, waited because even he knew there was no taking back his words, waited because he feared that if he stopped, the very foundations of the earth and sky would crumble.
(Three years after the end of the war, and Ithaca's King still remains missing while its queen slowly crumbles from within, leaving only the prince to try and salvage the remains of their kingdom.
And while in the underworld, Odysseus does not find his Mother, but rather, someone else.)
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this house says my name like an elegy (echoing where all my ghosts all used to be) by Falcon (obligatory_word)
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
03 Jul 2025
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[‘Clever, clever Penelope,’ the shadows mocked, twisted versions of herself dancing on bloodstained walls. ‘You didn’t hold out enough. You were not strong enough. You couldn’t hold on just a little more for him.’
Her own voice echoed in her own head, as she watched the shadows flicker on the walls, and then down to the fire, burning through a wide-eyed corpse, arrow through his throat, expression permanently placed in a rictus of horror and fear.
‘Burn, Penelope, burn, for your unfaithfulness.’]
“Penelope?” Helen asked, softer, almost like she was speaking to a startled animal, jolting Penelope out of her thoughts of that day. “Breakfast.”
“I’m not hungry,” she whispered, shaking the way Helen’s voice sounded like her own from her head. “I’m going to–” Weave, she was about to say, but she paused, realizing that she didn’t have to weave anymore. “-- go back to work.”
“Pen, you just woke up. Odysseus and Telemachus are worried,” Helen continued, drawing closer to her, and Penelope startled, seeing a flash of Antinous in her movements. Helen paused, seeing the hesitation in her face, bringing her hands up to show she was unarmed, the universal gesture of showing that she wasn’t a danger.
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- Part 1 of sing, o muse, of the cries of the broken
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One Born of A Noble Mother by thehouseofblack
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
27 Jun 2025
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He hated it.
He hated her.
What woman does not stand behind her son?!
Did she not bear him?! Did she not nurse him when he cried at her breast or soothe his childhood fears?! Did she not sit with him beneath Lady Selene’s sky when he was small, teaching him the constellations, naming the winds? Was all of that a lie?! How could she turn her back on him now, when he needed her most?!
Did she not see how they were devouring his home?!
They drank his wine, they slaughtered his herds, they slept in his father’s hall, they spoke of his mother like she was some prize sow fattened for market, something to be taken.
And she sat there, still, calm, refusing.
(or, Telemachus and Penelope's tumultuous relationship before and after Odysseus' return to Ithaca)
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A friend, but The same murderer by Wyno_aqua
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
25 Jun 2025
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Telemachus got a friend in unexpected circumstances, everything seemed to go well until his mother meets with his friend.
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- Part 3 of She was never his friend.
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this one shot is basically telemachus getting his back blown out by antinous and his parents hearing it throughout the night