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Unbound by PersimmonInk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, HOMER - Works, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
08 Apr 2026
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Odysseus is back from the war - but had to slaughter his subjects in order to regain his crown.
Penelope must learn to rule with him at her side again. And then there's the matter of the quest he still needs to complete in order to appease Poseidon. It is a long road back to happiness - if they can get there.
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- Part 3 of The Edge of the World
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Odysseus's Homecoming by PersimmonInk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), HOMER - Works, The Odyssey - Homer
12 Jan 2026
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Penelope sets up the final contest for the suitors as her son watches next to the strange beggar. The suitors try to string the bow, ending with Telemachus shooing Penelope from the room. She retreats to her bedroom where she feels almost drugged and sleeps, but to horrible nightmares.
Eurycleia wakes her urgently and brings her to Telemachus and the beggar - whom she still does not recognize.
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The Queen & the Beggar by PersimmonInk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
09 Jan 2026
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Penelope, Queen of Ithaca, meets with a strange beggar as night falls on the palace. Unbeknownst to her, he is actually her husband Odysseus, finally returned from the War of Troy (Ilium).
Written from Penelope's POV.
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Waiting by PersimmonInk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer, HOMER - Works, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
08 Jan 2026
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Odysseus goes off to war, leaving Penelope and Telemachus to defend Ithaca. Penelope trains a fighting force, puts down uprisings, and weathers storms. Then - after the war is over and Odysseus should return - she and Telemachus deal with the uncertainty of a finished war but no returning hero. The suitors descend, and Penelope and Telemachus are defending Ithaca once again.
Odysseus returns. And it's a mess.
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- Part 2 of The Edge of the World
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Sparrow by PersimmonInk
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
18 Jul 2025
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Penelope has always been labeled as the "good wife", and her marriage as an ideal marriage with a "like-minded" husband.
But she was also a daughter in Sparta, where women were trained physically just like the men. She was a daughter of a Naiad, and so was half-divine. She ruled Ithaca without male help for 20 years - an island in an area known for its piracy. She had mean skills and the backing of the divine. She was every bit the hero that her husband was...and her story began before she even met him.
WARNING: The character of Odysseus is morally gray. As Homer says, he was "complicated." Kings of the time murdered, raped, pillaged (Need more livestock? Go steal some!), and were a law unto themselves. I am trying to walk a thin line between not rewriting history and also writing for a contemporary audience. There is reference to rape in Chapter 15. It is not explicit. Violence is not graphic, but is part of this story.
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- Part 1 of The Edge of the World
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The Edge of the World by PersimmonInk
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), HOMER - Works, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer
08 Apr 2026
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My Homeward Way Has Proved Too Long by thehouseofblack
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
26 Nov 2025
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“The indignity!” The words burst like a stone through still water, shattering the quiet in an instant.
Neoptolemus’ voice carried the hot edge of outrage, and the man stepped forward with a disdain that seemed to ripple from every line of his frame. “To think of it, that I should trade words with men such as you, base as the dust beneath my feet!”
“And what meaning lies in those words of yours?!” Orestes shot back without pause. His hands tightened into fists, his breath coming fast.
The words were flung like spears, not thought through even for a mere moment. It was simply two men reacting before reason could catch them, the way a startled ox rears before recognising friend from foe.
The echo of their voices rolled through, stark and utterly graceless against the mountain’s serene hush.
Telemachus sighed.
(or, when Telemachus is called upon to adjudicate the matter of Hermione's groom, he alongside Hermione, Neoptolemus and Orestes, find themselves back in time to the 9th year of the Trojan War, in the middle of Achilles and Agamemnon's argument)
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27 Nov 2025
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My Love I Kept You Well by thehouseofblack
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
20 Apr 2025
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Aphrodite had foreseen Paris' triumph – her triumph, in truth. The moment his eyes would fall upon Helen of Sparta, he would understand: this was the reward for his devotion, this was the woman the gods themselves had deemed worthy of a prince so favoured.
She had not foreseen his rejection.
Had not expected him to turn away from the prize she had laid before him, to spurn the very woman he had once coveted with all his heart.
Nor had she anticipated that his desire would stray – not to another queen, most certainly not to Helen’s own cousin.
Penelope of Sparta.
(Or, after coming across a portrait of Penelope during his time in Sparta, Paris of Troy switches his kidnapping victim from Helen to Penelope. This proves far more detrimental than anyone could have imagined - a spark burning so bright that even the Gods on Olympus are caught in its flames.)
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- Part 1 of A Shifted Song of Troy
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17 Apr 2025
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and all the years we should have had by jamais_vu0
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
25 Jul 2025
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The ship came to their shores in the third year after the war ended.
One ship, just one, and Penelope stood on the clifftop near her husband’s palace and looked down upon the harbor below, and clenched her fist in her himation until it was wrapped around her so tight that it was imprinting its weave pattern onto her skin. Just one ship, and the men she could see disembarking were too few to be fifty, and none turned to hare instantly up the hill towards her.
Penelope turned away to head into the palace, to wait for the bad news to find her.
(odysseus chooses to sacrifice himself, and penelope chooses not to let him go)
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10 Apr 2025
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Defying Fate - An Odyssey/Epic Fic by mydnyteraven
Fandoms: EPIC: The Musical, The Odyssey - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
02 Jan 2025
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An Odyssey Fanfiction based on EPIC: the musical, and a tumblr post I read a while back of Odysseus meeting and adopting the prophet Cassandra, who had been cursed so that "Nobody would believe her."
Of course, if he's going to adopt Cassandra, who he never met in the OG story... why not adopt the kid he was supposed to yeet over a wall, and perhaps change the fate of what's supposed to happen along the way!?
But having a seer on board is not as helpful as I thought it would be...
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- English
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- 37/?
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06 Mar 2025
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Half of Myself by opalknit
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Apr 2025
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Everyone's soul matches the fabric of another, their skin a tapestry of their soulmate's scars. For Odysseus and Penelope, this is no different, or is it?
or: I found out that there were only a few soulmate AUs in the epic tag and had to do something about it.
Tags will update as story progresses.- Language:
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- 15/?
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13 Feb 2025