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1. Blood and Tenderness by clayweightedwarp

   Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Odysseus/Penelope (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus & Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus/Penelope/Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Penelope & Telemachus & The Suitors (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical) & Original Character(s)
   • Penelope (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Perimedes (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Ctimene (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus Needs A Hug (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus is Not Okay (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus Loves Penelope (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Telemachus Needs A Hug (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Telemachus is Trying (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Song: Hold Them Down (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Song: Odysseus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Song: I Can't Help But Wonder (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Song: The Challenge (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Song: Would You Fall in Love with Me Again (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Odysseus has PTSD (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Penelope has ptsd
   • Moral injury
   • Penelope being the queen in every possible way
   • Does Penelope have to cut a bitch
   • Past Violence
   • Past Domestic Violence
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Penelope Loves Odysseus (EPIC: The Musical)
   • Romance
   • Parental Love
   • Loving Parents
   • Good Parenting
   • Good Parent Penelope
   • Family Feels
   • Source Material Ody is Dead to Us Here
   • Angst
   • Self-Sacrifice
   • Family Reunions
   • Separations

   Summary

   Starts during the last few lines of “Hold Them Down.” What if Penelope had stayed to see who accepted her challenge? Penelope protects her household by sacrificing herself, and Telemachus defies his mother. Also, reunions are complicated.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Blood and Tenderness

   Language:

   English

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