Okay I'm feeling kinda silly so imagine if you will,

Odysseus and Penelope walking along the beach with their sons (Astyanax lives :P) just all four of them enjoying finally being together. But then Astyanax points out something floating towards them in the distance—a basket? Astyanax and Telemachus rush forward to investigate their parents following after. Before either boy can step into the water to retrieve it the waves push it forward onto the bank in front of Odysseus's feet. He kneels down, takes the little lid off the basket, and OH! Would you look at that, it's a baby! Covered in a fine silk blanket, cooing up at him with big blue eyes and brown hair so dark it almost looks black, surrounded by seashells and holding a little wooden horse. Both his and Penelope's mouths drop, Astyanax wants to know if they can keep it, and Telemachus is just confused.

...One month later it's 4 AM, Ody and Pen have been up all night and they've just gotten the baby to sleep—she's teething and the thunder keeps scaring her awake. Anyway, both flop on the bed ready to sleep for the next twelve hours when someone starts knocking on the bedroom door. The couple freezes, eyes darting to the baby which is thankfully still asleep. They both let out a sigh of relief before the knocking starts up again and Odysseus physically fights the urge to scream as Penelope tries to force herself up to get the door. Ody tells her to lay back down, he's got it and goes to open the door.

All words die in his throat when he finds Hermes on the other side. Great grandpappy smiles, shoves a bundle into his hands and takes off after saying "Congratulations, darling!". Odysseus is dumbfounded but quickly realizes that "Wait, this thing is moving" looks down at the bundle and OH SHIT! It's a baby! A chunky little baby boy with dirty blonde and eyes that shine with a color like the morning sun, wrapped in a blanket as soft as clouds! Penelope is about to ask what's wrong but the question dies in her throat as her husband turns around and reveals their new son.

I’ve had Epic the Musical on repeat while drawing the Thirty Years AU comic, so here’s a very unserious Gravity Falls Odyssey AU where Ford thinks he’s Odysseus, the clever hero under divine guidance, but the real Odysseus is Nobody, aka Stan, the misfortunate man trying to get home. To Ford, Bill is Athena. To Stan, Bill is Polyphemus. 

More zeury content for y’all.

Don't run—he likes the chase—and DO NOT turn your back to him, just back away slowly until you're back on the boat...

Epic au with mermaid!Penelope

Okay, I don’t know a lot about Greek mythology but I like Epic and Odypen enough to write this. I literally have no thoughts on this au except Ody and his crew are like lost at sea and separated from the rest of their fleet and don’t know where to go(maybe Odysseus pissed Posideon off again)

basically a pod of sirens spot them, including Penelope. I image she’s a half siren or some sort of sea creature(mermaid adjacent) who travels with the sirens. The sirens just want to attack them but Penelope offers a different idea. She suggests she pretends to be a human and help them until they find the rest of their fleet. The sirens could follow behind them and when all the humans are in one spot, then they could attack.

Odysseus isn’t dumb. He can tell Since, as Odysseus says, sirens know every route throughout the sea, he pretends to not to know she’s not human and accepts her help. He reassures his crew that he’ll kill her and her pod once they find their way home.

Basically the two fall in love and are kinda stalling to keep their crew/friends from killing the other. This is what I imagine:

Sirens: Penny, why haven’t you given us the signal? It’s been weeks

Penelope who was zoning out while staring at Odysseus’s ass:Umm, it wasn’t the right time. The sun is too high up. I’ll give the signal later!

Eurylochus: Captain, we are getting close to home. We should kill the sirens before we get any closer

Odysseus breaks out of his daydream of imagining his wedding with Penelope: What? No, that would be illogical. If we run into any trouble later we won’t have their help to get us out of it. I promise when we are close enough, we’ll make them all bleed

If anyone actually read this, feel free to add ideas or try to make this au make more sense

Sirens: Penelope—*sigh*—Penny it's okay if you've fallen in love with one of the humans, it wouldn't be the first time someone has, just be honest with us damn it!

Penelope: What!? Noooo, of course not!

Sirens: ...It's the one with the really nice thighs isn't it?

Penelope: Seriously you could crush a watermelon between those things, they're glorious—!

Eurylochus: Brother please tell me you haven't fallen in love with a siren!

Odysseus: .....

Eurylochus: For fucks sake—it's a SIREN Odysseus! THAT THING HAS DEFINITELY EATEN PEOPLE!

Odysseus: And I hope I'm next on the menu

Eurylochus: ...I'm bout to beat your ass—

What if Penelope was looking out her window, trying to distract herself from everything going around her, trying to watch the birds.

When something catches her eye.

A blot in the wine dark sea.

A raft.

She gets up and runs to the window with the best view of the sea.

It is.

It's him.

Her husband is home. After 20 years of pain, he's finally home.

She can almost hear his voice.

But something is wrong.

The raft stops.

And waits a few seconds.

And begins moving at breakneck speed away from the island.

She cries out, falling to her knees and crying.

She cries for hours and there is only one soul that could comfort her.

And that soul was just dragged away from her by the god of the sea himself.

Telemachus tries. He doesn't even know why his mother is crying but he tries.

He sits with her for hours trying to calm her down, get her to say something, anything that would clue him in.

But she doesn't. She just cries.

hades, watching 600 shades chanting and uplifting their brother and king and captain and friend, helping him fight Poseidon : I was not aware they could do that.

thanatos: it's the power of friendship, my lord.

persephone, ignoring both of them, thoroughly entertained: FUCK HIM UP!!!