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—