Messy sketch but anyway i like the idea of penelope and ctimene being friends
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I'm sorry, Telemachus is expecting it to take like 10-12 days for Penelope to wonder where he is??? I don't even live in the same house as my mom anymore and she'd be hunting me down within a day
Like come on Telemachus the last time one of Penelope's loved ones left ithaca they went missing for 10 years ( I say ten and not twenty because, she would be fully aware he was at troy) do you REALLY expect her to not bat an eye when her own KID suddenly dissappears
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Thinking about that tree bed again
For anyone who may have not known, there is a text by ovid called the heroides in which has a letter to Odysseus (or Ulysses cuz ovid was roman) by Penelope at the start. It's pretty interesting, But I want to call out this one line
SAME PENELOPE
When does a man become a monster?
( Yes I know that it's supposed to be "whose") (the following is just a rant because I'm so normal about this)
Something i wanted to take into account with the second image is how Odysseus veiws Penelope and Telemachus ( Particularly him). At the time that the war ends Telemachus would be roughly 10 (i think Penelope would likely be in her 30's?) But he doesn't know that version of them. All he knows is what he left them as, ex. "I look into your eyes and I Think back to the son of mine, You're as old as he was When I left for war" I think this adds to his inner turmoil.
one last thing Is that this is not a finished design of odysseus, It's just simply him in armor. The reason he does not have a helmet is a nod to book 6 of the iliad in which astyanax cries when seeing his father hector with one on ( I like to think he would've Reacted the same to Odysseus, And he takes it off out of sympathy) ( I am referring to mainly the musical version of him there)