Epic Telemachus - Blog Posts

We love banished!Athena in this house

More banished Athena content! Which will be put under a banished!athena AU tag from now on :3

live Telemachus reaction

Epic The Musical Fanart [TW:BLOOD AND INJURY]

Lemme tell you I've been on an Epic the Musical brainrot since the Ithaca Saga dropped, it's absolutely stellar and captivating and congrats to Jorge for completing such a masterpiece and sharing it with us all over the years!!

I was inspired by the royals of Ithaca and our beautiful owl lady and wanted to attempt to capture any of their power and this is how I chose to do so (I didn't have much choice, the gremlin locked in my brain told me I had to do it 😂👀)

Listening to Little Wolf on loop isn’t enough, I need Telamachus to fucking upercut me.

i am aeolus and telemarketing gang trust

Whelp- guess I'm cleaning this up...by myself

-Tel

Odysseus: No, you're cuter

Penelope: No, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 cuter

Odysseus: No, 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 cuter

Telemachus: There are literally over 100 people dead in our house, guys.

@the-wild-west-sys uncle Poseidon

-Tel

Antonius: Only the ocean and I will know~

Poseidon: Oh Tartarus nah!

Poseidon: The ocean will snitch! The ocean will snitch so hard!

Poseidon: The ocean will be pulling up to your king with a clipboard, tell him to sit down, and explain in incredible detail everything that happened with bullet points.

Poseidon: The ocean will be showing a PowerPoint presentation of the event.

Athena is the member at family gatherings who is somehow the most responsible but will also help you throw down verbally or physically against anyone she sees as fit for punishment

goddess of wisdom, master of war

The way most kids would love this shows that she’s the best aunt

She's still getting used to being an aunt

Why Telemachus Wasn’t Trained to Fight

Learning how to be a warrior was typically a fairly important part of an Ancient Greek prince’s education. That would likely be the case in Ithaca too as we can see with Odysseus even as a boy. No untrained child would have been able to defeat Athena’s boar so he clearly was taught to fight. So why was Telemachus not given the same? There’s perfectly able guards so it wouldn’t be from a lack of people to teach him.

Then I started thinking about how much more threatened by his presence the suitors would be if Telemachus could hold his own in combat. His mere existence is already a claim to the throne but they see him as unfit and too soft for the crown. They might not have waited so long to try to get rid of him if that perception didn’t hold. So Penelope might have intentionally withheld that part of his studies to make him seem less dangerous to the suitors.

No one would have thought twice about pushing around someone they knew could take it no matter their age, but the way that Telemachus says that they’re “getting” dangerous in ‘Legendary’ implies that it’s a new development. Sure, they could just be tired of waiting (which certainly still plays a part) but fighting an untrained twenty year old sounds much better than fighting an untrained fourteen year old.

Your month, your underrated Odyssey incident

January - Telemachus throwing his staff on the ground and bursting into tears

February - Antinous slamming Odysseus with a stool

March - Telemachus lamenting that the gods have forsaken him while Athena, in disguise, is right beside him

April - Odysseus hiding under sheep and behind faeces while escaping the cyclops

May - Odysseus taunting the cyclops even while he throws giant boulders at him

June - Ctesippus throwing a cow’s hoof at Odysseus

July - Nausicaa and her handmaidens washing clothes naked at the riverbank when they find Odysseus, also naked

August - Odysseus wanting to kill Eurylochus at Circe’s island

September - Peisistratus becoming an “intimate friend” of Telemachus

October - Odysseus lying to a disguised Athena, which impresses and amuses her

November - the suitors making excuses for their bad archery, with Antinous blaming it on the fact that it’s the day of Apollo’s feast

December - Penelope getting the suitors to give her gifts, delighting Odysseus by her cunning

"Telephones didn't exist in Ancient Greece." What do you mean?? Odysseus literally had one.

The Royal family

My Telemachus design interacting with messy's Telemachus design! @messymoonmad

Nine months in my womb... TO LOOK LIKE HIS MOTHER?!

Original meme by: @/the_angler_mann on twitter

Deep down I would trade the world to see my son and wife...

"You're a good kid."

"Thanks!"

My design for Telemachus!

He wants to be Legendery

This is absolutely the song I’m most exited about in the Ithaca saga, I will be weeping !!

Obviously this is all very inspired by the amazing @gigizetz , those epic animations are incredible!!

what do you mean this isn't what happened

Athena: deciding to go easy on Telemachus while they’re sparring to brighten his spirits because he’s getting bummed out from sucking at using a spear

Telemachus: actually doing pretty decent since Athena is fighting like she normally would

Zeus, sensing that someone is actually doing a good job at fighting Athena: THUNDER

Telemachus: “where did that thunder come from? It’s sunny.”

Athena, who has thunder trauma: stabs out of defensive reflex

@mer-acle this is the poor explanation of what you inspired me to write