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The sons of Odysseus. Some time after his return...
This universe is... funny.
And by that, I mean it exists in the multiverse.
Shortly after Odysseus' return home and good ol' suitor slaughtering, he is wisked away by gods of a foreign universe.
Telemachus became harder on the outside from his prior abuse from the suitors, and the ever distant Telegonus (born from Circe) would avoid killing his father on the account that he physically wasn't there.
FINEEE i'll draw your stupid greek mythology people
Why are you writing about the forbidden play?. it´s not real, it´s an hallucination, the Telegony was lost for a reason, also is way more modern than the Epic Cycle, is bad fanfiction, like a shipper´s dream making not canon relations, Odysseus was s.a, Circe´s didn´t have a crush on him in the Odyssey.
In the Telegony, they have a child Telegonus, the boy is not bad, but a little mary suey, like everything he does, is good, like killing his father because he became mad (Odysseus) and didn´t know it was Circe´s child. Like man please let Ody and Pen have a happy live and the same for Circe´s.
And I, enjoyed Madeline's Circe, until the Odysseus part because then I realized it made canon the Telegony!, arrghhh, welp sorry for the rant, but yeah that´s the reason they´re in hell and burning for all eternity. :D
waiting.
odysseus gets sent to the underworld after his death, only telemachus and penelope were both made immortal in the telegony so now HE'S the one waiting for them.
he's eternally looking to the edges of elysium, just waiting for their figures to come across the horizon and being able to hold them in his arms again.
Hahahaha, then go ahead and make it canon, angst is something so magnificent when correctly built.
Hope you have fun, but please make it better, the bar is low
waiting.
odysseus gets sent to the underworld after his death, only telemachus and penelope were both made immortal in the telegony so now HE'S the one waiting for them.
he's eternally looking to the edges of elysium, just waiting for their figures to come across the horizon and being able to hold them in his arms again.
That might have been a cool way to solve it, but Circe´s role in that might be so messy...(I´m letting imagination run free cause it´s way worse than you might think).
Also it makes Odysseus "children" Telemachus children, and I prefer this over that, but yeah....thematically, character development and so on..The Telegony is awful in all senses. It only creates new character for foundational purposes and does 180º in all preexisting ones, Circe, Odysseus( from faithfull husband to rampant cheater and worse), Penelope(from a wife that was hoping to see her husband to apathetic and marrying a literal child), like, nonono...
Also for better fluff, let Odysseus be with Penelope!! (or the two both die in their loving arms as cute old grandparents or make them inmortal, the two must be united!!!) and when the two goes away; then Telemachus can embark in his journey (Telemachy, it´s also the name of the five books of the Odyssey, hahaha).
It not only avoids the icky parts of the Telegony but get´s a better plot, and maybe if you really want to make Telegonus a thing, make it Circe and Telemachus son, not Odysseus...
Crack Idea where the Telegony is actually about Oddyseus giving Telemachus an adventure of his own to be recognized and remembered as a cool hero or smth, while he enjoys the rest of his years with Penelope ruling Ithica. Telemachus goes on to finish the tasks Odysseus was asked for in book 11.