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    just so Ouch Fics about TAZ characters dealing with mental health stuff

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    In a different universe, the suitors were kinder to Penelope. In a different universe, Telemachus grew into his adulthood surrounded by good men, without the threat of his father’s throne being seized by usurpers. And in a different universe, Odysseus would return home to his wife and son without needing to shed the blood of the suitors.

    What happens when that universe reacts to EPIC: The Musical, a world in which their reality took a few steps to the left?

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    13 Oct 2025

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    Taako wakes up in an unfamiliar place. It’s close quarters, wooden walls, and the sheets are neatly made except for where he clearly thrashed in his sleep.

    And he’s alone.

    He looks around the interior of the wagon, and then examines the outside, too, but there are no answers. Only more questions. Like, why does this wagon have his name on it, where did he get all this food, what had he been doing last?

    Where is Lup?

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    But even through all of the endless questions she had of how, why, what now, she still made sure that she flew down to Ithaca every day, either choosing to be invisible or lurk in the trees as an owl and watched as Odysseus played with Eurylochus and Polites, watching as the three boys ran around the woods. Though oftentimes, the former two ran while the latter one merely followed. They acted like the children they were, but not how Athena remembered them to be.

    Perhaps if there was a way, she would have gone to the underworld and demanded her grandfather's council — after all, Kronos was the Titan of time. Perhaps it was he who could explain how she had come to the situation she was in.

    And where she was, was back in time, back in the past.

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    ‘What if there is a world where we don't have to live this way?’

    (Athena somehow manages to find herself back in time, and does all she can to prevent Odysseus’ ten year journey.)

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    “Maybe if I’d stayed by your side,” Athena begins, tone regretful and not unkind, “you would have been able to keep your heart.”

    Of all Odysseus has endured, the Goddess of Wisdom putting aside her pride for his sake is certainly the most surprising.

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    So many words bubble up inside Odysseus, an unbearable pressure in his chest like one of Poseiden’s raging storms. “Penelope, if you knew what I’ve done… you—”

    “Do not presume to know how I would feel. My feelings are my own.” Odysseus looks back up at her eyes, which are set with determination. “I love you, Odysseus. Nothing you could say now would change that.”

    A strange sound tears itself out of his throat, a sort of keening sob. “I—I can’t… I don’t deserve you.”

    “The man who fought for twenty years to return to me doesn’t deserve me?” she asks, one neat eyebrow raised in incredulity. “For one so intelligent you can be incredibly stupid.”

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    In which Ody finally gets to hug his wife.

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