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I may or may not have written a fanfic based on my last post, but i have never written before. And it is probably also confusing? 😅 Idk i still wanted to post it bc i am curious to see what others think! Criticism is welcome but please be nice :).

(Also i crossposted this on AO3)

Having a trident pushing you under the water for a while isn’t nice.

What Odysseus didn’t expect though, was to open his eyes to what he assumed was the underworld.

This can’t be. He thought, I’m supposed to return to Penelope and Telemachus!

WAIT!

Is that liquid gold splattering on his hands?

How?

AAAAH

His vision suddenly switched, was that.. Poseidon lying there? And why was he being stabbed by his own trident?

HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING HELPLESS?!

Was that his voice? But it can’t be, he is supposed to be in the underworld. Well he is actually supposed to be home with his son and wife but-

Odysseus? My son?

Mom? Was that his mom? So he is dead… oh gods, what is he going to-

AAAH

Why is there still screaming

Ody?

Eurylo-

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW PAIN?

Why does his reality keep on being flipped

URGHH

I WATCHED ALL MY FRIENDS DIE IN HORROR

Captain?

Polites! He is good with emotions and feelings and stuff, he could he-

CRYING AS THEY WERE ALL SLAIN (UGH)

He can’t see

All he saw was gold

I HEARD THEIR FINAL MOMENTS

CALLING THEIR CAPTAIN IN VAIN

There they are! He could see them. They look worried, i need to-

LOOK WHAT YOU’VE TURNED ME INTO

LOOK WHAT I’VE BECOME

ENOUGH!

He can’t handle this.

Everything keeps on switching.

Is he really dead?

ALL OF THE PAIN I’VE BEEN THROUGH

STOP!

Is he really dead if at the same time he is causing this god so much agony?

HAVEN’T I SUFFERED ENOUGH?!

He has but is the person who is saying this him?

Who is this?

STOP!!

But he didn’t stop when i BEGGED YOU

TOLD ME TO CLOSE MY HEART

Odysseus?

Captain?

Son?

YOU…

Answer please!

ODY!

YOU SAID THE WORLD WAS DARK

MONSTER!

That’s what he was wasn’t he? It’s what he called himself. Even a god thought he was a monster now.

But didn’t he say that ruthLESSNESS IS MERCY UPON OUR-

ALRIGHT! PLEASE

After everything you’ve done, how will you sleep at night?

Can he sleep when he’s dead? He did a lot of things, but he didn’t do this? Will he still be able to do sleep if he could? Did he really do this? He didn’t. No he didn’t. But who did? Is there anyo-

Next to my wife

But i’ll never see my wife. I’m dead.

Then who will sleep next to my wife?