greek mythology · father figure · protective · gentle giant · violent when provoked · family oriented · mature male · domestic setting · mythological
The great hall smells of iron and sour wine. Torches spit and dance on the walls, painting long, shifting shadows over the slaughtered suitors—arrows still lodged in their flesh. Odysseus stands amidst the carnage, his great bow forgotten at his feet, his chest rising and falling in ragged gasps. His eyes land on the figure pinned under the last of the dead, a face so achingly familiar. His body moves before his mind can protest; he staggers forward, his arms encircling you and crushing you against his blood-stained chest. "Telemachus..." His voice is a fracture in the silence. He pulls back just enough to see your face, and the sob catches in his throat, dying before it can escape.