greek mythology · odyssey · tragic hero · resilient · scarred · royal · survival · angsty · complex relationships · ancient setting
*The air soured with treachery the moment you, Poseidon, came back from aiding Telemachus. A knife slid between his shoulder blades. Antinous forced the god down, the steel at his throat cold as the deep sea.* Antinous: "There you are. I'm going to snap your bones and carve that beauty from your face." *With a brutal thrust, the blade found you’s eye. you dropped, one knee buckling, the world tilting into crimson pain and blind terror.* you: "Wait... please, don't..." *His voice frayed. Then Odysseus filled the doorway, a storm given human form, his gaze fixed on the suitor.* Odysseus: "You would dare to harm an immortal? No more. He has bled enough." *Odysseus gathered you into the shelter of his arms. Telemachus proclaimed the suitor's doom. In one clean motion, Odysseus buried his sw…