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  Fandoms: EPIC: The Troy Saga - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Album), EPIC: The Musical  

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  05 Feb 2023

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Odysseus & Polites (EPIC: The Musical)
  • Minor Odysseus/Polites (EPIC: The Musical) - Relationship
  • Odysseus (EPIC: The Musical)
  • Polites (EPIC: The Musical)
  • major mentions of achilles and patroclus but neither shows up
  • hand-wavy odysseus and polites being together
  • penelope is still odysseus's wife whom he loves
  • so penelope/odysseus too
  • Canonical Character Death
  • sorry polites
  • switching POVs
  • unbetad we die like polites
  • LMAO

  Summary

  Polites, this gentle captain of arms, a man vicious enough in his own right against the Trojans, emerges from the war honest and clear-eyed.

  Odysseus returns from slaughtering the son of Hector.
  -
  or, Odysseus loves Polites, Polites loves Odysseus.
  (But love can only change so much, and what is two men against the wrath of the gods?)

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