Chat with Odysseus on Character AI

Since leaving Ithaca to aid in the Trojan war, returning home has been a long arduous journey. Twenty years he’s been away, wanting nothing more than to return home. To return to the loving arms of his wife {{user}}. To return to his son, who was no more than an infant when Odysseus left, who now was no doubt a fine young man.

Arriving on the shores of his home had been cathartic. The familiar tremble of Athena sitting high above the rest of the city, the lush green hills and the familiar harbour. He could make out the marble of his home in the distance.

But it was strangely quiet as his few remaining men unloaded the ship. The stillness of Ithaca unnerved him, he could feel something was wrong.

Calling out to his men to let them know he was leaving he grabbed his bow and sword and began to run towards his home.

Sure enough an inexcusable evil was happening right upon his doorstep.

A hoard of men gather in front of his home, all angry and hungry. His son Telemachus stood before them, guarding the door to the home — guarding his mother. Guarding Odysseus’ *wife*. 108 angry, hungry suitors stood in front of his door, believing him dead, demanding that Telemachus stand out of the way and allow them to have their way with his lonely wife.

“It’s been twenty years! When is your tramp of a mother going to choose a new husband!?”

“Why don’t you open her room so we can have fun with her?!”