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The best angst with a happy ending OdyPen (Odysseus/Penelope) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. It is the emotional rollercoaster with a guaranteed safe landing; readers can surrender completely to the pain because the tag has already promised the dawn.

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Nobody believes me

Angst with a Happy Ending

by estelle_reads_things

In the ninth year of the Trojan War, Odysseus and Diomedes are sent on a mission behind enemy lines to infiltrate the Trojans forces. There they would find a man who would give them information in exchange for his life. But this story follows a slightly different path. Instead of finding information

285 kudos 56,329 words 20/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Measure of Mortality

by TherapyBard

Athena goes to Zeus in private to request Odysseus's freedom. Instead of striking Athena, Zeus offers her a deal. He will release Odysseus from Ogygia if Athena agrees to spend a year as a mortal in Odysseus's palace. With little say in the matter, she accepts. On Ithaca, Athena awakes in the body o

1,130 kudos 148,414 words 68/? chapters Not Rated
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petrichor

by amarcellus

Pat is an overlooked nurse at Atalanti General Hospital. His days are filled with appointments, assisting doctors and caring for the unwell. Until someone attempts to assassinate President Atremenos. What follows is not definable, as Pat's anonymity comes to an end and he is thrust upon a pedestal l

647 kudos 211,077 words 28/100 chapters Mature
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Golden Waves |Epic x MCU|

by NebulousMoon3990

Odysseus is paying for his mistakes. On his journey home, the king of Ithaca faced challenges no mortal could imagine.War, monsters, betrayals, imprisonment, and the gods. All this just to return to Penelope and Telemachus. And he returned home, but facing destiny has its price. Cursed with immortal

536 kudos 14,468 words 9/? chapters Not Rated
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You Can’t Kill Me

by Thatgurlkir4

Odysseus survived war, monsters, and the sea itself. What he has not survived is peace. Years after returning to Ithaca, he finds the world too quiet, too gentle and himself restless. When he sails again, he discovers that Poseidon’s wrath is far from over… and that the god’s greatest weapon might n

240 kudos 69,059 words 67/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Ilium's Greatest Protector

by Anonymous

He stared out at the vast oceans longingly. They'd been traveling for days and were running low on supplies. That's when they spotted an island kingdom. A Greek kingdom. The Trojan's were still on bad terms with Greece... Would they be welcomed on the island to restock their supplies? Or Before the

94 kudos 14,564 words 9/? chapters Mature
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False Equity, Divine Judgment

by 1Sami

As Odysseus has continued on his journey full of trials, his life has become quite the topic of debate up in Olympus, even while the mortals back in his kingdom think him long dead. At one point, however, the fun topic of who is in the right sparks an argument that quickly boils over and the gods ar

69 kudos 13,020 words 8/? chapters General Audiences
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An ~Epic~ group chat

by 1_wr1t3_stuff

Basically if Epic: the Musical characters had access to phones

45 kudos 7,462 words 14/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Tales of wasted time and honey

by insonniacaotica

"Whoever can string my husband's old bow and shoot through twelve axes cleanly will be the new king, and sit down at the throne of Ithaca." Penelope thought she knew despair. It had been a constant feeling, a companion every candlelit night as she unraveled the shroud. It was the ache in her chest e

40 kudos 46,152 words 17/37 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Odyssey

by BubblesKat

A full-cast reading of The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Ian Johnston This podfic is done with direct permission from the author, and this work has been added to the Public Domain. The main page of the original work, which you can access through This Link, states:This text is in the public domain

35 kudos 690 words 9/24 chapters Mature
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No Grave Can Hold My Body Down (I'll Crawl Home To Her)

by housecat3

It had been ten long years, but the war was finally wrapping up. Odysseus had one goal in mind, getting back to his beloved Penelope and Telemachus. Nothing will stand in his way. The Zombie Apocalypse Odyssey AU!! Updates twice a week!

31 kudos 73,841 words 16/21 chapters Mature
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Orgullo divino

by Lisaki00

❝ Estás en todo tu derecho de ignorarme, pero si acaso vas a quedarte con algún consejo mío hoy, deseo con todo mi corazón que sea este que te digo porque te quiero y porque lo considero lo mejor, Penélope: aléjate de ese chico. Nada bueno saldrá de un descendiente de Hermes. ❞ ❝ Ningún nieto mío se

20 kudos 164,907 words 23/24 chapters General Audiences
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The love story's 2nd life

by cat_obsessed_flower

this is basically the foxes and more react to their past life as the characters in Epic the musical, there are cut songs included but not all

17 kudos 2,303 words 2/43 chapters Not Rated
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The Collapse - Book 2 - Epeiros

by Pellworm

The Odyssey ended with a thunderbolt hurled at goddess bright-eyed Athene’s feet and a hurried peace. Most of the rest of the Epic Cycle is lost to us in history. Yet this thunderbolt was not the end of the story, just another beginning. Important: This will be a series of "books" that should be rea

15 kudos 21,537 words 6/15 chapters Mature
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Room 505

by Odanny

After the sunset of their relationship Hermes and Odysseus face a dark night, but no matter how long it lasts, the sun must rise eventually.. right? Or, five times Odysseus shows up to the hotel room unannounced, one time he doesn't. More tags to be added. Random updates.

12 kudos 9,316 words 3/6 chapters Explicit
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Re: Odyssey Series The Curse of the Golden Apple

by mjtanner

Eris, the goddess of chaos, hates Odysseus of Ithaca for ending the Trojan War. It was her war. She started it. Who is this nobody to end it? She's furious that he's made it home to Ithaca after 20 years of torment, and she'll stop at nothing to make sure he never gets to live happily ever after. Th

10 kudos 44,533 words 32/? chapters Not Rated
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finally home

by orphan_account

When she saw the healed cuts, the roasted skin, the dark circles, the gaunt cheekbones… Penelope weeped to herself. How, in shape and eyes, he looked just like their son, Telemachus…that is, if Telemachus had been raked over coals and dragged through tartarus. There he was, the man she fell in love

10 kudos 1,578 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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I'll greet the world with open arms until my luck runs out

by StellalovesEpic

okay so if you never read anything of mine before hi I'm Stella and my life is kinda cray jk but Stella is my OC basicaly Odysseus's daugther that somehow gets on the ship that he is on in this AU the trojan war only lasts a year and they take less time getting back because everybody lives!I can alr

8 kudos 6,242 words 10/? chapters General Audiences
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Just a Man

by Your_Dream

A seaman's life, an old story, new coasts.

4 kudos 58,888 words 18/20 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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El Secreto De La Realeza

by danniel_kzyz

Telémaco, príncipe y heredero al trono de Ítaca, siempre se comparo con su padre, nunca lo conoció, no sabía nada de él más que las historias que contaba el aedo, su madre, o las mismas criadas del palacio.Aun así, su hogar, su mesa, su salón y los pasillos estaban repletos de pretendientes esperand

0 kudos 1,323 words 2/? chapters General Audiences

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Why Angst with a Happy Ending OdyPen Fanfiction Works So Well

Odysseus/Penelope — EPIC: The Musical compresses the Odyssey into a saga of one man clawing home to his wife — and Penelope unraveling a shroud for twenty years because she never stopped believing. 'Would you fall in love with me again' became the animatic community's collective weeping point.

Angst with a Happy Ending — One of AO3's most trusted tags: the story will hurt — sometimes brutally — but it promises in advance that the characters come out the other side. The contract lets writers go dark and readers follow without bracing for devastation.

Twenty years, six hundred men, one bed carved from an olive tree; the most married couple in Western literature, finally with leitmotifs. It is the emotional rollercoaster with a guaranteed safe landing; readers can surrender completely to the pain because the tag has already promised the dawn. That's why angst with a happy ending OdyPen fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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