Odysseus

Early life: Odysseus was raised on the island of Ithaca. He spent many of his early years with his best friend, Polites. They spent their time running through forests and looking for threats to fight. During this time, Odysseus defeated Athena's magical boar and potentially took a blow to protect Polites. At the age of nine, his father warned him that he was losing his mind, and that soon, Odysseus would inherit the throne. He then becomes King of Ithaca at age thirteen. A couple of years later, he would meet Penelope, whom he would admire for her mind and demeanor. He would marry her soon thereafter, making her Queen of Ithaca, and have a child, Telemachus, with her.

Jurney back: After won war in Troy, Odysseus took all his 600 man back to sea to sail home. But running out of supplies to eat for all the man they decide to stop at first island they see. Unfortunately, there was nothing edible on the island as lotus-eaters occupied it, but the kind creatures helped Odysseus and pointed him to cave with many sheep inside. Odysseus leads a small group into the cave, where they find enough sheep to feed their entire fleet. But the sheep belong to Cyclops Polyphemus. After failed talks fight ensues and Polites, and several more man killed by the cyclops, which Odysseus blinds in return before taking all his sheep back to ship and sailing away.

Cyclops was Poseidon's son, and said God came to crush Odysseus's fleet as revenge on his son's behalf, Leaving Odysseus with only 50 men from the original 600. Crushed Odysseus ends up on Circe Island, where she sends him to the underworld to evade angered Poseidon and find a way with the help of the prophet Tiresias. Unfortunately, Tiresias tells him he cannot help and gives him a bloody vision of the future.

Out of the underworld, the rest of the crew found sirens, whom he persuaded to tell him how to sail around Poseidon. They told him to sail through the lair of Scylla. Satysfied Odysseus, no longer being the kind man he was, ordered his man to cut the tails off the sirens and let them drown as he sailed on. Taking the teachings of Poseidon that ruthlessness is mercy on yourself, he didn't tell his man about Scylla and willingly sacrificed six of his remaining men.

After getting away from Scylla the rest of surviving crew does mutiny against him as they feared there wasn't anything he woudnt do to get back to Ithica to his son and wife. Sadly the crew, starved and beaten down stumbled on island with immortal cows that belonged to god. Not listening to Odysseus they tried killing one god, angering Helios who ended Zeus at them. Zeus gave Odysseus ultimatum, either he kills all his crew, or only Odysseus. Odysseus chose his crew ́s death. Ending his 10 year sailing on sea.

After being stuck on Calipsos island for 10 torturous years, Hermes comes on behalf of Athena to free Odysseus and sent him back on his way to Ithaca. On the way Odysseus evades Charybdis and its whirlpools. But with Ithaca on horizon Poseidon shows himself as he was waiting for Odysseus. After fruitlessly pleading to just let him through and trying to make Poseidon understand mercy Odysseus closes his heart after the god threatens to blind his son Telemachus like Odysseus did to cyclops, being it last straw he attack Poseidon with his own trident and makes the god beg for him to stop as gods cannot die.

In the end returning to his island after 20 years, Odysseus pretends to be beggar on streets and sneaks into his own palace to observe what is happening with the suitors, each day getting angrier as he hears the man talk about hurting his son and having their way with his wife. He plans to kill all the suitors without any mercy given with his bow and sword from shadows, as no mercy was ever given to him on his jurney.