“Odysseus?” That’s a familiar name. “He’s the one who fights a cyclops, but the cyclops thinks his name is Nobody, right?” He hasn’t actually read The Odyssey, but he did pay attention during school.

“That’s from a really long time ago, even for me. When you say long-ago myths, do you mean like the ancient Greek ones?”

Freddy used to spend a lot of time imagining what it’d be like to hang out with movie and comic book characters, but dying a pathetic death in disgrace has shaken his confidence. Rejection from childhood heroes would be a bit much on top of all that, so he actually kind of... avoids them.