I love this curse on our house

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

please stop making patroclus normal, he's as weird as achilles and maybe a little more. they match each other freaks in the worse way and i think it's beautiful.

Dinner at the Achaean camp

Hermes and Ares. Ares looks so derpy there

As much I love Hector x Andromache, I hope Andromache still had something inside her to love Helenus too after so much suffering (the death of her family, the death of her husband, the death of her son, the enslavement, the abuses of both Neoptolemus and Hermione). With both Helenus and Andromache surviving the tragedy, I genuinely hope that they were able to heal together and that their marriage was an opportunity for Andromache to once again experience the healthy relationship she deserves. Epirus will never be Thebe Hypoplakia or Troy, but I genuinely hope it will be immensely better than Phthia was to her. No abusive owners or aggressive jealous wives.

At the same time, I can't even imagine what it was like for her to learn the fate of her loved ones. Maybe she hadn't heard about what happened to Hecuba, for example, but I imagine she certainly knew about what happened to Cassandra considering how much Agamemnon's death seems to have been a well-known topic. What is it like to look at Helenus, knowing that his twin sister had a fate that could have been Andromache's? Taken as a sex slave by an Achaean and threatened with death by that Achaean's legitimate wife. Hermione didn't get what she wanted, but Clytemnestra did. Andromache could have had the same fate as Cassandra. Does she think about that when she looks at Helenus and sees such a familiar face?

At the same time, did Helenus deal with survivor's guilt? He was taken as a slave, but he didn't stay that way for long, as Neoptolemus left him in Epirus to rule the place. He remained alive and in a position of leader, without further threats. He wasn't murdered, he wasn't given manual labor, he wasn't continuously abused. Looking at Andromache, his abused sister-in-law who suffered a fate so similar to his sister, his dead brother's wife, the mother of the nephew who was brutally murdered… I wonder, did he ever feel guilty about this, even though he was obviously not to blame? Did he ever see in her the sister he couldn't protect? Did he ever see in her the brother who couldn't be there to defend his wife? Did he ever blame himself for having uttered the prophecy about Philoctetes and Neoptolemus, even though he hadn't even done so of his own free will but because Odysseus had forced him? Did he ever think that if he had resisted longer, Neoptolemus wouldn't have been sought after? Troy wouldn't have fallen then, Andromache wouldn't have been enslaved, Astyanax might perhaps have been alive. Of course, in the end Troy was destined to fall anyway, but did Helenus ever entertain that fanciful possibility?

I don't know… Helenus and Andromache's marriage has genuine potential...

Yeah, I think I ship them...

Rage!!!

Slight Patroclus redesign + one of his dogs

Bonus:

Heres the warriors!au designs for the other greek kings/clan leaders! Pretty much only designed them so I could have OdyDio in the au ngl. Some notes:

The old white skyclan leader is Nestor i just didnt feel like making a ref for him

Theres only 5 clans so not enough to go around for every greek king to lead, sadly. I just picked the ones Id have the most fun making designs as leaders for now, all the other important kings are warriors/deputies under these 5 :3

Menelaus/Lionstar used to be Riverclan, he was born there as Agamemnon/Rubblestar’s littermate, but he switched to Thunderclan to be with Helen whose warrior name idk yet, and they liked him there enough to make him leader

Also Diomedes/Scorchstar is like really young for a leader bc hes cool like that

thinking about the curse of house atreides manifesting as madness.

agamemnon starts seeing iphigenia in the corners of rooms after aulis, her dress bloody from where the sacrificial knife went in. all she does is watch him. he starts shrinking in on himself. confusing people. diomedes opposes his talk of abandoning the fight and returning home and agamemnon starts shouting at him except hes calling him achilles. he thinks he sees iphigenia during the sacking of troy, and takes cassandra with him out of the city. his dead daughter sits across from him in the bathtub, and hes so busy looking at her he doesnt see the axe coming down.

menelaus, the longer they spend away from home, becomes more and more prone to explode about the smallest things. he yells at his brother when agamemnon is hesitant to sacrifice his daughter. he throws himself recklessly into the Trojan line day after day. he awards achilles armor to odysseus, knowing that itll upset ajax, wanting ajax to pick a fight. he still argues they should have left ajaxs body to rot after he killed himself. he almost kills helen when he finds her in the sacking, but aphrodite touches his shoulder and clears his mind.

thinking about only one brother making it out.

to have this line delivered BY klytemnestra's body and actor!!! we do NOT have klytemnestra's corpse after all because she is walking and talking and addressing the court and arguing for the prosecution!!! her corpse is nOT a cold hard fact!!! it proves nothing.

#new eumenides take. orestes is acquitted BECAUSE he is in a play.#his defense is that he was an actor (acting the role scripted for him by apollo) but it should have been that CLYTEMNESTRA was an actor#and that death was her enacted role#orestes can't be convicted of killing her because clytemnestra got right up and came back on as athena

circe, epic the musical 10/10 with the songs and also I've read the book on circe, greek myth is pretty interesting

Didn't get to sketch something out yesterday but I did today so I give you Circe Saga sketch 🤲✨️