#Accidental Pirate King Hector

[stitchlingbelle]

Ok so I’m not done talking about Moira’s Pen and Gen and Irene’s kids.

Because I really don’t think it’s a tragedy that they didn’t end up “A King and his Thief”.

First off, I do not think “Immakuk and Ennikar and the Gates of Heaven” would have been a “story of an old king that ends well” to Gen if he truly had lost both his children and regretted his life and choices regarding them.

Secondly, Gen tried to convince Irene to leave with him, multiple times.

“Relius, he hates being king.”

Do you think Gen and Irene would force their children into lives they would hate?

“You have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court.”

I think Gen especially has always excelled at thinking outside of the available options, and when cornered, has elected to cut the knot rather than give in. He gave Sophos the gun.

He gave Dite his freedom. Why wouldn’t he do the same for his own son?

[incorrectqueensthiefquotes]

Hector: I’ve been in the Prince business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.

Pheris: Have you ever considered piracy? You’d make a wonderful Accidental Pirate King Sophos.

[utouchmycookie]

A little bit more complicated than that - Perseus was trying to save his mom, Danae, from being raped by a sleazy king and he would use Medusa's head to save Princess Andromeda from being eaten by Poseidon's sea monster (and Poseidon totally let him, which makes an interesting point about the relationship of Poseidon and Zeus because they're always painted as purely antagonistic in my opinion and that's not true, they actually really strike me as brothers a lot).

Also, Pegasus had a brother named Chrysaor. Chrysaor decided to be a pirate and his crew accidentally kidnapped not yet godly Dionysus who went along with it and then got bored and demanded to be returned. When they didn't, he drove the crew mad and turned them into dolphins (which is generally when it's assumed he was defined as a god, and an Olympian specifically) then made his way to the nearest island where he found Ariadne, the princess who had helped Theseus through the Labyrinth and then got dumped (literally) on an island. Dionysus married her and made her immortal.

One more totally random point, but, Theseus met Hercules. Hercules was Perseus's grandson and half-brother because they shared a father. Theseus tried to kidnap Princess Helen of Sparta, and the third demigod child of Zeus on this post, with his bestie, Pirithous, who tried to kidnap Persephone (fourth child of Zeus, but first goddess child of Zeus I've mentioned) but was killed for assuming a mortal could marry a god. Hercules led the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War. I'm only adding all this because a lot of times I think everyone forgets how interwoven even 'mortal affairs' could get in Greek mythology, particularly when we get to the Golden Age of Heroes and Trojan War. Final note - Zeus not only slept with his granddaughter, Alcmene, and had Hercules, but he also had a lover who was the Prince of Troy (and thus related to the Trojans you see named in the Illiad like Hector and Paris, and also Priam and that lot, because he was the brother of their grandfather, I believe) named Ganymede, who was Zeus's great-great-grandson. There's also some unknowns about whether Persephone's daughter Melinoe was Hades (her uncle by her mother and father, because they were all three siblings as well as her stepmother, and her husband) or Zeus (yep. Daddy Dearest himself. And uncle. And brother-in-law...).

Yesterday my sister and I were talking about Greek mythology and we were wondering where Pegasus came from and so we looked it up and apparently it was Poseidon and Medusa’s kid. Oh yeah and when it was born IT ERUPTED FROM MEDUSAS BODY AFTER PERSEUS CUT HER HEAD OFF. And I have a few thoughts about this

Not only did Perseus straight up murder a lady who was just minding her business in a cave, he murdered a PREAGNANT lady who was just minding her business in a cave. Talk about turning a real dick move into a REAL dick move.

Imagine how fucked up Perseus was after seeing that. He problably shit his toga. Imagine cutting a person’s head off and suddenly an ENTIRE HORSE pops out of her bleeding neck. That’s fucking terrifying.

[sonofirishseas]

Shield ((Let Jack save Hector's ass for once xD ))

 Barbossa felt a cry torn from him as he crashed to the ground hard, blinded by the exploding barrels of gunpowder all too near the battle. A stray shot had ignited them, and now debris and bodies were littered about the street as the two fractions (the pirates and the English redcoats) attempted to regroup.

 There were burns up and down Hector’s arm and along the side of his face and neck, making him clench his teeth in pain as he attempted to roll over and get back on his feet, fumbling for his weapon. Every part of him hurt and his eyes stung and watered, leaving him nearly blind and winded...

“Jack...” he looked around but all he could see were watery shapes and shadows and flickers of the firy debris that littered the street around them. He had no idea where Sparrow was, or how close he had been to the explosion itself. He prayed it was no closer than he was or...

Hector swallowed the knot of fear in his throat and continued to squirm, trying to will himself up and not worry about that. Sparrow’s luck was far too good to have been killed by something so stupid as an accidental powder keg explosion.

Someone was moving towards him now, as he reached for where his sword had fallen. A boot came down hard on his hand and Hector shouted in yet more pain, trying to pull free. There was blade thrust beneath chin, ready to slit his throat should he move. “Stop resisting, pirate!” a voice barked. “You are to hang as decreed by the King!”

Hector sneered up at his attacker blindly, bearing bloody teeth. “Ye can be telling the King for me that it’s been far too long since I’ve given a fuck about what he says; seems silly to start now.”

The solider delivered a painful kick to his chest that sent him rolling backwards, slumped and groaning, the already blurry world ready to fade into the void entirely. “Maybe I should just kill you here then...”

He waited the sword thrust that would surely end him, but there was yet more movement and someone swept over him, standing between him and his would-be killer. Hector thought he heard Jack’s voice above him.