#Athena really just choose one family (and diomedes) and was like these ones are mine okay

[backpackingspace]

Wait hear me out Athena with a tapestry cape that penelope made her and owl themed wooden jewelry that odysseus made her

[durindanna]

whats up i was reading the iliad for notes and the only reason im here instead of still reading it is because i read outside and gave myself a sunburn so im in ‘think about what youve done and write ur headcanon posts’ prison indoors. remember kids: sunscreen

anyways here is a post that im gonna add to as i read, which features an assortment of headcanons (are they headcanons if im taking the from the book itself?), asides, notes, etc. that i either find interesting or will apply to my interpretation of hektor since the story given in the iliad is, so far as the idea of a heroic spirit is concerned, hektor’s canonical past. its mostly notes to self but you can read it if ur interested i guess? anyways here we go

Homer writes from the side of the Greeks, so though he does give the Trojans their due, he certainly goes out of his way to emphasize that the Trojans have much less super cool kickass dudes than the Aechaians. In fact-- Hektor is pretty much the only person on the side of Troy that’s worth note, and most others of note are his relatives or friends, who... then usually die or aren’t in a battling role. (Thus far anyways.) But the Greeks to acknowledge him as kickass and The Problem To Be Worried About-- "How we could admire Hector, my friends, and call him hero and champion! There is always some god beside him to keep him safe. See there is Ares now!" (Ares is a stupid shit but it’s Hektor he chooses on the side of Troy, and diomedes of the Aechaians respects that) and "Everyone dreads Hector Priamedes. Even Achilles shudders to meet this man in battle." which was.... i forget who said that whatever. tl;dr in this house we respect hektor even if we are also trying to kill him. he’s certainly a prideful man and he does know that things are/were like this, though since he died for pride he tries to keep this mindset downplayed as a heroic spirit.

When the gods vowed a day of battle between Achaia and Troy with absolutely no divine intervention, there was sincere concern from both gods and Greeks that the entire Aechaian side would be driven back by Hektor’s charge.

he is not bullshitting as a Servant when he says that he is crazy good at defending things. he is not bullshitting you at all. hes a treasure and i love him too bad hes also stupid sometimes

In terms of gods Hektor is obliged to worship, he holds preference for Zeus and would still like to return to Athena’s good graces even if she did screw Troy over. With his proclivity to keep his old habits, Hektor will still make burnt offerings if he cooks something himself, not of entire livestock but of the best piece of whatever it is he cooks. Prayer is uncommon but not unheard of from him.

Hektor loves his family so much i have depression. The thing that worries him most is knowing that if the war is lost his wife will be captured and mistreated alone, not the city burning His family is also enormous, while he himself only has a wife and child he has quite a lot of siblings and siblings-in-law. (Out of all of those, he is the leader and presumably the one to ascend to kingship if Priam died.) "'Hector' means the same as the word for lord and king" my prINCE...a noble fate

He loves paris but is also like ‘GOD youre a stupid idiot and this is all your fault i really wouldnt be that sad if u died. Fuckin get out and fight at least’. paris is a weenie though so thats a valid thought. Honestly Paris is the only person thus far on the side of Troy who has received any of Hektor’s open irritation. Really, it’s a situation Hektor would rather not have ever entered...

"Destiny is a thing no man can escape.... war shall be men's business, and mine especially of all those who are in Ilios." Fatalism? What’s the word I forget.

There remains a scar on the side of his neck in his heroic spirit body as a result of the fight with Ajax. Generally, it’s well hidden underneath his collar.

hektor is really fucking bad at naming animals, in my own sincere opinion, since apparently all his horses are just named by what colour markings they have. get creative u fucker. this dude would probably name a dog Brown if nobody stopped him.

an entirely unstoppable lunatic once he decides he’s gonna do something

“like a shining star of doom, which flashes out of a cloud and back into darkness, his armour flashed like the lightning of zeus almighty” [...] “here is ruin, hector himself” god i love me some natural phenomenon allusions,,,,bless

also he tends to migrate thru the ranks, re he isnt always at the front hes just. wherever he needs to be and finds it fairly easy to establish his place in the army