#Paris of troy

[strawberry-carpcake]

Boo

[qinnyanimation]

Iliad book 3 but Paris is a bisexual freak

[littlesparklight]

Paris and being both on the inside and, forever and indelibly, on the outside in his family (and society)...

He's unquestionably one of their brothers, a full brother from the king and queen, even. But he also grew up for most of his youth not in the family - and not just not in the family, but in a life entirely opposite to that of free princes; an enslaved herdsman.

He has undoubtedly adjusted - and quickly - to being a prince, absorbing what he needs to blend in, not just as part of the family, but as a prince. But only to a degree; even exiled princes are still princes, knowing of their lineage and having their dignity and education. Paris has none to little of that. He hasn't had the same education for as long, hasn't been steeping in the same culture and attitudes for his whole life.

And then there is his effeminacy. Even if one gives that the royal family might both have more than a touch of that in quite a few of its members and that wouldn't put him on the outside, then Paris still is too much of it. In everything, the way he makes himself look, the way he behaves - but also his attitudes, weaving into the above. Because sure, you can be a bit effeminate, but if you don't value martial skill and effort and kleos and doing your (manly) duty... That puts him on the outside, because his attitude to the (elite) views on war and kleos and all that is very much not normative or "acceptable".

And maybe all of this would be true even if he'd been raised in the family his whole life like any other of his siblings, maybe it would not, but that possibility/question again has Paris on that inside-outside balance...

[alabanza-a-lucretia]

Paris: *Exists*

Deiphobus:

[serashii]

Everyone's least favorite archer 🥰

Messy Paris I may or may not scrap from art challenge w friends

[fleurbleedinghearts]

Paris is a bitch for dropping Oenone after promising he'd never abandon her and for being a deadbeat dad

but NO the Trojan War was not his fault and people have to stop blaming him for it.

It can not be made more clear that Zeus literally set Paris by giving him an apple and forcing him to choose between 3 goddesses.

And Aphrodite did NOT tell him when offering him the most beautiful woman in the world that she was married!

He did not pick Aphrodite with the intention of kidnapping, but he can't just back out after that.

Hera and Athena's offerings probably had a catch too, that we'll probably never know of, because Zeus EXPLICITLY set up Paris because he was doomed to destroy Troy no matter what.

[wolfythewitch]

tweaked my paris design

[leynaeithnea]

I think the reason why I don't like Paris is because love isn't supposed to doom us

Its supposed to safe us

But he is the epitome of destruction caused and allowed in the name of love

There is something too truthful in the unconditional love that leads to the inevidable destruction of the entire city that at just makes me want to send all these arrows he shot right back at him

[strangerinalostworld]

orestes and elektra. and hektor and kassandra and paris. and menelaus and agamemnon and anaxibia. ughhhh. ya know. ya feel me

[ochiody]

paris in the front btw

[arwenwenofficial]

canon AFT height chart

[strawberry-carpcake]

What the Iliad….paris u should have known better 😹☝️

[deadbaguette]

Dear children of Priam, were you doomed all along?

[littlesparklight]

Guess who's making themselves sad thinking about the possibility that, since Priam and Hecuba probably argued about exposing Paris into the last... did he get a first meal at all? Did Hecuba give him this at least, or did Priam attempt to spare them both by removing Paris before she could?

And after that - no one listens to that baby repeatedly exhausting himself with screaming as he's handed from one servant to the other and then left on the mountain.

(No one lets themselves listen - the king has said to expose him, trying to find a wet nurse to silence him for the duration of the handovers and exposure itself will not help the goal in the end. Perhaps they tell themselves it's kinder if they make it as quick as possible, exactly by denying one of the things a baby needs most; sustenance.)

This whole process would take hours, at the very least. Maybe a full day. Hunger would be the very first thing infant Paris learns. And then being lonely, and cold.

How long until the bear turns up? Or do a couple nymphs, maybe his ultimate great-grandmother, find him first, and they're the ones that give him to the bear, since they can't/won't nurse him. But this adds time, too. Hours and hours of being hungry, until he finally doesn't have to be.

Until finally there's gentle, soft warmth, thick fur and a wet nose snuffling about, and the milk he has been denied so far, coming from a mother vastly different from the one who birthed him.

Only for a few days, but she keeps him safe, and warm, and fed, though he's so different from her usual cubs. But she knows how to take care of small things, too; her own always start out small, after all.

She doesn't leave until they're disturbed, but Paris, at least, won't be hungry or lonely from there.

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

AU where paris is just a little less of a dumbass

[astrothii]

the whole trojan war could have been avoided if paris just. ate the apple in one comically large bite. athena, hera, and aphrodite would have been stunned into silence.