#achilles and pyrrhus

[dilfaeneas]

Achilles and his babyyy

[kupidachillea]

I was bored

Images from Pinterest

[kyleesarthell]

Well, at least he tried (Achilles and Pyrrhus attempting some father-son bonding)

[smokey07]

Neoptolemus as character is quite fascinating. And I’ll die on the hill that he is the personification of Achilles’ rage.

He is what his father missed in life: a son, and in a larger extent a family, a future (children are tied to the concept of future and a better tomorrow after all)

And he is doomed to be his father’s son, becomes the same thing his father was molded and chose to be: a child soldier, a war machine.

A personification of wrong choices ( according to Achilles later when he’s in the Underworld) and regrets. No wonder he turned out the way he was.

some doodles of him to end the late night thought.

[scarlet-sam-chaos]

to live up to a legacy

(inspired by @ellilyre 's post on Neoptolemus and Diomedes)

[cazza29]

Pyrrhus talking about achilles grave to Odysseus: Is it right thst my father's fame should be diminished? Tainted by a commoner?

*Patroclus a shade in the corner*: a commoner who fucked your dad AND your mum

*mic drop*

I know this isn't true but like to think this would have been a burn back to that little gremlin Pyrrhus. 🤣🤣

[ellilyre]

Achilles only ever referencing to his son as Pyrrhus, never Neoptolemus. Achilles insisting he was named after his mother's hair, not his father's bloodlust

[dootznbootz]

Swift-footed Ankle, Son of Tetris and Pellet, Father of Neopet.

[moplopbool]

I’ve been wanting to draw modern au greek mythology for a while, so I kind of gave it a shot!

[jules-ln]

"Why did Peleus want Patroclus to become Achilles' friend? He killed a child"

When Peleus was young he "accidentally" (depends on who you ask) killed his half brother and had to run away to escape punishment, he didn’t help Patroclus because he wanted his son to be around a murderer, he helped Patroclus because he reminded him of himself

[itsacruelsummerwithyou2]

i understand that thematically everything pyrrhus does is very meaningful and a follow through on godhood vs humanity/connection vs isolation/etc. but also i think it’s hilarious that at the very end of the book madeline miller says “hey btw here’s this kid, he’s twelve and he’s the fucking worst”

[lesbianbanana]

And yet I liked to think that I alone would perish here in Troy, far from Thessaly where the horses graze, and that you, Patroclus, would get home to Pythia and be able to fetch my son from Scyros in a fast black ship and show him everything

- Achilles, book 19 of the Iliad

SCREAMING ACHILLES THOUGHT PATROCLUS WOULD LIVE AND RAISE HIS SON 😭😭

[this-and-this-and-this2]

Achilles: I fucking hate Agamemnon.

Patroclus: Watch your language, there are children in the house.

Achilles : My bad.

Achilles: I fucking hate–

Achilles: *covers Pyrrhus's ears*

Achilles: –Agamemnon

[kyleesarthell]

[smokey07]

Random headcanons for my Iliad AU. (Extend from this fic and this Tumblr post)

-Achilles is ambidextrous. Low key used to have a problem to tell which is left and which is right. He used his hair bang to tell which one.

-Nestor has embarrassed intel of everyone, and he has a network of gossipers from every camp. Until the event of Odyssey, the members are still unknown. His memory is also exceptional. Same with all of his sons.

-Odysseus loves salty dried fish.

-Once in a while, the commanders will cook for each other, just to show good will and diplomacy. (Nestor has list of who can actually cook edible food, and half of them are inedible).

-Agamemnon is actually a very good cook.

-Patroclus accidentally cooks puffer fish for the commanders once.

-Big Ajax still piggybacks Teucer once in a while.

-Teucer has a stomach of steel.

-Diomedes hits his head in the doorframe almost every day. Odysseus purposefully lowers the frame of his hut just to see it whenever they meet.

-Menelaus hates snakes with an unwavering passion.

-Spy missions happen more often than everyone realizes. Mostly decides via bets. In year 2 Hector and Aeneas met Diomedes in disguise, and they had a 3 hour talk about horses, while Odysseus ran off gathering intel.

-Achilles (out of natural ability/genes) and Odysseus (out of experience) can tell whenever fish migrates, and the entire camp will go fishing for a few days. This ability later translates to Neoptolemus and there is a “tuna incident” during the event of Little Iliad.

[mascotdang]

I- i finished de book-

Plz forgive me