#achilles and pyrrhus

[dilfaeneas]

Achilles and his babyyy

[smokey07]

Homer: Are you aware that many Iliad characters are first time fathers? That all of them in one way or another misses a big chunk of their children’s life or never gets to see it at all?

Also Homer: leaves and never elaborates

A doodle for random parenting shiz basically. Order from left to right, top to bottom:

-Menelaus carrying a sleepy Hermione. @hermesmoly I was drawing this when the request came lolol

-Achilles and baby Neo. I don’t know if it’s a thing in other places but hanging on father’s leg and then let him moves it back and forth like an impromptu swing is quite a favorite pastime activity here.

-Odysseus and baby Telemachus who was trying to be a helicopter

-Hector and baby Astyanax when he was born.

-Probably Agamemnon and his three daughters, but I have no official designs. He tried to scold them and was failing. Tbh I feel like Agamemnon would be the type to cosplay buff Bubble from Powerpuff girls along with his daughters. I know he’s not that great but me delulu.

-Patroclus and Neoptolemus. Yes Patroclus contributed in raising him as well, the kid had 2 dads. Fight me.

[moplopbool]

Patrochilles as requested!

I’m 90% sure the joke has been made by others at some point, but I’ve been wanting to make art about it ever since my genius of a friend gave me the idea😄

[kupidachillea]

I was bored

Images from Pinterest

[kyleesarthell]

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

[spineless-lobster]

Achilles and his wretched son neopronouns

[tenoart]

Tsoa fanart again because yeah

[scarlet-sam-chaos]

to live up to a legacy

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

[dootznbootz]

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

[narrativenerd]

no because i need a lot more people to talk about neoptolemus.

neoptolemus's identity is shaped by the father's sins. forever, he is the son of achilles. he is bound to the legacy of the actions commited achilles's rage, his grief, his hubris. even his name means 'new warrior'; a testament to his existence being a replacement for his great father who left behind his trail of glory for neoptolemus to follow, his old military shoes too big for a child to fit into. he never even knew his father as achilles. he knew his father as the greatest of all greek warriors, commander of the myrmidons, blessed by the gods, he who slayed mighty hector in front of troy's gates. how would he know, if all he hears is tales of how achilles feuded with agamemnon, how he grasped his spear and drove it through hector, how he dragged the prince's body with his chariot, how he massacred everything out of his grief for beloved patroclus. how could neoptolemus have been good if the one he based himself after is his father at his lowest point? how could he have been remembered as great if he was nothing but the shadow casted by achilles's sun?

[yourcurrentany]

*Achilles soul appears in his tomb: Oh! My precious boy, you’ve grown so much!!

Neoptolemus, who was just visiting the tomb: 😦

Achilles: I don’t have much time, I want you to sacrifice Polyxena for me. Now I have to go! Pa is sooo proud of you! *disappears*

Neo: …I don’t care what Mr. Odysseus says, drinking wine at 13 years old is not good for me-

[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. 🤣🤣

[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.

[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

[fox-with-ferns]

Mythology studies

[kyleesarthell]