#can't wait for achilles to remember

[likeafairytale]

"I heard you could help me?" - Nathaniel showing up with a huge sword wound to Achilles' door

When Achilles opened the door, at almost 2 am, the first thing he saw was Nathaniel's vibrant blue eyes, and he couldn't help but smile –he did not know why, but seeing him at his doorstep made his heart beat a little faster. But that smile was swiped quite quickly when he heard his words and saw the huge wound he had on the shoulder. Without a word, he let the siren come inside the little room that had been accommodated for him, here at the Seelie Court. Achilles indicated him a chair to sit on, which the prince obeyed. Like a professional, the young man looked at the wound closely, before putting his surgical material on the table next to them, with a few phials.

❛What happened?❜

❛I was just training a-❜

❛In the middle of the night?❜

❛There is not really a time to train.❜

❛Should have.❜ Achilles shrugged, and right now, he forgot he was talking to a prince and his words could be seen as impertinent. It could often happen when he was deep into his thoughts or, like right now, was about to perform something. Nathaniel did not care, he smiled with amusement and looked at the demigod working. ❛I need you to take off your shirt, please.❜

❛Wh- my... my shirt?❜ Nathaniel repeated, with a mixture of surprise and shyness.

❛Well, I can't do anything if your clothe is preventing me to see the wound more clearly.❜

❛Right, right.❜

Nathaniel took a deep breath while unbuttoning each one of his buttons slowly. He did not know why he was so slow, maybe he was just shy, which was weird, but Achilles had this effect on him. Even though the young man did not remember who he was, Nathaniel couldn't help but have all those feelings, and the fact that now he was supposed to be shirtless wasn't helping him. Seeing how slow he was, Achilles sighed and rolled his eyes. Letting go of the phial he had, he came closer to the Prince and, without a warning, without asking first, he simply ripped his shirt open, before looking the Blackwater in the eyes; both of them were now blushing.

❛I'm sorry, but you were taking way too long, and I still have to stop the blood.❜ Achilles explained while all Nathaniel did was nodded and completely taking off his bloody shirt. The surgeon then use a rag and dropped this one into a strong liquid. Before doing whatever, he looked at the siren, sighing a bit: ❛I'm sorry, your Highness, but that's going to burn for a while, here, you can bite into this wooden spoon.❜

❛What?❜

He didn't have time to ask more, that the tissue was in contact with his wound, and it hurt like hell. Thankfully for him, he did not need the wooden spoon –even if he hurt so much, he didn't want to embarrass himself once again. Daring a look at his wound, he saw Achilles thoughtfully cleaning it with what was, now Nathaniel knew, to be alcohol. The wound was clean, no more blood. After a moment, Achilles went back to his material.

❛Do you need your arms, Prince Nathaniel?❜

❛I... Strange question, but it happens that yes, I do need it. Both arms. Why?❜ He asked a bis suspicious.

Before Achilles turned around to face him with what Nathaniel would describe like a saw miniature, a surgical one. Seeing that, he had hard time to swallow, and couldn't imagine that this wound was enough for him to be amputated. Achilles, as for him, said nothing. He came closer, and the closer he came, the paler Nathaniel was, and, after a moment, the surgeon couldn't help it. He laughed. Now, Nathaniel was confused when he saw the man putting down the saw in favourof a simple needle and thread.

❛What was that?!❜

❛I'm sorry, it was too tempted to scare you.❜ Achilles said, an amused smile on his face, while he came closer to stitch Nathaniel's injure. ❛Don't worry, it's just superficial. But one inches more, and I would have to amputated, unfortunately. You're a lucky man, Nathaniel Blackwater.❜

Achilles smiled and winked, making Nathaniel smile in return. A comfortable silence followed, and none of them wanted to break it, for it was peaceful. Nathaniel looked at him and how fast he was with a needle and a thread, and he wasn't sure now he ever saw him do before. Maybe it was the first time... Their face were so close to each other that Achilles could feel Nathaniel's breath on his neck, and each time that happened, he closed his eyes to appreciate it. The demigod did not know why, but he loved this contact... Achilles turned his face briefly, to see what Nathaniel was doing, and their face was so close that they noses were touching each other. For a few seconds, none of them wanted to break this, but the demigod had to go back to work, and his heart broke a little.

Shaking his head to think of something else, Achilles had now finished with the stitches, and clean it one more time. Observing his work with proud, he was finally cleaning his hands, who were full of Nathaniel's blood, and came back closer to the siren.

❛You know... If I... If I ate the way sirens are supposed to, I could heal on my own. But I'm trying to quit.❜

❛May I ask... Why are you trying to quit, if that sufficient? It would have been probably better, now, you will surely have a scar.❜

❛I don't want to hurt people just for my benefit.❜ Nathaniel said, and Achilles nodded. He smiled a little, as happy by this answer. ❛So, good thing you're here then, right?❜ Nathaniel confessed, slightly flirty, which he realized too late.

❛Yes, good thing I'm here. It's always a pleasure.❜ Achilles answered, a smirk on his face, with the same flirty tone, without even realizing it. ❛You know, it's been three day I am at the Castle, and I seem to see you more often than the High Queen herself. Is that on purpose?❜

❛... Maybe it is.❜

❛Well, I'm flattered, really, but next time, maybe you should avoid anything that make you bleed.❜

❛I'll keep that in mind.❜ Nathaniel said with amusement, and he hoped he did not mistake that fact that they were flirting now.

Achilles laughed a little before taking his pocket watch and checking Nathaniel's pulse, making sure everything was already. This proximity, once again, did not bother the young man, and, without even noticing, his eyes were lingering on Nathaniel's shirtless body. His heart beat faster, for no reason, and when the Blackwater raised his head to look at him, Achilles quickly looked away, hoping every gods that he wasn't caught staring at the prince.

❛You seem to be alright. But you lost a lot of blood, so I suggest that you'll stay here for the rest of the evening. Just in case.❜

❛Oh...❜

❛I know it's nothing to compare to the luxury of your room, but y-❜

❛No, that's not!❜ Nathaniel cut Achilles, realizing that his answer sounded quite condescending.

❛It's fine, do not worry. But you do need to stay here, you could faint at any moment with the among of blood you lost. It's better if someone qualified stayed with you tonight. You can take the bed, and I'll take the couch.❜

Achilles explained and, deep down, wasn't it a simple ruse to spend time with Nathaniel? He wasn't sure. It is true that since their first meeting in the ballroom, and their second in the garden, Nathaniel intrigued the young man. He felt familiar to him. Like an old friend. Or maybe more? Everything was blurry now, he couldn't tell. Just as he couldn't explain his dreams more and more frequent about Nathaniel, or another young lady. Of course, he couldn't talk about it, to whom anyway? He had no one. And if he did, he would be qualified to be crazy for sure.

After a moment he opened his luggage and offered one of his shirt to a still shirtless Nathaniel, who accepted it. With no shame, Achilles looked at the prince putting the clothe one, and only once done he looked away, blushing hard. He was ready to take the couch when Nathaniel always run for it, making Achilles frowned.

❛What are you doing?❜

❛This is your room. You should take the bed, and I take the couch.❜

❛No way, your Highness. I can't let a prince sleep in a couch when the bed is perfectly fine. Trust me, I slept in worse thing that a couch, I can handle it.❜

Nathaniel wanted to argue, but arguing with Achilles was pointless, he knew that, even if Achilles didn't remember. The Prince sighed and when to the bed. A part of him was tempted to invite him in bed with him. Not as a sexual favour, obviously not! But the bed was big enough for two people, surely it could be alright for them both. But this time, he thought because talking. This time, he realized how inappropriate that could be seen and the power imbalance here. He shook his head and lay down. He wished he remembered. If he did, the bed would be full of laughter and kisses, he knew it. But now the bed was just cold.

Achilles, as for him, took place on the couch, silently, after he cleaned the room. At first his eyes were locked on the ceiling, but with time it wasn't interesting anymore. The silence in the room made him think that Nathaniel was already asleep, which wouldn't be surprising after what just happened. But when he turned his head to look at the prince in his bed, he was a bit startled to see Nathaniel looking at him too. No words were exchanged. Just the two of them, looking at the other in silence, smiling from time to time, until Achilles fell asleep.

[kyxhiin]

SIGHHHHH no new posts on the Billy Batson tag, then i remember I'm one of the people who make those posts. Now eat these little crossover interactions.

1. Danny Phantom. Shhh let's pretend Danny knows Billy's identity

Captain Marvel: Danny... Is there any slurs for ghosts .. Cause I don't wanna offend Them! And Solomons refusing to say something for some reason..

Danny in ghost form: Spooks... I think? Idk dude I don't know much about it either. Why do you wanna know anyway?

Captain Marvel: Thanks! Oh and one of the villains I recently fought was a ghost and he said every joke I said was a slur.

Danny: What??? What were the jokes anyways???

Captain Marvel: What does a ghost panda eat?..*waiting for a response that never comes*.. Bam-Boo.

Danny: They were right this should be a slur.

Captain Marvel: Hey!

2. Saiki K. Don't ask please I just really wanted this.

Saiki, trying to not pull up a face reading Billy's mind cause WHY are there literal gods in this kids head: ...

Solomon to the babi: Billy. Somebody's intruding your mind right now.

Billy: Aw shucks. *in thought ofc.*

Achilles: Aren't you gonna do anything about it??

Billy: I mean.. Do they have bad intentions? Or like are they gonna reveal my identity?

Solomon: No it seems not, but it would be wise to protect yourself from these kinds of things-

Billy: Can't we just leave it be?

Saiki still continuing to stare down Billy, trying to not make it obvious because how did the voices inside this kids head know??!!

3. Tony Stark.

Opening the door to his house In a pink robe midday, to see little Billy boy standing infront of it.

Tony: What kid, here to sell boy scout cookies? Who am I kidding those don't exist.. Wait do they?

Billy with the little baby smile, weirdly telling him everything because Solomon pissed him off so he's not listening to him anymore: No sir! I just crashlanded not far from here and the gods in my head told me it will be safe to come here!

Tony screaming behind the door:... PEPPER WE EITHER GOT A SCHIZOPHRENIC KID ON THE DOOR STEP OR WE HAVE TO CALL STRANGE!

Welp that's it.. I'm not very well versed in Marvel or Danny Phantom so some of these may be ooc.

[marivanilla05]

Done reading the Iliad, and one of the reasons I'd been stalling on reading it before was how much hate I saw people give Hera or Agamemnon.

And then I read the actual text and found how silly everything is??? Why didn't anybody tell me that the Iliad is literally just a family feud between the gods, and full of dudes (and Athena) throwing bolders at each other, and Agamemnon and Achilles acting like they're having a petty break-up.

Hera (on at least 3 seperate occasions) tells Zeus that he's their father's worst child, and that he's obligated to listen to her because she's not only his wife but his elder sister. Like, she hit him with the "I'm older than you how dare you talk to me like that."

Then we have Zeus banning all the gods from interfering with the war (except of himself of course) before announcing the "Trojan War: Frenzy Round" where he calls all the gods to join (including A RIVER???) and lets the Greeks win just because Hera slept with him.

Athena manipulating Zeus in almost every interaction because she's "daddy's little girl" + everytime she goes to battle she wears her father's tunic and I'm just imagining it like some toddler wearing their parent's shirt.

She also beats the crap out of Ares AND Aphrodite, leaves them on the floor and says "whoever messes with me will get owned"

Hera proceeds to beat the crap out of Artemis with her own bow. Hermes is literally on Hera's side, but sees that and is like "yo Leto I'm not gonna fight you because I think you should go check on your kid..." while Artemis runs crying to Zeus who's like "my precious daughter who hurt you???" And she's like "YOUR WIFE!"

(Also, on the other end, so many people hate on Agamemnon but not Achilles as well? Like they were both stubborn, Achilles more so. PLUS Achilles brutally killed/enslaved so many people even before Patroclus' death, I'm surprised that Agamemnon-only hate is more popular. Like everyone sucks in the Iliad, it's either you hate everyone, or you like the characters in spite of their crimes.)

It takes Patroclus dying for Achilles to forgive Agamemnon (at this point Agamemnon was convinced to give Achilles so many gifts including but not limited to (returning Briseis, gold, land, one of Agamemnon's daughters' hand in marriage)) Achilles then proceeds to murder a bunch of people.

Odysseus and Diomedes jumping a guy, killing 13 other people, and stealing horses.

Nestor drinking wine in the middle of a battle, hearing the chaos, and saying "wait a minute, I gotta get a good view of this action" Also Nestor kicking Diomedes to wake him up.

Helen insulting the crap out of Paris.

Hector insulting the crap out of Paris. Also Priam basically calling his surviving sons trash now that Hector is dead.

Idomeneus and Meriones being tag-team bros. Why don't I ever hear about them huh?

Also the amount of times I read the phrase "the two named Ajax" or "Ajax and Ajax" like did they just stick to each other because they share a name? Like Ajax (the greater) literally has Teucer, his own half-brother to back him up, and for some reason the two of them just hang out with Oilean Ajax on the battlefield???

There are a lot more but I can't remember any right now.

[alwaysforetells]

exr fic recs pleeeeaaasseee im sick about them

You got it dude!

These are from an amazing list that my partner put together and I did a bunch of the blurbs for, so get ready

Jojo’s Delivery Service (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31673378

enjoltaire and cosette/eponine, set in the same world as kiki’s delivery service. a lovely, lovely story with so many different plotlines that tie up nicely in the end :) (One of my favorites, I try to do annual rereads!)

World Ain’t Ready (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2306315

high school fake dating au. in which grantaire is an oblivious former gifted kid and enjolras is the new kid who hasn’t learned to keep his head down in their very homophobic school. (One of my favorite fics of all time)

Something telling (between then and now) (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24053155/

!!! Soooo cute. Enjolras gets yoinked seconds from his death and yeeted into the modern world…. Right into Grantaire’s arms. Features hijinks + trauma

I Wait, I Wait, I Wait (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49287016

Really great if you love E and R being awful to each other, miscommunication, and them banging, now repeat that cycle until something gives! Idiots.

The Wikipedia Page (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51855370

Short and sweet, some good old fashioned pranking Enjolras

Crack of dawn, All is Gone (Except the Will to Be) (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34098310

Zombie apocalypse au!! Also we love to see cosette and enjolras sibling dynamic

Seek and Destroy (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51175138

Monster hunters Enj and Grantaire!! This one is SO good and also has a great sequel

Send you my love on a wire (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49270387

SOO CUTE. Socially awkward enj trying to “somebody likes you…..” “You've got a secret admirer…..” To Grantaire. Grantaire is absolutely oblivious and kind of freaked out that he has a stalker.

The Things I Say (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27985131

Can't really remember this one but I thought it was cool ig (such a glowing recommendation -h). Soul mate things. (BE GAY DO CRIMES, GRANTAIRE AND EPONINE BEING QPPs -h)

(Still don't remember this one but my partner seems to like it so you should read it right now)

suckerpunch (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48699310

talented Grantaire!!

Never a flame, we just wanted a spark (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29439555

Courf and comb try to cheer up enj after a rough breakup and it does not go well.

I would know him in death (at the end of the world) (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20939621

Song of Achilles reincarnation thing. Angst. Heavily

I'm not the moon (I'm not even a star) (complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25166749

Amnesia time!

Okau I've got a lot more but I'm tired, so I'll add more to this if requested, in the mean time enjoy these fic anon and make sure to comment on things!

[calisources]

𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒) 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒. all quotes and sentences were taken from the movie troy (2004). change locations, names and pronouns as you see fit. mentions of war and politics are included in this post.

 I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. 

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now.

If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants.

Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. 

Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.

You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.

You're still my enemy in the morning.

You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.

I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.

I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.

 You are a brave man. I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.

 Do you really think death frightens me now? I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot.

Give him back to me. He deserves a proper burial, you know that. Give him to me.

How many cousins have you killed? How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands? How many, brave Achilles?

I knew your father, he died before his time. But he was lucky not to live long enough to see his son fall.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are.

Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!

 I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.

Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?

Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.

Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity.

You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!

Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.

Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.

You speak of war as if it's a game.

But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?

If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. 

And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.

 They say your mother was an immortal godess. They say you can't be killed.

You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.

All my life I've lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country.

Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!

There are no pacts between lions and men.

Aren't you afraid?

 Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.

If I don't, you'll kill more men.

At night I see their faces. All the men I've killed. They're standing there on the far bank of the river Styx. They're waiting for me. They say, 'Welcome, brother'.

Last time you spoke to me like this, you were 10 years old and you'd just stolen Father's horse. What have you done now?

Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?

Well, then your men did. The sun god will have his vengeance.

His priests are dead, and his acolyte's a captive. i think your god is afraid of me.

Afraid? Apollo is master of the sun, he fears nothing.

I know more about the gods than your priests. I've seen them.

You're royalty, aren't you? Spent years talking down to men.

You must be royalty. What's your name? Even the servants of Apollo have names.

 What do you want here in Troy? You didn't come for the Spartan queen.

Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no-one here to see you fall?

You should not have come here tonight.

That's what you said last night?

Last night was a mistake.

I have made many mistakes this week.

Of all the kings of Greece, I respect you most. But in this war you're a servant. And I refuse to be a servant any longer.

Sometimes you need to serve in order to lead. I hope you understand that one day.

Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?

You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.

The sun was shining when your wife left you.

She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.

And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.

Trojan soldiers died protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.

Pearls from the sea of Propontus.

Am I still your captive?

I have heard rumors of your beauty. And for once, the gossip is right.

Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor!

Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!

You were brave to fight them. You have courage.

To fight back when I'm attacked? A dog has that kind of courage.

It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.

I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta.

You're a princess of Troy now. And my brother needs you tonight.

Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.

I almost lost this war because of your little romance.

I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.

Well, of course you do, she's a beautiful woman.

Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine.

May the gods keep the wolves in the fields and the women in our beds.

[dragonagegayz]

🎶Six Songs Soundtrack🎶 Skunch edition

Let's get skunchy in here

Rules: If you're tagged, make a post with links to music and/or lyrics describing six things/events about your OC/story.

1. Events that describe your characters past

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down Won't you get up off, get up off the roof? You're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you Achilles, it's not much but there's proof You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue Redemption lies plainly in truth Just humor us, Achilles, Achilles, come down Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

2. How others see them

You see the sad in everything a Genius of love and loneliness and

This time you overdid the liquor This time you pulled the fuckin' trigger These days you're rolling all the time So low so you keep getting high

Where went that cheeky friend of mine? Where went that billion dollar smile?

Guess life is long

When soaked in sadness On borrowed time From Mr. Madness And so it goes

A choking rose back To be reborn I want to hold you like you're mine

You're gone but you're on my mind I'm lost but I don't know why

3. How they see themselves

When did it end? All the enjoyment I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend It's not what he's made for What was I made for?

'Cause I, 'cause I I don't know how to feel But I wanna try I don't know how to feel But someday I might Someday I might

Think I forgot how to be happy Something I'm not, but something I can be Something I wait for Something I'm made for Something I'm made for

4. Their closest relationship (romantic or platonic)

Rook and Davrin

And I found love where it wasn't supposed to be Right in front of me Talk some sense to me

And I'll use you as a makeshift gauge Of how much to give and how much to take I'll use you as a warning sign That if you talk enough sense then you'll lose your mind

5. A major fight scene

Spotlight on my body From everybody, body I know, like me, you wanna be free, baby Show the love Show them where you're from Show them you're the one that can take it One that can make it

Get me through the night And I'll be alright, i'll be alright Get me through the night And I'll be alright And I'll be alright

6. End Credits

There's an albatross around your neck, All the things you've said, And the things you've done, Can you carry it with no regrets, Can you stand the person you've become, Ooh there's a light Ooh there's a light

Your Albatross, let it go, let it go, Your Albatross shoot it down, shoot it down When you just can't shake the Heavy weight of living

Can you yall tell Skunch is carrying the heavy burden of being the most self insert character who must bear all the same burdens of me :D

Side note: The song Agnes by Glass Animals is the most amazing song ever made ever and if you haven't heard it please at least give it on listen. Like deep down the lyrics too, it is so good

[streets-in-paradise]

Hi hi, it's me again 🙈

I couldn't resist to be part of your Troy 2004 20th anniversary (I feel so old, it was already 20 years ago... I remember seeing it for the first time at my cousin's home and falling in love with this movie).

If it's okay with you, I read this prompt from the list you shared (I'm on my phone so I can't remember the name of the author of the prompts but they were really great!), and I feel this one would feat in the movie universe :

"I have your ring on my finger, but I'm still waiting for your heart."

I could see it for a few characters.

If you feel it, and no pressure at all, maybe you could write something with that? With any character you would wish and if you haven't inspiration, no problemo ^^

I hope you had a good rest and I can't wait to read more from you ^^

See you soon on Tumblr 🌸

Hi,Hi,Hi!!!!

Sorry it took me so long to get to this one, I accidentally procrastinated the writing because I got strongly focused in an unexpected problem a friend had.

Great prompt choice! I too can think in quite a few characters for this one, but I took the less probable choice to spice things up. Normally, my first choice for this case scenario would have been Hector, so I'm going for Achilles.

Inspired in that Iliad fragment where Briseis says Patroclus told her he was going to convince Achilles of marrying her.

The Right Way - Achilles x (Fem)Reader

Even in the darkest of fates, you managed to find a ray of light.

Patroclus, the young cousin of the one who once became your captor, was an embodiment of hope. You were still a stranger to him, a simple war captive, and yet from the beggining he took many bothers comforting you. It reached unbelievable limits when one night he made you an impossible promise hoping only to stop your sobbing in exchange.

He told you that you were not going to remain a slave for long because he was going to convince Achilles of doing the ríght thing marrying you in order to restaure your dignity.

The naive sweetness of his proposition calmed you in that oportunity despite you couldn't believe him. It was clear that the lad firmly believed in it and was not trying to deceive you, but the idea was not a realistic solution you were seeing come true any soon.

But it did: against any reasonable expectation, Achilles married you. As if that wasn't unbelievable enough, a greater surprise still awaited you through the early times of your circunstantial union.

Falling in love with him, slowly starting to enjoy of your warm spot at his side.

Despite your marriage was a mere formality happening to get you back in a decent status, Achilles allowed you to indulge into the fiction through certain gestures. Sleeping together was the one you got to like the quickest.

Consummation was not demmanded by him, but you were starting to desire it.

Signals of it emerged as you searched for his caressing, even iniciating kisses for the first time.

As eager for it as he could be, your attitude came out suspicious.

" Forcing yourself to please me wasn't part of the deal. I'm trying to prove your young protector a point: I can be a decent man keeping you in the right way. "

The reasoning was simply hilarious to you.

" Did you just admit to have married me out of pure stubborness? "

His response was vague enough to keep you guessing.

" It's not the worst choice I have taken that way."

You groaned with frustration and he chuckled, but the laughter ended when you placed one hand on his chest.

" I have your ring on my finger, but I am still waiting for your heart. "

He raised an eyebrow, then attempted to hide his surprise in a cocky smirk.

" Let me understand this. From both of us, it's precisely you the one who got convinced this can work? "

Your grip on him got tighter in the prelude of your confirmation.

" Maybe neither of us have choosen it willingly, but here we are. At first, I only cared about my honor, but turns out I like being your wife way more than I ever expected. "

He closed his eyes for an an instant and took a deep breath.

" When you present it with such convincing rethoric you make it feel worthy. "

Making use of his brief distraction, your approach became more daring.

" Do you want to know something more?"

Your trail of kisses ended back where you started, purring against his lips.

" I think I finally want you to make love to me. "

The intensity of his blue eyes was once more completely focused on you, want and wonder in equal amounts.

" You better not be deceiving me, I'm taking that seriously. "

Your answer was a smirk and a soft peck on his lips, but he insisted on the interrogation.

" I was inclined to assume it would be out of the question. "

It made you chuckle.

" Achilles, ... you slept naked the first night. "

[eltairnate13]

(Disclaimer, I don't study classics, nor have I read NEAR ENOUGH translations of Eros and Psyche's story. This is just my opinion. And it's gonna be long as hell, I apologize in advance.)

For some reason, when talking about "The greatest love stories of all time" people normally go to Romeo and Juliet, and I can understand why. They're one of the more known couples and we even have to read their story for school.

But sometimes there's variation if you've read some Greek stories, and then majority of the time people say Hades and Persephone, and yes, they are very devoted to each other and love each other deeply. But depending on what version you read, Hades cheats on Persephone with Minthe. (I say depending on which version because some place Minthe before Persephone.) And Persephone sometimes even has a thing going on with Adonis.

And yes of course there's Achilles and Patroclus, Apollo and Hyacinthis, Penelope and Odysseus, Dionysus and Ariadne, and a number of others.

But it's rare for people to ever mention Eros and Psyche. And I personally don't understand why?

I have yet to find ANY translation or story that suggests or mentions Eros ever being unfaithful once he's with Psyche, and their story in my opinion, is very sweet and ACTUALLY HAS A HAPPY ENDING.

(This is just going off translations I'VE READ.)

Aphrodite gets jealous about people starting to, basically worship this mortal girl for being, "Beautiful enough to rival Aphrodite." So she sends Eros, her son, to make Psyche fall in love with a disgusting pig, (a literal pig, in this version) and Eros listens. He goes out, grabs a pig from a farm near Psyche's family palace and takes it to her chambers under the cover of night.

He gets the pig into her room and just when he's about to shoot her with his golden arrow, he either trips, or the pig knocks him over and he stabs himself with his own arrow. Therefore falling for Psyche in that very second. So Eros has to do something, because he can't make her fall in love with a pig, no! He loves her now and he wants her to love him, so he comes up with a plan.

Meanwhile, Psyche's parents are freaked because they want to marry Psyche off but they don't know how to do it? Or Aphrodite got angry and wanted them to get rid of Psyche? I'm a little fuzzy about this part, feel free to correct me. But they go to see the Oracle in Delphe and ask for guidance, because that always goes so well for these people.

Anyway, the Oracle says something along the lines of, "You're going to have to tie Psyche to a rock over on this hill, and basically marry her off to this horrible beast." And her parents go, "Well shit, can't really argue with Apollo now can we?" And head back to do just that.

So her parents dress her up in a wedding gown, get the whole town together, and take her up to the top of the hill to the rock. She says goodbye to her parents and her sister's (they're important), and gets tied to the rock to be taken away, and then everybody leaves.

After a while she feels this wind loosen her bindings and start to slowly lift her up, (if I remember correctly this is Zephyr) and it takes her away to a palace that from the appearance, clearly belongs to a God.

She hears these voices and music coming from inside and enters the palace and there's no one to be seen, and yet she still hears voices. So she's just walking around trying to find them and she's going in all the rooms like, "This place is beautiful, I'm actually going to live here now??"

Eventually she comes across this bedroom with a dress laid out on the bed and she hears something say, "Don't be afraid, we are your handmaidens, were here to take care of you. There's a warm bath waiting for you in the next room, we'll prepare dinner while you clean up."

This isn't odd at all.

Anyway she cleans up, puts on the dress, and navigates her way to the dining room where she finds food and cutlery being moved around by invisible servers. She eats, goes back to her room, and settles down to the best of her ability.

And then she feels someone climb into bed with her.

"Don't be frightened," he says like it's no big deal, "I am your new husband."

I don't think he even gave her a name to call him. But he did something right because they did it not to long after.

But this routine goes on for awhile, she's free to do whatever she pleases, all he asks is that she NEVER looks upon his face.

Simple request right?

Anyway after a while she starts missing her family and wants to go visit them. Husband warns her that this probably isn't a good idea, but lets her go anyway because he doesn't want her to be sad.

Zephyr picks her up and takes her to the rock they left from, and leaves her to walk to her old home.

She arrives, there are happy tears, and they start talking. Psyche tells her sisters about her new husband, his gorgeous palace, and how she's never seen his face but knows he must be handsome sense his body and voice are.

Her sisters laugh.

"Psyche you ignorant girl! The Oracle said you where to marry a horrible beast! You probably haven't seen his face because he doesn't want you to die of disgust!" They continue to taunt and tempt her to look at his face, and out of rage she says she will.

So she returns to the palace and acts as normal as she can. The routine goes smoothly and after they've made love (they screw almost NIGHTLY btw, he's good at something-) and her husband is asleep, she gets up, grabs a candle, lights it, and-

Holy fuck he's beautiful.

She realizes that her husband is the God Eros, and out of pure wonder and entrancement, leans down towards his face... making wax spill onto his chest, waking him up.

He startles, realizes what Psyche has done, and disappears. Along with all the invisible handmaidens, leaving Psyche completely alone.

Somehow Aphrodite found out about Eros' love for Psyche, and again, feel free to correct me, either finds Psyche and holds her prisoner, or Psyche goes to Aphrodite to hopefully find her husband and apologize.

Either way, Aphrodite puts Psyche through these trails that were designed to kill her/be impossible, but Psyche gets help throughout the trails from Gods and Nature alike, making her succeed.

And then the way they reunite changes, but in the end they get married correctly, this time, Psyche becomes the Goddess of the Soul, and they actually live happy lives together and have a child.

My point is, they are an EXTREMELY underrated couple and deserve a lot more attention than they currently have.

[leftoverghosts]

hi nori!!! i hope you are doing so well 🫶

cannot remember if you have gotten any asks like this recently but! what are some songs you associate with challengers/atp?

hi achilles!!! 🍀 i'm doing really well, thank you for asking! how are you?

i haven't been asked this before, but i absolutely love it! thank you so much for bringing it up. xoxoxo

here are some of my choices for the atp:

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art / a sacrificial persona. he's a lover, he's a puppet and he's tired:

Take away my heart / Take away my soul / Take it all away from me Take away my dreams / Take away my goals / You can blame it all on me

I'm a mess and I will always be / Do you wanna stick around and see me drown? Fuck, I'm about to lose it all

How you like it hot or like it cold? / How you want it bed or on the floor? How you make me feel it in my soul? / Keep your dirty laundry, never fold Never been the one to want control / If I'm the one then you'll be back for more

No, babe, I got it, come here, let me rub your feet No, babe, I got it, do you want something to eat? I know you tired, it's been one hell of a week And everything you need is on me

There is no reconciliation / That will put me in my place And there is no time like the present / To drink these draining seconds

But seldom do these words ring true / When I'm constantly failing you Walls that we just can't break through / Until we disappear

Don't look up, just let them think / There's no place else you'd rather be You're always on display / For everyone to watch and learn from Don't you know by now? / You can't turn back Because this road is all you'll ever have

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tashi / honestly, these are love songs to tennis:

We're dreaming / The feelings rule / Forever we're young / Pages unsung, ooh I feel that you remember / Dreaming of a past that couldn't last But now we're changing / Refraining

I see the way you move / It's so fluid / With you by my side / Got nothing to hide Now that you're hurting I see / The tears behind those eyes And I can't wipe them clear / Your love was like gold to me

Holding on to patience wearing thin / I can't force these eyes to see the end If only time flew like a dove / Well, we could watch it fly and just keep looking up This time, we're not giving up / Let's make it last forever

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patrick / god's fucking cocky gift to women and a manchild:

And fuck what's in your phone, let me take you home I wanna take you home

'Cause it's so rare that I'm here, don't plan on staying too long So you should come here, sit yo' ass on this throne This a special affair, better act like you know who I am, who I am

You've been patiently waiting / For me to knock up on your door like Baby, can we stop playin'? / I'm feenin' and you keep teasin' I'm about to have you on the floor like / Baby better stop playin'

One time I'ma say this shit / Playin' games, I don't play that shit

One step ahead of the pack of Marlboros. Still, I don't believe he would take that fall. Those things will put you back / Some paychecks, Set you back about a year or two. There's a sick little suicide in all that we do, / All that we do. And the ground downtown is a countdown, / No air anywhere in the area. Suck back these take-home packs of euthanasia. Youth in America...

[dreadfutures]

impressions from the hades ii technical playtest

absolutely chock full of spoilers but also theories

Amazing gameplay, feels just as good as Hades 1 with improvements and creative changes. So many different builds/play styles will be possible. in the dev stream they talked about melee close quarters vs sorcery ranged, but I find myself doing HEAVY spellcasting while also stacking in heavy melee boons on the knives, and mixing and matching.

The boons have a few familiar perks but so many of them are new and creative, even for gods we know from the first game. All of them feel really good.

The SOUND EFFECTS are amazing. The sounds of your weapons change based on the boon equipped to each attack. the sounds of the arena change depending on the god at the end (if any). Nothing and I mean nothing makes the dopamine go off more than the sound of Hephaestus' boon blasts when I do my fan of knives and they all explode. PING PING PING.

I find myself doing "resource runs" and "story runs." they do overlap. It's tough to only have one harvesting item equipped at a time and I spent so much time looking for silver and looking that my eye has started slipping over the lone spirits who gives you psyche, even when Selene leads me to them lol. I do like that they have her guiding light, but it is subtle. I also like the way you can pin certain items when you're in a run so you can remember what you needed for a recipe.

Unfortunately I did so many harvest runs that I actually got all the recipes before I had a chance to USE forget me not on a run so.... woops on that fated list lol.

We are maybe going to romance Moros or Nemesis (probably both are options?) but maybe not both at the same time? since they're siblings technically (technically) (I wouldn't mind though). I love all these children of nyx and want to protect them and smooch them all.

EXCEPT. Mel is a Silver Sister, with Artemis and Selene. Does that mean she's gotta be a virginal girl squad? lol

I love sister Artemis. I love that she throws snacks!!!!! which is even more endearing bc it's fried and a chocolate bar and soda. I wonder if sometimes I hear a note of disapproval from her and I wonder where her plot will go later. Selene it's said may not be able to reach us in Tartarus, but Artemis might.

Speaking of found family.

I fucking adore Odysseus. I love Od. So. Much. Like I loved Achilles but Od is such a good girl dad for Mel, and his pep talks are the best and so sensitive ;_; what a guy I love him.

I think? that Hecate's familiars must be placeholders, since they're just little statues that vibrate when you give them treats. I can't wait to see where they go in the full game.

It's an interesting take on Hestia, that she hates everybody. It makes me wonder if we'll see Hera or not, since I kind of expect that behavior from Hera.

Hephaestus and Demeter and Aphrodite remain my favorite boon givers.

As far as I can tell there is no fishing rod in the playtest but there will be in the full game and I'm excited.

Arachne's self esteem hurts me 😫 I love you little bug!!!! I wonder if we'll find her shop in Olympus or in Tartarus -- and I worry about her. At least Athena is too busy to bother her! I hope! I love Mel's different outfits.

The amount of pets that Mel gets to have is delightful. I love her frog so much.

Hecate is fascinating. She is SUCH a mother, she is SO compassionate to Mel and trying to build her up! She is wry and dry but never cruel or negative. I love her sm. Poor Mel has some low self esteem and understandable doubts and is putting so much pressure on herself. And I really wonder about Hecate's relationship with Persephone and the house of Hades and with nyx. Nemesis says something that makes me wonder if Hecate is innocent. Either way I don't think she'll really be a villain. My heart would break if so. Mel would break.

Mel is so sweet and pure. ;_; and she says "death to chronos" so coldly. When she says "Hence I go" I just hear her as a little baby playing hide and seek with Hecate and it gives me so many feelings.

I want to know about Mel's arm!

I can't wait to see the other regions just from the Crossroads, since there's currently two doors we can't enter.

Also what are we going to DO with the fish?

Very exciting stuff.

[dootznbootz]

hi beautiful! im doing a Research about the similarities between Athena and Poseidon via Odysseus, Achilles, Hector and Paris, and I was wondering if you knew about any of their epithets that might be related to each other?

(I'll tag you in the post when i make it)

Hewwo lovely!!! :D Some of these are ones I researched myself (so...take with grains of salt. I'm giving you a lil salt shaker) and some I remember/know from Homeric works.

Also I... I think with the whole "multiple translations" thing going on, that might make things different.

Athena: Wise (ofc), of War, Girder of Armor, Sharp-sighted, of shining helm, Hope of Soldiers, Tireless, Aegis-holding,

Poseidon: blue-haired But what pronouns, Earthshaker, Who Dashes Against, Of the Horses, etc.

Odysseus (he has so many): Master Mariner, Long-suffering, Godlike, Man of many twists and turns, Cunning, Wise, Counsel of Zeus, Sacker of Cities, Great-hearted, Hotheaded yeah no shit lol, Man of Action, Man of Many Exploits,

Achilles: Swift-footed fast as fuck boi, breaking through men, lion-hearted, Godlike

Hector: Of shining helm, shepherd of his people (I love this one so much), horse-breaker/horse-tamer, man-killing, etc.

Paris: Alexandros/Alexander, Magnificent, "Mad Seducer", Godlike (though it sounds like more in the sense of "pretty"),

That's what I found and what I remember. :D Hope this helps!

I can't wait to see your essay and what you analyze/point out! :D

[ghow0st]

Straight **gay** up jus' a fanfic

Diomedes (stretching): Damn. How the fuck do you even spell insouciant? I've never heard of that word.

Odysseus (chuckling): Don't worry about it. I heard no gives a fuck about competitive spelling in the real world.

Diomedes: I'm more worry about how Athena is going to react. I've worked hard to get in her good graces.

Achilles is escorted out of the building by his mother Thetis, he is loudly wailing.

Odysseus: Damn. That's really embarrassing of him. How is he so self assured?

Diomedes: Must be genetics. (Leans in to whisper) I've heard Thetis is banned from every Starbucks from her to Sparta.

Odysseus: Wow... I hope Patroclus will be okay. That sick burn Hector gave. (Shivers) I'm not sure if I could handle that.

Diomedes: Not something a little alvo vera can fix that's for sure. I think going home early in shame is a little much though.

They walk towards the bus stop.

Odysseus: He'd already lost the competition. I think he needed to feed his dogs or something? I just can't believe Achilles lost a rap battle against Paris of all people.

Menelaus jogs with Helen in his arms towards the parking lot, they stop to kiss every few paces. Paris walks forward head slouched beside Hector who is handling his lost rap battle with a shocking amount maturity.

Diomedes: Taking the bus as well?

Hector nods. He is so cool and he has a very cool girlfriend. Paris despite his epic defeat of Achilles is still bitchless.

The bus is approaching.

Odysseus: I'm not actually taking the bus, Dio. (He steps back). I'm carpooling with some friends.

Diomedes: The bus will be here soon. You sure you want to wait for your friends?

Odysseus: I don't want to be on the bus for four hours. Knowing my luck with buses it'll take literally all night and I'd miss my date with Penelope tomorrow. I'd rather die than let that happen.

Diomedes: Okay Buddy. (He hands Odysseus a snicker). Good luck man!

Odysseus waits for the crew to arrives. Time passes.

A Honda Odyssey rolls up.

Elpenor: Get in loser we're going shopping!

Odysseus (leans against the window): What fucking took so long?

Eurylochus: The track competition went overtime because of the... incident. (Eurylochus looks with near apathy towards Perimedes).

Polites: Come on!

Odysseus gets pulled into the car. Settled next to Polites Odysseus checks his messages. The battery flashes a 1% warning.

Penelope: Good luck honey <3 Text me when your done!

Odysseus smiles brightly. He goes to text Penelope back. The battery gives in.

Odysseus: Fuck!

Polites: Oh no! You can use my phone if you want! No wait... I lost it.

Odysseus: Wait you lost your phone?

Polites: Hehe it'll turn up (He smiles a little too happy)

Odysseus looks out the window.

Odysseus: Eurylochus! Why are we going the wrong way?!!

Eurylochus doesn't look at Odysseus, he only looks at the road (like a responsible driver).

Eurylochus: It's been over three hours captain. Since we ran out of snacks. I want a burger so bad.

Odysseus: What about there!?

Odysseus points towards a diner called One-Eyed Jack's. Eurylochus swerves across two lanes of traffic into the miniscule parking lot.

The crew is about to enter the premise. When Perimedes looks around the trashy retail area. Elpenor reaches for him but gets pushed off.

Perimedes: I'll be back before we leave. I must do something.

Perimedes stalks off alone.

Polites: I just remembered! I need to do a thing as well!

Polites trots after Perimedes and links arms with him and waves a farewell to his comrades. Perimedes tries futilely to shake him off.

Odysseus: Should we go after them? (He looks to Elpenor. Elpenor avoids his eyes.)

Eurylochus: Captain. I need a burger or I will... perish.

The crew enter One-Eyed Jacks'.

The diner is filled with cats, a large, fluffy, white main coon hisses at Odysseus. An aesthetically old jukebox plays Heat Waves in a corner. A one-eyed man stands behind the counter, he is petting a kitten that rests by the sink.

Hesitantly the three sit down.

Elpenor: That has to be a health violation. (He gestures to the MANY cats. The man behind the counter growls. Elpenor looks out the window)

It's 4pm but the sky looks dark, like it might rain. Odysseus gets a coffee and two sodas. The man scowls farther at Odysseus, they are not welcome here.

Odysseus: What was Perimedes going to get? (Ody takes a sip but it's too HOT. He tries not to show the pain, but his smile wavers and tears are being blinked away. He carefully moves the coffee to the end of the table.)

Elpenor: I know he seems like... well is kind of crazy. But he's not... into anything bad. At least he won't drag Polites into anything too cray cray.

Odysseus: Well. I'm still concerned.

Eurylochus frantically flips through the menu. He stops and grabs Odysseus by the shoulders.

Eurylochus: We have to leave. There are no burgers.

Odysseus: What no. I saw some on the menu. (Odysseus struggles in the hold to check)

Eurylochus: NO! (He shakes Odysseus more hysterically). It's a veggie burger Ody. It's all vegetarian!

Odysseus eyes widen, his mouth falls open in horror. He still remembers the last time Eurylochus was HANGRY.

Odysseus: It's going to be fine! We'll go somewhere else!

In the haste to leave the diner, tragedy strikes, Odysseus stumbles. The coffee mug goes flying off the table. A horrible MRRRROOOWWWW is heard, then silence.

One-Eyed Man: Sheep! (He runs to his fallen friend. He looks at the three teenagers with murderous intent.)

A one-eyed man stands between the crew and the door. He rises to his full height. There is no way out.

Odysseus: I'm so sorry that was an accident! He doesn't look good you should take him to the vet. (A glance down at the once white cat. Odysseus cannot bare to look)

Odysseus reaches into his pocket and pulls out a snickers, he offers it to the One-Eyed Man.

Odysseus: Again. I'm so sorry! Maybe we can exchange insurance info? If they have that for cats?

The man takes a bite of the snickers. Then he smiles. Odysseus smiles back.

One-Eyed Man: I'm going to force your head under the Deep Fryer until you drown. (he grabs Odysseus by the arm and begins to drags him.)

Eurylochus dashes up and punches the man in the eye. He grabs Odysseus. The man backhands Eurylochus, he stumbles but stay upright. The crew book it out of the diner. The all fall into the car. Eurylochus revs the engine.

Odysseus: Fuck! Where's Polites? (He rolls down the window and half leans out.)

One-Eyed Man: (He stumbles out of the diner and rushes towards the noise. One hand is clasped over his eye.) You meddling kids are dead.

Eurylochus: We can't wait any longer! That psycho is going to kill us!

Elpenor: We can't leave without Perimedes!

Odysseus: You goddamn insane bastard! Why the hell do you let your cats just fucking walk around in a kitchen! Then act all "I'm going to kill you" when they get hurt. It's not my fucking fault you're such a dumbass-!

The backseat open and Perimedes slides in.

Perimedes: What I miss?

Elpenor: I'm so glad your okay!

Eurylochus: Where's Polites?

Perimedes: He went back in the diner to look for you. Why's that guy chasing us?

One-Eyed Man: I'm going to ruin your life. Asking about insurance info. I don't HAVE INSURANCE! The vet bills... You stupid little- your parents are probably disappointed, they had you instead of getting a cat.

The man grabs Odysseus by the shirt. Eurylochus slams on the gas. Odysseus nearly falls out of the car, but the man looses his grip and falls on his ass.

Odysseus: Go fuck yourself! And if you care that much about my goddamn parents, you can go down to Ithaca, 238 Castle CT and fucking ask for Odysseus-!

One-Eyed Man: You will never reach your home!! NEVER!!

The drive continues in silence, until a safe distance is between them and the diner. Then all Hades breaks loose.

Eurylochus: You did not fucking tell the crazy lunatic your actual home address. Right captain?

Odysseus: It's fiiine. If he's going to press charges he would have found a way regardless. I did hurt his cat. God I hope it's not dead.

Perimedes: I'd kill a cat. No guilt whatsoever if it was an asshole.

A collective scandalized gasp.

Odysseus: Wait... Where's Polites?

Perimedes: He went to the restaurant looking for you. I'm sure he's fine!

Odysseus: So we left him with the guy who was going to "drown me in a deep fryer"

Perimedes: If you're that worried just call him! We can meet up at the club, we were going to go to.

Odysseus: His phone is missing how am I supposed to call him? Wait. Club? I thought we were heading back after some food?

Elpenor: No fucking way! I want to party and celebrate our track win!

Odysseus: Did you know about this Eurylochus?

Eurylochus: (He looks guiltily to the side) We thought you'd say no. It's rush hour now anyway. We might as well kill time while traffic settles.

Perimedes: Yeah! And now we need to meet up with Polites. This was the last place we mentioned meeting.

Odysseus rests his weary head in his hands.

Odysseus: What's this place called?

Elpenor: I think it's called Circe's Palace?

End of part 1.

You did it! You've read the mad ramblings to their conclusion. I stayed up til 1am to finish this... Damn. I have no idea what to tag this.

[yanderefarm]

poor achilles imagine like him like begging to be whipped harder mid-sesh and his darling stops everything to whip out google translate

"can you repeat that? *the sound of a mic turning on*"

achilles would pay for darlings italian lessons after a few times of that i can see it now!!!

he's like horny babbling but you're like "wait wait hold up say it again" bc you wanna make sure he's not saying anything important.

actually using that against him when you start to recognize some of the words he tends to say over and over... like hes near the edge and he's saying please harder please in Italian and internally you're like "oh i know this" but you stop like "wait hold on what was that?" or telling him to use his words but he can't remember his English words right now....

and then he is annoyed so he makes you learn Italian. he even teaches you.

i also imagine in italian he's slightly more expressive.

[teecupangel]

Desmond miles as hopes older brother! Des as hopes brother! I don't have much due to my painkillers giving me a crash and burn boost, but I can help offer what little info I do think of.

It's very clear hope has had a lady's upbringing and education, Desmond alreadly had "big brother" vibes after his time near ezio's sister and little brother so he gets soft with the pretty menace that is now his sister. He's sadly not fully aware of how bad things would get in their adult lives under Achilles, but with his time as connor he knows things went horrible enough for Achilles to take things more seriously. So he's ready, but not truly ready

Now growing up before and after the death of their bio family then adoption by the german couple who raised them, he helps set hope up to be a better person once tragedy struck once more. Not just in skill, but her morals, right from wrong and her blind loyalty with plea's and warnings falling to deaf ears.

To most he's mildly serious yet calm and laid back, easiest assassin on the homestead to get along with. Most recruits who get to train with him come out sore and tired, but full of pride with a goofy smile. (I love when desmond gets to act like a big brother, he can't help it- shays his brother, liams a brother, the other's are questionable at best)

(It alsi really got to me in shay's game that hope of all people didn't listen, she seems so smart and clever! Hell she IS smart and clever)

Wanna make it more tragic?

How about when they lost their parents they were separated due to their parents’ actions, who had been kind people but may have gotten in with the wrong crowd or might have accumulated too much debt from the wrong people.

Desmond, being the older of the two, promised to find Hope and told her to wait for him. Hope is left with nothing else to do but believe in her brother and she’s taken away to an orphanage while Desmond is left to ‘pay the debt’.

Hope is adopted and her adoptive parents love her but she still remembered the warmth of her brother’s hand on the top of her head, could still remember the kind smile he always had even when Hope annoyed him.

So she believed him.

She believed him and kept on waiting for him.

Then her adoptive father was killed and she and her adoptive mother were thrown out of their own home.

It’s during the time she tried to steal for medicine to save her ailing adoptive mother that he finally found her.

It’s a bittersweet reunion as she had waited for this moment for so long but she had imagined their reunion to be a sweet one. Where he would appear on their doorsteps and would embrace her tightly…

Where her adoptive parents would welcome him to their home, her adoptive mother cooking for him and her adoptive father teaching him their family business…

Not in this dank alleyway with his hand gripping her arm tightly, the surprise clear in his eyes.

Like he didn’t expect to see her here.

Like this had all been a coincidence.

She had half a mind to push him and run away.

To ask why he had taken so long to find her…

Yet…

“Patricia?”

Just one word.

A name she had not heard for a long time.

Spoken in a much deeper voice than she had grown up hearing.

Spoken with such…

Hope.

Her body moved before she could stop herself.

His hands held her like they’ve always had.

His embrace was just as warm as she remembered…

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Unorganized Notes:

With Desmond’s help, Hope’s adoptive mother didn’t die.

Desmond had been ‘paying’ their parents debt for years by singlehandedly destroying their group. It took some time as they were all scums who had enough money to pay for decent security and Desmond had no allies or informants of his own so he had to do all the information gathering on his own (aka: the Altaïr way)

During this time, Desmond had also amassed a… following as some of the people he took out had really had sidegigs.

So, yeah, while Hope had been growing up in a safe loving home, Desmond had been ‘unintentionally’ creating his own small gang.

Hope joins the gang, of course, and it’s actually less of a gang and more of a lite Brotherhood that focused more on information gathering and causing distractions for Desmond.

Desmond isn't Desmond's biological name but the name he went with while doing his 'sidegigs'. Only Hope and Desmond know each other's biological names and they only use it when they're alone.

Desmond actually didn’t want to train Hope to be an Assassin like him because he will always see her as his that little kid who would cry for her brother whenever she tripped. Then he realized how his feelings were the same as the ones Ezio had felt about Claudia and knew that he can’t stop her. All he can do is guide her and make sure she grew up to be strong enough.

Hope's first Assassination mission was to hunt down the men who used to be her adoptive father's business partners.

So when Achilles finally finds them, they’re pretty much Assassins by their own rights and he had heard rumors of them and the immense network they held in the colonies. That was what Achilles was after.

Desmond has no reason not to join Achilles. He only heard a bit from Ratonhnhaké:ton’s memories of what happened and Achilles had been cagey, after all, only saying that the Colonial Brotherhood fell into a Templar ‘trap’.

But… Desmond has no reason to see Achilles as a mentor as well so he acts more like an unofficial Assassin (which always left a bitter taste in his mouth), it’s a small price to pay to retain his freedom from the constraints of having to listen to Achilles’ orders.

Desmond usually just visits once in a while and every Assassin in the homestead are immediately swarming him, wanting to learn from him and ask for his advice. He’s friendly to everyone and acts like a big brother to them (especially as Achilles’ recruits are usually younger than Desmond).

Hope and Shay have a more rivalry-type relationship because Desmond told Hope that Shay had potential which Hope took as a declaration of war for her brother’s attention. Shay thinks Hope is just a very… ‘aggressive’ woman.

Liam thinks Shay is dumb for not realizing that Hope only acts like that to him. Everyone has heard of Hope, Desmond’s sister and first apprentice. Among their group, she’s one of the few to actually be on the same level as an Assassin and she’s as cunning and smart as one can get. She’s also usually nice and polite and her treatment of Shay makes Liam mistakes it as… Hope having feelings for Shay!

Desmond knows Hope is acting out because she has abandonment issues but, at the same time, her rivalry with Shay was helping the two of them grow so… he’s not going to do anything other than remind Hope that she’s his own and only sister and nothing will ever change that.

Desmond is close to Achilles’ apprentices and acts like a secondary mentor + older brother to them all. Since he’s older than them (physically and thanks to the Bleeding Effect + his reincarnation bs), he tends to treat them as young ‘kids’.

Up to you if Desmond’s presence have an effect and saves Achilles’ wife and son.

[11queensupreme11]

I read how you plan to make the arsenic blue and can't help but wonder how they feel about Percy forgetting all about the yanderes. I imagine ror!Poseidon will get really furious, especially when Percy called the pjo!Poseidon her dad. And I imagine Hades said will be heartbroken while Apollo and Beelzebub will immediately try to force her to remember them. Oh, and how will they react to Percy with the other Demigods... Oh, I can't wait!

it'll be a whirlwind of emotions, i can assure you!

not only does she have amnesia, but the only person she remembers is anthonius, a mortal son of athena. they don't know that hera intentionally leaves her with this one memory so they're gonna be like "is... is he more important to her than me?? 🥺 why does she remember HIM and not me?? 😭"

not to mention the horror and fear they'll go through when she gets the curse of achilles removed. it was the one thing keeping her safe in ror verse, without it they're gonna be freaking the fuck out

then there's the second great prophecy, the life-threatening quests, side-missions she goes on, the amount of "WHY ARE HER GODS NOT HELPING?!?!?!", the WAR, and TARTARUS.......

the universe will not be safe when the yanderes manage to break into it 💀

[specialgradefckr]

I do agree with the spiteful bitter reader part- I feel like i’d be the most nasty person if i was so miserably in love. Therefor i do not wish or want for reader to end up with satosugu. Genuinely, in fics like so, i like most when reader makes them kiss her ass and blows them dry.

On a personal level, i think i’d be even more miserable if i did end up with said person i wanted so baldy before if the upbringing of our relationship had one like in byhtd. I just wouldn’t be able to find joy nor happiness knowing how painful they made it out to be for me in the past just to get off on it for their weird kinks or whtv. Especially geto, there’s a special place in hell for cunts like him who do all that shit for power play and need to feel superior lmao that being said, is byhtd ending in angst for stsg? I feel like you’ve mentioned this- somewhere??? Don’t remember where but if you feel lenient enough you can always spoil a little bit for us. I love spoilers anyway 😂

to anyone wondering: this ask is referencing an ask from quite some time ago, concerning byhtd! you can find it here!

the ask concerns some details that were left under a cut in the original ask, because they sort of spoil details of the series. it's also asking for spoilers in general, and while i won't spoil things in a big way, there WILL be spoilers for the general direction/tone/etc.

i'll put this under a cut in case people don't want to see!

the original point that this anon is talking about is a detail here:

despite all your yearning in beat your heart to death, you're actually a pretty bitter, spiteful person. a lot of your anger or frustration gets suppressed or swallowed, and it's always on behalf of someone you care about. your achilles heel is softness from your loved ones; suguru exploits this often, and in heartline gone flat it literally saves satoru's life.

in the end, for your ask, it kinda comes down to like... what sort of person you are and what unsettles you while reading.

in the original ask i mention that people often don't know what they want in reader inserts, and while they say they like or dislike things, you can actually still give them an experience they'll really enjoy as long as you lead them naturally to the same conclusions as the reader-insert.

it's natural for readers like you, anon, to see suguru adamantly refusing to confess his feelings, intentionally making you feel inferior to satoru, and go "god i hate that guy!"

the secret is to make the reader-insert do that, too. or at least acknowledge the existence. "you" are also unhappy at suguru's taunting. "you" can't help but wonder if he knows how "you" feel about him and that's why.

as a writer, i can guide the reader-insert's thoughts and monologues towards all sorts of places. if "you" know that suguru is trying to hurt you, surely you can't help but wonder if he's jealous. if maybe you hurt him back, a fraction as much as he's hurt you.

at least now he'll have to think of you. remember you every time he sees satoru's bare chest.

stuff like that! love isn't just desire - you can have the bitterness, the "i've been wronged!" energy, that feeling of contempt, but still see someone and feel so many other emotions because they've been so many other things to you in life.

tbh i can't really say how it ends - i just have a draft for the next part. what i can tell you is that this isn't like... going anywhere else.

if you're waiting for sukuna or toji or, god forbid, nanami, to show up as a third option, you have the wrong series.

but! i like fics with nuance. with back and forth. reader literally carved satoru's chest up out of jealousy. it's not going to be just one person hurting the other; i'm a firm believer in hurting your loved ones back,,, sjhgflhsdg listen there's a reason it's tagged "toxic relationships" lol.

as for satosugu; there are cracks that have formed with you putting your name on satoru and not on suguru. does it mean satosugu/reader is not endgame? i wouldn't count on it.

but actions have consequences, and suguru's definitely got a reckoning coming...