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navree · 7 months ago

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octavian 🤝 neoptolemus, teens who get conflicting reports on how brutal or merciful they were in careers they started by avenging dead fathers but who definitely killed at least one child that they did not need to

OCTAVIAN!!!! NEOPTOLEMUS!!! IFYKWIM

YEAH!!! YEAH........

#as an octavian enjoyer (historically/narratively) and also a firm achilles hater this is very Hmmmm #cuz on the one hand neoptolemus did either bash astyanax's head against a wall or straight up drop off him off the ramparts of troy #(in front of his mom)#and what octavian did to caesarion and antyllus is very Yikes especially antyllus #but there is at least one source that portrays neoptolemus as a lot more conflicted and trying to be as painless and quick as possible #while killing polyxena (cuz his fuckass misogynistic dad wanted him to) and being quite torn about it #and octavian did spare all of antony's other children and even kinda raised juba from the age of four (we don't talk about that enough)#(but we SHOULD)#anyway as a greek person and someone intentionally submitting myself to a class that ends at 5:30PM this fall #(and i live in an area where it's gonna be getting dark at four)#this does hit all the spots

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