#dio angst letsgoooo

[ellilyre]

Yk I usually assume that Diomedes and Aegialia's marriage is strictly political and has no feelings involved and she's kind of a bitch, but wouldn't it be sm more angst if they did love each other.

I'm pretty sure they've known each other since childhood. Maybe Aegialeus is aware of that and keeps teasing them about it. They're still children, it's fun.

And then the Epigoni happens.

The war didn't last long, but it's consequences were brutal. When he comes back, Diomedes has been changed by war. But she can still see in him the gentle boy she fell in love with. She teaches him to be soft and gentle again.

They reign together. They fail to have a child yet, but they're young, they still have the time for that.

They love each other. He leaves for Troy but promise he'll come back to her and Argos.

Ten years later, Diomedes wounds Aphrodite and she hurts him back in the worst way possible.

Aegialia wakes up one morning with no love for him anymore. He has never wronged her, and his letters are as sweet as ever, and yet she finds herself yearning for another man's embrace.

As she watches him trying to get home (to their home) and getting pushed back by the guards, she has never felt more hurt. She is heartbroken and yet something keeps her from screaming and throwing herself at his arms (as she has dreamt of for the 10 last years).

He flees the city for good and finally she breaks down, as if until now her feelings were put on "pause". She cries, she screams his name, but it's too late, he left, she chased him from their home.

He will never understand why did she did that. She will never forgive herself for what she did to him.