#hector and eros

[fnafs-ex-boyfriend]

So I have one of those challenges, as an aro man who loves his friends. Writers: Name a male friendship between your ocs that has NO romance attatched to it. No female characters, no romancey stuff. Go.

Tagging friends for fun @quincyzov @ace-robot-has-matcha @literalcyborg

[greeknerdsblog]

Happy Valentine's Day to all the couples in Greek mythology <3

[neechees]

The notes of that "what mythological inaccuracies donyou hate" & saw this

"The most functional relationship in Greek Mythology" Rachel Smythe isn't a reliable source on Greek Mythology

[vixlenxe]

Oh, haha~

Are we getting violent?

[gothicfairytopia]

dead.

i am personally better than orpheus because i would be:

- deceased

if i was orpheus i would suck hades dick forever because i would be

dead

and because he’s

hot

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[unboundprompts]

Hey! Would you do a list of names from Greek mythology? Male, female, and gender-neutral! Thanks!

Greek Mythology Character Name Ideas

-> feel free to comment suggestions, I'll do my best to add them to the list.

Male:

Damon

Hector

Jason

Zeus

Hermes

Adonis

Apollo

Argus

Linus

Helios

Mentor

Midas

Nestor

Achilles

Alexander

Eros

Hyperion

Theseus

Simon

Patroclus

Prometheus

Myles

Diomedes

Troy

Female:

Athena

Daphne

Helen

Penelope

Phoebe

Selene

Iris

Clio

Cassandra

Thalia

Gaia

Anthea

Larisa

Harmonia

Aella

Chloe

Calypso

Adrasteia

Medea

Cora

Hermione

Melia

Hera

Rhea

Acantha

Melete

Gender-Neutral:

Atlas

Paris

Ajax

Leander

Neilos

Lykos

Priam

Xanthos

Zephyr

Dione

Ione

Circe

Pallas

Themis

Anthen

Carme

Echo

Xanthe

[sarafangirlart]

I hate when ppl write Helen and Paris as a tragic love story in the same vein as Romeo and Juliet bc it’s crystal clear that Helen hates Paris in the Iliad and Aphrodite straight up threatens her to have sex with him, yes Aphrodite is involved in all romantic love but I feel like Helen is the exception bc Helen’s “love” for Paris isn’t a natural occurrence, Aphrodite had to personally manipulate persuade Helen to flee with Paris, she could’ve told Eros to shoot Helen with an arrow and that would be it, but she doesn’t, Helen was forced into this situation.

Also it makes Helen seem like a love sick moron, yes she went with Paris “willingly” at first but she soon regrets it bc literally anyone in that situation would, especially considering that Paris is a cowardly little bitch who lets his brothers fight his battles for him and rarely engages in the war unless Hector bullies him. To have her firmly choosing to remain with Paris bc loooooove when any sensible person would return to the Greeks to end the war and bloodshed if they had the power and means to do so. This is how we get the narrative that Helen is an evil whore who started the war for her selfish desires, by making her still love Paris after all these years of bloodshed when it was actually mostly his fault makes her look selfish and stupid.

[likethexan]

rate all the greek mytho married couples from most to least interesting (or your favorite to least favorite, depends on you!)

For fun I’ve split them into four categories:

The Really Interesting category, made their relationship everyone’s problem:

- Zeus and Hera (duh)

- Helen and Menelaus (happy ending)

- Helen and Paris (oof! ending)

- Odysseus and Penelope (has a whole word dedicated to their like-minded thinking)

- Rhea and Cronus (tragedy and cannibalism)

- Jason and Medea (tragedy and filicide)

- Clytemnestra and Agamemnon (tragedy and filicide and mariticide and matricide and misogyny and and OH gods-)

- Peleus and Thetis (the arranged mortal marriage blues, but in my head Thetis immortalized Peleus somehow by force and keeps him in her attic) (Because gods be damned if she will be the only one doomed to grieve Achilles)

- Orpheus and Eurydice (mf really went to hell for her and still didn’t get her back :<)

- Hector and Andromache (relatively the most normal ones in this category but still very tragic. Like don’t even ask.)

- Hecuba and Priam (them too)

The Really Cute couple category, bonus if it took them long to get there:

- Hephaestus and Aglaia

- Eros and Psyche

- Dionysus and Ariadne

- Perseus and Andromeda (they kinda remind me of Prince Philip and Aurora which is cute)

- Hebe and Heracles (listennn. they’re cute and important to the Heracles-Hera feud ending)

- Hippomenes and Atalanta (RIP Meleager)

- Philemon and Baucis (one of my fave Zeus myths)

- Alcestis and Admetus (Orpheus and Eurydice but with a happy ending thanks to the interference of Apollo)

- Iphis and Ianthe (trans man rep is good someone PLEASE write about them)

- Tethys and Oceanus (placing them here idc they are cute in my head!! The only titan couple who survived rip to Coeus/Phoebe and all the failed marriages thanks to the Titanomachy)

The Uhhh… Okay Category

- Hades and Persephone (placing them here because while I do think their relationship is interesting AND I find good various retellings of them (excluding LO) like Hades Supergiant, Hadestown, etc I long for more neutral/nuanced takes on the kidnapping, not just by their romance (or lack of romance) but Demeter’s role in the story to be more respected. (It also can’t be helped that HxP has the most over saturated greek mythology content everywhere that people get tired of seeing them, especially portrayed as the “only good greek myth couple” like okay get outta here)

- Gaia and Uranus (I like them, their relationship is clearly important for Cronus’ succession story, but their conflict to me seems so.. short lived? Like you have your son castrate your husband for imprisoning your less appealing babies but now the strife is gone and you work together to tell your son he is destined to be overthrown by his son and telling your grandson to cannibalize his wife as good advice??? Like good for them ig but Rhea and Cronus just do it better imo)

- Hypnos and Pasithea (getting ur wife from a deal with her mom that makes you commit treason by inducing your king with sleep… nothing sketchy about this at allll) (but maybe they’re cute and functional besides that who knows)

- Ceyx and Alcyone (in one version they didn’t do it, in the other they’re just… very dumb to call themselves Zeus and Hera.)

- Procris and Cephalus (eos RUINS lives)

- Hephaestus and Aphrodite (lets be glad it ended bc while they are interesting and Hephaestus did make their marital strife public, I just think they had a better relationship after the divorce)

The Kinda Boring category (to me, subjectively, put down the pitchforks)

- Poseidon and Amphitrite (do they have one myth together that isn’t the Delphin seduction myth… Amphitrite is nice to Poseidon’s worst son. That’s. That’s kinda it. I wish we had more, like how they are with their children or literally anything else to depict a dynamic between them. Especially since they ARE supposed to be the king and queen of the sea. But nope. At least with Oceanus and Tethys they’re both obscure in their personalities so headcanoning stuff is fun to me. Poseidon having a well established personality and Amphitrite… oh dear Amphitrite…)

- Cadmus and Harmonia (they’re a couple in order become ascendants of more tragic humans like Actaeon, Semele and that’s it. They become Snakes in the end to repent for Cadmus’ mistake. Nothing really about their relationship with each other)

- Deucalion and Pyrrha (The Greek rendition of Christianity’s Noah’s Ark and yeah. Thats it)

[superkooku]

I have a genuine question: why do the adaptations hate healthy relationships in Greek mythology ?

It's so funny that so many of them try to crackship figures that never met each other, while ignoring wholesome couples like :

Hephaestus and Aglaia (no, "fixing" his marriage with Aphrodite doesn't work. Leave them alone)

Perseus and Andromeda

Hypnos and Pasithea

Admetus and Alcestis

Apollo and half of his lovers (Hyacinthus, Admetus, Cyrene, the Muses, heck even the lesser known ones like Thyia)

Poseidon and Nerites

Dionysus and Ariadne (I had to include them :3)

Asclepius and Epione

Philemon and Baucis

Hector and Andromache

Cadmus and Harmonia

Chiron and Chariclo

Eros and Psyche OF COURSE!

Artemis and... no, I'm kidding 😂

Aphrodite and whoever she wants. Let her have fun !!

And more ! Instead of shipping, idk, Medusa wirh Tiresias or Ariadne with fricking Asterius, how about we take a look at this list.

And don't get me started on the awesome platonic relationships that get sorely ignored !!

There's drama, there betrayal, there's some dark stuff in these stories, sure, but there's also some cuter stuff that deserves to be acknowledged.

[littlemissbigears]

Baby mythology me: 💖Hades x Persephone💖

Me now: 💖Odysseus x Penelope, Hector x Andromache, Orpheus x Eurydice, Psyche x Eros💖

[aliciavance4228]

Greek Mythology Characters And Their MBTI Types

Note: I tried to include as many gods, demigods, mortals, creatures etc. as possible.

INTJ: Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Feeling (Fi), and Extraverted Sensing (Se);

Characters: Athena, Hades, Nyx, Diomedes, Nemesis, Moirai (The Fates), Minos, Ixion, Tantalus, Melinoe, Styx, Graeae, Erebus, Hydra;

INTP: Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Feeling (Fe);

Characters: Pandora, Scylla, Daedalus, Chaos, Urania, Sphinx, Coeus, Aergia;

ENTJ: Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Feeling (Fi);

Characters: Zeus, Helios, Medea, Clytemnestra, Ouranos, Eteocles, Charybdis, Hyperion, Moros, Stheno, Nereus, Perses, Caucasian Eagle;

ENTP: Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Sensing (Si);

Characters: Hermes, Odysseus, Prometheus, Oedipus, Sisyphus, Chimera, Eris, Atë, Enyo, Damocles, Proteus, Momus, Apate, Niobe, Hermaphroditus, Hippomenes;

INFJ: Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Sensing (Se);

Characters: Hestia, Hecate, Psyche, Circe, Oizys, Chione, Medusa, Cassandra, Iphigenia, Selene, Asclepcius, Chiron, Okeanos, Aether, Theia, Harmonia, Phoebe, Asteria, Astraeus, Alcmene, Callisto, Geryon and Orthus;

INFP: Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Thinking (Te);

Characters: Persephone, Hypnos, Morpheus, Orpheus, Eurydice, Pygmalion, Antigone, Amphion, Plutus, Ariadne, Zephyrus, Euterpe, Hemera, Lethe, Bellerophon, Melpomene;

ENFJ: Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Thinking (Ti);

Characters: Apollo, Gaia, Atlas, Aeneas, Nike, Peitho, Peleus, Admetus, Calliope, Cadmus, Iasion;

ENFP: Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Sensing (Si);

Characters: Dionysus, Eos, Icarus, Thalia, Ganymede, Polynices, Tyche, Philomela, Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Phaethon, Io, Iolaus, Clymene, Amphitryton;

ISTJ: Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extraverted Intuition (Ne);

Characters: Thanatos, Penelope, Electra, Clio, Echidna, Charon, Argus, Adrastea, Geras, Glaucus;

ISFJ: Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Intuition (Ne);

Characters: Demeter, Patroclus, Cyparissus, Telemachus, Ismene, Leto, Mnemosyne, Macaria, Polymnia, Leda, Thetis, Amphitrite, Maia, Euryale, Amalthea, Merope;

ESTJ: Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Feeling (Fi)

Characters: Hera, Poseidon, Cronus, Creon, Cerberus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Zelus, Themis, Pentheus, Boreas, Zethus;

ESFJ: Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Sensing (Si), Extraverted Intuition (Ne), Introverted Thinking (Ti);

Characters: Hector, Perseus, Echo, Erato, Rhea, Eileithya;

ISTP: Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Feeling (Fe);

Characters: Artemis, Hephaestus, Polyphemus, Typhon, Pontus, Tartarus, Keres, Lycaon, Zagreus, Erychthonius;

ISFP: Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Intuition (Ni), Extraverted Thinking (Te);

Characters: Narcissus, Achilles, Helen of Troy, Eros, Hebe, Andromeda, Iris, Orestes, Adonis, Triton, Endymion, Danae, Hyacinthus, Daphne;

ESTP: Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Thinking (Ti), Extraverted Feeling (Fe), Introverted Intuition (Ni);

Characters: Ares, Pan, Heracles, Kratos, Midas, Theseus, Ajax the Greater, Jason, Orion, Iapetus, Priapus, Tityos, Pelops;

ESFP: Extraverted Sensing (Se), Introverted Feeling (Fi), Extraverted Thinking (Te), Introverted Intuition (Ni);

Characters: Aphrodite, Paris, Calypso, Epimetheus, Terpisichore, Atalanta, Hedone, Hyppolita, Lamia, Achelous;

[dootznbootz]

About mythological ships:

What is your OTP? (favorite romantic/sexual relationship)

What is your BROTP? (favorite platonic relationship)

What is your NOTP? (the opposite of OTP)

You can say more than one in each category if you want

How fun! Thank you for the ask! :D

For OTPS:

OdyPen and MenHelen (Helen x Menelaus) are my ultimate faves. I genuinely love them so much. They plague my thoughts constantly. They go on double dates.

for other ships that I enjoy: DioSthe and Patrochilles (QPR or romantic, I enjoy them either way), Ares x Aphrodite, Ariadne x Dionysus, Apollo x Hyacinthus, EROS X PSYCHE. Ctimene x Eurylochus, Laertes x Anticlea, Periboea x Icarius, Tyndarius x Leda, Andromeda x Perseus, Hector x Andromache, Telemachus x Polycaste, many many more but I DO enjoy these ones a lot :3

For BROTPS:

Penelope and Helen, (they are technically related but you know) Odysseus and Menelaus (THEY ARE HOMIES), Helen and Hector, The Virgin Goddesses definitely have brunch together (aroace icons), Ganymede and Hebe (you know they have so much gossip). The Achaeans as a whole, I love comradery. Telemachus and Pesistratus too.

For NOTPS:

OdyDio (I don't think I've ever hated a ship so much before, sorry not sorry lol. If you bring up pederasty, I'll kill you.), Helen x Paris/Deiphobus, Odysseus x Circe/Calypso, Hephaestus x Aphrodite, Odysseus x Polites (My Odysseus is Penromantic/Pensexual and my Polites is an AroAllo mad lad lol. they are homies though), Penelope x the suitors, (...ew :/ ) Penelope x Circe (EWWWW), Telemachus x Antinous. Anything with the Tele-GONE-y

That's my thoughts on Mythology ships for the most part :3 Thank you for the ask, Dear Anon!

[nausikaaa]

Some Sentences Sunday

hello! thanks for tagging me @run-for-chamo-miles @j-nipper-95 and @thewholelemon!

i know this is super late, but i only just managed to sit down and write, and i also couldn't seem to narrow this down to only six sentences, so have... however many this is.

Helenus POV, talking about Helen (of Troy). yeah, sorry, loads of myth characters have super similar names. like Briseis and Chryseis? really? come on Homer.

I remember the first time I saw Helen, on her knees before my parents on their thrones, crying oh so prettily, dress slipping from her shoulder, begging them to give her refuge. Her husband, Menelaus, was a brute, she claimed. He beat and raped her, and kept her locked away. Paris, my brother, had rescued her, shown her true love and kindness, and brought her here, where women are treated like people.

"If you return me to him, he will kill me!" She had wept. My parents had been hesitant, but Hector took her side, and when, days later, Menelaus came with Achilles and Odysseus at his side and demanded her return, they flatly refused.

These days, she stands on the walls and watches the fighting, her eyes trained on the red haired figure of her previous husband. She recoils from Paris's touch, sneers behind his back. She cries for the daughter she left behind in Sparta.

How many of her words were even true? How painfully did Eros's poison tipped arrow smoulder in her heart? Everyone wants a beautifully tragic victim to save, and Helen played the part flawlessly.

The people of Troy hate Helen, but I pity her. I know what it is to be touched by a god. Reason and morality flees you when they wriggle their way between your ribs and make a home for themselves between your lungs. You will say and do anything they tell you, to keep that flame's warmth close, or to keep it from burning you.

i love a Helen who we never see inside the head of. we will never know what she's truly thinking, who she actually loves, what she really wants beyond basic survival. she's just a vessel for everyone to project their own ideals onto, and she knows it. she plays all the roles she is expected to, no matter how they contradict each other. she was born to destroy a city and deplete a population; no matter what she does, all roads lead there, so why put up resistance? she is determinism incarnate.

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[suzukiblu]

I'm all yours but you're all mine for wip wednesday

“Lio” and “Rion” are good options, at least, but not enough to offer either. Maybe . . . “Sol” or “Atlas” or “Orion”, though, or “Zephyr” might be fitting, or . . . well, “Adonis” or “Eros” might be too embarrassing to ever actually admit to having suggested, much less actually use, but “Addie” or “Rosie” do both sound cute. Not very mature, though. “Icarus” is a definite no, because the idea of flying too close to the sun is the literal opposite of Superman. “Samson” is even more definite a no; no way is she gonna invoke a Delilah scenario here. “Hector” is noble and kinda badass . . . “Ajax” or “Jax” might work . . . oh, or “Leander” or “Lee”, maybe? Leander and Hero’s myth is really romantic, so . . . well, it’s tempting. 

Maybe a little presumptuous, though. And also they do both die in it. 

. . . but it’s really romantic.

[el-michoacano]

Lacho Week Day Four

My choice for today's prompt: Fear. This one is… Realistic, we'll say. Feels fitting for canon. .

Lalo had never been so afraid in all his life.

Nothing scared him, but the idea of losing Nacho was enough to stop his heart.

Nacho had already had Bolsa's gun in hand when Lalo had found him and tio Hector and all the rest, milling about in the desert emptiness. It looked like a proper standoff, but Lalo had swept in and reclaimed the love of his life at gunpoint. La familia was pissed, his phone blowing up with notifications, but it was worth it. Nacho was his again.

He was beaten all to hell, Bolsa's gun still in hand as they drove away from Albuquerque, glaring hard out the windshield of the Subaru.

Into the buzzing of his phone and the rumble of the engine, Lalo said, "Ignacio--"

"You were supposed to be dead," Nacho said, and at last those big doe eyes fell on Lalo. There was more hate in them than Lalo had ever seen. "You weren't supposed to live."

Lalo huffed, "Well, sorry, cariño, but that's not--" And suddenly the sun-warmed barrel of Bolsa's gun was pressed to his temple.

"This is the only way to shut you up, huh?"

Softly, testing the name, Lalo said, "Nacho." It felt wrong. The gun didn't move, and Lalo pulled off onto the side of the road, asking, "You knew?"

"I opened the gate."

"What?"

More firmly, Nacho said, "I opened the gate, Lalo."

The words hurt more than the bullet when it tore through his brain.

. And the tag list: @themadknightuniverse, @seraphtrevs, @sword-day, @eros-thanatos89, and @adreamersince1996. Anyone else want on? Just say so!