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MYRRINE!

How I feel about this character

I ADORE HER AND WOULD PROTECT HER WITH MY LIFE. i think she’s such an interesting character if you sort of read between the lines. i don’t think it’s a fault of odyssey that we don’t see a lot of her motivations, since it’s already a very very long game. uhh i have more to say but it falls under some other questions, so read on:

All the people I ship romantically with this character

xenia, anthousa... nikolaos in pre-canon. that being said, i’d love to have seen more of their interaction post-canon—judging by the dinner scene she can at least stand to be in the same room as him, and since they’re both lieutenants on my ship i do see them interacting (though that is preprogrammed for all sailors) so i like to imagine that although they’re not together romantically anymore, they are at least on speaking terms.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

timo! i always knock her out and recruit her so that she and myrrine can hang out on the adrestia lmao. i know a lot of people ship the two of them, but to me timo looks considerably younger, so i always viewed their relationship as mentor-mentee.

My unpopular opinion about this character

hahaha i think we’ve talked about both these points before, but: myrrine is perfectly justified in wanting lagos dead AND in that one bad ending where she banishes the eagle bearer for killing deimos. from her pov, lagos was a member of the cult that destroyed her family and tortured and brainwashed her youngest child. she knows that lagos is being blackmailed, but i don’t think she is obligated to feel sorry for him. leonidas was threatened by the cult, too, and he never bowed. and maybe it’s unrealistic to hold every goddamn spartan to that high a standard, but you can kind of see how her view on the cult, namely resisting the cult, might be a little skewed.

(i still spare lagos every single playthrough tho...can’t say no to my spartan bf)

regarding the exile ending: in order to get that ending, you have to promise to her at every opportunity that you will save your sibling. and then, at the last moment, you choose the kill option (bc the other option gets myrrine killed, and then you have to kill your sibling anyway). she literally never interacts with deimos until the final taygetos scene. all she knows is that both of her children are alive, and the elder child has promised again and again to bring hom the younger child. and then, seemingly out of nowhere, the elder child just turns around and kills the younger child in an act of revenge.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

i wish the odyssey novelization had been myrrine’s backstory instead of a retelling of the events of the game. (the origins novel iirc goes into bayek and aya’s lives pre-canon so it’s not unprecedented to have a novel outside the timeline of the game to which it is tied.) i want to know what happened to her mother and brother after leonidas died, since neither are present in the game. did she even know her father well, before he went off to thermopylae? or did she grow up with only stories of him? i want to know how she met pythagoras and how she felt about him and about her “duty” to have a child with him. was he kind to her? was he understanding? or was he the same old awkward nerd we met in the game? and how did she and nikolaos deal with all that—especially considering how clear it is how much he loves both children, and sees them both as his, regardless of biological parentage. i want to know what life was like for her in sparta, as their princess, after thermopylae; their house in the game seems fairly nondescript, not really royal in any way. i want to know more details of her life in korinth and as a pirate: how she pulled herself back up after she was led to believe that both her children were dead, how she started to fight back against her grief and despair and how she learned to find joy and purpose in life again. and when did she learn about the cult? i want to know how she went from one of the best pirates xenia had ever sailed with to a well-respected archon on naxos, and how she navigated politics and what kinds of inner conflicts she dealt with in allying with sparta despite everything she’d been through and all it had taken from her. i want to know, especially, how she feels knowing that the eagle bearer has this awful responsibility as the keeper of memories that she’d played a part in having unwittingly thrust upon them, and if she ever felt like a pawn just going through the motions dictated by her family’s bloodline.

send me a character and i’ll answer some prompts and maybe ramble a lot more than i originally intended, oops