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legally-a-bastard · 2 years ago

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tagged by @strangefable(tysm bestie, ily /p 💚)

‘which tragic greek figure are you?’ uquiz, for my ocs

𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕦𝕥𝕪 𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕜-𝕗𝕔5

orpheus

sing, o muse, of the failed lover who thwarted perils and charmed death but could not save that who he cherished most. you have impressed the god of music with your skill, have sailed with argonauts, and penned literature that lived millennia past your death, but you are most remembered for only just failing to save eurydice from the depths of hades. take your grief-filled hands and wander, now, museless creature, until death comes for you too.

cyparissus

young cyparissus, innocent cyparissus, it was all only an accident. your stag, finding relief from the relentless summer sun of Apollo under the forest's trees, did not deserve the cruel wound of your javelin stuck within him, and you did not deserve to inadvertently be the cause of his death. but grief does not care about intent and accidents, does it? even now, your cypress trees cry your mourning tears.

𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕝𝕒 𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕠-𝕗𝕟𝕧

bellerophon

chimera-killer, pegasus-tamer, eater of your own soul: icarus flew too close to the sun, but you flew too close to gods who would prefer to remain untouched. could you not find enough joy in being a hero, a husband, a father and a king? olympus will never accept your presence upon its mountaintop, so best quit while you're ahead, before your horse bucks.

𝕧𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕒 𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕝𝕠𝕓𝕠-𝕗𝕔5/𝕗𝕔3

achilles

best of the greeks, eager for honor, and quick to rage: you could easily live content and easy until you're gray-haired, but glory and fame call for you just beyond the horizon. you are not prone to self-reflection and trip into the same pits of wrath at bruised pride over and over. are you truly ready to sacrifice everything so that your name will be immortalized? is your fury what you want to be remembered for?

I don’t think I’m gonna put a tag list on this bc I have a hard time knowing who to tag and whether they’ve done it before or not, so instead if you see this then feel free to do it too(and tag me in the result cause I wanna see 👀) 💚

#my ocs #oc: deputy harper rook #oc: contessa lola rattenmeister sierro #oc: valentina rosales lobo #I feel like only harper’s are accurate #I first got cyparissus for her but I felt it didn’t fit so I did it again and got orpheus #and I think those two results combined are actually pretty accurate #Orpheus I feel is accurate because Hope County would be like her Eurydice #before everything harper is known as the deputy. as someone who’s not uptight but not completely laidback. not perfect but she tries #to be a good person #she’s snarky and can take a joke and known to be really good at fishing and duck hunting #but once the reaping starts? things begin to change #like orpheus she is going through hell to save hope county #like orpheus she has done and is many things other than just the deputy. but the Deputy starts to become the only way she’s seen #she becomes known only as the one on the path to stop the cult-as well as the one who will herald the collapse #she becomes known only as both a savior and a harbinger.#and she succeeds for the most part #she travels into the depths of a figurative hell. she is carved into. she sees & hears things-people & animals-that aren’t really there #or aren’t what they seem #she is conditioned to kill ruthlessly-to become nothing more than a starving feral animal that must cull those weaker to survive #just by hearing the notes of a song #she goes through all this. and still fails at the very end. she gets so close to succeeding but it’s futile. she still fails.#and the grief and the guilt tears her mind apart and rips what’s left of who she is to shreds. just as the maenads tore apart Orpheus #she is like cyparissus because she didn’t know-couldn’t have known. she didn’t know cuffing the Father would cause this.#she didn’t know that one simple action would cause an entire holy war. cause hundreds to die. cause her to become the bringer of hell.#she didn’t know that she was doomed to be the harbinger of apocalypse from the moment she set foot into Joseph’s compound. she didn’t know #and so it’s not her fault. but it IS her fault. SHE made the choice cuff Joseph. SHE chose to obey the Marshal. SHE chose not to turn away.#and SHE chose not to heed the warnings. the signs. the little voice in her head telling her that it would all go wrong.#and so because of her choice. she caused the deaths and misery of the people of hope county. because she brought hell with her. because #war and destruction do not care whether or not you knew the consequences to your actions.

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