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So Neil spent 8 months in France and 10 months in Montréal

We have no idea where he was in France but MONTRÉAL ! This helps us guess what accent he has in french

From what i know Montréal is not where you pick up the """deepest""" québécois accent (@codename-adler correct me if i'm wrong) but the expressions are still here and he would need them and the accent to fit in (like i would be clocked as french in one sentence)

And the expressions/words in québec are amazing and it makes me so sad that i cant use them daily except the ones that got exported to france ('malaisant' u have my heart and soul)

So yeah. Neil kept the québec expressions and uses them i'll die on this hill

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I always wondered, in book 3, during the duel. What do you think would have happened if Aphrodite hadn’t whisked Paris away? Like, Menelaos was dragging Paris towards the Achaeans armies and also strangling him a little on the way but he didn’t seem like he was looking for a weapon to kill him with because Paris had a sword right there if that’s what Menelaos wanted.

It just, seems a weird things to do in a duel supposedly to the death.

Obviously, the tradition won't allow Paris to die at this point - he has plot armour here just as any of the Achaean leaders who are meant to survive post-sack does. I assume that is certainly the "logical", out-of-world reason for why Menelaos reacts as he does after both their spears fail to hit anything significant.

Of course, that doesn't matter for the actual story, or the characters, who know nothing of that and are acting in response to their own motivations and whatnot!

Lol yeah, I always thought it was super odd and I have thought about this before hahah. Because ok, they spend their spears. Menelaos uses his sword - but exactly, Paris doesn't get the chance to draw his, so it's right there for Menelaos to use! And then, too, there's the spear Menelaos suddenly has the moment he loses his grip on Paris!

But yeah, jumping your enemy to manhandle him and then drag him away reads very weird to me.

In a less shippy lens - presumably it was to get another weapon over at the Achaean line. And yet, as we know, Paris' sword is within easy reach to use; and again, there's that spear Menelaos suddenly just has when Aphrodite frees her favourite and snatches him away.

So like. Even as Menelaos was the one to turn the duel explicitly to the death (which is not, note, in Paris' description of what he's suggesting), Menelaos is also the one not to take the most expedient route to killing Paris. Coupling that with his using "ate" as an exculpatory flavouring for Paris' actions...

:v Well. Definitely all that is part of the reason why this ship and the duel in terms of reading their interactions as shippy delight me.

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someone needs to chain me to the wall.

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Jump scare, Paris is actually doing things in this battle

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Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

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Gli amori di Paride ed Elena (The love of Paris and Helen) — The Fall of Troy/La caduta di Troia (1911)

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annual reminder that kevin only knows how to speak french with a marseille accent

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i need jean to pick neil up. imagine, neil is being annoying and talking shit and jean just,,,,he just picks him up, maybe swings him left and right a bit lol and neil is just hanging there confused while andrew and kevin are dying in the background

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Apparently he's gone again 😂😂😂

Every time Homer mentions what Paris is doing I picture an annoying audience member asking, "but what's Alexander doing?" and the bard begrudgingly having to come up with an answer

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And here he is! Right on time!

Today his kill count shall be 1 foot, I see.

Every time Homer mentions what Paris is doing I picture an annoying audience member asking, "but what's Alexander doing?" and the bard begrudgingly having to come up with an answer

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I want to look Homer in the eye and have him explain to me how these heroes are stripping their kills of armour in the MIDDLE OF A BATTLEFIELD

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Homer: trust me this bro was a great hero

Homer: he is now dead

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Every time Homer mentions what Paris is doing I picture an annoying audience member asking, "but what's Alexander doing?" and the bard begrudgingly having to come up with an answer

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octavian was such an interesting character, we need to talk more about this wet soppy loser

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Gotta keep a straight face u guys

based on this post

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y'all ever think about when someone asked nora what would happen if the moriyamas killed andrew as a warning and neil crashes out SO BAD he literally ditches the "neil josten" persona just like that and reverts back to nathaniel hb pulled out ALL the stops he literally hunts down proust, goes to JAPAN just to give himself over as a HITMAN to the moriyamas' rival mafia family so he can take down the moriyama empire from there...thinking about that au. obv i would never want it to happen but GOD the power he holds.