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[burstingyam]

Okay Patroclus’s visual and Achilles’s auditory.

So Patroclus’s worst fear was forgetting Achilles’s face during the time Achilles was on Skyros.

And Achilles endlessly repeated in his head the last words he heard from Patroclus before his death, so as not to forget his voice.

[burstingyam]

Patroclus is so Peeta Mellark coded sometimes, idk what you do with this.

[burstingyam]

Patrochilles in my au: kissing and flirting during every single free part of text.

Peak of sexual tension between neorestes in the exactly same au:

[burstingyam]

Phoenix called Achilles and Patroclus “thing number 1” and “thing number 2”. I had a vision, believe me.

[vigabut]

He's fine guys trust

[burstingyam]

IM FUCKING OBSESSED.

[burstingyam]

When Neo first met Orestes, he simply couldn't believe that someone like him was grieving for Agamemnon. Like. Neo simply drew a glowing ball over Orestes with a pencil and decided that he was the most immediate and vibrant person in his life. And he was avenging someone like Agamemnon. Him?? Neo juxtaposed images, vague memories, and the sensations he'd experienced sneaking past Agamemnon's tent: sneaking because he couldn't stand talking to him. That heavy gait and tired eyes, that endless greed: is this what Orestes was grieving for? Is this what he was avenging?

[burstingyam]

Are we even gonna discuss how the only thing that made Achilles actually SMILE after Patroclus’s death was Antilochus winning that games during Patroclus’s funeral??

From Book 23:

“Thus spake the youth; nor did his words offend;

Pleased with the well–turn'd flattery of a friend,

Achilles smiled: "The gift proposed,

Antilochus!”

[pissssston]

[burstingyam]

When Patroclus has “season blues” or other reasons to be apathetic and sad, Achilles takes him with him to various events. When Patroclus says he doesn’t wanna go, Achilles be like “but I don’t know what to do with out you there” (which is partly true, but mostly he wants to move Patroclus’s ass) and Patroclus can’t say no. What a manipulator.

[burstingyam]

OK, I'm going crazy, but BUT.

Ancient Greece, of course, spoke a single language, but the dialect (and therefore pronunciation, some words, and all that) varied from island to island.

Neoptolemus had a Skyrian accent for a long time (until he became king of the Molossians probably), which, in reality, isn't too jarring. It's not too jarring for anyone except Phoenix, because he spent hours and days hearing a very familiar voice and very familiar words, but pronounced with a different stress or sound.

[burstingyam]

Achilles being “feels everything (because he DOES fight me)” and Neoptolemus being “feels nothing” ohhhhhhh AND Achilles still loves Neo “as much as he can” and Neo loves him more than he can- idk guys

[purple--queen]

Achilles is extroverted but hates people & Patroclus is introverted but likes people. This is why they work so well.

[lesbodysseus]

Reminder that in the Odyssey Achilles refers to Neoptolemus as his proud son and asks Odysseus about him(and Peleus too) the moment he sees him, Achilles loved Neoptolemus so much he's a proud father.

[burstingyam]

How many times has my poor man Phoenix looked at Neo but saw Achilles?

Saw his anger and revenge, saw the grief that was too big to be dealt with by just one heart? Phoenix was the only one who saw both young Achilles and young Neoptolemus and he could do nothing but see Neo’s father in him.

Bacause they choose the same poses and share the same confused look directed towards the gorichont. If Phoenix had a chance, he would say, that they have the same smile, but he never saw Neo smiling.

And Phoenix feels bad for his child and he wants to tell him that he doesn’t have to repeat his father’s fate, wants to stop watch over his copper-burning strands and see someone else’s fair curls. But he can’t.

[burstingyam]

I want Achilles being the achiver of the family and a big careerist in some modern au, cause!! Man was like litteraly ready to DIE for his honor and fame. And him being talented in something will haunt him in every au, so he will never satisfied, and his beloveds will suffer from it, because they feel concurretion between them and Achilles’s work/realization.

(Especially if this’s a science- ohhhh achilles wearing that white lab coat…)

And Patroclus feels in love with this oh so brilliant crazy 20-years-old writing his thesis and arguing with every single professor he meets, and thinks that they both aren’t into “family thing” are they?? But then he understands that he WANTS family with this man and he wants to build their cottage idk 😭 lazy mornings peaceful life BUT he never tells Achilles about it because oh he knows he knows how traped Achilles would feel, how bored and sad and… :(

[burstingyam]

I once wrote that Achilles needs a meaning in life, and this is what I meant!!

He's not afraid of his own death. Not in the sense of a phobia, but rather a kind of anxiety, a reluctance to die. Death, early but dignified, is his own choice. It's a calming feeling on the outskirts of any battle, that death is somewhere near.

Achilles doesn't feel part of this world; the threads that bind him to the earth don't irritate his palms. Even Patroclus (inadvertently, but still) points this out, calling him a child of the sea and the rocks. Achilles isn't brave; he simply doesn't know the fear of death (his own, of course). And he doesn't give up his life only until someone needs it.

Patroclus is his root system, if you will, and Achilles is a beautiful, bright, eyesore of a barren flower with a single ovary inside. They are completely codependent, terrible and doomed, I hope they are happy in the afterlife, I hate them-

[burstingyam]

When i have a bad day i remember that in Odyssey, Achilles was so glad to hear something about his “beloved son”, as Odysseus said :(( it’s like he’s PROUD of his child. And then, when Neo’s coming to him, meeting the only person he has ever wanted to see so bad… This person’s saying that he’s proud. That he’s glad to have him.

Even if Neo isn’t glad or proud or sure that it all was worth it.

(And lol it wasnt (i mean they are both so shitty so they can like each other. Not love but like (2x they are shitty i know neither of them did good things BUT THEY WERE in ANCIENT GREECE and for that time they did good. (3x they still are shitty but i love them as characters not persons)