Howdy! I'm Sparks (or V) and I make a lot of fanart. I'm in multiple fandoms and I multiship.
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Hermody is the best fucking thing ever and it’s painful to admit that OdyHector might be my second favorite, just fucking shoot me, not the crack cocaine ship…
Fun idea, but Hermes is purposefully not involved in my OdyHector shenanigans, sometimes it's better to keep ships away from each other just to make sense (or, at least to make sense to me)
TLDR; If it's Hermody, Hector has nothing to do with Odysseus, if it's OdyHector, Hermes has no romantic feelings towards Odysseus
And what if I make a Hector standee riding his horse while his god Apollo shines behind him, just for myself (not because I'm selfish but realistic about market needs)
Fuck it, let's add one more post about my headcanon, this time for Paris, RAISE A GLASS
Warning I guess, this is just my interpretation, crazy though process, not absolute truth, yadda yadda, who cares
I can't hate Paris. I absolutely can't.
I don't hate characters based on their crimes. If a character is well written, I can enjoy them regardless of their evil intentions. Their crimes are fictional, my annoyance is real, so that's the golden rule; don't annoy me. Don't bore me. And Paris absolutely is entertaining.
I like to believe that the one thing Paris always yearned for was love, but not necessarily in the way that most people think. If we consider Oenone (of course she isn't involved with every version, but let's play around for my thought process here), then there was SOMEBODY who already loved him. Deeply. It wasn't just anyone, it was a beautiful nymph, known for her healing.
But. What if Paris never experienced love towards her.
There is a specific kind of pain, when someone, or even many people love you, but you seemingly being incapable of loving back. Yearning, not to be loved, but to love somebody back. So when Aphrodite makes her offer, it's obvious what he'll choose.
Because it's Aphrodite. Because it's not just a goddess, but it's love itself. Love finally came and promised to pour itself within Paris, to be able to live and love a woman who matched Aphrodite herself.
Who matched love. So Paris can be in love with the thought of love itself.
I don't think Helen ever loved him. But I do believe that Paris did. That doesn't erase any of his crimes, I just think that makes it even more tragic and compelling. You can have it all, you can live an honest life as a shepherd boy, with a beautiful nymph as a wife, with people around you who all love you so so much.
But you love only the one who doesn't love you back. So you decide to force it. And drag everyone else down with you. Because this is the one thing you ever wanted and you are not giving it up. Not now, not ever.
One thing I've been thinking about a lot is his relationship with Paris. I like the version where Paris is sent away and grew up far from his actual family, so they have no memories of growing up together - because they didn't. When Paris comes back to Troy they are essentially strangers. The only thing that binds them together is blood. And yet...
He makes it clear that Helen's abduction by Paris was a crime in his eyes. He calls Paris a no good coward. He says the only good thing about him is his looks. Well yes, he is an evil, useless, selfish, cowardly man, but at least he isn't ugly. And yet he still fights for him. He doesn't go and try to make deals with the Achaeans, doesn't try to smuggle out Helen, doesn't try to change his father's mind or just let Paris be teared apart like an animal. And this isn't just because he is a honorable man.
It's because he is his brother. Because his family matters from his infant child to his youngest brother. To his city, his people. Yes he is furious with Paris, because he brought this danger up on them, but it's his job to make this right. Not because his father asked him to do so, but because he is Hector of Troy.
It puts a smile on my face whenever I remember that Paris kills Achilles with the help of Apollo. After everything, after how Hector suffered and bled for him, I can't imagine the pain that was in Paris' heart. "He is dead because of me, so the least I could do is to send his butcher down to Hades, even if it's the great Achilles himself." It's so nice, especially because yes, he is a coward. He isn't that good with the bow. But Apollo lends him strength and I just think that's beautiful.
The other thing I think about a lot is how when he dies and they finally have his body back, the people aren't just mourning Hector. They are mourning Troy. They know they will fall without him, even though their wall still stands. It's so fucking painful.
Sparks on your recent complaint about modern aus as someone who lives in the country I can 1000% tell you guys have so many facial scars from doing dumb shit like playing roman candle war or other dumb things
- 🐺 (same person who used this emoji last time)
I get that, I myself have many many scars on my body and a good 90% of them are on me because I was a reckless child lol.
However, a permanent and large face scar is a bit too outstanding for me, especially when both characters have it. The face actually heals faster and with less scarring than other parts of the body - again, reckless child, I hurt my face pretty badly before and I have 0 scars on my face because the wound wasn't deep enough.
So yes while it's perfectly possible that someone will have a scar on their face from a childhood incident, when I think about the story itself it's a bit too convenient that both of these men received deep enough scars on their faces to actually stay. Especially with Hector who originally has a scar across his nose AND his eyebrow. I feel like this would somewhat affect their jobs in the modern AU as well - Hector for example is a shadow minister of culture and education. He wouldn't look as prim and proper with a scar. Now the defender prince of Troy? The scars fits perfectly in my opinion for that.
It makes sense to me that they received their scars in their adulthood, during war (which is the canon for my designs in their normal timeline. If you notice, I never draw a scar on Odysseus' face pre-Troy ☝️)
So yes, TLDR, yapper mode off; what you are saying makes sense, but it feels a bit more unrealistic to me in my very own AU where I create the rules. I like to be difficult. It's fun.
Also refs for their canon-Iliad-timeline scars for reference.
The only problem with the modern AUs is that I can't draw the scars on the guys. They feel wrong without them, but it wouldn't make sense why they have massive scars, especially on their faces.
