#clytemnestra.

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hi!! would mahershala ali work for clytemnestra?

Hello! Mahershala would be wonderful for Clytemnestra!

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ABOUT

Name: Clytemnestra Tyndareus Suggested Occupation: Chief Operating Officer of HELE-N, scion of the Tyndareus Group Age: 48. Gender & Pronouns: Cis man, he/him. FC Suggestion: Mahershalah Ali. Can be seen: Addressing the press in Amon’s stead, spotted giving private concertos in the Tyndareus estate’s gardens, stalking the labs of HELE-N, furiously texting Menelaus - ie: damage control, flipping between the Rhea brothers on Tala.

STATS

Influence  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Charisma  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Protection  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Information  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Experience  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

CODEX

(tw mention of parental death)

Before there was Clytemnestra, there was the Tyndareus line. While they have been on everyone’s lips—and in anyone’s pocket—in Arcadia, few can say what accounts for their rise to the heights. Indeed, the veritable dynasty has always been better known for their wealth and the obscurity that clouds them, than what they did to obtain it. This is what we know: the esteemed and luxurious line began with one humble figure, much as the Rheas did, though this empire is much older but albeit less expansive, less public, and less notorious (but not by much). It began with Lacedaemon, a prominent lawyer within the city-states. It is rumored that he shielded his earnings through a series of trust funds and tax code loopholes, but in itself that sin is nothing new among the city-states. Lacedaemon’s wealth first began with investments into early real-estate and various tech start-ups in Arcadia, and from there, their assets blossomed—or festered—into enough wealth to fill their coffers dozens of times over. 

Most people these days are quite familiar with the Tyndareus Group, the family’s holding company that has its hands in some of Arcadia’s most lucrative. For the past decade, the leading figures were Amyclas—Clytemnestra’s eclectic father, beloved by his ilk, detested by everyone else—and their mother, Leda, similarly from an old family. While Arcadians of note can boast of being familiar with the numerous Tyndareus children, who have been clinging to the limelight season after season, few people can claim such familiarity with Clytemnestra. 

Their family has always been friendly with the Mycenae’s, going so far as to take in the two brothers, Agamemnon and Menelaus, when their parents passed. Amyclas and Leta would allow the ‘wild boars’, as they affectionately called the brothers, to roam the estate as if it was theirs. In those tumultuous days, Amon and Clytemnestra, developed a nebulous bond, an alliance and attachment between like souls and minds. Once the brothers’ time as wards was over, the two went their separate ways. In fact, as most of those ill-fitted for the world do, they chose opposite corners of the earth, heights and depths as difficult to scale as the ocean is to plumb. Amon went to RheSeq, to join his mentor and idol, Cronus Rhea, and Clytemnestra to the Tyndareus Group. It wouldn’t be until much later, with the death of a titan, that they reunite. They find each other after Cronus’ demise, after Amon’s proverbial exile from the heart of the Rhea empire, after those long, shadowy years where no one can explain what that magnate was doing. At the end of this hermitage, it is Amon who brings his premier idea for a new genome sequencing tech, dropping it right at Clytemnestra’s gate. The gates of a colossus with the wealth to fund it, vault their plans towards the peaks they knew they were meant to achieve. 

That isn’t to say that what is hard to understand is always hard to love. It might be better put that they prefer to be seen that way. You see, Clytemnestra was always at odds, even in their childhood—clashing with the world, with the legacy they’d inherited, with their family, their siblings, but always, especially, with themself. Too often, even what they wanted and needed confronted with their actions; impulsive at times, reticent often, their own whims were and remain a sprawling labyrinth, indecipherable and vast. 

They had their strengths, of course, and the argument could be made that these talents are drawn precisely from their indecipherable nature. On the corridors of power—and at the negotiation table—they flaunt a perfect poker face, compounded and sustained by their inclination towards puzzles and hidden processes. Their selective, chameleonic creativity lends itself to certain art forms, but pays little regard to anyone else’s peace of mind… including, some may say, their own. With this new plan of action there can be no hopes for clarity, but Clytemnestra never wanted it. Their path forward as one of the faces of HELE-N, as its chief trailblazer and champion alongside Amon, feels the closest thing to clarity they’ve ever known. 

CONNECTIONS

Familial connections: None.

Professional connections: Agamemnon Mycenae (equals, childhood friend, thorn in the side). 

Social connections: Briseis Krisia (fascination, as old wolves always tend to the young). Diomedes Delyle (beautiful little upstart). Menelaus Mycenae (childhood friend, their father’s ward, a liability who can’t keep their mouth shut). Odysseus Laertes (a danger let loose in the Quorum, unless they can find some hens for this fox to kill). Orion Hyria (easy to admire, easier to tease). Circe (family friends, rife with the bitter wounds & galling party stories of Arcadian scions). Icarus (not to be trusted, as no Olympian should be). Prometheus (too naive to be switched, too blind to take the bait). 

WRITTEN BY ADRIAN.

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who might you see as clytemnestra?

We’ll direct you to the questions we answered in their tag, lovely ! For characters we’ve already given some suggestions on, we won’t be providing alternative faces unless the asker needs something specific ( like poc-only options ).

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can i have some more fc suggestions for circe? and fc suggestions for clytemnestra too? thanks!

So happy to see interest in them, sorry for the wait !

For Circe: Jessica Matten, Doona Bae, Alyssa Sutherland, Dichen Lachman, Eva Green

For Clytemnestra: Madeleine Madden, Medalion Rahimi, Nafessa Williams, Amandla Sternberg, Jolie Nguyen, Amita Suman, Assa Sylla, Samantha Logan

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                                        𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐘𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐔𝐒.

— NAME : clytemnestra.

— AGE : 20s.

— GENDER : f/nb.

— FACE : utp, must be poc.

They say men write messages onto women's faces, messages meant for other men. Well, you reply, profile raised in defiance, let them. You have no fear you'll be mistaken for another one's vessel—even if you were, how is that different from childhood ? There she comes, courtiers hushed, the second daughter. The appendage. And what a wonderful footnote ! How fortunate for Tyndareus, to have some proof that his lineage is not entirely paltry. To hell with that, you think. Each day is taken as a podium, a new avenue to prove your charm: each hour, a chance to make yourself memorable. Hercules had 12 tasks; you had a thousand, a hundred thousand, one for each minute you lived. Marriage will free you of it—of Helen, of the burden of demonstration, of everything in your past. Let a man carve whatever they please on your canvass, as long as the styllus is sharp & golden.

                                                   𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.

✹ AGAMEMNON  —  Oh, this one you've known since boyhood. They lived in your royal household for a time, on the run from a war in their homeland. If you were the type, you'd say no more romantic premise ever existed; you'd say the stage for your story is already set. You are glad to see bitterness hasn't touched them, and that more dangerous things had. But you will not rush the most crurcial decision you'll ever have to make.

✹ HERA  —  You demand many things from them; you're wiling to give even more in return. You chose the Queen of Gods as your patron deity because of several reasons, each one more embedded in your flesh than the next. They are your best chance at a fortuitous marriage—they are also personally wounded by Zeus' actions, of which the most recent, brightest consequence, is none other than your kin.

✹ HELEN  —  Unlike your brothers, Castor & Pollux, you never engaged in that charade of normalcy, that poor pretense that Helen is only your sister. You never treated them as ordinary, not when you were as tight-knit as twins, and certainly not later on. Oh, how you wanted to. But the moment you let them forget their fate is the moment you lose.

This skeleton is TAKEN BY K.