I’ve fallen HARD into the Helenus hyperfixation, so what are your favorite headcanons/Just general things about him? Or you can ramble about him if you want, I’m not picky.
• Second oldest of Priam’s sons (I don’t think it’s ever specifically stated but I hc it Hector > Helenus > Deiphobus > Paris) • Mama’s boy (takes after her in all ways) • There’s a lot of versions for how he and Cass got their prophetic powers; my version is when Cass got hers first around age 11~, Helenus saw how much positive attention that (initially ):) got her, and as her twin and a boy he felt slighted/jealous of it and asked Apollo to give him the ability too...Hubris Punished when that came with seeing his city being destroyed, along with how in the future the Greeks would use that ability of his to help accomplish that. • Isn’t cursed like Cassandra but may as well be for how much his family listens to him (this is p much canon) • The long suffering straight man of the family tbh, surrounded by a lot of Extra personalities • Was well respected among his people but definitely was in Hector’s shadow, though Hector always treated him as an equal • Didn’t know how much Hector felt that way though until he named his son after him (Scamandrius was in some versions Helenus’ real name, and he was renamed Helenus after he got his prophecy powers.) Story of his life tho that the population decides to call the boy Astyanax instead • Popular with women but only has eyes for Andromache • Met Andromache as a boy when he was visiting Thebes with Hector but was too shy to talk to her where Hector wasn’t. Regrets the Could Have Been but also supports Hector/Andromache with how obviously good they are for each other so that never turned into true jealousy, just some understandable envy • Chryseis had a crush on him (took that one from this v good book series) and if he wasn’t hung up on Andromache it would have been mutual • Good fighter but excels more academically; extensively studied history, foreign languages, etc. Would make for an especially good emissary and wanted to be the one to go to Sparta but Priam was like no, let’s send my new favorite son who has no training whatsoever and is a known womanizer. Helenus looks into the camera. • Out of all his brothers was closest with Deiphobus, who I hc as being rough around the edges but not an outright Dick until later in the war; after he forcefully married Helen that was one of the main things that made Helenus leave Troy • That and Paris desecrating the alter of Apollo. Miss me on that version he helped the Greeks because he was jealous Helen didn’t marry him (I hc he rather tried to get her back to Menelaus, like she was canonly Asking For at that point, but Deiphobus stopped him). • The most hc of hcs but I have a big lengthy story about him and Menelaus becoming friends starting with when he was a captive of the Greeks and maybe someday I’ll make a comic about it :^) • He ends up helping the Greeks with the understanding that less of his family and people will die if the war ends sooner than later (Results May Vary) • Did not sign up to be Pyrrhus’ friend or father figure, Pyrrhus considers him a friend and father figure (also another good hc I’d already thought of but that book series fleshed out really well)
