#cynurus

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The House of Perseus

Never saw anyone draw all the perseids so I decided to do it!

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Out of all of Perseus’s 9 children only two weren’t directly stated to also be children of Andromeda, but no other mother is mentioned either. It could just be bc very few sources talk about them.

Autochthe’s existence is only mentioned by one author, Tzetzes (a Byzantine and therefore VERY late source) in a couple of his writings. She is mentioned as the daughter of Perseus, no mother mentioned. She’s also the wife of Aegeus (Theseus’s father) and had several unnamed daughters by him. Considering that none of the writings referencing her center Autochthe but rather the genealogy of the figures around her, it isn’t unlikely she was Andromeda’s daughter and that we just don’t have any surviving source directly stating her as such. But she could just be a “medieval OC” like Merros who I don’t really consider legitimate bc he’s likely just misspelled Mestor, I want Andromeda to have more than one daughter ok? Let me keep her.

Cynurus’s existence is mentioned exactly once, ONCE, in Pausanias Description of Greece (a more legit source than Tzetzes), where he led colonists from Argos to Cynuria. That’s it. It’s likely he’s also Andromeda’s son and it’s just that no source explicitly stated so survives.

Idk why I felt the need to talk about this, it’s just that I (as well as y’all) were always impressed by Perseus being one of the few ancient heroes to never cheat, but I wanted to be extra sure so I looked it up instead of just passing it around without thinking.

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We need your headcanons on the Perseid's personalities.

Okay!

Perses

Free-spirited

loves to go on travels and adventure,

could never stay in one place for too long,when he was sent to rule Cepheus’s kingdom he only stayed for a while then appointed someone else to take over, then he traveled the known world and founded Persia.

A little mischievous edge (Perseus allowed Hermes to babysit once and quickly regretted it).

Electryon

Very extroverted

Laughs a little too much a little too loud

Super close to Sthenelus

Girl dad but obviously loves his sons too lol

Basically Princess Celestia from MLP

Sthenelus

Quiet and cold

Very introverted

Basically Princess Luna from MLP

I like to think that he’s one year younger than Electryon, but when they were small children ppl thought they were twins bc they look very alike (this is based on my little cousins whom I thought were twins for way too long lmao)

I like to think he wasn’t being opportunistic when exiling Amphitryon and taking the throne, maybe he was upset over his brother’s death and doesn’t trust Amphitryon to take over his kingdom (maybe I’ll make another post on this)

Gorgophone

Daddy’s girl

Was a tomboy as a child

I imagine she was trained in fighting like her brothers

Y’know how Philostratus describes Andromeda with “the sturdiness of a Spartan girl”? I imagine Gorgophone is like this times a hundred, which is probably what attracted Oebalus to her and she was able to fit into Spartan society quickly.

She topped Perieres

Mestor

Friendly and easy going

He’s just as adventurous as Perses but not as distant from his family

After traveling around Greece he satisfied his desire for adventure and settled down

Alcaeus

Soft spoken and gentle, compare and contrast that with Amphitryon who I imagine had anger issues (guess where Heracles got his anger issues)

Easy going

Wife guy like his dad

Cynurus

Joker of the family

Always gets Electryon to laugh

Little rascal due to Hermes’s influence lol

Heleus

Friendly yet introverted

Despite being the youngest son and not really inheriting anything he’s really humble

Founds his own town and he’s perfectly content with what he has

He’s closest to Autochthe

Autochthe

Shy and sweet

Baby of the family

You can bet her family was pissed when Aegeus divorced her but I think she would just be glad to be done with a loveless marriage and wanted to move on

Really doesn’t like getting mad, more of a live and let live kinda gal