Feb 10
torturing myself thinking about deidaima watching helplessly as her 13 year old son - her baby mind you - is sent off willingly to the same war that stole her husband (husbands really if you count patroclus too, which i do)
the fear she had to have felt watching him go😭😭 her little red haired thing who she’d have tried so hard to protect from becoming like his father only for him to WANT to follow in his fathers footsteps, for him to WANT to go to war like he did
it makes me kinda sick to think about
#deidaima they could never make me hate you#life gave her the short end of the stick and it makes me so sad#and then pyrrhus comes back from war all different because of the loss of innocence#and all deidaima can do is watch and brush his hair back and try to pretend that things are the way they once were#yeah i’m not ok#throws up#the iliad#deidaima#achilles#patroclus#achidaima#neoptolemus#pyrrhus#ancient greek mythology#homers iliad#ancient greek#trojan war#goob ramble
