#franimedes

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latest Ganymede, I miss him already

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Ganymede again, this time beaten up because my friend suggested it could make me feel better regarding all the situation

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Ganymede being terrified of thunder before being taken to Olympus, who is with me?

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I need to project a little bit before I keep crying but I began to think about making an au/story where Zeus allowed Ganymede to visit Troy for a day during the war, accompanied by him of course. Ganymede stays in the palace of King Priam and goes unnoticed as a servant, taking a look to see how the people felt regarding all that was happening at troy.

He leaves feeling very sick, I imagine him interacting with Hector and crying over how much people have died to that point and knowing that there is not much chance that Troy will survive all of that, interacting with Paris and Helen and just feeling disturbed about Paris attitude and perhaps projecting his own rape to the one of Helen, and having conflicted feelings about it.

Zeus is looking at him through the windows, in his eagle form maybe, don't ask me how he doesn't get noticed, but at the end of the day he takes Ganymede back to Olympus the same way hé did so the first time, just now Ganymede holds on better to his body and asks him to be more careful

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thinking abour Zeus giving Tros horses as a reward for Ganymede and he going on to tell him about it and framing it as if his father traded him for the horses rather than them being an apology for taking his son ohhh kill me

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these past weeks I've been actually thinking a lot of how it would have been if instead of the eagle carrying him to Olympus suddenly, the rape of Ganymede occurred like it's depicted in the ceramics, with all the courtship rituals and Zeus himself, in his man form, taking him.

At least the most identifiable scenes would be Zeus giving him gifts and holding him as in kidnapping him. So I imagine it would have been a process of a couple of days while convincing Ganymede to accept his gifts, without knowing the real intentions behind.

I think it could also open more scenarios for portraying Ancient Greek pederasty but also Ganymede's feelings coming back to his home and to his family knowing that whatever is happening is wrong, but not bringing himself to tell because he doesn't want them to be mad or punish him. He becomes notably uninterested in things, avoiding affection from his parents right after being with him, and just becoming distant, while his family is unaware of the situation.

That. and when Ganymede is finally taking away, all people can tell is that the last time they saw him, he was sitting on the lap of a man they didn't recognize.

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I see there are plenty of other people that too enjoy Ganymede and his myth so I'm taking advantage of that to share a small story I'm making of him as of now :]

I wish I could write an actual book but I don't feel capable of that at the moment and let alone publish it or go through logistics so in the mean time I'll be sharing all the little texts I've written regarding him on ao3

This one is just a random, less serious to a degree scenario I thought about if anyone would like to see it. Tw for Rape and Child Sexual Abuse, tho I'm not explicit at the time of putting it on paper, it's a warning because I take that route in my interpretation.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84764496