#iphichilles

[katerinaaqu]

It's always "I would recognize him in the dark" but never;

"The gods would have made me so happy if I were to be lucky enough to marry you. I am envious of Greece because Greece has you. For what you said is good and suitable for our homeland. You have chosen not to fight the divine will and have weighted the useful and the necessary things. I think now I have come to desire you even more after I have seen your true nature; for you are so brave. I want to serve you and I want to receive you in my halls, by Thetis being my witness, I am devastated that I will not be able to fight and save you from the Danaans! I think to myself; how terrible evil death is!"

Spread some real quotes related to Achilles from ancient literature...

[that-faerie-in-the-corner]

Deidamia, about Achilles: I can fix him!

Patroclus: Oh yeah, well I can accept him as he is!

Iphigenia, eating dates in the background: I can make him worse.

[thhouseofblack]

Iphigenia gifting Achilles a lock of her hair before her death, and Achilles wearing it braided on his wrist till the day he dies

[the-land-of-dreams]

cool relationship tips from the doomed princess of mycenae and her equally doomed not-bridegroom

(not pictured is patroclus taking notes)

[dilutedh2so4]

And she [Helen] will make the fifth husband [Achilles] pine away on his bed, disturbed by dreams of her phantom form. He is the future husband of the Kytaian woman [Medea] who was madly in love with the stranger [Jason].

Lycophron references Achilles' post-death marriage to both Helen and Medea

For a long time he [Achilles] will inhabit the spray-whitened rocks By the marshy delta of the Keltric river, yearning for his wife [Iphigenia], whom one day at the sacrifice the doe shall save from the sword, by offering its own throat instead.

Yet on the White Isle, where he spends his afterlife, he's yearning for Iphigenia (who is also the daughter of Helen and mother of Neoptolemus in this version)

[jesterdocter]

Achilles being Lovely Dovey.

[restlesskeychains]

Iphicilles animatic

[lesbian-iphigenia]

I've been informed that apparently ppl are getting called homophobic and heteronormative for depicting Achilles being in love with women???

Would it be too petty of me to draw Iphichilles being cute just because of this???