Troy (2004) preference: Reactions to your singing.
Achilles
- Finding out about your secret talent was a sweet surprise. He catched you off guard at some point you thought to be all alone, acting like if he wasn't even there. It happened by accident, he was looking for you under some other reason and when he found you the sound made him stop before revealing himself.
- Then, when your song finished, you got to hear some soft clapping coming from behind you and when you turned back he was right there. It may have looked like he was mocking you, but it was completely loveful. Achilles’ favorite way to compliment is teasing, especially when he insists on pulling the tough guy act after someone pulls down his defenses.
- Your voice makes him a bit nostalgic for the songs of the nereids he used to listen to as a kid. He wouldn’t commit the terrible mistake of doing the comparison out loud because that could possibly make his divine aunts very angry, but sometimes he thinks about it when he listens to you.
- Although he wouldn’t be open to asking you to sing for him right away, he would subtly seek for situations where you would have to. Sometimes those excuses would be truly subtle, but on some occasions would tend to feel quite childish.
- For example, you would be spending time together and he would suddenly be feeling like playing his lyre. Absolute bait for you to join him with your singing because he wants to hear you. The thing is that you can tell he likes it and never hesitate on indulging him. What else could you do when he is looking at you with so much love in his eyes?
- If you ever sing a song telling the story of a war feat of his he would be extremely happy, big smile on his face impossible to dissimulate because he is so weak for you being proud of him. He may be used to the ovations of crowds, but praise hits totally different when it comes from you and he can’t resist finding you honoring him with your beautiful voice.
- You are one of the very few persons whose opinion he really cares about because he loves you.
Hector
- He discovered it before you got together. Paris made you sing around the campfire on the resting time of some trip knowing he would be fascinated. It was part of his matchmaker strategy, since he was the only one who knew it prior to that and he wanted to give you two the ríght push to get you close.
- Actually, the city started to get suspicious about the heir prince being infatuated when he would get catched happily humming the songs he heard from you.
- To Hector your voice is calm and comforting in a chaotic world that constantly demands too much of him. He wouldn't shy away from asking you to sing for him if he feels that he really needs it.
- You playing with his hair as you softly sing whatever your heart feels at the time is one of the domestic scenes most frequently evoked in his mind when the fight gets too heavy. If he needs a reminder of why he is fighting for that always makes it for him.
- His secret dream is being able to quit fighting to be a family man. Hector daydreams with you singing lullabies to your future children.
- Once he witnessed as you would do it for one of your little nephews and felt in awe the whole time your singing lasted. He never stopped feeling fascinated by it, but at that particular time It hitted differently for a specific reason.
- It was like a glimpse of that peaceful dream coming at him, a confirmation of how badly he wanted to spend the rest of his life with you.
Paris
- This over the top romantic boy is convinced that you are the most graceful living creature that ever walked the mortal world. He worships the floor you step and that includes all your virtues.
- He is your biggest fan and very vocal about it. Never shuts up about you, actually, because he attempts to share his love with the entire city. Paris wants you to be admired as he considers that you deserve and would definitely make a big deal about your singing.
- Simply because he adores you, he would always try to find a gap in any celebration to be filled with some of your singing. If you feel self conscious about it, he would be there for you in practice filling you with the most romantic words of praise so you would feel more confident.
- He can't help himself, he wants you to get all the attention because he himself loves attention. In his love language, loving you is also about making you be loved by as many people as possible.
- Remember what I said about Achilles being cautious with comparisons to divine figures? Paris is the exact opposite. He has to be stopped before he could be comparing you to the Muses and end up unleashing a curse upon you all.
- He is more of a dancer than a singer, but he would shamelessly join you anytime and especially when it is all about spontaneous fun. He never wants to private Troy from enjoying you, but loves when he can have you all for himself.
- Makes you sing lullabies to him, then brags about how well he slept because of that.
- He spoke so much of you to the greeks during his brief time in their country that by the time the war started you were already a celebrity. ( let's pretend he didn't start it.) After the first greek victory Agamemnon would brag to the other kings saying that they would take over the city in a day and he was going to make you sing his victory during a banquet on the gardens of Troy.
- Either among friends or enemies, Paris will always make sure everyone would acknowledge and celebrate your talent.
Patroclus
- He is absolutely smitten. Head empty, no thoughts other than how good you sound and how beautiful it makes you look. The cutest aspect of the discovery was that it developed mutually. You surprisingly joined his own singing, equally impressed by his voice.
- At risk of losing the ancient vibe, I am going to say that you were a bit like Troy and Gabriella in the karaoke scene on High School Musical. It was a spontaneous moment that felt magical.
- Patroclus is great at singing ( seriously, listen to Garrett Hedlund singing clips) and he is also into poetry, so he often incursionates on writing his own verses with hopes of turning his poems into songs. Even since that moment he constantly asks for your help when he is working on his music.
- Whenever you sing together he can still feel that magic and it makes wonders for his inspiration.
- Achilles noticed something odd when his young cousin began to abandon the epic topics in favor of writing love songs. He just had to witness one of your duets to properly understand his reasons.
- in the spirit of his first hand knowledge on the cause, he was happy to see the lad occupying his mind and heart with something more than the wish of acquiring glory.
Eudorus
- You were singing to calm yourself down from your own fear and pain after being captured by the greeks. It was a song that your mother used to sing to you when you were little, typical of the trojan popular culture. Tied to a post of a tent in the opposite direction of the entrance, you couldn't see who approached and it wouldn't make you stop knowing it either. If you wouldn't be singing, your internal anguish would have made you collapse. That song, reminder of your family and your homeland, was all you had left to stay strong.
- Eudorus was a formidable warrior, but never cruel without reason. The sorrow of your singing touched him. The sad beauty of it reflected exactly how you were feeling and his empathy kicked. Facing you to introduce himself didn't help, because he found you beautiful.
- Aware of how dangerous that was for someone in your unfortunate position, he seeked ríght away to protect you from the risks of the camp. For so, using for once the advantage of his closeness to Achilles in those sort of decisions, he opted for keeping you for himself. Promising that he would never harm you, he demanded of you just one thing.
- Your voice, the contrasting form of entertainment he felt able to ask from you. It was harmless and dignifying, a form of art that was on point with greek uses. Treating you more like a guest under xenia than as a captive, he would make you give a small payment for his protection that was practically the same price guests would pay in his country for shelter.
- And he would fall a little bit more after each song. At first you showed him the trojan ones you knew, but over time he began to teach you greek songs for the sake of his own homesickness.
- It was way easier since you stopped acting as if you were obeying out of fear. Once you realized there was nothing to be afraid of in his company things got better for both of you.
- He was a kind man giving you a soft treatment above the expected possibilities for your social status in and out of the camp. You were born in a family of trojan farmers, not in the royal family like the captive of the myrmidon leader. However, in the rustic life that his shelter for the war provided, Eudorus would make you feel somewhat special. As if you were one of those foreign artists invited to cheer the feasts of King Priam on peaceful times, people expected to perform according with the refined tastes of the court and be paid with hospitality.
- You would never lose your hope of returning with your family, but you began to wish you would have met the myrmidon captain under different circumstances. If a war wouldn't be making him their enemy your parents would have loved him.
- If he wouldn't be your circumstantial captor, you wouldn't feel strange whenever looking into his deep blue eyes for too long while singing would distract you and embarrass you.
Odysseus
- He pulls out the sort of tactic Achilles would fail trying. Odysseus is perfectly able to deceive you into singing just because he likes your voice and he does it mostly for his personal amusement.
- Don't get me wrong. This man loves you and would do anything for you, but he is a trickster by nature.
- However, that Implies he also knows how to make his praise for you sound like the most amazing thing you have ever heard. He loves you and never hesitates in complimenting you like no other would.
- On the first time you were in Ithaca, when you both were very young and his people weren't used to hearing you sing, he pulled a prank on some fishermen that were hearing your voice from afar.
- Many years have passed and you still have no idea of how he managed to convince them that a siren was reaching the shore.
- He even intended to twist it later into an elaborated compliment for you, but you stopped him claiming that it was impossible. No one knows how sirens sound since no one has survived them.
- The quick comeback impressed him because it showed how your mind didn't get numbed by the sweet words. You could have accepted the strange compliment, but you actively seeked to discuss instead and he loved that even more.
- Alone in his tent on the distant beach of Troy, Odysseus craves to hear your voice once more and wonders if the sirens do sound like you.
I'm going to spend the rest of the night impulsively writing a Troy (2004) preference that no one asked for just because the escenario got stucked on my head and i find it super cute.
It will be about reactions of the characters hearing you singing and so far i plan to include Achilles, Hector, Paris, Patroclus, Eudorus and Odysseus.
Let me know if you want me to add any other character.
Headcanons: Billie Joe Dragomir, Michael Clark & Troy Goldenheart
After the loss of his wife and twin daughters, Gillian and Jackie, Billie Joe was left with his only son, Troy as a dead memory of what used to be. His good friend, Mike was around to try and help Troy with keep Billie Joe in a good state of mind, even though the loss didn’t seem to bug him much. Failing due to Billie going to rehab, then failing again after a mix up at a local gay strip club. The fight at the club caused authority getting called and insanity was pleaded putting Billie in an asylum for some time. All of this effected all the boys in such a way that can’t easily be fixed.
