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callmesamuelxxx · 1 year
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hi there!!!! could u talk more about ur retelling novel of 'the iliad'? if it's ok with u!! it just caught my attention when i found some of ur drawings about it and it makes me "oh god im getting attached"😭
Omg hi!! Sorry for replying this late. I’ve been busy with university haha 😭
So basically last year I published a retelling of the Iliad. The novel focuses mainly on the Trojan side and I aimed to explore the relationship between Apollo and Hector during the last year of the war! The plot mostly follows what happens in the Iliad, though I made some little alterations when it came to tiny details here and there. I got to write about Hector himself, his siblings, Cassandra’s curse, Andromache and Astyanax, etc. I wanted to portray how, like all the other warriors, Hector was also trapped in the battle. The Trojan war destroyed his life, his chance to be with his family, the relationship between him and his siblings. Hector just had, so, so many things that he could lose. The readers will witness this war through what Apollo also sees. Apollo takes care of Hector a lot. And the book also has an outstanding amount of homoeroticism between a god and a mortal because I couldn’t help it lol 😭
The book’s only been published in Thai language at the moment, but I’m excited about the opportunities it might receive in the future!
These are the front and back covers in case you want to see. I was lucky enough to be working with an amazing illustrator 💘
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Thank you so much for your interest! It means a lot! 🥺
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my-own-lilypad · 6 months
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Cassandra was a young Trojan princess and she was also a priestess of Apollo's cult. Apollo desired her madly and persued her relentlessly through the temple, through the streets of the citadel, through the complicit trees, but Cassandra would not yield.
"I am a priestess of your shrine!" she cried. "I cannot consort with you."
Apollo was maddened. He was a young, beautiful, terrible god. He would not be rejected. He chased Cassandra through the streets, through the trees. She rushed to the temple for protection, she turned at the alter, her shoulders hunched her arms ready to fight him off. Apollo grabbed her, she struggled, he turned her face towards him, forced it nearer and spat once in her mouth, a large oily globule.
"Take it!" he roared, grasping her head between his strong hands, flames dancing in his eyes. "I give to you all my mighty powers of prophecy. From this moment on you will see every detail of every passing minute of every future event. You will be the most powerful oracle the human world has ever known. But I curse you, too. When you're warning them all of the war that is coming, describing the terror and destruction of the walls of Troy, how everyone will burn and die, how little Astyanax will be smashed against the Scaean gates, how you will be ravished by Ajax in front of this sacred alter with no one to come to your aid, how Priam will meet his death clinging to an impotent statue of Zeus, how your own mother will be dragged naked into slavery, when you are recounting this all for them bloody death by bloody death Cassandra, no one will believe a single word you say."
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oddnub-eye · 3 years
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Fate OC drawing; Astyanax Alter (Avenger). But like, the worst avenger. You wouldn't tell he's an Avenger if he didn't tell you.
Featuring the Sonic 06 fandub quote.
Where's normal Astyanax you ask? Go ahead an ask, I guess.
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kashuan · 3 years
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I’ve fallen HARD into the Helenus hyperfixation, so what are your favorite headcanons/Just general things about him? Or you can ramble about him if you want, I’m not picky.
• Second oldest of Priam’s sons (I don’t think it’s ever specifically stated but I hc it Hector > Helenus > Deiphobus > Paris) • Mama’s boy (takes after her in all ways) • There’s a lot of versions for how he and Cass got their prophetic powers; my version is when Cass got hers first around age 11~, Helenus saw how much positive attention that (initially ):) got her, and as her twin and a boy he felt slighted/jealous of it and asked Apollo to give him the ability too...Hubris Punished when that came with seeing his city being destroyed, along with how in the future the Greeks would use that ability of his to help accomplish that.  • Isn’t cursed like Cassandra but may as well be for how much his family listens to him (this is p much canon) • The long suffering straight man of the family tbh, surrounded by a lot of Extra personalities • Was well respected among his people but definitely was in Hector’s shadow, though Hector always treated him as an equal • Didn’t know how much Hector felt that way though until he named his son after him (Scamandrius was in some versions Helenus’ real name, and he was renamed Helenus after he got his prophecy powers.) Story of his life tho that the population decides to call the boy Astyanax instead • Popular with women but only has eyes for Andromache  • Met Andromache as a boy when he was visiting Thebes with Hector but was too shy to talk to her where Hector wasn’t. Regrets the Could Have Been but also supports Hector/Andromache with how obviously good they are for each other so that never turned into true jealousy, just some understandable envy • Chryseis had a crush on him (took that one from this v good book series) and if he wasn’t hung up on Andromache it would have been mutual • Good fighter but excels more academically; extensively studied history, foreign languages, etc. Would make for an especially good emissary and wanted to be the one to go to Sparta but Priam was like no, let’s send my new favorite son who has no training whatsoever and is a known womanizer. Helenus looks into the camera. • Out of all his brothers was closest with Deiphobus, who I hc as being rough around the edges but not an outright Dick until later in the war; after he forcefully married Helen that was one of the main things that made Helenus leave Troy • That and Paris desecrating the alter of Apollo. Miss me on that version he helped the Greeks because he was jealous Helen didn’t marry him (I hc he rather tried to get her back to Menelaus, like she was canonly Asking For at that point, but Deiphobus stopped him). • The most hc of hcs but I have a big lengthy story about him and Menelaus becoming friends starting with when he was a captive of the Greeks and maybe someday I’ll make a comic about it :^) • He ends up helping the Greeks with the understanding that less of his family and people will die if the war ends sooner than later (Results May Vary) • Did not sign up to be Pyrrhus’ friend or father figure, Pyrrhus considers him a friend and father figure (also another good hc I’d already thought of but that book series fleshed out really well)
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soulgathered-a · 3 years
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lostbelt: “godless city of troy” .
crypter: there is no crypter in charge of this lostbelt. cassandra is the human in charge of the lostbelt but the one who helped her bringing it into existence is ashiya douman ( @caimkairos ) . lostbelt king: hektor alter @originlist ) .
cassandra’s lostbelt divides itself from human history by giving the victory to troy - when troy was about to fall, amid all the flames, cassandra’s anguish & grief was enough to capture douman’s attention. appearing before her, they offered her to alter history. 
... & without hesitation she agreed, letting them slaughter the entire greek army. not that the princess stopped her. in her anger & hurt, her hatred became the fuel for another slaughter: that of the gods. 
once all of that was done, she set upon rebuilding her home, providing troy with a new king by summoning her brother hektor ( though not as his usual lancer self but as a saber and alter ). 
troy is, by all means, not a terrible lostbelt. though the laws are strict and anyone betraying the city will see swift punishment, it isn’t as cruel as previous lostbelts. 
misc:
all servants with divinity get a 30% attack & np strength down due to the lack of gods.
notably among the NPCs, neither andromache nor astyanax can be found since cassandra sent them away, to return once astyanax was older & ready to become king.
cassandra will join the master & their team for a while, claiming that she had ran away & that she had been held captive in troy. 
she is alive & human in this verse, once the lb gets destroyed, she will die. however there is a little chance of summoning this cassandra to chaldea, though she will appear as an alter ego.
by the end she admits that she is aware that in the eyes of her people & gods she is a sinner, but she sees nothing wrong in wanting her people to live.
douman is not actually the final boss, though will definitely be a menace. but before the lb collapses, cassandra sends them away with her command spells, wanting to keep them safe.
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polupenthes · 3 years
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@cllgood. |  send me a 🤝 and i will talk about an npc from my muses’ universe. | always accepting.
ANNARUMMI (TRANSL. ANDROMACHE). / THE PRINCESS.
the daughter of the anatolian king etion, andromache was promised in marriage to the trojan crown prince, hektor. they had a son together, astyanax, who was named “lord of the city” and would not live to see his fourth birthday.
hektor was deeply important to andromache. not only as her husband, but as her linchpin and lodestone, she had grown closer to him following the death of her family at the hands of achilles, and relied on him for most, if not all, of her emotional support. prone to bouts of melancholia and sullenness, she derived most of her sense of happiness from her husband and son. her relationship with herself was complicated, and made more complex by the arrival of helen to troy. 
helen represented a break in andromache’s self-perception. so much of her identity was based on marital duty: devoted daughter, mother, wife. helen was an affront to all of that, the specular image of her in every way: she’d abandoned her daughter, husband and city-state. both women had been raised from an early age to become queens of their respective cities. one had remained faithful to that, and one had (maybe) chosen to escape it. to andromache, helen is in diametric opposition, and is nigh incomprehensible. her presence forces andromache to perhaps reconsider her own identity -- but only to a certain point. the monologue before hektor fights achilles, where she calls him “husband, brother and beloved parents” really proves that, despite the ways in which helen may have been unconventional to andromache, puzzling, even disconcerting, she was never truly there to completely alter andromache’s sense of self. but i like to think it gave her pause, at least.
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