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gingermintpepper · 1 year ago

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what happens with achilles in your story if the Trojan war never happens?

I am so glad I saw this before I fell asleep (And thank you very much for the question!!)

The short answer is: Achilles (along with a few others like Diomedes and Odysseus) is one of Athena's champions and one of the leading generals in the combat against the creatures of Erebus! Each god has their favoured champions/heroes and each of those people play a key role in maintaining what little order is left in the world.

The long answer is: due to the whole 💫 completely impromptu, unplanned and unprophesied apocalyptic situation of the Divine Light of the World completely disappearing 💫 Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had to completely squash their argument started at Thetis' wedding because there was simply too much to do. Achilles, therefore, is set down a completely different path to immortal glory, same with many other familiar faces from the Iliad (and wider greek mythology). On the bright side, he still hates Agamemnon's guts considering Agamemnon, even in this world, is his direct superior. Likewise, he also still spends an inordinate amount of time getting banged by Patroclus (who is one of Ares' champions) despite the whole literal apocalypse occuring around them. So really, Achilles will always be Achilles 😀👍🏾

#pursuing daybreak posting #for the record btw #Apollo's chosen are called Laureates and Hyacinthus is one of them #He's the Shepherd Laureate #the other Laureates currently alive are Asclepius who is the Doctor Laureate and Orpheus who is Poet Laureate #Apollo's system and way of chosing champions predates the apocalypse though - he often chose a few extremely talented or skilled mortals #and personally taught them his arts along with granting them his blessing #his Laureates are very very important to him and there's rarely more than a handful around at any given time #Admetus was the last Shepherd Laureate before Hyacinthus as an extra fun fact #Anyway Pursuing Daybreak Achilles is a Fiend but he's having a ton of fun monster-hunting and being revered as one of the protectors of men #he just has a bit of a nasty complex because of all of that glory and recognition #Diomedes enjoys the constant conflict too much to quit despite reaaaally wanting to #And Odysseus is a much grimmer darker man due to his home being one of the places that were first swallowed up by Erebus #anyway thank you so much for asking this question! you made me really happy :DD #ginger answers asks

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