#this goes without saying that jeremy knox would probably be a son of apollo

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aftg character x greco-roman figure/myth analogy and comparison

jeremy knox and apollo

obviously the main thing we get from both is that they're considered the sun. sunshine incarnate, bringing sunlight into everyone's lives, and so on.

apollon is the olympian god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease, and the protection of the young. his most notable myths are typically apollo and hyacinthus, his birth on delos with his twin sister artemis, daphne, the slaying the serpent python, and his role in the trojan war where he brought down plague to the greeks and directed paris' arrow to kill achilles—just to name a few. apollo is a god of the sun but he is not the sun god. that's helios. just as artemis is not the moon goddess (which is selene) but a moon goddess. but they are gods of sunlight and night light.

when sunshine characters are often talked about, there's rarely anything that ever mentions the downsides to this. off the top of my head, there's will solace from percy jackson and the olympians whose a good example of this (the irony that will and jeremy are literally the same person in different universes is not lost on me). and i say this because sometimes these sunshine characters can be used as comedic relief or used as primarily an optimist and sometimes watered down to be part of the sunshine x grumpy character couple trope. i don't see this all the time but it's still there.

so with jeremy and apollo having relations to the sun, it isn't a bad thing that their good qualities are spoken about. the smiles, the laughter, the talkative trait to keep a conversation going, to be the kind of person people gravitate towards and undeniable trust with their lives. this is also something that's portrayed in will but also james potter (three top fandoms coming out in full force here, expect a lot of marauders/pjo comparisons).

for example, in a lesser known myth and most likely one of modern retelling but a myth nonetheless, apollo would often visit delos to which he and artemis play music and dance with the muses and their mother leto by their side. then there are the others with his loves like daphne, hyacinthus, hestia, cassandra, adonis, etc. and i won't say it's forgotten that apollo is a god of many things that contradict one another much like the sun does (grants warmth but can burn through anything, grants light but can possibly blind others {through eclipses of course}) but it's also not the main topic of conversation. apollo speaks of poetry and music, paintbrushes and canvases, healing touches and outstanding medicine, even of archery and shapeshifting capabilities; but not the plagues and diseases, not the ability to give health to someone to immediately take it away, not the very action of setting things ablaze. he is a god of many things but like all gods of many pantheons—apollo can be argued to have the wrath of the sun.

which brings me to jeremy knox.

jeremy is all counts of a person is kind and patient, he's caring and determined, enthusiatic and friendly and takes his responsibilities as captian seriously. he's bright and like it was mentioned before: he's the sun.

no one is inherently good or bad—divine beings like the gods of the greek pantheon are not meant to fit the human standards of morality and the philosophical views we have and not to say jeremy isn't a good person because he is from what we've seen so far and it's safe to say he won't chase after someone only to have that someone turn into a laurel tree or you know, cause a plague to wipe out a greek army. however, he is the sun. how can anyone be sure that his good traits won't contradict themselves the way apollo's domains do? if apollo and jeremy are to heal, and we know apollo can make people hurt, jeremy can too. we don't know the details about his scandal yet nor about his family but he did make some people hurt. whether it was himself and/or others. if apollo and jeremy are to bring light and warmth—and we know apollo had a temper no matter how big or little the circumstances and situations are (the reason for plaguing the greeks being related to a son of his/a priest of apollo {i forgot specifically because there's a lot of versions there for the trojan war so take what you will, i just know the plague wasn't exactly unprovoked})—who's to say jeremy's light and warmth won't be suffocating at some point? unbearable even? like you spent nearly the entire day outside with no clouds or shades and you're already so tired and over the sunlight and the sheer brightness that hurts your eyes and makes you sweat.

the only difference is, is that jeremy exercises patience. much like will solace and james potter do. each of them have their own bad traits that correlate with their good ones. they're overbearing at times but they have big hearts to care for thousands of people and constantly try and try and try for their european partners (jean, nico, regulus/lily). but how much patience can one man hold until it spills through the blinds and engulfs the land?

this doesn't mean i'm implying some sort of like rage in jeremy or i'm speculating he's the reason for the red card theory or anything like that. i'm just saying that the difference between apollo and jeremy is that jeremy is human. mistakes and such emotions are natural. that part of his rage is simply food for thought and up for discussion.

each and every sunshine character are inherently the same on the surface. with the other side of the sun, with several layers of that side of the sun, each and every sunshine character functions differently, they have their counterparts and their contradictions (james cares but he can hate as well. will heals but he has the power of plague). jeremy has a lot of things to hide and sunshine character is what he is. but i think it's not that kind of sunshine character.

i think jeremy knox is the kind that leaves a mark on your skin forever.

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