#antilochus

[incorrecthomer]

[adriles]

[elianzis]

✨ family ✨

[marsdeathdefiances]

Achilles: *fondly* 2 years ago I married my best friend…

Achilles: Patroclus is still mad about it, but Antilochus and I were drunk and thought it was hysterical

[leinautt]

if antilochus has one fan its me. if antilochus has no fans im dead.

[blueeyessynchro]

Antilochus - Master of the Backhanded Compliment

Forget praying to the gods for winning a chariot race, this guy should be praying as thanks for avoiding a major verbal slapping from the ‘positive throwback’ that is the Greeks best strategist.

[dnasplicers]

agamemnon menelaus and diomedes all hear achilles go "antilochus hold me back. im gonna eat him. antilochus im gonna FUCKING eat him for what he did to patroclus" and start shitting themselves instinctively

[lesbianbanana]

Thinking back to the scene in tsoa where Patroclus is one of Helen's suitors and he's like "I'm the youngest one here everyone is judging me" but a) according to Euripedes' play Helen that I am reading right now, Achilles was also there (where tsoa says he wasn't) and b) wasn't Antilochus also a suitor? And he's noted for being the youngest prince there at Troy so actually Pat you're just insecure

[shiroandblack]

Me, reading the Iliad and literally everyone dying: oh no, Spotify play 'Achilles Come Down'.

Me, reading the Iliad and Antilochus threatens to kill the horses if they don't catch up to Menelaus during Patroclus' funeral games: NO, NO, DON'T KILL THE HORSES. HOW DARE YOU THREATEN TO KILL YOUR FATHER'S HORSES?! NESTOR, DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR ERRANT SON —

[incorrecthomer]

Menelaus: Why aren't there friend pick-up lines? Pick up lines to make friends like- Menelaus, to Antilochus: Hey, that's a cute outfit. You know where it would look better? On nobody else, because you're a beautiful individual. Odysseus, to Diomedes: Be my friend or I'll set your entire family on fire. Patroclus: There are two types of people.

[adriles]

do not kill my closest companions in battle. do not force me to doom myself to a young death far from my native phthia.do not tragedystyle me

[luciuscaelus]

Who mourns for Antilochus?

We all do.

[marsdeathdefiances]

Antilochus: *breaking the news of Patroclus’ death to Achilles* now, don’t overreact-

Achilles: *already digging his grave and shoveling dirt on himself* too late for that.

[babyrdie]

Achaeans

Sketches of some Achaeans from the Trojan War. This is a mix of based on real sources and headcanons and all of these designs are certainly subject to change.

[The heights are in meters because I can't understand this system of feet and inches, not even if my life depended on me understanding it lol]

I'm still terrible at drawing fingers (whether feet or hands) and so these sketches don't have any of them well-defined. And yeah, avoiding drawing them makes my chances of progress worse, but in my defense, I just wanted to make a character reference sheet without stressing about it.

Anyway, now I start commenting on the design choices. This is the time for you to leave the post or continue if you wish. If you want to continue, prepare yourself for a long story.

Drawing Menelaus and Agamemnon first because I need them ready to get an idea of the genealogy of the Atreides, but the next ones will probably be Ajax (the greater) and Teucer because I also need them in the genealogy of the Aeacids. I intend to do Odysseus and Diomedes too, but I feel like they will be the last (Diomedes the lastest of all because I still need Odysseus to match Penelope and thus have an idea of how to draw Telemachus). And Antilochus is there simply because I like him, so I already designed him.

ABOUT SCARS: don't try to find a reason for all the scars. I admit: they were invented simply because I found it ???? to look at a bunch of warriors without a single scar on their bodies. These are designs supposed to take place before the events of The Iliad. It may still be in the tenth year of the war, but it is certainly before the events of the Iliad. So no scars were made with the intention of matching the wounds described in The Iliad. Maybe I'll even increase the amount of scars, but we'll see.

As for Achilles, I'm not taking into account the version of the myth where he's invulnerable, I just have the headcanon that some demigods have improved healing. So he was injured, probably had to stay away from some fights because of this like the others and everything, but his healing stopped him from leaving scars. But yeah, it can also be explained if you prefer to consider the version of the myth where he's invulnerable.

Characters (in order from tallest to shortest )

ACHILLES: muscular, agile type because he is very reaffirmed by speed above all else. The colors, shape of the eyes, and volume of the hair were to allude to a lion, as he is often compared to one. As for the face, I wanted to avoid making it too "masculine" so that it would be believable that a younger version of him (15 years old, probably) could pass for a girl if wearing body-covering clothes and probably a veil.

The sharp canines are not fangs, they are simply sharp canines like I saw an old classmate of mine having and I and I thought it was a cute feature of hers and I wanted to put it in some design (but yeah they are from Tethis!). I imagine that his hair, his nose and the shape of his body (including height) are reminiscent of Thetis (because I love her so much), while the rest is more on the side of Peleus. His hair is long in a very impractical way, so I imagine he has to tie it up before wearing the armor (hence why the obvious difference in hair between him and Patroclus doesn't get in the way of Patroclus pretending to be him)

He's among the youngest and that's important for his character (prophecy), so I wanted to make him look young (I imagine he was around 25 when he died?). He was also kind of inspired by this fresco. I would say that his design remains consistent, it's just the eyes that I change all the time to see if I like the format better.

PATROCLUS: He's older than Achilles, but not by much. So I still made him look young and I imagine he was about 27. His role as someone who was supposed to guide Achilles to take the right actions (which he tried…it just didn't work at the important moment) made me want him to still look at least older than Achilles. He's the same height as Achilles and not too different a body type for it to make sense for the armor to fit him. He has beard because of this iconic kylix. I was also inspired by the description "handsome and powerfully built. His eyes were gray. He was modest, dependable, wise, a man richly endowed" by Dares the Phrygian as it was the only description I remembered of him. He was also kind of inspired by this fresco. The only REAL changes from the previous design I made of him are that he now has a mole and scars (yes, he still tends to tie his hair low.)

MENELAUS: I personally think that Menelaus could benefit from red hair as I saw some people doing, but I decided to go with the traditional representation of him being blonde (but a little red). I like the idea of Helen and him being a tall couple (consequently, their daughter Hermione is too) and him being taller than Agamemnon (because I think the dynamic of the taller brother being the youngest, while the shorter one is the older and more protective brother is funny), that's why he's so tall. I imagine him taking after his mother, while Agamemnon takes after their father. From my calculations, what makes the most sense is that at the end of the Trojan War, he and Agamemnon were AT LEAST forty years old, so my design of the two was based on the idea of them being at least forty years old.

AGAMEMNON: His hair and beard came from here, his body came from here. Although in this mirror his representation shows him more as someone with belly fat, I decided to make it more balanced and make him simply a strong type without being ripped.

Also, considering how in every source I've read so far the guy has multiple kids, I wanted to make his design look somewhat like a father? Anyway, I haven't drawn Clytemnestra yet, but I'll probably follow the same line of reasoning in giving her mother-of-many vibes.

Furthermore, his height was chosen based on Priam saying that he is tall, but not that tall, but that he is taller than Odysseus. I purposely made Menelaus taller because I like the idea of Agamemnon being so protective of him when Menelaus doesn't look defenseless. I haven't drawn other Atreides besides them, but I imagine that Agamemnon looks a lot like Atreus and that Orestes has a face similar to Agamemnon's (hair and colors in general I imagine looking like Clytemnestra). He's AT LEAST 40 years old. I didn't have his design yet.

ANTILOCHUS: The body was the type that could be agile, as its speed is heavily emphasized in the Iliad. Honestly, his facial features were chosen because I didn't want to run the risk of him looking like Achilles, Patroclus, or Menelaus. They're the characters that I imagine Antilochus interacting with mainly and so I didn't want to take any risk in drawing two very similar characters in the same scene (when the characters in question are not related, of course). Menelaus mentions about him being younger, so I went with that for age.

The color choices for hair and eyes came from Nestor, who in turn inherited it from Neleus, who in turn inherited it from Poseidon. For this I have an extensive explanation about how divine genetics works in my drawings, but it's too long and the post is already long enough without it. His height was because I wanted some dynamics with a big height difference (apart from Teucer and Ajax) and considering how tall Patrochilles and Menelaus are, I simply made Antilochus smaller because of them. I didn't have his design yet.

[littlesparklight]

Poseidon being so solicitous about making sure Antilochus gets his kill, going so far as freezing a fucking man stiff for it, just makes me imagine him as like... doting grandfather cooing over his newest great-grandchild and pinching Antilochus' cheeks, giving him candy at every turn and similar.

[false-guinevere]

I’m writing this short thing about Achilles the night before his death and I have a section of Antilochus. And I’ve spent the whole section so far talking about everyone but Antilochus poor guy. I swear you’ll get your moment to shine buddy jsut give it a moment