chirrutimwae

“Have you no more memories?”
I am made of memories.

—The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller (insp.)

words-writ-in-starlight

I forbid this combination

Source: chirrutimwae
N OFUCK NOTSOA SHOULD NOT MEET OTHER PAINFUL GREEK HEROS EVER IT ENDS BADLYoh wow honestly though the wrath of dianaher beloved dies in the middle of a selfless act taken on to spare herand her grief is so great that it shakes the skyshe screams and takes her power in both fists and uses it to /destroy/ because how dare the world take him from herdiana shatters the fates' path with as much ease as achilles before herbecause the grief of a young god is a terrible thingand there but for the grace of her own heart goes dianathe only thing standing between diana--a goddess of battle and justice--and the legendary fury of achilles(there are no bargains between lions and men)is her kind heartdiana looks down at maru (hector-yet-living with the blood of patroclus still on the spear)and all that stops her from standing in the footsteps of achilles is that moment of humanitythat moment of looking at the person who cost her someone she loved and seeing a person rather than a monsterachilles feels that moment of humanity--but too latemuch too latehe sees priam grieving his son and recognizes that pain but hector is already deadoh wow i have a lot of feelings about this tHIS IS WHY THIS IS A BAD MATCHUPdiana as achilles and steve as patroclus and maru as hector and ares as...ares tbhgod of war and wrath and bitter contestmad with his own power and drunk on the bloodthirsty nature of the humans who worship their armies and weapons and killsWHY THISwonder womantsoa