Andromache Of Troy - Tumblr Posts
I want I want to die
OH MY GOD WHAT AAAAH
Hektor is forced to linger without being able to go into the Underworld for twelve days.
Is haunting (like Patroklos did to Achilles in coming to him in his dream) always voluntary? And even so, would not Hektor maybe want to reach out, the longer he's stuck lingering, watching the grief around him?
And what if some of the haunting isn't even voluntary?
What if Hektor unintentionally haunted a couple of his family during those twelve days... did people see his spirit in the corridors and rooms? in the stables? Standing by Astyanax's bed?
And then the possible intentional hauntings, born from love and grief and wanting to assure even when there's nothing that can be done;
Does Andromache wake from dreams with her husband's ghostly touch on her cheek, but not having been able to embrace him? How many times? Both Andromache and Hektor yearning, and Hektor keeps reaching out, but they still can't touch.
Grieving parents waking up from dreams where Hektor assures them it doesn't matter if they will be able to bury him or not.
Paris waking up from a dream where Hektor assures him they'll have their talk, but it better not be any time soon (even a ghost can have foolish, useless hopes).
IF I SEE ONE MORE POST WANTING ODYSSEUS TO ADOPT ASTYANAX I WILL KILL SOMEONE
If we think like people, what would happen 🤔 Not really what would happen
1. THIS CHILD WILL DIE IN THE STORM ON THE WAY TO GREECE
2.IF NOT he will kill them all like dogs and you know what HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO
High King,
Astyanax
Forever
Left in the underworld
absolutely obsessed with this statue of hector and andromache I found out about the other day… the tender Content is SO good
Iliad, book XXIV.
What if the gods had never sent Hermes to Priam to accompany him to the Achaean camp? What if he never went there in the end?
What if it was Andromache, who, alone, sneaked out of Troy and into the Myrdmidon camp to find a way to bring her husband's body home?
This is a class assignment that I chose to do on the Iliad because I am still obsessed. The speech bubbles might look a bit weird because I originally did this whole comic in French and then translated it. Hope you guys like it because I cried a lot internally writing this.