As many times as Ikaros has said that he’d never let this happen again, he really is good at lying to himself.

He is laying on the floor, giggling like a fool. Achilles is nearby…he thinks…and there are empty beer cans littering the floor of his apartment. Didn’t he just say a few days ago that he wouldn’t let this happen again? That he wouldn’t let himself be so vulnerable around Achilles anymore?

The day started innocent enough, with a visit to his mother on the beach and the tide grasping his ankles. When they did not pull him under, Achilles ran his usual route, came home and freshened up, and still his mind wandered to Ikaros. Maybe he was right; Patroklos is dead again. It has been months. Achilles thought giving him some extra time would be beneficial, and to some extent it was, but he could not bring himself to stay away for good. And now it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and they have been drinking since eleven, and he is laying on the floor with his head buzzing and the room spinning and things just don't make sense except for his laughter.

seven deadly sins: pride

pride is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins: the perversion of the faculties that make humans more like god—dignity and holiness. it is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. also known as hubris, or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one’s own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people.

in even more destructive cases, it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self.

Two men best in love and in arms, hail, Aeacides (Achilles), and you, Menoetiades (Patroclus).

A C H I L L E S   &   P A T R O C L U S    

“for us and again” 

original poem/artwork by @evermlne 

Achilles and Patroclus

1837

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Marble

Thorvaldsens Museum

Achilles’ name can be analyzed as a combination of ἄχος (áchos) “distress, pain, sorrow, grief”