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Ykw. Ancient Yuri Breakdown

This Is A Lot So It'll Be In Lowercase So It's Readable

Okay, the dynamic hits hard. Perfectly imperfect traumatized woman x the cursed princess of Troy.

I think that in one of my War Is Over Early AUs, this ship would be one of the main focuses. I like to think that Cassandra, as usual, would start out hating Helen with her entire soul considering she nearly gotten her kingdom burned to ash. But, as their story goes, she starts learning why Menelaus loved Helen—not just because of her beauty but also her personality.

Of course, there's also aspects where it could be toxic during Cassandra's journey in trying to understand Helen and learning to like (well, love) her. There would also be obstacles like Priam not accepting it, or Menelaus or Alexandros trying to separate them.

BUT all this is an exception to a normal Iliad AU.

In a normal Iliad AU—hell yeah, betrothed yuri. We have the sacking of Troy, Cassandra falling in love with Helen and sharing secret nights with her behind her family's back, Menelaus nearly killing Helen before his resolve faded at the sight of the robeless form, Helen being Paris' beloved, Agamemnon taking Cassandra.

I love Agassandra too, don't get me wrong, but that isn't what we're talking about right now.

My headcanons for these two is that Cassandra is lesbian/aroace/transfem (she/her) and Helen is bisexual/graysexual/fem-leaning genderqueer (she/he/they).

-The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles

Lyrics from And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian

Reference picture by @adorkastock

Lyrics from And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian

Reference picture by @adorkastock