Fiona 𓆝

My sweet beloved Hector 🤎 and well… Achilles is also there. One thing people misunderstand about the Trojan War is that it was not ten years of nonstop epic battles every single day. Most of the time Troy stayed behind its walls while the Greeks remained camped on foreign shores, surviving through raids and waiting for an opportunity that never seemed to come. Even when battles happened, they usually were not some gigantic fantasy war scenes. Trojans would come out from the gates, there would be short brutal clashes, and then everyone would retreat back again behind the walls. It was a long war of waiting, exhaustion, heat, pride, and survival more than constant fighting. Which is exactly why relationships between enemies suddenly stop feeling impossible. Trojans were also heavily connected to Anatolian culture, where symbolic tattooing and body markings were far more believable than in later classical Greece. There is no direct proof Trojans had tattoos obviously, but historically speaking, the idea of Trojans using symbolic markings is not as unrealistic as people think. Which is why I love imagining Hector tattooing Achilles himself during the war. A symbol meant to stay hidden beneath armor and clothing while the entire world burned around them. The defender of Troy leaving his mark on the man who would one day destroy it will never stop being insane to me.