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Battlefield:

- Second highest body count after Achilles

- Repeatedly alluded to as Achilles’s fighting partner (when they were recruited, they were referred to in the dual) aka keeps up with AND complements the strongest Achaean fighter

- Killed a demigod (Sarpedon)

- Throws shade like the best of them

- Loved by and best at controlling Achilles's immortal horses

- Apollo had to physically push him down from the walls of Troy to stop him

Public:

- Mends wounds expertly & keeps the wounded company

- “Equal in counsel to the gods” and “gentle” as epithets

- Shadows Achilles in his meetings

- Trusted messenger

- Has an entire book where men of the Achaean camp risk their lives to retrieve his body

Intimate:

- Cooks well

- Manages Achilles's slaves

- Able to understand Achilles’s orders with just a look

- Listens to him sing & counsels him away from the rest of their comrades (also has lovely eyes and a lovely voice)

- Takes care of his guests

- Able to make Achilles bend with just his tears

Original!