Cardinal Crowley

I may need to look back at the Iliad, but nearly every time Diomedes is shown or talked to, his father is brought up and not just to mention Diomedes' blood line like Achilles being called the Son of Peleus or Odysseus the Son of Laertes.

Tydeus was one of the Seven Against Thebes, seven champions that served to put Oedipus's son Polynices in the Theban Throne as it's mentioned in the play Antigone.

Tydeus - as we learn from the fragments of the Theban Cycle as well as other sources recounting the Theban Wars, along with the plays & Statius' Thebaid, the retelling of the Seven Against Thebes - was a great favorite of Athena, a crazy fighter who not only beat everyone in all the games (Iliad Book 5) but also defeated the 50 assassins sent after him. Which did give him a lot of kleos, so much so that Athena wanted to make him immortal.

But then he commited cannibalism as he was dying...leaving Diomedes with quite a complex heritage to deal with.

A father to revenge, a father to live up to and be better than

“I am always worst.”

I LOVE THIS PART SO MUCH and I love seeing the champion duo start to understand each other. (probably i guess lol)

Amazing fanfic I am literally crying😭😭😭❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

That time Neo threw the infant down the tower.

That time Neo used the same infant's body to beat the shit out of his Grandpa.

It’s rather ironic that while Odysseus, as a teenager, was being doted on by a loving family, showered with gifts, and enjoying hunting with his grandfather, Diomedes at that same age was already out fighting in a war.