'tis our mad sister - I do know her voice

Hello! You’re always welcome🙏

Do we consider Meriones a minor character? Because nobody talks about him but he’s hella badass but not like a MAIN main character. But he’s so cool.

No. Wait. Polydamas. I freaking love Polydamas. He counts as a minor character right?? How did I almost forget about Hector’s twiiiinnnn???? Battlefield-Cassandra (bro has great advice and gets ignored every damn time). I have an old sketch of him hang on lemme find it

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

1. Kassandra canonically refuses Apollo, but still retains her gift. This, effectively, makes her an oathbreaker. Breaking oaths with the gods, particularly those who (in ACoL) view you as a plaything and a chess pieces to move around, would have dire consequences. Those consequences manifest in Kassandra in Simple Partial Seizures & Absence Seizures.

2. She doesn't believe in Apollo. Yes, she provides lip service to him, as the god protecting her city, but the Trojans were possibly not always followers of Hellenism, given that the rumored site of Troy is near modern-day Turkey/Middle East. I like playing with the idea that Kassandra is more aligned to the Hittite goddess of medicine and healing, Kamrušepu, and that this becomes part of why Apollo punishes her so cruelly.

An example of how this has helped me was in this section here; the first photo is the first draft and the second is the final version of this scene. I mostly used The Emotion Thesaurus for this; the emotion being conveyed here is relief and relaxing after suppressing stress for a long time, but S himself isn’t really aware of his own emotional state here and I could not use those words to describe what he was feeling inwardly. So instead I used what he feels in his body and his surface rationalization, and it just reads so nicely this way imo.

I will remember and not be unmindful of Apollo who shoots afar. As he goes through the house of Zeus, the gods tremble before him and all spring up from their seats when he draws near, as he bends his bright bow. But Leto alone stays by the side of Zeus who delights in thunder; and then she unstrings his bow, and closes his quiver, and takes his archery from his strong shoulders in her hands and hangs them on a golden peg against a pillar of his father's house. Then she leads him to a seat and makes him sit: and the Father gives him nectar in a golden cup welcoming his dear son, while the other gods make him sit down there, and queenly Leto rejoices because she bare a mighty son and an archer. Rejoice, blessed Leto, for you bare glorious children, the lord Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows.

1. Kassandra canonically refuses Apollo, but still retains her gift. This, effectively, makes her an oathbreaker. Breaking oaths with the gods, particularly those who (in ACoL) view you as a plaything and a chess pieces to move around, would have dire consequences. Those consequences manifest in Kassandra in Simple Partial Seizures & Absence Seizures.

2. She doesn't believe in Apollo. Yes, she provides lip service to him, as the god protecting her city, but the Trojans were possibly not always followers of Hellenism, given that the rumored site of Troy is near modern-day Turkey/Middle East. I like playing with the idea that Kassandra is more aligned to the Hittite goddess of medicine and healing, Kamrušepu, and that this becomes part of why Apollo punishes her so cruelly.