Little Loser Man*

the chapter title is notated in eridian numbers

grace fully thinks in eridian numbers now actually

IT'S BEEN 16 YEARS. HE'S 53.

he eats his own cloned muscle tissue and calls it a meburger. hannibal lecter who. (i'm gonna be honest my dad told me this one as we walked out of the theater and i fully thought he was lying)

cane user grace. he means everything to me

he's fully fluent in eridian so rocky speaks to him completely fluidly. and also swears.

after SIXTEEN YEARS eridian scientists discover that sol has returned to full luminosity

Achilles is someone who, from birth, has been hailed as the greatest fighter in the world. He has parents who love him (ignoring the circumstances of their "marriage" and the marital rape that birthed achilles himself; they hate each other but love him; if anything, I'd be interested in seeing a comparison between yuna, an otherwise healthy parent who pushes her son too much without realizing, and thetis, a goddess with a hatred of all men except for her son, who both desires greatness from and devastatingly loves him in a way that isn't quite what he needs). More importantly, he has mountains of pressure on his shoulders to live up to the legend behind his name, leading to him making bad choices after becoming obsessed with his legacy.

Who does that sound like?

Patroclus, on the other hand, was born to a king clinging onto power, desiring more at any cost, and a child bride whose heavily implied mental illness passed onto patroclus himself. At the first mistake he's discarded by his father to be sent to a foreign land, where he becomes the best friend and confidante to another prince. They should hate one another, but end up being equals in a way they aren't with anyone else, and fall in love because there's no world in which they aren't soulmates. Patroclus would give everything for achilles, and achilles would give everything for patroclus, even as both of them are cursed by fate and the higher powers.

Who does that sound like?

yeah you could say ilya knows how to woo a guy.

running thru my head

Can confirm, these were our favourite quotes

(spoilers for this absolutely golden fic that you should definitely read, below)