#aerope

Them: Clytemnestra did nothing wrong! Ever! Me: You mean...apart from cheating, murder, coup and child abuse? Them: Shut up misogynist! She was a grieving mother and any mother would do that for her child and men cheat too and Agamemnon is a piece of trash and had it coming! Me: And Cassandra too, I presume...and her other children Them: You do not understand! She was traumatized and she has been through a lot! She was forced to marry Agamemnon even if he killed her husband and child so of course she would turn like this! They made her do that! Me: So...if trauma excuses any horrible behavior shouldn't that also apply for the Atreides too? Them: Fuck no! They are men! They can never have it as hard as Clytemnestra! Meanwhile the Atreides: Their mother was sold to a relative by her own father to drown because she was having a fling with a slave and then she was married to Atreus whom she proceeded on cheating on him with his brother Thyestes. Thyestes being a man wishing to do anything for power even to cheat on his own brother thus using his lover to collaborate with him. Atreus arguably being one of the scariest figures of myth takes revenge for adultery to the sickest level by killing his nephews and feeding them to their own father and taunting him for it. Thyestes raping his own daughter so he can have his revenge. Atreus raising Aegisthus under his own roof. They becoming exiles when their father got killed and Aegisthus did the full coup after arguably facing the most traumatic childhood a child of myth could go through and had to claw themselves back to their original place... Me: ... Me: Yeah they had "La Vie en Rose" playing at the background of their childhood alright. Trauma definitely doesn't apply to them...

Just to be clear I am NOT saying that Clytemnestra had it easy or that her emotions are not valid but if one always uses the trauma as an excuse rather than an explanation for someone's bad deeds in myth then I have to say that the Atreides had all the reasons to become villains and they chose not to and I believe we do not appreciate that enough

some early character design work for my sci-fi graphic novel, Malicious Compliance: The Feast of Thyestes! i fucked around for a long while trying to figure out exactly what story i wanted to tell re: the iliad and the house of atreus, so not all of these designs will appear in the book, but i wanted to show em anyway.

unfortunately you ARE all doomed to see more of this askeladd-looking, L. ron hubbard-sounding motherfucker. what a tool 🙄

APEMOSYNE DAUGHTER OF CATREUS MENTION hi yes I love the children of Catreus

Random hcs: Apemosyne was always very close to Althaemenes, they were always each other's favourite sibling growing up, they'd constantly play with each other when they were kids, they were always together and they never kept secrets from each other. and that's why I like to think Althaemenes took her with him when he left and Apemosyne trusted him to tell him about what Hermes did to her, only for him to accuse her of lying about being raped and beat her to death when she thought he'd comfort her.

Apemosyne loved hanging around Pasiphaë a lot when she was a kid she was her grandma's little precious baby girl, I don't see Apemosyne as being very close with her father but I do like the idea of her being close with her grandma.

Apemosyne is very athletic and sporty she'd often beg Althaemenes to let her train with him he'd refuse at first because "she's a girl and she shouldn't be participating in sports" but then would eventually give in and relent and let her train with him, she's an insanely fast runner too.

Apemosyne and Aerope would often fight over the most random things idk why I can just see them doing that they are peak sisterisms, their arguments would always start with Aerope rage baiting Apemosyne and Apemosyne falling for the rage bait, and they're like 8 years apart too so it just looks embarrassing for Apemosyne because then you'd have 15 year old Apemosyne beefing with a 7 year old Aerope and Clymene would ALWAYS be the one having to break up their fights and be the peacemaker cause Althaemenes found it too hilarious to do anything about it.