SO... everyone’s talking about what they want for "Illium". Now it’s my turn. I want a song about Hector’s descent—not the moment of his death itself, but that moment when he wants to mutilate Patroclus’s corpse.
Hear me out; I swear it makes sense 😅!
Picture the moment Hector removes "Achilles’" helmet—that moment when he thinks his country is saved, his family is safe, and all the suffering the Trojan people endured finally has meaning. After ten years of horror, he can finally return to family life and try to forget it all. And then... it’s Patroclus’s face, and everything shatters. Hector might or might not realize he’s just sealed his own doom. But he knows he hates them. He hates them for killing so many of his kin, for selling others into slavery, and for ravaging his country—and he just wants to see them suffer. Patroclus (contrary to how many view him) is a great warrior, and his death will plunge the Greeks into despair. In that moment, Hector doesn't care about honor or dignity; he just wants to unleash all the hatred he’s been bottling up inside.
It would be the literal opposite of the emotional surge of Achilles’ rage—something more insidious, something that had been eating away at Hector from the inside for years.
