#ilione

Trojan Siblings 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

I gave up at some point here, but hey, maybe more of them will appear someday? If I do, I'll write more about them because oh boy, they have a lot of hidden history. For now, you have so liitle context:

Cassandra and Helenus are twins, duh. She is tired and he is angry (probably on Deiphobus).

Laodice is a badass.

Deiphobus is a mean (probably to Helenus) and badass.

Poor sweet Troilus, he doesn't deserve what's happening to him and he's just a baby.

Eldest daughters, Ilione & Creusa, are pregnant with their sons at the same time.

And a typical day for Hector and Paris.

BTW! Cass and Troilus are the only ones with reddish hair (after Priam) because they both have relationships with Apollo in some way. Special siblings, yesss

troytober day 27–iliona

shes so devious i love herrr ugh iliona my beloved

cheer this is (possibly) my last troytober thing

just posted chapter 3 of my cassandra! percy jackson fanfic :)

(ngl i wrote it in like 6 hours starting like 3 am so... i promise its not unhinged, only the notes in it might be... slightly...)

(the notes are fr my favorite part to write so... heres some of them ehehehhe)

the sisters along with their new sister-in-law, strolling along the beach: percy/cassandra: breaks down sobbing them: ilione: ...so you miss the sea? percy: mhm *sniffs* ilione: ...i sea percy:

percy: obsessed with soap operas hector hearing him: wut apollo, hearing his thoughts: wut

priam: *being a good father* percy with daddy issues:

@littlesparklight guess I should explain the "Troy was sacked in the generation prior" au (@mitsybubbles also asked)

Now, all my AUs are stupid because they never have plots, but I've got the premise and vibe at least

Shifting some timing around, Priam and Hecuba marry earlier and have started a family when Heracles comes to Troy. And when he sacks Troy, he doesn't leave the city intact. Heracles and his men raze Troy and kill everyone they can, including Priam and Hecuba, though they do what they can to get their children out of the city first. Hektor manages to get his little siblings out alive as Troy burns.

So the family here is only the older of Priam's children, being (from the way I have their ages) Hektor, Deiphobus, Ilione, Helenus and Kassandra, and Paris. Hektor is ten when Troy falls; Paris is four.

In my mind, the AU is essentially a character study imagining how they might grow up without a reliable adult there to take care of them (and also without the benefit of royalty). Especially in the beginning, in the fresh wreckage, they can do little more than beg, relying on the charity of others. They find places to stay here and there, but nowhere they can all remain permanently. They refuse to be separated.

As a couple years pass and they get older, they go back to Troy and make a place for themselves in the ruins. They have to go elsewhere often for things they need, but it makes for a home they can return to and depend on.

As they get older still, they work more to earn their needs, mostly menial physical labor. Hektor manages to tame one of the horses of the plains and offers to help plow fields and pull carts. Paris writes his own songs and sings at any of the little towns around them.

In short, to touch a little on each of them and part of their struggles in the situation, Hektor grapples with his self imposed duty to become a parental figure to the others and care for them in a way that would make their parents proud. Deiphobus struggles to find a balance in his expectations to share the burden with Hektor and in how Hektor also treats him as someone he looks after. Ilione struggles not to think of herself as a burden on her family and to not see their reassurances as pity (I headcanon that Ilione gets sick very often when she's young). Helenus struggles with resentment and jealousy at the feeling that Hektor has set himself above them and looks down on them. Kassandra grapples with the way trauma from the fall of Troy affects her and makes her feel. Paris struggles to find a sense of self that satisfies him and feels like it can measure up to his older siblings who always seem so many steps ahead of him.