— FACE : idris elba, jose fidalgo, pedro pascal.
Are parents not judged by the character of their children ? You only wish it was the form, because being father ( if only nominally ) to the most beautiful woman in the world would give you acclaim & glory a hundred times over, and these things took up much of your life. Your greedy little stare, your desperately grasping hands, your almost foolhardy charm—all made you the most enterprising king in Ilia. It is a title you take great pride in, aware you lack many abilities on which one could build a name. Now, you will have all these heroes & living legends dance for the honour of being your son-in-law. Yes, you shall have them put on a show you can take some damn entertainment from, keep them all busy upstaging each other, so they don’t even realise you’re only here for profit & pleasure. You’re insatiable, incorrigible, inexhaustible. You will take and take until there is nothing left, and even then you will still try to glean some sort of extra for yourself. This is a house of cards—you are playing a dangerous game, and you’re enjoying every single minute.
✹ HELEN — What to do about it, this talisman of pain ? Other men in your stead, you know, would've splattered the marble red with blood. Yet carnage was always so... primitive. Heedless. Better yet make a strategy of it, recast ashes into gold, a Midas of your time.
✹ CLYTEMNESTRA — It is this alchemy which galls your second daughter, your true child. You understand quite perfectly: the name of jealousy is too much, yet too little for what it depicts. The tempest stirring in their soul is one of nameless feelings. If Castor & Pollux built up their own purpose, their way to live along a nascent star and not burn, Clytemnestra will not. No, this child will carve it out in sinew & bone.
✹ MENELAUS — A splinter of the past, is what they are. Their pining for renown, for accolades & laurels, likens to your own during youth. Unlike their brother, the Prince of Mycenae is not ready, able, or wiling to die for their dreams. This principle, too, you recognize and applaud: the highest price at the smallest cost.
✹ HERCULES — If you're being honest, you are more indebted to them than to any God. They rescued you from death's maw, a vicious political skirmish decades ago, and steered you right to Leda's door. Your marriage was not the pleasant swim you expected; yet it still made you who you are. Which renders you all the more beholden to the demigod. You worry, with the attention you've drawn, they will soon come stake their claim.
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