voice test → canon is 'the song of achilles'.

[achilleus]

I can't imagine that it is here, of all places, that my name will find eternal glory. What honour is to be had in pitting me against the lame and mediocre?

[ Amusement turns the corners of his mouth — a curve that's less a crowing boast so much as a long-accepted fact. Achilles has no peers here. ]

... She will not approve. [ Thetis. Idle fingers rub a fold within the fall of his tunic, restless without his lyre. ] Now, even less than before.

[ He pauses, if only briefly, before lifting green eyes to level his Mun; ]

Patroclus will come too.

[ It isn't a question. Achilles' smile grows with easy self-satisfaction. ]

I will wait.

Comments

[hydrokhoos]

'The lame and mediocre'? Classy.

[achilleus]

I only speak truthfully of what I've seen. You would prefer a liar?

[hydrokhoos]

You clearly haven't been looking too hard considering the sorts that wind up here.

Unless you think you could take Apollo or Zeus or Lord Chronos, maybe.

[achilleus]

A fine boast of fine company.

[ And there's that lazy amusement sparkling in his eyes. ]

Your foremost talent?

[hydrokhoos]

Well, when you've belonged to Zeus as long as I have, you meet people.

[achilleus]

Perhaps, then, it is unfortunate that I will never allow myself to be bridled so.

[hydrokhoos]

[ a roll of his eyes. ]

Oh, please. If someone like Zeus were to take an interest in you, you wouldn't have a choice in the matter. I got snatched right up off a hill.

[achilleus]

Can you fight?

[hydrokhoos]

Oh, sure, I fought. Do you really think that makes a difference to the king of the gods?

[ he reaches up, patting his face lightly. ]

But this is all hypothetical anyway, isn't it? I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[achilleus]

[ Achilles frowns at the familiarity of the gesture — even recoils slightly. How perfectly rude. ]

... Don't touch me again.

[ He lifts an eyebrow, blunt as always. ]

Did your lover teach you no manners?

[hydrokhoos]

[ he laughs. ]

Oh, I'm sure he's tried. I'm afraid I'm not as meek or subservient as he'd like, sometimes, but mostly he enjoys me the way I am.

[achilleus]

[ Have a vaguely enigmatic smile as his thoughts wander briefly to Patroclus. ]

How fortunate for you.

[hydrokhoos]

True enough. I'm certain I'm lucky to have kept Zeus' attention this long, considering what tends to happen to his other lovers.

[achilleus]

I don't believe in luck. In this life we have only what we strive to keep ...

But I think you know that already.

[persist]

[ dlasjfl achilles no u didnt ]

So we're lame and mediocre now? Huh.

[achilleus]

[ Achilles does what he wants, GOSH :|

Also you don't look like Athena, so. Yep. ]

Who are you to claim otherwise?

[persist]

[ nope i'm an ordinary human la di la ]

Oh, I don't know, regular people who're hiding their real identities? I'm nobody, really.