Player nickname: Rider, or Alexander the Great, Iskander, Alexander III of Macedon... Player LJ:ridingchariots Way to contact you: Email: onachariot@gmail.com AIM: ionioi hetarioi Other: You could always bother my Master. Are you at least 15?: Y. Current Characters: None
Character: Achilles Fandom: The Iliad Character Notes: History: Achilles was born the son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, who was prophesized to bear a son even greater than his father. It's said that he was invulnerable in all parts of his body except for his heel, where his mother held him when she dipped him into the river Styx.
The many suitors of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, had all made a vow that if anyone took her away from her chosen husband, they would all band together and fight to bring her back. Achilles was one, and so when Helen was stolen away to troll, he and all the rest took their ships and sailed to fight a long war.
Achilles was the strongest of the Greeks fighting against Troy, and easily capable of turning the tide one way or another in the war. The beginning of the Iliad describes how, many years into the war, he had an argument with Agamemnon, another Achaean leader, over one of his slaves. Agamemnon's battle prize was the daughter of a priest of Apollo, the father prayed to Apollo, Apollo sent a plague, to stop the plague Agamemnon gave back his battle prize and took Achilles's instead. Achilles was offended and retired from combat, and prayed to his mother Thetis that the Greeks might lose ground in the war.
With the Greeks now losing against the Trojans, Agamemnon tried plying Achilles with the return of his slave and other gifts to leave his tent and return to combat, but Achilles refused.
Seeing that the Greeks were disheartened, Achilles' beloved friend Patroclus took up Achilles's armor and took to the field to rally the Greeks' spirits. He was killed by Hector of Troy, and in his grief and rage, Achilles went back into battle to seek Hector's death.
Achilles single-handedly killed so many Trojans that the god of the river nearby told him to stop choking its waters with corpses, and Achilles just attacked him instead.
Once he found Hector, he chased him around the walls of Troy three times before Hector stopped and faced him, and begged him to treat his body with respect. Achilles refused, and slew him, then dragging his body with his chariot around for all to see.
Once his rage had cooled a little, Hector's father Priam was able to convince Achilles to allow him to give his son funeral rites. The Iliad closes on Hector's funeral.
Supposedly, Achilles was killed before the capture of Troy by Paris, who shot him in the heel using a poisoned arrow. Personality: Achilles is proud, and quick to take offense. When his pride is injured he puts the entire Greek army at risk just to ensure his own glory, and it takes the death of his dearest friend to take him out of his tent and back onto the battlefield. He is extreme in all things he does - his grief for Patroclus is intense, his violence and fury brutal.
He's a person you don't want to get angry.
You really don't. It won't end well for you or for anyone. Other: The Iliad is a book and perfectly reasonable to apply from, and I am an actual person. Look me up. Additional Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles
First Person (entry type): Tell me, children of ducks and words upon the pages of my book. I have little to do now but amuse myself until I take to the field of battle once again.
For what purpose do you fight? Glory? The thrill of shedding blood? To restore your honor?
Perhaps you do not fight at all. There are many of you that are foreign to me and the ways of the Achaeans. I do not try to understand you, but there is little else to be done in one's tent but consider taking my ships home and abandoning the war entirely.
Third Person: Achilles had grown to know the insides of his tent intimately since his withdrawal from combat. He had seen very little else, since he refused to move from there.
He might have found it boring, or longed for the return to battle to spark some liveliness into his days, were it not for his stubborn pride. Until he was satisfied with the Greek army's need for him on the battlefield, he would not leave his tent. He could not and would not consider giving in - the very thought never even passed his mind.
Without being able to take part in battle, he had nothing much to do but listen to the music his slaves played for him and stew over what he would do once Agamemnon finally begged for his assistance. That would be well worth the waiting and the boredom and his mother's tears as she asked him to reconsider. Well worth it.
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Player LJ:
Way to contact you:
Email: onachariot@gmail.com
AIM: ionioi hetarioi
Other: You could always bother my Master.
Are you at least 15?: Y.
Current Characters: None
Character: Achilles
Fandom: The Iliad
Character Notes:
History: Achilles was born the son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, who was prophesized to bear a son even greater than his father. It's said that he was invulnerable in all parts of his body except for his heel, where his mother held him when she dipped him into the river Styx.
The many suitors of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, had all made a vow that if anyone took her away from her chosen husband, they would all band together and fight to bring her back. Achilles was one, and so when Helen was stolen away to troll, he and all the rest took their ships and sailed to fight a long war.
Achilles was the strongest of the Greeks fighting against Troy, and easily capable of turning the tide one way or another in the war. The beginning of the Iliad describes how, many years into the war, he had an argument with Agamemnon, another Achaean leader, over one of his slaves. Agamemnon's battle prize was the daughter of a priest of Apollo, the father prayed to Apollo, Apollo sent a plague, to stop the plague Agamemnon gave back his battle prize and took Achilles's instead. Achilles was offended and retired from combat, and prayed to his mother Thetis that the Greeks might lose ground in the war.
With the Greeks now losing against the Trojans, Agamemnon tried plying Achilles with the return of his slave and other gifts to leave his tent and return to combat, but Achilles refused.
Seeing that the Greeks were disheartened, Achilles' beloved friend Patroclus took up Achilles's armor and took to the field to rally the Greeks' spirits. He was killed by Hector of Troy, and in his grief and rage, Achilles went back into battle to seek Hector's death.
Achilles single-handedly killed so many Trojans that the god of the river nearby told him to stop choking its waters with corpses, and Achilles just attacked him instead.
Once he found Hector, he chased him around the walls of Troy three times before Hector stopped and faced him, and begged him to treat his body with respect. Achilles refused, and slew him, then dragging his body with his chariot around for all to see.
Once his rage had cooled a little, Hector's father Priam was able to convince Achilles to allow him to give his son funeral rites. The Iliad closes on Hector's funeral.
Supposedly, Achilles was killed before the capture of Troy by Paris, who shot him in the heel using a poisoned arrow.
Personality: Achilles is proud, and quick to take offense. When his pride is injured he puts the entire Greek army at risk just to ensure his own glory, and it takes the death of his dearest friend to take him out of his tent and back onto the battlefield. He is extreme in all things he does - his grief for Patroclus is intense, his violence and fury brutal.
He's a person you don't want to get angry.
You really don't. It won't end well for you or for anyone.
Other: The Iliad is a book and perfectly reasonable to apply from, and I am an actual person. Look me up.
Additional Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles
First Person (entry type): Tell me, children of ducks and words upon the pages of my book. I have little to do now but amuse myself until I take to the field of battle once again.
For what purpose do you fight? Glory? The thrill of shedding blood? To restore your honor?
Perhaps you do not fight at all. There are many of you that are foreign to me and the ways of the Achaeans. I do not try to understand you, but there is little else to be done in one's tent but consider taking my ships home and abandoning the war entirely.
Third Person: Achilles had grown to know the insides of his tent intimately since his withdrawal from combat. He had seen very little else, since he refused to move from there.
He might have found it boring, or longed for the return to battle to spark some liveliness into his days, were it not for his stubborn pride. Until he was satisfied with the Greek army's need for him on the battlefield, he would not leave his tent. He could not and would not consider giving in - the very thought never even passed his mind.
Without being able to take part in battle, he had nothing much to do but listen to the music his slaves played for him and stew over what he would do once Agamemnon finally begged for his assistance. That would be well worth the waiting and the boredom and his mother's tears as she asked him to reconsider. Well worth it.