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Jan. 8th, 2021 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparklightThe one thing I hope I will/have already accomplished for my Greek myth fic where it applies is to, like, be able to treat characters I don’t like with neutrality if nothing else. Obviously how I choose to present a character/interpret them is inevitably going to get influenced by my opinion, but, to take Achilles in my Epic Cycle fics as an example;
I deliberately chose to write the fic about Achilles and Troilus from Achilles’ POV, because I did want to explore his reasoning in why the flying heck he chooses to commit sacrilege. (Because it is a choice, from beginning to end.) But I hope I did it in a way that actually matches as much as possible with his character. And just because I don’t like him didn’t mean I was ever going to present his and Patroklos’ relationship as something negative in Moira, because it clearly isn’t, from either of their POV.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to use a characterization and choices made when it comes to Prometheus most people won’t like, since he always seems to be considered “good” and I just... I can’t, okay.I have such a grudge from the snatches of Prometheus Bound that I’ve read lol But I still hope it won’t come across as unreasonable what I choose to do with him and how he acts when taken in narrative context (... when I hopefully get there).
I’m... not going to be able to do something like what I’m vaguely planning to get to when it comes to Prometheus for Dionysos, however. It’s lucky I’m not interested in dealing too deeply with him in my fics, but every time I think about the whole mess of how things go down in Thebes I just sort of mentally flinch and back away, far, far away.
I deliberately chose to write the fic about Achilles and Troilus from Achilles’ POV, because I did want to explore his reasoning in why the flying heck he chooses to commit sacrilege. (Because it is a choice, from beginning to end.) But I hope I did it in a way that actually matches as much as possible with his character. And just because I don’t like him didn’t mean I was ever going to present his and Patroklos’ relationship as something negative in Moira, because it clearly isn’t, from either of their POV.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to use a characterization and choices made when it comes to Prometheus most people won’t like, since he always seems to be considered “good” and I just... I can’t, okay.
I’m... not going to be able to do something like what I’m vaguely planning to get to when it comes to Prometheus for Dionysos, however. It’s lucky I’m not interested in dealing too deeply with him in my fics, but every time I think about the whole mess of how things go down in Thebes I just sort of mentally flinch and back away, far, far away.
