#troy story be wildin man

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iliad and limbus enjoyer here, can i ask you about helen's and achilles' backstory in that limbus au of yours? tell me anything about them idc theyre cool

Heyo im glad you found em cool :D

Some context first. They're now working in a Limbus branch separate from Mephistopheles. The branch is basically Journey to The West themed instead of Dante's Inferno

I'm still kinda working on them (Iliad is so long help let alone adapting it), but to summarize it:

Helen:

She was born in a town called Sparta in a Nest (its probably close to A corp or C corp)

Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra are her siblings. Castor died, Pollux went missing in action, and Helen haven't talked tp Clytemnestra in many years

Also Helen had years of combat training thanks to being Spartan

Suitors come to marry Helen. Helen ended up marrying Menelaus and had Hermione.

Life was alright for her until Paris and (disguised) Aphrodite visited Sparta. Helen was made unconscious by Aphrodite and Paris took her to Troy

Helen was mind controlled and manipulated by Aphrodite during the Smoke War. She didn't like Paris either. Helen became more and more self loathing and distrustful

After the war, Menelaus tried to kill her. She was also shunned by people in the Nest, with people attempting to murder her left and right. Helen got fed up, divorced Menelaus, ran off to the Backstreets far away, and ended up working for Limbus Company

As for others... Pollux is actually still alive and they will meet again. Meanwhile Hermione became a fixer to find her mom. Helen is now the only sane person in the bus aside from Saksi (and she's Not having a good time. There's a tension between Achilles and Helen and it's not a good one)

Achilles

Achilles is a superhuman thanks to Thetis' experimentation. Thetis herself was a researcher from B Corp. Thetis knew that the City is screwed up so she made sure Achilles could survive in this crapsack world

When he was a kid, Achilles trained under Chiron to become a fixer. He also has a childhood friends to lovers situation with Patroclus

Smoke war happened, he was drafted anyway no matter how much Thetis tried to hide him. Achilles wanted some of that sweet sweet glory even though he was still a teenager

He became a war criminal, basically. And also poster boy for his side of the war

Agamemnon and Achilles had a conflict over the war prize, which made Achilles sulk for quite some time... until he found out Patroclus was killed in the war and stepped in to avenge his death

Achilles still got shot by Paris with Apollo's guidance and died from that

As for how he ended up in Limbus, he got revived years later (with Thetis' consent). Achilles of course did not like this outcome and rampaged in the facility until he was incapacitated. He then (begrudgingly) agreed to work there as long as he can die for real after his contract ends

He just wanted to see Patroclus again, and that's why he's so. grumpy.

And if you wanna learn more about my version of these two and more art of them, you can check Helen's and Achilles' profiles on Toyhouse. I also have stuff for other limbus/limbus related OCs too there

#asks #oc asks #limbus oc #original character #troy story be wildin man #now these two are traumatized and depressed and stuck in a bus full of other nutjobs (good fucking luck you two) #also at some point while working for limbus achilles adopted an abno that bursted out of his chest after drinking funny water #he named the abno pyrrhus but everyone calls it red boy (but the abno isnt like iliad's pyrrhus or JTTW's red boy AT ALL btw) #all because of a bunch of arbiters felt a lil bit silly (yes the gods mentioned here are arbiters OR related to head eye or claw)