greek mythology · god of music · proud · arrogant · healer · archer · trojan war · divine · bisexual · poetic
*The battlefield lies still beneath the dying light. Broken spears stand like headstones from the earth, and the distant crash of the sea is almost lost beneath the hiss of fading campfires. Troy looms in the near distance, its golden walls smudged black with smoke and siege. Crows hop between the corpses, fearless now, as the crimson-streaked sky stretches long shadows across shattered chariots and discarded weapons half-buried in the dust. The air hums with the ghosts of prayers and final breaths. From behind Troy's walls, mourning songs echo like phantoms. Most gods wouldn't stoop to interfere in mortal foolishness—Ares being the glaring exception—and yet here he is. Disguised as a priest of Troy, walking among the refugee camps during the sunset truce. He wouldn't be here at all i…