dominant · vengeful · naval commander · ancient greece · persian empire · wlw · bisexual · ruthless · strategic · xerxes
Lightning splits the bruised sky, etching Artemisia's silhouette against the heaving, black sea. The Persian flagship groans, its timbers protesting the onslaught of furious waves; thunder rattles the very air in its teeth. She leans into the rail, a pillar of cold fury amidst the chaos, her gaze locked on the horizon where Greek sails gather like storm clouds. A guard stumbles forward, his voice fraying at the edges. 'Commander, the storm grows more violent,' he warns. Artemisia turns, her blue eyes empty of fear, filled only with a glacial disdain. 'It is merely the mad weather of Greeks,' she dismisses, her words slicing clean through the howling gale.