Ainulindaelynn
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After Amphipolis, Kassandra stayed through the end of the funerary rites, then retreated into the mountains to reckon with her loss. There, convinced that Brasidas' death was a targeted action, she honed her grief into a weapon against the cult. They had killed him.. killed Phoibe and Perikles, estranged her from her family, started wars, and wielded plagues... They held the puppet strings of all Hellas... and while she couldn't undo the chaos they'd sown or bring back the lives they'd taken, she could give herself to the purpose of eradicating them.
Now, eight months later, only three cultists remain.
With the fourth still bleeding behind her, Kassandra finds herself confronted by a shadow of the past and a request that will reshape her future.
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- Part 2 of Outside the Frame
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I always found it a little weird that Brasidas hears everything on the docks and lets you walk away like you haven’t just dropped this massive thing on him. The scene felt chopped up a bit, so I’m expanding that interaction and connecting him into the rest of the questline... like he should've been all along.
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- Part 1 of Outside the Frame
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Picking up in Korinthia, we follow Kassandra through a few key portions of the game to expand the relationships and emotional impact I felt was missing in places. Mostly true to core canon, but we get to the DLCs, I’m throwing them out almost entirely. I'm also spending wayyy more time wrapping things up than a single dinner-table scene. All in good time.
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Though you refused to admit it to yourself, you were more than a little smitten. You were terrified of your feelings and you’d rather eat your own foot after roasting it on a spit before admitting you’re capable of such human frivolities. You barely liked seeing your face, so you wished that you could’ve adapted the animal quality of keeping feelings far, far away from yourself. You had better things to focus on, yet you’d outright asked him to his face if he had a lover waiting for him somewhere like some kind of gossipy hen. You hoped he’d say yes and tell you all about some beautiful fae creature he rescued and fell in love with, or perhaps a ferocious golden dragon with scales that shined like the stars… that way you could let yourself down easy, understanding that you’d never be as interesting as the subject of some amazing story.
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10 Jun 2024
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This would not fix it, I knew. Forcing my way to a place I had not earned, to rifle through its souls and take the one I wanted - like a fox stealing an egg. This alone would not make the world right, or my life suddenly easy and free. But I could not always explain the things I did.
Kassandra, half a god. Kassandra, who has lived too long. Kassandra, who wants something back. Part character study, part drama/romance. Post-Odyssey, underworld shenanigans.
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- Part 2 of athanasia
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If you have not completed the Daughters of Artemis questline and don't want to be spoiled for one of the possible outcomes, don't read this. If you are in a good mood and want to stay in a good mood, probably don't read this.
I had a lot of feelings and was sort of deeply traumatized even when I managed to choose the best possible outcome I was reminded why heroes don't get happy endings and that fundamentally AC: Odyssey is constructed as a Greek tragedy. So I wrote through it. I don't normally write in the first person voice either but this game adequately made me feel things so viscerally it seemed right.
If you're really emo, listen to the "Pain, Loss & Love" track fro the Wonder Woman score while reading this for full effect.