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As When a Poppy or Violet Breaks by orphan_account
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Metamorphoses - Ovid, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer
29 Aug 2020
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"The kind god tries to warm you back to life, and next endeavors to attend your wound, and stay your parting soul with healing herbs. His skill is no advantage, for the wound is past all art of cure. As if someone, when in a garden, breaks off violets, poppies, or lilies hung from golden stems, then drooping they must hang their withered heads, and gaze down towards the earth beneath them; so, the dying boy's face droops, and his bent neck, a burden to itself, falls back upon his shoulder" - Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hyacinthus is the new student who is quickly enveloped into schemes of love and war between the teens who resemble the old Greek Gods a little too much.
Psyche is the prettiest girl at school, or at least she would be if it weren't for her enemy Aphrodite who longed for nothing more except to be known as prettier than Psyche.
This is a story of romance and deception following the lives of two famous Greek heroes who are now in the modern world, with no memories of their past or of the dangers that face them if they continue to contend with the fates.