@ElderGod-Icefire
Icarus faked his death.
Crawled onto the shore, skin
Sparkling gold and reddened
And Apollo said,
"your dad won't find us here."
Icarus and Daedalus made their escape from King Minos on wings of wax and feathers. Icarus, daring the Fates, flew too close to the sun. He burned. His wings melted and he drowned.
We all know this story. We are all told it, a caution not to fly too high. Not to dream too big.
But what if that wasn't what happened?
Daedalus was not a kind father. He was brilliant and he was daring, but he was not kind. Perhaps he could have been, had he not been so embittered from the years in Minos' labyrinth. He took out the brunt of his anger on his son.
The sun God watched and saw the pain of the mortal boy. Saw his beauty, too. Saw a brilliant mind cast in shadows by his father.
And Apollo visited in secret, assisted by his sister and Poseidon.
And something happened that the god of prophecy had not foreseen.
He fell in love with this brilliant, shadowed boy. This boy who dreamed of flying. And Icarus loved him too.
And when Icarus and Daedalus escaped, Icarus faked his death.
Poseidon helped. Apollo met the boy he had grown to love at the shore of the sea.
Basically, this is our plotline. A retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus. I will be Icarus, you will be Apollo. I want sort of a slow burn romance between the two? Where they both are pining after each other, but think the other couldn't possibly return their feelings. So basically, lots of angsty goodness, along with history and adventure and gods.
Rules:
- All of andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)'s rules apply
- This will probably be very dark in some places, so mature RPers only please
- Descriptive, four sentence minimum
- I don't ask you to have a firm grasp of the mythology, because I'll be taking a lot of creative liberties with it anyways. I just ask that you be familiar with it, especially with Apollo
- I reserve the right to say no
