Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

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(from tumblr)

teaboot: Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
teaboot: They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
kansascity-elffriend: I've gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
elidyce: Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won't believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: ... I'm Nobody. Fill me in.

*A couple of months later*

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she's great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who's not going to treat you like shit.

Penelope: ... I'm going to need more details, but okay, sure.

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.

Comments

[xyzzysqrl]

This made me laugh real hard and I love it.

[tibicina]

Meanwhile in actual Greek mythology the war crimes perpetrated on Cassandra by his buddies were part of what Odysseus was being punished for in the first place.

[cmdr_zoom]

Yeah, I was pretty dubious about that - it's one heck of a whitewashing for utter bastard "cunning Odysseus" - but elidyce seemed to figure (1) he got to talk to her before any of that happened, and (2) (from the tags on their post) that she was treated very poorly by her actual parents. *shrug*

[tibicina]

Well, depending on which version, her actual parents weren't, like, great with her. See also ignoring her when she said 'Yo, there was a reason you tried to abandon Paris on the hillside, perhaps bringing him back was not a great idea - when has that ever turned out well?' also 'No, seriously, don't bring the giant wooden horse inside the walls'.

I mean, really Priam and Hecuba kind of ended up doing badly by all their children, honestly.

But... yeah, Odysseus - directly responsible for the fall of her home and indirectly responsible for her getting dragged from the temple and raped by Ajax (and then /after that/ signed off on her being claimed as a concubine by Agamemnon which led to her death at the hands of Clytemnestra.) He did meet her. And he ignored her prophesies.

Also, like... his history of how he treats the women in his life does not really... inspire me to buy any of this.