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WHAT made a hero? Was it the sacrifice? Or was it the loss? Maybe a hero can be one and not sacrifice, maybe in order to be one you needed a powerful godly parent.
But then again that's just not quite it, there's something else that makes a hero.
Perhaps it's the natural leadership, the braveness that is borderline stupid or the wit. Maybe you just have to be a man.
A hero is all of the above and not quite all, because a hero is much more than that;
A hero is the focus piece of the tale, the hero is the main pawn that the Fate's handle and move at their whim. So yes, heroes can suffer, but only because the Fates want it that way, but to survive them the hero must posses a set of qualities. If you're not chosen by the fates you aren't the hero of the story, perhaps if you're lucky enough you're the villain or the beloved ( most likely dead ) one.
Cassiopeia Bradbury is not the hero ( or not yet at least ). She's not particularly brave or intelligent— gods forbid she's intelligent and pretty.
She's not even supposed to exist— there's the whole situation 'daughter of Arkhaios Eros that shouldn't be there.' For some reason Cassie can't understand why the Fates have taken a liking on her ( or disliking? ). The sisters weren't particularly keen on her mother either, such a brilliant woman, reduced to a shell by the world of the gods. So while Cassie fights everything there is to not become like her mother, she must also fight Luke Castellan and his army— someone she knows she can't slay with her own sword.
So again, a hero must be a good soldier, Cassie Bradbury couldn't even kill Castellan, the villain of the tale for the gods sake!
Cassie Bradbury was not born to become the hero, maybe the cute memorable victim of the war ( a Cassandra of sorts )— but nothing more than that.
However things don't usually ( ever ) go to plan, not the plans the half-bloods expect.
The Fates have decided, Cassiopeia Bradbury is not the hero of this tale— but she's not Helen of Troy either. Perhaps she can be Elektra or even Clymenestra.
But what do those women have in common? They all die.
Cassie Bradbury refuses to die, she will not perish like so many demigods before her. It's perhaps that obsession to escape the Fates that gives her more trouble than she bargained for.
When you try and escape the Fates they just tighten their hold on you, they squeeze, they make you suffer in order to shine, in order to be remembered.
Cassie Bradbury is not the hero, honestly, with her name it gives it away ( you know, the evil mom that chained her daughter, Andromeda, to the rocks as sacrifice— before the hero Perseus saved her ).
The question is still not answered, what makes a hero a hero?
Whatever the answer is, Cassiopeia Bradbury is not one.
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this is the second part of the greek tragedy duology! the first part is the oddyssey.if you come from there, hihihi cassie and percy are back!!
they're aged up a year, so they're 14/15 in the first act
i wrote this ages ago, the grammar and spelling and all that is HORRIBLE, so read at your own risk
Flo <3