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halimede:
Five things Hercules and Iolaus agree about
1) Evander isn't allowed to levitate his Uncle Iolaus except in emergencies. Evander's ball being stuck in a tree halfway up Mount Olympus does not constitute an emergency.
2) Salmoneus needs to stop messing about with sports togas and start working on lightweight, self-cleaning leather pants. Flame-retardant, for preference.
3) They agree that one of them snores like a congested dragon. They just don't agree on which one.
4) Hercules isn't going to play the lute anymore ("Or any other kind of instrument." "What? Okay, okay, fine. Does that include yours?" "...Oh, very funny.") unless they are completely alone. In some place where there isn't even an echo.
5) No matter what happens, they will never go back to farming. Though, if they ever retire, Hercules thinks he might try keeping pigs, if Iolaus promises not to eat them.
Formarinarusalka:
Five things Iphicles can do better than Hercules
1) Ride. Iphicles sits his horse like a true king, and he only has to walk into a stable and all the horses come up to him, whickering softly and pushing their velvety noses into his hand. Hercules has to bribe them with lumps of sugar, and even then they kick and bite and try to unseat him, while Iphicles calls out encouragement and smothers a smile behind his hand.
2) Diplomacy. Iphicles learned a lot from Jason about the subtler sides of kingship, and nothing at all from Hercules, whose idea of diplomacy is to walk into a hostile village and yell, "What's wrong with you people?" until they either attack him in force or abruptly decide to change their ways. Sometimes, after a long night negotiating with stubborn foreign embassies, Iphicles can see the appeal.
3) Talk dirty. It's fun to make Hercules blush, and it's so easy.
4) Deal with Ares. It helps, of course, that Ares isn't his brother. ("Half-brother," Hercules would say, too quickly and defensively.) Hercules and Ares are locked in a sibling rivalry that they won't even acknowledge, and Iphicles knows what that's like; he can't help feeling for Ares, who is clearly losing the fight for Zeus' attention. He can't help feeling for Ares, period, and if Ares takes merciless advantage of that, it's only because Iphicles lets him.
5) Grieve. Iphicles isn't proud of what he did after Rena died - that whole business with the veterans, for example - but he didn't snap completely, didn't kill anybody, didn't drown himself in wine. From all accounts, Hercules literally tried to drown himself after Iolaus' death, and that was only the start of it. Iphicles tries not to believe the rumors about Hercules going on a killing spree through foreign pantheons, or marrying a blood-drinking barbarian goddess.
He burns sweet incense on Rena's tomb, and waits for his brother to come back to Greece, so they can mourn together.
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halimede:Five things Hercules and Iolaus agree about
1) Evander isn't allowed to levitate his Uncle Iolaus except in emergencies. Evander's ball being stuck in a tree halfway up Mount Olympus does not constitute an emergency.
2) Salmoneus needs to stop messing about with sports togas and start working on lightweight, self-cleaning leather pants. Flame-retardant, for preference.
3) They agree that one of them snores like a congested dragon. They just don't agree on which one.
4) Hercules isn't going to play the lute anymore ("Or any other kind of instrument." "What? Okay, okay, fine. Does that include yours?" "...Oh, very funny.") unless they are completely alone. In some place where there isn't even an echo.
5) No matter what happens, they will never go back to farming. Though, if they ever retire, Hercules thinks he might try keeping pigs, if Iolaus promises not to eat them.
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marinarusalka:Five things Iphicles can do better than Hercules
1) Ride. Iphicles sits his horse like a true king, and he only has to walk into a stable and all the horses come up to him, whickering softly and pushing their velvety noses into his hand. Hercules has to bribe them with lumps of sugar, and even then they kick and bite and try to unseat him, while Iphicles calls out encouragement and smothers a smile behind his hand.
2) Diplomacy. Iphicles learned a lot from Jason about the subtler sides of kingship, and nothing at all from Hercules, whose idea of diplomacy is to walk into a hostile village and yell, "What's wrong with you people?" until they either attack him in force or abruptly decide to change their ways. Sometimes, after a long night negotiating with stubborn foreign embassies, Iphicles can see the appeal.
3) Talk dirty. It's fun to make Hercules blush, and it's so easy.
4) Deal with Ares. It helps, of course, that Ares isn't his brother. ("Half-brother," Hercules would say, too quickly and defensively.) Hercules and Ares are locked in a sibling rivalry that they won't even acknowledge, and Iphicles knows what that's like; he can't help feeling for Ares, who is clearly losing the fight for Zeus' attention. He can't help feeling for Ares, period, and if Ares takes merciless advantage of that, it's only because Iphicles lets him.
5) Grieve. Iphicles isn't proud of what he did after Rena died - that whole business with the veterans, for example - but he didn't snap completely, didn't kill anybody, didn't drown himself in wine. From all accounts, Hercules literally tried to drown himself after Iolaus' death, and that was only the start of it. Iphicles tries not to believe the rumors about Hercules going on a killing spree through foreign pantheons, or marrying a blood-drinking barbarian goddess.
He burns sweet incense on Rena's tomb, and waits for his brother to come back to Greece, so they can mourn together.