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Ganymede | Benjamin Prince ([personal profile] the_cupbearer) wrote in [community profile] sixwordstories 2024-04-18 03:02 am (UTC)

Oh, that I know--he was a man of his time, no fault to him for the style he liked. But she's the picky sort when it comes to personal portraits. No one's gotten it quite right yet for most of us.

[ As are most of them, save Hades and Persephone. They're so rarely painted that they appreciate any art of them; Ganymede wishes he could feel that same appreciation, but he hates every single one of the paintings and drawings and sculptures that tells his story. None of them have ever come close to grasping what it was really like. ] To be honest, I might have, but some things are difficult to recall after long enough.

I remember...many things. Before and after Rome and its empire.

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