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Likes, Dislikes, and Her First Kill
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Why hide her vindictive face that is like her goddess Hera's beautiful look of fury that is incarnate? What was the point? Queen of Tiryns she is no longer. Forced out, along with her firstborn child and daughter she had with her murdered husband. Forced to live the rest of her life in Argos, or if the rumors were true, an arranged marriage was attempted by one of the brothers that ruled Tiryns in her husband's absence. No, that was an impossibility, for one brother murdered the other, and Tiryns was absorbed into Argos.
Starting with parallel acts similar to her goddess' acts against Zeus bastard offspring, Queen Antimache sought to reclaim her dignity and carry out her oath to her goddess. Antimache was no priestess to Hera's church, though her daughter was, nevertheless Antimache revealed herself to be a powerful sorceress, secretly delving into the dark arts beyond her goddess Hera. No one knew. Once revealed, it was decided to not offend the former queen further, for it was like offending Hera herself. Her daughter was a high priestess of Hera, after all.
Delving into the dark arts and her oath to Hera began Queen Antimache's immortality. Most of her former army of Tiryns were killed in battle with her husband and all of her sons. All she had were her royal guards. The deaths of her husband and her sons gave Heracles' offspring a brief reprieve. With the help of her grieving daughter and the rest of her royal guards, Queen Antimache tracked down her very first son of Heracles that she was going to kill.
Two of her strongest guards seize an arm each of a battered Heracles son and force him to his knees in front of the former queen in pain. The sorceress had to intervene, for though her two guards are strong with one or both possibly sons of a god themselves, this son of Heracles had blood thickened with divine blood of that divine manwhore Zeus. With her daughter by her side, Antimache grasped the handle of one of her husband's knives and took it from her daughter's hand.
Antimache cannot hear this swine's pleas. Her former people cannot see her as she is now. Why hide who she truly is now? She approached this sacrifice to Hera slowly, and she raised her long sharp knife. All she could hear was her daughter telling her that her brothers and father were all slain or all she can see is Heracles slaying her sons at the feasting table celebrating her former friend's labors. All she can feel is the hot blood of her sons splashing on her cheek. She moved her knife down violently, and violently, and violently.
This became the beginning of Queen Antimache's wrath, of her terror, for it cannot be denied that even some of her fair maiden former subjects might have caught the eyes of Heracles himself, or that of his manwhore of a father. This was also the beginning of a story of a former queen that no one knows very little about, if anything at all, and how she was stopped before she soaked Greece in blood.
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