Achilles and Patroclus story continues after their death in Hades game! I enjoyed this interpretation of my favorite Greek heroes, and I encourage you to play this amazing game yourself and see more of them and many others.
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'...Forgive me. It is not my place to say much of him, now. May his name yet live. May his soul bask forever in the glory of Elysium. No more. Fear is for the weak. Fear is for the weak. Fear is for the weak. Fear is for the weak. No more! I cannot risk it all. I cannot risk it all! I cannot risk it all, can I? I have risked everything already, have I not? Then, why not risk it all, again? Am I to risk it all? Why should I? For my own sake, at his own expense? Doubtless he drank already from the Lethe, and forgot. Would I have done the same? Would I do the same? Ah, life's final cruelty! That we still feel!'
*you really gonna do this after i'm sobbing from the book and Hades*
what is this from?
@@OneQuackyBoi patrochilles his fully unlocked codex page
@@FallGuy-sk7ww oh damn, I never read that
@@OneQuackyBoi 9 months late to this but this is how Patroclus's Codex entry is written once you max out Pat's hearts before you manage to reunite them! (they're all penned by Achilles in-game) "Fear is for the weak" is a mantra Achilles tells himself and also imparts to Zagreus as a reminder to stay strong....so for how it was written in the Codex;; ; v ;
Zagreus is the biggest Patrochilles shipper
Zagreus shipped them SO DAMN HARD that he made an actual happy ending for them! Heck yeah, shipper power!
I think their biggest shipper is Alexandre the great-
YES JAJAJAJAJA
He did whatever he had to do to make it cannon
Even bigger than Aphrodite.
Zagreus is a marriage councilor now
Certified as well
Awesome
what game Is this?
@@kingcobra4857 Hades
@@kingcobra4857 Hades
Hell child trying to get his adopted parents back together.
HAh
facts tho
Then Orpheus and Eurydice are his adopted musically inclined aunt and uncle.
Hell child trying to get his bio parents, adopted parents, and aunt and uncle back together. Are we sure Zag isn't the God of love?
They're his adopted parents because he adopted them as such
Patroclus: “We myrmidons aren’t the sentimental type” Achilles, who went on a murder rampage when Pat died and never let go of his grief:
Loool I LOVE the nickname!
Also Achiless, refused to bring back Hector's body to his family and proceed to drag him Infront of his own family
"We myrmidons aren't the sentimental type. Achilles, Best of the Greeks, is an outlier and should not have been counted."
also Pat: spends most of his screen time muttering about his ex
He is more the exception that makes the rule.
*I didn't mean to lose my temper with you, lad.* _Achilles said furiously_
*Achilles said calmly*
sing o muse the rage of Achilles
If anything is canon here, it's that Achilles gonna rage.
What the game is meant to be: *escape from Hell simulator* How I play it: *getting Achilles and Patroclus back together simulator*
We all know it's a dating sim
this game is literally a marriage counseling simulator like, Orpheus and Eurydice, Achilles and Patroclus, Hades and Persephone I literally played just to reunite couples. and to date Than and Meg
Zagreus Hades, marriage counsellor and security expert.
@@lorien_braga and a family therapy sim too, with zag’s parents/olympian relatives and nyx and chaos
Move over Aphrodite. Zagreus is now the new god of love.
Patroclus: we myrmidons aren’t the sentimental type Also Patroclus everytime you see him: my husband…. The love of my life….. he left me here…. I’m so deeply sad cause I miss my husband
achilles after his death:i will DESTROY everything they had,for patroclus,i will kill all of them
Historians years later: "And they were Roommates"
@@Probus-Vir-Mendax omg and they were roomates
@@Probus-Vir-Mendax more like urn mates am i right!?!?!
@@Probus-Vir-Mendax "2 bros chilling in a hot tub, 5 feet apart cause they are not gay"
Gays be like: *tries to find any and all adaptations of Achilles and Patroclus being in love* It’s me. I’m gays Edit: ahh, fellow gays
Im not even gay but this is true ;-; ----------- *screams in let the gays be happy*
Not gay but truuuuu!
Not u exposing me 😭😭
im gays too
@@adrianlund7844 ahh fellow gays
I wonder how giddy my Ancient World History teacher would be if he knew about this game, and that you could reunite them. That man had no qualms telling us how gay these two were for each other.
He sounds great lol
He sounds like a legend
Have you told him???
@@andreahardin7521 I haven't seen him since I graduated, but I will try to remember to tell him if I ever see him again.
I had an equally great History teacher in High School! Don't recall him mentioning Achilles and Pat specifically, but he sure as hell schooled a gaggle of shitty snickering boys when a documentary brought up Alexander and Hephaestion's romance! Bless quality teachers man. u_u A priceless gift to bullied baby gays, and students in general.
achilles and patroclus seem like really good friends.
Just really great bros
five feet apart cuz theyre not gay
Oh my god they were roommates
Yall are making me laugh and my roommate is asleep. QwQ
Just really good friends who love to wrestle in bed together, to train of course.
Watching this for closure after reading Song of Achilles
same 😭
Me too
Yup
Same
I finished the book yesterday, I'm still sad
“Your Patroclus”....🥺
“Your Achilles”
She-ra did this too in season 5. Gays and romance go hand in hand ❤
My heart is exploing😭
When they both said "my patrolcus", "my achilles" filled my heart so much 🥺❤️
_Myrmidons are not the sentimental type_ Also they got one of the three best romances in game, no order
Right? ❤😢 so precious and perfect
When i need to know when thay said it
@@Mallowyc15:58
Bro Achilles had a wife, like everyone just forgot about her god damn. XD
When he said: "COME ON TELL ME ALL ABOUT YOU TWO" I felt that
"I WANT DETAILS"
He just said "spill the tea" and I love it
zagreus is desperate for the tea
He represents all of us and I love it
“What has Hector ever done to me?” Edit: Ah, the suffering. I’M NOT ALONE!!!
STOOOPP
you're evil for this fr 😭
He killed your boyf-
Why must you do this 😞😞😞😭
NOO
bruh you can hear a smile in Patroclus' dialogue once he and Achilles are reunited 😭😭😭😭
RIGHT? Watching this back I was oddly shocked to see that Pat's character portrait while speaking WASN'T outright smiling. ;_;
"We myrmidans aren't the sentimental type" Hector, watching his corpse be dragged around by Achilles on a chariot after he killed Pat (not even on purpose): 😐
Tarzan doing that thing after his gorilla dad getting killed was a reference to this, go literature lovers.
Zagreus on 20:32 is just hilarious "C`MON ACHILLES I NEED D E T A I L S"
He was like that friend just after someone’s been on a date like “COME ON GIMME DETAILS”
SPILL THE DEEEETS
SPILL THE AMBROSIA
SPILL THE NECTAR
I love Zag so much bc he's like "I want details! ....if you don't mind" bc the man wants tea but also makes sure Achilles feels comfortable sharing...I love him for that
ugh the way that patroclus’ voice tangibly transitions from bitter and melancholy to more and more passionate and conscious-
Perfect voice acting ❤
No but at a point his voice sounded like a robot or an ai because of how emotionless he sounded
I don't care what anybody says, this is a sequel for the song of Achilles and it is canon
Their storyline _does_ feel more like a sequel to Song of Achilles than The Iliad.
@@Mia-dt3gl true
Yessss 100%
Honestly this is required reading after that because the last few chapters were literally sickening
its the only reason i’m here and it makes me so happy.
In Achilles' last dialogue at the end when he refers to himself and Patroclus like "We do enjoy it" and "Our old pride is coming back"....its so goddamn married. How much do u think he missed being part of a unit with Patroclus and getting to talk about his partner casually like that
my heart broke-
His other half ❤
HEJEJEJSJS oh my god i never thought of it that way pls they are literally husbands
@@Stitchpuppy01 as the poets say
@@-starvs213” and they were good friends “ - historians
PATROCLUS JUST HAVE THAT KIND VOICE AND I KNEW IT NOW IM GONNA CURL UP IN A BALL AND CRY
YEAH 🥺🥲 he was described as _gentle_ in the iliad, like that was all they had to go by.
Oha mois... is that you?
@@lehya9861 👀......la beni nerden buldunuz fksnfnskfem
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Love how Zagreus and Achilles are just bros who wing-man for eachother. Zag works to get Achilles back together with Patroclus and Achilles gives Zag advice for wooing Than.
Gays gotta get eachothers backs xD
@@frostmint3584 elder gay and baby gay helping each other in their gayness 😌
“You tried juggling figs lad?” “Achilles what the fuck” “Worked for me”
The fucking voice acting in this game is just so good. Just look at the way patroclus' voice shifts after they're reunited, it's so subtle yet sets so impactful. Good voice acting in larger games is always so impressive to me that's so much hard work and effort and my gods do I love this game, and them.
This is one of the things I fell in loce with Hades's lore, THE DIALOGUES. It just fells so, subtle, sensible, how their voices are just trembling with emotion, how Zagreus is just so soft when he cares. The hurt in Achilles voice when he tells about Troy and the end of the war... Dialogues are just making me fall in love with every single character. Except the Olympians aside from Hermes and Artemis (which never actually hang around Olympus and are delightful)
@@rosevalety7083 and whats the problem with the other Olympian gods bro they look impressive as will
@@ilyesbendadi2501 probably just there personalities
I could hear his smile in his voice acting and was smiling myself so hard it almost hurt. I love these two and I was hooked the entire time on their story and afterstory
Zagreus is a sweetheart just wanting Achilles and Patroclus to be together again ;-;
The best nephew is one who won't leave you alone until you're happy. :')
This is what happened after TSOA 👱🙎 no one can convince me otherwise. They were urnmates! 🏺 PS: I just noticed that Patroclus' design wore the "bracer of the myrmidons", whilst Achilles does not since he gave it to Zagreus.
Oh my God thery were urnmates
@@justintime3656 o h no XD
NOT URNMATES I JUST FINISHED THE BOOK 😭😭😭
URNMATES, STOP
Did anyone tweet to the author of the book before Twitter became bad?
"Come on, Achilles, I want details here!" Jeez, even Zagreus can't hold himself lol
20:32 Zagreus: Spill the tea already, achilles
Zagreus: DID YOU KISS ?!!!
Zagreus: did you f u c k?
@@lysfranc8782Did you..hold hands??!
@@lysfranc8782 did you snu-snu?
@@lysfranc8782DID YOU TWO F- [killed by Redacted]
Patroclus sounds like he should be writing a poetry book... and makes me question why that water's covered in smoke.
The water takes your living memories away, to start a new life. The fog is regret, pain, and mortal attachment in form.
“It’s your Patroclus” *Your Patroclus*
I am in TEARS
This game feds the gays to this day
aka orphic dionysus reuniting this ship for 24 minutes 30 seconds (not) straight
yess orphic dionysus! Felt like that joke did not get enough attention and have materialized in your comments to pat you on the back and offer to buy u a drink
the way the dialogue and interactions were written got me so emotional
The voice actors and amazing as well
I legit cried while watching this.
Zag is always so respectful towards the shades he meets. It is very endearing.
Once Achilles is freed from his contract, the next time we see them together, their sprites are mirrored, they wear almost the same clothes and they have the same spear... My heart...
I'm 2 years late, but the reason why their clothes look almost the same is because Patroclus had died in Achilles' armor, wielding his weapons. They ARE the same clothes and spear. 🥲
@@mostlyimpulsive3462 OH FUCK You're right! I forgot about that part in the myth!!! The devs are so vigilant, that's awesome! (2 years already??? gosh damn...)
@@mostlyimpulsive3462 holy moly, this kills me in the best way possible 😭
It took me so long to realize that both Achilles and Patroclus both don’t really call Zag by his name. Patroclus calling him stranger is brought up in the dialogue but Achilles calling him lad isn’t but is used similarly.
zagrues the god of rebirth? more like the god of being a wingman because the amount of effort he went through just to get them back together is astounding
He's the god of blood Wonder what his sister is
@@ninab.4540she's a god of nightmares iirc
Damn, i never would've guessed that there was another voice line for Zagreus discovering Pat's name depending on if he talked about him with Achilles.
Isn't it "do you know a patroclus, sir?"
"come on Achilles I want detail!" He really is a fan girl isn't he 😭
how can someone be socially awkward 'cause of their sheltered upbringing, while also being eloquent and gregarious? simple; write him repeatedly butting his head into people's doomed marriages and gifting extravagant gifts at the blink of an eye. i love zagreus
Help, I literally just finished The Song of Achillies, I’m crying 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
Let’s all simmer in our sorrows 😙✌️
Same, I just finished the song of Achilles and I'm watching the video now. Also, I got so angry that no one was willing to bury Patroclus and Achilles together. At least Achilles mother wrote Patroclus' name at the end of the book, and it's implied that the two of them meet each other again in the underworld. But I could be wrong. Ugh, that book hurt me.
Spoilers! Same now Im just dissatisfied that they still refer to Pat as a 'companion' to Achilles and how Achilles son just straight up go against his dad's wish to not bury Pat and Achilles together like an asshole
In the version I read, Patroclos's spirit was able to speak to Thetis, and in the end Thetis said that she did it, she carved his name in the stone next to Achilles, and she said go, he's waiting for you + the last sentence
20:45 “he simply said my name” he sounds like he got choked up and now i’m gonna cry
Orpheus, playing 'Achilles Come Down': "and there were tentmates!" Zagreus: "omg they were tentmates"
20:32 "COME ON ACHILLES I NEED DETAILS HERE! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU TWO? ...If you don't mind" 😭😭♥️♥️
I really like how Zagreus says "It's your Patroclus" cute
After finishing the video i said "why did this end so fast?!" then i realized it was 24 mins long. I am definitely not yet done with the story of Achilles and Patroclus. I need a book about their life in Elysium... or death.
Exactly so...After reading The Song of Achilles, I am in desperate need of closure....i need more of them...want to know more about their life in the underworld
I mean there’s song of achilles
@@_____2219 but they said in elysium
I'm a writer and working on it. They're not my main characters, but my protagonist does meet them in the Underworld. They are always together, relaxed, playing music and loving each other. So much so that the protagonist is surprised to hear they were warriors once, to him they were just soft bois cuddling around all the time.
@@b.sylphaen please tell us when it does get released? i would love to read
hades was separated for a few from persephone and became mad but he out there separating patrochilles ? anyways shshshs came here for closure after reading TSOA..
A deal is a deal, it always was the main trait of Hades
@@ninab.4540 i know
Goddammit hades,,, I thought you were nICE
Well, at least Achilles knıws Patroclus died because of him. But he should also know Patroclus loves him o much that dying for him doesn't change anything
Honestly, Zagreus is the best thing that could've happened to Achilles and Patroclus.
The way Achilles calls him "Pat" I just love them please
I admit I teared up a little at the first dialogue set. I just imagined the devastating rage he must have felt at hearing about Patroclus' death...damn. For Zag to warn him not to drown his sorrows... You know that all of the world knows of the love Achilles holds and know how it effects him even now. The fact that Patroclus was so tormented... Zag holds so much respect for them both. He wants both to find each other and be happy, you can hear it! You can also hear how much he holds Achilles up on a pedestal, not only as a hero but as a person. That's how you know Achilles has had such an impact on his life.
I like how brave the developers were in leaving some of the best dialogue and moments for the end of side endeavors
this is my therapy after the song of achilles
Same :(
they really said patroquilles
oh their voices…its like melted butter on sweet sweet homemade bread in front of a fire with a cup of tea on a winter’s morn. Smooth
“He is half of my soul, as the poet says”
Love that Patroclus starts standing only when Achilles goes to visit him the first time. The voice acting is top notch, the dialogue... ugh, this is so cute and well done. Kudos
*Alternative title: Zagreus helping his two gay dads get back together*
"Go, he waits for you." "Go to him, sir."
Zag: I WILL PLAY MATCHMAKER HADES DAMN IT
I'm here for closure after crying my eyes out over TSOA :') I love them
Same. Same. :')
I've done so many runs and for some reason they arent reunited yet and yeah I want to scream
I think I reunited them around 60-ish run, and I took on it since run one: always talking/makings gifts to Achilles and to Patroclus any time I had a chance, they were my priority. So yeah, this quest takes a lot of patience. Keep going and you'll get there! Will see them laughing together in Elysium and interrupt their newfound happiness to get some jerky :>
I might add that after you've maxed both their hearts to the locked one it's just lots of waiting, talking and completing other quests. It does help to release Sisyphus and Orpheus when you can as well.
@@ArlenGradovsky yes I'm definitely close, that's for sure. Good to know it isnt quick either way tho. I'm also reading the Song of Achilles right now for extra incentive fuehehe. I look forward to the day I get to see them together. Thanks for the vid :3
I'm in the same spot, over 100 runs in, at full hearts... do you have to free Sisyphus first?
I somehow got it first try because I finished re reading the Iliad and The Song Of Achilles and I needed some sort of closure when I figured out that they were in love in this game also and I went into pro gamer mode to figure out how to follow the main storyline, but also get these two men together for crying out loud ;D
I’m shocked Achilles knew I was trying to romance him, shoulda known he already had a man 😔
The good ones are always taken
@@ninab.4540 Fr
This game is perfect in dealing with the side characters respectfully. Zagreus helping out his bros makes him special.
Supergiant did Madeline Miller royally well with this omg
Did you think Madeline Miller invented patrochilles ??
@@TT-ig7tg She's the one who freaking went in depth with their story and relationship in her retelling, son
@@arminarlert6011 She's the one who brought the first ship ever back to te mainstream. Eat your heart out Arthur/Ginevra!
"We myrmidons, we are not the sentimental type." Me: y u lyin
I was brought up with the idea that Pat and Achilles were cousins (from the horrible Troy movie). Now, as I grew into adulthood and learned the truth, I'm angry at modern media erasing their love for each other. It's truly bitter-sweet. To see their bond and longing in segments of this game is just so......liberating for them. Thank god this ends in them together even in death. Like this is their real feelings to each other as lovers in a horrible wartime tragedy. I love them and I love this game.
The voice acting is so good! Especially at 14:08 when Pat said "The fool"...
So the thing that just cracks my heart is the way it says “forgotten hero” under Achilles name. He sacrificed the thing that mattered the most to him, his Patroclus, for fame and now he is forgotten
[wetly] do you know what time it is? do you know what time it is? do you know what time it is? 🎶 it’s crying about patrochilles time
Fr!
4:18 the bitterness in that line… it’s almost wistful though it’s a bit too sharp for that
Ok I'm gonna cry about this (happy tears, don't worry) for a good long while. The voices are so nice. And after reading both, The Robert Fagles translation of Illiad and TSoA, I needed this. Ah the closure is incredible.
8:33 reminded me of Brad Pitt's Achilles quote from Troy "The God's envy us because we're doomed, you will never be as beautiful as you are now, we will never be here again"
They were kidding cousins
my weak tsoa and classics ass has BEEN FED
The dislikes are from the historians saying that they were good friends.
this somehow filled the hollow the song of achilles left to me.
"It's good to know you, Zagreus. Stranger." Guess Patroclus is content on sounding like the merchant from resident evil 4
Thank you so much for this video, my dialogues with Pat were slightly different because I met him earlier than I maxed my bond with Achilles. But I really wanted to get all their possible dialogues, and thanks to you, I can now ;;
Oh I KNOW the creators read the Song of Achilles 🤣
Like I don't mean this horribly but Madeline Miller did not invent patroclus and achilles being in a romantic/sexual relationship. Its been concept since ancient Greece while also being explored and written about at the same time period the Iliad was written. I love song of achilles but she didn't invent the ship its quite literally thousands of years old lol
@@--Bo-- Lmao did you even get what that person meant? Stop assuming that people don't know about greek myths
They actually did! I saw a QnA Madeline Miller did on Reddit and one of the Supergiant peeps commented that they enjoyed reading TSOA and I believe Circe as well.
6:10 "I am made of memories."
The first version of the Iliad I read took the Troy movie route and censored Patroclus and Achilles as family. I was so surprised in college to read an uncensored version! So glad that a bunch of gamers’ intro to these characters is so thoroughly romantic.
I've truly realized how much the phrase "I think" to add to a character
There are two ways to unlock this side story. This is the Achilles version but here's a little bit of how the Patroclus one goes: You meet Patroclus and don't who he is. Until one day he asks if we know someone named Achilles down in Tartarus, Zagreus tells him that he will try to remember or ask for him (acting as he doesn't know Achilles), and then mentioning to Achilles that this shade was looking for him, making Achilles tell the story to Zag and sending him to tell Patroclus that he is down there. I believe the way to get this is not getting enough good relationship with Achilles so he won't tell you his story with Patroclus before you meet him, so you won't know who he is. Or simply to not look at the book to not know Patroclus name.
I got the Patroclus route while playing the game due to the fact that I always give one bottles of the rare nectar that I acquired to Npcs that I encounter on my route in the beginning instead of Npcs that were always at the house. My relationship with Patroclus was, because of that, very more advanced that Achilles. Patroclus version make me feels like a detective collecting clues lol
Watching this to heal my Patrochilles heart 🥲
Patroclus' voice is exactly how I imagined it while reading TSOA
Even if it was hella rocky, but Zag's definitely an ace matchmaker.
Wow these guys seem like really great friends.
20:30 Zagreus just said, "Spill, girl.🍵"
tsoa tore me apart but this put a little bandaid on the wound lol
guys im crying i saw it all again i just finished the book its 3 am i just ✨PAT✨ edit: 137 likes i feel✨ famous ✨
Song of Achilles, it makes me not want to finish the book. I want to think this is what happened after they died.
@@vduck7354 If it helps, it hurts to get there, but the ending is sweet.
Is there a book? I got this in my recommended and I’m already so invested😭
@@maggropaint1364 yes! the song of aquilles. Ive got it in Spanish on pdf, in case you actually speak spanish. Anyways its almost everywhere
The letters and the words might be in a different order, but every single comment says the exact same thing. "🥺"
i literally fall asleep listening to this compilation, their voices are so calming to listen too.
8:35 the way Patroclus says this 😭😭crying in the club
oh my gods they were urn mates
this is my coping mechanism after the book
I absolutely *HATE* the fact that the forces that be decided that Patroclus wasn't "good enough" for Elysium on his own. That's the biggest load of bullshit imaginable!
im not crying youre crying
nvm im definitely crying
We are all crying 😭
Oh god the voice acting here is like music to the ears! I could listen to this forever Maybe I should play the game after all)
The writing of this game is so good that each run doesn’t feel like a grind but more like waiting the next dialogue of your fav characters Oh and after playing this game I bought the audiobook “The songs of Achilles” it’s really good
Image how patroclus reacted to seeing achilles suddenly in elysium like achilles is tears running to his long lost lover with kisses and hugs