In Troy, he transforms into a cold-blooded warrior who’s highly skilled with spears. Achilles chooses to fight anyway, demonstrating that he values his honor and legacy above life itself. He can fight in Troy and become famous or stay in Greece and be forgotten-however, if he goes to Troy, he’s certain to die there. Eventually, Achilles learns his mother’s reasoning for sending him away: the gods have prophesized two possible futures for him. Thetis initially tries to keep Achilles and Patroclus apart and keep her son away from the fighting, sending him to Scyros and forcing him to have a baby with Deidameia in hopes of making her son a god. Achilles and Patroclus, a foster child in Achilles’s kingdom, fall in love as teenagers, eventually training together on Mount Pelion before the Trojan War begins. As a teenager, when Achilles meets and falls in love with Patroclus, he’s honest, kind, and has great skill with a lyre. His battle skills are in his blood: his mother, the goddess Thetis, was raped by his father, Peleus, making Achilles half human and half god. According to prophecy, he is prophesized to attain fame during the Trojan War. Achilles is the prince of Phthia, Patroclus’s lover, and the best fighter in Greece.
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