While Hephaistion sank into the bed, feeling as if his bones had pleasantly turned to warm oil, Alexander was silent and still, except to sigh.
Hephaistion’s heart, so recently buoyed by love, sank.
This one’s just a perfect little gem, sweet and just a little sad.
A modern day!AU – there’s a lot of fic like this out there, which is not usually my cup of tea. But this vid is just so well done, it manages to tell the story beautifully. Music by Laurel.
Ugh, right in the feels – this pulls no punches in showing the dark times in Alexander and Hephaestion’s relationship. Music by 2Cellos ft. Sky Ferreira.
This vid owns my heart! The portrayal of Achilles & Patroclus in the movie Troy was very disappointing (like the whole movie, really), but the vidder manages to draw out the underlying emotions beautifully by mirroring them with Alexander and Hephaestion. Heartbreakingly perfect! Music by Shiny Toy Guns.
They wed her to a man whose name she cannot pronounce.
Teen, Drypetis POV. I love outsider’s perspectives and have always been curious what Hephaestion’s Persian princess might have thought of him. This is lovely!
And to this boy he had to leave Alexander, and trust that he would be kept safe and sane and convinced that he bled red blood and that sorrow for a beloved friend shamed him not at all. Already—always—he was too inclined to disappear behind the mask, become hero, king, Achilles, Son of Ammon, Great King, inviolate and inhuman, and to keep him simply golden Alexander whose hands grasped so greedily at the unknown had been the work of too many years to let Persian hands daintily unpick his many patched-over attempts at field-surgery.
Hephaestion POV after Cleitus’ murder, this captures Renault’s style, making this feel like a bitter-sweet glimpse into the General’s mind.
He scanned the horizon and tried to remember how he had come to be at this place. His last remembrances were of fever and pain and a bone-deep loss that had set his soul to howling.
Teen, death fic. Alexander after his death – but of course he’s not alone…
