If she could see the future but would be disbelieved, shouldn’t she have just said the opposite?
Maybe she’d be completely disregarded anyway?
Why didn’t Cassandra tell the opposite of her prophecies?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 25, 2022 2:15 PM |
OP It doesn't work that way
The gift comes with the curse of being unable to speak other than than the truth.
The additional curse of not being believed was added on by Apollo when Cassandra refused his advances. He could not take back the gift once given, but he could, in his fury of wounded male ego, mar it.
Somewhat in reverse like the good fairy at Aurora's christening: she couldn't undo the bad fairy's curse on the infant, but she could amend it.
Even the powerful have to obey some rules with this stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 24, 2022 12:28 PM |
Because she was CURSED, OP, because she wouldn't PUT OUT.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 24, 2022 12:30 PM |
She was #MeToo'd into doing it, you're trying to retroactively project agency onto her when she had none, thereby nullifying her lived experience. I hope you're happy with what you've done, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 24, 2022 12:34 PM |
She wasn’t a real person so there’s no need to worry your pretty little head about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 24, 2022 12:55 PM |
one of the saddest things in greek mythology
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 24, 2022 12:58 PM |
Yet you are still bothered enough to respond, r5.
So I win.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 24, 2022 12:58 PM |
I think you’re a bit confused about how that comeback works, r7.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 24, 2022 1:04 PM |
No, I’m not.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 24, 2022 1:33 PM |
Because it's a great lesson about the stupidity of the masses.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 24, 2022 1:58 PM |
Because Cassandra was like that.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 24, 2022 2:07 PM |
she's cray cray
I also like the version where Apollo sent a snake and it licked her ear in a temple to give her powers(along with her twin Helenus)
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 24, 2022 5:47 PM |
Deep Thoughts by....
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 24, 2022 6:18 PM |
Because then there wouldn't have been a story.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 24, 2022 6:25 PM |
Not this whiny bitch again
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 24, 2022 6:32 PM |
All she ever needed was the music...
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 24, 2022 6:35 PM |
Beats the hell out of me.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 25, 2022 12:21 AM |
R20 For the win.
OP
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 25, 2022 2:15 PM |