a naturally silent girl, she never did talk much. a childhood habit, a curse she had forced upon herself.
adrasteia named herself. there's an old greek myth, about a nymph named adrasteia, a nurse to baby zeus. in that story, she was said to clash cymbals together so loud that it would mask zeus's cries. in other tales, she is said have been warded for her boastful speech. when adrasteia ragnarsdottir was a little girl, she was just as loud. her mother would berate her for it, telling her that a lady was to be quiet. listening to her mother, she almost stopped speaking all together, frightful of being too loud. it was when the young girl cried that her father told her the story, that for being loud, for protecting the baby zeus, the nymph had been rewarded. she had become a star, and that was when she renamed herself.
at the age of 8, she was a saxon, a lady, marked to marry well and speak quietly, politely, perfectly all her life. at 9, she got lost, she got lost in a dane camp. the earl ragnar looked at the young girl, covered in dirt and scratches, starving from her weeks in the forest. it was then, that adrasteia became his blood, she became a dane, a pagan, a heathen.
a dane, a pagan and a heathen, all the things sihtric was aswell. he reminded himself of that when he was just a child, looking at the girl in the cage. he gave her food, she refused it, screaming that they had killed her family. the two repeated that same routine everyday. the usually silent, timid girl, using all her will and hatred to scream at him. it was in those moments, sihtric covered in the food she had thrown right back in his face and her screaming at him, cussing more than any man he had ever heard. that was when sihtric, the bastard, heathen, pagan, fell in love with adrasteia, the lost, vexed, fake dane.
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why the fuckkk are there so many adrasteia's in greek mythology, trying to find the right myths acc took 5 years off my life
she's acc just like meeeeee, doesn't talk but WILL yell at you and called you a cunt with no hesitation 🎀
quick disclaimer, i'm making my own timeline. i js spend a good hour trying to figure out how old each character would be in relation to all the time skips and shi but likeeeee no this is fanFICTION imma do wtv i want. i'm just gonna condense a lot so like 9 years is now 2 years idc.
so for context, adrasteia is around 17-18 in last half-ish of s2 and sihtric is around 18-19 like he was thought to be in the books. and then by the end of s3 they're in like mid 20s which makes NO SENSE but i could not care less so there's that!
i'm so so so excited for this y'all, i made this account specifically for this fic bc i was too embarrassed to put it on my main wp (i'm usually a social media ff gal 🤗)
anyways i'll stop yapping my b
warnings: - violence - parental abuse - religious trauma - sexual content?? (maybe i haven't decided yet) -being a woman in medieval times
if any of these are too much for u, take care of yourself 🫶
