seriouslyabiggerduck:

Achilles lost the one he loved so much and he didn’t wish to live any longer.

Maybe that why Apollo guided the arrow that finally killed Achilles, because none other that a god could.

Maybe Apollo killed Achilles knowing it was a mercy. Apollo, who had lost his love Hyacinth, and probably Daphne knew Achilles’s despair and how he mourned and Apollo guided the who wasn’t a mortal who could find his love again after death and having himself mourned all he had lost… even though he was a God – immortal and eternal and unfeeling – he knew love and he knew loss.

And so maybe Apollo didn’t guide Paris’s arrow true as a curse of vengeance maybe it was blessing to Achilles to find his love again.

If you could wouldn’t you rather have kindness and understanding rather than cruelty and revenge?