Patroclus/Quotes

This is a page documenting the quotes by the fallen hero Patroclus.

## Monologues

"When we were both alive, I... thought you were invincible. I knew of no one, nothing stronger, other than the love we shared. Was I deceived, in thinking this of you, of us? Well..."

"...Why was I brought here, to be left alone? Where did you go... what did you do?"

"...So then, I'll just keep waiting here, I guess. No time to lose, hahaha."

"You made the choice, not me, and you prolonged that war, when you know just as well as anyone you could have ended it! But you refused. And now I'm here. And you? You're somewhere else..."

## Elysium

### Approaching

"...Ah."

"Heh..."

"<Chuckle>"

### Upon Interaction

"Leave me to my eternal paradise... Damn you."

"Oh, you look terrible, if I may say, stranger. Perhaps one of these trinkets can be of some small help." - *When Zagreus is low on health*

### Upon Getting Attacked

"See?"

"If only."

## Conversations With Zagreus

Zagreus can talk with Patroclus in Elysium.

### First meeting

```
Patroclus: "... Go on stranger. Plenty more shades looking to fight with you out here."
Zagreus: "I'm just passing through. You seem less warlike than the rest. May I ask your name? I'm Zagreus."
Patroclus: "Names are there to be forgotten, stranger. You shouldn't be here. May the Fates favor your journey. But just in case they don't, here. Why don't you take this?"

```

### First Gift of Nectar

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Zagreus: "Hey, look, I can tell you're struggling right now, and... maybe this isn't the way to help you through it all, but... I want you to have this."
Patroclus: "*Ahh*, so you are taking pity on me, then? Well, I've no pride like many others here, so I shall take it. Though, let's make it a fair exchange, shall we?"
Zagreus: "I am most grateful to you, sir."

```

### Other

```
Patroclus: “You again. I’ve told you to stay clear of me. Your father’s quite the big shot around here, but that means nothing to me, understand? Go, and tell him he can cast me in the pits of Tartarus for all I care. It’d be a welcome change to being put to pasture here."

```

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Patroclus: "What is it this time, stranger? You’re quite effective at locating me, but not so good at leaving me in peace."
Zagreus: "Just on one of my little jaunts through paradise is all, sir. Happened to be on the way toward my destination."
Patroclus: "You think this place a paradise? At least down in the depths there are so many other souls with whom to share one’s misery. No offense, I know that you’re just passing through."

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Zagreus: "Is something wrong, there, sir? I mean shouldn't you be up and about, competing for eternal pride and glory and all that?"
Patroclus: "What's the use? Let's say we fought, if anybody asks. Now, go. I've no quarrel with you, besides. I'll just remain here, comfortably at rest, for some untold millennia, I guess. Have a nice... whatever time it is."

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Patroclus: "So, stranger, how goes wilful disobedience of late? Would that I, too, had it within me to defy the gods.."
Zagreus: "Oh, you know, it’s going. That I’ve been able to make it this far means I’m getting somewhere, I suppose. No thanks to all your brethren in Elysium."
Patroclus: "No use trying to reason with my brethren here. Many of the shades whom you’ve encountered, why, I watched them throw away their lives when they were men. Yet still they seek to prove to one another and themselves that they are great warriors."
Zagreus: "Say isn’t that the Lethe right nearby? You’ve been through so much, don’t you ever… You could just drink deeply of the River of Forgetfulness and be done with, no?"
Patroclus: "It has been rather tempting, yes. And I have taken sips from time to time. But I’ve some memories I’m not quite ready to give up on yet."

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