Patroclus

**Residence** | Pelion, Greece

**Patroclus** was the victim in Mistakes And Illusions (Case #38 of Graecita).

## Profile

Patroclus was a young warrior and cousin and lover of Achilles, who had long brown hair and blue eyes. At the time of his death, he wore a black Greek toga and a silver ancient necklace.

## Murder details

Achilles barges in the tavern, holding a couple of rabbits he hunted with his arms. Achilles ignores everyone in the tavern and heads straight to Chiron to give him the dead rabbits and Alex starts squealing. Chiron asks Achilles if he tied a mare called Ocyrhoe to her posts and when he confirms he did, he introduces him to the group and Alex excitedly tells Achilles how honored he was to meet him. Getting the impression they were a group of fanatics, Achilles groans and starts walking away, calling out the name of a guy called Patroclus so they could leave. But Patroclus doesn’t respond so Achilles calls out his name again and again but no answer came. Getting impatient, Achilles asks Chiron where his cousin Patroclus is, but Chiron tells him he has not seen him in the “cave”. Achilles starts panicking and gets violent, he eventually dashes out of the tavern to yell for Patroclus and the group follow him, except for Alex who got another headache so Chiron sat him down to rest. Outside, Achilles’ hears the scream of a mare called Hippe, who Patroclus had taken with him, so he runs after the sound. Jennifer and Marionette follow him out of the curiosity and worry and the neighs lead them to a stream. There they find the mare tied to a tree, unharmed, and not far away from her the dead body of a young man with his throat slit open. Achilles recognizes the corpse as his cousin and he starts shouting “NO!” several times, swearing revenge on whoever killed Patroclus. Jennifer and Marionette calmed down the warrior, promising that they’ll find out who murdered his cousin before he starts hurting random people.

## Killer and motives

After collecting enough evidence, Jennifer and Marionette went to arrest Evangelia for the murder. Evangelia tried to sass her way out of the murder accusations but when Jennifer and Marionette laid out the evidence she eventually cracked up and panicking, she claims that the murder was an accident. This obviously confused the duo, who asked how exactly does one accidently trap and slit someone’s throat and she tells them that she meant to kill Achilles. Evangelia explains that life as a Lapith woman is tough, that while the boys get to go out hunting an do all sorts of fun stuff, girls are trapped in their homes where they are expected to do chores and were trained to become housewives by their mothers. Evangelia didn’t want this life and would often sneak out but always end up getting caught and scolded by her elders. She wanted to prove to the men to the village that their views are outdated and that women are much more than just housewives and thought the best way to prove this is by bringing them the head of the ‘indestructible’ Achilles. So she thought of a plan: She knew Achilles’ weakness which is the heels of his feet and in order to get him on that spot, she laid out a bear trap for him to accidently step on it and become vulnerable. And when got out the tavern to hunt, she hid behind the bushes and waited until he’s near the area she set the bear trap on. After a while of waiting, she saw a man in full armor riding a black mare and from afar he looked like Achilles and that’s exactly who Evangelia thought it was. While the man was tying up the horse, she threw a rock at the man’s helmet, getting his attention. The man ended up coming to her directly and shrieked in pain when he stepped on the bear trap she laid out. Evangelia then charged the man from behind and slashes his throat, she then removed the helmet so she could cut out his head only to release who she killed wasn’t Achilles and it was actually his cousin Patroclus. Evangelia panicked when she saw what she did and knowing that she’d be dead meat if Achilles saw her near his body, she ran away. Evangelia also admitted that when she threw the spear at them it wasn’t because she mistook them for centaurs but because she heard them talking to Achilles and wanted to kill them before they found out she killed Patroclus. Evangelia was brought to Achilles, who grabs her by the throat and starts choking her. Jennifer tried to charmspeak him into calming down but he punches her away. He was about to kill Evangelia, but Chiron stepped in and told him to stop, pointing out Evangelia is just a kid. Achilles lets go of Evangelia and yells for her to scram off, which she did with no hesitation.

## Case appearances

* Mistakes And Illusions (Case #38 of Graecita).

## Trivia

* Patroclus is an actual figure in Greek mythology.
	+ Additionally, he was modeled after American actor and musician, Garrett Hedlund who played the character in the 2004 epic historical war film, *Troy.*

## Gallery

Achilles, Patroclus’ cousin and boyfriend.Evangelia, Patroclus’ killer.