Troy

**Troy** is the main protagonist and disappointment in Struggling.

## Description

Troy is the collective name for Achilles and Hector, 2 prophesied heroes destined to bring peace to all outcasts (mutants once revered as heroes, who became outcasts after a false prophet rose to power), born far later in a single body

**Hector** is the stronger of the two, who was said to possess boundless strength to win battles to save all outcasts. On Troy's body, he is the face with 2 eyes.

**Achilles**  is the smarter of the duo, who carries boundless knowledge and wisdom. He is the leftmost head on Troy, with 1 eye.

## Powers and Abilities

Troy is deemed a letdown by the game and can do little other than drag themselves across the ground via pulling with both arms.

After curing Amadeus, Troy will gain the ability to detach either arm at will and drag it across the ground, being slightly less disappointing.

Following the "boss" of Agamemnus, both brothers will gain the ability to alter time. Both Achilles and Hector have 1 "charge", which allows Troy to slow down time for a few seconds. This allows for faster reactions to threats.

## Story

**Spoiler Alert: The following page section contains information regarding the story of Struggling. If you haven't completed Story Mode yet and dont want spoilers, dont read it**

Troy is a failed experiment in a laboratory, and they've been kept in a tank their whole life. One day during a totally tubular party, a drunken scientist excuses himself from the bash to sit down on an edge above the brothers. The intoxicated man vomits, which shorts out the controls and lets Troy free. Troy drags their odious, misshapen body across the lab, and with one wrong move, sets all the other experiments free. After narrowly escaping death multiple times, Troy finds themselves in a cave where the lab had been dumping other failures like themselves.

There, they meet Amadeus the Firstborn, one the three "Gods of Abomination," known for his cries of agony that sound almost indiscernible from opera singing. The brothers end up curing Amadeus from a cancer-like infection that troubled his heart. No longer held back by his infection, Amadeus is finally able to sing with joy, and he bestows his new friends with his Abomination God Blessing, Remote Arms.

Using this new power, Troy reaches the edge of the cave, where he encounters an enemy: the Rat King, who triggers a flood of acid. Fortunately, Troy is able to reach saftey with the help of some strange arms. UNfortunately, Troy (as well as Amadeus, a scientist, and a goat), are caught in an explosion that rockets them into a canyon. Now sorely bruised and in the middle of nowhere, Troy has no choice but to keep moving forward.

Later, Troy encounters the second God of Abomination: Agamemnus, the Amalgam of Seduction, who, like Troy, are a group of beings merged into one body. The amalgam falls in love with the brothers, and though Troy could only chose one, Agamemnus bestows their blessing: Time Alteration. Troy makes quick use of this power to reach a strange temple with statues and writing that seems to depict other abominations like themselves. Troy eventually gets sent down a huge hole into a patch of mushrooms, who's psychedelic spores cause the pair to hallucinate. While trapped in their own bizarre fantasy world,

Troy floats through the sky, plays some basketball, gives a seminar on how the player is basically torturing them for their own amusement, and fights a gigantic duck. At the end of the insanity, Troy finds the final God of Abomination, Morpheus, the Feeble Puppeteer, and kills him. Troy awakens from their drugged state in a boat. But their victory is tragically cut short when the scientists find and reincarcerate them, placing them right back where they started.

**Spoilers Over.**

## Trivia

* "Achillies," "Hector," and "Troy" are all the names of characters from Greek mythology. In the stories, Achillies and Hector were also a pair of brothers who didn't get along.