eromenos

[misheard]

Title: eromenos
Fandom: Fate/Grand Order
Character(s): Ritsuka, Euryale
Pairing(s): Iskandar/Hephaestion
Genre: Humor
Word Count: 200
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers
Summary: Ritsuka asks about some Greek vocabulary.
Notes:

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"Hey, Euryale?" Ritsuka asks idly. "What's an 'eromenos'?"

Euryale chokes on nothing. Coming from the ideal of the effortlessly graceful idol, this is especially impressive. "Where'd you hear that word?"

Ritsuka blinks a few times. "Um, Faker refused to be on a team with Achilles earlier? She was pretty cagey about why, but I managed to get out of her that her brother and Iskandar used to roleplay Patroclus and Achilles. Then she said she never wanted to think of her king as her brother's eromenos, and when I asked her what that meant she told me to forget it."

"I-I see… Well, I can't blame her, I wouldn't like to know that many details about my sisters' relationships either." Euryale chews on the inside of her cheek for a moment, before getting up. "Wait here. I know exactly who will have illustrations."

She disappears for about fifteen minutes. When she returns, she's carrying one of Osakabehime's doujinshi. The cover is a teenage boy being held in the arms of a much older and taller man, and Euryale points to the smaller one. "An eromenos is this, but in real life."

"Ohhh, an uke. She could have just said so."