Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-25936766-20170423034149

SpiritedDreaming wrote:Which when you compare Achilles to RWBy, makes the Prince station comparable to the Maiden station. Except most definitely not. Especially since, in the versions of the Iliad where Apollo guides Paris's arrows to hit Achilles's heel, Paris was little more than a mean to an already-designated end.

Maidens are the ones comparable to Demigods. A "Prince" would be at Weiss's level, a noteworthy person of a high social class, yet not divine in the slightest (not necesarily, anyway). Comparing him (or his standing in the story) to Maidens based on his standing as a Prince in the story, is bordering on fallacious, just like the (previously stated) idea of a Prince being close enough to Demigod.

Let's say you want to make someone trip, and use a banana peel present in the area to do so. Paris is the banana peel in this case. It does not make him a demigod or even anything remotely similar. Just a tool. Note, all versions of the tale deny Paris any sort of honor or valor even for the kill, since he was a coward, nothing like Hector.

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@Lucas: The Greeks didn't use the term "Fairy", or at least not to refer to Nymphs, as far as I know. So, "Demigod" as far as the greeks are concerned.

Of course, "Half-fairy" and "Demigod" are not necesarily mutually-exclusive. Depends on what one counts as a god, or if the character's parents were a fairy and a god.