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Long post...

The Phases of Hades

Who would have thought that the gods of Mt. Olympus looked different before? You see, back when the world was new, the first olympians were deities of unknown potential. Before the fall of the Titans, they were immortal beings of undiscovered power. A youthful sorts that still needed to find and dedicate themselves in roles of devine status.

- Olympian Hades

One of those olympians was Hades, the eldest of the brothers' Zeus and Poseidon. Hades was a curious yet composed god. He has always been fascinated of the world around him, finding himself in situations some unfortunate, but his intellect has always been his strong suit. With not yet a purpose, he mingles with other gods, yet is intruiged down on the empty lands of the mortal world.

- Enthroned Hades

His residence on Mt. Olympus was short-lived however. When the mortals came and the roles of the gods progressed. Zeus, the ruler of the gods, assigned his brother to the underworld, where he will take over the souls of the departed. Hades accepted his position with no objection, took his part as the ruler of the kingdom of the dead and carried on his duties. Nevertheless, he became cold and stern, and held all of his subjects equally accountable to his laws. With the amount of responsibilities he had, his patience became thin and hot-tempered, and has caused his inscrutable nature.

- Impartial Hades

There's this period of time where his reputation as the god of the underworld was still. He continued his role and nothing was heard from him. Until the day he came back and revealed himself. His appearance has changed, replacing his locks were blues of fire so hot it affected his body. Eyes sunken from exhaustion, and sharp features replaced his once smooth image. Confused and tensed, he seeked for his brother Zeus on Mt. Olympus. There, they were aided by Hephaestus, the god of fire. They found that in some certainty, Hades' body adjusted to the extremities of the underworld. And so with nothing else to do, He returned to his domain.

Here Hades felt no resentment from the other gods, Simply accepting that this is what it meant when ruling a realm so different from others.

- Current Hades

As time went on, Hades became discontent with his role. He slowly noticed that the people above never acknowledges him. He was never admired nor praised for his work, he was treated unlike any other gods on Mt. Olympus. For what reasons? Perhaps it was his association with the underworld that made him seem as an unpleasant god. Maybe the name "Hades" itself was so frightening to the mortals that they refused to call out for him, to make temples and sacrifices on his behalf. After all, what could you pray for from the god of the dead? This affected Hades and left a sour taste, so much so that his very nature evolved into what lies in his world, cruel, dark, and dull. He became as uncouth as his subjects and as ruthless as tartarus itself. With this reputation he became a fearsome figure and was feared and loathed, not just by the humans, but by his fellow gods and goddesses.

But by his reasons, there was something else that caused this change of behavior that others didn't knew. Something that was important to him, or someone.

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Sooo... The idea I had was that some of the olympian gods weren't the same from when they were younger. Especially Hades. So I ended up making up this origin of him, how he was and looked before. I wanted to integrate the true Greek mythology but still basing this off of Disney's version, but with inspirations from the real mythology.

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Sorry for the absence. Haven't felt great for the past week or so and it's catching up to me. It's difficult to be appropriately snarky for Hades when on a bit of a low. xD I hope to be here and on my other Greek muses [ and Pitch Black ] a bit more soon, but I can't promise any frequency at the moment.

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Somedays I want to pull my heart out of my chest just so I can stop feeling this way.

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“your trauma doesn’t define you” no actually it does. it dictates every aspect of my shitty life.

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Nobody apologized for how they treated me they just blamed me for how I reacted

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I genuinely mourn the person I could have been.

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"Oy. If that is not just the most heartwrenching tale," he begins with no shortage of melodramatic emotiveness.

"But, see, here's the fly in the fasolada, if you will: everybody has problems, so what is it about your particular situation that merits my interference in any way? Because if I went rushin' around trying to help every petitioner with a sob story that came my way, I would never have a single moment to myself, and—as I said—I am already very busy what with having been charged to rule over the entire afterlife and everyone in it, among other responsibilities bestowed upon me with that gig."

He draws closer at last, looming like a dark cloud.

"And thus we reach the bargaining stage of your little endeavor: What is it that you have to offer me?"

He really didn’t give her enough time to speak with all of his questions being thrown at her. Shifting all of her weight to one side, she crossed her arms over her chest and let out a heavy sigh.

“It’s none of these.” She answered before continuing. “I’ve come to make a deal with you. I seek justice and freedom for my people. But Judge Frollo is standing in the way of that. I’ve done everything I could on my own, but I need help. Before it’s too late.” Esmeralda had heard about his deal makings and was willing to do anything she could for her people.

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Difficult Person Test

I give one guess as to which is Disney!Hades and which is Myth!Hades [ @hadesagesilaos ].

Tagged by: No one Tagging: Whoever!

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Also, if anyone is interested, I have another old muse perking back up again. @ofdarkestdreams Anyone want a Nightmare King / Bogeyman?

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If anyone is wondering, I am still here, I promise. My focus has just mostly been on my Greek myth-based muses. Their blogs are all set up now aside from Odysseus and their carrds have everything except the detailed bios [ except Zeus who's carrd I haven't published yet because I am still working on his ]. So while I am absolutely still here and responding to things, responses are faster at the moment for @hadesagesilaos, @poseidonasphaleios, @zeusapemius, @hermesmechaniotes, and @thehomeofmyths, as I've really been digging into my Greek myth reimaginings of late. If anyone wants anything on any of those, I am happy to oblige. I have all kinds of verses in my head for different fandoms, and I'm always happy to add more.

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“I can’t believe that I’m doing this…” // @streetwisetemptress

"And what would this be, exactly? C'mon, I don't really have all day here, so enlighten me, Tiny Dancer," the fast-talking lord of the dead says, seeming to drift, weightless, once around her, assessing, before he halts.

"Why am I here? What is it that you want? What is it that brought me here? Some friend of yours deathly ill, and you require wise and ancient counsel for some way to help them? Are you petitioning for wealth unceasing for all of your remaining mortal days? Or is it a man?"

"My experience, it's usually one of those three that makes someone of your not insignificant, ah, attributes—who is, generally speaking, perfectly capable of solving her own problems—desperate enough to call out to me, of all people, am I right?"

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ON ANON OR NOT, TELL ME YOUR HEADCANONS FOR MY MUSE.

I headcanon Hades was actually very brave during the original war against the Titans, he might've saved his brothers life once or twice and lived to regret it. // anon

Anon, I absolutely agree. 1000%

This is something I haven't really explored on here, but it is true both for Disney here and for Myth Hades on @hadesagesilaos. Hades fought just as hard as the others to defeat Kronos and any other enemy-combatant Titans in the war. I could definitely see him having saved one or both of them at various points in the war. Then, when it was all divided afterwards and he had the Underworld 'bestowed' upon him and when the others treated him with varying levels of derision, disgust, and contempt, Disney Hades got more and more bitter and jaded and twisted until he ends up as he is in the film.

What's more, I think Hades used to look very different as well, more in keeping with his siblings and the other Olympians. I saw a post somewhere in the Hades tags that showed this, but, essentially, the more he changed as a person, the more his outward appearance changed. If they wanted to make him an outcast, then fine. He would play that part.

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On anon or not, tell me what YOUR headcanons for my muse are.

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The current mood. 🔥🙃🔥

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“Do you know how to use a smart phone?” // @musecastle { Patrick }

"Do you know how to use a smart phone?" Hades parrots in mocking tone.

"Does Zeus love a good, old-fashioned shock and awe temper tantrum? Does Narcissus love anything that he can see his big dumb mug in? Does Aphrodite have an unnatural and perhaps even—dare I say it?—unhealthy obsession with pink?"

"Of course I know how to use a smart phone. What? You think I live in the Stone Ages? That I've just been hidin' under a rock this whole time? What kind of incompetent do you think I am, huh?"

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“How old ARE you?” // @musecastle { Julian }

"Old enough to have a little couth, a little decorum, which is, I think, more than can be said for you—YEESH!" Hades exclaims with unfeigned and unmoderated irritation.

"Tell me something, tell me something—I'm just a little curious: Have all of you undead yutzes lost respect for the lord of the dead, or is it just you? Because, let me tell ya, I can think of a whole lot worse fates than death for someone who cannot, in fact, die. So d'ya want to take this opportunity to run this whole thing way back to the beginning and try that again, or were you committed to seeing how this particular choose your own adventure ends?"

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⚔ the princess bride sentence starters ⚔

“  you  mock  my  pain!  ”  “  life  is  pain.  ” “  he’s  only  mostly  dead.  ” “  i’m on  the  brute  squad.  ” “  you  are  the  brute  squad.  ” “  prepare  to  die.  ” “  we’ll  never  survive.  ” “  nonsense.  you’re  only  saying  that  because  no  one  ever  has.  ” “  who  are  you?  ” “  get  used  to  disappointment.  ” “  you  keep  using  that  word.  i  do  not  think  it  means  what  you  think  it  means.  ” “  i’ll  use  small  words  so  that  you’ll  be  sure  to  understand,  you  warthog  faced  buffoon.  ” “  that  may  be  the  first  time  in  my  life  a  man  dared  insult  me.  ” “  drop.  your.  sword.  ” “  shut  up!!  ”   “  you’ve  made  your  decision  then?  ” “  i  bet  my  life  on  it!  ” “  truly,  you  have  dizzying  intellect.  ” “  you’re  just  stalling  now.  ” “  you  guessed  wrong.  ” “  enough  of  that.  ”  “  surrender.  ” “  you  mean  you  wish  to  surrender  to  me?  very  well,  i  accept.  ” “  i  hate  waiting.  ” “  morons.  ” “  you  are  wonderful.  ” “  you  seem  a  decent  fellow,  i  hate  to  kill   you.  ” “  why  are  you  smiling?  ” “  because  i  know  something  you  don’t  know.  ” “  goodnight.  good  work.  i’ll  most  likely  kill  you  in  the  morning.  ” “  oh,  there’s  something  i  ought  to  tell  you.  ” “  think  it’ll  work?  ” “  it  would  take  miracle.  ” “  hear  this  now —  i  will  always  come  for  you.  ” “  this  is  true  love,  you  think  this  happens  every  day?  ” “  death  cannot  stop  true  love.  ” “  i  died  that  day.  ” “  we  may  as  well  die  here.  ” “  he’s  dead.  he  can’t  talk.  ”   “  as  you  wish.  ”   “  why  didn’t  you  wait  for  me?  ”   “  you  can  die  slowly,  cut  into  a  thousand  pieces.  ” “  you  killed  my  love.  ” “  it’s  possible. i  kill  a  lot  of  people.  ”   “  yes,  you’re  very  smart.  shut  up.  ”   “  you’ve  been  mostly-dead  all  day.  ”  “  inconceivable!!  ”  “  let  me  explain.  ”   “  your vote of confidence is overwhelming.  ” “  what  hideous  sin  have  you  committed  lately?  ” “  will  you  ever  forgive  me?  ” “  there’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. it would be a pity to damage yours.  ”