#hades be throwing shade and she throws it back

[omaano]

SW Hades AU March-April Update

Some links and previous updates: May - June - July - August - September - October/November - December - January - February - everything else in this AU

I'm here with another two-month joint update because at the end of April I can hardly call it a March update, and truth be told I don't think I did much for this AU in the first month of spring anyway.

I started playing Hades 2 again, and made some progress with the Omega and Boba redraw of the Warsong update wallpaper :3 The more time that passes between posting and writing this the happier I am with this piece. Who could find all the gear that Omega wears from the Batch? 👀

Which cannot exactly be said about Sabine and Ezra as well, but I finally have something to show for them!!

Next up is Satine (now that I can show a small illustration in my skethcbook for her, it should go easy - I hope), and maybe Fennec or the Armorer. And lining Axe and laying down flat colors for him and Koska as well. I'm trying to get a drawing for all the missing characters and get them to the part where only detailed shading is missing. If my hand doesn't hurt too much at least ^^;

I'm also gearing up to drawing a new Ares!Boba too, but I'm still in denial about that ^^;

I did not have a particulrly good time with these drawings, I will be very honest upfront. I had to redraw Omega two times because I tried to line that piece in CSP and for some reason faces are just not happening for me there; It hadn't go well with Echo either months ago. I don't know what's up. The tilt of my tablet or that I don't have o zoom un until all I can see are pixels?? OTL

...and then the colours fought me something awful too. Between Boba and Omega they had red, yellow, green and blue covered, and all that with Boba's white flightsuit was not fun ^^; I don't know, I just cannot deal with that many colours - so figuring out what and how I should desaturate was quite an experiment in patience for me until they looked somewhat cohesive. Thankfully the added moonlight turned out to be distracting enough that I'm pretty much warming up to it all now.

I'm afraid I will have to use actual Multiply layers for the full shading.

And Sabine. Oh Sabine.

I've struggled here, big time, and I'm still deeply unhappy with her. I experimeted a lot in my sketchbook with her pose, but any time I thought I was finally on to something as soon as I went in to fix some minor anatomy issues digitally and add some details things just fell apart.

It was the tooka that messed everything up, I'm sure of it D: ^^; I wanted something to visually tie Sabine and Ezra together, and my decision fell on the little white tooka that was in Sabine's mural too at the end of Rebels. But now Sabine's shoulder had to stand in a way that the little critter can perch on and judge from...

Honest to god I almost cried with relief when I came across Eurydice in Asphodel when I switched back to playing Hades for a bit, and realized that she has the lean and attitude in her pose that I was looking for with Sabine. So it was either the coward's way out, or to throw the entire project out the window and become a hermit in the mountains or something.

You can see which option I picked XD

I am deeply, deeply fond of Ezra however Q^Q He was so cooperative after a few initial testing sketches, his hair is perfect, I didn't forget his scars, and I will find it in me to forgive his weird not-really-chainmail shirt, because that one I did to myself XD

I also finally got around to drawing a quick sketch for Fennec - for a hot minute I was very very tempted to pick for her a pose that's a lot closer to Widowmaker from Overwatch, but the vibes just didn't quite match. That was a very sad realization :'(

(Yes, I took the picture after Satine bled through the page in all her alcohol marker glory, yes, I regret it, and no, I cannot relably draw faces on paper. It is a real tragey. I'm in mourning.)

And just so that I cannot really sigh in relief, Leia is my next struggle. I still don't know how to make her work, and it's been months. Terrible. Horrible. Really really bad. Why am I even trying...TT^TT

So that's it for this month. It's both less and more than how it feels, and I'm also kinda losing a bit of steam - my mind is at re-drawing the entire background section for the House of Hades, so on the backburner i'm trying to cook up various background elements to fill the halls up with. Hades is such a beautifully designed game with such amazing shapes and colours, and Star Wars is such a different style especially when it comes to decorations... So there is a lot of cooking that will have to happen here. But I spent a not insignificant part of my last week (I'd been sick, I could get away with it) watching Drawfee speedpaints (they are so fun and so educational sometimes) and Jacob really popped off in one video creating a pixel art game of some sort? And ever since all I could think about is how and IF I could make my pocket Din move through my version of the Hades AU. Just a section of it. I'm itching to draw the backgrounds, but goddamn I am tired, so I just keep distracting myself from the important character art stuff with these daydreams X"D

I also very badly and incredibly distractingly want to re-draw Boba - I've drawn him so long ago, and it feels deeply unfair that I tried to puzzle out the style on him - and while Din got his upgrades bit by bit Boba just didn't. Also. Ares. Ares looks so good in his character art just sitting around like that - all casual-like - and Boba also has his trademark sprawl and... Look. I'm back to Boba being my most favourite clone, okay? I miss him. I miss drawing him. There.

Okay, rant over. Maybe this way I will be able to concentrate again XD Here's to hoping 🤞 I hope you guys are doing better with your creative projects! ❤️ See you all in May! Hopefully with something a bit more substantive and some proper links, not just wips like these ^^;

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[inquisitively-infinitesimal]

little things from Grace Hodgett-Young and Dónal Finn’s last performance in Hadestown that I refuse to forget:

‘has anybody got a match’ and Orpheus FINDS HER A MATCH BUT HERMES GETS THERE FIRST

Eurydice’s waistcoat looks to be made out of a similar/the same material as Orpheus’ trousers

‘you wanna take me home?’ with an off shoulder moment that flusters Orpheus

Eurydice finding Hades hot, Orpheus trying to win her back (foreshadowing on how Eurydice chooses Hades/the underworld over Orpheus after Chips Are Down ???)

from A Gathering Storm until Chips Are Down while Orpheus is working on his song he conducts in time with the music … Dónal Finn even memorised some of the piano bits and mimed them on the table ????

Eurydice frequently trying to give Hermes the coins back in Chips Are Down only for them to stand there

also Hermes constantly checks the time . very time loop survivor of them

‘it’s you?’ ‘it’s me :D’ ft Orpheus pumping his fists into the air

Hades’ cunty walk on the turntable (it was like he was on a runway Zachary James makes Hades into such a personality I loved it)

the fake blood/makeup on the side of Orpheus’s face running down during If It’s True because Dónal was crying

the workers/shades taking off their work caps during If It’s True as an act of defiance against Hades

I only noticed this in act 2 it could’ve been in act 1 but Grace wore a hair band? something ? wrapped around her ring finger on her left hand

Persephone side eyeing Hades’ silly dancing in epic iii

‘you finished the song’ ‘yes!’ and the audience cheering throwing off both Dónal and Grace (Grace had to skip a line I think)

perhaps the most evil thing of all Orpheus pumps his fists into the air once he reaches the overworld only to look back and Eurydice’s still in the shade . My interpretation is that it’s following the version of the myth where Orpheus makes it out of the underworld but Eurydice has only taken one step forward/isn’t fully in the overworld when Orpheus turns back (he looks back too soon essentially)

anyway Dónal Finn’s If It’s True changed my life justice for Grace Hodgett Young she deserved a standing ovation at Flowers (I would’ve started it but one of the Fates triggered the next song before I worked up enough courage </3) and I am so glad that we’re getting a west end recording because I truly believe that everyone should hear Melanie La Barrie as Hermes at least once in their life

[deathmetalunicorn1]

What would it be like if there was a water festival (Songkran/Thingyan) in Valhalla? Which the reader (Replacement Fighter) and all the other gods, einherjars, valkyries, etc went to? Basically its a very well know festival commonly celebrated in South East Asia around April. With tons of food, drinks, celebrations, water fights, ceremonies, parties and performances to be enjoyed.

The water fights would involve people pouring/splashing water on each other with water guns, cups, buckets & water balloons. The parties usually consisted of popular songs, performances & dances which were either preformed by famous celebrities or volunteers, and even more water fights. There would also be additional events as the festival usually lasts between 3 to 5 days.

It's also common for a variety of vendors & booths to be involved during the celebrations. Especially the ones that sold food, beverages, snacks, trendy clothes to wear to the events, supplies to participate in the water festivals or souvenirs. Some people would also visit the temples during this time to either donate some money, flowers, lanterns, candles, etc or to just wind down from all the loud festivities.

Gods: Buddha, Rudra, Odin, Thor, Anubis, Apollo, Loki, Hades, Shiva, Poseidon & Susanoo

Humans: Sasaki, Lubu, Tesla & Leo

Ooh this looks so fun! I love the idea of having fun in summer like this and I love festival food :p that’s my favorite part of festivals and celebrations!

-Despite it literally being the land of the gods, which said gods control- Valhalla was dealing with a brutal heat wave, one that made everyone feel like they were melting.

-Training was banned to prevent heatstroke and other health related issues and anyone caught training was going to be punished.

-You had dealt with heat like this before, on earth, and you knew of the perfect solution to solve this! A water festival! Or at least a water party.

-You were pretty sure, based on how grumpy everyone was acting, that something the size of Songkran or Thingyan might be out of the question, at least as far as scale, but you could probably handle something about the size of your sanctuary.

-You got to work, sending out invites before preparing all sorts of food and treats, ice creams, fruit-based drinks, barbeque, you hung lanterns and decorations all around, and prepared your large pools, as well as smaller pools, water guns, and water balloons, perfect for a water party!

-On the day of the party your guests arrived, feeling miserable in the heat as you opened the door, revealing your oasis, which you had cooled using misters placed everywhere.

-Jaws dropped, seeing what you had done and while you weren’t smiling, your vibe was giving off smiling as you welcomed them in to enjoy your miniature water festival!

-Many went straight for the large pools, diving in, feeling the cool water which was a blessing in the heat while others went to the massive buffet you had prepared, seeing all the different drinks and foods to enjoy.

-Goll saw your kiddy pool full of water balloons and picked one up, “What is this Y/N?” you looked over and you nodded towards Loki, “Throw one at him.” Goll looked panicked while Loki looked almost offended, hearing you telling Goll to attack him, but she did as you told her, and he was drenched from the water balloon as soon as it hit him.

-Soon your sanctuary was filled with squeals and laughter as Loki was chasing Goll around, the two pelting each other with water balloons until they found the water guns, teaming up to sneak attack others which led to a bigger water fight.

-Everyone was laughing, having fun, enjoying themselves as you sat in the shade, eating a large slice of watermelon next to Lu Bu who was doing the same, staying out of the sun as you watched Brunnhilde powerbomb Zeus into a pool after he tried to touch her, leaving his body floating motionless in your pool.

-While the heat wave didn’t end for another few days, your water festival brought joy back to the citizens of Valhalla, even if just for a bit.

[pastelpousay]

💘Love Birds🕊

Little Drabble I decided to make for not reason what so ever, look out for a Rayco Drabble cuz I’m very tempted.

Warnings: slight mentions of blood and wounds(??) (Not any angst it’s all fluff just a warning for you!!💗)

“You got little bit of a cut right here…,”

Hades stated as he held Rina’s face in his hands, brushing his thumb just over the small laceration on her lower lip.

He had been examining her face for a while now. The two of them had been just staring at each other, silently longing for the other as if they hadn’t been talking just moments prior. Now they were here, with Rina trapped between Hades arm that had been wrapped around her waist, and himself.

She had to admit she had never been this close to him in all the time they had been together— or anyone for that matter. The whole thing just made her heart skip beat. Seriously if the girl could blush she’d be the finest shade of scarlet right now.

“Oh, yes I know…I’m not bleeding am i?”

“No,” Hades said as his eyes still scanning over her lip before they headed back up to her chocolate eyes, in which he so adored. “Does it hurt?” He questioned.

“Only a little.”

“Want me to kiss it better?” A wide grin spread across his face, the same grin that made her heart skip a beat the first time they met. Rina couldn’t help but smile back, a strike of pain coming from the cut on her lip as she did, but she payed it no mind. It hurt but how could she care when she was looking up at the man— or god she loved so dearly, the god she wanted to spend the rest of her life with no matter how long, the person that looked at her in the most adoring way anyone ever could. how could she not smile?

“Don’t smile at me like that, unless you want me to fall in love you you again.” She responded, letting out a small giggle.

“Maybe I want that…” he said, moving his face a bit closer to hers, teasing her in a way.

“Hm,” Rina’s smile softened along with her gaze as she leaned in further, their lips finally meeting, with Rina throwing her arms around his neck. She swears every time they kissed it just made her heart feel like it was dancing on clouds, and all the thoughts in her head seemed to just disappear leaving her with an empty headed satisfaction just before he had pulled away.

‘Fuck!’

“Still hurt?”

“Yep.”

“Awe, my sweet starry eyed baby—“

“Don’t.”

“Lemme take care of you okay, baby? Okayyy?” Hades teased sarcastically as he began placing kisses all along her face. As much as she wanted to resist,

She knew she couldn’t complain. How could she after all?

[rooksandravens]

Here be Spoilers for Hades and Hades II.

I'm speculating on what is Melinoë's domain as a Chthonic Goddess.

...

I've not gotten far enough in the Hades II technical test gameplay to know if this gets answered in the storyline, but I imagine it will be. SGG knows we wanna know.

I'm curious to find out what Melinoë is the Goddess of. Wikipedia says that "she brings night terrors to mortals by manifesting in strange forms," but Goddess of Night Terrors doesn't feel like a good fit for her. She has nightmares and I don't think she would want to inflict them upon anyone else.

I think it would be interesting if she was Goddess of Shades or something similar. Goddess of Shadows or maybe Goddess of Lost Souls?

Mel has a lot more abilities and interactions with the shades than Zagreus did. In my game, I've unlocked Mel's ability to send lost souls back to the crossroads. She can also ask shades to fight for her by dashing through them.

Plus I think it makes sense why she can understand Charon since they would both work so closely with the Dead.

I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this!

EDIT TO ADD: Ahaha so... right after I posted this I unlocked an ability from Selene to turn into a spooky living nightmare sooo...

The ability is actually kinda sick, but that throws my whole post out the window lol.

[nerditudes]

How did you meet your wife?

AMA: Hades

"It's a cute story, actually. I'm up on Olympus, minding my own business, there for another one of the Lightning Lord's meetings. And she just kinda-- cornered me. Told me she wanted off that rock and down where her mother couldn't get to her. How was I to tell her no?" He chuckles, waving his hands as he explains the story-- the tale of their love.

"We hit it off, she's loving the sights, Cerby adores her, I'm gettin' sweet on her too, honestly. And then she's all I'm hungry and so I get this pomegranate for her, she eats like-- six of em. Not six seeds, six whole pomegranates. Lady had an appetite." Hades hair tints a faint shade of pink-- mixing in with the blue and turning his hair temporarily purple as he continued on.

"Her mother throws a fit, the mortals get their first winter and that jerk of a brother of mine demands Persephone return. So we got hitched. Green card marriage so she could stay down here away from him. But does he respect that? No! Of course not. Why WOULD he? He's the god of gods or whatever title he's throwin' around nowadays." The purple hair gives way to shades of red as his frustration builds.

"Then he comes down HERE to MY realm-- the place he STUCK me for ETERNITY and tells HER that SHE has to come back up to OLYMPUS cuz her mom can't handle her independent streak. Straight up ABDUCTS her from her HOME and makes her come up--" The flames build, they overtake his shoulders and start to spread to his arms.

"And THEN-- ooooh THEN they tell ME that I only get to see MY WIFE for SIX MONTHS out of the year. Because her MOTHER can't FUNCTION without her! THAT CO-DEPENDENT ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN LADY OF MY BROTHER AND SHE TOTALLY USED THAT AGAINST HIM AND HE JUST HAS TO BUT INTO BUSINESS THAT ISN'T EVEN HIS!!"

An explosion shakes the earth as his anger finally boils over into the flames consuming his body with a FWOOSH and a loud BOOM.

[deathlessathanasia]

"Then her (the witch Erictho's) voice, more powerful than any herb to bewitch the powers of Lethe, began to utter dissonant cries, far different from any human speech. The dog’s yowl, the wolf’s howl, were there, the restless barn-owl’s hoot, and the screech-owl’s call, beasts’ wails and shrieks, the hissing of snakes, they were all expressed within; and the roar of waves beating on rocks, the forest’s moan, the thunder through a rift in the cloud, all such things formed that single voice. Next she began a Thessalian spell, in accents that penetrated Tartarus: ‘You Furies, and you Stygian horrors, you torments of the guilty, and you, Chaos, ready to confound innumerable worlds in ruin; and you, ruler of the world below, a god whom lingering Death torments through long centuries; and Styx, and that Elysium no Thessalianwitch deserves; and Persephone who shuns her mother in heaven; and the third form of our patroness, Hecate, through whom the shades and I converse silently; and the Janitor of the wide realm, who throws men’s flesh to the savage hound; and the Sisters who must re-spin the thread of life; and you, ancient ferryman of the fiery wave, weary of rowing shades back to me: hear my prayer! If I invoke you with sufficiently foul and impious lips; if I never chant these spells fasting from human flesh; if I have often slit open those breasts filled with divinity, and laved them with warm brains; if any infant whose head and organs were laid on your platters might prevail with you, grant me my request. …

With this, foaming at the mouth, she raised her head to find the shade of the unburied dead close beside her. It feared the lifeless corpse, the loathsome confinement of its former prison; it shrank from entering the gaping breast, the flesh and innards ruined by the mortal wound. Oh wretched ghost, iniquitously robbed of death’s final gift, that is: to die no more! Erictho marvelled that fate could be delayed so, and enraged by the dead she lashed the inert corpse with a live serpent, and through the clefts where the earth had been split by her spells she growled like a dog at the shades below and shattering the silence of their realm, cried: ‘Tisiphone and Megaera, unheeding of my voice, will you not drive the unhappy spirit with your cruel whips from the void of Erebus? Or shall I summon you by your secret names, Hounds of Hell, and render you helpless in the light above; there to keep you from graves and funerals; banish you from tombs, drive you from urns of the dead. And you, Hecate, all pale and withered in form, who paint your face before you visit the gods above, I will show them you as you are, and prevent you altering your hellish form. I shall speak aloud about that food which confines Proserpine beneath the vast weight of earth above, by what compact she loves the gloomy king of darkness, what defilement she suffered such that you Ceres would not recall her. I shall burst your caves asunder, Ruler of the Underworld, and admit light instantly to blast you. Will you obey me? Or shall I call on one at the sound of whose name earth ever quakes and trembles, who views the Gorgon’s head without its veil, who lashes the cowering Fury with her own whip, who dwells in Tartarus beyond your sight, for whom you are the gods above, who swears by Styx while perjuring himself.’"

- Lucan, Pharsalia, Book VI

First, Erictho is genuinely terrifying and makes my skin crawl, I recommend reading the full section she appears in. Second, I find it funny when people claim that the Romans ruined Hades and Persephone's beautiful and consensual romance considering that the idea of Persephone/Proserpina refusing to leave her husband for her mother and the… stuff in this particular passage come from Roman sources.

[hadesfan50]

I think the reason people say that Persephone wasn’t raped by Hades is probably because in the mythology Persephone does love Hades, here are a few instances as proof….

“Then her (the witch Erictho’s) voice, more powerful than any herb to bewitch the powers of Lethe, began to utter dissonant cries, far different from any human speech. The dog’s yowl, the wolf’s howl, were there, the restless barn-owl’s hoot, and the screech-owl’s call, beasts’ wails and shrieks, the hissing of snakes, they were all expressed within; and the roar of waves beating on rocks, the forest’s moan, the thunder through a rift in the cloud, all such things formed that single voice. Next she began a Thessalian spell, in accents that penetrated Tartarus: ‘You Furies, and you Stygian horrors, you torments of the guilty, and you, Chaos, ready to confound innumerable worlds in ruin; and you, ruler of the world below, a god whom lingering Death torments through long centuries; and Styx, and that Elysium no Thessalianwitch deserves; and Persephone who shuns her mother in heaven; and the third form of our patroness, Hecate, through whom the shades and I converse silently; and the Janitor of the wide realm, who throws men’s flesh to the savage hound; and the Sisters who must re-spin the thread of life; and you, ancient ferryman of the fiery wave, weary of rowing shades back to me: hear my prayer! If I invoke you with sufficiently foul and impious lips; if I never chant these spells fasting from human flesh; if I have often slit open those breasts filled with divinity, and laved them with warm brains; if any infant whose head and organs were laid on your platters might prevail with you, grant me my request. …

With this, foaming at the mouth, she raised her head to find the shade of the unburied dead close beside her. It feared the lifeless corpse, the loathsome confinement of its former prison; it shrank from entering the gaping breast, the flesh and innards ruined by the mortal wound. Oh wretched ghost, iniquitously robbed of death’s final gift, that is: to die no more! Erictho marvelled that fate could be delayed so, and enraged by the dead she lashed the inert corpse with a live serpent, and through the clefts where the earth had been split by her spells she growled like a dog at the shades below and shattering the silence of their realm, cried: ‘Tisiphone and Megaera, unheeding of my voice, will you not drive the unhappy spirit with your cruel whips from the void of Erebus? Or shall I summon you by your secret names, Hounds of Hell, and render you helpless in the light above; there to keep you from graves and funerals; banish you from tombs, drive you from urns of the dead. And you, Hecate, all pale and withered in form, who paint your face before you visit the gods above, I will show them you as you are, and prevent you altering your hellish form. I shall speak aloud about that food which confines Proserpine beneath the vast weight of earth above, by what compact she loves the gloomy king of darkness, what defilement she suffered such that you Ceres would not recall her. I shall burst your caves asunder, Ruler of the Underworld, and admit light instantly to blast you. Will you obey me? Or shall I call on one at the sound of whose name earth ever quakes and trembles, who views the Gorgon’s head without its veil, who lashes the cowering Fury with her own whip, who dwells in Tartarus beyond your sight, for whom you are the gods above, who swears by Styx while perjuring himself.’” - Lucan, Pharsalia, Book VI

Now people might say this is only one instance but here is more….

”If able, I would bear it, I do not deny my effort—but the god of Love has conquered me—a god so kindly known in all the upper world. We are not sure he can be known so well in this deep world, but have good reason to conjecture he is not unknown here, and if old report almost forgotten, that you stole your wife is not a fiction, Love united you the same as others.” -Ovid, Metamorphoses, X

Heck in the city of Locri Epizephyrii, in modern Calabria (southern Italy), was famous for its cult of Persephone, where she is a goddess of marriage and childbirth in this region and not Hera.

[fairyblue-alchemist]

hades 2 spoilers- the vow of rivals aka extreme measures, hades 2 edition. there's a lot of spoilers for this one actually

chronos spits in my dinner in a completely new way yet again.

the game does in fact continue the trend of giving the final boss a third phase. it sucks. why does he have laser beams. the arena's nice and big though so it's good for dodging his arena traps. of which he has more of. and new ones. did i mention the lasers yet? they hurt so bad. this is just em4 with no other vows what the fuck

wait i should rate the other ones i've done (besides typhon i haven't gotten to him yet)

hecate: 8/10. it's really fun actually. the triple threat is real and you get to see her use selene hexes which is very nice. docked points because she almost flat out killed me the first time i fought her

polyphemus: 5/10. welcome back poison mechanics! i did not miss you. medea why would you do this to me

scylla: 9/10. hello scylla-charybdis wombo combo i see you're back, derogatory. i will not say no to a new song though and it slaps severely. honestly if you fought either of them enough times, this fight's alright. it's just the two fights stacked under a trench coat with a new banger

eris: 4/10. hi. who gave you the aspect of lucifer from the last game. hidden aspect mention aside, if you know how the aspect of lucifer works then you know how this fight works. it's almost the same eris fight but with lasers. which is worse. and i didn't like her original fight to begin with

cerberus: 7/10. ah, the old asphodel throwback. in a different way! i mean, i personally don't have too bad of a time with his fight and the lava just reminds me of em2 lernie. ah, i kind of miss those days. no red shade though, unless i'm blind. hard to see the red in all the lava

prometheus: 0/10. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU AND FUCK HERACLES AND I'M GOING TO THROW YOU BOTH OFF THIS FUCKING MOUNTAIN BY THE ANKLES, I HOPE YOU BOTH BREAK ALL YOUR BONES ON THE WAY DOWN. THAT BITCH ASS EAGLE HAS NOTHING ON WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TO YOU. hitch from hera goes crazy here ngl. hate the fact that heracles will still try to swing at you during the memory puzzle. and he has a second phase. fuck off

chronos: 6/10. honestly i think i did too much em4 hades back in the other game because his attack patterns don't surprise me that much. except for his third phase. now THAT'S spicy. solid overclock of the original fight, and i respect it. kind of. i almost killed him first try and i kind of wish i did

typhon: 2/10. typhon fight is kinda alright on its own but HELLO CHRONOS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE- wait you have your instakills. wait you can just straight up kill me. wait where's zeus. what the fuck man. this fight actually kind of sucks ass and i'm going to go wring chronos' neck like a chicken's. his third phase is kinda whatever except for the fact that he turns you into a wee babby

[justmenoworries]

Lore Olympus Episode 251 Spoilers

"Yet in spite of everything, [...] look at the man you've become."

You mean, a slave driver, an abusive dipshit and a horrible parent. Yeah, that's not the best argument, Persie.

I find it funny how LO often goes out of his way to have characters assure Hades that he's nothing like Kronos, but honestly? Hades is extremely similar to Kronos. Uncomfortably so.

They were both lonely and filled that void with women much younger than them, whom they were also in a position of power over, Kronos with Hera and Hades with Minthe and then Persephone.

Both like to play victim. Kronos loves to guilt-trip Hera for deceiving him and ignores that his actions would most certainly have doomed the world and Hera and the other Six Traitors had basically no choice but to fight back by any means necessary. Hades frequently whines to Persephone and others about how he feels oh-so-lonely and oh-so-isolated as King of the Underworld, ignoring that he himself is a huge reason for why other immortals percieve him as scary and unapproachable. He's constantly intimidating and bullying people with both his status and his money, see him threatening that one poor nymph with closing her business if she didn't give him private information about Persephone or him constantly antagonizing Demeter for no reason.

They're both tyrants. Kronos is self-explanatory. Hades is downright proud of exploiting the shades who come to the Underworld. He literally brags about making them perform unpaid labor. Hades also seemingly doesn't give a rat's ass about his people. He threatens both his employees and regular citizens on a daily basis. The only person in the Underworld he shows a modicum of care towards is Hecate and that's only becaus she's a long-time friend of his. And also because she actively enables all the shit named above. If you wanna cheat you could say that extends to Persephone, since she's also officially a citizen of the Underworld, but let's be real here, that's only because he's in love with her. I sincerely doubt Hades would put up an embargo and show up at a trial as the lawyer if any other citizen of the Underworld was being unfairly persecuted by Zeus.

Both Kronos and Hades are horrible parents. Kronos ate all of his sons alive but one and the only reason he didn't eat Zeus was because Rhea was wise enough to hide him away. Hades emotionally abused and neglected Thanatos for all his life, didn't show concern when Thanatos was M.I.A and when confronted by Thanatos over being a shitty father, instead of apologizing or showing anything even resembling remorse, he instead made excuses about how Thanatos wasn't throwing himself into his arms eager to be fathered after his own mother gave him up into child labor. I've said it before but I'm genuinely afraid for Dionysus, Hades isn't father material and I'm positive he'll repeat the same neglectful bullshit he pulled with Thanatos.

"There were times in the last few years of my life where I felt truly hopeless."

Sure would've been nice if we could've seen those times instead of time-skipping right over them. Persephone keeps talking about how hard the years in the Mortal Realm were, but all evidence we've had of that were her hands going green. And even that's gone now.

"But then I thought about you and [...] your capacity for love despite all the cruelty you faced."

Excuse me, what????

Name one person in this goddamn Webtoon Hades was ever genuinely loving towards that wasn't someone he once fucked or wanted to fuck.

I see the child is only referred to as 'the interloper' now. I'm guessing RS doesn't want readers to think too hard about the fact that hxp have been doing fuck-all to save an endangered child for several episodes.

And we're officially going for the "Delusional Jealous Woman" route with Leuce it seems. RS' hatred for all women that aren't her self-insert is so palpable it hurts.

"I miss Minthe."

Me too, Thetis, me too.

I'm honestly scared of where this whole Kassandra/Apollo thing is going, I don't want any more Apollo woobifying.

[forebodingmusicstartsplaying]

Things I would sell my soul for

A PC that could handle playing Black Myth Wukong on Max graphics and not due horribly any time I get into a fight or am in a relatively scenic place.

A fic with Ineffable Husbands (ie Aziraphale / Crowley from Good Omens) that are raising their magical surprise bio daughter who is the most hellish mix in the best way of their traits, who grew up with Adam and they didn't fucking find out about her till she is talking shit to Gabriel and Beelzebub on supposed to be doomsday. Like I want this little child to be the one that the average demon/angel thinks is the actual antichrist, that she starts up legends about Crowley being the king of hell, and her having taken down (insert appropriate very powerful very scary demon) by just existing and feeding bread to the ducks. And meanwhile she's just like "Hi dad. Hi mam. When you gonna get together again? Been wanting a baby sibling." (I'll leave you to decide which is the dad and which is the mom.) BUT THIS WOULD SPECIFICALLY BE A LONG FIC NOT A ONE SHOT!!

A fic where Izuku commits die, and some Eldritch abomination goes "I like you, your fun" and chucks him back into the living with spooky powers, and Izuku just goes, "alright fine if I'ma be a cryptid then I'ma do my shadow lurking right." And basically just creates an entire new "side" of the heros vs villains bit and pulls in people from both sides, not including all might, but including tomura and toga because league of villains redemption arcs are fun just All for One is a major creep, but also make him Izuku's dad. No mercy Izuku, if anyone fucks with his little gang he will murder. And if murder is too obvious he will raze them to the dirt and make them wish for death (exhibit a, Shoto and Dabi and their fucking FATHER KILL THIS MAN PLEASE LIKE THIS MAN SHOULD NOT BE REDEEMED!!)

Again long form fic (look I really want my damn cake to be more than a mouthful please)

An ac odyssey/ Percy Jackson crossover. Id take any applications of this but the one that stands out is a female Percy story with Percy being Kassandra reborn, and instead of the Isu bullshit it's "Kassandra is a legacy child, Leonidas is son of Zeus and Pythagoras is son of Neptune, so she is granddaughter of Poseidon and great grand daughter of Zeus" and Percy gets the fucking bird and Zeus and Poseidon and throwing shade and Poseidon is all, with a completely straight face "Why brother! I had no idea you cared so much for my daughter so as to bless her!" And Zeus is just like "yes of course I care for my.... /Is audibly pained at this point/ my darling niece." And Nico and Hades are in the background shuffling mythomagic cards and watching the show, knowing fully well (at least on Hades part) exactly what happened and having no intent to tell.

A stray gods the roleplaying musical fic in which Grace is magical/a witch from the get go, and is trying to not show that off until the trial is finished, but also is just... Blatantly weird, and is just acting So Definitely Normal™

Lego monkey kid fic with a waaaaaay smarter than he lets on MK that completely knows he is a celestial monkey or whatever the fuck and Mei is way more draconic and then and Red Son go on journey to the West v2.0 this time with heaven mad at them (so low-key season 5 with parts of season 3) and parents (tang, pigsey, Wukong, Macaque [this would be a shadowpeach fic], PIF, DBK, and Mei's parents who deserve to be borderline assassin/ninja levels of competency and coolness) don't find out until after they kids dip and they start chasing after them but "oh no somehow we can barely even find the trail this is taking so long" heavy sarcasm, it's being influenced by someone or other and also someone put Guanyin in a goddam fic.

Brand new animal fic in which instead of just a tanuki, a kitsune, and a magic giant wolf we have a tanuki, a kitsune, a magic giant wolf AND A BAKENEKO WHO IS PRETENDING TO BE GUMAN AND DOING VERY WELL WITH IT ACTUALLY, THANKS ITS THE TRAUMA!

Black Myth Wukong fic where Sun Wukong's Wife (OC obviously), dies a bit after the whole takedown of Sun Wukong and like... Halfway dies but also stays and is a yaoguai, but oh look she had a baby before she went batshit insane because her husband died and the remaining monkey people fuck waaaaaay away from flower fruit mountain and the baby (who is the destined one) kinda... Hybernates for a bit? He cocoons in stone and is kinda waiting around, frozen as a baby and not aging and eventually this other OC, totally and completely unrelated to the first /sarcasm/ is born and yes it is just a coincidence the stone monkey cocoon pops and the kid is growing again, and yes this is just a "their souls find each other again" fic. Or it's symmetry and baby destined one was waiting for his queen to be born idk. Just the parallels. Eventually DO goes and beats up the Broken Shell and while he's at that time is passing weird back on the mortal... Ish plane and the DO's queen is kinda left alone for a year ish and "oh what is this spooky cave with totally not strange noises, better go look, it'll be fine." And the DO get Wukong's memories and DO's queen fights the remnants/ broken shell of Wukong's queen and gets her memories and then...idk have fun person I'm selling my soul to, make the lovebirds go wage a heavenly war and win this time or some shit idk.

This is the SFW list. The NSFW list is basically just "alright here is my list of characters I would like to bang, please write an x reader fic" with the occasional actually detailed prompt.

I do not intend to put that particular list up.... Currently.... Probably not..... (Ye I know I'll do it eventually but probably not for several years)

[vanderwoodlings]

so I saw your greek mythology gg post and I was listening to hadestown so! gg hadestown au! .

specifically I can see blair and serena as hades and persephone- one of you is ice cold and the other is natural sunshine but she keeps leaving and coming back and leaving and coming back and you just want it to stop

georgina as one of the fates, just for fun. or maybe gossip girl herself?

im not entirely sure on Hermes but I can see either Rufus or lily, or maybe even Cyrus

finally, for Orpheus and eurydice themselves I'm down for any variation of datenessa, such as:

Orpheus!Dan ("and you know how those muses are") and eurydice!Vanessa ("a hungry young lady")

Orpheus!nate ("he wore his heart out on his sleeve") and eurydice!dan/vanessa ("any way the wind blows")

Orpheus!Vanessa ("when I sing my song, all the birds will sing along") and eurydice!Dan ("and now I'm gone!") I think the last one works the best with canon context - since this is fundamentally a story about vanessa losing her (platonic) soulmate to a dark, dangerous, but glamorous world, which mirrors hadestown itself

Okay um… hi? I am obsessed with this?

Blair and Serena as Hades and Persephone is so good—the inconstancy, the madness, the way that they’re each other’s at the end of the day ultimately

I feel like Orpheus’s rose-colored glasses lend themselves a little more to Nate or Dan than Vanessa, and I love the mental imagery of one of them actually stepping up and pulling an Orpheus, going to the Underworld (okay this is me throwing a little shade at Nate specifically)

(See, like, Vanessa’s been living with hand to mouth for a while now, hasn’t got much more than her coat and her hunger to her name, when she meets this boy. Dan would have a poetic way to say it (missing him is an old ache, but it doesn’t go away) but what she has is the sight of him—the light playing in his hair and making him look like springtime itself, his fingers dancing lightly on the strings of that guitar, his eyes half-closed but locked on her as he sings

Nate Archibald has assurance, in this cold world. Assurance that they’ll be okay, if he just keeps singing, if he just keeps reaching forward. Someday, he says

Vanessa is charmed in spite of herself, in spite of the haunted feeling of deja vu crawling up her spine)

Also might I suggest Carter Baizen for Hermes

[ask-zagreus]

Paradise, Interrupted

They'd been running for a while - through Tartarus, through Asphodel, and now, in Elysium, they could take a second to rest. Thank the Gods for that shade who'd thrown that harpoon - it'd given the two of them an opportunity to get away to some place safer. And in this chamber, with the rushing waters of the Lethe and a fountain, Calliope could finally, finally relax.

Except.

""Lylee! Lylee, look, someone's hurt," and Penelope's insistent patting of her lap brings her eyes up to the girl, and then to the figure standing near the entrance of the chamber. "Do we... do we run? 'm tired of running, Lylee..."

Gods, she was tired too. She'd been a housewife, a caretaker, not a warrior - dealing death was not her trade, nor did it come naturally. But death had granted her a daughter, ever temporary, and damnably, it had been her undoing time and time again.

It takes her a second to recognize him, the Prince. The fucking Prince of the Underworld himself, Zagreus. Here to hunt them down? To save them? Either way, they'd be helpless. Better to try to hide, or if they couldn't, to plead their case.

But before Calliope can even think of places to move her small charge, the Prince looks up. Right at them. Busted.

"Are you, hrk, are you two... the shades that managed to give Father the slip? Because, if you are," he coughs out, stumbling forward and using his spear to support himself, "well, I'd love to know how you got all the way up to Elysium. But you should also know that you're not in trouble with me - I'm just here to do Than's job."

Calliope lets out a breath she didn't know she was holding, even if she didn't have to breathe. So he wasn't here to hunt them down. Good, that's good - but the implied threat of 'You might be in trouble with Lord Hades' still lingers in the back of her head.

It is to her utter shock, then, that he bends a knee and offers her his hand. Her, a shade. Like they were equals. Her, a shade. (Calliope's heart, if she had one, skips a beat.)

"Let me take you back to the House," he says, all easy grins despite the bleeding, and, shit, he's bleeding red (like a mortal, her mind traitorously adds, like she'd not been delusional enough already).

"Sir Prince," she starts, hesitant to touch divinity, "I appreciate the offer, and the rescue. But, erm..."

"You're bleeding a whole lot, mister," Penelope chimes in, helpful as always, "Lylee will worry if you don't stop bleeding. Do you want her to kiss it better?"

And to her embarrassment, the Prince throws his head back and laughs; the idea of a shade to kiss his wounds better as ridiculous as to say Lord Hades might forgive their transgressions. Through his giggling, he manages to get out a wheezy, "Oh, good shade, I wouldn't want to worry your 'Lylee', so please, just a moment... Here."

Without explaining further, as gods are wont to do, he leaves a singed path from in front of Calliope to the fountain, and dips in a hand to take a sip of the water. Like it was nothing special. By all rights, it should not have had any effect besides being refreshing, but the two shades watch in amazement as the wounds seal themselves shut.

"Now, may I?"

Calliope's eyes meet Penelope's, asking a silent, 'Are you ready?' The response is a shaky 'Yes,' and she has to take a second not to sob in relief. Finally, they were done.

"Yes. Yes, you may."

FIN.

[anticomedygarden]

more solangelo (these prompts are just vibing with them istg) (prompt website)

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"Are you absolutely sure you wanna come with me?" Nico asked his boyfriend again.

Will huffed. "What have I said the last five times?"

Nico just raised an eyebrow. They both knew exactly what this trip would entail, and it wouldn't be fun. "I just want to make sure you're prepared."

Will took his hand. "I'm so prepared. Now take us there before I change my mind about shadowtraveling."

Nico didn't have to be told twice. A moment later, he was catching his boyfriend as he stumbled out from under the shade of a cedar tree in the middle of a small town somewhere in Connecticut.

He pointed to the house in front of them. "It's that one."

Will nodded and walked forward, and Nico was briefly impressed by his resolution. When the son of Hades had told his boyfriend about his yearly trips to check up on May Castellan, he definitely hasn't expected Will to offer to join him, but that was just how he was: perpetually sensing people in need. It was both infuriating and endearing.

When Nico caught up to his boyfriend, Will had already rang the doorbell, and Ms. Castellan was just opening up the door.

"Luke!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms around Will's neck. "I knew you'd be back. Come inside, I made cookies and peanut butter sandwiches."

To his credit, Will didn't look surprised or shaken at all. No, he followed Ms. Castellan through the door and into the scent of burnt food, all the while playing the part of her son. Nico supposed that as a healer, he knew not to deny a person's mental view even if it was obviously untrue, but knowing and seeing him do it were two different things, and Nico once again thanked the gods for letting him fall in love with the kindest person in the world.

[kururu418]

Ngl feel like Hades and Hel have the most out of pocket conversations with each other lol, but it’s always their own way of throwing shade at them their gods 💀

I could say that. Hades has a habit of just speaking whatever is on his mind. Like he's polite but he will tell someone to their face that he doesn't like them or they're getting on his nerves lol. He's even bluntly honest with Hera, but she doesn't really bother him much since as long as no one is getting in the way of his job or messing with his family he just doesn't care.

So yeah, with them being death gods I could them chatting and talking about other gods and how annoying they could make the job lol. Hel would probably be a lot more expressive while Hades just just laid back and chill.

[snackastackas]

B2;T2 — Sorrow & Fate

The unnaturally cold water had enveloped loyal Cerberus; the moonlight came in rays through the overhead clouds to illuminate slowly descending corpses and discarded pieces of boats and dock. Despite the agonies that befell loyal Cerberus' spirit, a warm ocean current like that like a pleasant hand holding his own took him as he swam, which transported him at tremendous speeds onwards and revitalized his morale. The water then grew dark as time labored on, save for an illuminated keep deep beneath the waves that indicated the destination of his journey thus far. He swam onwards and closed in on this space; water invaded loyal Cerberus' lungs as he entered this realm of the enchanted palace of Armathan the Ruined, but it did not choke him, instead it renewed his breath. The palace here glittered like gold, and the coral surrounding this place grew underneath him to receive his weight and form a bridge to the throne room. As he entered, he saw his deity adorned in beautiful dress and gentle demeanor.

Throwing himself to the floor in reverence, she smiled at his dutifulness but spoke to him in a voice that sounded as honey,

"Loyal Cerberus, honorable warrior king of the Sonet Isles, he who is chief of entertainment to the gods, but sole champion to myself, the ruined Armathan, goddess of the waves. I summon you in a dire time, your people are amongst the shades in the Underworld, under the rule of Hades the Vigilant. A new vile race of smog and tar called Demons bring conquest above the surface of the waves, and your wife was brought to an unjust end. I know that you a fraught with loss, and as much as I could let a mortal mean to me, I sympathise for you like I would with a child of my own. What I ask of you now I know you will detest, but as both the god of sea and divination I demand from you to not fight fate but follow it's current. You are to take from me two gifts, a divine vessel that will carry you to your love, and a cloak that will hide the identity of whoever it is that wears it. Do so with haste, champion; your love waits for you."

Loyal Cerberus turned his attention to whence he came, he saw a shimmering vessel with the serpent of a dragon at one end and with no sails, on the deck floated an open cloak. He stood with one foot on the deck and took the cloak in an outstretched hand, looking backwards to his divine protector and finding courage to stewardly pronounce,

"I thank you Armathan the Ruined for your divine gifts and shall do everything you requested of me."

As he finished his words, he saw a dark hole appear in the center of her chest, expanding rapidly to envelop her placid smile and body whole. A deep sorrow gutted loyal Cerberus then again; the ship moved on of it's own will as the enchanted palace lost it's shine and began to rapidly fall into ruin.

Loyal Cerberus then wept.

Time passed as the divine vessel shot through the water, curving around the underwater environment; the loyal king was beside himself from loss but a mission was bestowed upon him, such a task bringing back determination. The divine vessel plunged into the inky abyss, as if out of instinct. Here, the earth began to shake violently, the sediment on the floor was brought up in sudden unrest; the ocean floor split in two and a bevy of demons rushed out. Adorned in his cloak, the loyal warrior king readied his sword for attack, yet none came for the cloak shielded him from sight and the boat became translucent like the water around them.

The boat and it's loyal king descended into the ravine and into the underworld.