I'm bored so gimmie your greek mythology-related hot takes
I'll go first: The Hades/Persephone retellings are overdone and demonize Demeter way too much, which makes them miss the entire point of the original story.
Who do you think is Apollo's favourite uncle, and favourite aunt, both in rr!verse and in general?
Ah yes, the long debated question. We know Apollo is everyone’s favorite, but who is his favorite? 👀
Favorite Uncle: Poseidon
I feel like this is true in mythology and the RRverse (unless Eclipse happens. Then it’s Hades. sorry Poseidon lol)
this was especially true during ancient times when the gods were a lot more interactive with each other. Not to mention Apollo and Poseidon had LOTS of myths where they interacted!
we have their time in Troy. Also that one time Poseidon was like “aight I need u to fight me, okay? But u have to start it because I’m supposed to be the responsible one since I’m older”
And Apollo was like “…🤨 no thanks ❤️”
I bet Poseidon chose Apollo because if he has to fight someone, he would like to duke it out with his favorite nephew lmao
And he DID get that fight in the Dionysica. Idk the details of it besides Hermes going “wtf” at Poseidon 😔 but one day I will…I just have a lot of books to get through first lmao
Favorite Aunt: Demeter
“but what about Hestia—”
THAT BE WHERE YOU ARE WRONG! :D
sure, Apollo likes Hestia, but you’re gonna tell me that Apollo, god of light and averted of plague—which includes pests like locusts and mice—wouldn’t adore Demeter, goddess of agriculture???!!!
u are WRONG if u say no ❤️
and like imagine this: baby Apollo arrives on Olympus after his nine-year exile and is OVERWHELMED by it.
are you gonna tell me Demeter didn’t take one look at this wide-eyed lost child and go “I now have joint custody” and proceeded to mother hen him.
this would ALSO open the gateway to Apollo and Persephone becoming friends, because I LOVE to idea of Persephone being the Weird Big Sister :3
There’s Athena, the one who keeps them out of Major trouble. Artemis who provides a feedback loop for Persephone’s more wild side. Persephone who drags them around Greece for something to do. And Apollo, the baby brother who hangs with his sisters and loves them so much 💕💕
and they do each other’s hair because I say so ❤️
Demeter is also there so she also is the aunt who spent to most time with Apollo, further reenforcing the fact she’s the fav aunt :3 she also does their hair and put sunflowers in Apollo’s <3
and I think this ALSO goes for both mythology and RRverse! Seems kinda cool that light’s favorite family members are water and earth, two things combined with light to make…life.
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