#Ares

[modeus-the-unbound]

Supergiant has the opportunity to do something hilarious and great at the same time. In mythology, Aphrodite is married to Hephaestus but cheats on him with Ares.....however.....

If you make Hephaestus refer to Ares as "Our Boyfriend" in dialogue with Aphrodite. I will sing that games praises all the way from Mount Olympos, Greece. To Olympus Mon, Mars!

[piltover-sharpshooter]

Something I really like about this design for Aphrodite in Hades 2 is that it seems to be inspired by the Aphrodite Areia version of herself, aka "Aphrodite the Warlike".

Greek gods had Epithet's attached, usually to show different facet's of the gods, and what they were worshiped. Aphrodite was considered exclusively a love goddess, except for Kythera and (You guessed it) Sparta, where she's also a war goddess.

I specially love the touch of the white streak over her eyes, just like how Hades' version of Ares has one, which also works as a wink to their relationship.

[achillesdni]

glad we all agreed that aphrodite is lucky as hell with both ares and hephaestus. they are both so attractive

[appolinyou]

Nina Zenik

Aphrodite

[flower1622]

I really didn't know they were a couple:

[cupcake-hearts]

What the hell happened on Olympus before that made Ares react this way?

I feel like the writers/animators are trying to imply something more here, because-

Ares literally looks like a scared child. He's backing away and trying to look smaller.

And remember, he's in front of a stadium full of his fellow gods. He didn't even once consider his ego as soon as Zeus appeared.

Then there's Zeus's face. The shot before you can see his face clearly, but here its completely shadowed. Very menacing.

And even before that, Zeus's first reaction was to blame Ares, AND THROW A LIGHTNING BOLT AT HIM!

Animators have to consciously make these decisions and i feel like it would be a waste if this didn't go somewhere.

[carmaander]

celeste crawford [oc] ; percy jackson au

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[wierdshenanigans]

"Don't worry kid, you're dad had plenty of kids he stopped helping out when he lost interest"

Theseus, who was helped by poseidon multiple times, but in the end was thrown off a cliff by the citizens of Athens and drowned. Drowned in the ocean, the very domain of his father.

Kymopoleia, who was neglected by Poseidon once he found her to be too violent, left to wander his abandoned palaces, given up as a war prize to man she didn't even want with no choice at all.

Bellerophon, who was given the pegasus to tame as a gift from Poseidon in some myths, dying by falling off of it on his way to Olympus.

I'm just saying, that line wasn't a random throwaway line by Ares, he means it.

[viridian-eclipse]

The fact that Ares starts fights on Twitter bring me great joy for some reason

[mydairpercabeth]

cousin bonding 🥰

[mmelolabelle]

“Ares…is a moron.”

I honestly don’t think that anyone is more amused by the whole “this douchebag decided to try and fight the child of the sea god on a fucking beach” of it all than Poseidon.

[zarekthelordofthefries]

You don't get Hestia as an option because what, you think I'm gonna make this EASY on you?

[begaycommittreason]

annabeth “no fear in the face of the war god, in fact i’m going to verbally eviscerate him” chase, percy “fuck around and find out, i dare you ares” jackson, and grover “thanks for the emotional abuse, bye!” underwood

those kids had him fucked UP, they ate i fear

[mo-mode]

Totally my own opinion but I’m like 65% certain Ares knew the shield was trapped in that chair machine thing (or something equally dastardly made by Hephaestus) so when he sent Percy and Annabeth off to retrieve it, he was assuming there’d be only one returning, so imagine his complete horror when both of the 12yo annoyances returned with no scratches and slammed the shield on the table. No wonder he was pissed when he sent them off