#The Twelve Labors

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Not me getting back on my Greek Mythology bullshit, but I feel like a lot of adaptations of Herakles gloss over the part of his story where Hera literally mind-controls him into killing his family.

Like, Imagine having your agency, you mind, and your reason stripped from you so completely and utterly by a force you can't fight against or comprehend and that force makes you murder the people you love most in the world. Why aren't writers doing more with that! The horror of Herakles!

How he can't lift his fists or his sword or his club without seeing his families blood and brain stained across them! how he can't look in the mirror without seeing his children's faces staring back at him? How do you come back from that? From being a puppet, the weapon that murders your own family? Can a weapon grieve? Does it have the right to?

Hell, the only reason Herakles doesn't kill himself is because Theseus shoulders some of the weight of the crime by taking his hand. (Probably the most heroic thing Theseus ever does).

The Twelve Labors aren't a quest for glory, they're about a guy going on a suicide run by facing the most insane challenges the world can throw at him, but every time he triumphs he realizes that he doesn't GET to die. He has to keep going. He has to keep living. He has to live with himself.

And then, one day, when he completes another task, and he sees the grateful faces of the people he's saved, the lives he's made a little better, he realizes that he doesn't want to anymore.

[talktomeinclexa]

The Twelve Labors

By: Talktomeinclexa

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Blood and violence, major character death (temporary) Summary: When tragedy strikes their family, Lexa, Anya, and Clarke make a deal with Hades: they will remain together if they can complete twelve impossible tasks. With the help of their children, friends, and some Olympians, can our favorite heroes beat the odds?

Sequel to The Iliad

Moodboard by the incredibly talented @thecrimsonknight, thank you!

[evercelle]

DON'T/LET GO: even after, saihara dreams.

mini sample for the v3 doujin i've been working on!! it's a post-game story, and it's really really like REALLY self-indulgent. lol

i'm running an interest check for physical copies, so if you'd like a print book, please fill out the form. i'm only planning on printing once, so it'd be really helpful to gauge quantity.

[gheartistwriter]

random headcannon

Okay, take it out of nowhere, but Ares totally understand Apollo’s hate for Achilles, cause he was the same whit Heracles. Heracles killed a LOT of Ares’s children (some by accident) . And Achilles murdered a LOT of Apollo’s children ( don’t get me start talking about Troilus).

So, for me, even if Ares and Apollo aren’t the best siblings, they, at least, hold each other’s backs when it comes to children lost. Not like siblings, but like two dads that are both tired of losing their kids, to some so named “ Hero”

[wiseatom]

will being a brat is not only so incredibly important to me, it’s also canon

[nemfrog]

Heracles killing the Hydra. Greek and Roman mythology. 1917.

Internet Archive

[gotstabbedbyapen]

[hecatesdelights]

The Nemean Lion, a mythical Ancient Greek monster with an impenetrable hide and claws that could tear apart armor. It was defeated by Heracles as his first labor. Heracles, quickly realizing his weapons were useless, wrestled the lion, using his bare hands to unalive it, then using it's impenetrable hide as a protective cloak while continuing his next labors

[captainkurosolaire]

~ Heracles & 12 Labors ~

Labor One: Kill the Nemean Lion

The first task was traveling to Nemea and slaying the Nemean Lion, a fierce beast terrorizing the countryside. This monster of a lion had a hide was so tough that no arrow could pierce it. Heracles stunned the beast with his olive-wood club and then strangled it with his bare hands. Athena urged him to skin the lion, using the lion's own sharp claws. He wore the lion skin for the rest of his days. In many versions of the story, he wears the pelt into Eurystheus's court to frighten him. This inspired Eurystheus to try and take vengeance on his cousin by issuing more and more dangerous challenges.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

and i draw parallels solely on the cinematographic basis of “when my man is no more than a millimeter away from perturbation at all times but you give the Whole Right Half Of The Screen 3/4 Closeup of Harrowing Recontextualizations” like that’s right. we’re living it up

[scriobh-an-iontas]

I spent five years working on the last book, and mostly rambled about it to my friends.

The NEW book, however, I have not begun to track or write about AT ALL. So Y'all's get to hear ALL about it.

It's called "Eurystheus" and it's going to be the story of Heracles / Hercules as told from his cousin Eurystheus point of view. Here's what I have so far:

Eurystheus is not simple, but, rather, is direct. He didn't want to be king, and resents Heracles for not needing to take up the crown. At the same time, he loves his cousin, and wants him to do well. They have a complex relationship, but mostly a loving one.

Heracles is harder SPECIFICALLY because I want him to feel human. He killed his family, but, unlike how it's normally done, neither Hera nor any other god was responsible that.

Instead, I'm describing Heracles as "a man of great passions who had trouble controlling them." He felt love with passion, he felt anger with passion and he had trouble realizing his own strength.

He knows how lacking he is and hates the harm that he brings to others, which means that he has LOADS of self loathing. Not entirely without merit, mind, but still.

Like, when he goes to Eurystheus, it's only partly to find redemption for his acts. The other part is that he trusts that his cousin is smart enough to figure out a way to kill him without killing him directly, thus incurring the wraith of the Kindly Ones.

All in all, I'd be writing Heracles as a very tragic hero.

And, again, this would all be told from Eurystheus's point of view. He wants to tell the story of Heracles the man, who, in his opinion, is so often overlooked compared to Heracles the god, and he wants to set the record straight.

[havesexwithghosts]

12 Labors, colored pencil on paper, 2009

[talktomeinclexa]

The Iliad has a sequel?!?! I’m so excited!!!

It will, yes 🙂

It was supposed to be The Odyssey, but I've been stuck trying to write it for 2 years. Tbh, I've never like The Odyssey half as much as I liked The Iliad. But once I thought about doing The Twelve Labors instead, boom, the writer's block was gone. Sometimes you have to know when to quit and when to adjust the course.

I'm still finishing some WIPs first, then I'll properly start it

[actaea-p-y]

I am TRYING not to imagine disturbing implications for all the Kirby Horoscope designs but HAL ”We incorporated yellow into Magolor’s color scheme because of its classical association with Judas Iscariot” Laboratories is NOT HELPING.

[arielmagicesi]

hey, do you want to lose money AND your will to live all for the opportunity to make very little money doing a job that everyone warns you will sap you of your will to live? try applying for teacher certification oh my GOD

[ghoulangerlee]

repeat after me please: an app cannot gain permission to everything in your phone unless you give it permission to everything in your phone.