#a little persephone hades

[amorningxundone]

poetry is

the tattered

taut

remains of a

single moment

a season

of life owned by

you

as equally

inflexible

it’s the dying

body you left

and

the daffodils

that grow from it

it is the peak

of how I loved

you

but it is not

all of the ways.

“my pomegranate heart” — AXI

[toydreamer]

Little Hades Family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦❤️

Poor parents. Robbed twice the chance to watch their babies grow up 🥲🫢

[dreadfuldevotee]

But that was in another life, That was in another world

[orioofthestars]

OFFICIAL RELEASE SO IM BRINGING THIS BACK—

yk Hermes’ new design? Kinda reminds me of smth…

[akirakirxaa]

[ day 26 - ascian ]

This 'Azem' was nothing like the other Ascians.

[ masterpost ]

[kopivie]

hades!wriothesley who, at times, appears more like an apparition to you when you first get to know him. his footfalls are nearly imperceptible and he's quick to change positions. how a big man like him is able to move around undetected, you'll never know. (you'll also never know that he's doing that on purpose because he loves when you jump. he ghosts his cryo-tipped fingers across your nape when you least expect him to, bursting into a fit of laughter when you yelp and scurry to warm yourself up.)

hades!wriothesley who leaves little pieces of himself in the little nooks and crannies of your shop and your heart. it becomes a mutual exchange; you give him dendro-enhanced flowers to last while he's in the underworld, and he leaves folded up notes tucked underneath flower pots for you to read during his absence. he treasures the fragrance of the petals while you treasure the parchment that just so happens to smell of his rich cologne.

hades!wriothesley who catches you reading one of his notes when he returns to visit you. you don't notice him -- you're too engrossed in reading. you're holding the paper close to your chest with the most smitten smile on your lips, and wriothesley has to count to 50 before he enters the shop, lest he come in and do something he might regret. (you're biting your bottom lip to stop from smiling. oh, how he wants to brush that lip with his thumb.. how badly he wants to kiss you stupid..)

hades!wriothesley who never kisses the back of just one of your hands, oh no – he always insists on kissing the backs of both of your hands at the same time. you once joked about him being extra gentlemanly. he bit your finger in retaliation. (you also noticed that his canines are particularly sharp.)

hades!wriothesley who stays with you on the night before he has to return to his domain. cerberus will likely act out if he's gone for too long, but he doesn't wish to leave you just yet. so he sits at your beside stroking your cheek with the back of his icy fingers. cold as he may be, you feel nothing but warmth emanating from him. it's you who kisses the back of his hand this time, a gesture that gives him pause. once he's recovered, he cups your warm cheek in his palm. moonlit grey eyes soften as they drink you in.

"may i be frank with you?" wriothesley asks softly.

"you may."

"i want you." you feel his hand stiffen as he realizes what he said. "not-- not in that way. not yet, anyhow. and certainly not before you're ready. but i... i want you. all of you."

you want to reply. you so badly want to return his feelings. you can feel it in your heart, your very soul calls out to him even when he's near. and yet something chains you in place, makes you unable to verbalize it. you open and close your mouth a few times as you struggle for words.

hades shakes his head. he's smiling, but it doesn't quite reach his eyes. "you don't need to say anything. if you wish to take it slow, then i will do as you please. i just wanted to let you know."

"...i'm sorry." you close your eyes and lean into his touch. you feel the bed shift as he leans down to touch his forehead to yours. your heart stutters and your breathing hitches. "i'm so, so sorry."

"it's okay."

"i want you too. really, i do."

"i know." the two of you breathe in tandem for a moment. the unspoken confession lingers in the night air. then, after a long silence: "i have to leave."

it's your turn to sigh. "i know."

wriothesley pecks your nose. "wait for me."

and you shiver. not because of the cold, but rather because he was not asking. he knows that you will wait for him. he knows that his place in your heart is assured. "wait for me," he murmurs again.

"i will." you hum when you feel his lips ghosting over yours. you hold your breath in anticipation. "please," you practically beg. "just do it."

wriothesley's breath fans over yours. you can feel his words being spoken against your mouth. even in whisper, you can hear his voice tremble. "you're tempting me."

"just... give me something to remember you by."

and that's all it takes for him to kiss you. you become drunk on the moonlight coating his lips.

so this was just a little ramble and test of my ability to write a scene! it's been so long since i've written like this, and i just figured that this was a good au to test it on!

i do wanna dedicate this little thing to @catcze though! i know timezones are super fucky but! it's still your birthday where i am, so!!! happy birthday!!! i hope you have dreams of wrio in the future 💕💗💕

[medusaspeach]

Classicstober Day 23: Orpheus 💀

Orpheus journeys down to Hades to bring back his lost love. 💔 Plus a little King and Queen of the Underworld cameo.

@classicstober

[genericpuff]

In which Persephone is told she can't game the system- (TEXT EDIT)

no art was edited here, just text to make this more realistic to how this scene WOULD have gone if it was an actual courtroom with real rules LOL I find it a little weird that Rachel wrote a courtroom drama arc like this and then twisted it this much to benefit Persephone because like... clearly she was inspired by courtroom drama shows, and I can't help but wonder if she got all of her basic courtroom knowledge from like, Spongebob or some shit LOL

[0lympian-c0uncil]

Persephone I'm not a solution to your problem, Hades.

Hades: ???

Persephone: I'm another problem.

[melonymint753]

the fact that Hades in the sequel got his house trashed, status stripped and literally thrown in jail, and is still starting out in a mental state of "at least holding it together" compared to hades 1

[amorningxundone]

The life beneath my skin

bleeds out

from these new legs

and my heart

beats in the space entwined

by our fingers and palms

breathing

with the walls of this room;

It’s me and you—

your soul too willingly offered

and my neck chained

to a cage

built with a guise

of friendship

and the effacement

of an old regret;

Buried like a curse

our tell tale memory lurks

under floor boards

for the next generation

of naivety:

a still learning boy

and his soon to be

tragic misstep.

“The maple wood house and its magnolia tree” - AXI

[punkeropercyjackson]

I am sorry but so many cis/straight women's 'female fantasies' on male characters are just pedophile dudes and them/their self-insert as the target of his affections💀Y'all are as creepy as your lil boyfriends and if it's in the many such cases where he's actually a good guy in canon,i want you to know for a fact he'd never even look in your general direction because he's too good for you and he knows it and that goes for irl guys you thirst after too who're also decent dudes too and that's why you're stuck having 'female fantasies' over boyfriends or husbands.I said what mfing said,as a black genderqueer femme selfshipper you're all a disgrace to the fan content scene and should've never been allowed to have social media accounts to match them nonexistent partners

[vaniloqu3nce]

EVERYONE STOP.

Hades and Persephone Wenclair Au PLEASE. PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE.

Wednesday as the lord of the underworld is doing things to my brain that are not healthy for someone with my levels of queer

Enid basically having hell on a leash because her wife does just about anything she says.

“What if we give therapy to some of them? They can’t all be terrible.”

“Yes, dear.”

[matrivers]

“we have enough retellings of hades and perse—”

NO THE FUCK WE DON’T!

[justbrxwsing]

I have been thinking a lot about Hades 2. Specifically about how Melinoe is going to interact with Zagreus, Persephone, and Hades.

Given that time is a big theme in H2, I think a lot of the initial dialogue will be Hades, Persephone, and Zag getting used to Mel being an adult now. Persephone will probably handle it the best, given she has experience with this exact feeling, but Zag and Hades will have it harder.

I can see Zag becoming a bit overprotective and needing to be told to chill out, while Hades might encourage Mel to abandon them all together and save herself initially.

I think Mel's journey in H2 is going to learning how to find meaning in her life beyond her purpose (opposite of Zag, who needed to find his purpose), so a lot of their conversations may also be Hades, Zag, and Persephone asking Mel questions about her life in an attempt to reconnect and Mel realizing that all of her answers have to do with killing Chronos.

Zag will help her learn to relax and have fun, as he will be one of the few people in her life who will be Mel's equal rather than mentor. He will also likely be the one to encourage Mel to be disobedient or at least questioning towards the authority figures in her life, as he is very familiar with having a parental figure who, while well intentioned, has kept massive, life altering secrets from you (which Hecate and Odysseus seems to be doing).

Persephone might bond with Mel over a shared love of plants and help Mel understand that it's okay to have two homes or have multiple people occupy the same role in her life, as she learned to share the mom role with Nyx for Zagreus. Persephone might also help her navigate the changing dynamics of her family at the crossroads as more secrets come to light, as she is very used to handling complex relationships (being an Olympian and all)

Hades will likely bond with Mel over the understanding of having a huge, insurmountable task that only you can do and being stressed the hell out about it (ruling the dead for Hades and killing Chronos for Mel). Hades is very organized and uptight, like Mel, so he will probably understand her the best. He might also help Mel to be more hopeful and put more faith in herself, as she and Hades seem to share a certain amount of self-loathing and a habit of holding themselves to insanely high standards.

There's a lot of room for Mel to become a daddy's girl and I am here for it.

[kannibal-kink]

Radiodust Week Day 2 : Gods and Worshippers

Stuck with just gods, based on a picture of Hades and Persephone from what I’m pretty sure was some form of pottery in like 440 BCE I found with a bit of research. https://www.worldhistory.org/persephone/