#c: hermes

[ayakoito]

Messenger's Dove

Closed starter for @crew-from-capulet (Hermes)

It was a quiet Sunday morning when she woke up. Her eyes blinked at the sunny rays that fell through the windows of her bedroom before she stretched extensively.

Wanting to start the day relaxed, Aya decided to lie down for a while, watching the dancing shadows cast by the sun on the wall. When she noticed that something seemed to be shimmering in between, she turned her head to the side.

Surprised at what awaited her on her bedside table, she sat up, squeezing her eyes shut once more to make sure she wasn't still asleep and dreaming. Next to a magnificent bouquet of bright tulips, she found a pile of jewelry, gold and silver, almost glowing.

“What the--” Then it dawned on her. “Hermes...?”

[rose-from-ashes]

Small notes about how Ancients view transformation, and how Emet personally sees it:

Emet describes transformation as being vainglorious to the point of being akin to running around robeless. Vainglorious is an important word here: transformation is, ultimately, a case of releasing sheer aetheric power. The ancients valued equality and assimilation, everyone equal and no one jealous, and that means no one greater than the rest, which means showing off your power is unacceptable. We also see ancients in recreation amaurot telling us to put on robes because our non robe clothing comes off as prideful.

Some go about this far in their analysis and decide that the metaphor of nakedness had more to do with pride rather than any kind of impropriety we would associate with nudity, and stop there, and that's fine. But I think it's also literal, at least for Emet. Emet who seemed uncomfortable with taking off his mask, who was uncomfortable at the idea of seeing another transform, who even after the sundering wore several layers.

Emet who was born with incredible power that he cannot hide. Who was always made to feel bare, who always covered his emotions in bristling and crossed arms. Who, by my headcanon, was criticized for pridefulness when all he ever did was exist. He began to fear the idea of being robeless. Of being seen. Transformation is a vulnerability to him like being naked is to us. Showing something he was taught by his society to hide. A part of him that's vital to his very being, woven through his body, something he would not be him without. If baring something like that isn't akin to nakedness, what is?

At the same time, I don't see Hermes's transformation as being akin to nakedness. If anything, I see it as drawing a protective barrier tight around him, putting up a metaphorical shield. He is not prideful, but he is autistic, and he does not understand why existing in a way he is strong could be so forbidden. I see it as a crutch or coping mechanism, vital to him, yet criticized by a world that doesn't understand.

For Elidibus, I see it as closest to what it was mechanically described to be, a hard shell of aether to fortify, built up around him and strengthening him, allowing better wielding. It is only a tool. A fact. There is no vulnerability or shame to it, only his existence, one that we accept. But I also don't think we ever truly saw what he was behind that shell. He never truly let his shield down. Perhaps what lies beneath would be the nakedness to him that transformation is to Emet. This is all much the same for Lahabrea.

All this to say, it's okay to have a flexible sense of what an ability means in world. The same things will always mean something different to different people. Transformation doesn't have to be nakedness, but it also can, in the same world at the same time, for different souls or different contexts. That's all.

[ayakoito]

@crew-from-capulet

[hasthecityrearranged]

So I took him underneath my wing, And that is where he stayed, Until one day...

Melanie La Barrie as Hermes, Dylan Wood as Orpheus, Hadestown West End 2025: @callmelasagna’s master

[kizykoolors]

FELLAS I'M VERY CLOSE TO GETTING SOMETHING WITH THESE TWO!!! I still need to refine some details and work on Hermes's color palette BUT I HAVE SOMETHING

[pdouwes]

Wait for me, I'm coming.

[holy-moly-devotee]

Lord Hermes Digital Offering!

Art in the middle by me

[vintagewildlife]

Sargassum crab and nudibranch eggs By: Robert C. Hermes From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972

[townieboyfriend]

unsure if this has been a talking point before but the whole thing with hermann canonically having a family offscreen is so gut wrenching to me because of the implication that he knew that his child would never grow up or likely even be born. vanessa was supposed to be due in april '25, around the same time he calculated the triple event would take place </3

[mttztrading]

Can you feel it like a train? Is it coming? Is it coming this way?

Jaylon C. Crump as Hermes - Hadestown: Second US National Tour

[ayakoito]

Aesthetic moodboard for @crew-from-capulet's Hermes 🪽

[apolloccentric]

old stuff just to feel something

[chimera-tail]

Dionysus: *sees Apollo sleeping like a log*

Dionysus: *starting a fire and tying him above it*

Hermes: *playing along* Dio, stop! This is a corpse of a God.

Dionysus: *deadpans* You are what you eat.

Apollo: *wakes up due to feeling hotter than usual* what the-

[khaire-traveler]

Some beautiful sun pictures I took, plus, two baby deer that were right in front of it across from me. 🧡☀️🦌

[holly-mckenzie]

Trent Saunders as Hermes & Tara Jackson as Persephone

HADESTOWN | Broadway | June 2022

[pdouwes]

Every coward seems courageous in the safety of a crowd.