Listening to part one of Zagreus rn, and the doctor/zagreus/whomsoeverthefuck is just so soooo pathetic. He's pulling on my heartstrings legitimately and it's incredibly bizarre
Why does it feel like he'd break if you breathe on him too hard right now
imagine your best friend, the person you're deeply in love with, asks you to kill him because the universe is in danger and this is how you can save it. if you don't kill him, this monster that has taken control of his body (a monster that has already threatened you and hit you, all while looking like your best friend) will destroy linear time itself. this is an awful, terrible position for you to be in, most likely the most difficult choice you will ever have to make in your life — either stab someone you love, or let the universe be destroyed. and your best friend knows this is terrible for you because obviously it would be, but he especially knows how difficult this is because there was a time when the situation was reversed and you asked him to do the same thing. you were about to be used as a weapon to destroy everything that has ever existed in a process that would be excruciatingly painful for you as well as existentially horrifying, and you asked your best friend to spare you from that and save the universe and he looked at you and said "I can't" and now he has the audacity to ask you for the same thing, knowing exactly how difficult that choice is, knowing that he couldn't make that same choice himself. charley pollard is absolutely the bravest damn person in that room and she deserved to stab the doctor for real.
I love the #zagreus tag on tumblr bc it’s roughly 95% fanart of beloved dumbass greek demigod hacking-n-slashing his way towards death (both literal and metaphoric) in a video game, and ~5% long meta textposts about a semi-obscure, deeply disturbing doctor who audio drama from 2003 (also beloved)
running circles around Thanatos trying to woo him with my feet on fire
[rough translation : what do you want. tell me what you want. please. why can't i gift you alcohol. please. let me gift you something. nooo. what do you want. please. help.]
Whilst the return of Doctor Who in 2005 brought lots of good things, including, for sure, the return of Doctor Who, I think it did untold damage to Big Finish audio stories
Anyways this is Zagreus’ slayer form, it’s a bit more dragonic considering his red dragon bloodline (and totally not because I couldn’t figure out what the fuck was going on with the face lol)
If you want something similar my commissions are open feel free to dm me!