#hades the video game

[strangerthingsbigbang]

Title: Hell and Back

Author: @kaizenkhaos Artist: keziahrain Beta: Suo Characters: Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington, Neil Hargrove, Susan Hargrove, Tommy Hagan, Dustin Henderson, Robin Buckley, Carol Perkins, Lucas Sinclair, Erica Sinclair, Eddie Munson, Heather Holloway, Jim Hopper, Max Mayfield, Relationship(s): Billy Hargrove x Steve Harrington Warnings: child abuse (emotional), major character death (temporary), suicide, violence depicted on page, mental health issues Rating: Mature Additional Tags: Crossover, angst, Temporary Character Deaths, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicide, Blood and Violence, Horror, Mental Health Issues, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Abandonment Issues, Medical, Vomiting Wordcount: 40,443 Summary:

Your mother is a God. Your Father is Satan, and you are the Prince of the Underworld. But your mother is gone and your Father couldn't care less about you. So what are you to do? Escape Hell and go and find her of course. This is the story of Zagreus (Billy). Born half God, half Devil, the Prince of the Underworld is desperate to find his mother's love and to escape his father's wraith. It is also the story of an Angel (Steve), down from the Heavens who threatens not only Zagreus' escape but the truce on which all peace is based. This is the story of either the end of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End... A forbidden romance and threats of war blooming, Zagreus wants out of Hell and Steve is going to join him. Along the way, they will find out more about each other and how Steve ended up in Hell in the first place. A crossover of Stranger Things, Good Omens and Hades the video game, this story features a cast of characters both familiar and different and follows part of the story of Hades the video game with a bit of a twist.

Hell and Back by kaizenkhaos

art by keziahrain

Author's note: A big shout out and thank you to my wonderful artist keziahrain and my beta reader Suo.

[winfreywrites]

charon x orpheus x hermes ; headcannons

Charon and Hermes got close to Orpheus once he began to fully work in Hades’ court.

Hermes asks Zagreus to deliver Orpheus his love letters

Whenever Charon is in the palace for official business, he always finds a way to slink off and find Orpheus to a visit

Hermes and Charon thoroughly enjoy listening to Orpheus play his tunes

Orpheus gets mopey and depressed anytime Hermes or Charon have to leave him alone

Hermes likes to compare Orpheus to a puppy and Charon to a guard dog

[onwardorange]

many kinds of light

There are parts of Thanatos' past that he wants to make right. Zagreus, of course, will be by his side as he does so.

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excerpt:

It is Zagreus’ idea, of course. 

“Remind me again,” says Thanatos, looking up at the ever-imposing slopes of Mount Pelion, his heart pounding in his chest, “why I let you talk me into this?”

A chill breeze gusts through the valley, a reminder of the fast-approaching autumn. Despite it, Thanatos feels beads of sweat forming at his temples and moisture slicking his palms. He rubs his hands hastily on his cloak. 

“Because you have nothing to lose,” Zagreus says immediately and assuredly, turning to face him. He grabs Thanatos’ hands in his own, kindly not mentioning how sweaty they are, and smiles. “We’ve talked about this before, yeah?”

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[mask131]

When it comes to Greek gods, there is a thing that hasn’t been done much: playing with their whole “incarnation of beauty” deal.

The Greeks gods are supposed to be the most beautiful beings in the world. For the Ancient Greeks, this means embodying the aesthetic canon of beauty... per Ancient Greek standard. And still many people try to adapt the gods by staying faithful to this ancient Greek ideal. But what about having the gods change their appearance to fit modern day’s aesthetic of beauty? Things were considered beautiful differently depending on the time and the place - and if the gods are truly immortal and survived Ancient Greece, then why not having them use their shape-shifting powers to make themselves appear differently depending on how the definition of “beauty” changes?

This is an angle that I think for example the video game “Hades” tackled very well with their handling of diversity among the gods and the logic behind it (given in the “Hades” universe the Greek gods are effectively the gods of the WORLD, then they can reflect the world as a whole), but it is not something done very often today. 

Even the classic painters of the Renaissance or other eras did that, centuries and centuries before today! If you look at “classical” Greek mythology paintings, you’d often find the Greek gods with bodies that don’t fit the Ancient Greek aesthetic, but was perfect for the painter’s time (do we need to talk back of all those painters that drew Greek gods and goddesses as chubby gals and pudgy dudes?)

I mean, come on, physical appearances are literal masks, pieces of clothing, toys for the gods. They turn into animals and weather phenomenon on a regular basis. It feels a bit anti-character to have them stick with one same human appearance throughout all times.

[prokopetz]

I love that Supergiant's answer to "how can we possibly follow up on the first game's rebellious failson protagonist" is to make the sequel's protagonist an earnestly dorky honour-student-with-impostor-syndrome type whose college major is murder.

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[evilwvergil]

"C H A O S" : Hades I & Hades II

[thecrazygamingzombie]

lots of familiar faces popping up in the new conflict with some hot new drip

but they all pale in comparison to one returning cast member.

THE MAN

THE MYTH

THE PUNCHING BAG

SKELLY!!!!

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: A Cozy Little Spot in the Underworld 

It’s a Hades art collection! All your favorite drapey ones, right here on your dash. Please join us in celebrating the incredibly talented artists in this fandom. They are doing us all such a solid while we anxiously await the official release and its delicious family drama.

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@kkekaart:

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@eclecticshadowwitch:

[virgichuu]

chatting and listening

[corynm]

New comic for @beastalchemistva !!! Check out his comic dub of it HERE

[raccoonscity]

M E L I N O Ë

[koyoriin]

nemesis & melinoë // hades 2 fanart i drew in 2022!

https://twitter.com/koyoriin https://patreon.com/koyorin https://instagram.com/koyori_n https://bsky.app/profile/koyorin.bsky.social

[onwardorange]

to live in beautiful terror

Mortal pains, mortal pleasures—Zagreus experiences them all, with Thanatos by his side. (Or, what is the terror of death for, if not to emphasize the beauty of life?)

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excerpt:

For all that Zagreus is charming, witty, and clever, Thanatos swiftly comes to learn that he can also be—how should Thanatos put it?—rather oblivious, perhaps.

They’ve been traveling southwards for about a week now, trying to make it to Athens before the winter weather fully sets in. It’s slow going, especially since Thanatos decides to take them through winding backroads and wooded areas instead of the main road; he’s still rattled from being run out of that last tavern. With Zagreus at his side, however, he finds he doesn’t mind the longer journey.

The days pass in easy, pleasant conversation. Thanatos learns many things about Zagreus’ life in the Underworld—how he was trained by the great warrior Achilles as a child (“I even managed to best him once,” Zagreus had said, his chest puffing up slightly, “though I’m pretty sure it was just a fluke, because he’s wiped the courtyard with me every other time, before or since.”), which of his many weapons he prefers (“I trained with Stygius, so that has always felt the most comfortable, but I like using my shield Aegis too,” Zagreus had said, before turning to Thanatos with a sly grin on his face. “Though, the Adamant Rail—phew!—I mean, sometimes I don’t even think I should be allowed to use a weapon like that. It’s really not a fair fight.”), and how he misses Cerberus, the three-headed hellhound that haunts people’s nightmares, but who Zagreus seems to think of as a sort of pet (“Why are you staring at me like that, Than?” Zagreus had asked indignantly. “Cerberus is a very good boy!”).

In turn, Thanatos tells Zagreus more about himself than he’s ever divulged to anyone else—how he was raised and trained by Chiron (“Wow,” Zagreus had breathed, clear awe coloring his tone, “just like Achilles and Patroclus!”), his more memorable encounters with the monsters of Greece (“I mean, I am glad we let that one satyr go,” Zagreus had said after Thanatos regaled him with a particularly nasty fight with a group of satyrs, before adding darkly, “but I also hate their poison darts.”), and about his fondness for his horse (“You know, I think my uncle was onto something when he created horses,” Zagreus had said, as Thanatos showed him how to properly brush Mort. “They’re very cute! Sort of like a long dog, don’t you think, Than?”).

Thanatos finds that he can’t quite bring himself to share some things with Zagreus, at least not yet. Namely, his parentage and the whole situation with Sisyphus. Both feel just this side of too sore—like bruises that have never fully healed—for him to voice comfortably.

Somewhat to Thanatos’ surprise, Zagreus doesn’t push for more information than he is willing to give, though Thanatos can tell that he’s curious. Still, Zagreus politely lets him skirt around those topics, much to his relief.

That’s the thing, Thanatos thinks—Zagreus is not stupid. In fact, Thanatos thinks him rather emotionally intuitive in most situations, and he is sure Zagreus could not have managed to escape the Underworld in the first place if he was not intelligent. 

This, of course, does not mean that Zagreus isn’t prone to being as oblivious as all Hades, and then some. 

Zagreus’ philosophy in life seems to be to simply charge into every situation full speed ahead, with a one-track mind and no consideration of the consequences. Thanatos supposes this is reasonable, considering he is an immortal god, but he sometimes finds himself wishing that Zagreus would just think for a moment, before he acts.

It would certainly save Thanatos from a lot of heartache. 

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part 1 || part 2

[vera-keyes]

HADES II CHARACTERS + HOT SPRINGS

[spacelooner]

Since Hades 2 is in trend again, I might as well give you all a little redraw I did of an art piece, made when it was first announced <3