#i know very little about him (or any od the companions) but i wouldn't be surprised if he's unbearable

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being a "tumblr favorite" can say so much about a male character. I mentioned to my sister that vampire guy from bg3 seems to be quite popular in the tag and she was immediately like ugh and I was like yeah 😬

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I know you’re not exactly Dionysos’ biggest fan but I always enjoy when his mother Semele/Thyone appears in your fics. Do you have any headcanons/ideas on what her immortalized life is like? What gods besides her son does she get along with, and what’s her relationship with Zeus and Hera now?

Thank you!

I use a line from one of Pindar's Odes where Thyone's noted to be close to/loved by Athena, so Athena is one of them Thyone gets along with/has a close relationship with! And possibly Chariclo (the nymph mother of Tiresias, which Callimachus notes in the Bath of Pallas as being very close to Athena), unless they have a bit of a rival situation for Athena's attention fdbhjdffd. Then her sister(s) too, and of course her/their parents when they get to Olympos.

(That is just my own invention, the closest Kadmos and Harmonia gets to that after at some point being restored from being snakes is going to Elysium, but why would Aphrodite and Ares want to have their daughter, who is presumably at least a goddess-nymph, that inaccessible to them??)

Undoubtedly she gets along with Ariadne as well (see no reason why they wouldn't!) I think it would be sweet if she gets close to Ares? He is her grandfather, after all. Aphrodite is another possibility, but since Thyone is close to Athena maybe she's got a more distantly polite relationship with Aphrodite because of that.

Given that we have literally nothing about Thyone's post-apotheosis life in regards to Zeus (or Hera), I do kind of headcanon that while Zeus is still fond of her, her death caused an emotional injury that even the resurrection doesn't heal. On her side, maybe the death and her time in the Underworld also caused a distance to certain parts of her first life that it's easier, no matter how much she was attracted to him at the time and they probably were building a more intimate relationship than usually happens, Thyone is fine with leaving that in the past. They have a cordial enough relationship, I think, but nothing that really echoes their months-long one during her pregnancy. Maybe they eventually develop something that's a new facet of it, but only in terms of being friendly companions instead of with sexual and romantic dimensions.

For Hera... if Thyone forgives her for what she did to her, it'd probably be quite a bit down the road. Hera has little reason to do anything further, especially when Zeus and Thyone end up having no closer relationship and nothing as before Semele died. But she probably isn't really friendly with her, either. Chilly politeness on both their sides, undoubtedly!