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[localfandomenjoyer]

Who here has a moment to hear me yap about origin stories? I've got the scaffold of an alternate take of @anotheroceanid's Athenide AU based on Of The Fountain written @chaoticdumbassrogue where instead of being reborn during the contest in Athens, Perseleia is reborn earlier as the Kronide - the younger twin of Poseidon - but where to go from there?

Trauma-Bonding: Perse is consumed by Kronos alongside Poseidon. This doesn't leave much room for writing about her childhood, but could set the foundation for the Perse x Hades pairing that was suggested to me, plus trauma-bonding with the elder Olympians. With this origin, Perse is firmly integrated into the family but is treated as a potential rival by Zeus much like Poseidon.

The Older Sister: Instead of being the younger twin of Poseidon, Perse is the older twin of Zeus and gets raised alongside him on Mount Ida. This means baby Zeus, wholesome sibling bonding and Perse being a good role model, giving Zeus a sister whom he genuinely respects and doesn't need to be paranoid around. Picture a Zeus that runs closer to his Disney incarnation, with Perse being the cool aunt to all his children. Of course that leaves the question of how the children born out of wedlock will come to be.

The Princess of Othrys: Kronos is more accurate to his mythological self, so when his daughter is born as the Goddess of Loyalty, he takes it as an excuse to not consume her. This version of the AU will focus more heavily on Kronos and the Titans, giving them time to shine as the aunts, uncles and cousins of the little princess as she is raised on Othrys. I had this idea of a young Leto and Pallas (the son of Krios, not the daughter of Triton) being her closest companions. She sides with the Olympians because her loyalty to her siblings outweighs her loyalty to her father, but still secretly visits Kronos and her Titan relatives.

[fantastic-nonsense]

I think people who genuinely wanted Percy to rebel against the gods and overthrow the system kind of...miss the whole point of the series

The question is not whether or not the gods deserve to rule; the books are kind of unambiguous that they don't! That the gods are generally undeserving of their children's loyalty is the one thing that Percy and Luke both agree on! But PJO is less about divine right to rule vs. ruling via consent of the governed and more about improving dysfunctional family systems. It's not about whether unfair rulers deserve to continue ruling; it's about forcing the gods to be better, fairer rulers and a better, fairer family given limited alternatives.

Because what are the alternatives, as presented to us within the scope of the original PJO series?

Option 1: allow Kronos to topple Olympus and take over. Clearly not a viable alternative for all of the reasons the books show us.

Option 2: the demigods overthrow the Olympians and rule the world themselves. Okay. How's that going to work out long-term, given demigods are mortal and cannot control or protect their parents' domains? Demigods will die out within a generation or two, so that's potentially a one-generation short-term solution, and then everyone's right back where they started. Except worse, because now the world has been out of divine balance for a century and the gods have a completely legitimate bone to pick with all demigods. Materially worse outcome.

Option 3: demigods ignore the gods and their will entirely. They integrate into the mortal world, refuse to participate in quests or talk to their parents, and pretend prophecies don't exist. Except that's clearly not a viable option, since we see that demigods usually can't safely exist in the mortal world without monsters coming after them, the gods are cruel enough to use blackmail and engage in hostage situations to get demigods to act as heroes, and prophecies have a way of coming true regardless of everyone's best attempts to circumvent them. Again: materially worse outcome.

And for Percy, for the demigods at Camp Half-Blood, for Luke and for everyone else who defected....for the most part, they don't actually have an inherent problem with the gods ruling them. They just want to be acknowledged, valued, and loved by their families, to be treated as more than a tool for their parents to wield whenever their services are needed. That was the core thesis of the demigod rebellion, which was wholly separate from Kronos' specific motivations for overthrowing the Olympians, and it's why Percy's asks at the end of TLO were what they were.

The point was always that had Percy grown up in a slightly more dysfunctional family environment...had he grown up with Frederick Chase's seemingly conditional love or May Castellan's madness instead of Sally Jackson's steady, quiet, unconditional love...he could have turned out like Luke. Like Ethan. Like the dozens of demigods who defected from camp to join Luke's cause. Percy could have turned out just as a bitter and angry and vengeful. Just as ready to tear down the system. Just as willing to betray and kill his own family for the sake of making a point.

But instead, Percy openly reprimands the gods for abandoning their families and using them as cannon fodder in their own petty disagreements. He forces them to acknowledge and claim their children. He demands that everyone who is part of the godly family be recognized and accepted, not just those related to the Twelve Olympians. He asks for those unjustly punished (like Calypso) to be set free and accepted back into the family. Because that's the point at the end of the day: not forcing bad rulers to step down, but changing an insanely dysfunctional family system that the gods and demigods are all members of into a better, safer, and more accepting environment for demigods to grow up and live in.

Overthrowing the gods wouldn't solve the problem at the heart of the series, which is the gods' shitty parenting and family management skills. It would only exacerbate the massive familial fault-lines that Kronos exploited and leave the demigods open to more godly manipulation. Which is why the series ends as it does, with Percy using his wish to tangibly improve the lives of his family instead of selfishly improving his own life (via accepting immortality/godhood) or overthrowing the gods. Because the conflict isn't about the gods as rulers. It's about the gods as parents.

PJO's core thesis is Percy, who grew up knowing unconditional familial love, looking at this whole world of children who didn't and saying "that's not fair. Gods should be better than this!" But instead of destroying them the way Luke wants to, instead of overthrowing them and putting himself on the throne, he instead challenges them to be better parents and family members. To be part of the solution instead of the problem. And Percy's demands don't solve everything, but they were necessary first steps! Without forcing the gods to acknowledge a bare minimum floor of inclusion, the cycle would simply begin all over again the next time a major conflict popped up.

So that's the problem Percy solves and how he successfully fulfills the prophecy: by believing that the gods had the capacity to change and forcing them to break the cycle of familial abandonment, he preserves Olympus and takes the first steps towards a new status quo, one that is objectively better for demigods than the one he grew up in. That's why he succeeds, and it's why Percy overthrowing the gods would have made for a much less satisfying ending than what actually happened.

[deathlessathanasia]

A standardized set of twelve gods could be thought of as a ‘representation of the pantheon’, which is common to all cities. Thus, it is an integrative feature, almost a Panhellenic one. If so, you might think that the members of Dodekatheon would always be the same, but in fact the members varied like everything else in Greek religion. The most often cited group is: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes, Athena, Hephaistos and Hestia. Some are more secure in their position than others. Hestia and Ares tend to be the first to be jettisoned and we may find Dionysos, Herakles or Hades sneaking in. But the variations are often even greater. One strikingly aberrant list is the Olympic one, known from Herodorus, where the deities were arranged in six pairs: Zeus and Poseidon, Hera and Athena, Hermes and Apollo, the Charites and Dionysos, Artemis and the river Alpheios, Kronos and Rhea. ... The Olympian Dodekatheon is the best attested variant pantheon, but there may have been others. At Chalkedon, the twelve established by the Argonauts are reported by Herodorus (again) to have included Hades, apparently replacing Ares. Hades–Plouton was also included in Plato’s Laws. There may be another variant Dodekatheon at Pherai in Thessaly, where Stephan Miller reconstructed an altar with the heads of six named goddesses, which are plausibly taken as the female side of a Dodekatheon, and which include Einodia (a form of Artemis?) and also Themis. - Ian Rutherford, Canonizing the Pantheon: The Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins

Discussions and works based on Greek myth are often so rigid about which gods should or shouldn't belong to the dodekatheon, given the variations that existed in Antiquity. It looks as if the only debatable place is that of Hestia or Dionysos, but the idea of the six altars at Olympia and the altar of the six goddesses at Pherai indicate that Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis or Hera could also be absent from the Twelve, not just Hestia. Dionysos could be excluded, but so could Ares and Hephaistos. It is also misleading when people speak of the gods as the "twelve Olympians" with the implication that "Olympians" are necessarily a select group of only 12 gods (when for instance Herakles also could be worshipped as one of the Olympians as attested in Herodotos, Histories 2.44 and the Muses are called Olympian by Hesiod), or that the twelve must necessarily live on Olympos. It's the 12 gods, not the 12 Olympians.

[warpcorecontainmentfield]

We neeeed to save B’Elanna from white men

THE THING IS. i think there could be an angle of "tom encourages b'elanna to embrace klingon tradition" that does not lead to fetishy interactions.

because obviously a lot of her avoidance of klingon culture is rooted in the fear of rejection her father's abandonment caused. and she resented her mother because she blamed her for a lot of things. BUT. she still lived on kronos for a long time (which. i have headcanons about. whatever) so she obviously knows it and has lived it, but her view of it was so colored by her father, a lack of understanding from others, and a society that fails to address racism because "they solved that a long time ago"

b'elanna has anger issues that are mostly overstated by the show, but part of her arc is about literally integrating the two parts of herself. which i find really compelling. she'd internalized so much that she really did believe (at least in "caretaker") that her aggressive tendencies were her fault, her responsibility to repress. to avoid further stigma

so there are some moments between b'elanna and tom that i find cute because he goes "you should try rethinking your dislike for klingon stuff, it seems like you haven't given it a fair shot" (true) OR "you don't have to be afraid to show your klingon side because i love all of you and i won't leave you" (even though he gets all pissy about her emotions sometimes like in "vis a vis". again whatever). which is nice because sometimes you need outside help and validation to understand that it IS possible to truly love yourself by being loved for every part of yourself

but then sometimes it's like "haha babe you're hot when you're angry and not human" OR "ugh i can't believe you're being so KLINGON right now" (almost always false) there is also like. catastrophic levels of dissonance on voyager between how characters talk about b'elanna's temper and how she actually behaves. across the whole cast but especially with tom because he never knows when not to speak. i would never deny he says some awful things

of course the comparison to real-life racism breaks anyway when canon says that klingons BIOLOGICALLY are more likely to be violent and aggressive. like star trek vs writing an actually sensitive metaphor for racism. whatever

ok sorry for writing my whole ass p/t manifesto bye

[m4gp13]

I know I mentioned it in that percethan rb but I wanted to elaborate on why I think Ethan would have been more effective if he was friends with Percy before he joined the TA. I might have already made a post about this before but I can't remember so we're doing it again. (putting it under the cut because it ended up being a lot longer than I meant, oops)

First of all, depending on whether or not you believe Ethan found out Nemesis was his mother when he lost his eye and ran away, having Ethan as one of the protagonists early on would either make him an unclaimed protagonist or a minor god's child protagonist. We don't get any unclaimed protagonists for more than some of a book and there are no significant protagonists who are children of minor gods. This distances the audience from the struggles and goals of many members of the Titan Army because we don't know anyone who has those struggles or goals. Having Ethan as a protagonist would make their cause much more sympathetic to the audience and it would play into the disability themes of the series. Some disabled people have greater needs than others, or have comparable needs that just aren't being met by the systems in place. Characters like Percy and Annabeth have it relatively good considering they're children of Olympians who get their own cabins, but having an unclaimed protagonist or the child of a minor god would highlight the disparity between claimed children of the Olympians and those who aren't as fortunate. This struggle only exists in the abstract for the audience because we never really see it for more than a couple of chapters in the first book. Having a protagonist who is actively living through it would give it so much more weight and make it feel more like an actual tangible problem.

Also, whether he's claimed or unclaimed Ethan would be in the Hermes cabin at this point and I think it would be fascinating to explore what the cabin was like in the immediate aftermath of Luke's betrayal. We know Luke was integral to the social landscape of camp but nowhere was his presence more impactful than in the cabin he was running. We don't get much about the state of the cabin from the Stolls because it isn't in character for them to visibly dwell on it but it would be perfectly in character for Ethan to do so. He would be a great lens through which to see the fallout of Luke's actions and how the campers who stayed behind felt about them.

All the characters who join the Titan Army have either already joined by the time the audience gets to know them or they've already decided to join and are in the process of doing that. It would have been really cool to take a character that the audience knows as a friend to the protagonist and see them grapple with what Luke has done/is doing and ultimately decide that they stand to benefit more from joining the enemy than sticking with their friends. It makes Luke/Kronos's growing influence on the demigods feel more insidious because we actively see it ensare one of the protagonists and turn them into an antagonist. We get told that Luke is charming and manipulative and that so many demigods are getting caught up in his lies and end up joining the army but we never really see it happening in real time. We get Silena, yes, but by the time she reveals this, she's already decided she no longer sides with Luke and is only still working for him because he's blackmailing her.

But my favourite reason that I wish Ethan had been friends with Percy before joining the TA is this: Percy's fatal flaw is loyalty. The whole reason it's a flaw is the looming threat that Percy would sacrifice the world for those he's close to. However, his flaw never gets to be fatal because he's never really in a position where he needs to choose between the greater good and the people he loves. Ethan would have solved this problem. It would have made Percy sparing him in the labyrinth a much more weighty and foreboding decision.

Because in that moment, Percy knows Ethan is trying to join Kronos, and knows that he's willing to kill him in order to do that. Percy knows that the more people who join the army, the more enemies he will have, and the closer Kronos will come to being revived. But Ethan is his friend, so Percy doesn't care about that. He isn't going to kill his friend. And that comes back to bite him in the form of Ethan being the individual who actually revives Kronos. Ethan is also the one who captures Beckendorf and stabs Annabeth. In this case, Percy choosing to spare his friend's life has actual consequences for him, including the death of another friend.

Another reason this would have been great is because Ethan sort of acts as a foil to Percy. Ethan also chose personal loyalty over the rest of the world. Ethan joined the army because his mother asked him to. Everything Ethan does is for his mother's sake and his devotion to her cause blinds him to the collateral damage and the destruction he's causing. The climax at the end, when Ethan attacks Kronos, is him doing the opposite of what got them in this situation. He sacrifices personal loyalty to his mother in order to serve the greater good.

However, if Ethan and Percy had been friends before his heel-turn, that flips his betrayal of Kronos upside down. It becomes him putting his personal loyalty to Percy over the world his mother and Kronos promised him. In this way, not only does Percy see himself and his flaws reflected in Ethan, he is also rewarded for choosing Ethan (and by extension his friends and family) over the idea of the 'greater good' that the gods keep feeding him.

[bugwolfsstuff]

i must know the origins of this transmasc chiron you speak of, i love it

It spawned because I misunderstood a tag on a fic I saw but then it snowballed into a headcanon that is integrated into most of my AUs because

A. Kronos calling Chiron son in TLO w this headcanon implies either Kronos knows what trans is (did Luke have to explain to him what LGBTQ meant😭) and respects Chiron's identity just not everything else about him or Kronos just forgot how many sons and daughters he has

B. Dionysus is canonically (Mythologically is iffy) the god of trans people in pjo and I ship them both together

[percabetn]

i am quite curious about how they’ll handle in the show annabeth being a witness to luke and percy’s conversation at the end of the lighting thief because one of her most interesting developments in the first series was her inner dilemma of whether to believe in luke and that he was a good person to the core who would eventually come back to his senses, or believe percy when he would tell her that he willingly gave himself to kronos and that he was inherently evil, therefore choosing to fight against him

i mean this is literally an integral part of her arc, being so in denial to the point she lets herself be manipulated by him and always thinks that he’s not a villain and it’s just kronos using him like a puppet, because he was one of the first people who cared about her and quite literally saved her when she ran away… but in the show she was there to witness how he had the intention of killing percy had she not intervened so…..

[charlottedabookworm]

kay so- titans curse

(shush)

i uh- odysseus!percy would 100% not be sniping at thalia. thalia might be sniping at him, cos that definitely went both ways iirc, but percy wouldn't be playing along cos yeah okay his memories are a lot more integrated now (since he isn't facing odysseus' worst hits anymore) and he's still 14 but odysseus was already king by 14 so he's actually used to teenage hormones + having to make decent well thought out decisions

but heres the thing

without percy and thalia fighting each other more than mr thorn, that fight should go A Lot better. which means annabeth shouldn't end up being taken

which sorta leaves the option that nobody is kidnapped (boring but plausable), annabeth is somehow still kidnapped (also boring but again if she is specifically targeted to get to thalia, plausible), one of the di angelos is kidnapped (this would have overarching issues across the entire story that i'm not sure i wanna play with and also there's no real point to it since both thalia and percy are older), or

well

i could have percy being the one taken. esp because lets be real, thalia is gonna be more focused on annabeth out of habit cos to her annabeth is still tiny, annabeth is gonna be torn because big sister new demigods best friend (still in a minor crisis) and the di angelos currently know fuck all

plus after what happened in remembrance kronos is probably even more curious about percy and luke is definitely pissed

so i am very tempted to have percy be kidnapped

esp cos after the seven years on calypsos island he is uh- not gonna take captivity well

at all

which could be very fun but on the other hand it also massively changes the whole of titans curse so i'm really not sure if it's feasible. then again, having a percy who is also odysseus also fucks over the whole of titans curse even if he isn't the one taken so

on the third hand i'd always planned for the solstice celebration in titans curse to be when gods figure out that percy remembers his past life

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[justaneedle]

Hey again! I saw a post about you being expelled from school? Gosh, hope you can figure things out and you can finish your education. Times are hard so I hope you have a good support group.

Speaking of support, is there a PJO character you would pick as Luke's romantic partner in a better world without Kronos? You can change their age too since there are not many kids around Luke's age. If not, what kind of female OC could you see Luke being with?

Okay, first of all, thank you for your words, that's really important to hear ❣️

It's going to be a bit messy, but: since we're talking about it, I'm finally ready to express some thoughts about a ship like Bianca di Angelo/Luke Castellan (yeah, it's really a thing, and my two favorite examples are in Russian), because Bianca (as well as Lee Fletcher, Jason (TTC), Silena Beauregard and others, aka every character except the main ones and some others like Nico, Rachel, Thalia and Zoe, who as characters are also inferior, but at least one step ahead) — the basis of the OC right in the universe. They are effectively either devoid of personality at all, or they have just a few strokes instead of the normal motivation and personality.

How interesting it would be if di Angelo sibs had been dragged out of the hotel earlier. Perhaps even separating them in the process (for example, leaving Nico there, but pulling Bianca out), which would give her the opportunity to become independent from her younger brother, but also force her to wade through hardships in the world of the gods, which would eventually make her think that Nico, even if trapped, alone, but at least safe; and for Nico, it's still the same line with the loss of his sister, only more logical. But I'm just talking about how age-up can be logically and interestingly integrated directly into the plot in this case.

So here I will move on to the more interesting part for me — how the dynamics of Luke and Bianca can work. In this case, these are both reflections on the canonical character and the part with OC, since it's based on how I read her few appearances and how I see opportunities for building her character:

• Parallels with Thalia, which would be especially interesting if we consider the time period after she becomes a tree; add points to the fact that Bianca has a connection with the dead.

One of them connected with the sky, while other with the (U)nderworld. Both of them are daughters of the Big Three, older sisters who somehow left their younger brothers, their fathers are more supportive of them than of their sons, both are effectively useless in the universe and even wasted in the same way in the same book — the Hunters of Artemis (ew). Bonus points to the fact that Hermes is a messenger of the gods and under Zeus, and at the same time the psychopomp, a guide of souls to Hades. But whatever.

Obvious similarities and differences will play a role in the opportunity for Luke to reconsider his relationship with Thalia, perhaps identify mistakes that he would not like to repeat, plus it would sucker punch, possibly activating even more unhealthy coping mechanisms that need to be sorted out.

• The opportunity for equality between them. It's something that Luke has never experienced in his life, even while traveling with Thalia, because she was always pulling him along. In the case of Bianca, she would not have sought to lead, because it would have resembled this deep responsibility for Nico (we're setting aside the fact that there are no real prerequisites for this in the book itself, since this is almost the only component of her character and motivation in the canon), but the option of simply following also seems wrong, because she was trying to find something more suitable for her.

• By and large, Luke needs a strong, stable, but not codependent relationship. A relationship where he would be seen as a partner, not a very convenient tool that has no right to his aspirations (literally, the relationship of Thalia and Annabeth to him).

[newathens]

the dream sequences that percy experiences in tlt are integral to the series because they immediately connect percy to his father & family. in these dreams we are given symbolic and literal imagery of zeus and poseidon fighting and being, unknowingly, influenced by kronos. so that oppressiveness isn’t known to them but is being directly depicted to percy who, both times, is panicked, upset and scared by this imagery and basically senses kronos’ presence there. by showing him these dreams, kronos instills this fear of himself into percy, who is affected by the idea of his father in trouble. and what’s funny is, percy’s fear doesn’t manifest that strongly. he brings kronos up to poseidon at the end of tlt, but poseidon then says zeus has barred them from discussing kronos. so really, it is the gods who are aware and scared of kronos. percy experiences the fear of his father who, in the dreams being nearly infantilized, is a son being manipulated by his own father, and unable to stop it

[anotheroceanid]

Can I ask you some questions about WTHB? You don't have to answer if you don't want of course (: Did Apollo or Poseidon build temples for Percy when she was missing? With statues of her? 😌 Will Nico act like a big brother to the triplets?

And not about WTHB, do you have any headcanons to the PJO universe you'd like to share? I saw your posts about Rhea/Percy & Kronos/Jason, but do you have other hc? (:

Well see how the world reacted to Percy's disappearance, and I fear I can't say much about how Apollo specifically reacted without spoiling three chapters at least lol

About Nico: he'll eventually make peace with it, but at first I think he’d be annoyed by the triplets. But eventually, yes, 100% big brother!

Hmmm, has… that's complicated, because I usually integrate my hca into my writing so y'all kinda reading a lot of hcs of mine everytime y'all read WTHB (or other fics I might post in the future). I usually just realize that I have hcs after I add them to my writing somehow lol

I like imagining Sally as a legacy, which I think its a relatively common hc but I’m really invested in it.

I hc Silena as camp mom before Percy

For some reason, I always picture Connor, Travis and Drew as a group of friends. Like, no reason whatsoever, I just usually picture them together when I daydream scenes of them.

[deathlessathanasia]

I dont like Rhea.If I worked that hard to save my 5 older children from my cannibal husband’s belly

I sure the hell would not stand by

…as Zeus cannibalizes his pregnant wife/my niece who saved my other kids by making my husband throw them up

…as Zeus constantly cheats on, humiliates, and actively abuses Hera, my own daughter

…& support Zeus’s homewrecking side hoe over my daughter who got cheated on

…as Zeus rapes a bunch of poor mortal women

…as Hera punishes those women (what kind of mother supports the willing mistress who insulted Hera but not Zeus’s victims)

…as Hades kidnap-marries my granddaughter organized by Zeus without even a heads up to her mother Demeter

…as Poseidon rapes Demeter while she’s searching for her missing daughter

…as Zeus shapeshifts into Hades to rape Persephone, his own daughter

She is a pick me boy mom who doesn't care about any of her children besides Zeus. She doesn't stand up against Zeus knowing damn well that Hera cant

I get what you're saying and it's certainly possible to explore Rhea as a morally ambiguous figure (she does after all stand by as Kronos eats 5 of their children in most versions), but I don't think it is reasonable to expect such interventions from her in the myths. These are not real people with consistent personalities and morals, they are (in this specific context) characters with particular roles in a narrative. If a story has no need of Rhea to be present, then she is not going to be included in it. It's that simple. Why does she appear in the Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter? Likely because she is the mother of both Zeus and Demeter, which makes her a fitting mediator between them. Maybe also because the narrative is concerned with family bonds and relationships between women, so who better to help Demeter (a goddess who had lost and recovered her daughter) come to terms with the new order of things, with her girl having become a woman, than her own mother? Why is Rhea present on Delos for Apollo's birth in Homeric Hymn 3? Well, obviously it is meant to glorify the recipient of the hymn, hence why all goddesses except for Hera are there. Even Hera's enmity glorifies Apollo since it is caused by her envy at the greatness of Leto's son. This is not a narrative about homewrecking, but about the birth and integration in the pantheon of one of the most important gods. Leto is not Zeus's side hoe but his respectable consort whom most deities seem to like and esteem. Why does Kybele/Rhea sometimes raise and instruct Dionysos? Presumably because of the similarities between them and their rites, as pointed out for instance in Strabo's Geography 10.3.13.

In many other stories, by contrast, Rhea's presence would serve no purpose. The cannibalism of Metis? That is (primarily, though there is a more symbolic meaning to this too) about Zeus evading the succession cycle and proving himself more successful than his predecessors. Rhea played her own role in this cycle, it's not her business anymore. Besides, it is not only Rhea who takes no issue with this, not a single god does: not Zeus's siblings, not Metis's parents or siblings or even daughter. Morally speaking, it is a non-issue for everyone because the narrative doesn't require it to be an issue; Metis quite literally exists to be ingested and assimilated. Zeus cheating on Hera? Zeus and Poseidon raping? Those myths are primarily about the birth of various gods and heroes. What would forcing Rhea into these narratives accomplish? She is not needed, so she plays no role, just as other goddess mothers don't get involved when their sons assault or kidnap women. Why would they? Those myths are not about them. Hera taking revenge on the occasional woman? Again, has a specific purpose (gotta explain Io's connection with Egypt somehow), is required by the narrative. Rhea is not needed.

I should also point out that Rhea herself can be powerless before Zeus. You mentioned the Orphic tale where Zeus impregnates Persephone in the guise of Hades, yet Orphic tradition infamously also involves Zeus forcing himself on his own mother.

Now if you were to write a story based on the myths in which Rhea would be aware of all the things you mentioned, would be able to do something effective about them and would not care to, I agree she'd look pretty bad.

[glasseyeartspy]

Redesign: The Delta Hive

So I've been a lifelong Alien fan and Romulus got me out here redesigning one of my hives. Formerly known as the Zalox hive, this is a two part family, with heavy interference from the lab that studies them. (Delta Zwei)

Queen Gaia and her younger sister Mya, as well as their one surviving drone, Ni'kita. Mya was temporarily separated from her sister to prevent the queen from killing her. The scientists knew enough time would cause the young Gaia to grow to the point she no longer saw her sister as a threat. At least, that was the goal. She was re-accepted, as the hive had gone into collapse leaving the sole drone, Ni'kita, and the queen alone. (This was done intentionally, as all eggs were being destroyed behind the scenes.) Their desperation was the goal.

Once in this state, the scientists integrated five other experimental drones. Each had been taken from previous hives, and propagated in either a host, or artificially spliced with various species. Xi' is the eldest female of this set, artificially spliced with a Malayan Tiger. Siam is the eldest male, and was hosted by a Maine Coon Cat. Klaus is the middle male, artificially spliced with a Snowy Owl. Kronos is the youngest male, artificially spliced with a Yautja. Cinder is the youngest female, and in the hive over all, hosted by an Australian Shepard Dog.

After a successful integration, the Delta Hive is doing exceptionally well. The eggs produced by Queen Gaia are sold to various defense contractors, highly prized due to their strength and relatively low-rate of going feral due to further chemical intervention in the egg phase.

(Original under the cut)