#leuce lore olympus

[incorrect-lore-olympus-au]

Minthe’s advice.

Minthe: so, let me put this straight...

Minthe: YOU want to hook up with Hades, despite the fact that he just got married. He has already rejected you TWICE. And being aware what his WIFE is capable of...

Minthe: so you came to ask ME for advice?!

Leuce: yes! Anything useful you could tell me to get to him? And not getting turned into a plant in the process?

Minthe: *unamused* ...listen kid, i don’t dislike you, so i’m going to give you probably the best advice you’ll ever hear...

Minthe: Give. Up.

Minthe: Hades is not like his brothers. I’ve dated him long enough to know he’s not intereseted in pointless affairs. He wanted a QUEEN, and as far as i hate to admidt it, he already found the right girl for that, and that’s Persephone.

Minthe: honestly, who made you think trying to seduce him was a good idea?

Leuce: well, my cousin Thetis said-

Minthe: Thetis... *sigh* of course...

[lady-of-the-spirit]

They could have just explained the texts Hades sent Leuce as Kronos in Hades body, it makes sense and people already assumed that was the case, but no RS had to make Leuce look stupid and even worse than she was already making her. This is just the sloppiest writing I've ever seen. I can't even laugh about it.

[minthesupremacy]

leuke design from before the cursed days where she had that canon pink design

[candied-mushroom]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lore Olympus (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Minthe/Leuce (Lore Olympus) Characters: Minthe (Lore Olympus), Leuce (Lore Olympus), Thetis (Lore Olympus) Additional Tags: Sapphic, Get revenge on your toxic ex-friend by dating her cousin, wlw, Spoilers for season three of lore Olympus, Thetis tries being homophonic and it backfires horribly Summary:

After her plan of becoming Hades’s mistress fails, a dejected Leuce decides to go to the mortal realm to clear her head and instantly winds up head over heels for a certain river nymph… also Eros’s siblings may have gotten bored and stole his bow and arrow.

[pomegranatepomp]

A small Leuce edit solely because she deserved better, in every way

Gave her fangs to bite home invaders and axolotl-like colors for her dress & eyes because oceanid

Original panel under the cut;

[genericpuff]

the last few episodes of persephone moping around have felt like less of a self-reflective moment for her to grow and change and more rachel griping about criticism and surrounding herself with yes men

this isn't gonna be in any way a formal essay like my usual sort, more of a slam post honestly, so fair warning that i'm gonna be a little salty here

EPISODE 263 SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

but seriously, it's been a pity party of greek proportions because this constant "woe is me" shit with persephone that's constantly met with "no queeen you're amazing and perfect" has been going on for DAYS (real time and comic time)

literally every episode since the comic returned has had some segment of either persephone or hades (or both) being upsetti spaghetti over their current situation because oh nooo persephone made the deal with erebus and had to sacrifice something. even though they both knew that was gonna happen and yet she did it anyways. so she just continues to lock herself away in her mansion and spout adorkable quips while her husband, mother, and colleagues deal with the mess she caused.

and of course there's the constant inclusion of apollo spitting straight facts about persephone being a terrible queen and person, but of course because it's apollo saying it, it's not meant to be taken as gospel, essentially clapping back at the words of the critics who call out persephone for being a shitty and toxic protagonist by putting those words into the mouth of a literal rapist.

and yeah episode 263 had a lot of the same shit, to the point that you could literally swap out the names of the characters and the words they were speaking and it applies exactly to rachel and the corner she put herself in u.u it's been a thing for a while now that apollo has just felt like a mouthpiece for LO criticism but as mentioned by users within the subreddit during the discussion of this newest episode, it's never felt more apparent than now.

so yeah enjoy this satirical text edit of a sequence from the newest FP episode, which I honestly can't tell is meant to satirize the critical community or Rachel's reactions to the critical community because the weird reality this comic and its community exist in has just become that wack that it's hard to believe it's not directly from The Onion sometimes LMAO

-and as much as i find myself empathizing with the pressure that rachel is surely under right now - no one should have to be subject to the screeching howls of the peanut gallery - i can't help but be reminded of the memes and tweets she's put out that basically outright say "persephone is supposed to be celebrated for being a shitty person, if you can't handle her at her worst you don't deserve her at her best 💅"-

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-and how often she's ruined her own day looking for critical groups or people with the "wrong opinions" that were minding their own business, or how much she's stifled her own community's attempts to discuss the story openly by having her mods ban anyone with even so much as a question regarding persephone's integrity.

so yeah, as much as i can empathize with her from one creator to another that being under this amount of pressure and scrutiny must be immensely frustrating and exhausting, beyond that one similarity i just can't empathize or relate to this mindset of almost learned helplessness that's taken a firm grip over her writing. this is the story she wants to tell and by all means no one is entitled to make her stop, but if she's gonna keep using her greek myth "retelling" comic that's trying to be "feminist" as a mouthpiece for her own griping over criticisms that are largely on-point and justified - to the point of putting the words of her critics into the mouth of her token villain like she's playing some single player barbie doll "act out that fight that sounded cooler in your head" game - then she's gonna keep getting called out, full stop. i figured she didn't have any nose left to rip off in spite of her face but apparently not.

look, i get it, there are some opinions and behaviors within the critical community that even i'm not on board with. there are people who absolutely take shit too far on both sides of the fandom, and i think both sides need to do more to hold themselves accountable for how they interact with each other, the comic, and rachel herself. i make it a point to keep my shit in my own house, i'm not entitled to rachel's attention and frankly it's the last thing i want because i have a lot of fun here and i don't want that to be potentially ruined or dampened! but if you come into my house and complain about the decorating, then i legitimately don't know what to tell you. i used to love LO and i'm so sad for my past self knowing fully well they're not gonna be able to wholeheartedly enjoy this comic forever due to how manipulative and shitty the storytelling has become. a story that i once connected to as an AFAB who was a victim of assault and abuse and generational trauma.

if persephone being the true main villain in her own story was ever meant to be the point of Lore Olympus, then it's taken way, way too long to get to that point, and rachel herself definitely doesn't seem to be of the mindset that that's what she's become with all of her blasé meme'ing on a plot arc that she's still expecting us to take seriously. persephone was never a very complex character to begin with - being an easy self-insert for the audience and rachel to project themselves onto and relate to - but at least in the beginning she felt like she had so much legitimate potential, she was naive but put her best foot forward and clearly wanted to make a life for herself, made by herself.

now she's just mean. jaded and mean. dependent on the constant validation of others to the point of being manipulative. an absolute shell of a person who can only grow a spine when she's punching down on people weaker than her, completely incapable of standing up to the people who are a legitimate threat to her. it's not empowering, it's not subversive, it's just another pick me story about women pitting themselves against other women and never taking accountability for their own behavior, mistakes, and deliberate actions meant to hurt others, often teetering on the line of straight up narcissism all for the sake of a "boss babe" moment.

anyways, if you want an actual well-written and GOOD scene of an empathetic female protagonist struggling to find their footing in adulthood being called the fuck out for their learned helplessness behavior, go read Tamberlane, it tackles this topic much better through its main character who keeps using her brokenness as an excuse to never do better, it slaps and it's so real.

[femqueenkokichi]

Evil bisexual Persephone activities

[moony-2001]

Instead of studying for my classics exam tomorrow, I have decided to sketch

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So anyways, enjoy my version of Leuce

[infernothechaosgod]

lore olympus leuce is done dirty

okay everyone if you know the myths you know why I'm angry but if you don't lemme give you an explanation to why

Leuce in the mythology is a nymph who got kidnapped by hades and unlike persephone didn't have parents (her only parent okeanos the titan of the sea and you know where all the alive titans are? deep deep underground mostly without any option to interact with the world outside their prison) so when hades kidnapped her there were tears shared amongs her friends but there was no big "I just lost someone i dedicated my life to" moment.

Leuce and hades according to the myths loved eachother very dearly and lived and ruled the underworld happily but the nymphs did not live forever so eventualy she died of old age and hades burried her in elysium and ciried and grieved over her

Now you see in the myths she's the daughter of the ocean and a loved wife to lord hades, But in lore olympus well...

Shes a random woman who has to suduce hades...becuse!

Lore olympus leuce wasnt even shown as a ocean nymph at first byt a flower one, wich like...congrats ranch youre a real folklorist fr fr

But ignoring the nitpicking the part that annoys and even angers me the most about her is that her characterization doesnt show who she really was, THE DAUGHTER OF THE SEA shoud be shown as a very strong character, but even if you don't want that in Her love and care towards hades got completly erased! For completly no reason ecept "Hades and persephone are the real True bond lovers" wich like????? You coud have had multiple "true lovers"

She coud be introduced in a flashback as a girl who he liked but never got to confess to or his ex wife who died and the story coud have a really nice message about how you can really love multiple people in your life and losing one isnt the end but apparently we cant have nice things

[incorrect-lore-olympus-au]

Kronos’ DMs.

Hades: -so, to put it out short, all those DMs you recieved were from my father taking control of my body.

Leuce: aw, bummer...

Hades: yeah, sorry to dissapoint you, but-

Leuce: is he single?

Hades: ...what?

Leuce: what?

[nyxenthusiast]

I hate Lore Olympus threatment of the nymphs those are minor goddesses ffs

Especially the treatment of Leuce who, in the myth was Hades’s first love or at least his lover before Persephone.

and the characterization of Thetis who, in mythology refused Zeus’s (and Poseidon’s) advances AND was raised by Hera!! Like the number of women that could’ve been the homewrecker in Zeus and Hera relationship... why her.

[idkwhatimdoinok]

Leuce Redesign

I decided to go for the colour scheme of the poplar tree with the white and black. I am not upset with the character being pink, but it still makes no sense for her to be a flower nymph, like she could be pink and still be an Oceanid.

Personally, I would've replaced the whole Hera & Hades relationship with Leuce, which can explain why Hades has an unhealthy cope with Minthe & Persephone due to guilt.

(I am still upset about the random scale panel even though RS still messed up by making her a flower nymph despite being an Oceanid.)

Edit: BTW this edit was made without the Oceanid swirls I made with Amphitrite & Thetis, since I was thinking about her being a mix of Oceanid and flower Nymph. It would be interesting to get into certain features such as the swirls being a recessive gene.

[lo-shouldve-been-an-email]

Okay,since I’ve just randomly randomly just reblogging Thanatos things,I decided to actually post things,more specifically an LO rewrite because f it.

At its core I do think LO is a good story,just that bad writing has squandered any potential it has to be good,so please have my take on this.(more specifically my take on Persephone,hades,and Thanatos because I have to stay on brand)

Anyways-

(The sequel)

Persephone:

She’s older.shes physically in her late 20’s/early 30’s and about seven to eight centuries older.

Her AoW only extended to those ransacking the garden.(I swear,it would have been so much more understandable to root for her if it only extended to 4-5 people instead of an ENTIRE CITY,since we know other gods have done much worse)

Her work in the underworld was mandated by Zeus as community service for the AoW.

This is more or less Zeus hitting two birds with one stone,he gets perse to make community service and maybe(hopefully) gets hades to open up to the smucks outside of the underworld because he now has an employee not from there.

Due to her guilt about the AoW,she decides that while she’s working in the underworld she’ll set out to be the best her she can be and make up for the souls she took.

At first nobody really likes her and they just think she’s someone who needed to be dragged here by Zeus and won’t amount to anything,but she ends up being the hardest working of the staff and getting a fairly infamous “employee of the month” streak,her only real fumble being Sisyphus(of which she rightfully corrected totally not being getting Hermes to drag his ass down back to the underworld and give his his infamous punishment,of which instantly gave her back any respect she lost.

She’s the type of person you think you can disrespect until she gets genuinely mad at someone,in which case everyone goes out of their way to be nice to her even though it takes a lot to get her mad.

Demeter never sheltered her,just that she heard from her mother and brother(oh yeah Plutus is in this au their twins) about the shit that happened up their(even saw it for herself a few times)and decided to nope out of that drama.

She likes the underworld a more than Olympus due to the fact people don’t get butthurt nearly as much,due to them needing to deal with crap from other gods and sometimes mortals(like Sisyphus)

Demeter was an amazing mama and nobody can convince me otherwise.

Plutus told her about the underworld so she does know a bit,but otherwise it’s a cultural shock.

She brings homemade baklava in every day of work.

She actually sent a letter to Demeter telling her about the community service…however she never got it thanks to a certain daughter of Nyx always dead set on causing discord.

Hades:

It took him two solid seconds to realize what Zeus’ plan was with Persephone so he initially looked for any reason to fire her,until he learned she was here for community service and just decided to wait out her punishment(jokes on him Zeus forgot to tell perse what her sentence was so she worked in the underworld for like a year until demeter found her when in reality she was supposed to be there for like two months)

He does eventually soften up to her(obviously) but it takes a while and a lot of baklava.

Honest to god I have no idea how to incorporate minthe in this au

Leuce is his dead wife,she died fairly recently so he’s still hesitant to connect with anyone.(“I miss my wife,Thanatos,I miss her a lot I’ll be back-“)

Recently he’s been coping via sinking into his work,Hecate and the others have taken notice but they don’t really know what to do.(their the ones that CAUSE death not deal with it)

He slowly started distancing himself from the rest of his family after the titanomachy and even more so after leuce died.

The only person he acts openly soft around is Thanatos,who he views as a son.

The only part of his extended family he interacts with is Hermes,who he actually has a really good relationship with(albeit still strained since leuce)

Fuck it.everyone has flowers symbolism.

Hades is white lilies(subject to change),perse is asphodels,thanatos(and Hypnos) is poppies,leuce is forget-me-nots,Demeter is daylilies,Plutus is orchids,Hecate is nightshades or cow parsley.

Thanatos:

He genuinely finds it hard to focus on doing his job,so people just call him lazy,so he doesn’t really try to set the bar high in return because he knows he’ll just end up disappointing everyone.

The only person who doesn’t have low expectations and wants him to try his best at his own rate is hades,who understands he finds it hard to focus but still wants him to try his best anyways.

Rotates between living with hades and Nyx(who is an extremely doting mother.

Hypnos still resides within the hr department and Thanatos helps him hide because the last thing he needs is a grumpy Hypnos.

He deals with peaceful deaths while Hermes and the keres deal with the rest.

He’s the type of person to tell himself one moment he’s gonna be really productive today and then spend the next fifteen minutes chatting away with a butterfly.

Also he can talk to butterflies.but nobody believes him except Hermes,perse,and Nyx.

The moment he finds out what Eris did she gets the “WHY WOULD YOU THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA?!?!!?” Of her life.then queue Thanatos and the other Nyx children present trying to get her to explain why she thought this was a good idea and her just saying “bc it’s funny”

Erebus = dad with no physical body who still interact with me via shadows.hades = dad with physical body who I want to impress but I don’t know how.

(If you didn’t catch on he has adhd)

[pomegranatepomp]

More Leuce, because I kinda love her, just a little (has like 7 more panels of her ready to edit)

Original panel under the cut;

[kotamagic]

Lore Olympus bonus visual post!

There is soooooo much emotion in his face right here. There's shock, horror, shame, disgust the works in those eyes. Regardless of the fact that Kronos was the one rough-handling Persephone, those are still his hand marks bruising her throat. It was his body that did it, so naturally, he blames himself.

Some might perceive these as borderline sexy shots, but this isn't about sex at all. It's about comforting through touch instead of words.

I love you.

I trust you.

I'm here for you.

I forgive you.

I don't want you to hurt anymore.

There's an important intimacy here that's so crucial right now. They will work through this. They will get through it.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the vibes in this shot?

Thetis' bullshit plan to get the house to herself went caput. Not sure where Achilles is (probably in the mortal realm), but she should probably go check on him or some shit like that. That face and posture though!

And Leuce just looks straight up oblivious! Where did she get the baby chick, though?

[tumb1rprincess]

So I know people are already ragging on Persephone for how she treated Leuce, but I saw it as her ensuring that Leuce doesn’t try meddling with her marriage again. If she had taken the high road, Leuce would have probably seen her actions as okay and try to hit on Hades again and again. Persephone had to nip this in the bud before it escalated. And honestly, she could have done something much worse than bring a bunch of animals into Leuce’s apartment.