#m: hera.

[nectaric]

🌻 teehee

i've complained enough this morning so i'll just talk about something else i really wanna talk about and that's zeus and hera ok.

i've been thinking a lot about their dynamic, and in particular, how i envision hera. and i think the thing i've come to realize is that hera's anger towards the women zeus sleeps with (and their children) comes from one of two places. fear of being replaced, and disdain at being lied to.

zeus has a lot of children with other women, and i really don't think that is the inherent problem. hera desires his fidelity, but in my context (and in the context of much myth, that is), zeus' affairs were rarely born out of a very deep love. they were necessities. the world needed heroes, and the world needed gods, and as father of the gods he took it upon himself to do so. so i think there are a lot of children zeus has, and women he's taken to bed, whom hera has no issue with (i mean, the muses, athena, hermes even, though don't quote me on it, persephone, perseus, etc etc). she's not mad that zeus does this. it's how he does it, and who he chooses to do it with that really becomes the issue.

some of the biggest sufferers of hera's wrath are as follows: leto, heracles, dionysusn semele, echo, and io. there are others, but i'm going to focus on these ones.

leto was a titaness, and a powerful one. a close friend of hera's, too, i like to think. so when she and zeus have children together, hera is not angry that he did it, she's angry about who it was with - and, in fear that of all the women he took to bed, she might be the one who could replace her - or that her children might be able to outrank hera's children. the affair itself is not the issue - hera punishes leto because she is furious at the thought of being replaced, and does so in an attempt to put leto in her place.

heracles, is, again, a massive threat to hera and her children, should he attempt to do anything about it. dionysus and semele hera punishes because of how much zeus loved semele (in my opinion). she feared that semele might be the one woman zeus loved more than her, and she punishes all of them for it. dionysus, the product of their love, earns the same ire. echo is punished because of zeus' lies, as is io. she doesn't care that he did it. she cares that zeus tried to hide it and lie about it, and so unleashes her wrath.

none of this is to say that hera is necessarily justified or that their relationship is healthy. but i don't think its fair to say that hera is just vindictive and jealous either. i think she handles her husband's infidelity well most of the time, but draws the line at threats to her and her children, or secrecy in it.

it's why i like to think that in later years, their relationship becomes closer as zeus' need for producing offspring decreases, and as they become more open about it all. zeus is a little bit more free to follow his heart, so long as hera knows and feels secure that he will always come back to her and choose her. and if he fails to do so, she will put him back in his place.

[m1tsuk1d0t]

Five minutes before god games:

[bloodyrosemisaki]

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[chthonic-kids]

grandma demeter is ready for war

[moritzarts]

HERE. IT. IS.

THE. ART.

[vaor]

gojo writing megumi a letter and all it says is "oh yeah your dad's dead. i killed him. sowwyyy~" is the cutest most on-brand thing ever

SOWWY!

[nitw]

this is the funniest boon ever. and right after an interaction where zeus was like "my wife just pretends that she hates me LOL playful insulting is what keeps a marriage strong 👍"

[valewritessss]

Percy waking up with no memories but that he hates a bitch named Ares and that he’s wifed up

[awnrii]

heard god games and sprinted to design the gods (except for hephaestus, because the animatic’s design for him is already perfectly how I imagined him LOL)

[zarekthelordofthefries]

You don't get Hestia as an option because what, you think I'm gonna make this EASY on you?

[d-choppy]

The Wisdom Saga is here !

i wanted to do some fanart of my favorit design of Circé, Hermes but especialy Hera ! i m so in love with her design ! a big thanks to @gigizetz for all of the animatic, i'm so in love of your work ! (it's a fanart of her versions of the characters of Epic the musical)

[nectaric]

i super stole this off the dash ( thanks @intothewildsea ) but y'all can do it too if you go here!

[mcsiggy]

I still need to read the Illiad /-\;

[moonlit-typewriter]

“With all due respect, which is none,”

- Percy Jackson, probably

[welcome-to-the-holonet]

Little sequel to this

[stealingpotatoes]

"where was ahsoka during the original trilogy" do you think the force is nice enough to chuck her out of the wbw at the same time as ezra. do you really

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