I hope Thanatos comes back in Hades 2 as the biggest mess imaginable. Like I want him to be so depressed and miserable because all of his close allies and friends are gone because of Chronos. And Melinoë finds him and says "damn bro why so sad" and he cannot believe his eyes its the baby sister of his boyfriend alive and also his brother is trapped in eternal sleep (maybe Endymion and Selene lore???) And she is all like "yeah death to Chronos, join my resistance group" and he is like fuck yeah I'm death I want that bitch gone.
Either that or he is being controled by Chronos to fight Melinoë idk whatever works for me-
Pjo x Hades mortal au where it's a sitcom setup of Persephone and Sally getting married so Zagreus,Melinoë,Percy,Nico and Hazel become stepsiblings but the catch is there's no weird rivalry bullshit and it's just them being a big happy crazy as all milf(s)of fuck family that's healing from both old and fresh trauma together and having adventures and that includes Percy's egg cracking,Hazel being a disaster baby lesbian who still pulls girls and Zagreus getting top surgery behind a Taco Bell
words cannot describe how fucking hyped i am for hades II dude i don’t wanna wait until 2023 i want to break into supergiant’s studio and steal the source code
Can we talk about how Hypnos is essentially in a coma
Can we talk about the time jump from the end of Hades to how Hades 2 takes place
Skelly has a beard, Hypnos has long hair, Melionë was essentially raised by Hecate and doesn’t know her immediate family at all
Also has the House of Hades been captured by Chronos? Are they dead? Are they stuck in a time prison?
Imagine Persephone sadness when she realizes she never got to see her baby girl grow up just like how she didn’t get to see Zagreus grow up. LET MAMA BE WITH HER KIDS
Headcanon: Hypnos is the only Chthonic sibling in the House who has offsprings (the Oneiros) so Nyx tasks him with babysitting Melinoë when the others are busy.
Drawing this while realizing Hypnos is the only one who’s never been outside of the House in the first game. I thought it’d be fun to think of a scenario where he bonds with baby Mel while the others are out of the House. He’d have more experience since he oversees mortal’s dreams and is more in tune to their life, including taking care of a baby.
I’m one of those who think Hypnos is playing an important role in Hades 2. Think about it, with Thanatos trapped and Hermes too busy with the war above, no peaceful deaths occur to mortals and they continue to live, in many cases, in agony. So as to let them rest peacefully and not potentially become pawns in Chronos army, Hypnos would be busy trapping the mortals and lingered shades in perpetual sleep until the war is over, hence putting himself in the dreamscape and maximizing his influence.
Fuck you, have another Hades II character design thing I noticed and really like.
For those who know about Heracles, which is all of you lets be honest, you know he has a bit of a rage problem, Hera induced or not. I think SGG shows this off in a very fascinating way.
OK, so, Heracles' first and most well-known Labor is his slaying of the Nemean Lion after which he takes removes its impervious pelt with its own claw, taking it as a trophy and his first of many enchanted items.
Another thing I think we can all agree on about Heracles is that he's a fucking asshole, even by the standard of the Golden Age of Greek heros. This write-up will not be going into all the things he's done but just know he's not the most humane person while he was alive, and I can only imagine he only got worse after he ascended to full godhood after his death.
And I think Hades II shows that loss of what little humanity he had in a very interesting way.
It can be hard to notice when first looking at his portrait but look at his beard, how it's the same colour as the lions pelt, how they seamlessly flow into one another, making it nearly impossible to differentiate the two. And this is clearly a much much older Heracles, he died around the time as the other Golden Age heros like Jason, Theseus, and Perseus, who themselves were far before heros like Odysseus who as of Hades II has already gone through his odyssey, assuredly died of either old age or something incredibly stupid, and helped raise Melionë to adulthood, so all in all, Heracles is OLD old.
All those years have seemingly gotten to Heracles. Any drop of humanity that may have not been burned away in his pyre is, if not completely eradicated, very, very buried. He has fully become The Lion, a weapon of Olympian design, told to seek out and destroy the enemies of the Gods with no remorse. How he speaks with Mel shows this as well, how he thinks he is the only one who can stamp out the Undead inside of Ephyra, confused and annoyed in their first encounter on why she'd even bother.
It's... very hard to feel bad for Heracles. His life wasn't great to start out with, but he did many things in his adult life that were just outright cruel with no reason. But seeing him lose himself to The Lion, it does make you a bit melancholic, right? One of the most well-known figures of Greek mythology finally falling into what many of the Gods children become, a weapon.
Oh! Odysseus is like a mentor figure like Achilles with Nemesis being….Meg? but it should be noted you do fight Hecate. Like fight fight Hecate. I think we’ll eventually see Melionë fight the rest as this goes on.