Thanatos and Hypnos, both born in Tartarus, their mother and father still live there, sneaking downstairs after they realize Nico is there and they try so hard to hunt him down and bring him home but monsters flock him in multitudes and he's locked in a small tight cage most of the time and it is miserable to see but he's alive and a fighter so Hypnos gives him sweet dreams and Thanatos instills a boost to his powers for when the monsters make him fight and they go home to tell Hades he's still breathing, he's not safe but he's alive, he's vicious and angry, he'll survive.
Hades stands beside the pit. Its vicious pull cannot affect him. It's merely his basement, another notch in his realm. He's weaker there, sure, but stronger than most. He can hold his own against Tartarus. He has for years when checking in on prisoners. The man's cold whispers mean nothing to him. The burning sulfur doesn't bother him.
It's still his world.
It will always be his world.
But when the stories are told, his brother, his paranoid brother, will hear about how Nico battled through Tartarus alone and was captured. And if Hades goes down there, he'll hear about that too. He'll hear about how he ventured into the land of monsters and enemies to save his son. He won't think that Hades fought them all off.
He'll think he struck a deal.
It's like standing in the hotel lobby, watching his children play, knowing his other children are being sentenced to a violent gruesome death at the hands of their uncle, listening to Maria insist her children must remain in the living world despite all his knowledge that they will die if they do.
Knowing he can do so little to protect them in a way that won't have his brother reacting in all his irrational paranoid ways.
It must be so tiring to be so worried that everyone around you is an enemy. He pities him sometimes.
Now he's just fustrated and angry. His son sits tortured beneath his feet and there's little he can do to help without enraging the world above him. He's proved himself in so many wars, is known by mortals for his dutiful indifference.
But all they see is the end of their lives.
And so his son must suffer.
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You know what? I don’t WANT an awkward double date. I don’t WANT buck coming out and people having the ‘I know’ reaction or the ‘is it Eddie’ reaction.
You know what I do want?
I want Buck panicking over what to wear for the date. I want Buck flopping on his bed like very teenager after their first kiss all giggly and happy and touching his lips because he kissed a boy
I want Buck smiling every time he says Tommy’s name because maybe it isn’t forever and maybe he’s not even looking for forever anymore but he’s so happy and he’s so light and being with Tommy feels good
I want Tommy to keep calling him Evan, because before Buck was Buck he was Evan and Evan deserves to be happy to be treated so softly and lovingly and Evan deserves to be free.
I want Buck to be happy. To be happy and free and queer in the way we all deserve.
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Sometimes it causes pain.
EDIT: 139NOTES??! YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY, OH MY-
EDIT 2: DUDEEE, IT'S NOT EVEN THAT GOOD,IM CRYING OVER ALL THIS HYPE
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i think about that period of time where dick had to step up and be damians mentor but didnt actually want to like twice a day
he fought a lot for a kid he had to learn to love the hard way
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Having Kiki and Vax thoughts again this time about the more abstract idea of the champion of the goddess of death being in love with an almost immortal woman, the only way they can be reunited is by waiting a thousand years until her death and he will show up time and again to make sure she gets to live those thousand years, there is a woman that the embodiment of death is in love with and he ensures her immortality
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