#human!zagreus

[fallowfrog]

"you wish to leave this place? then, it is my wish to make your doing so a little bit more interesting..."

#hades #hades game #supergiant games #hades supergiant #hades fanart #hades fan art #chaos hades #chaos hades game #chaos #fan art #art #my friend said it looks like he's showing zagreus a little earth gummy and i can't stop thinking abt it #“o son of hades behold a chewy and sweet version of the planet humans call earth” #(in a british voice) “woh thats so cool”

[maxgraydraws]

one year later here we go

#maxgray #maxgraydraws #digital art #hades game #hades fanart #hades game fanart #zagreus hades #zagreus supergiant #zagreus #human artwork #human artist

[5qui99l3draws]

still getting used to the Drawing Without Undo thing again but hades woke up a powerful desire to draw with ink on paper in me and I'm having a great time

#hades zagreus #hades game #hades #I'm still not sure how to tag this. shrugs #anyway there he is. my sweet cheese my good time boy #also. fun fact. I am currently on the proko human anatomy for artists course specifically because I want to draw better hades art. lmao #'I wonder what this new fandom is going to make me learn how to draw' I said as if it wasn't always going to be Beefy Dudes #also yes I did buy a new sketchbook and pen for this. thanks for asking

[marshmallowloves]

what if Zagreus couldn't hear shades talk and could only go by the emojis above their head

#continuing with this human shade AU type thing sdfgkhj #my art #hades #hades game #Zagreus #Cicilia

[prommytheus]

literally so important to me thats supergiant made the in-game hades wiki be written by achilles. his incredibly subjective thought hiding behind a thin veneer of objective truth, at times completely falling away to unravel his own trauma, regrets, and hatred of onions. absolute perfection im never gonna get over it

#i just love that they picked achilles. hes the natural pick of course-- hes seen much of the world and the gods and the underworld #and fulfills the role as zagreus's coolheaded mentor #but also he's the most painfully human character in all of fiction to me. and sgg digs into that and fleshes it out through the codex #hades #hades supergiant #achilles

[escapebygawking]

Thanzag is my comfort couple.

They start off, Thanatos being hurt and angry, Zagreus being clueless and not even realizing, huh, what, why is Than so grumpy...? Why is he not fighting me like Meghera?

And then slowly it gets all pine-y and they tiptoe around each other trying to get into the friendship zone, at least its better than being at odds..!

And then they both realize they want more that returning to how it was before.

And then they do..!

Its like, no matter how hurt or conflicted you are right now. It can get better. If both sides put effort. If you are willing to be friends, some nice things might follow.

Best wholesome romance ever.

#thanzag #thanatos #zagreus #hades game #best romance ever #friends to lovers is my favourite trope #mature conflict resolution is another #some petty wallowing is allowed #we all humans #even tho some of us are gods #yeah i am rambling

[kingworm]

'Heir of Persephone'

#zagreus #hades #hades game #persphone #zagreus hades #my art #illustration #fanart #i have this whole narrative in my head to explain an au of zag being persephones 'heir' and actually getting to be (partly) on the surface #with her #miles has heard me talk about it sm bc i only just started this game in dec #i think his time up there would give him more 'human' qualities hence skin tone #a strong healthy boy :) #who is short no matter the circumstances ❤️ #he cannot leave the cottage he will die lol #persephone au

[lokh]

[image description: a digital drawing of a slightly bloodied and bruised zagreus from the hades video game, grinning and shooting a peace sign. text is superimposed on the top and bottom, reading 'its not murder if they don't stay dead'. end description]

zag has a funny way of proving to tis that hes not a murderer (murdering her). i HAVE to wonder what his definition of murder is. also two birds one stone trans zag agenda

#does it not count unless theyre alive still??? in which case he has Definitely murdered whenever hes in the temple of styx??? #do they have to be human???????????????? huh?????????????????????????? #zagreus #zagreus (hades) #hades (game) #hades (supergiant) #does this have to be tagged for tity. its barely there. #ask... to tag????? #art #i was agonising over the bg then realised i dont give a shit. so =) #shoudl the fact hes got breasts be in the desc. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

banging my head against the wall it's the way Charley can be more herself with Six even though she spends their entire run lying to him about who she is because he's not the Doctor she saw lose his mind for her sake and shatter to pieces so many times, she doesn't have to be the bravest person in the room because he's not the same, not soft brittle broken Eight who can't separate his despair from her destiny, she can be more open and vulnerable with Six because he doesn't know her and because she doesn't know him and BECAUSE he holds her at a distance and is suspicious, at least that means they aren't all tangled up in each other and she doesn't have to be strong for him and can be a little bit more human again even though she isn't, completely, anymore

#maybe charley's arc with six is about letting go of her ''bravest person here'' complex #like she doesn't have to hold herself together for the doctor's sake anymore the way she did with eight #(and tbh she didn't HAVE TO with eight either. but she believed she did. begging her to kill him changed EVERYTHING. #she changed after that) #broken trust and broken hearts and the bravest person here #that's who charley became after zagreus but the thing is she's still human and she's a mess when eight isn't around #she shows so much more and lets herself FEEL so much more when she's apart from him but at the same time #they were so tangled with each other that she didn't know what to do without him #but with sixie it's different because he doesn't let her so close that it's dangerous and yeah she's a terrible liar #but both of them know that she's broken and needs a friend at the very least and tbh six is the exact friend she needed #he's so different from *her* doctor but he's still The Doctor and he's still her BEST FRIEND even if he doesn't know it yet #and she doesn't have to hold herself together. she doesn't have to be the bravest person there bc this isn't the man #who asked her to kill him and told her he loved her and was going to kill himself for it #he's the loud one who doesn't understand her but wants to. and maybe that makes all the difference #and maybe she can let go of the forced okayness she's made her identity for so long #idk I'm just. a mess about this today so shoutout to aurelia for getting my brain on this specific thing ahdjdhsjdjsjs #Lu rambles #dweu #doctor who eu #big finish audio #sixth doctor #charley pollard #meta finding tag #charleight #six/charley

[sacha-da-1]

Zagreus!Doctor vs Jacobi!Master

#the war master is a scary bastard i’d love to see his reaction to this #zagreus!doctor #eighth doctor #jacobi!master #the war master #doctor who zagreus #doctor who big finish #big finish #he might be scary but he’s also the master that would run away from the war and make himself human #so zagreus would certainly have lots of fear to play with with him #or the master would find him when was rassilon was trying to control him and be like #out of the way rassilon! this one’s mine! #and try to join forces with him to create chaos in the universe or something

[princelune]

mr. hadesgame: human edition

[ID: a waist-up drawing of a human version of zagreus from the video game hades. he is portrayed as a tan, muscular man with short black hair and body hair on his arms, chest, and armpits. he has a bit of stubble. he is leaning backwards and flexing his right bicep, smiling widely and looking to the right of the image. he has double helix ear piercings and black gauges. he is wearing a spiked collar, a black tank top, and maroon pants. there is a dark red towel draped around his neck. the background is a bright red with a white shadow of zagreus on the right and squiggly outlines on the left. there are three triangular exclamation points near zagreus' head on the right. the artist's signature is on the bottom left of the image. end ID]

#view it now. look with your eyes. #let it be known though he probably doesn't dress like this 24/7 as a human #this is probably some semblance of gym outfit. plus an added spike collar #speaks #hades game #zagreus hades #zagreus #hades supergiant #princelune art

[in-tua-deep]

love explaining a dream and my roommate just. comes over to stare at me like "bro what." anyway i think everyone's dream should include the lines "gods aren't born, they're made. like a chemical reaction, you are one way and then you are another with no way of going back. you go through a crucible of suffering and have no choice but to become, regardless of what you want."

#prometheus dream #my dreams #dream journal #but also like. pretty sure i talked to zagreus hades game in the same dream #so it's still just a dream lmao #i miss my dream dad he was so tender #but also i think he was guilty as well #i think it may have been his fault i became #i think honestly my roommate was taken aback by my beloved use of the word crucible #i read the crucible in high school!! i know the word! #high school me brain coming in clutch while i'm sleeping i guess #man though it really was so weird to just feel so molten inside though #pure heat and light inside of a fragile human shell #trying desperately to hold onto some semblance of humanity while knowing if would always fit like a shirt two sizes too small #knowing that there was no way back to being human after becoming #but sometimes making the choice anyway because what you become for is worth what comes after #i think that's why i ended up thinking prometheus #i read a post where prometheus put the god's fire on his tongue #and burned himself apart running down from olympus to bring fire to humans #i think that was maybe the dream inspiration? #haven't read that in years though

[foxstens]

hades is so good :’)

#my posts #gameblogging #liveblogging hades #im just listening to voice lines #as you do #AND THERE'S SO MUCH #THEY'RE SO VARIED #THEY'RE SO FUCKING GOOD #EVERYONE'S VOICES SOUND SO GOOD #AND THEY FIT SO WELL #and the gods have like this echo effect? #that's missing from gods and shades with human... relations... #its such a cool thing god #AND THEY SOUND SO FUCKING GOOD #and its just #oh my god there's so much #how many fucking lines can zagreus have about rugs #seriously he has a line for everything #and i just cant believe it #because this? this is totally unnecessary and nobody would notice if it wasn't there #if they didn't put this much effort into it #BUT THEY DID AND IT SHOWS #THIS SI A GAME MADE WITH LOVE #WHICH IS WHY ITS SO GOOD #makes me wanna play it again since there's so much dialogue i haven't experienced yet #:')))))))))))))))))))))))

[demigod-of-the-agni]

Some doodles of the Ninja, as well as some of my Chad Headcanons™ on the Ninja Team and what characteristics they retain after turning into something non-human:

Zane and Pixal: well. They're Nindroids. They've got cool metallic platings and armour. On a bad day they might quite literally glitch and spark. On a good day they'll recite random facts due to having access to the Internet.

Cole: He still has that scar after travelling through the Rift of Return; it often flickers or just starts ""smoking"" whenever he's stressed or anxious, and to calm himself down he listens to the songs his parents danced to.

Lloyd: He's part oni and dragon so of course he's going to have characteristics from both. Horns from the oni, pointed ears from the dragons, and that Zagreus eye colour scheme because he's Garmadon's son and the Green Ninja.

Jay: He may be human now but he was /so close/ to turning into a Fangpyre. Hence, his canines are still elongated to resemble fangs, and the freckles that miraculously appeared are actually scales that never fully managed to disappear.

Nya: Since she was stuck as the ocean for a whole year, she still retains the horns of her dragon form, as well as pointed ears because she was a /dragon/. Sometimes, when it's really dark, the markings of the ocean on her skin just. light up. Bioluminescent girl

Kai: literally nothing. He gets trauma for seeing everyone lose their humanity

#ninjago #ninjago kai #ninjago zane #ninjago cole #ninjago jay #ninjago nya #ninjago lloyd #ninjago pixal #ninjago headcanons #ninjago fanart #myart #nonhuman #it started with a simple 'kai's a mommy's boy for staying human the entire show' and here we are #digital art #digital aritst #kai smith #nya smith #jay walker #cole brookstone #i dont actually know what fandom calls him #zane julien #lloyd garmadon #artoftheagni

[cryptotheism]

The core of Orphism is the myth in which the titans tear apart and devour the infant Dionysus (called Zagreus at the time) like a sourdough bread bowl. In an act of revenge, Zeus incinerates the titans with a lightning bolt, turning them to ash, and it is from these ashes that humanity is born. The Orphics describe humanity with a dual nature; The Body, (or sôma) born from ash, and the Divine Spark (or psukhḗ) inherited from Dionysus’s incinerated corpse. (He’s fine, Apollo puts him back together.)

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[whencyclopedia]

Zagreus

In ancient Greek mythology, Zagreus is a god closely associated with the wine god Dionysus, the underworld, and hunting. A son of Zeus and Persephone, he is known in the Orphic tradition as the first incarnation of Dionysus, whilst other stories identify him as the son of Hades or even as Hades himself.

The earliest mention of Zagreus comes from a quoted line from the lost Greek epic Alcmeonis, a poem dating back to at least the 6th century BCE, where he is described alongside Gaia, the Greek personification of the earth, as "highest of all the gods" (West, 61). Yet some scholars believe this line was only in reference to him being the highest of all the gods of the underworld, as surviving fragments of works written by the Greek tragedy playwright Aeschylus (c. 525 to c. 456 BCE) identify him closely with Hades.

Zagreus is also the name often given to Orphic Dionysus, whose story was central to the beliefs of the followers of Orphism. In the story, Zagreus, a child of Zeus and Persephone, was killed and eaten by the Titans, except for his heart which was found by Athena and brought to Zeus. Because his heart was saved, Zagreus was able to be reincarnated as the god Dionysus. Zeus punished the Titans for their treachery by destroying them with a thunderbolt, and it was from their ashes that humanity was born.

Followers of Orphism, therefore, believed that humanity had a dual nature, one of the body, inherited from the Titans, and one of the soul, or the divine spark inherited from the parts of Zagreus ingested by the Titans. It was the central focus of Orphism for one to achieve salvation through acts of atonement during their lifetime or else be cursed with endless reincarnation. Aspects of Orphism, including the suffering, death, and resurrection of Dionysus Zagreus, and the idea of redemption for an original sin call to mind aspects of later religions, such as Christianity.

Origins & Interpretations

What little is known of Zagreus outside his association with Dionysus comes from fragments of lost works of Greek literature. He was certainly renowned, as a surviving quote from the lost Greek epic Alcmeonis offers a prayer to "Mistress Earth, and Zagreus highest of all the gods" (West, 61). The invocation of his name alongside Mother Earth seems to suggest that Zagreus was held in high esteem and was thought to be very powerful. Some scholars believe that the reference to him as "highest of all the gods" does not claim that he was the greatest god on Mount Olympus, but rather that he was the greatest god of the underworld.

This can be gathered from the context of the prayer, in which the hero of the Alcmeonis, Alcmaon, calls upon the powers of the earth to see the soul of his father safely transferred to heaven. Zagreus' status as a god of the underworld can further be attested to by two works written by Aeschylus. One of these references, found in a fragmented line of one of Aeschylus' lost Sisyphus plays dating back to around the 5th century BCE, identifies Zagreus as the son of Hades. Another reference, from Aeschylus' Egyptians names Zagreus as Hades himself.

Either way, Zagreus seems to have been a powerful underworld god, earning the epithet "Chthonios," or "the subterranean." As for the associations of him to Dionysus, scholars such as Timothy Gantz have postulated that the separate myths of Zagreus, a son of Hades and Persephone, had over time become merged with the myth of Orphic Dionysus, the son of Zeus and Persephone, so that the name Zagreus came to be associated with both myths.

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