This is late cuz my phone gallery has been a massive bitch tonight, but here goes...
She's still holding him off. Not good, and it gets worse as time goes on. Hades is trying super hard not worry or panic, but it's not helping.
Thanatos is still MIA as well. Even Daphne hasn't heard from him, but now, she's going to be worried too.
Is this "Call Hermes" whistle anywhere in the original myths? Seems kind of a random thing for Hades to have.
Seeking out Ares as "death-adjacent" is a logical path to follow. Given that Aphrodite is with Hephaestus now, you'd think Ares would do his war job....more effectively? You know, MORE people dying rather than less? After all, where there's war, there's death...
Finally, some fucking progress with this! Persephone, you couldn't have dropped at least a little more information as to what's going on? If it was super personal or something someone else isn't supposed to know about, the least you could do it tell your husband!
Excellent question! Did she get PTSD during the wedding night? Did she not enjoy it? Was the dream dive too much for her?
OH.
So.... there are a lot of variations on the origin of Dionysos...
Zeus r*ped Persephone and Dionysos happened.
Zeus slept with Semele and she got pregnant; TL;DR Hera got Semele dead, but Zeus saved the baby by... attaching him to his thigh?
Dionysos and Zagreus are the same deity.
There are other variations, but these are the most common.
In terms of LO, I doubt it's the Zeus/Persephone one. Zeus is an asshole, but pretty sure there are some buttons of Hades/Persephone you DO. NOT. PUSH.
Zeus/Semele is the source I'm guessing Rachel is aiming for, but I could be wrong.
Dionysos is Zagreus? Questionable, but it might be used to explain why he's with Persephone and not with, you know, Zeus up on Olympus. If we're going with the Zeus/Semele origin, then Zeus likely does NOT want Hera to find this kid. Better to try passing him off as his nephew, though with that purple coloration, it's a dead giveaway.
One last thing!
Persephone said the baby is "dying to meet" Hades. Is this a reference to the "death and rebirth" origin? In it, Zagreus is stillborn, but is somehow brought back to life as Dionysos.
Too many ways that this could go!
Anyway, thanks for coming to my LO post.
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So I get where Thanatos and Hades are coming from in this chapter. Unfortunately, due to the damage from their parents, they couldn’t express what they really wanted with each other and it led to animosity. But it looks like Persephone and Daphne have changed Thanatos and Hades for the better, and they have the pain of being separated from the women they love, so that shared pain has helped them understand each other a little better. I’m happy that both of them are moving forward. It looks like Thanatos is going to be more honest with his feelings and Hades is going to include him in more things so he doesn’t feel so left out all the time.
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We never actually see Apollo's reaction to Daphne's transformation, but there's a passage about Daphne in Hyginus' Fabulae that would have really hammered home how awful Apollo can be when his pride is damaged.
I'm going to put it under a cut in case anybody would rather avoid it as it involves the mutilation of Daphne's body.
"When Apollo was pursuing the virgin Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, she begged for protection from Earth, who received her, and changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo broke a branch from it and placed it on his head."
(The myths of Hyginus, 1960, translated by Mary Grant)
Not only does Apollo hunt down Daphne against her will, he snaps off parts of her transformed body to wear as a trophy after.
I know Rachel would never do it but there's potential for a whole new level of horror there.
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