#mortal!zagreus

[argetcross]

My partner commissioned @mayomkun for my Zagreus Mortal AU fanfic's 3rd anniversary (wasting beats of this heart of mine) last October! I kept forgetting to post it here, but I love the piece so so much, from the little skull on Callisto's head to Zagreus' chlamys. 💞💞💞

Link to the artist's commission info

#wasting beats of this heart of mine #hades game #zagreus #callisto #zagreus becomes a mortal au #wbothom

[baejax-the-great]

Query: How is it that despite having no concept of time, each of Zagreus's escapes just so happens to coincide with the dawn?

Answer: Nyx wants to watch the boss battle regardless of what time it is and will cover the world in darkness to do it, but also wants to be home before Hades gets there

Answer: Zagreus actually stays on the cliff until sunrise hits every time, which explains why sometimes he dies much faster on the surface than others

Answer: Helios has a massive crush on him.

#hades game #or is it apollo #Zagreus never once got to see the moon #Poor artemis #oh I know #Apollo wasn't involved in the escape attempts #so Nyx has to make sure daybreak occurs when Zagreus escapes #so that Artemis won't see him by the moon #she has to time it just right #Mortals having a very confusing season with all that snow and randomly lengthed days

[lunar-soren]

the model of the gods / at once divine and further flawed

#soren does an art #byleth eisner #shez #shezleth #what if we were the mortal avatars of diametrically opposed gods and we kissed. and we were both nonbinary #caption from the hymn to zagreus from hadesgame #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem three hopes

[adastra121]

I already imagined Leander with a British accent, but after learning he's actually Highborn, I'm now thinking about Zagreus from the Hades game! Because I remember seeing a comment on how Zagreus says "mate" in a way that sounds too posh, like a rich kid trying to be friendly and casual, but you can just hear their wealthy upbringing. And that reminds me of Leander.

#and they both apparently have a plot about running away from their homes #and apparently have motifs about mortality and immortality and death and rebirth #touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved leander #voice imagine #voice claim #hades game #hades #zagreus #hades spoilers #just in case anyone wants to play the game #Youtube

[crossdressingdeath]

Send help, it's 3 AM and I cannot sleep because the concept of Nico being Zagreus—not the Hades character, the myth, although still from the version where he's Hades and Persephone's son rather than the version where he's a prior incarnation of Dionysus—reborn has entered my head and decided to set up shop for the foreseeable future. It actually feels incredibly fitting from what I know about the myth of Zagreus (which is admittedly not a lot) and aspects of the books like Nico's unique connections with both Dionysus and Hades in specific and the gods in general (and possibly Bob if we do some mix-and-matching of the myths, since Dionysus-Zagreus was dismembered and partially eaten by Titans on account of the Greek myths being A Time) and the whole "When the time comes you have to tell Will the truth about who you are" thing in TSatS that goes all sorts of nowhere. I don't know, obviously I don't think it's what Rick intended but I do think it could very easily fit into the canon of the books!

...Or possibly I'm just sleep deprived. Did I mention it's 3 AM?

#riordanverse #nico di angelo #okay i kid but it IS a cool concept i think #i kind of want to write it not gonna lie #also 'he's actually a god and his currently-mortal body can't handle godly power' #is a fun explanation for why he keeps passing out whenever he uses his powers #zagreus!nico

[cleromancy]

i think the funniest thing to me about hades game so far is zags like. total lack of understanding of the concept of punishment. i think nobody ever bothered to explain the concept of hubris to him and now its too late and zagreus, who is tied for stubbornnest god in all of hell, really thinks they should all just cut the mortals some slack

#like ppl r like well they mortally offended the gods and this shitty little nepo baby (<- affectionate.) is lik #like* okay but theyre my friend? and i like them? i dont think they should have to be sad any more. #and basically everyone just lets him do whatever. #(SPOILERS SPOILERS) like hades yells at him all the time but the only thing he's seriously done anything about was zag trying to leave #frankly so far i think hades is kind of pleased that zags showing initiative its just buried under layers and layers of bad dad who is also #the god/king of hell and also No you can't fucking leave. #anyway (SPOILERS CONTINUE) Thanatos was just like #hey zag do you realize you could have fucked it up way worse for orpheus and euridice by interfering. and zagreus was like #🥺 #shitty little Nepo baby. heart of gold. im cradling him so gently in my palms #siskplays #hades game tag

[thatgirlonstage]

Hmmm. Hades game fic where mortals figure out a way to keep Zagreus in the human realm, trap him there, and then hold him ransom for immortality. Is this anything.

#hades game #writing #this is very. like the WHOLE underworld is mad as hell #I’d have to think real hard about how a bunch of mortals hide from like all the cthonic deities there are #but I want the tasty ‘all your friends you made come to your aid’ kind of thing #also some hades and Zagreus Complexity

[ocean-returns]

My kneejerk response to sequel announcements isn’t normally “fear” but Hades was simply that fucking good. Don’t misunderstand me. Supergiant is a great studio and greek mythology is perfectly suited to the task of story expansion and this is a game I'm excited to see them make. But sweet holy FUCK just imagine trying to follow that act. I’m getting secondhand performance anxiety just thinking about it.

(How could the core gameplay loop possibly be any better suited to the narrative? Will it feel derivative? Are the 40000 people who reblogged that “Zagreus is the character ever” post going to like the new protagonist? Me included? What about-)

#hades game #Hades 2 #She seems to be his younger sibling and we all know how HIS birth went so just try to imagine THAT family planning conversation #Zagreus secret bossfight perhaps? He works security #Do you think they’re going to give an in-universe reason why Apollo didn’t help Zagreus the original game #They don’t need to give reason but there are several perfectly good options #If Apollo was a mortal cowhand during Demeter's Eternal Fuck You Winter well then I think that's hilarious

[seeminglyseph]

Funny ways to have people explain why gods aren’t allowed to meddle in mortal affairs anymore:

Look. Kin-Slaying is a big taboo, possibly the biggest taboo for everyone everywhere. And we can’t do a war when Zeus has fucked everyone’s child bearing folks and therefore everyone is technically kin, and technically Zeus’ kin. And now everyone’s become a really complicated kind of off limits due to not fitting Olympian exception rules and therefore just being like “well I am very dissatisfied with this situation.”

#yes I am still thinking about the logistics of Dionysus vs Perseus with Heracles #when I think they should not all be alive at the same time but also are #Heracles is 41 and also old as balls #and dies shortly before the Iliad which does not feature Dionysus #Dionysus has an entire lifetime series of adventures before being accepted as an Olympian god because he is Technically Mortal Born #but unlike all other mortal born children of Zeus he’s a god either because he burned his mortal form off with Zeus’ light ugh #possesses Zagreus’ heart and was a full god all along #or breast fed from Rhea and gained Mother Fucking Magic #or all of the above and also he’s a nature god and nature gods are not fucking playing #but that only makes sense if he has Zagreus’ heart and maintains a line of Demeter-Persephone-Zagreus-Dionysus #and therefore his nature powers are an extension of Persephone and Demeter who are two of the most powerful goddesses #but I think it’s something that helps make sense of the already present nature aspect of his being

[argetcross]

wasting beats of this heart of mine by ArgetCross

Chapter 29: The Gods of the Dead

The high-vaulted halls of the House were quiet when Megaera returned from her shift. She cast a glance towards the throne, and, upon seeing it empty, sighed. Lord Hades had returned a few times since their last all-hands meeting, but rarely for long, and the paperwork on his desk had piled up into a small mountain. Nyx was not in her usual niche as well and, with its two pillars gone, the House had sunken into a languorous and subdued mood.  After tossing a doleful Cerberus a new bone, Megaera headed towards the entrance of the hall. 

Read it here on AO3!

#hades game #megaera #thanatos #hades #thanzag #wasting beats of this heart of mine #my fic #my work #zagreus becomes mortal au #zagreus #he's mostly here in spirit this chapter #no one has a good time in this chapter except me (the author) #please enjoy the most dysfunctional household #also please enjoy my shade against orestes #blink and you'll miss it but it brings me delight #arget updating twice in one month? insane #it's true i'm losing my mind

[hymnblood]

imma be that mean bitch and propose this. i hc that zag’s blood can prolonge someone’s life if consumed, so what if he ended up using his blood to try and save someone dear to him, but it’s just such a selfish thing of him to care, to love someone so deeply that the thought of losing them would completely shatter him? like can u imagine the sheer desperation and need in his voice to practically beg the other to accept his blood so he can p much heal / save them but they refuse it ?? 

#i love the immortal / mortal lovers trope and zagreus using his powers / blood to try and save his injured love #only to watch them refuse him

[zagrean]

Actually, if Heracles really is the son of Lord Uncle Zeus, wouldn't that make him my cousin? Or is this another one of those tall tales of his that somehow ends up as "common knowledge"?

#ic text #//not sure why some supposed demigods in hades are mortals but others like persephone and zagreus are like. straight up immortal gods #//unless heracles *isn't* the son of zeus like how theseus isn't the son of poseidon in hades #//and it's another exaggeration on zeus' account #//would make sense that way i guess #//then again we never actually see or hear from heracles at all so i guess we'll never know #//hey maybe in hades 2 then jljfkl

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Do you have more zagreus interacting with other gods? Thanks so much

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Dionysus did not manage to vault himself from the half mortal son of Zeus to a god of the pantheon without learning one very valuable skill.

How to keep his mouth shut.

When news of strange fruits extending the lives of those that at them started circulating, Demeter came to him first. A reasonable assumption, considering all the things he can enchant grapes to do, but the enchantment is different enough from his own powers that he'd managed to convince her he had nothing to do with it.

All of his vines among the mortals had withered. His dryads are sleeping. He can grant the temporary passion of madness to stave off the cold, but that leaves them weaker and hungrier than they were before.

He's tried to move against Demeter, to preserve his own power, to keep the death toll of her grief from destroying the mortal plane.

He's failed.

The only ones that possibly could are Zeus and Hera, but what happens off Olympus isn't their concern. All mortals die, after all.

Plus their own worship hasn't been that badly affected, as king and queen of the gods their blessings and favor reign supreme and the mortals don't dare snub them. If it had been, maybe they'd make more than a token effort of reigning Demeter in.

The only one that has managed to slow the pace of winter is the nameless god known as Prince, who's fruits and gardens and followers unfurl across the icy land like a leaf pushing through the earth to herald in spring.

Dionysus is sorry about Persephone. But forcing spring to die with it's goddess makes no sense. The seasons predate them all and going against the cycles of nature, even as the goddess of it, isn't sustainable or logical or fair.

Not that Demeter has ever claimed to be any of those things.

Dionysus doesn't know if everyone really doesn't know who Prince is, or if they're all playing dumb like he is.

It's not like Demeter could get to him, after all.

He's already dead.

#prompt answers #prompts are closed #asks #cherryblossomshadow #hades game

[knucklestheenchilada]

Rip (literally) to the mortals who died and met Thanatos after Zagreus got imprisoned by Chronos…. That is not a timeframe you want to meet death incarnate in

#hades #hades 2 #hades game #hades ii #thanatos #zagreus #thanzag #He hast to keep working though right? #Like than is so important and his job is so vital #But now he’s doing it very pissed off #yeeesh