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I listened to Ruthlessness from EPIC too many times.
Just...Percy sending Medusa's head to the God's. I know it happened in the book, I read it two years ago, but, seeing it in the show was awesome, he's just like, "Ok, my dad knows I exist so...now I will make it his problem." He's just...he's Percy Jackson.
The last saga, the Cyclops saga ended with Athena and Odysseus leaving their partnership, and all that good stuff.
Now we will pick up with Odysseus and his crew fighting through a storm in the song Storm. Then Odysseus will talk with Eurylochus about Odysseus tactics in Luck Runs Out. Odysseus will then talk to Aeolus on the floating island in the sky in the song Keep Your Friends Close. Then, the Ocean saga will close out with Ruthlessness!!!
It’s been on my mind a lot how funny and cool it might be if a Hades much closer to actual mythology met some of the god and goddess characters in Disney’s Hercules. Here’s my interpretation of the introduction!
So with the previous Hades gone, a “new” Hades brought in from a dead timeline or a new Hades altogether based off of actual mythology is brought in to take his place. The meeting between him and the other gods and goddesses isn’t exactly the best, but things definitely could’ve gone worse. This Hades looks pretty different from him and he’s much nicer and more polite. Zeus and Posidon are both understandably a little skeptical of him, but are excited about the potential of having a new start with their brother, while still acknowledging that this isn’t the exact god they knew before. The others are going to take even more convincing than those two.
The Big Three head down to the underworld, but upon seeing it, New Hades absolutely freaks out. He starts shouting things like “What is this?! Has Tartarus taken over?!” and quickly changes his attitude towards the other two. He tries asking politely for them to leave so he can work, but seeing that he’s clearly stressed out, they try to stay and help. It ends up with Hades slamming the door on them (metaphorically, but literally would be funny) and no one hears for him for the next two weeks. When he finally reappears, he apologizes for snapping at them and allows them down to see what he’s done with the place, and this time, it’s much closer to the mythological Greek underworld. As for Pain and Panic, New Hades has decided to assign them a few very small tasks in the worse parts of the Underworld to keep them busy, but as long as they’re careful, it shouldn’t result in them being in danger.
Like Old Hades, though, he probably tends to decline party invitations in favor for his work, but he tries to come if he can. Even though he gets stressed because he feels he doesn’t know how to talk to anyone outside of work related topics. Also, I heard somewhere that Hades in mythology has a permanent limp in one of his legs as a result of holding his siblings up in their father’s stomach. If we applied this to New Hades and gave him the limp, I bet he’d act like nothing’s wrong because he’s just used to it, but as he grows close with his new brothers, they’d begin to grow worried about it because it never seems to get better.
And also, New Hades adores Cerberus. And Thanatos is introduced as well.
And I don’t know about you guys, but I think it’d be hilarious if New Hades basically looked like Hades’ design in Overly Sarcastic Production’s videos because both Posidon and Zeus in the Disney movie had big beards, but then there’s the brother with no beard and a bit of a baby face compared to them, but his hair definitely looks good and fluffy.
Leo: A dancing machine. Anything you can think of, he knows the moves or is at least a well enough dancer to make it up in the spot and still look cool
Percy: Dances like Chandler Bing
Jason: Dances like Chandler Bring but with less confidence
Frank Zhang: Only does formal dancing, like where there are particular steps. Like the waltz. Or the cha cha slide. Does not freestyle.
Nico: Does not dance. MIGHT tap his food to the beat, but no more than that.
It was just the two of them and the depths Tarterus.
"Annabeth.. If we make it out of this.... could we get married."Percy said spontaneously. He was out of breath.
On the one hand, Annabeth was willing to wait a few years until anything like marriage happens. But on the other hand
this was fucking Percy, her boyfriend and love of her life.
Intellectually she knew they were too young. Percy probably knew too.
But at the same time she knew it was good to have goals when you're in fucking hell.
Something to look above the horizon and March toward.
And wedding bells a blissful life away from the gods away from the pain and suffering of this wretched place. Well that's sounds about heavenly right now.
" You know what " She was exhausted" Fuck it. Yeah, let's do it
She was also heavily pissed that what Her mother did and her mother's arrogance was very indirectly responsible for the situation she was in. Dad was much better thinking she was dating a screw up after learning his history of education.
There was one way to piss both of them off. It would be this.
"Really? "
Percy was surprised that Annabeth was actually okay with the idea. He had thrown it out more as an idea because quite frankly he didn't know if they would live but if There was a chance that was a goal they could make
"Yes Percy I would be delighted, now come here and kiss this bride." Annabeth pulled him close by his shirt.
(the two proceed to be the first two mortals who are still alive to have sex in Tartarus. It was just practice for the honeymoon)
As the couple marched their way through Tartarus facing danger after light threatening danger, their mortality slowly dripped away, leaving behind only the godhood and their bond of forging a lasting strength. Soon neither of them noticed the gold mixed in with the blood. They lost so much but they had each other.
The godly pair would escape by the skin of their teeth, but they would live. Even if they no longer bleed red. They still had each other. Even if Annabeth's voice was a lot more charming to her enemies, her mind was just as sharp. Even if Percy received far more power from before he entered the pit.