#(i just haven't been as invested in the canonical relationships in either hades game aside from this one)

[oldxenomorph]

maybe when i'm not so tired and preoccupied with other stuff, i'll write in depth about reaper!nemesis and melinoe.

but since i'm in the mood:

it's a relationship that full of complicated feelings piled on top of more complicated feelings.

nemesis made the choice to undergo an ultimate transformation that brought her closer to the emperor and nyx, but has also distanced herself from her siblings and melinoe. (hecate certainly has Thoughts about nemesis becoming the wrath of the emperor, but she keeps them to herself.)

i imagine the first time melinoe sees nemesis after her indoctrination, or realizes that she's become a machine, no longer wearing the armor or symbols that affiliate her with the crossroads or the house of hades, she doesn't understand. she may even be angry. why would nemesis do this to herself?

but nemesis doesn't expect melinoe to understand. one of the reasons why she did this was to protect her family.... and to protect melinoe. to ensure that when this universe ends, melinoe will exist, with her. she did this out of love for her family and for melinoe. the emperor would not have agreed to the process if nemesis was not motivated by love. (it is the most powerful force in the universe.)

also i know the multi-colored braided chord is meant to represent the silver sisters, but i like to think melinoe makes one for nemesis and ties it around her wrist. something of herself that nemesis can keep close when she's out there beyond earth, being the emperor's wrath.

also, also. i just like thinking about melinoe's ghostly hand in nemesis's much larger, mechanical one made of black metal and reaper technology. 🥹