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[romanestuffsposts]

Can we have a beach day fic maybe the reader is anxious to go in the water at first but as soon as she goes out with her daddies she wants to go as far out as they can reach ❤️❤️❤️

Hi there love! 💜

Of course I can write that for you, I’m so sorry it took that long to be out. I hope you’re okay and will be happy with the fic 🩷

Enjoy beautiful <33

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Warnings : fear of sea, anxiety, pet names, reassurance, kisses,

Pairings : Daddies!Stucky ; Daddy!Bucky x Papa!Steve x Little!Reader

Summary : the beautiful day was about to turn into an anxious one if your Daddies weren’t there to support and help you

A/N : I’m scared of the sea too hihi

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You arrived.

The beach is actually right in front of you. You can see it through your window, as well as the kids running with sunscreen on their skins or adults walking with sunglasses and nice swimsuits.

But the thing that caught your eyes was the sea.

The deep and infinite water which remains calm in the background of the landscape.

You don’t have much fear in your life. When you were a kid you were scared of big dogs, one day your aunt adopted one and it happens to be your favorite animal now. At your teenage time, you were scared to talk to people, one day you had to talk in front of an assembly to defend the only person who mattered to you. Now you love talking to people when you feel listened to by others.

You’re not scared of the sea, you never had a bad experience with the deep water but maybe it’s for that exact reason that you’re not comfortable with the idea of going in it. You don’t know the sea, you don’t know what’s inside and the whole world that can live under you once you go for a swim.

You watch the family playing int the salty water, you watch kids on their animal-shaped buoy and you don’t understand how they’re just happy and nope scared or full of questions about that underworld.

‘’Sweetie ?’’ It’s the third times that your Papa is calling for you with you door wide open. You snap out of your mind and peer up at him ‘’it’s time to have fun, come on’’

He gave you his hand and help you stepping out of the car. You look around you and see your Daddy coming back from the trunk with towels and a bag. Your Papa keep a good grip on your hand as you all are walking toward the sand. The sensation feels weird against your naked soles and little toes. You’re not used to it.

Your Papa made you remove your shoes and sockets before going on the sand.

‘’Choose a good spot baby’’ your Daddy smiles as he looks down at you. You narrow your eyes because of the sun and point a spot you like once you find one.

‘’Here, remove your clothes so you can feel comfortable, I don’t want you to get too hot with the sun’’ Your Daddy says as he sit down, he opens the bag to put all the clothes in it and take out the sunscreen.

While your Papa removes his clothes, your Daddy applies the cream on your skin, he’s careful to put it everywhere so you won’t get burn. He gives you a little massage at the same time and you’re not going to tell him to stop. When he finish he wraps his arms around your torso and put your back against his chest, his chin fall on your shoulder and he kisses your cheek.

You melt into his arms, filled with all the emotions that are coming out from his body.

‘’I love you’’ he whispers in your ear. A tiny but sweet smile appears on your lips after his words. As your gaze is wondering around the blue sky, you answer him ‘’I love you too Daddy’’ in a quiet but loving voice.

During the three hours you spend there since you arrived you had the chance to build the most beautiful castle with your Papa. You tried to remove sand that were on your eyes because of the wind while your Daddy was laughing his ass off because of the face you were making.

To resume, you had a lots of fun, you didn’t even thought of the sea while you were spending time with your favorite men. That until your Daddy said he wanted to go take a swim with the fishes.

Your happy face changed into a anxious one when your Daddy put all the personal stuff in the bag, making it clear that you all were going in the sea.

They stand up and look down at you ‘’come on it’ll be fun you’ll see’’

You frown and shake your head ‘’I stay here’’ you mumble

‘’Baby, as much as we trust you we can’t let you alone here’’ Your Papa says.

‘’I don’t wanna’’

‘’Why’s that ?’’ He asks, kneeling beside you ‘’what’s wrong, princess ?’’

‘’ ‘m scared’’ You whisper

‘’Of what ? The sea ?’’ Your Daddy joins, kneeling beside you too.

You look at him and nod

‘’Oh babygirl’’ He sighs and sits beside you ‘’I know it can be scared because it’s big and it's the unknown down there so you have all the rights to be scared’’ he takes your hand in his ‘’but if you never take the first step you’ll always be scared. We don’t have to stay for hours in the water nor to go far away for a swim, we can just drop a toe but you can��t let that fear stop you from having the moment of your life’’

‘’Daddy’s right, sweetie. If you hide behind your fear you’ll never step above it to keep going in life, you can’t let that stop you’’ Your Papa adds. They both stand back up an,d give you their hands ‘’so what do you say ? We go drop a toe while watching the sunset before heading home ?’’

You look between them and the sea for a few seconds before nodding your head. They help you going on your feet and keep your hands in theirs while you walk. You stop a few feet from the water causing your Daddy to lift you up and rest you on his hip ‘’hey it’s okay, the water won’t eat you. We’re here with you little one, just as always’’

When your Daddies’s feet are in the water, your Daddy lowers himself so the tip of your toes touch the water. You gasp and retracted your foot ‘’it’s cold, isn’t it ?’’ He chuckles

You nod and smile a little

‘’Take it easy, princess. We have all the time in the world’’

You take a breath and lower you foot again. The cold doesn’t surprise you now, but the sensation of the water does. It’s not that bad in the end.

‘’hey baby look’’ your Papa points at the sky. You turn your head and see the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen.

‘’It’s beautiful isn’t it ?’’

Yea, it is… just like the time you spend here with you Daddies.

[mask131]

Asking because I’m researching for my own story.

Did Hades ever cheat on Persephone? I’ve seen two different versions of a myth that he fell in love with two people.

One is that he did love these two but Demeter or Persephone turned one into a mint and Hades turned another into a tree (I think?)

But another version where he was pursued by these two and he didn’t actually love them?

Not sure about the second version, feels like someone babied Hades a bit.

Ah yes, the famous Leuce and Minthe everybody talks about... Well, while I am no expert on the matter, I'll give you the trick that make you seem like an expert: just look at the sources for these stories. As in who wrote about them, when did they write about them, and which culture did they belong to?

Let us begin with Minte, the lover turned to mint. For example, when it came to the sources of the Minthe's legend, one of them is Ovid - so alarm bells - but said mention is just one quick throw-away line, not a full story ; unless the other sources which go into more details about it, and these other sources are Greek. So already the alarm bell can be put down: the Greeks seemed to know more about this than the Romans. However who are the Greeks in question that wrote about this legend? Strabo and Oppian - people who lived in the post-roman age of Greece, in (or around) the first centuries after Christ (Oppian even more obviously since he is in the third century CE). So we are into the latest part of Greek mythology document, the most "recent", and thus it has to be considered carefully. Because while in these late era we did find people digging up and preserving old myth we had no other record of (see how Apollodorus ended up actually preserving an old Medusa story, the one of Medusa being cursed for her vanity, when everybody believed him for a long time to have just collected an alternate tale of Ovid), but on the other we also have LOTS of inventions and stuff that clearly did not exist in very ancient, and not even in Classical Greece (see Nonnos' Dionysiaca which is... a quite special thing.)

It should especially be considered that the two late Greek versions contradict each other, and come from works with very different purposes. Strabo collected the legend as part of his geographical work, and mentions it because there is a mountain near an area sacred to Hades called Minthe, and according to the legend Strabo heard and that he wrote down, Minthe was a lover of Hades that Kore/Persephone "trampled" to death (probably out of jealousy) and turned into a mint. Note that this is the same version Ovid briefly mentions in his Metamorphosis. So by the town the Romans came around, we can be pretty sure this story was the most common one... And yet a few centuries later, Oppian collected a different story in his Halieutica, and Oppian was not a geographer but a poet, and the Halieutica is a ... didactic epic about fishing. I know it sounds weird, but I swear it makes sense. Anyway, in the story Oppian gives us, the tale goes differently: Minthe was still Hades' lover, but the story explicitely says she was BEFORE Hades ravished/captured Persephone to be his bride, and as a result Minthe was actually pushed away/abandoned. (Note that in the Ovid/Strabo stories Minte seems to be a human woman, while in Oppian's tale, she is a "nymph of the Cocytus", aka one of the nymphs of the rivers of the underworld). And in Oppian's tale it is not Persephone that was jealous, but Minthe, who kept complaining, and saying bad things about Hades' new bride, and who kept boasting about her own beauty supposedly greater than Persephone's, and she kept repeating that Hades would end up being tired of Persephone and divorce her and take Minte back... And the goddess that got angry with Minthe wasn't Persephone, but it was Demeter, who became very angry at Minthe slandering her daughter, and trampled her until she was turned into a mint-plant.

These are the main sources for the Minthe tale, but there are other secondary records about it. For example saint Photios of the Orthodox Church wrote in the ninth century a "Lexicon", a work meant to explain words and vocabulary of Antique authors that had gone obscure - and he had a mention of Minthe, where he merely described her as Hades's mistress/extra-marital lover, and yet a "nymph of Cocytus" (so we have a mix of the previous versions above). We also have a preserved scholia of a Greek poet of the second century (Nicander) that mentions another story of Minthe being killed by Persephone for having slept with Hades - but in this scholia, Persephone rather "ripped to pieces" Minthe, and it was Hades himself that turned her into a mint.

So conclusion: the story did exist... But apparently only was recorded in very, very late Greek mythology, meaning it might be one of the very latest developments of Hades' love life. THAT BEING SAID... there is an element that might hint at the source of this sudden legend. John M. Edmonds published in 1957 "The Fragments of Attic Comedy" in which he mentions the writings of the second century CE scholar Julius Polux, who mentions that Minthe was evoked and described in an old Greek play we now have lost: "Nomoi", the "Laws", written by Cratinus, an Athenian playwright of the 6-5th century BCE... So given all the elements we have, we might be to imagine that Minthe started her life as a theatrical invention, that became more and more popular until it became a widespread legend.

We also have to consider the cultural elements surrounding the mint-plant in Ancient Greece - because whenever someone turns into a plant, it is very revealing. The myth of Minthe seems to be a poetic transliteration of the various roles the mint had in Ancient Greece. After all, it was a plant used for funerary rites and rituals - explaining why it would be associated with Hades and the underworld. It was also one of the ingredients of the sacred brew used in the Eleusian Mysteries, again linking it to the Underworld, but with the additional links to Demeter and Kore. (Even though some rather saw Minte as being an opposite of Persephone/Demeter, for example Marcel Detienne in "The Garden of Adonis" (a studies of spices in Ancient Greece), points out that the mint was seen as a plant of sterility, or a sterile symbol, and that thus Minthe being destroyed by Demeter represents the victory of a goddess of fertility against the plant of sterility. We also have records of the mint being considered an aphrodisiac by Ancient Greeks - which again would explain Minthe's role as a lover of Hades... So Minthe might have been an allegorical character to depict the role of the mint in relation to the funerary rites and/or Eleusinian rites, that gained a life of its own... Maybe. We can never be sure.

But one thing we are sure of is that Minthe did not belong to the oldest versions of Greek mythology - she is not from the Homeric or Hesiodic traditions, in both of which Hades is very much faithful to Persephone.

As for Leuce, she is... very very much less interesting than Minthe. Because the story of Leuce/Leuke only comes from one source: Servius. Who was not from Greece, but from Italy, and who lived between the fifth and sixth century, aka at a time where a lost of the old myths had been lost or very, very warped - and he is to this day the only source we have for this story so... he might have either invented it, or recorded someone else's invention or deformation. Mind you, people will come saying "But... Leuke was turned into a poplar tree, and the poplar tree was HUGE in Underworld symbolism and Greek mythology!". And I do not deny that... But when the only source we have for a character is a non-Greek person that is the only one speaking of said character and came long after Ancient Greece and even after the glory days of the Roman Empire... Yeah I am doubting Leuke ever really belonged to Greek mythology.

If you want to write something about Hades having another lover, at least go with Minthe, she has more roots in Greek mythology (no pun intended). But you are not even forced to include Minthe because she is part of the very late stages of Greek mythology, she is not a constant, so you can add her if you want, or go with older traditions where she did not exist.

[assortedvillainvault]

I have a request!! What would hades do if he saw a juvenile imp serving/being raised by another god, say Cupid for example and being made all nice and loving and stuff? Would he try and “rehabilitate” it into being evil? You don’t have to do this I just thought it’d be an interesting concept…

Honestly anon I have no idea if Hades actually has full on control of imp kind?? Or if imps are an underworld-specific species at all??

Like I get that he's enough of an ill conceived satan equivalent to think that way, but I personally never saw Pain & Panic (or the occasional other imps seen in the tv show) as anything but monsters who just happened to be in the underworlds employ - leaving the door open for others of their species to be just. Casually living life or whatever.

To answer your question: he'd probably think it was hella odd but chalk it up to his family being weird again, he's got bigger fish to fry than waste braincells on a lovey dovey little imp.

Does he let Pain & Panic have their fun bullying the little thing though? Oh yeah, absolutely. If he can't have Olympus then neither can glorified little pets.

Thanks for the ask!

[eruwaedhiel-in-an-impardis]

I am actually so excited for the early access of Hades II. I put a good 90 hours into the early access of Hades, and loved every bit of it. Getting a new update and running through finding all the new shit was so delightful. My favorite updates were when they'd replace the generic Shade Sprites with the official art, literally squealed when Nyx got hers. Also just like running through hell and seeing the new biome art updates in the background, even now playing on the released version, I'm like LOOK AT THE GUMMY LAVA SKELETON BOIS OMG THEY JUST TIE THIS WHOLE ROOM TOGETHER WOW. The absolute thrill of a whole new biome unlocking when "This Part of the Underworld Under Construction" blocked your way for so long. Even the updates made for a cohesive story, for example the Fishing Rod, in the released version I was startled to find the House Contractor selling it to you, because in the early access, Poseidon gave it to you like "oh btw since we're such good buds now nephew have something from the surface! Let me know what weird fish you get down there cuz even I don't know haha!"

Like I didn't even play early access for Helping The Game Devs Improve The Gameplay, no, I was there sheerly because I love nothing more than watch someone create art, the finished product is so much more enjoyable after you've watched them do the rough sketch and repaint over corners and shit

[wykwryt]

ok things i know they have to preserve in the new game

the rougelike genre obv and with it the boons system (we straight up saw nova strike in there and dash, attack, special, and cast magick are still here as are status effects and basically just all of that stuff) edit 2: okay wait actually upon reevaluating casts and magick are not the same thing, cast is still a thing we just also have magick. so all the same stuff plus being a witch!!!!!!!!! i wonder what we can do with that... what buttons would we even press.... wait maybe it's more like a god gauge. yeah that'd make sense. maybe we don't quite get godly summons like zagreus did because we're a disciple of hecate but there's something else we can do as a result?????? gah too many theories.

some kind of home base with plot progression and stuff after death

probably a three tiered + bonus level design. i wonder if the bonus will operate differently than the temple, that’s totally a thing they could completely change

keepsakes????????????????????? there must be something like them but they’re such a zag thing to have what with his whole god of bonds and blood thing (god i fucking loved that i love this game so much)

i wonder about the mirror. i think mel in the myths is one of nyx’s kids although obv not here. i think a canon aspect of zag was always tied with hades but i don’t think that’s the case for mel. man that’s funny, he thought he was nyx’s kid but actually wasn’t and she’s not but actually is. idk ignore me i’m babbling. anyways the mirror. i hope nyx is there actually she seems like a good character to keep her role as it was. i really hope we see chaos too i love them. they also provided such a unique boon service, they must come back as is.

FISHING MINI GAME HELLO

oh hey what about the house upgrades? home base will need to be important enough to have that kind of customization make sense. at this point i’m thinking we’re simply going to be in the house of hades for all this. maybe we’re doing repairs again from the damage of whatever kidnapped hades (ha). or maybe they do get rid of this entirely? it’d be a loss of a whole way to spend currency though.

the codex. bet hecate gives it to her maybe. see this is the weird thing to be because it seems like she is to mel as achilles is to zag but unlike him she’s an important character to the main plot.

different weapons for different play styles. we saw her blades already what else? (please give her a sword swords are cool. i feel like her daggers will prolly operate a lil bit like the fists. fists and sword are my faves <3) something to strengthen the weapons too like the aspects (i hope there’s one like the shield of chaos that talks to you but that’s just me) edit 3: ok the trailer shows just the daggers and what seems like a magic staff. i'd say the magic staff could be comparable to the spear but the spear doesn't do magic. there's a lil thrust action but it's all obviously spells. realllly wondering how the magick works because there's way more than just an attack and special here, she's got so many spells. too little here to really tell but it looks like the big difference between the daggers and the staff is the daggers involve more mobile magic and attacks while the staff seems more stationary but with bigger magic effects not to mention all the area attacks. there's no way we can't do magic without the staff so maybe the spells in our inventory are different depending on what weapon we choose. so far the staff looks significantly more powerful than the daggers, i wonder how they'll balance this stuff out. and other weapons???? oh hey wait i bet the spells are dependent on the weapon aspects or whatever they'll be called in this game. yeah okay that seems like it lines up.

bosses. i know this is obvious but i’m giving it a bullet because now i’m wondering who they are. they wouldn’t be any of the underworld staff probably so. wait actually who are the enemies we’re fighting in the first place if not dad’s employees?? so much of this hinges on whether we’re actually in the underworld or not. if we’re dealing with kronos then maybe we’re fighting to go down deeper into tartarus rather than up and out? the game reveal still makes it look like we’re above ground though…

replayability!!! for the three dozenth time idk what to think about this because i have no idea what the story will be like. i repeat, family or fight? and what would keep mel continuously doing the dungeons past the end of the main plot the way zag does it as official head of security?

ayo wait can we have skelly back? please he has to, we need a practice dummy room and there’s no reason to invent a new character when he’s right there. yeah no way they’re gonna get rid of skelly.

speaking of iconic characters… eurydice? need a new iconic ashley barrett song (as well as both her and darren korb song?) yeah ok whatever songs there are they’ll probably be attributed to eurydice and orpheus in game even if the characters themselves aren’t in there. wonder if we’ll be able to buy and collect the soundtrack… OH MY GOD A NEW SOUNDTRACK HOLY SHIT. I MEAN THEY’LL PROBABLY KEEP SOME ICONIC SOUNDS LIKE WHAT WAS IN THE REVEAL TRAILER BUT HOT DAMN NEW MUSIC WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

bonds and something to forge them with. she may not be zag but nectar and the like must still be a thing. (heyyyy any romancable characters?? the dora shade looked interested)

ok the more i keep thinking about this and trying to discern the shape of the new game and add more bullets the more i just end up tracing the original so things that could be different? :

like previously stated, the mechanics of the final level (the temple of styx in the original) edit 4: ok it would be so sick if the bonus level is zagreus boss fight where they slowly bond and then eventually zagreus trusts her and they get along and then they keep doing the fights for fun like in the og after the main plot is over

something is probably going to replace keepsakes. idk how but it’s such a specific thing and very specifically relevant to zagreus’s characterization, this’ll prolly change

the currencies

special rooms like shops and characters. moros and dora’s rooms looked like these although who knows how they function. also the timed rooms and than rooms (very curious if he’ll show up what with the whole time and death thing being the big things in this game edit 1.5: ZAG THAN ROOM).

EDIT: CERBERUS PETS??? where would i be without giving cerberus pets every run? absolutely wild that petting him 10 times was a rare achievement, you guys suck at playing this game.

[jouxlskaard]

can you tell I've been thinking about this a lot

I'm sure none of this is legible to the average reader, so I'll try to lay it out with my thinking here (the canon TMA timeline has been completely thrown out the window so expect to be confused 🫵):

Jon is Zagreus, trying to escape the Institute and Elias' grasp on him. Martin takes Thanatos' place, kindling a romance with Jon and trying to help him where he can. Everyone else is a bit difficult to determine, since their roles in their respective narratives differ so much, but Georgie would be some mix between Megaera and Orpheus in the Institute (which will, of course, take the place of the House of Hades) - being both Jon's ex and unable to reach Melanie (Eurydice) after Melanie managed to escape from the Institute's clutches. Daisy takes Achilles' place after giving in to the Hunt for Basira (Patroclus), wracked with regret and unwilling to leave the Institute for fear that she'll lose herself again. Sasha is Dusa/Nyx for no other reason than I couldn't find a better fit for her - it's more like a comparison to how she functions in the game than a reflection of her character. I was originally gonna make Tim a replacement for Skelly, then I remembered that Gerry exists and that Skelly jokingly tried to get Zagreus to free him from his eternal torture and I figured that worked better - although for Gerry it would be less of a joke and it just won't work for whatever reason. Instead, Tim is Sisyphus, because I think he's most likely of the assistants to be thrown out of the Institute for gross misconduct (aka wooing filing clerks with Institute funds) - then I thought Rosie could be Hypnos, welcoming Jon/Player back to the Institute whenever he dies, and Elias would be Hades. Because of course he is. He might provide Jon/Player with little annoying tasks to do that aren't technically necessary, but they generally have decent rewards so it would be greatly advised.

The Underworld regions are replaced by some weird mix of the real world and fear domains, since there isn't really a canon TMA equivalent to Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium or Styx. The bosses are reflective of the show's season endings; so Jane Prentiss is the Furies, the Not!Them is Lernie, Nikola (and maybe the mechanical turk or the angler fish for good measure) is Theseus and Peter Lukas is Hades - the final boss. Or.... Is he?

I wanted the Avatars, providing Jon with Marks, not to overlap with each other. So, as much as I love and appreciate Mike Crew, I love Sky Grandpa more. And so, Simon Fairchild is the representative of the Vast. Mike might show up somewhere else, who knows (I do. He will)? Meanwhile, the other Avatars include Oliver Banks (End), Jared Hopworth (Flesh), Trevor and Julia (Hunt), Jude Perry (Desolation), Maxwell Rayner (Dark), and, in a strange turn of events unseen by even me, Alfred Grifter for the Slaughter and Hezekiah Wakely for the Buried. There is a severe lack of Slaughter and Buried Avatars, unfortunately, and I've resolved that Grifter and Wakely will be much rarer occurrences as a result. The other Marks will be given by Jane (Corruption), Not!Them/Nikola (Stranger), Peter (Lonely), Annabelle (Web) and the Distortion (Spiral). The first three in their boss fights, Annabelle as a replacement for Chaos and the Distortion as a replacement for Hermes. Meanwhile, Jon will be Marked by the Eye no matter what, and Breekon & Hope will be replacements for Charon as the resident eldritch deliverymen.

The available weapons are, of course, inspired by various Artefacts seen in TMA. The Web Lighter is the default weapon, with the Corruption Scalpel, Slaughter Gun, Slaughter Knife, Lonely Boatswain's Call and Dark' Dark Star eventually being offered as alternative options. I've had some thought into how they all might function, but I think I've talked enough to last a lifetime at this point. Collectibles include Gold (run-only), Statements and Eyes. Statements function much like Darkness and the Mirror of Night - providing Jon with Knowledge and allowing him to level up in some capacity. Eyes are akin to Nectar/ambrosia.

In terms of narrative, beating Lukas would allow Jon access to the Scotland Safehouse - only able to stay there for a little while before being forced to come back to the Institute as he grows hungry. After beating Lukas 10 times, however, a new mechanic is introduced much like how it is in Hades - and the Eyepocalypse begins. Much like Heat, it's entirely optional, and it provides Jon with more power and might allow him to progress the story quicker. The regions' aesthetics change drastically, with each chamber becoming its own fear domain as the Heat increases.

Statements found in the game's rogue-like section and Statements found in the Institute function differently. The Institute Statements, which can be found scattered throughout the Archives and are unlocked after certain dialogue is triggered with other characters, provide insight into the world of Magnus and give Jon more Knowledge, as well as introducing characters like Agnes Montague, Gertrude Robinson, Michaele Salesa (who can be found in higher Heats of the Eyepocalypse) and Adelard Dekker.

Once all Institute Statements are found, and certain dialogue is triggered between the characters, Jon/Player is given a new goal: to be Marked by every Avatar/Fear in a single run. When this is successfully completed, roughly equating to completing Persephone's request of inviting the Olympians to the Underworld, a cutscene will play - and reveal Elias as the Eye's Pupil. You thought Peter was the final boss? Ha. No. Loser. It's Elias. :)

That's all I've come up with so far lmao enjoy

elias in hades, perchance?

if tma were a hades-style roguelike I think it'd be entertaining to have elias just show up like a little bitch and give you tasks that eventually give you rewards. I don't think he'd show up as the final boss until much later on in the story (equivalent to the hades epilogue) where he'll become the eye's pupil and the player (presumably jon) has to kill him to stop the eyepocalypse or smth (don't question my thought process too much I haven't actually rationalised it all in my head yet lol)

[vedantvarma]

I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths with whom I continue to work; the ever-present smells of roasting bones, searing fish, and simmering liquids; the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam. Admittedly, it’s a life that grinds you down. Most of us who live and operate in the culinary underworld are in some fundamental way dysfunctional. We’ve all chosen to turn our backs on the nine-to-five, on ever having a Friday or Saturday night off, on ever having a normal relationship with a non-cook.

[things-that-are-god]

Yom Kippur cont.

The entirety of Jonah, which is only 4 chapters long but JAM PACKED. Parables only for Jonah.

1) giant fish bullshit. Man gets on a boat and there's a storm and the sailors are like we consulted the dice and this is your fault wtf? And Jonah's just like ah yeah probly cuz I'm running away from God Himself (tm) asking me to do one thing. Probably throw me overboard to make this stop. The sailors react like normal people, which is to say they try praying to God first before pitching him over all the while going shit I feel weird about this

Giant fish = the underworld and also running away from your problems/ generally not doing what God explicitly asked you to do. This is explicitly a metaphor

2) get to Ninevah, deliver message. WAS NOT AT ALL HARD, THE PEOPLE COMPLY IMMEDIATELY

3) this pisses off Jonah for unclear reasons. Goes outside the city to sulk

4) way too fucking sunny so God grows some sort of leafy shade plant for him. Jonah feels better. Then God kills the plant overnight. Jonah's like God please just kill me, this is all too much, I needed the shade plant. God's like, for real? You loved a plant that much even tho you didn't make it and it died after a day? YES. okay idiot, imagine how I'd have felt killing innocent children in Ninevah if they hadn't turned their shit around

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

Last 100 Songs on my Radio Show

Around a year ago, I was invited to make a weekly radio show by a friend who had set up an online radio station. A year on, the radio station has now ceased to be. Here's a list of the last 100 songs I played on my show.

The Mountain Goats – This Year

Boogie Down Productions – My Philosophy

Aphex Twin – Windowlicker

Bob Dylan – Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

Grandmaster Flash – White Lines

Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half-Steppin’

Nirvana – All Apologies

The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap

Junior Murvin – Police & Thieves

The Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You

They Might Be Giants – I’ve Got A Match

Sleaford Mods – Five Pound Sixty

Digable Planets – Where I’m From

Johnny Cash – One

The Ronettes – Be My Baby

Jurassic 5 – Jayou

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Happy

The Mama’s & The Papa’s – Monday Monday

Tom Waits – Downtown Train

Funkadelic – (Not Just) Knee Deep

American Music Club – Johnny Mathis’ Feet

Pop Will Eat Itself – Get The Girl, Kill The Baddies

Alice Cooper – Big Apple Dreamin’

Snippet – Today I’m Gonna Be Happy

The Supremes – Baby Love

Electric Light Orchestra – 10538 Overture

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo

Planxty – The Good Ship Kangaroo

Dementio13 – Granadaland

The Faces – Stay With Me

The Crystals – Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)

Underworld – Born Slippy (Nuxx)

The Wonder Stuff – Circlesquare

Andy Breckman – So Far So Good

Eric Matthews – Fanfare

Leon Rosselson – Harry’s Gone Fishing

Slade – Everyday

Squeeze – Tempted

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song

Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie

Royce Da 5’9” – Power

Serge Gainsbourg – Intials B.B.

Fatima Mansions – The Door To Door Inspector

Roy Bailey – Rolling Home

Terry Hall – No No No

Suede – Metal Mickey

Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town

Royskopp – Eple

The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry

Whodini – The Haunted House Of Rock

Billy Bragg – Tank Park Salute

The Temptations – My Girl

The La’s  - There She Goes

Roy Orbison – Only The Lonely

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

June Tabor & The Oyster Band – Love Will Tear Us Apart

Queen – Killer Queen

Mary Wells – My Guy

The Rutles – Another Day

The Vaselines – Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam

Lindisfarne – Meet Me On The Corner

Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Live, Olympia, Paris, 1995)

David Bowie – Starman

Daft Punk – Around The World

Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine

The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Waiting In Vain

Buffalo Tom – Late At Night

Eric Bogle & John Munro – Bloody Rotten Audience

Oasis – Sad Song

Flight Of The Conchords – Carol Brown

Kurtis Blow – 8 Million Stories

Kate Rusby – The Radio Sweethearts

Fatboy Slim – Rockafeller Skank

The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year

The Bluetones – Bluetonic

Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – My Wife & My Dead Wife

Ray Charles – Hit The Road, Jack

Picturebox – I Got The Pox

A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario

Led Zeppelin – Gallows Pole

Weird Al Yankovic – You Don’t Love Me Anymore

Badly Drawn Boy – Promises

The Prodigy – Voodoo People

Massive Attack – Teardrop

Tindersticks – Marbles

Chas & Dave – Ain’t No Pleasing You

The Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki

The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset

XTC – Senses Working Overtime

Steeleye Span – Dark Eyed Sailor

New York Dolls – Trash

Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum

Run The Jewels – Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)

Sharon Shannon – The Diamond Mountain

The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever

The Stranglers – Duchess

The Eagles – Journey Of The Sorcerer

Fairport Convention – Meet On The Ledge

[supercasey]

So I've been playing The Hades Game like fucking mad for the last few weeks, and although I'm not very far in it (at least, I don’t think I am; I’ve only beat Hades once!), I'm absolutely in love with it! Anyways, a certain idea has been kicking around in my head for awhile now, so I thought I'd share it with y'all; feel free to tell me what you think of it! (Warning: spoilers for when you beat Hades the first time!)

Anyways, I've already seen a really cool AU post for if Demeter raised Zagreus on the surface by herself (which you can find HERE; please check it out, the outfit for Zag alone is an amazing concept, and I love the artwork!!!) but I keep thinking about an AU where, after Zagreus dies at birth, Persephone runs away and takes his wrapped up body with her.

On the surface, she reconnects/reunites with her mother Demeter, and with her aid, the two of them manage to resurrect the newborn baby, though now he has more white in his hair than anything else. After that, Persephone sends Hades a letter to tell him that Zagreus is alive and well (because she actually has some fucking class), before proceeding to raise Zagreus on the surface with her mother, far away from the entrance to hell. The Olympians also help her out a bit, but mostly they just help by hiding Zagreus when it’s necessary.

(The rest is under a cut ‘cus this got a bit long, sorry!)

Years pass in relative peace, until Zagreus is about as old as he is in-game (I think he’s around 20-25ish???) and is living well, working with his mom and grandma to take care of their gardens and live peacefully away from mankind; he especially loves tending to the animals and guiding lost mortals to safety. However, one day while foraging for fruit in the deepest corners of his mother’s signature garden, Zagreus happens across a strange man in long robes, who introduces himself as Thanatos.

The two men get along swimmingly from minute one, and after agreeing to meet with each other again soon, they leave and tell their families/friends all about the experience, having no clue who they are to each other. After all, Thanatos was told growing up that his lord’s first wife died giving birth to their first and only child, who was a stillborn, and Zagreus thinks his father died of disease (his mom didn’t have to heart to tell him anything bad about his dad). Needless to say, they’re gonna be in for quite the shock soon.

Cue Hades losing his shit and calling on Thanatos, Megaera, and Achilles to go find his progeny and bring him home; he gives them special permission to leave the Underworld without any resistance, trusting Than to lead the way back to Zagreus. Achilles is less than thrilled to be performing such a morally grey task for his master, but Meg and Than are eager to prove themselves, so he begrudgingly agrees to help, even if it hurts his conscience to do so.

Persephone and Demeter also freak the hell out on their end, scared shitless by the fact that Death incarnate has just met their son/grandson, and they’re worried that he plans on coming back again soon. Demeter suggests sending Zagreus to live with the Olympians until this all blows over, but Persephone disagrees, wanting her son to stay nearby in case he grows ill (it’s implied that she’s a bit overprotective of him, mostly because she’s afraid of him dying again; this also means she refuses to let him know that he’s in any danger, believing it would only make things worse for him in the long-run). Frustrated but understanding her daughter’s pain all too well, Demeter at least convinces her to call on the Olympians for aid, which Persephone agrees to do.

The gods promise to help of course, but... well, they're low-key lying; they wanna see how this plays out first.

After several days of traveling through hell (literally), the “let’s kidnap Zagreus” gang makes it to the surface, and they immediately head to Persephone’s garden. All this time, Zagreus has no idea that he’s being targeted, so he goes about his chores as usual, only to run into Than again, and hey, he brought some more friends for him to meet! Zagreus is friendly with all of them, being raised to be very polite by his guardians, and while he’s busy chatting with Than and Achilles, he doesn’t notice Meg sneaking behind him. Just as Zagreus is rattling on about how the animals have been faring this summer, Meg stabs Zagreus in the back with a blade coated in Hades’s blood, cursing him to belong to the Underworld again.

With Zagreus now unconscious from a sedative that was mixed with the blood, the trio hurry off with him back to the Underworld, but not without Persephone seeing what they’ve done to her son. Horrified, she begins to sob, and winter arrives in the mortal world without so much as a fall season in-between this and the summertime.

When Zagreus comes to, he finds himself in a bedroom similar to the one he has in the game, but it’s much cleaner and has less objects of personal value to him. Hades is standing at the foot of his bed when he wakes up, and very calmly, Hades tells Zagreus that he’s his father, and that from now on, Zagreus will be living in the Underworld with him and his people, where he so obviously belongs. It’s a shame his mother can’t be here, of course, but they just need to wait awhile, that’s all; surely she’ll come to her senses and return home soon, now that her husband and son are here.

Zagreus jumps out of bed and faces his father as soon as he’s done monologuing, ready to tell him off for what he’s done, but to his shock, Hades hugs him as soon as he’s on his feet, and admits that he’s waited for this day for a long, long time. He asks his son to please just accept that this is his home now, and despite still being a bit surprised (and subtly hugging Hades back because Longing), Zagreus tells him straight up that he can’t, that he has to get home, especially with winter coming in a few months!

Dejected but not overly surprised, Hades simply nods in acceptance, but he still warns Zagreus that it’s no use trying to fight it; he’s stuck here, now and forever, so he may as well get comfortable and try getting along with him, because no one’s going anywhere anytime soon. Zagreus is horrified, but he nods nonetheless, unsure of what to say or do just yet.

Later that night, as Zagreus is struggling to sleep in this new, unfamiliar place, Achilles comes to him and apologizes about what’s happened, and although he can’t magically fix everything for him, he tells Zagreus that it actually is supposedly possible to escape; it’s just that no one’s ever done it before. Driven by his desire for freedom and the thought of reuniting with his mother, Zagreus tells Achilles that he’s going to find a way out, no matter the cost. Achilles congratulates him on his tenacity, but warns him that it won’t be easy. Still, he’s willing to help Zagreus as much as he can.

From then on, I imagine the game playing out very differently from the original, with a rather frazzled and scared Zagreus trying to get home to his mom and grandma, but with none of his training from Achilles in this AU, he has to rely on something his mother taught him; his connection with earth and all it’s inhabitants. Or, in his case, his connection with the spirits of animals (a cross of his dad and mom’s powers). That’s right, I’m making The Hades Game into a fucking Pokemon-ripoff, but still with some rouge-like elements mixed in (mostly with Zagreus not keeping his animals after runs).

Having royally fucked up in not stepping in sooner to protect Zagreus, the gods end up helping him out by sending down animals associated with them for the young god to tame for a run (I’ll come up with them later). They usually offer a selection to choose from, and from there Zagreus can build up a team and use it to try and escape the Underworld.

To replace weapons, I like to think he’d have “signature” animals that can help him out for any of his runs, specifically ones from Achilles, Poseidon, Zeus, Demeter (once he reaches the surface at least once), and eventually even Hades gives him one if they bond together enough ((yes, it’s Cerberus... kinda; it’s a puppy version of him, otherwise he’d be OP as fuck)). Zagreus’s signature animals can all be given names, and they keep certain skills that they pick up through enough experience battling in the Underworld for Zagreus.

As for story-line stuff, Zagreus ends up in a very fish out of water situation as he tries to get to know everyone in Hades’s house (he’s still our kindhearted Zag, after all, and he knows most of them aren’t to blame, not even really Than!) while also focusing on his goal to get home to his mom. Hades ends up being a lot nicer to him in this AU, perhaps overly so, as he’s trying to make his son like him more in order to make up for lost time (and fill the hole in his heart that Zag’s initial death as an infant and Persephone leaving with him created). It’s part of the reason he’s even letting Zagreus try to escape; he wants him to learn that it won’t work on his own terms (and maybe also scare the kid so bad that he comes running to him for comfort afterwards).

Also, I should really note that Zagreus is 100% a sweet country farm boy in this AU, and he has no idea what the fuck is going on with pretty much anything in the Underworld, much to everyone’s astonishment. For example:

Meg: Gods, it must be weird getting used to everything down here, huh? Sick of stepping in bat shit yet? Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it, and Dusa’s pretty good about cleaning it up to begin with. Zagreus: I mean, I guess? It’s not that different from chicken shit tbh. Meg: What the fuck is a chicken???

After that... yeah, I dunno. I’ll try playing Hades some more, see if I think up anything else that could be interesting, but for now, I hope at least someone ends up liking this dumb AU (if not, I’ll still like it... might even try my hand at drawing for it a bit tbh). Again, please check out the person who’s post/art I linked earlier in the post, ‘cus their art is really awesome and inspired me to include Demeter more in this AU!

[mundungs]

ϟ.  → robert sheehan : genderfluid : he/they/she : dealer of illicit objects and substances : the raven by the alan parsons project ϟ  did you see mundungus fletcher ? you know ,  31 year old halfblood who was formally in ravenclaw. some say dung can be quite furtive but are known to be unreliable. they are aligned with the order .  maybe that’s why they remind me of naming stray cats, flicking a lighter over and over again, falling asleep on the subway. ϟ 

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ciannán o’donnell is a flighty man, one of many relationships and flings and little loyalty, and so his affair with maeve fletcher does not last long. when she tells him she is pregnant, he moves on to a different woman, and maeve has her son alone, with her sister on her side. and thus, mundungus is born (and giving an arguably atrocious name).

he grows up with his mum – a halfblooded witch and by far his favourite person in the world – in limerick, attending muggle school there. he knew who his dad was, but wasn’t quite sure how to feel about — his father is a criminal, a prominent member of the irish mob. 

he meets his dad for the first time at age seven, and was nothing but impressed. his dad showered him with gifts, his mum watching with a furious look on her face but biting her tongue. that moment was a switch for mundungus; he felt the need to impress his dad. he stole some sweets from a store on his way home from school a week later, fished some pennies out of the pockets of his classmates a few months later. when he phoned his dad to tell him, his laugh was warm and filled with life. his relationship with his dad got better as his behaviour got worse. the thrill of stealing, of doing stuff he wasn’t supposed to, lit him not only on fire because it was exciting, but also because he knew his dad would adore it. 

but ciannan, a flighty man, pushes and pulls. and so mundungus was fed disappointment by his father, liking love off a shiny knife rather than a spoon ( silver or plastic, what the fuck does it matter ). details omitted, long story made short: his dad sucks and his mother tries, but mundungus is pulled towards that what smells of danger.

DRUGS MENT. at hogwarts, dung is sorted into ravenclaw. not at all the booksmart type, he falls more into the chaotic-creativity, random-bursts-of-wanting-to-learn-everything-about-something type of ravenclaw. there’s two worlds, then: the muggle world, where he slowly dips his water further in criminal waters, and the wizarding one, where he’s chaotic and messy but a student. when he grows older, these overlap: dung starts selling some of his dad’s weed at hogwarts, and soon gains a reputation of being able to get people less-than-legal shit. 

not getting high off your own supply is not a sentiment he agrees with. not then, not later, not now. dung is fun, always in for a party and willing to supply the goods to throw it. if some rich purebloods lose a few galleons at said party, well, it sure isn’t him! END OF TW

he graduates with two newts, in herbology and potions, failing his dada and charms exams. he’s not an academic.

falling into the family business after graduation is easy. mundungus is attracted by the criminal underworld, both that of muggle ireland and that of the wizarding world. knockturn alley was a place frequented in teenage years, but now becomes more his place. he makes connections, exchanges strange potion recipes for other things. makes an odd wager on a bunch of stolen brass scales and turns a profit. 

a career is not something that interests him; he is more interested in bending rules and making quick money. thievery, selling illegal shit, heists, fraud, fuck-all. mundungus is not limited by one descriptor, one kind of criminality. he just does what he wants and hopes to make a good penny.

but then he almost gets sent to azkaban over some, in his frank opinion, bullshit. it’s dumbledore who talks the wizengamot out of it, saddling dung up with some community service and persuading him towards the order. he’s twenty three. the war is still fresh. he has no interest in it, but he owes the old man. fine.

mundungus does vehemently oppose blood purity and any kind of discriminatory ideals, an anarchist in his very bones, but he is also cowardly. to side with self-proclaimed rebels is not in his blood and yet it’s where he ends up, bringing shady ties to the underworld to the table and a sheer ability to sneak around and fuck the law. and maybe, amidst the ranks of the order, dung finds something he’s not very familiar with: a large family. and dung? well, he’s the stoner, gay, super-fucking-chaotic cousin.

personality

if jesper fahey and kaz brekker had a child, it would be dung. 

other character parallels: fezco ( euphoria ), boris ( the goldfinch ), doug judy ( b99 ), jason mendoza ( the good place ), chris miles ( skins ),  nick miller ( new girl ), creed bratton ( the office ), scott lang ( marvel ), lillian ( unbreakable kimmy schmidt )

technically he’s homeless. he’s got a bedroom at his ma’s place, has a ton of squatter connects in the muggle scene and couch surfes aplenty, but dung doesn’t rent a place. why? landlords are evil. he could afford a place, just doesn’t see the point. life’s better with some adventure.

appears very neutral in public as it’s beneficial to his role in the order??? 

.... tortured artist. writes poetry and loves to draw and paint. 

tattooed the fuck up. some are his own designs.

can usually be spotted wearing The Coat, a rly expensive, vintage long coat that he once stole of a pureblood. he’s enlarged the pockets with some handy spellwork and pretty much carries everything he owes in there, like his produce and his money and his second pair of shoes and his art supplies and probably some random trash. 

loves animals. he loves stray cats especially <3 they are his kin. 

an anarchist. a bit of a punk. a deep idealist with a cowardly heart so constantly betraying himself (and sometimes others?)

queer! enby! genderfluid! i used he/him pronouns throughout this intro but dung truly doesn’t give a damn what u use. loves to dress up in feminine clothes. 

has a ton of aliases, lol, the most important one being marigold fincher. 

cusses too fuckin much to be healthy :/

oh no he is a big sad insecure kid deep inside :/ dont tell anyone how embarrassing!!!! shhhh!! it’s a secret.

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victim. wow please. if your character is rich. let me steal from u. pick ur pockets. break into ur house. get some of ur stuff and drop it on the black market. 

customer. dung sells. whatever u need. drugs. weird magical things. ask and ye shall receive. his prices are whack but he does deliver <3

pal. party friends! order friends! random encounter friends! dung has a trashmouth and loves to talk pls let him chat u up and u will never be rid of him <3

couch. he couch surfs. a lot. if ur character trusts dung enough to let him into their home (which they shouldnt) then pls let him sleep over for a night. he will leave a strangely expensive necklace on ur kitchen table as a thank u. or wilted flowers. no in between.

skeptic. ur char is in the order and thinks dung is a liability and maybe they have a point. a point mundungus would rather not face :)

dmle bitches. dung hates anyone authoritative but esp the coppers at the ministry (hit wix & aurors) (yea he calls them coppers sorry he doesnt respect them enough to call them aurors <3). give me that doug judy/jake peralta dynamic. or just someone in the dmle who is like ... sigh this guy again??? 

fwb/one night stand/fling/etc. he’s a bit slutty <333 give him some ppl he’s hooked up with / will hook up with.

[realife-mermaid]

❄️ Snow In Love Bingo - December Books ❄️

So I’m going to do a reading bingo! I did one last year for my friends birthday and it was lots of fun. I love lists, tasks, goals, and crossing tasks off of lists so I can meet goals so this is gonna be great! I’m doing good so far with 8 books read so I’m on track to finish on time. I don’t think any of the creators have a tumblr but if they do, I’ll definitely tag them!

Gifting Me To His Best Friend by Katee Robert - 3 stars. On the one hand, no one writes sex like Katee Robert. On the other hand, this took a sharp turn into the corny area because a novella is just too short to establish a proper ménage. I can’t believe I’m saying this but for once, it needed less sex. 🎄 Square Fill - Takes place on Christmas/Christmas Eve🎄

First Comes Like by Alisha Rai - 3 stars. This was a solid meh. The cat fishing aspect was handled well but everything else was boring. It felt like the first 80% was a prologue to the last 20% where they finally get married and bang, but then most of the plot should have gone AFTER they married. 🛌Square Fill - it’s low stakes, low heat, and they chill a lot 🛌

Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn - 4 stars. Some of it really shows it’s age (r slur used by Alana, f slur used by a villain) and some of the drama between Alana and Marko feels a little contrived but I still had a lot of fun with this. The art is amazing, the character designs and conceptions are great, and the planets and species building is fun. 👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏻Square Fill - Alana and Marko are married at the start of the series👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏻

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe - 5 stars. Just amazing and unique art and color work with a really interesting take on the Hades and Persephone myth and Olympus as a whole. It starts cute but the last few chapters get heavy with a date rape (done to Persephone but NOT by hades) and PTSD (due to Hades’ trauma over his dad, ya kno, eating him). 🌟Square Fill - it was recommended by two different people with wildly different taste🌟

Hani & Ishu’s Guide To Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar - 5 stars. This book felt like being hugged. It’s a great exploration of the complexities of bisexuality as well as culture, family, and friendship. Also the romance between Hani and Ishu is so well done and sweet. 💞Square Fill - features fake dating, there was only one bed, hand holding, mutual pining, and more💞

Boyfriend Marerial by Alexis Hall - 5 stars. A little meandering in the middle, but this was really good. Disaster Millennial Gay recruits a stuffy friend of a friend to help revitalize his image, catches feelings. Very funny, very witty, good romance. 📚Square Fill - got it from the Swoonies website📚

Beastly by Alex Flinn - 4.5 stars. This was laugh out loud hilarious. As far as a BATB story, I think Adrian/Kyle and Lindy are great, and I love how active the witch is in the book. I knocked it down because of a Magical Disability Cure, which I talked about more in my goodreads review if you care to read it. 🥊Square Fill - Lindy and Adrian banter/fight all the time🥊

Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert - 4.5 stars. Fixed almost all the issues with the first book. It felt like a retelling of Disney Hercules plus a smattering of other Greek gods. The ménage was very well developed as well. The issues were that Zeus as a villain was interchangeable with Aladdin and it’s still Weird about female bisexuality. 🏨Square Fill - for Hades weird sex dungeon hotel/club/underworld thing🏨

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Heey! Loved the Poly! Hades and Hook x Reader, but I can request some Poly! Hades and Facilier x reader or Poly Hook and Facilier x reader ((you can choose which one you like don't worry, I love the three of them)) thanks!!

Heyo! Facilier isn't on my list of characters but honestly I am LIVING for the idea of Poly Hades, Facilier and Reader, so we're going to town on this!

Poly!Hades & Dr. Facilier x Reader:

So I'm just going to open with this: time is weird and the afterlife dimensions sometimes overlap.

So yes, it's entirely possible that a 20th Century soul gets yeeted into the ancient greek Underworld, though the Jury is out on whether that was a genuine accident vs the Loa's idea of creative punishment or they simply ran out of patience for the guy after he died and they collected his debt.

Either way, Facilier ended up in the Styx, and coincidentally fucked up Hades' entire organisation system.

I'm going to headcannon that you as the Reader in this case actually works for Hades - at least initially - but on a way more lenient lease than Meg ever was. More like an employee than a soul-bound slave.

So you're the one who fished one poor unfortunate Doctor out of the river and plonked him, shivering and wide eyed, in Hades' throne room. Pain and Panic were out attempting to catch his shadow with a torch and a net, which you left them to.

Hades is slouched on his throne, boiling mad yet attempting to play it cool, as he attempts to parse where the fuck Facilier came from and where to send him. And in panic, with no powers and at the mercy of a strange god, Facilier falls back on his greatest talent: talking.

You notice Hades' eyebrows uptick as soon as Facilier opens his mouth. One smooth-talker instantly clocking another, and you allow yourself to smile slightly as Facilier lays out his case and the Lord of the Dead's posture goes from irate-overworked-desk-bound-administrator to the sort of relaxed yet focused lounging that lions adopt when starting to get hungry.

Eventually, you suggest that - while a fitting location is thought up for the Doctor - he could stick around the main palace for a while. You'd keep an eye on him.

Hades eyes smolder as you put a hand on the shade's shoulder. Your own relationship is already Polyamourous as he's married to Persephone, so ground rules for a new partner of interest have been agreed between you all for a while. Facilier cathces onto a hidden meaning in your looks, but wisely decides to keep his head down for the minute and see how this goes.

It barely takes a week before you two are flirting.

It barely takes a month for Hades to join in.

It barely takes a year for Facilier to once again be among the living his shadow has free reign in the Underworld he's met Persephone and charmed the socks off her enough that he gets to join your previously exclusive girls-nights (RIP Hades) and you have no idea how you've managed to land Both of these men but you sure as hell aren't complaining-

Reader you're in voice kink heaven ok for god's sake batten down the hatches these two sound sexy just reading the admissions paperwork and they know it. The teasing is a nightmare.

Shadow sometimes feels everything is getting a bit too chummy and will initiate prank wars to sabotage any dating activity going on in the immediate vicinity. He has bets going with Pain and Panic.

Facilier is an extremely thoughtful partner. More than once he's appeared to help with your work, with dinner and a gift that he remembered you offhandedly mentioned last week. More than once you've found him subtly helping Hades get breaks from the eternal grind that is Underworld maintenance, initiating affection and cuddles that you've realised Hades needs way more than he asks for.

The bed has been expanded and group sleeping piles are forever.

Honestly, Reader, you've landed in an actual gem of a relationship.

It's just that every few decades they both attempt to usurp the cosmic powers that be and it becomes your job to unpeel them from the stonework where the other gods smote them into non-existence. C'est la Vie.

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I seriously love that Wushe is learning and it’s sticking (yes, take your lumps, you have richly earned them! It is so freaking rare to see a yandere character who actually changes and learns and grows) but I also love how much Bian is trying to puzzle out how everyone in his first life betrayed him and why. And Wushe is right - it’s both because he’s so good himself that he sees it in others AND because he’s basically got the world’s most precious commodity inside him - but Bian as Ziheng not being able to tell all the awful people are awful or protect himself against them because he’s so noble and good doesn’t make any better the fact that he got to suffer like hell as a result. When I remember what a sweet Human Sunshine Bian was at the beginning (or Ziheng before all the disasters fell on him), I am sad to see him decide to never trust anyone but it’s honestly more likely to lead to self-preservation.

I am salivating that they are about to go to infernal hell to rescue Lan Dage. Because:

1. This is going to be fascinating in terms of setting, I love that kind of stuff! (I read Dante’s Inferno as a 12 year old, I was a weird kid.)

2. Side note - there is hell for those who commit suicide. Ziheng committed suicide (for a noble reason but this is not a system that seems to care about that) so did he go to that hell for some time? Is that why he died 100 years ago but only reincarnated 24 or so years ago?

3. They are going to Infernal Hell because that is where Lan Dage is kept. What on earth is the past life entanglement between Lan Dage, one of the only sane, well-adjusted, sweet characters in this (hahaha not for long obviously, this is how this author rolls, hence have a nice trip to Infernal Hell, poor man!) and the Ghost King that the latter both slept with him in this life and wanted to be human for him AND stuck him in the worst place ever? If he even gonna be fully sane when they fish him out? At one point it’s mentioned it’s a miracle Wushe kept his soul and sanity in that place and granted he was there for a century and Lan Dage hasn’t been there for long at all but still.

4. Thing I am most excited about is THEY ARE GOING TO A PLACE WHERE WUSHE SPENT A CENTURY BEING TORTURED!!!! Why am I excited?

(a) It really does indicate how committed Wushe is to being Bian’s whatever-Bian-wants, because he’s going to a place of horror for him - the little bits we get show he was traumatized as hell:

And...

The extra neat fact that he’s going there to rescue a man he does not like and is, in fact, jealous of (because he sees Bian treat Lan Dage as a brother and the sole happy time other than Bian x Wushe were a couple was when he was happy brothers with Ziheng so he is jealous even of that - he doesn’t have any sane boundaries between platonic, familial and romantic, being a mess.)

(b) I can’t wait to see Infernal Hell because it will I think flesh out how exactly Wushe/Zixiao was tortured which I think it necessary for both the reader and Bian to be able to move on and forgive him. Because sure we heard little bits and we know it was awful but actually being shown a little of it - through seeing what kind of tortures are going on and perhaps Wushe’s reaction to being back - is different and I think would feel more expiating/just if it makes sense. We know he suffered but it would be good to SEE more of it. For the reader, of course, but also for Bian. Because he deserves that, even if he himself doesn’t think that way necessarily. Yes, he’s heard of it in abstract but it’s different to get details. In a way it would feel like payback for what Zixiao did to him and knowing it was because of him (Zixiao, after all, went down to destroy the Underworld to get Ziheng’s soul back) might allow him to move on and maybe even forgive/accept Zixiao/Wushe (when combined with the fact that he fell in love with Wushe/sees him show remorse etc). I wonder if the author is going there with that actually. I mean we have passages like this:

I am excited either way!