#Kaos Ari

[kaos-incarnate]

I’ve noticed that there seems to be an unfortunately small amount of people talking about my badass queen Ariadne. Please tell me I’m not the only one who cannot wait to see her tell Poseidon to go fuck himself every time he tries to tell her how to run Krete

FUCK THE GODS!

✨except of course for her godly boytoy Dionysus✨

[not-mary-sue]

Reblog if you figured out how Minos prophecy was going to play out before the characters did.

[ifuckedzeus]

David LaChapelle x Kaos

[suzieloveships]

Y'all better go and watch Kaos on Netflix because I need season 2! I need to see Dionysus and Ari meeting! I need to see Riddy and Caneus reunion! I need to see Zeus's downfall

[roachalk]

I have so many thoughts about Hera's characterisation in KAOS, and at first I was really icked out and disappointed by it but now I'm seeing the brilliance of it.

Dumping some first unstructured thoughts here because I really have A LOT but not enough time to get it all down now.

SPOILERS FOR KAOS BELOW

First off, Hera is the goddess of marriage, women, family and protection of women in childbirth. First episode we are confronted with an unhappy marriage: Riddy and Orpheus. She is his muse, he loves her but doesn't truly know her - it's not a union of mutual love anymore. People fall out of love all the time, and marriage isn't always meant to last. Riddy's mother abandoned her at a young age to serve Hera as a tacita, and her tongue was cut out (in an abstract way this can be seen as NOT protecting women even though it is not in childbirth but it is after childbirth and was also witnessed by Riddy as a child).

Riddy's story in the first episode undermines everything Hera stands for, AND her prophecy is the same as Zeus' (!!!).

ALSO in her marriage to Orpheus she is his muse, she is commodified to bolster his career (not dissing Orpheus here, he's a good guy but he has a job and he is using her as inspiration despite her expressing her discomfort, he really really loves her but the more I think on it he loves her as a muse and doesn't see her soul).

To pivot back to Hera's characterisation: she is not the goddess of love, but marriage and family, which speak of COMMITMENT. Specifically of commitment to the societal structures that preserve ORDER. Zeus is losing it and is now a threat to that order. Why would she have an affair with Poseidon? He has a cooler head and his devotion to her allows her to leverage him as an ally in her purpose to preserve the current order: the reign of the gods above humans.

"You're the king, but I am the queen."

"Power is delegation."

Then there is the royal family: Ari's commitment to her family never breaks, but in contrast to Hera's commitment founded on order and preservation, it is a commitment founded on LOVE (this also helps explain Dionysus' attraction to her because he loves love). She loves her father Minos until she learns of what he did to Glaucus, and why did he do it? To serve the gods, aligned to Hera's purpose and interests. Ari's actions (killing Minos) are guided by love which then amends her lifelong emotional estrangement and hostile relationship with her mother Pas, who immediately recognises the validity of Ari's killing of Minos. To them both, in this scene the value and sanctity of family is not in its function as a unit providing order and structure to the hierarchies of society, but as a place of love. Granted Pas wasn't a loving mother to Ari, but (not excusing her just analysing) she was never over her grief and blamed Ari, irrationally blamed her for the death of Glaucus and for anyone familiar with Jungian archetypes and shadows, what is the inverse of love and forgiveness? Hate and resentment. Pas as a flawed human never did the psychological/internal/soul work she should have done to be a good mother for Ari, but Ari's perseverance and actions in alignment to her own values based on truth and love not only helped her own progression in her journey toward her prophecy but also helped Pas' own healing toward love and forgiveness (this is making me so emotional rn omfg).

And Caeneus, who for 10 years in the Underworld waited to see his mum come through to confront her about his murder. Their family is also based on love, but divine destiny ruptured it. Then at the very end it his love for her despite his long struggle trying to understand her betrayal, his obsession with obtaining closure from her, in the Nothing his love is so great he unlocked a power not even Hades could do - bringing a soul back.

I feel this show was very intentional in its warping of Hera's characterisation because it is a commentary on what she stands for in society today. Marriage and family in capitalism are tools for the preservation of power, the protection of private property, to maintain the social order necessary for capitalism to continue. Do I think the show was trying to go for an anti-capitalist critique? No, at least not overtly or consciously, but so far in my reflections I see that is what is happening and as a commie that makes me a big fan.

[hellgram]

when kaos hits with the celestis divinitus insania vero

[avelera]

Goddammit, Kaos on Netflix actually WAS really good and now I’m even more mad about the cancellation

[bogslob]

Hey guys please can we hype up kaos

Im gonna be needing a season 2

Its basically a modern day greek mythology story, its very fun and i cant believe tumblr hasn’t jumped on it

If you liked percy jackson i would highly recommend

[zorawitch]

dont love the minotaur DESIGN in kaos but by god do i love the minotaur themes. thats a boy. thats a boy who nobody figured out how to love properly.

[wheneverfeasible]

Y’all I’m watching Kaos on Netflix and I’m on Episode 3 and 37:28 minutes in and a lot of you are going to like this part for a reason I don’t.

Also I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about this show on my feed yet. Like…Billie Piper as Cassandra? Jeff Goldblum as Zeus? David Thewlis as Hades? The massive queer representation?

Like c’mon people. I need someone to yell about this show with.

[kitttttchaos]

High key scared for another season of Kaos bc if Ari and Dionysus don’t get a cute slowburn and Orpheus doesn’t find a muse who needs his suffocating love I will actually cry

[kaos-incarnate]

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Okay I know we probably won’t cause it’s Netflix but I need a season two of Kaos like yesterday

[riccissance]

the way ariadne brings glaucus' body to her mother, not out of spite, but because daedalus said that all she had wanted was to see and hold her son one last time, and had been denied...

[kotaface]

Finally found time to watch KAOS, fell head over heels in love with the whole premise, the characters, the interpretation and subversion of the myths, the modern-but-not-really setting, the CASTING!!!

And found out partway through that Netflix already fucking canceled it. Because of course they did.

I hate everything.

[koresflowers]

the fact that nax&theseus were banging eachother and in the next scene the police was at their door and then they were hanged is just wild.AND THE FACT THAT ARI WANTED TO BANG THESEUS IS ALSO INSANE(she didn’t even know he was gay)