#Orpheus the cat

[bunnybonesstudio]

Elimetri fans; You’ve seen Heracles, Demetri’s Himbo Orange Cat…

May I introduce you to ORPHEUS!

Demetri’s eternally angry black cat!

I came up with Orpheus independently before I knew the existence of Heracles amongst the wider binary boyfriends/brothers fandom.

There was something that made perfect sense to me about the idea that Demetri would own a black cat specifically that just wanted the world to burn.

He’s currently featured in both of my fics (pinned post) and I love writing about his interactions with Demetri.

Here’s some photos I found that most accurately show him as a kitten and his current form.

Orpheus hates everything and everyone except for the following:

Demetri’s bed

Cooked turkey

His stuffed bird toy

Eli Moskowitz

I just wanted to share what is technically one of my strongest headcanons for Demetri: owner of an angy black kitty cat!

[salty-ironstrange-shipper]

Best part about having a cat named Orpheus is when people hear his name and go "Oh that's such a cool name for a cat". You're correct. It is. His name goes hard, what can I say.

[bunnybonesstudio]

This is literally Demetri with Orpheus

Bothering the beast

[grapefruit185]

orpheus morpheus go eat some walruseses.... ORIFICES... Orpheus drinkin a 40 in a death basket! AH

[thelimehazard]

Shadow of Hades

[blotb0x]

orpheus. wet cat

[sims-jonathan]

warrior cats kids turned tma fans rise up

[andromedadotnet]

De Capo(+ Mary n Nightmare) as cats

If it looks really messy it's cause it is, silly cat doodles require nothing but pure unadulterated lack of focus

I drew these instead of sleeping lol enjoy

[multiiocular-mushroom]

francis madoka magica crozier

(the witch designs are here and also posted separately with some lore under the tag 'the soul gem passage')

[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, I had thoughts on forming a legit DBD Hadestown AU, and seeing as they kept me up literally all last night, it seemed only fitting that I actually write them down. So:

Charles and Edwin are, obviously, Orpheus and Eurydice respectively. However, rather than having just met and falling into a whirlwind romance, I decided that they're childhood friends who've met again and rediscovered feelings that they'd both been ignoring for a long time. Edwin is dedicated soley to figuring out why the world is dying and if he can help people while he can, and he hasn't really let himself rest, or even feel happy, in years---to the point where he feels that any good thing is too good to be true, even falling in love. Charles, on the other hand, has long since made the decision that someone has to be happy and keep spirits up in the trying times, and it might as well be him... even at the cost of his own health, as he works tirelessly on a song that he knows, despite all logic and understanding, will bring back spring again.

Crystal is Hermes, but she is also Hecate---she is the goddess of the in-between, magic, trickery, the crossroads, and restless souls... and that last part refers not only to the dead that she guides to Hadestown, but to anyone who chooses a life of wandering the road, from the honest messenger to the thieving highwayman. And yet, since the world has begun to die, she's been slowly slipping away from her role, choosing to spend her time among the mortals. This decision, of course, is helped by the fact that not only is Crystal one of the few gods who thinks there's more to the world dying than it just being "a reflection of mortal hubris," but that she's managed to make a friend in Charles. She's seen the way that music can change the world, after all, and knowing that there's at least one mortal who still has hope means that she can still believe.

Niko is a combination of Aphrodite and Dionysus---she's the goddess of love, revelries, happiness, and abundance, yes, but she's also the goddess of the mania that comes when all of those things are taken too far, and she's been dipping more and more into that side of herself as the world gets worse and worse. She wants to forget all the pain and suffering, and she gives herself and others the means to do so, even if it's all temporary. And while Niko does care for the mortals, and wishes that things could get better... deep down, she's lost a lot of her old hope, and even she can't disguise the fact that she's living with a broken heart.

Monty is Persephone, but he's also Apollo---he's the god of rebirth, prophecies, the stars and the earth, and new beginnings... and for what should be half of the year, he rules over the dead. He used to find just as much joy in watching over the souls as he did creating spring with Niko and charting the stars to bring prophecies to the mortals, but as Hadestown gets more punishing, more people die up above, and the world just gets worse, Monty grows even more bitter and closed off. He's unable to even properly enjoy his time on the surface, knowing full well that he won't stay for six months like he should... and the man he loves is wearing his patience thin.

The Cat King is Hades---and yes, somebody did make a very compelling argument for him being the Fates, but it works for the story, so just hang on. Once upon a time, he was happy just ruling over souls and managing the afterlife, and he cherished the time he spent with Monty as much as he could. But over time, wealth became added to his already vast domain, and his fascination for making and collecting things became an obsession... in no small part due to the fact that those six months spent away from Monty started to weigh incredibly heavy on him, and he eventually loses himself in his effort to replicate everything his husband loves about the upper world as it dies along with the way they used to feel about each other. Not to mention, his old empathy and compassion for the souls has hardened into cold indifference at best and a sick enjoyment of their suffering at worst. And all this change is making one person in particular very happy...

Esther is the Fates, but she's also a version of Demeter---the goddess of nature and all of its love and cruelties, and the one who spins everyone's path on her loom, punishing those who dare to stray from what she has determined for them. She's despised the Cat King for years, ever since he whisked Monty away to Hadestown, and she wholeheartedly believes that the reason the world is dying is only because he's been keeping Monty down there for too long, not because they've begun to fall out of love. So, when Esther spins a tale of a pair of lovers who are destined to end tragically, she sees it as an opportunity to finally push the Cat King and Monty to the breaking point---to save her son and the world, she tells herself, but mostly for revenge.

[bunnybonesstudio]

A Brief Case Study

Orpheus with Eli:

Orpheus with Demetri:

This concludes our case study. Thank you.

[des-no9]

A silly wee comic about the translation of the tir'su between Orpheus' tits <3

I changed the rest of the tir'su on Orpheus' chest to fit my HCs and feelies, though. And the comic is funnier to me if I go with my HC that it was Voss who tattooed all of Orpheus' tatts. He's a silly old man.

Note: the tir'su Voss is reading also spells something out but from his POV :3

[weaponizedmoth]

For the art requests - is it ok to ask for Dr Orpheus enjoying chill out time with his cat Simba? lol

Absolutely.

[catlokis-blog]

dating orpheus would be insane you'd say some shit like "i don't deserve u" and he'd be all IT IS IIII WHO DO NOT DESERVE YOOUUU MY SNOOKUMS

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Orpheus (the guy from Greek myth) was on a camping trip with a teenage jester, the male human embodiment of a pathetic cat, and a sad digital artist.

[missycooper33]

orpheus and eurydice