#Psyche’s trials

[blumoonfiction-blog]

Fairy Tale 101: Myths & Legends - Cupid & Psyche

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”— Cupid and Psyche, from Apuleius’ The Golden Ass The story of Cupid and Psyche is one of the most enduring love stories in mythology, a tale that has enchanted readers for centuries. Found in Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, this Roman myth weaves a beautiful narrative about trust, perseverance, and the trials of love. Psyche, a mortal woman of extraordinary…

[the-star-rigel]

pjo/hoo/toa + the cycle

The Lightning Thief / Growing Sideways, Noah Kahan / Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin + Saturn Devouring His Son, Goya + Saturn, Rubens / The Blood of Olympus / The Family Jewels, MARINA / The Last Olympian / The Sea of Monsters / The Family Jewels / Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Bouguereau / The Hidden Oracle / Apollo and Marsyas, Manfredi / In The Blood, John Mayer / The Sea of Monsters / The Combat of Ares and Athena, Jacques Louis David / The Family Jewels / Mark of Athena / The Combat of Ares and Athena / The Lightning Thief / Family Line, Conan Gray / Cronos and Rhea, Schinkel / The Lightning Thief / The Blood of Olympus / In The Blood / The Last Olympian / Chronos and His Child, Romanelli / Desireé Dellagiacomo / The Lightning Thief / Family Line / The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel + The Last Day of Pompeii, Bryullov / The Blood of Olympus / The Outcast, Botticelli / Glass, Irony and God, Anna Carson / House of Hades / Family Line / The Last Olympian / The Lament for Icarus, Herbert Draper + Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Roman School + Minerva and Arachne, Houasse + Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris, Kauffmann / The Last Olympian / Hadestown / The Lightning Thief / apple, Charli xcx / The Last Olympian / I Would Leave Me If I Could, Halsey / The Sea of Monsters / ? / LET YOUR DAD DIE ENERGY DRINK, Lavery and Corrigan / The Last Olympian / Eat Your Young, Hozier / The Last Olympian / Orpheus and the Bacchantes, Lazzarini / The Blood of Olympus / Susan Smith, wych elm / Orpheus and the Bacchantes / The Burning Maze / ? / The Tyrant’s Tomb / Perseus Freeing Andromeda, Veronese / Abduction of Psyche, Bouguereau + Bacchus and Ariadne, Van Loo / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero

[sualne]

today's warm up doodle is t4t zosan and their triplets

[akiacia]

the myth of eros and psyche

[fluffylord]

Malcolm Tucker + Mood Face THE THICK OF IT | S03

[ckret2]

I'm staring at the newest chapter in horror but also, there are SO many witnesses and there will probably be a ton of documentation about the second dimensional incident, which makes it that much more baffling Bill got an insanity plea. I know it's for Story Reasons and I probably shouldn't think about it too hard but goddamn.

They legitimately looked at all of this and said "yeah no he's found not guilty by reason of insanity, Theraprism NOW." (I thought at first it was "guilty but insane," however we get no indication that he's going to be sent to a normal multiversal prison after he completes his karmic rehabilitation. They all but say that reincarnation is the goal after this is over, which seems to be equivalent to release and reintegration into society.)

That being said it could simply be that interdimensional court has different requirements to be declared insane enough not to get permadeath. Or I'm misremembering how the Theraprism works...It's a forensic hospital, right? Not prison. He's being treated not punished.(Kinda debatable. That place sucks.)

The Axolotl gotta be the single best lawyer of the entire multiverse how the hell did they pull this off. I would love to just be in the court when this went down actually I can already feel how absolutely insane it was. No way either side didn't fight tooth and nail.

the fact that Bill is willing to look every single person he meets dead in the eye and say "no my dimension wasn't destroyed, it's fine, all my people are alive and they love me" is ngl gonna be a big part of the ax's defense strategy.

They have a lot of documentation of what Bill's like after the massacre—but there's absolutely no record, anywhere, of what happened during the massacre. You know what they do have documentation of though? Bill insisting that he dumped Euclydia into Dimension Zero so that he could do renovations and that he's built a paradise universe in its place when all he's built is a void with a few strobe lights. Bill claiming that all these people he kidnapped himself are actually from his dimension. Bill pulling off "rescues" with seemingly no self-awareness that he slaughtered more than he saved. Bill being told MULTIPLE TIMES "if you keep trying to fix Dimension Zero then the multiverse will collapse" and Bill going "okay. i hear you. So how about i fix Dimension Zero, and then, everything is fine."

What do you do if you get Bill into a courtroom and ask him "do you plea guilty to the massacre of Euclydia?" and he goes "I don't know what you're talking about. There was no massacre. I liberated everyone, they're fine. They're literally still alive today. Nobody died." Like. You're trying to decide his culpability in a crime he doesn't acknowledge happened.

You've gotta ask 2 questions: does Bill literally not know what happened to his dimension—even if the knowledge comes and goes, is it still sometimes genuinely missing—or is this just an act to try to wiggle out of trouble? And, if he does literally not know what happened to it, is that a trauma reaction to the massacre, or did he commit the crime not comprehending what the result would be?

Bill's a known liar, this could all be an act. But, like, god, wow, it's a really, really good act.

The Ax can argue that Bill literally doesn't grasp the difference between right and wrong. He can tell them that Bill is completely unable to differentiate fact and fiction. He can tell them that Bill has delusions that he didn't destroy Euclydia, that the neighboring dimensions are Euclydia, that all his people are alive and healthy, and argue that he probably had delusions that whatever he did to his dimension wouldn't destroy it in the first place. He can argue a whole lot of things about Bill.

Are any of these things true about Bill? Debatable. Probably not. Somewhere between 30%-60% true. Could the Ax convince a court that they're true? Probably. Everyone already agrees Bill's insane. The only question is if he was the right kind of insane at the right time.

[fandom-trash-goblin]

SHE WAS ELIA OF DORNE

Elia Week: Day 2-> Princess & Knight

Elia and Oberyn, Oberyn and Elia, two words melding together to make one entity. Joint at the hips, should have been twins, their mother had joked, and Oberyn had felt nothing but pride for it. It was true, after all, they were each other's soul. And yet, yet—        Oberyn could not save Elia. Doran says, it was not your fault, brother. The Lannisters will pay for it— but it was his fault. If a knight does not save his princess, there is no worth to him. Elia was dead, and the sky didn’t fall into pieces— only Oberyn did. And that was something he could not forgive, could not stop resenting. Oberyn had failed in saving Elia, so all that was left to him was justice, was — vengeance.

[thequeenofsastiel]

I find it interesting that during the trials Spike endured to get his soul back, never once did we see him put on his vampire face. Which is odd, because vampires are more powerful when they do that. Spike usually puts on his vampire face when he's fighting. So why not do it during the trials, especially given that he knows they're going to be incredibly difficult, and will definitely result in his death if he doesn't pass them?

I think it has to do with the fact that what he's trying to do is to get his human soul back. He wants his human soul, so he wants to fight as a human. He feels that if he fights as a vampire, it undermines what his goal is. So even though it's more likely that he would die, he still wants to be as human as possible.

Which is one of the reasons I disagree with people who say that his goal was actually to get his chip removed. If that was his goal, he would have fought as a vampire.

[incorrect-sunflower-sibs]

Reyna: Apollo, I’m a little concerned. Lester, covered in cuts, bruises, and a gunshot wound: Is it because I’ve been wearing this hoodie for a couple days? I’m gonna wash it this weekend, I swear.

[regent-overthinker]

I don’t care I’m going to say it

A lot of what you guys pretend is Hades and Persephone, is everything Eros and Psyche already are

[just-about-nothing]

is any of shawn's """"""evidence""""" admittable in court or? like it's santa barbara i do believe you can find a jury that'll convict off psychic testimony but shiiiit that prosecutor's gonna have a hard time of it. if they confess (because's there's a crazy man spouting shit he shouldn't know at them), do they just take a plea deal? i dunno if i would tbh i think if you dragged shawn into court it would go very poorly for the prosecution.

like just cus someone got arrested does not mean they can actually get convicted and the fact none of these cop shows show that i find profoundly irritating lol ok u broke a bunch of people's civil rights. means none of that evidence is admissible and now you're fucked in trial. dumbass

[moodyseal]

It's sad that after all that's happened (and even after he said he'd rather die than turn to Zeus for help) Apollo still prays to his father first when faced with immediate danger

[yonemurishiroku]

Child of Aphrodite Nico au in which Will is put through trails like Psyche in order to prove his dedication to Nico. Thoughts?

Will and Apollo bonding over having to overcome trials. Will fighting for his love whereas Apollo fighting his exes. Brilliant. He is really his father's son.

Anw this reminds me of that one Child of Aphrodite! Nico fanfic wherein Cupid calls him "Mother's favorite" or brother or st like that.... It's fun. It gets me thinking, where do Cupid and Psyche stand in all of this? Are they supportive? I think they would be, even though their support doesn't always promise good things...

On another note. Idk if you notice but like. Will is a child of Apollo. And Apollo and Cupid might have... beef? In the myth, I mean. It's about Daphne and the origin of the laurel tree, you know? That time Apollo looks down on Eros' archery and in retort, Eros shoots a gold arrow at Apollo and a bronze one at Daphne, which then leads to the whole... tragic love chase or whatever.

Sorry. The whole thing is also the inspiration for a Solangelo fanfic of mine so I can't help but bring that up LMAO. What I'm trying to say is that this can shine a new light on this scenario. Does it make Cupid/Eros more bitter or lenient?

Onto the story itself. Now this is an exciting part. In the original myth, Psyche has to go through four trials, three of which are finished with the help of outside forces, the last of which is -I just looked it up- retrieving Persephone's cream. I can alr see many references, really.

The first thing that popped into my head was that we could put other characters into the roles of Will/Psyche's helpers, which then translates into all the connections either Will or Nico possibly have made in all those years of demigod life.

For instance, in the 3rd task of the original myth, an eagle helped Psyche fill a crystal vessel with the water of the spring that feeds the Styx and Cocytus. Who does it remind you of? Who has access to the Underworld and has connections to an eagle symbol?

Hazel. That's who. And I really don't know how you intend to mortify their dynamics now that Nico isn't a child of Hades, but Imma assume they are sibling-like still bc fuck it, they are my religion. The point is Hazel might help Will, if only for her brother.

I suppose I don't have to talk much about how Will's gonna fetch Persephone's cream bc Rick makes it pretty obviously LMAO. They are chilling in the Underworld garden sunbathing (Will being the sun) covered in Persephone's suncream or st Idk. Will has this so much easier than Psyche.

In the end, Cupid rescues Psyche from the deep sleep of the underworld cream. This can be translated into Nico realizing that someone is truly fighting to be with him, and he wants to make an effort to meet them in the middle, but that's just me running into a dead-end bc idk how Will's gonna fall asleep if Persephone is alr so kind lending him the cream and that kid def doesn't dream about getting more beautiful like Psyche did or whatsoever. So. Idk. Maybe Cupid messes it up? I would if I were him, ngl. But that's just me.

Thoughts are jumbling around in my mind but life doesn't always give what we want so I guess this is all I can offer atm LMAO. this is a good foundation for a long-chaptered Solangelo child of Aphrodite!Nico fanfic if you ask me, ngl.

[gaygirldoodles]

still trying to figure out my godly parent

i looked at what all the muses preside over and none of them quite fit me. im not smart enough for Athena cabin and I like spiders (depending on the situation and the spider). i dont like the sun too much and am not an early bird at all so i dont think Apollo cabin would fit. im starting to think Psyche cabin might work. Does anyone mind giving me any Psyche cabin headcanons? i cant find that much anywhere

[the-overanalyst]

i love the eros and psyche myth 'cause it's like.. beauty thinks she can control love and holds him captive but the human soul (the most beautiful thing of all) overcomes impossible trials in order to find him, and once she does, they produce joy

[scriberated]

Necessity's Bargain Chapter 7

Chapter 7: union [NSFW] || Ao3

Chapter Summary:

Galadriel struggled to master herself; bitterness and anger alike rose within her. She did not like feeling used, and certainly not by someone that she–

She shuddered and shook her head, refusing to allow the thought to complete itself.

“When we have returned to the castle,” she began, swallowing the lump in her throat. “We will speak at length about your true intentions, and the fulfillment of our bargain.” Her tone was bitter, and as cold as their environment. She struggled to put space between them, wishing to refuse even the comfort of his warmth now.

“As much as I am able–”

“No,” Galadriel ground out, shifting away from him. “All of them. Do not think me so profoundly love-struck that I cannot see when I have been played for a fool.”

Work Summary: 1st Age Cupid & Psyche inspired AU. The crossing of the Helcaraxë is harsh and terrible. Wounded, weary, and running out of supplies, Galadriel ventures alone into the dark forest to gather supplies and meets a benevolent spirit, one who offers much needed aid to her people in exchange for three favors. The catch? She must agree before knowing what those favors are.

For her people, there is nothing she would not do. Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Ships: Galadriel | Artanis/Sauron | Mairon Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, 1st Age AU,Helcaraxë, First Kiss, First Time, Faustian Bargain, Desperation, Mildly Dubious Consent, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Sensory Deprivation, Disrespected boundaries, Seduction, Accidental Plot, Non-Consensual Voyeurism, Voyeurism, Hair-pulling, Blindfolds, Masturbation, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilungus, Deconstruction of Elven Purity Culture, Light Dom/Sub