#and i wanted her maenads stuff in there it's so fun and cool

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FAITH LEHANE   ➤   LEGACIES VERSE NOTES

i’ll be borrowing a lot from go ask malice for her first arc, and influenced by early series faith in her second. here are general notes about my faith portrayal. 

faith lehane grows up in boston and has a hard life, etc, etc. when she is put in to foster care, she is put in to a strange home that is strict and mysterious, but better than other horror stories she’s heard about. 

however, one day, when the ever impulsive faith and her best friend get curious about the attic they’re never allowed in, she discovers a young boy in chains that looks remarkably like her foster parent’s son who died decades ago. 

as her friend goes to free the boy, believing him to be held captive, his face changes. as soon as he is free, he over powers her and begins draining her blood, proclaiming how hungry he is.

her foster mother rushes up to the attic and tries to stop him, but when he lunges at faith, faith fights back. she kicks, punches, bites, anything to get out of his grasps. when she reaches for the curtain rod to use as a weapon, the sunlight burns right through him.

faith runs away and spends her time at the local library researching vampires. it’s two months before she kills her next one.

she feels power for the first time in her life. like she could really be something. like she could be a hero. 

ARC 001:   I HAVE SEEN THE FATHER. 

dionysus, a minor chaos god is released from malivore, and with him, the ghost of a vengeful maenad follows. (OR we can just say his name is kakistos but like i’m trying to meld with actual mythology here than shotty lore.)

the maenad possesses faith when she is in the middle of a rage induced blackout and leads her to the salvatore school in an attempt to kill dionysus because he is also free. 

faith comes in and out of possession, but the possession is threatening her health. 

she aids the school and ultimately helps the maenad achieve by helping kill the minor god so he cannot be freed by malivore.

hope and the twins help exorcise her, most likely. 

she leaves the school behind because she’s not a magical creature, but they don’t make her forget since she’s already a vampire hunter as long as she doesn’t target them. she also likely retains some memory from the maenad’s possession so knows a great deal more about some forgotten mythological creatures, though very sparingly because of malivore’s influence.

ARC 002:   RETURN TO THE SALVATORE SCHOOL

faith resumes hunting vampires for sport, but when she accidentally kills a human one particularly chaotic night believing him to be a vampire, she triggers her werewolf curse. 

alaric finds her after her first turn, where she killed many people. 

she feels a lot of guilt about the deaths, but also can’t bring herself to take full responsibility. 

this arc may lead to a rogue faith arc based on plot, similar to her btvs canon.

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Dionysus has one of the craziest god origin stories honestly. Hera kills his mom (Zeus is his dad) by tricking Zeus into showing her his true form and vaporizing her. So Zeus sews up Dionysus into his leg (to finish the birth process? His leg is like an incubator? He's a god he does what he wants). Anyway, Zeus takes to him to live with a certain family. Dionysus dresses like a girl to trick Hera (he's partially god of being confused about your identity so that's cool). Newsflash: doesn't work, and Hera inflicts them with madness (basically all of them die). Dionysus leaves, he gets kidnapped by pirates, only the helmsman believes he's a god/demigod, and is the only crewmember not to be turned into a dolphin. He creates wine. Gets some followers (craziest were these drunk nymphs called Maenads they literally tore people into pieces for fun, remember that). Dionysus goes across Greece spreading the wonders of wine and holding revels. Only two kings (that I know of) refused it. One king whipped Dionysus. He ended up going mad, killing his son, and getting torn to pieces by four horses running in different directions. The other king went to one of the rebels after refusing to recognize Dionysus as a god. He was spying on them from a tree and the god saw him. The king was torn to pieces by partygoers (including the Maenads and his own mother). At one point, Dionysus tried to attack India too (but I don't even remember that whole thing). He eventually claimed his godhood (Hestia gave up her seat for him). He rescued Ariadne from where Theseus dumped her (he married her and was actually one of the more faithful gods, he's up there with Hades and Hephaestus). So, yeah. He did some more stuff, but that's all I remember off the top of my head (sorry for the word vomit k).

Atlas for the greek myth asks please? Mine is probably either Atlanta or Hades and Persephone (the version where she follows him to the Underworld).

Atlas- Favourite myth? I’m not super well versed on myths but maybe whatever the heck was going on with dionysus’ origin from what i remember of an overly sarcastic productions video- Other than that 100% Hades!