#and you will have your Athena vs Poseidon fight you are complaining about

[australet789]

I keep seeing people saying Zeus was OOC for striking Athena at the end of God Games and that he was mad at Odysseus

Guys, did we listen to the same song?

Athena's last argument to won the game was literally saying in a magic colleseum full of every single greek magical creature

"Yeah, Zeus is a cheater and a fuckboy, unlike Odysseus"

Athena literally won by insulting Zeus in front of everyone's faces and making Hera, the Goddess of Marriage and very much known wife of Zeus, agree with that.

Zeus was not pissed at Odysseus, he was very much pissed at Athena for using a mortal to compare him (and it goes somehow along the original story, in which Zeus complains about the humans being pissed at the gods for their fates when the gods are basically just "doing their jobs")

[bellamyroselia]

I'm having a bad case of writer's block which means that my project on analyzing what kind of characters some of the more important mythological figures could be if introduced to Kid Icarus is currently on halt - but while waiting for the block to end, I thought it would be funny to post some of the more ridiculous notes and stuff I've written:

A child plot device who could easily be removed from the story and nothing of value would be lost VS Aphrodite's stolen mirror VS Palutena's polished bronze shield

Values dissonance is one hell of a drug and past is another country, to put it simply

I ranted because Divinepedia doesn't know what an Aegis is

I ranted over syncretism because it made things so unnecessary hard

I ranted over the word demigod because the definition of it isn't consistent

"There are many things that can be deciphered by using zodiac weapons and powers..."

I noted that stuff like venatio, gladiator fights and damnatio ad bestias are probably things in this universe, which is funny in a morbid kind of way - Magnus and Gaol would probably participate in those while Pit has a heart attack in the background

Purely educational Achilles-bashing

Purely educational Odysseus-bashing

Purely educational Athena-bashing in regards of her actions during the Trojan war

"There's no way to be optimistic about that!"

Some talk about Epimenides paradox, Cretan claims about a tomb of Zeus and angry mainlanders

A note about how Arcadia is a weird, weird place

"Moral of the story - don’t mess with Demeter"

More Achilles-bashing

A bad joke of Tartarus being more fertile place than Hades because Tartarus has five kids with two different goddesses

"And then there's Ocnus. No one knows why he's in Tartarus"

Even more Achilles-bashing

"Charon, Minos, Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, Hypnos, Hecate and others must've went on a strike because where else could they be if they're not in home"

I brought up the fact that Hypnos is married shortly after talking about Sisyphus just because I wanted to make fun of Thanatos

Talking of the possibility of Palutena being in Clotho-imposed celibacy

Daily reminder that in Greco-Roman mythology Pegasus isn't a species but a proper noun

"This story is so overblown it hurts!"

Daily reminder that gods don't have blood but ichor

"Aphrodite isn't allowed to have things in this franchise and she hasn't even been formally introduced!"

Life and times of Vestal virgins because when mythology doesn't have anything to offer then history must have

Hermes and Peitho's combined mission - to scam you out of your money, either the good way or the bad way

Hey, remember that one time Artemis told a man to kill his daughter if he wanted to set the sails?

"I don’t really get this version, truth to be told"

Hey, remember those two times Apollo almost got himself thrown to Tartarus?

"Considering how about 6-12 year-olds Castor and Pollux led a siege against Athens, Parthenopaeus and Hippolytus both died presumably around the age of 15 or younger by rather violent means, Neoptolemus was already a war criminal when he was around 12 and his own young son was beheaded on his own altar with him being unable to do anything, I say Apollo’s doing a pretty bad job on that last one"

"This naturally displeased Hades, who firmly believed that what was dead should stay dead and he went to Zeus to complain about this. Zeus thought of the situation and then came to a realization that if Asclepius managed to teach this skill to other people, they’d have a massive problem on their hands and it can’t be allowed to happen. The logical course of action was to of course kill Asclepius"

"However, Laomedon was a textbook jackass"

"And that’s why it’s called the Milky Way. Gross"

"And because I’m writing this shortly after replaying Pokemon B/W, I must inform you all that Anthea (Blossom) is one of Hera’s epithets and European verbenas are also known as Juno’s tears"

Comparing Poseidon from mythology proper to his Mycenaean counterpart is just sad because my god, what else would you call that but serious nerfing

Big part of Poseidon's sector is just me saying that he's a bad dad and his kids come off either as complete idiots or degenerates

Some more Laomedon-bashing because what the heck was he thinking when he threatened Poseidon and Apollo

Athenian Ego™

"So Atlantis is pretty much an antithesis of a perfect society, a concept that’s discussed more in Republic and the lesson here is that being consumed by hubris in the search of luxury only leads to ruin - not that we care about that"

The urge to write bad joke about Byleth being dollar-store Dionysus rises

"So yeah, Bacchus and Proserpina were originally a thing and it changed because of Greek influence. Prior to their identification with Dionysus and Persephone, neither of them had any connections to Underworld"

"Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus even declared that when it came to their essence, Dionysus and Hades were the same god"

"Practically the only reason why I remember Dionysus even has children is because of all the bad humor that comes with the possibility of him being Deianira’s father"

"Baubo lifted her skirt up and revealed Iacchus, who ran into his mother’s arms. This made Demeter laugh, and so she accepted the food and drink that was given to her"

"Obviously he came to the city disguised as a mortal, brainwashed all the women and turned them into Maeneids, caused an earthquake, set a palace on fire, gleefully watched when his worshipers teared Thebes’ king to pieces and then gave an ominous warning to his maternal grandparents. It’s not quite an reset bomb, but the sheer amount of damage caused to Thebes is more than likely enough to make Viridi proud"

Because of plebeians were also called plebs, it means that Dionysus could easily say that plebs love him and that mental image gave me physic damage

Dionysus and Persephone would make a pretty great baddie duo now when I'm thinking of it

A note about how Persephone's different epithets might as well be different people

"Demeter sets a baby on fire which is supposed to make him immortal if you’re wondering"

"Which would make Ares Orpheus’ grandfather"

A surprisingly sweet tale about Ares and a baby

"What this means is that characters like Marth and Morgan at least in Japanese from Fire Emblem and Mario were named in honor of the same god Mark Anthony and Marcus Aurelius were, at least from a certain point of view"

The world is full of cheeky astronomers because there's multiple places on planet Mars named after Elysium and only on Mars

"Because just what kind of self-respecting enemy would take you seriously if you have a face of an angel?"

"I guess there’s just something hilarious about how this ancient Greek god shares a trait with Meta Knight of all characters"

I talk of the possibility of Ares' being Pit's dad. I really like it and need someone to geek more about because my goodness, so much potential! And none of it features Ares a villain because I'm not in the mood for character assassination! Some stuff does have him as more antagonistic, but still! I want to gush about dad!

The mental image of Phobos, Deimos and Nike looking at Pit and telling him to come back once he has fought Typhon because according to Dionysiaca, these three along with Zeus, Ares and Enyo did indeed fight against Typhon

"Well, true name of the morning star is Venus but she’s Aphrodite’s Roman equivalent"

"Naturally all of this was used by people as a way to climb up the political ladder, as Julio-Claudian dynasty claimed to descend from her through Aeneas. You can even trace the ancestry of multiple pseudo-historical European figures all the way back to Aphrodite! Some notable examples of this include Blaiddyd, Leir of Britain, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia of Britain, who’re all described in Historia Regum Britanniae as descendants of Aeneas. Then there’s sources such as Cypria saying that Helen is Nemesis’ daughter with Zeus… So in a a quest to return Nemesis’ daughter back home, there was a massacre and Blaiddyd, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia’s ancestors, who’re descendants of a goddess by the way, were survivors of said massacre… This is why research matters, folks. Damn you Fire Emblem"

"Just like being loved by Apollo gives you huge death flags, being hated by Aphrodite will always make you suffer in one way or another"

Overly detailed exposition of that one time Aphrodite tried to kill a pregnant woman

It's hard to write about Aeneid while resisting the urge to put a DMC-joke there somewhere

"I personally prefer the name Volupta, it rhymes much more nicer with rest of the family"

"“The world’s going to end and I’m going to stop it because live on it” isn’t what I’d consider personal reason"