#apollo meant like. my epitaph

[apollos-boyfriend]

[love-of-fandoms]

Request: [Thank you for doing my request. If possible I would love to requests a part two for hades, posiden, Zeus, and Apollo. Where they learn their child had their opposite epitaph. ( god of all living things, god of nature, god of rebellion, god of disease and devastation) respectively. /I really like the Apollo and hades ones since their on the polar opposite of their fathers/ THANK YOU!]

Thank you for the request! And also thank you for this specifically because the first one was such a great idea and I wanted to do it for the other gods but couldn't think of epitaphs so rock on!

These ones turned out a bit more angst than the others... oh well

Hades w/ a child dubbed god of all living things

You always did enjoy roaming your mother Persephone's gardens as opposed to overseeing the souls of the underworld

Honestly, Hades was hoping you would take after your mother

Thought you would be granted a minor epitaph like god of flowers or something

He was allowed up to Olympus on the day your got your epitaph from the fates

You come out with vines growing within your hair, as well as a new animal familar

Honestly, being one of the big three he should've anticipated his child would be something a bit more powerful than god of flowers

It's really hard for both of you because being in the underworld, which had up until this point been your home, physically hurts you

Hades loves you and doesn't want you to be in pain, but the times he would be allowed topside to see you would be few and far between

Hermes ferries messages between the two of you at least once a day

You two only really see each other once a year, when Persephone leaves the Underworld, Hades is granted the day to spend with the two of you on Olympus

Probably grows even more resent for his brothers because of this

Poseidon w/ a child dubbed god of nature

Honestly, Poseidon was expecting you to be dubbed god of sea creatures or something, maybe sea flora

You spent most of your time down in the ocean with him

The Great Barrier Reef? That was the garden you decided to build when you were a child

Since Poseidon expects you to be dubbed something to do with sea life, he trains you to be a Princess of the Oceans

You become very important to his governing of the seas

You two travel to Olympus for you to receive your epitaph and he's unworried

He goes and hangs out with Athena

Similar to Hades' kid, you leave the sanctum with flowers and vines strewn in with your hair, wearing all green

Poseidon didn't understand why you were scared of his reaction when you first told him

Then you had to explain to him that you were god of all nature, not just sea nature, and as such would be needed all over the world, on land as well

That is... not what he was hoping for

You make it work, your duties in Poseidon's court reduced to matters you could deal with quickly

You still live in the Oceans with your father

Just a lot of your time when you're awake is spent on land, coordinating with nymphs and other creatures to protect nature from the humans best you can

Zeus w/ a child dubbed god of rebellion

Hera is honestly more upset than him

Let's be honest, Zeus wasn't a very present father

He had so many other children, but spent time with barely any of them until they were adults

As such he didn't really have any expectations when you received your epitaph

Wasn't even waiting for you when you left the sanctum wearing armor and war paint streaked across your body, hair wild

When I said Hera was upset? I meant with him

She blames him for your rebellious nature

"Maybe if you were a bit more present, they wouldn't have turned out this way!!"

You end up living in the underworld with Hades because of a fallout with your father

Not a rebellion, just a fallout

Though you do encourage many more rebellions than usual around that time

Ares loves you!

You cause wars! Favorite sibling status achieved!

You would be on Hera's side with the Giants

Apollo w/ a child dubbed god of disease and devastation

Let's be honest, you were probably the result of a random tryst

Apollo might not even know about you until your birth

Your mother died in childbirth after a very tough pregnancy

You were a sickly child, and spent a lot of time with your brother Asclepius, god of medicine, as a result

No matter what he tried, he could never fully cure you

Nobody was surprised the day you got your epitaph

Since your epitaph was such a dismal one, you were sent to live in the underworld with Hades

Apollo probably blames himself

He can't even rationalize it, but he always thinks if he was just there for you more

Probably because of his guilt, he has Hermes pass you messages every day

Despite your epitaph, you still enjoy the arts like your father, so occasionally you'll send Hermes back with a new art piece

The Black Plague? That was a rough couple centuries for you... you were bed bound for most of it, and kept apologizing to Hades for the surplus of souls entering the underworld, but really, you have no control over your power

Part 1 with Ares, Hermes, and Athena here

Part 3 with Demeter and Aphrodite here