#children of hades headcanon

[green-tea217]

head canon that children of the gods of the underworld are naturally cold

[lilislegacy]

*percy controlling akhlys’ poison to use it against her and choking her on her own tears and saliva*

annabeth: never do it again. never do anything like it again. i’m begging you

many years later

*percy and annabeth’s teenage children being held at knifepoint by enemies, seconds away from being killed*

annabeth: percy, do it

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

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Ω PJO DEMIGOD HEADCANONS:

💀 HADES: God of the Dead and Riches 💎

author's note: I had a sudden idea about writing some headcanons Camp Halfblood demigods being claimed and what it's like for each respective god and cabin, followed by a small blurb afterwards. Thank you for reading and please like and reblog! The order is not in order of the cabin numbers. [PJO DEMIGOD HEADCANONS MASTERLIST]

You’re not claimed in a way like the others. Instead you come across a pale faced boy with black hair, dark bags under his eyes, and a leather jacket. The ensemble he wore screamed something to you and he introduced himself to you as Nico, child of Hades. And you’re one of his half-siblings. 

Whether you’re like him, a child of Hades displaced out of time before the Oath was made after WW2, or a child born after the oath was rescinded, Nico has been finding any Hades’ demigods he could find. If you didn’t know better, you would think it was his life mission.

When you arrive at Camp, whether Camp Half Blood or Camp Jupiter, people already know who your godly parent or blood is when Nico is with you, but the claim over your head is just icing on the cake. It is the sign of the cusp of fall and winter together, the silence that presides over it. 

People give you a wide berth of respect, awe and fear. Not surprising given how powerful Hades is. 

Regardless, Nico sticks by your side and helps guide you. He teaches you how to handle the dead and the more peskier ghosts, but ultimately, he doesn’t let you feel alone. You tell your story to him and he tells his.  

You’re also introduced to Hazel who seems the complete opposite of Nico but you realise that while children of Hades both stick together but are very independent. Solitary but not isolated. 

While it may be bothersome and sometimes unsettling seeing ghosts and spirits, there are perks; you can reanimate and see dead and loved animals. You always tell the doggos they are good boys. That or the hellhounds. 

“Hello Darkness, my old friend”- ‘The Sound of Silence’ by Simon and Gafunkel.

Regardless if you’re Greek or Roman, when people diss and don’t believe that the planetary Pluto is not a planet, you will get bad and they will know to never diss Pluto. 

Dried flowers, fungi, antiques, faded memories, abandoned buildings. Once filled with life and encompassed with what could be death. Many do not appreciate them but they open themselves to you, and you and your siblings remember them. You carry old, past clothes on your backs, you gently touch the dried petals of flowers with their faint smell still cling to you. You see the hands that touched the antiques, touches of human life. You see the abandoned buildings and know that they were built and housed life in them with their shelter. 

While you may be part of Death’s domain, you greatly cherish life; the people in your life and that help shape you. When you love someone, you love them to a beyond that transcends death. 

You know about shadow traveling as Nico helped you go through it. At the minimum, you can fold yourself into the shadows and be unseen like Hades, but at the most, you can travel to any place where shadows preside over. You find its easier to travel to places wherever Hades’ domain presides over; you can travel more easily to places of death (i.e. cemetery, battlezones, altars) and riches (i.e. mines, the world trade centre, places of great bounty, banks). A rare power of a child of Hades may call things forth from the shadows, whether its things you place into the shadows or using the shadows to your will. You can grab an objects’ shadow to your advantage or use your hands to create shadow shapes to ‘life’. It is rumoured that once, a child of Hades that possessed that skill was able to freeze a person with their shadow pinned by them, and was able to kill them by simply cutting off a person’s shadow. 

Like Hades, you may seem aloof and stern in matters, but on the other hand, this can be seen as fair and honourable. 

When the children of Hades gather in one place, you all give off an Addams' family vibe. The aesthetics, the attitude toward things. Hades is Gomez and Persephone is Morticia, you can guess where it goes from there.

You looked at Nico, who introduced himself as your half-brother. You tried to find the similarities you two shared and while it isn’t entirely physical, there is an air around him that draws you in. A solace if you will.  It’s been more than 70 years since your original time and now here you are, in the 21st century. You thought you had died and now you were here, breathing.  You could feel the anticipation turning into dread when you would eventually realize the math of your birth era and now.

It was a stark change from your time, yet in some sort of attempt to grasp your sanity, you started to find similarities, things that seemed to be the same from your time and this time. It calmed you down but also at the same time, you were a bit overwhelmed where your half brother had taken you. 

McDonalds, he said. You looked at the meal he had bought and inspected it. It was different yet strangely good? The soda-pop however, was entirely bizarre but still delicious (sickeningly sweet you thought).

You both ate your meal as Nico gave you a rundown of the situation. The existential weight of being children of Hades and Pluto was, especially after the creation of the Big Three Oath after the world war, and how it was absolved not too long ago in this time by a son of Poseidon. Then came the eventual appearances of deceased children of Hades and Pluto, which you found out were either killed in the wars, or were deliberately hunted down by Zeus and Poseidon; much like Nico and his sister Bianca. 

Nico tried to give you a rundown of what times are like now and their delicate situation, but even then, Nico wasn’t too knowledgeable given everything. 

Silence fell between the two of you, as you tried to process literally everything. You tried to speak but the knot in your stomach and the weight in your throat was getting heavier. It was becoming awkward and you looked at Nico, realising he too was out of his depth. You found some amusement that he really must be your brother if the two of you were both socially inept. 

You saw Nico open the two red box with the golden arches, before he took out the two toys. You looked at them, wondering really how the meals costed. Toys weren’t very cheap back in the day, and while you had a feeling manufacturing must’ve improved, to have a toy come with a meal must be costly…but you were sure of how much Nico paid as you watched him to get a handle on today’s currency. 

“So uh….which of the kids meals toys do you want?” he stammered. 

You stared at him with wider eyes as you saw him slowly shift in his seat in awkwardness. Everything came to a head as the hilarity of the situation dawned upon you. You started laughing as Nico looked at you like you had grown a second head. 

“I’ll take this one” you chuckled, taking the toy before wiping away the tears, “Thank you Nico.”

“I mean…I eat here pretty frequently-”

“I mean finding us” you said,  as Nico blinked at you owlishly. You placed a hand on top of his in a reassuring gesture. “You went through a lot and you’re just as young as us, yet here you are, finding the rest of us who may be wandering limbo and offering us toys.”

“Well…it’s not fair” he tried to play off. 

“None of it is fair,” you noted, “But this is.”

Nico stared at you before nodding. “We have to go to Camp to get you settled in,” he started. 

You hummed as you helped clean up, “Perhaps yeah…then where next?”

“What?” 

You smirked at Nico, “If you want to go alone, you can but if you’re going to find the rest of us, count me in.” 

“Are you sure? There’s a lot to digest.”

“Probably, but we’re demigods, I doubt things are going to be normal for a long time.”

[sunshines-child]

I'm so bored i'm gonna give children of Hades a curse that states that "if the child is not to die early, they will walk life, but never know it" or something. The curse is set by Persephone.

[totally-not-castor]

children of hades headcanons 🫶🫶

was listening to this song while writing so imma just place this here🥰

────── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ──────

as a child of hades, I thought this would be a fun idea!! 🫶🫶 to all my fellow children of hades this is for yall<33

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this is the most common one, all of the hades kids have insomnia. (even irl i have insomnia 😭😭)

they all really like dark shaded colors, like midnight blue, dark purple and etc.

their minds or past are either fucked up, some may have good(?) childhoods and some are...questionable....like Nico's, though even if some have somewhat healthy childhoods they're still fucked up in the head.

either like gore or just generally blood

GAY. BIG GAY. VERY GAY.

SUPER DUPER GAY

has had a crush on Percy at SOME point of their life (honestly i think a lot has had a crush on percy before or still has)

the first time they find out about their powers they don't know how to control it. but when they get mad/upset/enthusiastic or pther very strong emotions they accidentally raise up the dead

loves happy meals or mcdonalds in general

either in a relationship with a golden retriever partner

favorite weapon is either dagger or sword (or honestly anything sharp but less likely a spear)

SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.SLEEP.

has panic! at the disco or MCR in their playlists

good friends with children of Nemesis and/or Hypnos

either has a weird liking to Nyx or realky fucking hates Nyx

obsessed with astrology

favorite apollo camper is Will but will pummel him if he does anything to Nico

short or tall but most of them are short (lmao nico rip)

HATSUNE MIKU 🥰🥰🥰

attachment/abandonment issues

self degradation and/or slef doubt thoughts

insecure or overly confident

pretty boy/girl

ofc likes the colour black

either bilingual or multilingual (in my case im multilingual)

music and/or poetry makes them happyy

thank you for coming to my pep talk

LOVE YOU🫶🫶🫶

[eddieisashifter]

Headcanon: Children of Thanatos are very claustrophobic due to the whole Sisyphus incident.

[rosewater-28]

PT 2. WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE AT A PAJAMAS PARTY WITH THEM (DEMIGODS VERSION). 👬🏻 💤 🛏️ 🍬

The sons of…

HADES💀💎: -I think they would summon a couple of spirits to liven up the conversation, certainly those ghosts would be great friends. -Gossip about the underworld would be very juicy.

IRIS🌈📬: -Sweets and candies (some would have been brought by their mother and others would have been traded with Hebe's cabin). -They would also look for tutorials to have a multiplayer lucid dream with you.

HYPNOS😴💤: -Ironically they could stay up late, but would prefer to go to bed earlier. -However, the pajama party would continue in your dreams when you fell asleep. And you would do a lot of fun things there.

NEMESIS🛞⚖️: -They would chat with you about anything as long as everyone could have fun. -They would also argue with you about how unfair it is to be a demigod and that at the very least they could inherit their mother's wings (that's an usual complaint of the demigods at CHB tbh). -They can give you good advice.

NIKE🥇🌿🏆: -Although they would talk a lot about themselves, they would also be delighted if you also rejoiced in your victories. -They would plan with you how to win the next capture the flag and together you would begin to create a lot of ideas about it.

HEBE👦👧: -They would try to stay up until the sun came up, but they would end up falling asleep while (probably) hugging their favorite stuffed animal. -Perhaps Hebe appears to gossip or to bring food and report on what has happened on Olympus.

TYCHE🍀🎲: -You would spend the whole night having fun, chatting and playing with the game machines they have in their cabin. -Surely they would teach you tricks to win in all kinds of games and obviously they would not be cheats (wink, wink).

HECATE🧙‍♂️🪄: -You would prank other cabins with them and their spells. -They would show you their new magical discoveries and you would try them (spoiler: it goes wrong). -They would also show you the new merchandise they have obtained (no one has yet discovered where they get it from).

[ladynicte]

I have always imagined that The Lotus Hotel and Casino is like a sacred place of Dyonisus or at least like sponsored and protected by him in some way.

And my personal headcanon is that maybe it was invented for Dyonisus to avoid sending his children to Camp and eventually to Quests and War.

And the eternal party and fun is a sort of worship of Dyonisus that eventually completely warps the mind to those who don't share his bloodline.

(Also, my way of relating this back to Nico, is that I like to think Dyonisus grows to be pretty fond of the Demigods who actually stay at The Casino and can see through the Mist, so Dyonisus already appreciated Nico cuz of all the decades he and Bianca spent at the Casino, even though Nico himself can't quite remember it.)

[dootznbootz]

Sparta royal family headcanons?? Any generation.

I HAVE A LOT AND PROBABLY HAVE TO RESEARCH MORE BUT I DO!!!! >:D Thank you for the ask!!! *headbonks*

So we don't know much info with Hippocoon and how that went down yet other than basics YET or if I plan for him to be a half-brother to Icarius and Tyndarius. BUt Icarius and Tyndarius are opposites in that Tyndarius is a worrywart and Icarius is just vibing most of the time. Tyndarius is also just dealing with more stuff...they're their generation's version of Agamemnon and Menelaus in a way with how one brother takes a lot of the brunt for the other except both have a happy ending :'D )

Also, neither are the best fighters as while Sparta was pretty big on military they were exiled for a bit. Another thing with them, being half-naiad, (and being surrounded by others like them), it makes it kind of easy to tell when one of your kids is fucking with one of your advisors as they can feel the water being moved as well. It's harder for Icarius though as his children are more naiad than him. It's easy for Tyndarius as Clytemnestra is less naiad than him. Kind of go into that here, just not with the specific family dynamics :D Also might change some things

I didn't plan for naiads and naiad-born to really have scales but now I'm kind of coming around to it because I just KNOW Tyndarius picks at them and Leda has to do the whole "stop that". (might have to redo that post I did on naiads because of it, or maybe just have a poll just for the homies :P might be skin colored and just be different skin texture. idk for sure) Also while Icarius and his whole family are pretty okay about water and spend a lot of time in the water as Periboea is a Naiad and all his children are 3/4th naiad, Tyndarius often forgets that he needs to get into the water every once in a while. Leda doesn't technically need it and his children are only 1/4th so they don't need it as often.

Leda: Dear, when was the last time you went for a swim? You've been looking over those tablets for a while, I'll take over. loosely based on clay records found at Knossos :P I think they're neat. LINEAR B, BITCHES! Tyndarius: Oh, it has been a bit! Let me finish this one up before I do. Leda, getting annoyed at him scratching at himself just dumps a pot of water over him: Better? Tyndarius: Yeah, actually! :D

It's...sometimes a bit of a problem when you're a person who needs to be damp often and two of your children kind of always have a lot of static electricity :'D

I know Leda and Tyndarius have affection for one another, but I don't really have a plan for how they got together :P I DO kind of for Icarius and Periboea though! :D All I know is that Icarius being a runner, it's really funny to me to think this guy, being half-naiad, just fucking RUNS on water for funsies, which annoyed Periboea when he's back from exile. Plan for them to have a pretty happy marriage, though sadly, that's not the case for all their children :') and that's part of the reason why he tries to get Penelope to stay in Sparta as he's overprotective of them all while also desperately not wanting them to have feuds like what happened to him and Tyndarius.

Lil bit of spoiler but...Hermione was 5 years old when her mom was kidnapped and she was a bit traumatized by it. :') as she kind of got to see it happen

[green-tea217]

Headcanon that pomegranates heal children of hades. Like if they’re sick or have small cuts and such

[pruskita]

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Hii i love your writing <33 could you do headcanons for a child of zeus? l always wondered what it would be like for a child of zeus to be in camp half blood. Maybe they went to the same school as percy and grover brought them back too? How would her getting claimed by zeus change the situation between gods in the first book and stuff(lightning theif) specially since the prophecy said 1 of the kids of the big three wpuld overthrow the gods when they turned 16. Would hera be mad at them and send mosters after them since they're a byproduct of zeuses infidelity ? Thanks in advance ♡

If you’re just talking about being a child of Zeus, I have the headcanons already written in the Major Demigods H/C’s. I already have my own thoughts written about it there. 

Though, you’re talking about stuff as if the daughter of Zeus being in the main storyline. Well dear anon, let me first warn you that this is not going to be as cool and as great as it you might think it will lead to be. There’s a reason only why Thalia is there and being a child of Zeus is already a set-up for having a hard life. Not necessary a happy story with a good ending either. That just makes it worse. [Disclaimer: massive text wall below]

First addressing the daughter of Zeus being a daughter of Zeus. Hera is already historically going to do something and take out her anger at Zeus’s infidelity again at the daughter of Zeus and her mother.

What’s worse is that this daughter of Zeus would be the second or worse third time Zeus has broken the Oath the Big Three swore after WW2; since depending when, the daughter would be born right after Thalia or around the same time as Jason. 

So not just Hera, there’s going to be other gods after her. We already knew Hades will be evoking his wrath at the daughter of Zeus, because he did it to Thalia. Her existence would stoke Hades’ anger even more because what Zeus did to Nico and Bianca’s mother, so for him to break the Oath again? Not looking too well on her prospects. And following Zeus, it’ll be Poseidon because up until Percy, he hasn’t have any demigods since the Oath; he’s the only god out of the Three to not have any children since WW2 started or had any before the Oath (like Hades). So for Zeus to break his oath twice/thrice? The gall of him being King and not upholding his own oath, law, and honour? That’s absolutely not fair. Oh it’s all hands on deck. (Side tangent: Poseidon has a whole lot of restraint for a sea god. He kept his word and it really paints the picture that Poseidon broke his own oath because of Zeus breaking the oath (twice if you include Jason as well), and Hades having his own children still alive really leaves him left out of fatherhood). If the daughter of Zeus hasn’t died or majorly cursed after all those THREE gods, and more gods along the way, and there are also monsters, SOMEHOW, and I’m assuming they do for the sake of your ask, I’m going to assume that this daughter of Zeus is either a year younger or the same age as Percy. Then there’s when her birthday is, is it going to be one month or a few months before Percy’s birthday or after that? It’s going to be tight and absolutely nerve-wracking because of the prophecy. The daughter of Zeus would not be naive to the world of the gods and monsters after what I said earlier. There’s also how she would survive that long being in Nancy Academy with Percy for that long, even if she is a new transfer student. Cause two children of the Big Three surviving in the same vicinity? Percy only survived that long because of Sally’s endurement and love to be with Gabe to mask his demigod scent, him being ignorant as a demigod,  Grover and Chiron doing their absolute damnest to keep him alive and yet they still didn’t know Mrs. Dodds was one of the furies among them. 

So that doesn’t paint a good picture for the daughter of Zeus. Even if it was the same scenario like Percy, she already be exposed to the world of the gods, so her demigod scent would be activated. To be hidden, would mean interference from a god like Zeus, and that’s not fair. 

The Lightning Thief plot wise, it doesn’t paint well either. Zeus’ thunderbolt is missing so it would be natural for the Daughter of Zeus to target whoever searching for who stole her father’s weapon…meaning she would have to fight Percy in accusation; thus splitting the camp in half much more earlier; between those who support Zeus and those who support Poseidon. There’s also to consider the Hades's Helm of Darkness also missing at the same time, which is also another thing. 

It would be super easy for Luke and Kronos to convince, trick, and manipulate the daughter of Zeus. Not just in the Lightning Thief but for the entirety of the books. That’s where it gets sad/unpleasant. Percy has always been meant to be the child of the Prophecy, and the one to turn the tides. He has the necessary perspective and personality, his journey as a hero adding to his nature and the people he has met along the way, both good and bad. Those experiences making up Percy for the prophecy to come to fruition is the key. Anyone else would have succumbed and led to the downfall of Olympus and the gods. If the daughter of Zeus’ birthday is a few months after Percy’s, then it's a matter of holding out till then, and everything is fine. It’ll be a tug of war over who is the child of the Prophecy that’ll make great tension in the books.

If her birthday is before his, well…not so good. She’ll be at peril by the gods to smite her so the prophecy doesn’t come true, like they tried with Percy and Nico. She could have been or is on Kronos’ side. If not that, then she’ll either be in a state to be suspended in time like Thalia joining Artemis’ huntresses or being cursed into one in an untimely way (i.e. being frozen as a statue), or meet an untimely demise (like Bianca).

[annie-also-draws]

HELL YEAH

I may be cringe but I’m free!!! Since I made this post I kept thinking about the last part and decided to show my ideas here lol also I suck at character design 😭

Pasithea is a calm soul, and she rarely ever reacts to anything without a distant smile. Her sisters always struggled to get her to be more energetic, but they love her for her mellow personality. The only person who can get her out of her dazed state is Hypnos, who makes her laugh with his humor.

Morpheus was a quiet child growing up, always sleeping and holding onto Hypnos’ old plushie Dizzy. As of now, they try their best to portray their father’s upbeat attitude but struggles under the weight of being the God of Dreams. With their father missing, they are the one in charge of leading the Oneiroi (dreams) and fixing the dreamscape.

Phobeter/Icelos was an interesting creature as they grew, but their maturity stayed the same. They always have the poppy necklace on in order to differentiate them from other beasts they take the form of. They are always seen with a smirk on their mouth and their laugh is the only human words they can form.

Phantasus takes after their mother in which they are happy to take a backseat on most situations. When their help is needed they are happy to assist, but would otherwise prefer to stay in one place as they take the form of any object that holds their interest. They worry for Morpheus and would try their best to make Icelos behave.

This is all I have for now lol ok byeeee

[effable-as-f]

So the House of Hades doesn't appear to have any spare bedrooms

If Mel and Zag had gotten the chance to grow up together would they have ended up sharing a room

[melonymint753]

no but the "people can be bad and still be queer, it doesn't mean they're straight" post should get extended to fanon interpretations too because it's Very obvious when "good" fictional characters are argued to be queer even if they're in a canonical het relationship, but a "bad" one can just breathe in the direction of someone who's a different gender and everyone immediately points and goes "CISHET"

see: Hades (Game) Orpheus/Eurydice vs Hades, FE3H Ingrid

Like I've seen a post that's just "look Orpheus and Eurydice are Just Queer I just know it" meanwhile some people in That Hades Discord have literally banked resentment against me for being vocally annoyed that Hades can get labeled "closest to cishet" and nobody bats an eye (and then saying I'm just angry that someone "went against my headcanon")

Ingrid is straight Of Course because...her family wanted her to marry a man, and she thought the first one was cool. And she's also homophobic because... she's uncomfortable with being aggressively flirted at by a woman who insists she should become more feminine. Even though she doesn't show interest in anyone regardless of gender.