#chronos hades

[spookedbees]

i haven't actually played the game yet, this is the plot right?

[hyeonoll]

Hades doodles (with my friend)

[toweringclam]

Chronus: "Again? How many times must you kill me before you realize it means nothing!"

Melinoë: "Actually, grandfather, I agree. It doesn't mean anything."

Chronus: "Hah! That's what I thought. Some 'Dissolution of—'"

Melinoë: "It means nothing because you are already dead."

Chronus: "Impossible! Your incantation failed! I'm..."

Melinoë: "Trapped in a pocket of time. Forever."

Chronus: "If that's true, then why come here again?"

Melinoë: "Because I'm your punishment. Every night, I will come down here, we will fight, and I will kill you. Every morning, you will awaken, as if it was just a bad dream.

Melinoë: "You will relive the day of your defeat again and again. Sometimes, you might get lucky and win. Sometimes, I won't make it this far and you will spend the entire night wondering when I will crawl out of that sand and end your life. Regardless, you will awaken again, on the same day, knowing that your victory meant nothing.

Melinoë: "And then, after I kill you enough times...

Melinoë: "I'll get bored. I'll stop visiting. I'll leave you to relive the same monotonous day again and again and again. Alone. Utterly alone. Until you realize that I was the only person who actually wanted to see you every day. Until you beg the Fates for my return...

Melinoë: "And then I will kill you again."

[anyabathory-blog]

A sketchy evil grandpaps for the bestie @pterodach. I also tag @engardeitsme because that's the deal

[nona1323]

Change of clothes AU "Deal with the Time"

This episode is small, but important. It begins, ironically, not in the house, but in the sands of Chronos (for more details, see separately). While in his domain, Chronos summons Chrysa (Χρυσός [chrysós] – "gold"), a scorpion created by him from his own sands.

Titan takes her away to be the personal guard of their new prisoner, since Chronos himself will not be able to monitor Hypnos all the time. Initially, Chronos does not lock Hypnos in time or in a cell because of his own triumph – he likes to play with chthonic and watch how he hardly accepts a new reality, and is also forced to obey him. But, importantly, Chronos initially does not plan to leave Hypnos, albeit chained, conditionally free to move around the House on a permanent basis. Initially, this is rather a temporary measure, until Chronos has played enough with a new toy, so that after throwing it into the camera and/or putting him on pause, depending on how quickly Hypnos will give the key to understanding Oneiros. As you can see, everything is not going according to plan and it turns out to be a little more complicated.

Chronos returns to the House and picks up the package that was delivered by the servants, and then goes to Hypnos. The first meeting of Hypnos with Chrysa takes place: Chronos introduces her to chthonic with a grin, and Chrysa quickly runs from the titan's shoulder to his arm. Chronos pulls it out, and scorpio finds himself dangerously close to Hyp's face, definitely scaring him, even if he doesn't show it. Chrysa jumps off Chronos and runs away, quickly losing herself in space, Chronos puts the package on the table and, saying that he has something else for Hypnos, opens it.

This something turns out to be clothes, but not easy. As you can see from the illustration attached to the post, it consists of two parts: the lower red chiton and the upper blue peplos. And, well, the fabrics they are made of are what is really of interest to us. They were spun and woven by Persephone and, to Hyp's horror, by Nyx, respectively. Chronos found them in the House when he was settling in and changing it for himself. And now he finally had a chance to use them.

How freely Chronos treats things that do not belong to him is insulting to Hypnos. Especially when it comes to the fabrics of the Mother, because she herself wove them from the night sky and stardust. And this is if you do not take into account how valuable and rare these canvases are considered among the gods also because of their properties and beauty alone. In addition, the outfit itself is sewn with the help of a night spindle, which also angers Hypnos. Chronos has no right to dispose of these things, and yet he does it, and Hypnos can't stop him in any way.

Chronos hands the outfit to chthonic, and Hypnos is forced to accept it with undisguised anger. After that, Chronos asks (demands. He demands) Hypnos to change clothes. The god of sleep waits for the titan to leave, but Chronos just sits down and watches. Hypnos realizes that Chronos is not going to leave the room. They have a silent duel for a while. Chronos ends it with a quiet remark: "I can just rip your clothes off. Your persistence will only make things worse."

Hypnos clenches his teeth and turns away. Slowly, he takes off his chiton, feeling the burning gaze of the Time on himself, and then he changes clothes as quickly as possible, remaining with his back to the titan. Before he can fasten the last fibula, Chronos tells him to stop. Hypnos freezes.

The Titan slowly approaches him.

"Turn around," Chronos's voice is calm.

Hypnos turns slowly and tries not to think about the bed behind them. Chronos looks down at him, and then holds out his hands. He fastens the last fibula, the hourglass symbol, his symbol, himself, stroking it contentedly after, and then his hands run lower, straightening all the folds that arose due to the haste of Hypnos. He is forced to stand and wait for the titan to finish. He's angry, but the last thing he wants is to provoke Chronos now. 

Chronos steps back and looks at he with a satisfied look. "Yes, you look much better this way. And now – give me these rags and trinkets."

Hypnos has to collect his clothes and jewelry and hand them over to Chronos. He won't see his chiton for a very long time.

To sum up, Hypnos will look like in the picture almost throughout the entire plot, although some details will be clarified later. 

The author of the art: @do-n0t-be-afraid

Masterpost AU "Deal with the Time" here

The description of the au is here

(English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes)

[widzi]

old man just waits outside the woods thinking of how to diss his family members and then leaves

[dontexpecttomakesense]

Its funny how Chronos is obsesed with money and wealth -the coins, the gold filling his cracks, the golden details - and then you remember: Time... Is money.

[dualbasilisk]

[helendamnationx]

Hades 1 is an intimate, personal story about difficult family, reconciliation, working together to make relationships work. The neverending nature of the game symbolises never giving up, continuing to put work in to strengthen your ties with your loved ones, because it's worth it.

And then Hades 2 is about fascism.

Hades 1 says you shouldn't give up on your relationships with family and loved ones just because they're not perfect. Hades 2 adds "unless they're fascist" to the end of that sentence, along with reminders that sometimes, when you choose to keep ties to someone who hurts others, you are enabling that behaviour and causing further harm to the person who was victimised (i.e. Arachne).

Chronos represents the desire to return to a fictional golden era. He's obsessed with gold, propriety, and being the patriarch who expects to be obeyed without question. He needs to be killed over and over because the fight against fascism doesn't end with killing one guy, it's eternal, it ebbs and flows but winning means taking away its popular support.

Chronos was able to gain support because people on the surface were dissatisfied with the gods, just like irl fascism gains support in times of strife and low trust in current leaders.

Eris represents the nothing-matters, burn-it-all-down nihilist who resents anyone who tries to make the world better in any way.

Nemesis represents those who are too wrapped up in finding the right people to hurt in order to achieve an extremely abstract notion of Justice, with actually helping people waaaaaaay down the list of priorities. That's why she's the one who thinks Chronos Has A Point - because when you centre your activism on hurting the right people, you have more in common with fascists than you want to believe.

Backlash against Nemesis' character stems from people keep trying to shove her into the Love Interest box because it's been taken for granted that she would be the new Megaera. But that's just. Not her role in the story. She may or may not be romanceable in future! There are a couple of dialogues implying she's dating Artemis, but Hades is the polyamory game after all. But whether or not she's romancable, her actual role in the story is to illustrate an attitude to be wary of when fighting fascism. So. Like. Yes. Of course she's unlikeable! Of course she is mean! That is her job!

[trans-zag]

You gave my house the landlord special and your arcitect disgraces me with this door and makes me go through the sandpit? I'm gonna kick your balls in old man

[mementoasts]

hiii peepaw 🤭

[lostplanetvoltia]

hourglass man would like to have a word

more pause quotes here, but i thought this was the funniest

[kazachokolate]

soo, time-themed grandpa villain?

[mollysunder]

I wonder if Melinoe manages to wake up Hypnos, it could unlock a new game mode for Hades 2. Maybe Hypnos can bring Chronos and Melinoe into his sleep domain. Chronos may be able to control time, but sleep logic turns time... wonky.

I'm sure plenty of us have had dreams where it felt like you spent 2 weeks in there and but you were only asleep for like 15 minutes. Same goes for when you go through 6 hours' worth of sleep that feels like it passed in an instance.

Chronos still has his time powers in Hypnos' domain, but he's not in complete control. This can make defeating Chronos both easier and harder because Chronos is NOT in control. In exchange for a fight where Chronos can't reverse time on you at the end when you defeat him, you could end up repeating specific phases of the same fight possibly all the way back to the beginning for the chance to really damage Chronos.

Hypnos' domain would be a gamble for the skilled and the lucky because there's a good chance it could devolve into a disorienting slugfest.

[redfridge]

Took new adhd meds today and they turned up my autism by a thousand get melinoed