#giving me an excuse to talk about my boy

[northernscruffycat]

003 - an OC of yours of your choice you wanna talk about :D

I mean... obviously I'm gonna pick Momus

How I feel about this character: I still kind of can't believe Momus happened? I write this same asshole in every fandom I'm in, so when I needed two villains for a Hades fic I was writing, I ended up going with "smug bastard twink" again for one of them. Originally, I'd had some ideas to use Momus and his twin sister Oizys in a modern day fic, with the two of them acting as guides for Zagreus when he visited the surface. But I much prefer the idea I went for with using Momus as a villainous sidekick for Heracles. The idea behind Momus in the fic he first appears in was to have a villain to counter Theseus - someone who would become stronger by drawing power from Theseus's own insecurities, thus forcing Theseus to deal with these issues. Making Momus more insecure than Theseus himself seemed like a natural progression and with Momus being the God of Criticism and Mockery (amongst other things), giving him a crush on Heracles, the most overrated Greek hero of all, seemed like an amusing addition as well. But then the folks reading the fic had such a strong reaction to Momus - it gave me life every time someone told me they hated him or loved to hate him, because that meant I was doing my job right. After that, I found that I was paying more attention to Momus and that his antics were the highlight for many readers, even more than the canon characters themselves, which I've never had happen with an OC before. Needless to say, I love Momus a lot and will probably keep writing him for as long as folks want to see him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Heracles, ofc! But I also like shipping him with Theseus and Zagreus in the context of the various fics he's appeared in. In the RPs that I play Momus in, I also ship him with Icarus, Morpheus (in this version, Morpheus isn't Pasithea & Hypnos's son lol) and Eros. In general, I also think shipping him with Dionysus would be fun. I'll ship Momus with a lot of characters, really.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Momus & Pasithea!

My unpopular opinion about this character: Can you have an unpopular opinion about your own OC?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: That's the magic of him - anything I want to happen to him, I can simply write to make happen.

my het ship: No het ships for Momus. I went back and forth a bit at first, but while I usually default to making my OCs bisexual, Momus is the one time that I'm like "actually, this one is gay". He doesn't realise that himself yet, though.

my fem/slash ship: I mean, all of the ships listed above. If I was gonna crossover ship him it'd be Momus x Thor or Momus x Loki lmao

my OTP: Momus x Heracles

my OT3: Momus x Heracles x Morpheus x Icarus

a head cannon fact: Momus and Oizys were identical twins when they were first created by Nyx and were both genderless back then. But as they each got older, they grew into their separate roles and decided on a gender identity they preferred, as well as coming to have appearances that were completely different from one another.