#hades and persephone reference

[st-hedge]

Yes! Thank u for the request! The fuck it we ball sibs

[magpie-trinkets]

silly hades posting

[gncrezan]

@chrysanthemumgames celebrates four years so here i am, forcing everyone to see all the various playthroughs i have ! thank you, as always, for a game that i adore to little pieces <3

(well to be more accurate i'm drawing 75 but still)

[elliewiltarwyn]

just a song before i go

a lesson to be learned

traveling twice the speed of sound

it's easy to get burned

i wouldn't exactly call Ellie a ladykiller, but there are multiple women she's loved throughout her career where things just didn't or couldn't work out...

bonus: the ones who did;

[faunali]

thinking about them

*dialogue credits aren’t mine !! I saw this somewhere but I can’t remember where I’m sorry 😭

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your otp like this~

[bepisbee]

Date with a necromancer

Vidow date! on their trip in the dark world, Vio discovers some things about himself. early villain arc

Necromancer Vio au!

read on ao3

Vio was lost in thought once again. They had checked the surface. It was obvious at this point that time was moving quicker here in the dark world. He was contemplating what that meant. He could spend more time with Shadow with less consequences. It had been a month to their week, although his initial calculations might be off. It was nice to spend time with them. They had been opening up more, behaving like themself. It was sweet, and fun. Shadow had a boyish charm, stacked with bloodlust was an irresistible combination.

Shadow was showing Vio around the places they frequented. The land itself was beautiful. Purple, black, and grayscale tones filled the skies. Most wood is a darker venge color, and the plants darker and muted. It was beautiful. Like the purple haired villain leading him.

“Oh! I love those!” Shadow runs up to a thick aged and swaying tree. It was full of large fruits, and Vio hummed as he got closer. Shadow was comically jumping to reach one, despite having the ability to stretch themself up. They snag one down, mostly round and pinkish red with a hard outside.

“Is this where pomegranates are from??” he wondered aloud, “No wonder they’re so expensive at markets.” He watches amused as Shadow struggles to peel the skin.

“Fuck! They’re so hard to get at!” They bare their fangs at it, as if they could intimidate it open. Or maybe they were planning to bite it apart. Vio gently pries it from their hand. Shadow’s anger melts with the hand to hand contact.

“Here, dear, let me.” Vio is so in his own head he doesn’t realize the pet name slipped out. Shadow freezes, pretty lined eyes going wide. Gay panic over taking any sassy comeback in their brain. Vio unhooks a tiny knife from his belt and cuts into the top, shallow but enough. “You could probably do this with your claws, too. They are certainly sharp enough for it,” Vio mumbles at them. He tears the top off. The little gems inside were as red as Shadow’s left eye. He pulls the fruit apart in sections and hands over one. Shadow takes it with a little awe.

“Uhm- thanks,” They look between the snack and their date. They usually just tear into the damn thing with teeth and suck the juice out like a feral animal, so they aren’t sure how to proceed. Vio invites them to come and sit at the tree’s base next to him. He knocks his head back and taps loose some seeds to fall in his mouth. Shadow sits and tries to copy him, smacking the back of their head on the trunk. “Ow! Shit!”

Vio can’t help the laugh bubbling out, “Ahaha- sorry. I shouldn’t laugh at you. Are you okay?” He places a hand over the small bump to check for tenderness. Shadow’s notched ear tips turn red from the honest care.

“Fine!” They snap, pouting. “‘M fine.” They look away when Vio brings his icy cold hand down. He pops out more seeds into his hand. The ironic implication of him, a necromancer, dealing with and in tune with death, offering his crush pomegranate seeds was not lost on him. He doubted Shadow picked up on the symbolism, though. They weren’t quite one for books just yet, and Vio rarely shared his book about mythologies.

“So stubborn.” He gives an obvious fake dramatic huff, “Have to do it myself then, I suppose.” He holds the little rubies out for them. When Shadow reaches he shakes his head. “Open your mouth, dumbass.” he chastises affectionately. It takes their entire being not to ruin the moment with a childish ‘that’s what she said’ joke. Vio drops them in and Shadow crunches on the seeds, satisfied. “How do you usually eat them?"

“Oh Uhhh weelll….” They scratch their cheek, “I kinda just bite into them and tear a chunk off until I get to the inside and scoop em out or crush em with my teeth, and suck the juice out? It gets messy.” The imagery is a little violent, nevertheless the thought brings a slight flush to Vio’s face. The motion absolutely reminded him of something dirty. Maybe not the biting, though. He shakes his head. It’s bad enough he genuinely is falling for Shadow, let alone having dirty thoughts about them.

“I see,” he trades between taking some and giving some seeds over until they’re gone. Shadow, oblivious to their partner in crime’s inner turmoil, blabbered on about the fruits in the dark world. They lived off them a lot, probably pissing off the tree’s real owners at some point. They don’t think they technically need to eat, but they like it. 

As they go on, Vio thinks if he sees Shadow eat a peach he would faint. Where they got these ideas from he has no clue.

“And then you bite into it and tilt your head back so you get all the juice,” Shadow mimes the action. Dear fucking Din, Vio swears, he must be as red as the pomegranete. “But it takes a little practice so you don’t choke-? Hey are you good?” They finally notices poor Vio’s complexion. 

“Ahem! Yes!” His voice cracks, giving him away, “All good!” Does he know?? They can’t not know what they’re saying! Vio wipes his hands on his pants, still kind of sticky.

“Are you sure? You’re pretty red, are you maybe allergic to it??”

“N-no! No… I um…” he fidgets with the bottom of his tunic. Shadow was up close inspecting his face, his chin grabbed in their hand. They gave a disbelieving hum. Shadow’s lips were stained from the fruit. He couldn't look away. Vio panics and does the first thing his mind says to. He presses his lips against Shadow’s and pulls back. “Fuck! Sorry- I shouldn’t have…” Vio gets cut off. Shadow tackles him to the grass and smushes their lips together again. 

Vio, for once, stops thinking. He snakes his arms around their neck, brain going blank. Simply just ‘Shadow’ on repeat. They both taste like pomegranates. He accidentally cuts his tongue on Shadow’s tooth. He’s about to pull away when above him they groan low in approval and sucks it clean. Vio has to break to breathe, and will down the boner that caused before he died of embarrassment.

He was in deep now. There was no going back. Not with the way his stomach tensed, and heat flushed, and fluttering curled up inside. Dangerous, pulling, selfish desire. He loves Shadow. Their little pranks, habits, their things that just made them Shadow. The person behind the face acting as a monster. Vio swallowed, he was the only monster here. Just this once, he thinks, he will be selfish.

“Fuck.” He breathes out. Vio pulls them back down for more. Somehow trying to push his feelings into them through their kissing. How much he wanted this. How much he needed this to be real and stay real. He needed to hold on and never let go and maybe they would be okay. He desperately clings to their shoulders and the delusional belief this would all end up happy and good.

For now, he had Shadow. All else could come later.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Me, writing a fic and muttering under my breath: I will shove the unsubtle Greek myth allusions in if it is the LAST thing I do-

[valkerymillenia]

You know who would be interesting to see in Hades 2?

Minthe.

[sarafangirlart]

Hades: y’know I had a wife before you

Persephone: Oh yeah?

Hades: Yeah but they got her

Persephone: What does that mean?

Hades: I liked her too

Persephone: What do you mean they got her?

Hades: Made the White Poplar in her honor, she was a good woman

Persephone: … fuck this Hades

[wordsmithic]

I saw someone using this Picrew for their original characters, and I wanted to try it myself for my own. Click for better quality!

Part 2 of MySadBlorbos

[mai-marybel]

That one friend group meme but it's the Greek gods in my comic

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Masquerade

historical fiction set in 15th century West Africa

follows a young woman from Timbuktu, recently conquered by the the warrior king of Yorùbáland

her guild of blacksmiths were already shunned as witches, and their conditions worsen under Yorùbá rule - so when she’s kidnapped by the king to be his wife, she decides to accept that it’ll be a better life for her, as long as she can get her mother’s blessing

but as months go by without her mother being found, and political tensions rise, she must decide what she wants

[virtual-q]

'Hades! Carmy + Persephone! Sydney, what do we think???'

*on my knees, tie undone, head sweating. asking? No, PLEADING with fanfic writers*

[casiavium]

I know Susan Collins wanted the Capitol to all have Greco-Roman names to keep with the theme, but Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is starting to sound more like a Percy Jackson book than the Hunger Games 😭

[svankmajerbaby]

ive said this before, but i still dont know how to make it clear enough: I Want Less Death & The Maiden. And More Death As A Maiden