#herakles udad

[fayzart136]

Buy myself redemption with my bloodied hands In service to the family as the favoured son

[allegedlyxen]

Ulysses stumbles through the vault door, a field to die in, he thinks solemnly. He’s earned this death, away from the bustling city that stretched as far up as it did into the sky; in the last bit of nature left on this godforsaken planet. His leg burns with the pain of a laser through it, he moves nonetheless. He falls at the base of a tree, a huge weeping willow that his wife was buried under what feels like a million years ago, during the war. It was what drove him to make the trojan horse in the first place. The horse that drove everyone in the city of Troy mad with a faint audio signal nearly undetectable to the human ear. It turned everyone in that city to murder and when the gates opened? No one was left alive. The only thing left was the pungent smell of blood and corpses. He had spent 20 years trying to redeem that decision and in the end he was here, none of it mattered anymore.

The persimmons in the field are next to him, they sit by the vault door and he watches it shut. Ulysses looks at those yellow flowers by the door and laughs. He gets to really die. Which is more than can be said for those trapped in the acheron, left in a half dead hell for all eternity just so the Olympians can have their knowledge and power. Ariadne, Herakles, Orpheus, and Oedipus weren’t as lucky. He thinks of the sirens, who coaxed him to make this vault and its trials to protect her and this tree. Daedalus had let 4 people die to open this vault and in the end none of their deaths mattered, this vault would never open again. None of daedalus’ whining would change that. Ulysses’ was sure that if daedalus didn’t die he would spend the rest of his eternal life agonizing over the vault and his greed. He might’ve even learned something…. Or he would spend the rest of his life trying to open the vault. Not that he could, the vault was equipped with a biometric lock that would only open for Him if he was alive and. Well, he feels the blood leaking from his knee and the pain in his chest and he knows it's too late for that. Ullysess lays under that tree, staring up at the sun for a good, long while, in his last moments, he thinks of Nothing. And Dies.

Outside of the vault, Herakles thinks of his death. He knows he’ll never avenge his family, never pay back Zues for his immortality and he would never be able to kill Zeus for making him “Change his mind” as he had put it. He knows he’ll be put in the acheron, he doesn’t really get to die. Daedalus gets to continue on, he gets to live as an Olympian, immortal and all powerful. Like Ulysess, Daedalus had taken only one shot to the knee, not 3 like Herakles had. But if Herakles could just get to this feet, strangle the bastard with his last bit of strength, maybe his death would mean something, he always was too stupid to die. So he does. He stumbles to his feet, all of him burning with a pain he can’t describe. He moves towards Daedalus, past Ariadne, Orpheus, and Oedipus, and he falls on top of him, his legs giving out. If he can’t strangle him, he might be able to trap him here until the bastard starves, Herakles is about 400 pounds and Daedalus is a tiny man. there's a reason he had 4 brutes do his dirty work, daedalus had never been one to get his hands dirty. Herakles tries to bring up his arms to strangle him but he can’t anymore. He laughs in Daedalus’ ears, and lets himself die, knowing that if he had any luck left in him they might never be found, and Daedalus, the first Olympian, might also be the first Olympian to die.

[antique-ro-man]

Mechs Character Aesthetics - Ulysses Dies at Dawn

Ulysses

Oedipus

Heracles

Orpheus

Ariadne

Daedalus

More: The Bifrost Incident

[eziocauthon89]

This is what happened when they met, right?

[artsying-ifer]

udad is a very serious and emotional album but it’s also based on greek mythology and as such is inherently kind of stupid

[thedreadvampy]

it's so weird to me that I keep seeing art in which characters played by Kofi (one of the two people of colour in the Mechanisms lineup) are the only characters portrayed as white?

this isn't, by the way, intended to draw any broader conclusions or imply that I'm reading in ignorance or malice. it's just a coincidence that I'm aware is probably largely based on the fact that both Arthur and Thor appear in a lot of media, almost always as blonde white men.

but it's very striking to me how many pieces of fanart for HNOC I've seen where Arthur is literally the only white person (which like. not trying to step out of my lane at all here but I do think that probably has some unintended implications). and I've also seen a lot of fanart where Thor is white and blonde and very on the Chris Hemsworth vibes.

(I haven't noticed it as much with UDaD but tbh I know Kofi sees Herakles as white (he says he thinks of him as Irish-American) so it probably wouldn't ping for me the way it does with Thor and Arthur)

[eliasbouchardslut]

the first fucking thing herakles says in UDAD is “I don’t get it” ... idiot representation 😔🤟🏼

[allegedlyxen]

herakles is the OP himbo

[eliasbouchardslut]

why’d they have to kill herakles in udad he was hot. where’s my life insurance policy on him because I’m declaring him my husband

[eliasbouchardslut]

(forces kristina to listen to UDAD)

me, internally: hehehhehe herakles

[eliasbouchardslut]

@horngryeyes trying to make me less thirsty for herakles just backfired hardcore. now I remember his existence. gonna listen to UDAD on my way to the store. you fool.

[eliasbouchardslut]

I got an insane radar I hear a reference to UDAD and my pussy immediately screams herakles

[eliasbouchardslut]

do I listen to UDAD over and over just to hear herakles.... well that’s a secret between me and my phone

[horngryeyes]

i do not hate your herakles thirst, im just saying that one of the udad characters is much more simpable. and that character is called gunpowder tim in a suit and black glasses

name ONE thing thats unsexy about oedipus

me: (posts about herakles) (waits to get dragged through the mud by @horngryeyes )