#modern hephaestus

[tracykestler]

Ares and Hephaestus Dinnertime

After a day of tinkering for Hephaestus, he realizes the sun is setting when his automatons start buzzing, flying around to close curtains and turn on lights. It's then he realizes he hasn't eaten since morning.

His Repair shop never gets too busy in these country crossroads, but he gets lost in his ideas and projects. And after sitting for so long, his legs ache. One golden automaton chirps and brings his cane. It's still a good day for his limbs. After stretching and encouraging blood flow to return, Hephaestus can tolerate using just the cane for balance.

The moment he opens his workshop door, he's blasted with aromas of earthy flavors. His stomach delights in reminding him that it is empty. Being deities meant they did not need food in the same way, but their mortal forms craved it just the same.

Still Hephaestus frowned.

It meant Ares was in the kitchen.

Hephastus lumbered through the hall to the kitchen, wrinkling his nose as he entered. Ares hadn't burnt anything in centuries, but he had a heavy hand with spices. Hephastus resigned himself to a large meal. Ares hadn't done more than reheat leftovers or takeout in months. They were either finally finished with those, or Ares was in a mood.

A shrill whistle announced an incoming call to Ares's phone. Seemlessly he answered it and just said, "No," before hanging up. The whistle started again. Ares scowled and hung up without answering.

Definitely in a mood.

Hephaestus took the opportunity to dip a spoon into the tomato sauce for a taste. It wasn't bad, just not what he was in the mood for. "Too much garlic." He turned away to see what alternatives hid in the refridgerator.

Ares grumbled over the pot. The only clear words were "No such thing." Ares did open the oven to reveal roasted squash. This caught Hephaestus's attention. "This is for tonight. The sauce is not for you. Now, steak or pork?"

Hephaestus had to laugh. "You made both, didn't you."

"Couldn't decide. Didn't see you down here making dinner either." Ares eyed the multi-armed flying automatons. "Set the table. It's almost done." Millennia had a way of changing the world. Ares fell in line and changed right along with it. Unlike most of their family.

[turquoisemagpie]

Post-modern Olympus.

(12 more, but not the full twelve, since Persephone and Hades aren’t technically Olympians. In four more character sheets, all will be explained….) :)

[mer-acle]

Okay, but imagine Athena and Hephaestus chatting about engineering and Athena going away later and looking more up about and then the next time they speak they draw up the schematics for a rocket booster to add to Heph's wheelchair. (bonus if this is the convo Aphrodite originally overhears when she decides that "Yes, I love Athena. She is my girl."

hahahaha yeah pretty much

then promptly get the mother of all scoldings when Hera finds out about it.

"Athena you are 20 years old, I expect you to NOT give your little brother tips to build sci-fi equipment that's dangerous AND probably illegal!" "Moooom, it was for science!" "You are scientifically grounded, young lady!" "Mom, I am 20 years old, you can't ground me. I don't even live here anymore." **angry Mom noises**

[sarnai4]

Driving Test

(Insert new random thought that wouldn't leave me alone)

Headcanons for how the Olympians drive

Zeus: Horribly. What is the law? Wrong question. Who is the law? HE IS.

Poseidon: Also horribly, but he isn't the law, so he gets tickets and pulled over all the time. He drowns people after this happens.

Hades: Very well. He's a bit of a slow driver, but he does it safely at least.

Hera: Just recklessly enough where you think you're going to die, but you don't. She doesn't let Zeus drive when she's in the car, so she has to at least be a bit better.

Demeter: Fine, but she gets mad when she sees people texting and driving. She gets mild road rage and honks at them.

Hestia: Barely. She's a homebody, but when she does drive, it's fine.

Athena: Perfectly. As if there was another choice. She could teach driver's ed and did for her little siblings until that gave her a migraine.

Ares: Interestingly. He's like his mom in a way. You think you're going to die, but you're pleasantly surprised that he pulled it off. Did the car need to do a wheelie? No, but now that it did and didn't get a scratch, you have to applaud.

Hermes: Fast. If this is supposed to be faster than flying, then it's got to prove itself. He could drown in speeding tickets.

Dionysus: DUIs. DUIs everywhere. Don't get in the car with him and please, don't let him drive himself either.

Artemis: With every window and the sun roof down. She wants it to be like she's outside. It's cold? It's hot? She doesn't care.

Apollo: With a purpose. He's probably on his way to go paint something or to heal someone. He's fast enough to not break the law, but just barely.

Hephaestus: Creatively. He designed his own car that he operates. He's actually really good at it.

Aphrodite: Teasingly. She likes to see how close she can come to breaking the law and still get away with it. Surely, a few bats of her eyelashes will do the trick. (They do)

[sarafangirlart]

See, I hate modern media making Ares the big bad not bc he’s actually a sweet guy compared to the other gods or anything like that but bc bro is just not all that, he is simply not a credible threat in Greek mythology. Every time he steps out of line or does something bad Athena (or another god or mortal hero) would beat the crap out of him and that would be the end of it.

[huntressofladyartemis]

Seriously??

Stop saying that the gods and goddesses are mysoginists or feminists… They aren't, they weren't! I'm sick of reading or listen how some gods are insulted or acused of mysoginists or some others are acused of feminists… No! They not!

They were religious deities! They still are, because there's an Hellenistic community of worshipers! But i'll talk of the Ancient Greece… I'm not Greek, but i don't like how some gods and goddesses are treated just for their myths and the same people say that were the Greeks whose actually treated the gods like that! What's i'm saying?

"Zeus is a dick, a mysoginist, a r*pist even worse that his son Apollo, he can't kept his pants on and that's how the greeks portrayed him, so… the greeks says that Zeus is a dick"

…

What? Seriously??? The Greek whose worshiped him? Zeus the most important god in the Greek Pantheon? Zeus the king of the Olympians and the father of the gods?

I know many of the male gods assaulted women in the myths… But please I'll say it again… Don't took the myths as literal! Neither the ancient greeks do it that because they worshiped those male gods… They took the myths as metaphores, lessons and stories…

But i advice you if you're not sure: talk with a greek person! Ask the greeks theirself because they know much better of their own culture and history!

Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, Athena, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, and a can continue with all of them…. I will defend all of them because i love them and i know the context and history behind the myth! I know the myths were written by persons (HUMAN PERSONS) whose "humanized" the gods to be more close with them, so that is why in the myths the gods aren't perfect! I know there's people who worship them (i'm not hellenic polytheist yet, but i would like to worship Artemis one day of these) and i respect the deities! I know the symbolism and metaphores of the myths and stories!

Zeus is NOT a dick! Hera is NOT a bitch! Aphrodite is NOT a whore! Apollo is NOT a asshole! Ares is NOT a idiot! Dionysus is NOT dumb drunk! Artemis is NOT a cruel and bad friend! Poseidon is NOT a piece of shit! Demeter is NOT a bad helicopter mother! Hades is NOT the villain… But neither was Zeus, Demeter, Apollo or Aphrodite! No!

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

a glimpse in the life of our favorite throuple.

Happy Birthday to my favorite artist!

@skullsandcorals for your birthday this year, I offer you modern au happy and healthy patrochillercy!! 🫶

BONUS:

bff!b3 + jasico because I love happy endings for all of them. 🙂‍↕️❤️

[hyacinthusmemorial]

The weather is nice, and I'm poking my head out of hibernation to start posting again.

@xiaofanfan888 and I have made this masterpiece together. I probably survived the winter because of writing this.

Anyway, if you want a complicated story about family, parenting, and childhood trauma told through the Greek gods set in a modern world, this might be a story for you.

[thedeadsun]

okay so what about a bunch of drabbles about the olympians being one big dysfunctional family?

basically what the myths are but. still.

disregard a bunch of the myths, but still keep the "essence" of the gods.

more below the cut (100% NOT MYTH ACCURATE BTW LMAO)

The main olympians as a family so, zeus and hera are the parents obvi. then their kids, in order of what age I think they'd be: hephaestus (32), athena (27), ares (25), apollo and artemis (both 22), hermes (19), and dionysus (18). the ages are just pretty rough outlines, but yeah.

they're still immortal and stuff, but there's a lot more... mortal(?) aspects to it? like athena's a professor at a university (or college depending where you are), but she also helps train a bunch of greeks to be soldiers. a lot of said soldiers are in her classes, too. others are most like also taught by coach ares. hephaestus runs a forge and, on the weekends, apollo comes over to help him teach kids how to make stuff. apollo also teaches first aid and is a first aider. apollo and artemis teach archery to people of all ages, and artemis has her group of hunters who she takes out to hunt every other night. hermes is like a travel bureau and watches over a very large marketplace. dionysus runs the bar in the market place, but he's also a therapist. aphrodite does marriage counseling (zeus and hera are there more than she'd like). hephaestus is her ex-husband and she's with ares now (she's 29 btw). from time to time, she helps train the soldiers. hestia does a home mangement class where everyone is welcome, not just women. she actually encourages everyone to come. demeter often helps out, but she also has a garden centre. her daughter persephone is a florist. zeus runs greece's biggest airline. hera works in/owns a bridal gown shop—athena loves helping out there. hades works at a cemetary and thanatos works in the joint morgue. poseidon does swimming classes, that have different age groups.

think ancient greece with modern technology.

idk but if you like the idea lmk

if i made it, it would be called Domestic Olympians. maybe it would be a comic or smth... idk lol.

[onlylonelylatino]

The Olympian Gods by George Pérez

[vegalocity]

sometimes i wonder why 'modern greek mythology interpretations' tend to look at the Aphrodite's Affair situation and settle on 'it was so girlboss of Aphrodite to cheat on her husband with his literal brother' and make jokes about Hephaestus being 'cucked' or 'an incel' when memes about publicly humiliating cheaters are absolutely widespread on the internet, and in the myth itself Hephaestus basically just does the equivalent of the 'welcome home cheater' on the bedsheets meme, it's VERY weaksauce in comparison to what his mother usually does

then i remember Hephaestus is a disabled man and i realize exactly why.

[tracykestler]

"Ares is a weapon. A sword. A shield. A spear. He is precision and grace and speed. Blunt force if needed, but he is not an explosion. An explosion is the destructive earth. And the closest thing to your little explosions are volcanos.”

-- Hephaestus

[turquoisemagpie]

Hephaestus.

(Cardigan inspired by @wolfythewitch )

[mer-acle]

Alright, so let's talk a little bit about some family relations within Silent Wars.

So we have some characters that we have to fit in and it's made more difficult by the fact that not everybody can be related like they would be in the myths.

So we've got of course, we've got the Cronides, we've got the second generation Olympians, we've got some Titans to fit in.

I'm not going to go overboard with the amount of people that will be there, like I'm not going to go with any other children than the Olympians and too many Titans unless they are like necessary for the plot.

So I decided that Rhea and Cronos are going to be parents of Zeus, not Hera. Cronos is a pretty abusive dad, so Zeus went no contact with him pretty soon.

Both of his wives, Metis and after that Hera totally encouraged this and were on his side during it because they both hated Cronos' guts.

But since Cronos has died, Zeus is able to have a relationship with his mother again and Rhea is a proper grandmother to Ares, Athena and Hephaestus.

Which leaves of course the question of who are Hera's parents?

I want to make her a foster child for the very simple reason that that's basically implied within the Iliad of her being a foster child to Okeanos and Thetys, so that's what we'll do.

I'm going to have her adopted pretty young. I'm also going to have her be the sister to Demeter and Hestia and all of them grew up with Okeanos and Thetys who are the other grandparents that the children have.

I'm going to have Poseidon be Zeus's brother, not yet decided whether it's to be the older or younger one.

And Hades is not going to be related to anybody else.

He is going to be first of all British and he is going to be with Persephone which is Demeter's daughter ofc.

And the reason about his British is because I want them to live overseas to kind of work with the underworld myth.

Which of course makes Demeter very sad because her daughter lives very far away and it's very hard to visit a lot of the time.

So Demeter lives in the countryside within the same state as the main characters do.

(I have no idea where they live but same state.)

Hestia lives more close by to Hera and Zeus.

She also helps a lot with Hephaestus especially, just helps take care of him if the need arises and supports her sister with that cos Zeus is a mess.

Then we have of course the younger children, the second-generation Olympians and all of these are going to be Zeus's children besides Aphrodite.

Of course we have the trio of Athena, Ares and Hephaestus who live with Zeus and Hera.

We also have the twins, Apollo and Artemis who are both 15 years old at the time of the story and live with Leto.

We have Hermes who is about 14, who's also with his mother, he's friends with Apollo and Artemis.

(They know that they're siblings, they figured it out. Later plotpoint.)

And then we would have Dionysus but he's much younger and would not be born yet at the time of the story because I never know what to do with him (sorry Dio). He's probably going to show up at the end.

And yes that is my quick summary of the familial relations in Silent Wars :3

[sarnai4]

Chaos at 3rd Period

It is time. The high school comedy au is finally ready for the public. I can already tell I'm going to adore writing this story. I hope you enjoy reading it too!

Chapter 1

Senior year—a time to focus on grades, plan for college, maybe party…and keep your little siblings from burning your school down too. Athena had never expected to start her last year at Olympia High with seven young gods she used to only see at home. Ares had never expected to start his junior year in his big sister’s shadow either. Unfortunately, neither can go against their father’s plans. So, they just have to accept that for the next school year, they are going to be seeing each other. A. Lot. Well, at least it is not all bad. The war siblings can probably stomach this, but it also might be a good thing that they literally cannot kill each other.

[sarafangirlart]

Ok we talked about how retellings can (somehow) be more racist and/or sexist than the original story but we haven’t nearly talked about how they are somehow more ableist.