Oh, I'm so glad you love that, because their messiness is my favorite part, I think (and something that I think you capture really perfectly in your fics, too). To me, the kind of cyclical nature of their whole story really ties in realistically with how relationships actually work--like, they'll never be perfect, and there'll always be things about your partner that drive you up the wall, but if you both just try, there's the possibility of making it work even after years and years of misunderstandings. And I do think Hades & Persephone will make it work, but I don't think they'll ever get to a point where they won't have issues with communication or abandonment or jealousy--they'll just learn to handle them better, hopefully.
Them having an adult kid is just as delightful to me, honestly! (And I've been toying around with the idea of, at some point, writing a sequel to "At the Turning of the Year" with Makaria as an older kid, if maybe not completely grown up yet.) Like, growing up with those two as parents--especially those two as parents pre-patching things up like they do in the musical...it would definitely be an experience! And I just imagine that their family would be all kinds of fractured but, also, really close in a nobody-messes-with-us-but-us kind of way. AND THE FURIES AS THEIR KIDS...so perfect. I'm totally with you in that I'm forever looking for an excuse to give them babies, even though I know that they'd be the least-prepared parents ever.
Exactly! I think Hades pre-canon would be loving, but a lot more traditional/toxically masculine and also possibly more...distant? Not necessarily out of a real-men-don't-show-emotion kind of way, but more so because his own childhood was pretty horrific and his relationship with his dad was (too put it WAY too mildly) not the greatest, and I think he'd just have a lot of anxiety related to that that he wouldn't really be able to communicate? Whereas post-canon, where he's making a genuine effort to do better, I think he'd be willing to open up a bit more, even though it would make him hugely uncomfortable. Plus, I can't help but think that any son he did have post-canon would sort of remind him of Orpheus a bit, at least in the sense of being this young and inexperienced but passionate and good-hearted person, and there'd be all kinds of angsty-guilty-but-ultimately-positive layers to that.
Hades would definitely be the steadier parent, but I really can't see Persephone letting him get away with keeping the kids all year--and I think, even if he wouldn't admit it, he'd know that insisting on it would hurt her too much. At the same time, Persephone pre-canon seems like she'd be the type of mom who's sometimes prone to getting embarrassingly drunk/accidentally forgetting her kids in a restaurant or something, and that whole knowing-she's-not-a-perfect-parent-and-knowing-HE-knows-she's-not-a-perfect-parent-and-is-also-judging-her-for-it would be a MAJOR source of tension.
Exactly! What I love about the parallels between Hades and Orpheus is that they both try, and, ironically, it's the older, morally jaded dude who actually succeeds...though the show is really timely, I'm much more interested in the personal dynamics of the characters and the implications of those, so when I saw that headline that was something like "Hadestown Stars Trump and Takes Place in Hell" I was kind of like "...that's a pretty gross oversimplification, but okay." Obviously people should be able to read their own meanings into it, but Hades is NOT Trump and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.
(Also, I love your icon! And at some point I'll need to find a Hadestown/Amber Gray icon, too...)
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Them having an adult kid is just as delightful to me, honestly! (And I've been toying around with the idea of, at some point, writing a sequel to "At the Turning of the Year" with Makaria as an older kid, if maybe not completely grown up yet.) Like, growing up with those two as parents--especially those two as parents pre-patching things up like they do in the musical...it would definitely be an experience! And I just imagine that their family would be all kinds of fractured but, also, really close in a nobody-messes-with-us-but-us kind of way. AND THE FURIES AS THEIR KIDS...so perfect. I'm totally with you in that I'm forever looking for an excuse to give them babies, even though I know that they'd be the least-prepared parents ever.
Exactly! I think Hades pre-canon would be loving, but a lot more traditional/toxically masculine and also possibly more...distant? Not necessarily out of a real-men-don't-show-emotion kind of way, but more so because his own childhood was pretty horrific and his relationship with his dad was (too put it WAY too mildly) not the greatest, and I think he'd just have a lot of anxiety related to that that he wouldn't really be able to communicate? Whereas post-canon, where he's making a genuine effort to do better, I think he'd be willing to open up a bit more, even though it would make him hugely uncomfortable. Plus, I can't help but think that any son he did have post-canon would sort of remind him of Orpheus a bit, at least in the sense of being this young and inexperienced but passionate and good-hearted person, and there'd be all kinds of angsty-guilty-but-ultimately-positive layers to that.
Hades would definitely be the steadier parent, but I really can't see Persephone letting him get away with keeping the kids all year--and I think, even if he wouldn't admit it, he'd know that insisting on it would hurt her too much. At the same time, Persephone pre-canon seems like she'd be the type of mom who's sometimes prone to getting embarrassingly drunk/accidentally forgetting her kids in a restaurant or something, and that whole knowing-she's-not-a-perfect-parent-and-knowing-HE-knows-she's-not-a-perfect-parent-and-is-also-judging-her-for-it would be a MAJOR source of tension.
Exactly! What I love about the parallels between Hades and Orpheus is that they both try, and, ironically, it's the older, morally jaded dude who actually succeeds...though the show is really timely, I'm much more interested in the personal dynamics of the characters and the implications of those, so when I saw that headline that was something like "Hadestown Stars Trump and Takes Place in Hell" I was kind of like "...that's a pretty gross oversimplification, but okay." Obviously people should be able to read their own meanings into it, but Hades is NOT Trump and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.
(Also, I love your icon! And at some point I'll need to find a Hadestown/Amber Gray icon, too...)