She's so expressive, and there's always so much...I think maybe "verve" is the right word...in her performances? Like, I'm convinced that woman could play a tree stump and it would be the most charismatic tree stump you'd ever seen.
Oh, definitely. I love the tragedy and sweetness of Orpheus/Eurydice a lot, but they weren't my main draw coming into the fandom AT ALL. Possibly just because I knew how the story would end and wanted to keep myself from getting too devastated at the end (I mean, I was still devastated, but) and also because the friend who introduced it to me knows me better than I know myself and was like, "You're really gonna love Hades & Persephone." There's something in me where, if canon has a couple who are at each other's throats 90% of the time, I'll want them to patch things up and get back together, and Hades/Persephone satisfied that for me in the best possible way while still being pretty realistic about how a reconciliation would play out.
OMG, but their kid could totally wind up a musician--it's definitely in the DNA when it comes to Persephone, and I think she'd try to encourage their kid's artistic aspirations while Hades would be...not opposed to it, but more of a "How are they going to make a living?" type of parent...and also probably thinking that it's totally part of his penance to have a kid who ended up so much like Orpheus. :)
Custody would be such a massive issue for them, especially pre-canon, and I agree with everything you said. I think Hades has this complex where he has to be as self-sufficient as possible and prove to everyone else that he doesn't need anybody (except, y'know, Persephone, but they don't talk about that) and so the idea of any of the other gods having a hand in raising his own kids would really rankle. Plus there's the fact that they're his kids and the idea that Persephone would ever put them in an unsafe situation (which I don't think she would, but in her pre-canon days the possibility is always there) probably really gets under his skin. Also, it might be a bit of a generational difference, too? Because he's much older, and had a significantly more crappy childhood than Persephone probably did, so he's just inclined to be more protective, whereas she might have been a bit of a free-range kid growing up and doesn't see a problem with that?
"Hope that kid/those kids like playing in the snow" OMG now all I can think of is a happier timeline with the kids being like "Mom, Dad, make it snow!!" and Hades and Persephone starting up some kind of playful argument in order to give them enough to build a snowman. Like, you can't tell me they wouldn't spoil those kids rotten every once in a while.
I might have to try one of these days! I definitely see Makaria, as per when she was a baby, being very much a daddy's girl and taking after Hades in his love of tinkering and machinery. I feel like she might be a bit like her grandma in terms of just being...very emotionally open and frank, which is something both Hades and Persephone are kind of befuddled by at first.
Hermes would totally be the stable-yet-cool uncle, and Demeter would be the grandma who kind of hates your dad even though he's been married to your mom for literal centuries at this point. Zeus would be the charming granddad who's actually a total deadbeat and whom your mom refuses to talk to anymore. And growing up pre-canon...poor kid, I can't help but feel like they'd sort of be a combo of all three that you mentioned? Like, somehow both anxious/controlling and "Fuck it, nothing matters" all at once. Oof.
Ugh. Like...how is that ever okay? It's one thing if you don't like the character (though how anyone could dislike Persephone is beyond me, but whatever) but to say something like that is a special kind of dumb.
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Date: 2019-04-29 03:09 am (UTC)Oh, definitely. I love the tragedy and sweetness of Orpheus/Eurydice a lot, but they weren't my main draw coming into the fandom AT ALL. Possibly just because I knew how the story would end and wanted to keep myself from getting too devastated at the end (I mean, I was still devastated, but) and also because the friend who introduced it to me knows me better than I know myself and was like, "You're really gonna love Hades & Persephone." There's something in me where, if canon has a couple who are at each other's throats 90% of the time, I'll want them to patch things up and get back together, and Hades/Persephone satisfied that for me in the best possible way while still being pretty realistic about how a reconciliation would play out.
OMG, but their kid could totally wind up a musician--it's definitely in the DNA when it comes to Persephone, and I think she'd try to encourage their kid's artistic aspirations while Hades would be...not opposed to it, but more of a "How are they going to make a living?" type of parent...and also probably thinking that it's totally part of his penance to have a kid who ended up so much like Orpheus. :)
Custody would be such a massive issue for them, especially pre-canon, and I agree with everything you said. I think Hades has this complex where he has to be as self-sufficient as possible and prove to everyone else that he doesn't need anybody (except, y'know, Persephone, but they don't talk about that) and so the idea of any of the other gods having a hand in raising his own kids would really rankle. Plus there's the fact that they're his kids and the idea that Persephone would ever put them in an unsafe situation (which I don't think she would, but in her pre-canon days the possibility is always there) probably really gets under his skin. Also, it might be a bit of a generational difference, too? Because he's much older, and had a significantly more crappy childhood than Persephone probably did, so he's just inclined to be more protective, whereas she might have been a bit of a free-range kid growing up and doesn't see a problem with that?
"Hope that kid/those kids like playing in the snow" OMG now all I can think of is a happier timeline with the kids being like "Mom, Dad, make it snow!!" and Hades and Persephone starting up some kind of playful argument in order to give them enough to build a snowman. Like, you can't tell me they wouldn't spoil those kids rotten every once in a while.
I might have to try one of these days! I definitely see Makaria, as per when she was a baby, being very much a daddy's girl and taking after Hades in his love of tinkering and machinery. I feel like she might be a bit like her grandma in terms of just being...very emotionally open and frank, which is something both Hades and Persephone are kind of befuddled by at first.
Hermes would totally be the stable-yet-cool uncle, and Demeter would be the grandma who kind of hates your dad even though he's been married to your mom for literal centuries at this point. Zeus would be the charming granddad who's actually a total deadbeat and whom your mom refuses to talk to anymore. And growing up pre-canon...poor kid, I can't help but feel like they'd sort of be a combo of all three that you mentioned? Like, somehow both anxious/controlling and "Fuck it, nothing matters" all at once. Oof.
Ugh. Like...how is that ever okay? It's one thing if you don't like the character (though how anyone could dislike Persephone is beyond me, but whatever) but to say something like that is a special kind of dumb.