Is it just me or would Severus Snape from The Harry Potter series be a good visual fit for Hades?
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busts through the wall like the gatdamn kool-aid guy
Am I too late for Show and Tell??? I drew pictures of my own MCs!!! 
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The update for the demo is going to be a while before it becomes public, so I think there’s a good deal of time for all of us to brag about our Bearers.
It’s fun to hear about everyone’s Bearers anyway.
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I’m putting all my drawings and info about my MCs below a cut bc I can legit talk all day about my demigod children.
Summary
Helena (Ellie)
So I mentioned Helena before, she’s the MC that actually genuinely wants to be a Hero because it will justifying all her suffering it’s the right thing to do!
She’s Zeus’ kid and honestly you wouldn’t even be able to tell by the way she acts. She’s got spunk, moxie, and she’ll always do the right thing if possible (coughSaxoncough).
The keyword for Helena is denial. The reason she so vehemently tries to do what’s right is because a) she watched too much Disney as a kid, and b) guilt. She feels guilty for abandoning her best friend to hunters and believes that her action directly caused the disappearance of Aunt Alice, who she believes was kidnapped by hunters.
She absolutely forgives Aunt Alice and Uncle Henry when she sees them again, as the fact that neither are dead means that it wasn’t completely her fault, though she still regrets abandoning Benji and her positive thoughts and actions are her form of atonement.
Even as kid, she always wished she could know her mother or have more family, and Uncle Henry leaving and the Aunt Alice’s disappearance solidified her desire for a family, so she jumps at the chance to get to know Saint (perhaps too quickly) and Zeus (definitely too quickly).
(I’m gonna say this right now, I think Aeson’s relationship with the Bearer is one of the most potentially interesting in the whole game, so I have no regrets when I say that all three of my Bearers end up romancing Aeson to an extent.)
So Ellie finds her connection to Aeson to be…well, enchanting to say the least and likely falls head over heels over the idea of their seemingly perpetual connection without a second thought (if that option is presented in the game).
In the end, I look forward to playing the full game with her because I know the final choices are probably going to suck and tear her apart Lisa!! because even as I write this, I don’t know if she even lets herself doubt the gods because it just doesn’t jive with her view of “Zeus is my dad, they’re his family, so they’re my family, and I love my family, so I love the gods…simple!” and trying to contradict that would probably result in error: does not compute!
The point of Helena’s character for me is that she simply doesn’t let herself think things through because when she was living alone, living exactly day by day without any forethought or reflection is what kept her mostly sane because she simply refused to let her thoughts overtake her and spiral her into a depression, but she still hasn’t shaken that off once she’s on Olympus. So I predict that when the time comes for her to reflect on not only the god’s actions, but also her mother’s, Athena’s, and Aeson’s (I’m presuming), and especially her own…it will not go well, and (I predict) it will not be without casualties.
Her mother didn’t name her after Helen of Sparta for nothing.
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Vesper (Vess)
Poor sweet Vesper.
All three of my Bearers share one thing in common: a desire for the unconditional love of a family, but they each have a fatal flaw that could potentially keep them from fulfilling that desire.
For Helena that flaw is impulsiveness, but for Vesper it’s self-doubt and severe abandonment issues which all my Bearers tend to have to some degree, but unlike the other two, Vess allows herself to acknowledge it.
Originally she was Hades’ daughter, but being Zeus’ daughter is possibly even more emotionally devastating for her, so I approve of the change @Rohie!
Before everything went down, much like Ellie she was outgoing and sociable, if ultimately lonely. Cheer squad, guitar, and magic? What more does a kid need in life?
Well, stability for one, she loses that. But to be completely honest, I think her life on the run wasn’t nearly as terrible as Helena’s because she actually came to accept her losses and managed to move on emotionally, the only thing that really kept her from healing was being hunted.
But then meeting Saint and finding out Aunt Alice was alive…gosh, things were almost looking up for her!
And then she finds out she’s a living weapon, and things never recover (not if I can help it, ohohoho). To say she feels betrayed is an understatement. Her entire worldview is shattered and her trust in Athena and Hades is irreparably damaged and I struggle to think of her ever forgiving them (silent treatment for them).
After the revelation, she feels adrift and numb, no longer feeling comfortable in her own body, her own thoughts feel like they’re being shouted from miles away, and when she recalls her younger self, she feels like a stranger in her own memories. She makes no effort to find friends or connect with Saint. So I guess Vesper’s keyword is desolation.
And then she meets Aeson and finds comfort (and eventually more) in knowing that someone might understand how she feels. But judging from what Rohie’s been reblogging on tumblr, there’s a pretty damn big chance that it’ll end in heartbreak (sweet, delicious angst). I don’t know the exact nature of Aeson’s romantic feelings for the Bearer, but one of the things that nags me is the possibility of Aeson being compelled (likely subconsciously) into loving the Bearer because of their shared connection, as opposed to falling for them because he genuinely likes the Bearer.
It will likely be a mix of the two but depending on how it’s written, and I’m fairly certain that poor sweet Vess will be just as devastated as when Uncle Henry left or when Aunt Alice disappeared.
Essentially, Vess is the exact opposite of Ellie in her romance with Aeson, what attracts Ellie will repel Vess.
The possibility of Aeson feeling compelled into loving her would really, really fuck with her already fragile state of mind. If even his love could be a lie, a compulsion by the Essence in an effort to be as close to whole as it can be, by masquerading (or being misinterpreted) as love, then she would begin questioning everyone’s motivations.
Athena took Vess but left Saint because Saint wasn’t the Bearer, would Athena have left Vess if her and Saint’s roles had been switched? Would Hades have ever even bothered to get to know her if she hadn’t been born the Bearer? Priscilla abandoned her at birth, would she still have done that if she hadn’t been the Bearer? Is the only reason Zeus takes any interest in Vess because she’s the Bearer? (Yes, Vess, that’s canon)
Is her life truly her own when everything about her life has been dictated on the fact that she is the Bearer?
At this point, I should also mention that the only character she might ever not hate or resent is Saint because she sees them both as being victims of circumstance. Whether or not she can muster the motivation to actually get to know him depends on rewrites, but as it is, I can see them having a strained but comparatively healthy relationship.
In any case, the point of Vesper as a character is to explore the nature of being the Bearer and of being a mortal individual, and whether they are mutually exclusive or coexisting identities. For all their power, the Bearer is dangerously beholden to fate and predestination, and surprisingly I can see this as being one of the few things that Vesper will consider a comfort, because in her point of view, nothing that she does will matter, not amount of effort on her part will change destiny, because if she is as powerful as the gods say she is, then the Essence put all this in motion to begin with, so she can find solace in accepting her destiny in a way that my other two Bearers can’t. But this acceptance, I imagine, would come at the cost of her humanity. Ironic, she would become as godlike as the Olympians themselves, yet still be wildly out of place, as though she was never meant to belong to this pantheon…
After all, there’s a reason why Priscilla specifically named her Vesper.
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Alexander (Alex, Lex, Xander, pick your poison! He doesn’t care!)
And then there’s this fucker.
Ok, so legit, Alexander has the potential to be the most entertaining of my three Bearers. If Helena’s keyword is denial, and Vesper’s is desolation, Alexander can be summed up by douche.
It’s my intention for Alexander (hereafter typed Alex because my fingers are getting tired) to completely embody six of the seven deadly sins (envy, vanity, hubris, wrath, and lust, but not sloth), and to essentially be a very, very dark mirror of Aeson and Saint.
When he was Hades’ son (let’s be real, Alex fits really, disgustingly well as a son of Zeus), he was supposed to have a Cain and Abel-like relation with both Aeson and Saint, but now he only has it with Saint, and that’s actually changed his relationship with Saint accordingly (surprisingly for the better!).
Speaking of Hades, Alex hates Aeson for taking away his uncle every few weeks. If Hades hadn’t felt the need to visit Aeson then Alex would’ve had his uncle twice as often! Then maybe he wouldn’t have felt so devastated when Hades left… Furthermore, Alex envies Aeson for the way the citizens just loooove him but hate the Bearer, as if Alex chose to become the bringer of destruction or whatever, the pea brained idiots…
Let’s see…Alex thinks Calypso is only good for punching things, he’d fuck Adonis, and…oh, oh yes, the Banshee, his nickname for Sage, whose real name he doesn’t remember, and oh yes, you better believe he killed Saxon, whose name he also doesn’t remember. (“Who?” “The seeker you killed!” “You’re gonna have to be more specific than that.”).
Avery is aggravating but he’ll be damned if he doesn’t manage to tap that ass! And Psyche and Santiago don’t even register on his periphery.
As far as Alex is concerned, Athena betrayed him by denying him a life on Olympus (not that he cares, I mean, fuck Olympus, right?) and further hurt him by isolating him among the mortals, and generally resents her existence and role in his life. Everything Athena did as Aunt Alice, in Alex’s mind, was manipulative and selfish, and yes he blatantly ignores any possible good things that Athena may have done as Aunt Alice. He was always a petulant child who tested her limits because he found her limits to be annoying and arbitrary and anyway what kind of a person brandishes a sword at a child?
“Is this all because I never let you have a dog?”
“sniffling I would’ve named him Rocket!”
And Hades…oof, the minute Uncle Henry left his life, he was dead to Alex, so seeing him again inspires nothing but contempt. Besides, doesn’t he already have another, better son?
“Good thing you didn’t stay or else I might’ve turned out like him.”
“Why don’t you go father your real son instead of bothering me?”
“Oh so you were the God of Death all along? Hm, at least you took my advice and went to hell.”
And then there’s Zeus…he has no particular feelings for Zeus. Like…at all. He recognizes that he’s king and all, and that’s like…whatever, but as a father…
“Thanks for the sperm donation, I guess???”
Thing is, he should probably hate Zeus for being the reason Hades left him as a kid, but that would preclude Alex admitting that he still cares for Uncle Henry when, “No, absolutely not, he’s dead and never coming back because that’s what happens to dead people, right Hades? They’re gone forever and they don’t matter anymore, end of story.” So…surprisingly he doesn’t hate Zeus!
This also applies to Priscilla.
Alex’s logic is that if Athena stole baby Alex because she didn’t want him to be trained so early (or whatever, he wasn’t really paying attention so much as seething in hatred), she probably would’ve done it even if Priscilla wasn’t a neglectful mother (or something? he wasn’t paying attention to that either).
And now back to Saint. I should again mention that all three of my Bearers wanted a family because the patchwork one with Aunt Alice and Uncle Henry simply didn’t suffice. So, he doesn’t really hate Saint as much as envy’s little family of friends, but when (if) he finds out that Saint’s life was probably as lonely as his because of Zeus’s…Zeusiness, then Alex’s opinion would probably come around until finally he would just walk over and drop his tray of food at Saint’s table during lunch like he belongs there instead of eating alone in an effort to be aloof and mysterious.
But until that revelation, he hates Saint’s guts.
“Oh yeah; Giant Dick, Giant Slut, the Crippled One, That One Bitch, and I Think There Was Another One (Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hera, and Hestia) can all die, thanks.”
Alex…doesn’t take kindly to threats against his life (“Just ask…um…y’know…that one kid…Banshee’s brother? What’s his name? You know, the one that died? Anglo? Angler? Oh, Angel!” “SAXON.” “Who?”).
And then there’s Aeson (again. Alex just has a lot of feels, mkay?), aka the guy that Alex would gladly hatefuck but refuses to (consciously) catch any feelings for. Think of it…the way that Vegeta hates Goku…but gay.
“Why won’t he look at me?? I’m strong and powerful and handsome!”
“Did you say someth–”
“I said you suck and I hate you.”
For all his crudeness he’s really quite charming (he is Zeus’ son after all), he’s very, very angry but patient, and he’s handsome in a severe way. He’s also arrogant, envious, and slutty and there’s nothing qualifying or softening those aspects of his personality. He certainly has the potential to be well-liked if he cares to be, as proven by the fact that he lived on the streets for three years, and didn’t once die! And to be perfectly honest, Ares has every reason to want to kill Alex because Alex definitely has every intention of trying to depose the gods if possible, and kill them if necessary. “It’s nothing personal, I just hate all of you.”
My intent for this character is, oddly, to metaphorically recreate the Christian supplantation of paganism. The Essence is the One True God, and he is its avatar, its human incarnation…like a really fucked up Jesus (really fucked up) insofar that he is also Milton’s Satan. He is envious and arrogant, and resents having to kneel to others, and hates the golden boy Adam (Aeson). And Cronus? Cronus is gonna have to suck it up because there’s only room for one god now, bitch.
…Ok, jk jk I just want to use Alexander to go absolutely hog wild in the game, lol.
And obviously, Priscilla named Alexander ironically.
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Well after thinking hard about my MC, there’s really only one quote that could perfectly fit him.
“Damn me. Damn you all.”-Loki, after basically killing off Kid Loki to take control of his body in the Marvel comics. This quote alone pretty much would show how much Aegon never wanted the powers or to be a child of a god. Being told that if he’s not a god by the time he turns 18 he’d die, it threw him into a deep rage because this proves to him that even the trials he would have to go through would be nothing more than entertainment to everyone else that isn’t participating. So now he knows he’s part of the end game between the gods and Cronus but he’s going to show them just who he really is. After that’s all over with and whoever is left standing by then, he’s going to abandon them and wander alone for eternity, cursing the gods for as long as he lives.
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Since we’re talking about our MC’s, my most canon one is Sophia and she’s getting drawn! I commissioned niccalan to do her (she’s amazing guys I could gush about her but I’ll just drop her IG here because she’s so so good and I really wish she posted more online)
Anyway, Sophia is someone who cries a lot – and hates this, like imagine being mad at someone and then tears start falling, rendering her anger not as…not being taken as seriously – and is so very, very, very affection starved. She’s also empathic and kind, generally such a softie who horrible things have happened to but this just makes her all the more nicer? Like she has every reason to be angry and bitter but she’s not because she understands how shitty life can get and no one deserves to go through that
So yeah. She’s fundamentally a good person but also wasn’t ready for the responsibilities the plot has thrusted onto her :)) like being a hero was the last thing she had in mind during this whole debacle. So she messes up especially the crash course in hero 101/trying to play the early parts of the game but eventually grows into her role (on her own terms though)
(at least headcanonly)
Her biggest desire is to have a family, or at least someone/somewhere to call home, and generally just normalcy. This was the reason why despite being very angry at her Athena for keeping her away from her brother, she chose to forgive her as things are indeed complicated but damn if she’s not going to try to make it up to the poor guy
[Who’s just as lost and searching just as much as her for family]
[Honestly. If you want to exploit her, play that card. The family card is her ultimate weakness]
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Her Achilles’ Heel, if you will, lol.
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Wipes single tear
Your babies are all beautiful. 
Like that artist’s style; can’t wait to see how Sophia ends up looking! 
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Love the quotes for Evander. Makes me wish I had some for Damon.
I do have one for Nyx however, want to hear it?
Ayy, another Nyx I see. Why not? Let us hear what you have to say sister.
I see a lot of MC’s named Nyx, we might as well create a club entitled to characters named Nyx
The quote is (and I apologize for the minor language): “Lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way!”
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Might as well share mine.
My MC Nyx’s one and only quote:
‘‘Aeson best boy’’
No regrets. He’s #1 husbando.
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I mean do you really have many options when it comes to boys? We’re brother’s with Saint, barely know Santiago, and a playboy Adonis…Then again I’m still going after the red headed strangler so…
I miss big bro Aeson 
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Damon, don’t you dare-
That sentence reminds me of that scene in Ice Age 2 when one of the possum said ‘we’ll have to repopulate the world!’ and his brother deadpans ‘How? Everyone here is either a dude or our sister’.
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Is that your Damon @Okami-Nora?
asjalkdshjhdgasdjkhgjkfhsaldkj compared to me you’re a saint (hoho pun not intended!)
I think my new year’s resolution should be to maybe not swear so much. 
hello yes, my name is impeccably-stressed and I approve this message 
Depends; you want to adopt him @lokidemon007 ?
Damon: (Smirks rakishly) You know you love me, Sunshine. 
…on second thought, I think it’s safer if he stays with me. For everyone’s sake.
Joking aside, yeah; that’s my Damon. I’ll admit, as much as I love Evander to the core, Damon’s a really fun character to draw because he doesn’t have a completely traditional look of a hero and has a all-around fun personality.
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Well I say poppycock to all that bullfeathers you scallywag
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HELP! 
i have wit stats on 60 and i killed the Seeker but my father is Zeus(i really want Hades)…
Help plz