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Depending whose account you believe, Hades kidnapping Persephone was kind of a dick move. (Is that meant to be "that one time", or is that a different time?) Also, he could probably have handled e.g. Orpheus and Eurydice in a less arbitrary manner.

Usually if people get mad at Hephaestus, it's for all the volcanic eruptions.

Another possible idea is Laura being some mythological creature and Tobias being a bigoted human, and that kinda makes more sense than demigod.

Also: Gunnerkrigg Court glowfic is suddenly a thing that I want, even though plot is so slow to come on the comic I still have no idea what the endgame is.

Lurker could exist in the Gunnerkrigg 'verse. As one of several species, even, I bet. Robots definitely, probably some sort of forest creature as well.

the worldbuilding of GC makes so little coherent sense that I wouldn't want to touch it but I would be charmed to see a GC Lurker

^^

I think, having thought about it more, that a GC Lurker would be a Shadow Man, and in fact Shadow's story would suit her attractors pretty handily if we wanted to stick close to the existing story. (I do wish we knew more about them, but I think we know enough to be getting on with.)

Ezra wrote:Depending whose account you believe, Hades kidnapping Persephone was kind of a dick move. (Is that meant to be "that one time", or is that a different time?) Also, he could probably have handled e.g. Orpheus and Eurydice in a less arbitrary manner.

Yes, that was 'that one time'. Though sometimes it's claimed that this was one of those Cupid Makes You Batshit Crazy stories (very plausible; Cupid: Such a Dick) or that Persephone was actually pretty happy about it because her mother was stifling (less plausible).

Also, and I could be remembering this wrong, but basically every time someone came to the underworld to ask for something, it went like this:

Heroic Guy: "Please can I talk to/rescue this one person I care about?"
Hades: "Make me less bored, then sure."
Persephone: "You must not let them leave, at least do this terrible thing to them"
Persephone: *might be a little bitter about being stuck here*
Hades: "Eh, that's a little harsh, but OK, do that or you lose everything you came here for and also everything you lost trying to get it."
Hero: *screws up the thing*

PlainDealingVillain wrote:

Ezra wrote:Depending whose account you believe, Hades kidnapping Persephone was kind of a dick move. (Is that meant to be "that one time", or is that a different time?) Also, he could probably have handled e.g. Orpheus and Eurydice in a less arbitrary manner.

Yes, that was 'that one time'. Though sometimes it's claimed that this was one of those Cupid Makes You Batshit Crazy stories (very plausible; Cupid: Such a Dick) or that Persephone was actually pretty happy about it because her mother was stifling (less plausible).

Well, now I want an Emma!Persephone.

Um, wrt Poseidon, I'm pretty sure the mindset "if you disrespect me I am entitled to try to kill you with the ocean for ten years" qualifies as asshole behavior. And that seems to be a pretty common mindset among the Greek gods? (I mean not literally the ocean with all of them but you get my meaning).

Hades, on the other hand, is My Son, so I'll agree with you there.

Odysseus did the Ancient Greek equivalent of getting up in the face of the local riot police and beating up their dog. (And by dog I mean son: the cyclops he tricks and stabs is Poseidon's son.) And Poseidon makes his life hell, but specifically doesn't try to kill him. (That's mentioned in the first few stanzas of the Odyssey.) By the standards of the time Poseidon was extremely easy-going.

Aaaand I was talking to Throne about Gift's Chelsea and it has come to my attention that I want a Sadde there.

(More specifically, I want Saddes to be affected by Chelseas, but that world in particular is also Fun.)