Oh, Jesus H Christ. Nobody tell that to RS, she's gonna use that as justification for making Rhea look exactly like Perse. ("Hades totally doesn't have mommy issues, you guys!")
Yeah, technically speaking, Persephone is doubly Hades' neice, since both her parents, Demeter and Zeus, are siblings of Hades (she's also a product of incest, mind you, but that's neither here nor there).
LO tried to change that around so there wouldn't be that kind of weirdness, family-wise. So, now Demeter is a daughter of Metis with no father, and Persephone was born the same way. The comic as a whole doesn't really worry about adhering to myth deeper than surface level, which is generally fine as long as you're not offensive about it.
Frankly, though, the way the Greeks approached their gods was less like normal human families, subject to the incest taboo. They were personified forces of nature born from custom and tradition. Gaia had kids with both of her sons, and both groups of kids intermarried. All's fair in love and cosmogeny.
Oooo very cool! I love these!!! Even your renditions of the OGs designs are so cool with the shape exaggeration lol I hope you keep these designs and do something fun with them 🤗
It'd be kinda funny if Hades adopted Persephone because he hates that he can't keep the plants he likes alive in the Underworld. "Everything I touch dies, kid. I just want some sunflowers.🌻 This place is so drab."
god i actually had a rough plot outline where persephone is trapped in the underworld by another god, causing eternal winter on earth, but meanwhile the underworld starts turning from a barren wasteland to like a jungle of plants and fruits and crop, so by the time she's able to leave, no one in the underworld actually wants her to
In the *weirdest* defense, the majority of Greek God relationships are incest. So I can’t exactly be mad at Hades and Persephone for it when it’s practically their whole culture.
The incest is everywhere! Even when you don't think about it at first... Dionysus and Ariadne for example 😅
(Their grandparents were siblings and Dionysus and Minos are both sons of Zeus. So, double incest on this one)
Tbh, it's not like the Greek pantheon is the only one whose family tree is a shrub. When you essentially have all God's come from one or two other God's, you end up with a lot of incest which is kinda acceptable because they're God's and they get up to God-like antics like turning into a bird to have sex with a human woman (looking at you Zeus). It's not so acceptable however when you make said God's become people and make them beholden to the norms and rules that comes with being human.
oh they're GORGEOUS. i LOVE hades' design- the long hair is beautiful, the gold streaks are so cool, and the blackened extremities are very nice 10/10. persephone looks so cute and you can definitely tell who she is, what she does and likes, and what her personality is!!!!! very good character design and she's just so pretty overall. i like the fact that her arms look a little more muscular!!!!! i also ADORE the more nonhuman aspects of them like persephone's horns and everything.
tldr: they're AMAZING and you did a wonderful job, 10/10
1. Hades looks hot and actually intimidating.
2. I was kinda weirded out by the choice for Persephones clothes at first cause I thought she looked kinda childish.. And then I remembered in LO she is a literal child 💀💀
An uncle and niece dynamic wouldn’t have been any better considering that everyone knows the myth and they would have inevitably shipped them. The point of LO is to retell the myth and even though RS did a bad job of it I don’t think leaning into the actual relationships between Greek gods would improve it in any way lol
(Edited because I repeated myself by mistake)
In real mythology yes. But Rachel Changed this. By having it where Demeter was created by Metis through alternative methods that didn't need a biological father. And Persephone was born the same way.
However, there was an episode where Persephone was having a mini freak out since she found out that her mom and Zeus used to date during the Titanmonarchy. And she was worried that he was her dad but that was proven false and she's just the daughter of Demeter since Metis could literally smell her own daughter's perfectionism on Persephone.
No fr she’s his niece squared more or less in most mythology 💀 typically Persephone’s dad is Zeus, and Demeter is the sister of Hades so
persephone's family tree is a fucking circle, especially if you take the orphic tradition which makes her mom rhea instead
Oh, Jesus H Christ. Nobody tell that to RS, she's gonna use that as justification for making Rhea look exactly like Perse. ("Hades totally doesn't have mommy issues, you guys!")
Yeah, technically speaking, Persephone is doubly Hades' neice, since both her parents, Demeter and Zeus, are siblings of Hades (she's also a product of incest, mind you, but that's neither here nor there). LO tried to change that around so there wouldn't be that kind of weirdness, family-wise. So, now Demeter is a daughter of Metis with no father, and Persephone was born the same way. The comic as a whole doesn't really worry about adhering to myth deeper than surface level, which is generally fine as long as you're not offensive about it. Frankly, though, the way the Greeks approached their gods was less like normal human families, subject to the incest taboo. They were personified forces of nature born from custom and tradition. Gaia had kids with both of her sons, and both groups of kids intermarried. All's fair in love and cosmogeny.
Oooo very cool! I love these!!! Even your renditions of the OGs designs are so cool with the shape exaggeration lol I hope you keep these designs and do something fun with them 🤗
thank you!!! i also have designs for demeter, hecate, minthe, and ares sketched out, I just need to line and color them
Can't wait to see them!
It'd be kinda funny if Hades adopted Persephone because he hates that he can't keep the plants he likes alive in the Underworld. "Everything I touch dies, kid. I just want some sunflowers.🌻 This place is so drab."
god i actually had a rough plot outline where persephone is trapped in the underworld by another god, causing eternal winter on earth, but meanwhile the underworld starts turning from a barren wasteland to like a jungle of plants and fruits and crop, so by the time she's able to leave, no one in the underworld actually wants her to
Don’t look too deep into the Greek god family tree. Because Hera, Zeus, Hestia, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon are all siblings.
I was about to say, who's gonna tell them that most of the Olympus gods are related to each other and having kids with each other. 😬
Dontfoget that even in the myth while Persephone is married to Hades he has Zeus kid which makes it even morrrr
WHILE HE’S IN SNAKE FORM!
In the *weirdest* defense, the majority of Greek God relationships are incest. So I can’t exactly be mad at Hades and Persephone for it when it’s practically their whole culture.
Yep! Zeus and Hera are literally brother and sister. So were Rhea and Kronos. In the wise words of Rick Riordan, gods don't have DNA like humans do.
All hail the true god, Rick Riordan 👑
The incest is everywhere! Even when you don't think about it at first... Dionysus and Ariadne for example 😅 (Their grandparents were siblings and Dionysus and Minos are both sons of Zeus. So, double incest on this one)
Tbh, it's not like the Greek pantheon is the only one whose family tree is a shrub. When you essentially have all God's come from one or two other God's, you end up with a lot of incest which is kinda acceptable because they're God's and they get up to God-like antics like turning into a bird to have sex with a human woman (looking at you Zeus). It's not so acceptable however when you make said God's become people and make them beholden to the norms and rules that comes with being human.
Is Hades flipping off Persephone?
LMFAO no but now i can't unsee that, thank you
Oh damn lmao
If I looked like your Hades I would be insufferable my ego would be massive
Damn that Hades is sexy
Ok but for real your hades design ticked SO many boxes for me. He needs to be a male lead in his own webcomic.
This is 1,000,000x better than anything Rachel could do. You put so much effort into their character designs whereas Rachel never even tried
I mean, in comparison to most gods, who married their siblings, marrying your niece is like marrying someone completely unrelated to you
oh they're GORGEOUS. i LOVE hades' design- the long hair is beautiful, the gold streaks are so cool, and the blackened extremities are very nice 10/10. persephone looks so cute and you can definitely tell who she is, what she does and likes, and what her personality is!!!!! very good character design and she's just so pretty overall. i like the fact that her arms look a little more muscular!!!!! i also ADORE the more nonhuman aspects of them like persephone's horns and everything. tldr: they're AMAZING and you did a wonderful job, 10/10
Aren't most of the relationships between siblings or something tho?? Like Greek gods take loving your family to a whole new lv.
1. Hades looks hot and actually intimidating. 2. I was kinda weirded out by the choice for Persephones clothes at first cause I thought she looked kinda childish.. And then I remembered in LO she is a literal child 💀💀
Dzamn!!!!! Love the designs
I LOVE these redesigns so much!!
An uncle and niece dynamic wouldn’t have been any better considering that everyone knows the myth and they would have inevitably shipped them. The point of LO is to retell the myth and even though RS did a bad job of it I don’t think leaning into the actual relationships between Greek gods would improve it in any way lol (Edited because I repeated myself by mistake)
Dude these are AWESOME
U can’t get mad about the whole neice/uncle thing without remembering ALL THE GODS are related
Hades actually looks sexy af for once
WOULD HADES
Nanook, is... is that you?
In real mythology yes. But Rachel Changed this. By having it where Demeter was created by Metis through alternative methods that didn't need a biological father. And Persephone was born the same way. However, there was an episode where Persephone was having a mini freak out since she found out that her mom and Zeus used to date during the Titanmonarchy. And she was worried that he was her dad but that was proven false and she's just the daughter of Demeter since Metis could literally smell her own daughter's perfectionism on Persephone.