❝ How much longer
Ctimene of Ithaca.
ares’s chosen hero . loyal wife of eurylochus . a quick wit , rage incarnate.
nsfw / semi - selective
portrayal of #authoredbyaries
Must I suffer now . ❞
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⠀⠀Thank you! I follow only my own indigenous faith, but I am protective of the Greek pantheon. People seem extremely ignorant as to it, despite how many people are slowly returning to it
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⠀⠀Please remember I am first and foremost a pagan. I depict the Gods through the lens of mythos, yes, which is separate from the Gods themselves; but if you outwardly disrespect and mischaracterise them then I do not want to write with you
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⠀⠀If you depict Dionysus as a drunken fool or Hera as unfaithful or Zeus as a fuckboy you display a very shallow understanding of the Gods you claim to respect. Please do your research and remember many people still worship these Gods
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𝑜ℎ .ᐟ prince zagreus .ᐣ
❪ * why is she 𝘴𝘰 unsurprised .ᐣ ❫
i see . no wonder ⸝ then . i hope you don't have 𝑡𝑜𝑜 much of a headache ⸝ my lord . 💧*
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⠀⠀...You are right. Of course. You are always right.
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⠀⠀I will make many mistakes. But I will do my best to...find this balance. I ask you show me more of the patience you have already graced me with. Though I know I am undeserving of it.
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“Not as you treat me, no.
But in a different way
Your progenitors didn't come with a kind and guiding hand whereas mine came with a strong hold; there is balance to be found in us towards our own.”
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⠀⠀your mother. Including her willfulness. Do not lose that."
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⠀⠀⠀It sounds more caution than praise. But it will do. He hopes.
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⠀⠀𝗭𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗨𝗦 was, much like his mother, rather pitiful at concealing his true feelings. It was a competence that the God of the Dead had, himself, mastered, beneath his ever-solemn exterior. It was a countenance befitting his station; yet, as with any certitude of
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𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍 from the Lord of all the Underworld can only mean a headache for its Mortal-Blooded Prince. When Zagreus comes to receive it he immediately ventures to assume that a scolding is sure to be in his near future ,just as it always is →
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⠀⠀caught. "I have no need for this. And so, it is yours." An explanation, in lieu of the approval the God of Blood so sought. Yet, something within the Unseen's hollow chest constricts, and even as his face lowers, he mutters still;
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⠀⠀"You are...all the best of
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⠀⠀I know they probably didn't intend to take the "he's secretly manipulative as shit beneath the charm and personability" angle but holy shit Zeus's response to you rejecting him in Trial Of The Gods is the most Zeus shit I've ever read
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⠀⠀( A glance cast towards the garden of Tartarus; only just budding, in anticipation of their mistress's return. ) Be dedicated, to them alone. That is all of life itself in a single sentiment.
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⠀⠀( A foreign feeling meets him, then, in whatever recesses of his heart remain; 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦. And, despite his knee-jerk objection to the sentiment, Hades perseveres. For his daughter's sake. )
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⠀⠀You show them. ( Spoken simply; yet, with weight to it. The God
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⠀⠀of the Dead waves a hand before him, and a cloud of dusk is conjured; only for spring to bloom in their wake. Flowers, though blackened, sprout, towards a non-existent sky. )
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⠀⠀Find what they love. And, if you love them, you will love it, too. Dedicate
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