#fr though my version is completely canon divergent

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some headcanons for my AU version of hades (+ some minor bits of the other gods and the underworld, brief mentions of his siblings as well), a few sections are quite a bit canon divergent from the myths.

#  — hades was the second oldest child of cronus and rhea, after hestia and before demeter, poseidon and hera came a few years after that. hestia and hades were essentially acting as parents since they were three years old, and is part of the reason why the goth of them both swore off having any children in the future.

# — since all of the immortals lack dna, their appearances are widely different no matter how closely they are related, only a few gods tends to share the same traits in appearance. this is completely true for his siblings and himself ! hades gained fair skin and long black hair, while some of his siblings have darker shades compared to his own flesh. like fr, he’s pasty pale, never seen the sun a day in his life, mortals will likely confuse him with a rich corpse if they saw him probably.

# — during the titanomachy, the six siblings had managed to gain / figure out their own native abilities, each varied from each other. some unlocked them during painful situations, while some found out about them perchance. hestia learned she could not be burned when their hideout was set aflame, demeter saw how her presence led to barren sand to grow plants, and hades saw how the world slowly froze with his presence.

# — out of all of his siblings, he’s closest with hestia and poseidon. hestia since they were twins, both burdened with the title of eldest and the role of comforting their younger siblings. hades also got along with poseidon in fathers stomach, since the younger always seemed to enjoy hugs, which hades was never afraid to give. though of course, some distance had been added to his bond with the others as they had aged- as all siblings do.

# — during his time in their father’s stomach, the first person he spoke to was the darkness itself: erebus. it was dark all around them, and the personification of it all was there and nowhere. so when hades eventually made it to the underworld, he wasn’t turned away- he was considered kin.

# — over the thousands of years of their existence, hades never hinted or shown any signs of desiring marriage- similar to hestia. though the rumor mill got a bit confused when they saw how close he and prometheus were, and how withdrawn the underworld sovereign became when prometheus was imprisoned.

# — surprisingly enough, hades and zeus actually had a decent relationship. hades was never one for conflict, merely wished to his own duties and remain out of drama. since hades never really had a childhood with zeus, he sometimes finds himself indulging the younger god in favors (almost as if to try and build a sibling bond they never got to deepen)

# — while hades is able to handle his responsibilities of the underworld easily, he is not the best socially. He tends to keep his words short with people he doesn’t really know, he keeps things civil and polite. only when they reach a deeper friendship will they unlock the sarcastic nature of hades. (hades also deeply worries over his siblings, but doesn’t outright admits it, and instead usually just offers gifts to soothe them nowadays)

# — out of all of his nephews and nieces, he has a bit of a bias for hermes, the young messenger never outwardly did anything to upset him; and was a rather joyous presence to the land of winter below the earth. this is part of the reason why he lets hermes borrow his helm.

# — aside from hermes, hades likes ares, and Eileithyia. he was there for the ceremonies of their birth, something he wasn’t able to do as often as he wished because of his responsibilities in the underworld. (if he had his way, he would have attended more of hera and zeus’s ceremonies for their children, but alas he couldn’t- which led to a bit of a rumor of him being uncaring).

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