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artcrystals · 3 days

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Hypnos got his beauty sleep. Keep cooking, self-care king~💤💜

#hades game #hypnos hades #hades hypnos #hades ii #hades 2

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lunian · 3 days

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Aphrodite Areia and her main worshipper 💕😊

#hades game #hades 2 #hades ii #hades supergiant #aphrodite #aphrodite areia #ares #aphrodite x ares #ares hades #aphrodite hades #greek mythology #myart #tw blood

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matchanne · 3 days

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Aww they ‘broke up’. That’s sad but…understandable. Hmm, I wonder if this will turn into one of those ‘relationship counseling’ duties we had back in the first game? Please tell me it is cuz I NEED TO KNOW THE DEETS!!!

#SPOILERS!!!#hades 2 spoilers #hades 2 #hades ii #hades ii spoilers #hades supergiant #hades game #odysseus #penelope #moros

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cjbee · 15 hours

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“When Chronos stormed your father’s House, I fled with but three things: Hypnos, because he was there; that family portrait, which pulled at my heart, and you.”

More Hades art here.

#I finished the technical test two days ago #so y’all are getting more art #this time with angst!#hades melinoe #hades hecate #hades hypnos #hades 2 spoilers #hades 2 #hades ii #art #illustration

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astrariums · 3 days

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#hades ii #hades 2 #melinoe #videogameedit #gamingedit #vgedit #hadesedit #./m #./m/hades2 #./m/gifs #./m/gaming

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dylbydoodles · 2 days

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From god of crossroads to god of CrossFit frfr

#hecate #hades 2 #hades ii #hecate hades #hades art #hades ii fanart #hades 2 art #hades 2 fanart #hades hecate #Hecate god of CrossFit #hades fanart #hades fandom #Hecate Hecate Hecate #hades game

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babyrdie · 2 days

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ALERT OF HADES II SPOILER

Okaaaayyy....seeing a considerable number of people act shocked at how Odysseus is in Hades II and think it's something against Odysseus, and now I'm wondering if they actually paid attention in the first game…I know everyone talks a lot about Hades' art, but I didn't think that was because it was the only thing you guys were really paying attention to.

It makes sense to be disappointed that the characters weren't treated the way a fan would have liked (for example, I'm not a fan of Hades, but I don't really like the idea of him in the game although I understand why he's the way he is), but I think it's weird to be that surprised by it or treat it like it's personal. Hades never fully followed the myths. They didn't do this because they haven't read Homer or because they don't like Penelope or hate Odysseus…it's simply because they don't follow the myths authentically. They don't specifically have anything against Odysseus or Penelope, it's just the way they do things. If this were the first game, I would understand this being unexpected… but it's the second game, we already know that they won't faithfully follow the myths because they didn't do that in Hades I.

I'll admit that I also didn't expect what was done with Penelope and Odysseus, but it's not really such a "wow! I could never imagine!" when it comes to Supergiant (I'm playing the technical test, for context). And I hoped they would already be together without relationship conflicts, because I really wasn't looking forward to a repeat of Nyx and Chaos, Patroclus and Achilles, Orpheus and Eurydice. I know most people wanted this, but I think it would be lazy to repeat this and I'm still hoping to not have this quest, whether with Odypen or other characters. And yet, even if I didn't expect it, I don't think it's as unexpected for Supergiant as some are making it seem.

Examples:

Melinoe and Zagreus are children of Persephone and Hades, and in mythology they aren't children of Hades.

Zagreus and Dionysus aren't the same person. The game makes humans believe that they're because the two played a prank on Orpheus, which made him invent a song with that story. Clearly a joke on the Orphic hymns.

Theseus is proud to be a demigod, but Poseidon denies that he's his father. Clearly a joke with the different versions of Theseus' birth, in which some he is Poseidon's demigod and others he's mortal.

Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and a mortal, not Zeus. For that reason, she and her children bleed red rather than gold.

Persephone isn't actually kidnapped by Hades. The kidnapping was an act that went wrong. Yeah, Odysseus wasn't the first character to have his non-con and dub-con aspect erased.

Achilles has a different personality than in myths. The game explains this as him maturing in the afterlife.

Patroclus is distant instead of communicative as in the myths, also explained by post-death events.

Asterius (Minotaur) is much more humanized than in the myths and he and Theseus are best friends.

There is a character heavily implied to be Medusa (Dusa) and she definitely doesn't behave like a monster.

Sisyphus is a kind and helpful guy, which is explained in the game with him having regretted his actions after his years of punishment.

Artemis and Callisto are on good terms even though they ended tragically in mythology.

Hades has a much more difficult personality to deal with than in mythology.

Thanatos, Megaera (one of the furies) and Zagreus are in a romantic relationship, which definitely doesn't exist in the myths.

The last aspects of the weapons to be unlocked do not even make reference to Greece, but to other figures. For example, the Twin Fists have the "aspect of Gilgamesh", a figure who is definitely not Greek.

Aphrodite says "You do know that I'm married, don't you love? I forgive you if you didn't. For my husband, he's always... busy with his work. I'm grateful that you are there for me to talk to" about Hephaesthus...her husband, she says. Hephaestus and Aphrodite are often divorced in mythology, including in Homer. And it's not because it wasn't yet at the time they got divorced, after all the Trojan War had already happened and they were already divorced at that time.

Also, they clearly don't use Homer as their only guide, so I don't know why you guys are saying "but Homer!" Patrochilles is there and not really canon in the Homeric tradition, but in Classical Greece they were considered a couple in certain sources (Aeschylus mainly). They use the name Asterius for the Minotaur (something Pausanias mentions, for example) although it wasn't the most common, they play with the various versions of Theseus' lineage, they reference Orphic hymns, etc. Like…it's really VERY obvious they took inspiration of more than one source.

On the Supergiant website, part of the Hades presentation is "Greek myth comes from stories of ancient gods and heroes filtered through new points of view; we’re excited to share ours." This already makes it more than evident that certain aspects were purposefully changed. It wasn't a surprise even before Hades I was released, for anyone who bothered to read it.

On Twitter, Kasavin (Creative Director) has already said that "it is a concerted effort over time, although Hesiod and Homer were very significant among the many authors we explored", which makes it clear that they don't focus on a specific source, although he recognizes that Homer and Hesiod are very influential.

In an interview available at Rock Paper Shotgun, he even said that he read more than one translation of the Odyssey and cites other sources like Diodorus Siculus.

Also, Odysseus cheating Penelope isn't even a modern invention, there were already versions of this in the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus (I'm talking about Callidice). And giving an unpopular opinion here: while I agree that Calypso in The Odyssey is undeniably an SA situation, Circe is more debatable than you guys like to make it out to be, it isn't undeniably. Both the interpretation that there was SA and the interpretation that there was no SA are valid, because the text itself doesn't make it explicit as it does with Calypso. In Circe's case, not necessarily not making it a relationship with SA makes it something that deviant from the myths.

Again because I don't want to be misinterpreted: what I'm taking issue with here isn't the disappointment in how Odysseus was portrayed. This is valid! I'm questioning the idea that this was done because they don't know about the myths or that it was something specific to Odysseus and Penelope. They know the myths, they just purposefully choose not to be completely authentic. They have nothing specific to Odysseus and Penelope, which is precisely why they aren't exempt from the changes they also made to other characters. They are no more special than Persephone, Hades, Zagreus, Melinoe (to name a few who had changes), that's why they receive the same treatment (that is, being changed).

I would never recommend Hades to someone who wanted complete authenticity to the myths. I wouldn't do that because I KNOW that's not the game's purpose. I thought everyone else knew too. You don't go to a vegetarian restaurant that you knew was vegetarian because you had eaten there before and be surprised because they don't have real meat dishes, be serious.

#Hades game #Hades II #Hades 2 #Supergiant #Really surprised at how surprised people are #Sounding a bit combative here maybe #Birdie.txt

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90spiderbros · 2 days

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HADES II SPOILERS

Hey, guys I've had the honor to play HADES II before early access rolled out so I'm putting all of my fanart stuff under the cut for everyone of you who want to play this game blind.

LAST WARNING.

#hades #hades 2 #melinoe #zagreus #hades ii #my art #evidrawings #blood siblings

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blood-starved-beast · 2 days

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Clipped from this collection of interactions here (sorry it got cut off at the end) but I can't get over Mel's attitude when she mentions her "petty squabbles" with Nemesis. It's too good to just show without the audio. Love their toxic yuri dynamic going on.

Also Moros is so insightful. Makes sense for the guy who spends his time observing all as the Emissary of the Fates. Wonder if that'll cause conflict later, especially if he gets called out for being too set in his interpretations.

#Melnem #Melinoe #Nemesis #Moros #hades 2 #hades II spoilers #hades II #this took forever to load wtf tumblr #videos

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silveradiant · 1 day

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«He was another knife, I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.»

#fan art #odysseus #hades ii #hades game #hades 2 #video games #circe #circe madeline miller #madeline miller

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duhmailmale · 2 days

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Look at her waist

Its Persephone's keepsake.

#hades 2 #hades ii #hades 2 technical test #hades melinoe #hades persephone #let her be a mom

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effable-as-f · 3 days

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You know if Hades II does end up having an actual time loop that would be pretty ironic considering I was briefly convinced I was in a time loop in the first game before realizing that Hades actually fully remembered everything that happened and was just gaslighting Zagreus

#hades game #hades II #hades 2

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kamyiin · 20 hours

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