#i have so so many and i refuse to portray thos goddess as shallow and dumb

[reki-of-the-valley]

*thinking about your Holding Out For A Hero post* elaborate elaborate elaborate pLEASE elaborate

Ok, ok, it took a hot minute but i have time to elaborate now.

So the premise is simple. Son of Aphrodite Langa is kidnapped, used as bait, whatever to get something else in exchange. And like, i don't care what people say, Aphrodite is one of the most powerful goddesses, so it would make sense that one of her kids are taken, especially especially when those kids are viewed as helpless and weak because they don't seem to have the fighting abilities of the other children. I mean, all they care about it how they look and who has a crush on them, right?

Anyway, Langa is stuck, and maybe whoever took the kid wants him to be in love with them because do you know how much power that would give them? Having Langa be on their side? So while Langa isn't tortured, he's still stuck. And while stuck, he probably makes friend with something/someone, just to keep him from going crazy. Probably like one of the villains aids, or a maid of sort. Not anyone outwardly evil, no one that would really get anything out of this kidnapping, but still on the wrong side of history (if you'll excuse the expression)

So they're asking him what his ideal partner would be, probably to report it to the main villain. Which brings the first verse. 1) it reveals Langa's homosexuality, 2) the Hercules reference is just too good. And hero = good. Langa needs someone good, not this villain.

Meanwhile, Reki is out there, searching for his love, his Langa. He's gonna be Langa's hero. And he's strong, he's fast, and trust, he'll be fresh from the strong. (also, to Langa, Reki is larger than life. What's life without Reki?)

Also, just the melody and beat and whatever. It just. The speed and the intensity gives me Langa's anger. The power behind that first I Need A Hero is very Langa snapping, essentially going "I'll never love you, no matter what you do. You'll never be my hero" and also that he's gonna wait for as long as he must for Reki to get there.

By the second verse, Reki gets there, Langa spots him because he always knows when Reki is near. (I have opinions about how Dite kids abilities should work). Also Reki is just beyond his reach, and Reki's reaching back at him in some way, y'know?

"it's gonna take a superman to sweep my off my feet" -> that's when Reki gets there for real, within Langa's reach, and that's where Langa fucking snaps. All that pent up anger and frustration, bad guys are fucked. Because they have Reki fighting them, but also a very angry Langa that's seeing his love fighting, potentially getting hurt (you could say, he has fire in his blood.... Y'know because lyrics and also Hephaestus kid being the one he adores). And anger, one of the strongest passions, one that stands by Aphrodite's side, who can beat anger? A lover will raise a war for their beloved. And Langa is not above that.

Langa needs a hero, it's whats "expected" of him, but also. He's no damsel in distress. He's pent up anger and frustration that will make everything blow for the one he loves. What's a world without his hero, without his Reki. He'll wait forever for him, but Reki will be the reason Langa raises hell.

TL;DR: Holding Out For a Hero is a Langa song but not in he way one would expect. He isn't a damsel in distress, but his hero will be the trigger that will get him to destroy everything in his way

#also my opinions about the goddess of love and beauty? #i have so so many and i refuse to portray thos goddess as shallow and dumb #she is one of the strongest goddesses and you cannot convince me otherwise and i have shit to back up my opinions #in this house we stan Aphrodite #renga #lils writes #lils answers