but do you feel like a young g o d ?
What’s a board without a good ol’ fashioned, Greek pantheon, group plot? Essentially what I’m looking for here is just a group of students (or even some staff members) who represent the deities in the Greek pantheon in the most modern of ways, all brought together somehow at Tremblay University and representing a handful of the cast of Life’s a Beach! What better source of reality TV drama than all the hijinks that the gods and goddesses got into way back when, right?
Ideally I’d like them to all at least know each other and be connected somewhat loosely, but how that happens is entirely up for discussion. Maybe some of them are related? Some could be childhood friends? Anything goes, really!
The inspo for this comes from this Tumblr post, I did not create these descriptions and credit goes to that blogger, but I adore the modern spin they put on the Greek pantheon and I’d love to see it come to life. Definitely feel free to throw a custom twist on the characters and make them your own, however! They don’t need to follow the descriptions to a t and are yours for interpretation~
No specified ages or face claims, you could even genderbend if you so choose - go nuts! <3
Zeus - a walking disparity of the loud, brash, frat boy variety who can’t pass a woman on the street without catcalls. Who has more one-night stands than he could possibly keep in his head, for whom adultery comes as naturally as his endless wealth of charisma. // OPEN
Hera - walking tall, six-inch heels and not a wrinkle in her skirt, knowing her boyfriend is cheating, and knowing with equal certainty that she is better, stronger, fiercer than he will ever be. With an eye of steel, spotting vulnerability, slicing it open, teaching every woman who crosses her path to value themselves over any mistake made in the name of men and love. // OPEN
Hades - big, hulking, quieter than his brothers (or close friends, they don’t have to be related) would ever think to be, who dresses in neat dark clothes, and polishes his boots, and spends more time reading than fighting, who debates eventuality and ethics. Who stoically reminds everyone how enormous, how terrifying, how inescapable a thing like silent inevitability can be. // TAKEN by Alex - name tbd - fc: tbd
Persephone - looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you. After all, it takes a lot of guts to be the apple of Hades’ eye and not back down from his stoic, intimidating demeanor. Generally very saccharine sweet and amiable, but make no mistake, she will not take your shit if you push her too far. Give me the Queen of the Underworld personified who will judo-flip you over a table and then resume telling you about her flower garden. // OPEN
Poseidon - in Olympic prime, a gym rat who skives off class to shatter backstroke records, who spends his summers lifeguarding at the city pool, who keeps an ever-expanding aquarium in his bedroom and coaxes all the pretty girls up to visit his fish, his charm as impressive as the earth-rending temper he generally uses to fuel his competitive nature. // OPEN
Hermes - in a beanie, with watercolor splashes of tattoo crawling up his arms and holes in his Chucks, a bike messenger with no helmet, no regard for the rules of the road, all cataclysmic laughter, lock-pick tricks passed along to every kid who thinks to ask, thumbing through his iPhone without a care in the world. // TAKEN by Whitney - name tbd - fc: Herman Tømmeraas
Athena - reading glasses pushed high on her head, six books in her bag and a switchblade in her back pocket, her clothing as neatly ordered as her mind is feverish, brilliance and temper clashing and blending, doing her best to look dignified—even when her brain chemistry rockets ahead of her well-intentioned plans. // TAKEN by Rockett - Shahna Stone - fc: Kendall Jenner
Apollo - splattered with acrylics, board shorts and Monster headphones and a beautiful classic car, busking on street corners, not because he has no choice, but because the sunlight catching on a sticker-patterned acoustic is summer incarnate, because music is blood, because the act of creation is the ultimate in sublime. // OPEN
Artemis - ripped jeans and haphazard topknot, star of the soccer team, the track team, who rides a motorcycle, and keeps a tribe of girls around her at all times, and does not care for men, for expectation, for anything but volunteer hours down at the local animal shelter and falling asleep under the stars. // OPEN
Aphrodite - in sundress and scarf, homemade jewelry and lavish amounts of bright red lipstick, who is excellent at public speaking, at theater auditions, at soothing bruised egos and sparking epic fights, who kisses as easily as she breathes and scrawls poetry onto bathroom stalls. // OPEN
Ares - all but living in the boxing ring, cutoff shirts and sweats, red-faced under a crew cut as he punches, punches, punches until the noise in his head dims, a warrior with no war, all crude jokes and blind fury, totally incapable of understanding what it is to sit, think, plan before running screaming into the fray. // OPEN
Demeter - with the best garden you’ve seen in your life, with a lawn care business she runs out of her garage, a teenage prodigy grown into a joint-custody single mother, who teaches her carefree daughter all she knows while scaring off the hopeful neighborhood boys with the pet python draped across her shoulders. // OPEN
Dionysus - with a joint in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other, baggy hoodies and three-week-old jeans, who brews his own beer in his basement and greets all visitors with a fresh pack of Oreos and half-stoned theories of the universe, of birth and death and partying mid-week, because why not, man? // OPEN
Hephaestus - with a workshop taking up the majority of his house, whose kitchen is overrun with blowtorches, whose bathrooms are home to all manner of hodge-podge invention, forgets his laundry for weeks at a time, and strings together the most beautiful steampunk costumes at any convention at the drop of a hat. // OPEN
And Beyond - We all know the Greek pantheon expands far beyond the main gods and goddesses listed up above, so you’re more than welcome to hit up Wikipedia and find some of your others faves to throw them into the mix here. Just let me know who you’d like to snag and they’ll be added accordingly!