AKA my rewrite/au of Lore Olympus. I only read one volume of LO but based on what I heard I think it was for the better that I didn't read the rest of it. 🤧
-My name is Rian, feel free to call me 'Crystals', 'Crystal', 'Bubble Tea', 'Bubble', 'Tea', or 'Mint' though!
-My pronouns are they/xe/ve/zir
-I'm a transmasc nonbinary
-I'm on the AroAce spectrum (Demisexual and Demiromantic)
-I have ADHD and Autism
-I am a senior in Highschool, so updates might be slow :'}
-While this blog is for my LO AU (Still coming up with a name, for now it's being called Lore Olympus: Retold), I will also make criticism posts about canon Lore Olympus
-I only read one volume of Lore Olympus, so most of my LO criticism will be based off on what I saw from spoilers
-This is technically the second comic series I'm working on
-My favorite Greek gods are Apollo, Hephaestus, and Ares, while my favorite goddess are Aphrodite, Artemis, Demeter, and Nyx
-I require tone tags for things like jokes and criticism
-I plan on renaming this blog someday
-I was mostly inspired by Lore: Rekindled by @/genericpuff
Chapter links
Chapter 1: TBA
Redesign links
Minthe Redesign: W.I.P
Info about my AU + Warnings are below the cut
Info about Lore Olympus: Retold (Minor spoilers[?]):
-Character redesigns (I'll definitely be posting my redesigns)
-Personality changes for characters (Apollo, Hera, Persephone, Hades, etc)
-Doing Nyx right because Rachel did her dirty 😤
-None of that wibbly wobbly timey wimey time travel ish
-Persephone isn't nineteen, instead she's ageless, like all the other gods
-Doing Demeter right because much like Nyx, Rachel did her dirty 😤
-None of that fertility goddess stuff, I saw things about it and it never made sense to me
-Persephone has an actual personality instead of being Pink Rachel Smith
-Minthe having a better storyline because Rachel also did her dirty
-Doing Apollo right because Rachel got everything wrong about him (He would never do the thing he did in Lore Olympus)
-Artemis canonically being AroAce
-Things won't be accurate to Greek mythology (Persephone being a Bisexual Demigirl who uses she/they and Minthe having ADHD + NPD + ASPD, for example)
-There will be the occasional Lore Olympus roasting
WARNINGS:
Lore Olympus: Retold is not meant to be accurate to actual Greek mythology and is not meant to be considered as a source of research. It also goes into some triggering themes (Ex: racism, substance abuse, panic attacks, and night terrors). Any chapters that contain triggering themes will have trigger warnings.
Not defending Leto, but pulling the veil of a woman of modesty is NOT FEMINISM!
Demonizing a complex character who was rightfully angry is NOT FEMINISM!
Terrorizing the working class is NOT FEMINISM!
Fetishizing your female protagonist for her childlike features is NOT FEMINISM!
Portraying a grieving mother as an evil helicopter mom is NOT FEMINISM!
Putting women down to lift your self-insert up is NOT FEMINISM!
Objectifying women is NOT FEMINISM!
Body shaming and slut shaming is NOT FEMINISM!
SPOILERS AHEAD AND POSSIBLE TW! More ranting…
Another point I want to make is how this comic coddles evil men but harshly punishes women who do not deserve it.
Kronos, a child abuser, was given a sad backstory (boohoo 🙄) and Hades forgave him.
Apollo, a literal rapist, got away with community service.
Hades, who enslaved human souls and targeted vulnerable younger women, was never held accountable. Not surprised there.
But the thousands of humans Persephone murdered, including women and children? Have to pay coins for an eternity of slavery.
Leuce? Her home was broken into, and her life was threatened.
Minthe? “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” type punishment. She was turned into a sentient plant for reporting a crime and having a mental breakdown at the wrong place, wrong time.
Y'know, for a supposedly oh-so-feminist re-telling of Greek myths it's weird that LO never in any way mentions the Amazons.
Yeah, remember them?
That mythical tribe of warrior women who kicked all kinds of ass? The original girlbosses? Ares' beloved daughters whom he had a very close relationship with?
Ranting about LO (Specifically the claim of it being a "Feminist Retelling" of Greek mythology)
RS: Lore Olympus is a feminist retelling of Greek mythology!
Also RS: *Proceeds to use the most sexist and problematic character tropes and make almost everyone simp for Pursephone/Her pink self insert*
My honest reaction:
In all seriousness...
HOW THE HECK IS IT A FEMINIST RETELLING!? WHERE'S THE FEMINISM!?
Hey RS I'm pretty sure having everyone simp for your infantilized pink 19 year old self insert isn't feminism, like that's just a self-indulgence thing.
Also, feminism is about equality for women, and also women supporting each other. Meanwhile Persephone is horrible to almost every women in the series. 🤦
Fun fact: I was planning to make my redesign of Minthe have a shade of mint green as her skin color, but I ended up changing my mind and chose a darker shade of red, instead I decided to make mint green her eye color.
