the hate nyx receives is so undeserving and downright misogynistic most times. i wish to see real character studies of her rather than fics of her randomly abandoning her children and then it’s named a “character exploration”. she is not a terrible bitch. she is a multifaceted Woman, with imperfections like every character, who has suffered so much all on her own. but i don’t want to highlight all the miseries she’s experienced— i want to highlight all her beautiful traits.
her diplomacy, intelligence, defiance, and strengths. she is incredibly defiant, defying the fates to keep zagreus alive, defying hades to continue helping zagreus escape the underworld. the fact she managed to circumvent the olympians—she hid zagreus and persephone from everyone. she keeps the earth stable by existing. she has canonically fought. she allowed achilles to acquire the infernal arms. she is not taken seriously and feared by the olympians but nevertheless, she hates to be questioned.
but also, so much of her actions are rooted in care. she is so loving, tender, comforting, playful. she’s artistic. she used to play hide and seek with chaos. in the myths, she protected hypnos from zeus’ wrath. she took in zagreus, selene, and megaera when they had nobody else, and raised them like they were her own children. she laughs when she speaks fondly of megaera, laughs when zagreus mocks hades. everything she has done for zagreus cannot be listed or else it would take too much time—just play the game! she stitches the chthonic companions by herself. she likes the roses zagreus buys for her. she likes ambrosia. she loved persephone so much she let her leave the underworld, and it’s pretty clear she was amazing towards persephone.
and that’s not even accounting for how many people honor and love nyx! athena, ares, zagreus, hypnos, thanatos, nemesis, hecate, megaera, etc etc. jamie landrum, her own voice actor, adores her. the people on supergiant clearly love her because she is so well-written and perfectly designed!
i hate how so many people speak about nyx :( from hating her to objectifying and sexualizing her, or just reducing her to a mother, she deserves so, so much more. she’s still learning and growing as a person. i am Glad she’s not docile, that she’s not the perfect picture of a mother like she kind of was in the myths. i am Glad she prioritizes her job. i am Glad she does fucked up shit sometimes that makes me want to shake her. she’s one of the best written female characters i’ve seen. even hearing her voice is soothing. nyx, my love, they will never make me hate you.
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