so... i just found out that Hades is Persephone's uncle... and Zeus, her own father, is the one who basically gave Hades the okay for kidnapping her, his own daughter... now why did that happen? seriously, so many other ways this could have been written. could have made Demeter a cheater (it's her right at this point) or that she found a baby Persephone with no god or deity or creature willing to admit its their kid and so she adopted her or something. SO MANY WAYS OTHER THAN MAKING HADES HER FLIPPING UNCLE BRO.
now i feel like a hypocrite because i'm Egyptian and my ancestors were definitely no better in their legends AND in their real life, but i am riding on the hopes that my ancestors were commoners and didn't do the 'keep it in the family' stuff.
anyway, i'm definitely rewriting Hades and Persephone's story in my head. keeping the grumpy who kidnaps the sunshine, but changing that he's her uncle.
also when i read the original Homer poem, tell me why i got surprised that Persephone cried when Hades kidnapped her? like, of course she'll cry! a man surrounded by shadows and weird creatures just abducted her out of nowhere while she was picking flowers! yet somehow that just never crossed my mind, i truly thought she was calmly letting him kidnap her.
i have issues.













