i wonder how asterius feels when i use the Olympian calls or the chthonic companions on him during our fights, or even the regular boons like damage-dash (as in Zeus's lightning or Dionysus's hangover)
he says something along the lines of "wow an actual god likes me???" when you get hypnos's autograph
why dont the gods love him??? Artemis at least should be adore him, she finds bears huggable why not the bull man????
serious answer: the gods don't love him because his birth and existence were literally a punishment from the gods, resulting from a curse cast by poseidon for being wronged by king minos, the husband of asterius's mother. the greek gods are mean and petty and small-minded. and it's exactly because of asterius that i can't stand poseidon, and the game's version's whole "haha whoops sorry about that whole minotaur thing, i might've had a hand in it but what can you do lol" attitude makes me want to slap him. fuck your "cool uncle" vibes, you're a dick.
(no lie, i've gotten into the habit of not using any olympian calls against asterius if i can help it, and even less so if i have poseidon's call. it just feels rude to me to use the blessings of the gods who couldn't care less about him against him)