Okay, Rachel Smythe really needs to chill out with these “clone” designs. Morpheus looks like Hecate 2.0 and I’m getting a little tired of characters looking exactly like old ones. Like, I love this comic to pieces, but Hebe, Storge, and Morpheus looking like clones of Hera, Eros, and Hecate really bothers me. Is Rachel running out of different colors to make the gods or something?
Under the cut because I've seen spoilers on the main tag even when they're properly tagged:
Cerberus remembers his mommy and still loves her very much <3 And she still considers him her baby <3 <3 <3 Everyone takes a second to consider a new epithet for Persephone: "Cerberus Tamer". Can't quite tell if she's saying he could get into trouble because of the obvious or because of Zeus or both, tho.
Storge is grown up! Luckily he is easier to distinguish from Eros, and he's Hebe's cool nephew friend.
Poor Hebe. It's hard to grow up with important but flawed parents and having to reconcile the fact that they are not perfect. She tries so hard to see the good in Zeus and remain on good terms with him, and even though I hate the guy, I can't blame her. He does love his daughters, although as I said before, a lot of that is couched in how he likes to collect trophy women.
So it's not just Hestia, Hera is out of commission as well due to a sleep sickness. One that Hebe implies is related to Zeus' choice of prolonging the isolation. Technically it isn't confirmed that they are suffering from the same thing, but it's the safest thing to assume for now. Maybe they haven't been able to do their duties since the borders closed and that affects their health? Or they can't receive the offerings from the mortals? If that's the case shouldn't that be affecting more gods? Apollo is fine. Is it something to do with them being part of the 6 traitors? That feels like a stretch but I'm still putting out there just in case. I assume that it is either only affecting Hera and/or Hestia or a select circle of people, because otherwise Zeus would, or at least should, be panicking harder. Too little info to speculate properly on this.
ON THE OTHER HAND. The colchian dragon? King Aetes???? That means Jason, which means the Argonauts, which means HERACLES!!!
That being said, I probably wasn't right last time if Rachel is sticking to the ""cannon"" timeline of events. Buckle up, I'm giving you a crash-course on greek mythology lore:
So last time I speculated that Cerberus might have gotten out thanks to Heracles because that's what he did for one of his 12 jobs, but I forgot that that was also the one where he found Theseus and Pirithous in the underworld. You can see in the linked page what they were trying to do there. What's interesting, though, is that Theseus' dead wife was Phaedra, who was the sister of Ariadne. Yeah, Dionysus' wife Ariadne. You know, sometimes people debate if Theseus left her because he was an asshole or if Dionysus had something to do with it, and I just think the facts speak for themselves.
But anyways, what I'm trying to say here is that whether I was right or not, the clock will likely tick faster from now own, and that we are definitely not too far off from the wedding.
Sidenote, I kinda really want Persephone to meet Medea someday. If Rachel doesn't do that I could write a fanfic.
