Lore Olympus 210. In defense of Hades.
Yes, I'm making comments on Lore Olympus now.
On the recent chapter, what we saw was Demeter's perspective, and her perspective about the matter in the flashback is Hades being a capitalistic jerk. A complete villain to her eyes.
Now let's read this between the lines.
Before this, what were Hades' lines about Demeter?
Their issues come from a long time. Basically, they didn't like each other ..... ever. He probably thinks she's a tight-ass entitled being.
And now, about her campaign for being the Queen of the Mortal Realm:
She barely considered him on the whole matter? After these panels, we read she barely sent him gift baskets, as if she was expecting this to be everything she needed to get a vote from someone who she has a tense relationship with.
On her defense, she didn't know there would be any negociations needed, since the other gods don't really care about the mortal realm to begin with so it was fair game as far as she knew. But again, she should have consider checking if everyone was ok. It turned out it wasn't all fair game.
She tried to trade for the volcanoes whe she found out they were the reason he vote against her having the Mortal Realm.
But Hades wouldn't have it.
In fact, when she tried to bought them, then it was when he got mad.
What Hades was saying here was that he:
The volcanoes are indeed important to him (for whatever reason). So he can't just trade them.
She actually just gave some gift baskets and some speeches to buy him and the rest of the Six Traitors into crown her the Queen of the Mortal Realm. Most likely, only gift baskets to Hades.
She could have let Hades have the volcanoes if she wanted that much to be queen, but no, she had to have the whole thing.
Hades was indeed pretty much a jerk here, with his too much abrassive words to Demeter and not letting her any opportunity to be queen. He could have said that his price was to leave the volcanoes alone and out of her borders.
But, let's review some facts:
Demeter did really just expect everyone to give her what she wants just like that. Not to mention she didn't even talk to Hades throught the whole process and get him to be on good terms with her could have been crucial to get a vote, and she just overlooked that.
Hades is a King who had to build everything that his kingdom is now, and he had to make sacrifices to be true King of the Underworld. So, someone who just throws some little campaign to crown herself queen could seem to be kind of pathetic and an entitled arrogant being to him.
Hades is literally linked to everything that the Underworld is. And the volcanoes are part of it. Do you guys expect him to just give up those to a goddess who is on bad term with?
Yes, he could have handled this better, but so did her.