#metis god

[firinnie]

Quick headcanon post

My Metis has blue markings on her body that glow in the water.

Athena doesn't have them on a daily basis, but after contact with wild water, glowing markings appear on her own body. Pallas used to like them a lot, but now Athena tries to avoid water so as not to show them. She considers them unnecessary and unsightly, and besides, what good warrior wears something that immediately gives away their position?

It's not like Zeus told her that ... on the way to Olympus when she still had her friend's blood on her hands. Not at all. This hypocrite loved them on Metis tho.

[firinnie]

Bad apple core

Ah, I couldn't resist doing this trend with my favorites. Metis and Zeus who are definitely the perfect couple, full of love, trust, and mutual tol—wait, why is his apple side rotten?

For some reason the resolution has already died in my drawing program so I don't know what happened but oh well, it has to stay.

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Metis and METIS

Oh so there's a wonderful artist @bcowlick who drew our Metis… es? 's? Two Metis together so now it's my turn! Here are the girls B)

[firinnie]

Let's torture Metis again, shall we?

One version of how she was eaten by Zeus is that she was transformed into water at that moment, and I've always wondered how the smartest person in his life could be so easily fooled by, you know… him. So here's my idea.

What if she could transform and merge with water at will, travel as a stream, admire the sea as part of it, play with others as a wave, etc. And what if she had a habit of transforming into a droplet that Zeus would put on the shoulder strap of his robe and travel with her incognito over the years they knew each other, so she had no objection to becoming tiny water drop again and falling into his hand, but this time Metis realized too late that she was trapped.

It wasn't the trickery that lost her, it was pure trust in one she loved. Live with it.

[firinnie]

"Dangerous" but instead of Hermes and Odysseus it's Metis who leads Zeus from Crete to Olympus and is an absolutely unhelpful gremlin. At the end instead of a wind bag she offers him an emetic and says he only has one chance because no matter if he saves his siblings, his father will know the greatest danger of his is alive. By the way it is so based on this idea:

Imagine her telling him about strangers being around while he rolls his eyes so she literally waves (like, wtih water) him off and throws him down the stairs, with a smile. This would be good as an animation but this is not the time for that lol. Btw, Zeus meeting his siblings is such a brilliant thing for me that THIS would be suitable for some fic ;)

[firinnie]

@mer-acle has made me think about them too much, again.

Let's just say these are the last moments before receiving the prophecy :)

[firinnie]

Ok, what if Metis' preparation for Athena's exit was by the song "Do it for her" from SU??? Metis tells her daughter what to do to gain the most sympathy from her father with her attitude. And then Metis says that she has to do it for her daughter, in spite of Zeus.

Let's just change one line to "Don't you want him to LET YOU live?". Oh, and "sword" for "spear".

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Simp for Metis at this stage

I think a bit too much about Hesiod's Theogony.

According to this, Zeus had 7 wives: Metis, Themis, Eurynome, Demeter, Mnemosyne, Leto and Hera

Metis is the only wife Zeus was forced to get rid of because she was supposed to give birth to a son who would defeat him. Plus "Zeus placed her down into his belly, so the goddess might advise him on good and evil." kind of changes it a bit, like she was some kind of voice in his head? Interesting.

Themis was basically… a good replacement for Metis. She advised him in the same way and was justice. Then we have Eurynome, who is like Metis but in appearance, a beautiful nymph.

Demeter, who opposed him but was powerful. Recognizing her as a wife is interesting, but it kind of shows us the great sense from Hestia taking a vow of virginity was. Then Mnemosyne was the personification of memories… do I need to add anything when he still couldn't get his first wife out of his head?

The case of Leto and Hera is very interesting because we all know that one was supposed to pursue the other. Hera was jealous of her husband, so it means that Leto got pregnant after the divorce or was replaced when her pregnancy was not yet known.

And now I see one thing (unless I missed something) but if we assume that Leto was actually divorced, maybe because she couldn't / not wanted to get pregnant, which turned out to be only when Hera was already ruling… it turns out that Hera is the only one who gave Zeus a son from a legitimate bed. Each of the other ladies here gave birth to only daughters, and Apollo was born out of wedlock because Hera was jealous of her husband then. Does this mean that Zeus wanted a son and he was only bargaining chip to continue the marriage?

This is already an obsession, but everything revolves around Metis for me. Zeus tried to replace her mind, her looks, her strength and finally that she would give him a son but this time a safe one. Right after that Athena is born so Zeus no longer has a part of Metis to follow in love life, he has it in his daughter.