Chapters: 8/?
Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ares & Thanatos (Hades Video Game), Ares/Thanatos (Hades Video Game), planting the seeds of Charon/Hermes
Characters: Ares (Hades Video Game), Thanatos (Hades Video Game), Keres (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Hermes (Hades Video Game), Hercules | Heracles (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Patroclus (Hades Video Game), Achilles (Hades Video Game), Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Achilles (Song of Achilles)
Additional Tags: Character Study, First Meetings, Reflection, Retelling of select Myths, Thanatos captured by Sisyphus, Speculation on the Birth of Zagreus, Action/Adventure, Angst, Slow Burn, Long story arc from first meetings to possibly distance future, Ares captured by the Aloadae, Not Disney's Hercules, Thanatos defeated by Heracles, Ares defeated by Heracles, Trojan War, Death of Patroclus and Achilles
Series: Part 1 of From the Depths of Tartarus to the Heights of Olympus
Summary:
Death is ancient. Though humans are new to his task of collecting souls, Thanatos has been presence since the dawn of living creatures to provide a path for their ultimate destruction so creation could begin again. He is still young in the grand scheme of the cosmos and has much to learn about his added burden.
Death Incarnate learns that the Olympian Gods require much more care and attention than he is used to giving the surface world. First Ares makes an unusual request that went against eons of tradition. Then Thanatos has to figure out how to incorporate the strange little god, Hermes, into those connected to the transfer of souls to the Underworld.