#twelve olympians

[theogonyofbeauty]

Ares.

[nightrandi]

Dodekatheon +Hades

[midnightsvnrise]

ἀπόλλυμι

The Destroyer

art by me :)

[auxiliaryslinky]

HELPOL JOURNALING/REFLECTION PROMPTS — heavy shadow work prompts, Olympian edition.

Featuring lesser-discussed aspects or sides of the gods. Massive "read to filth" warning!!

ZEUS – Forming pacts, promises, and oaths to others is an obligation, an action that puts integrity and trust on the line until what is agreed upon is fulfilled. Breaking an agreement breaks spirits and stability in relationships. So what have you promised yourself in the past that have never been put to fruition—any resolutions, goals, that you never got to fulfill? Why were they never completed?

POSEIDON – The very soil you stand on is supposedly the safest place to be, but the earth moves and shakes unapologetically, taking down all that towers above it. Have you had moments where what you built and stood for crumbled to the ground mercilessly, and you were left to pick up what had been destroyed? Could you have stopped it from breaking even if you couldn't prevent it from happening?

HERA – Life is a journey traversed through both familiar roads and unpaved paths. These journeys can be literal expeditions and long travels to be in new places, and for some, it is a long-winded path to a less physical but equally beautiful destination. Write a letter about your travels to your past self, who was yet to begin their long journey just to get to where you are now. Thank them, thank yourself.

HESTIA – Transparency is the lesser mentioned but equally important partner of communication as a key aspect of negotiation and bureaucracy. Is there ever a time when you or somebody else had twisted the truth or altered the manner in which to express it to raise the chances in your favour, or has somebody else done it against you? Do you think it was worth it to do so?

DEMETER – Abundance is never ensured or constant, and there will be inevitable periods of darkness and drought where one feels as if they are losing everything and gaining nothing at the same time. Whenever you are hopeless and feel as if nothing good will ever replenish all that you have lost, there are reasons as to why you're still here despite it. What or who are these reasons that stayed even when all else has vanished from you?

ARES – Respect for another person's inborn dignity is respect for human life and existence. Most of us attempt to be gracious and polite to preserve the dignity of others. Ignoring your own, and therefore disrespecting yourself, is not an exception to the rule. How many times in the past six months, up to a year ago, have you shamed yourself, been self-deprecating, and been cruel to yourself?

HEPHAESTUS – As much as our passions and specialties fuel us, there will be inevitable times when burnout exists. In periods of creative rut and artistic block, even the greatest artisans feel as if nothing they create is good enough. In the worst cases, these periods may last so long and so painfully that they stop altogether. If you are still a creative now, how do you get over these artistic dry spells? If you've given up and dropped an art form, is there still an ember of passion within you, or has it truly died out?

ATHENA – Intellect is not merely measured by academic excellence or the ability to quickly solve a problem on paper with genius skill. It also involves displaying a deep understanding of concepts and experiences, and the ability to apply learnings in profound ways. What are the greatest realizations, revelations, or life lessons you have had in the past year? Do you think understanding these has made you a smarter person about your life, or at the very least more aware?

APHRODITE – Passion and love are forces with no morality, only power. When harnessed healthily, these can fuel perseverance, healing, improvement, and even renewal. When left uncontrolled and unsupervised, they can quickly corrupt and turn irrational as fast as they can influence. Are you somebody who allows themself to be thoroughly ruined by its intensity, or do you attempt to rein it in as much as you can help it?

APOLLON – The excess of anything good becomes bad, and the indulgence in something seemingly beneficial can be blinding. Potent medication is administered with specific doses for a reason. And many good things in life are not meant to be had all at one time, though it is undeniably irresistible. Do you have any guilty pleasures or vices that you struggle with working on or experiencing, and are you aware of their long-term effects on you? Do you still take care of yourself regardless of or because of it?

ARTEMIS – Many people look down on others for reasons they cannot prevent, deny, or remove from themselves. Race, gender, sexuality, conditions, you name it, and some people feel the need to belittle those who are different from others. If you are not part of these minorities, or if you are somebody who experiences some forms of discrimination, how do you advocate and fight for yourself and those who are alienated by others?

DIONYSUS – Merely realizing the utter chaos and clamor of life can render even the most well-adjusted individuals in society to develop an existential crisis that uproots their motivations and reasons for being. In this ever-changing, ever maddening, potentially meaningless existence we live in modern day life, how do you keep grounded to reality, experiencing it, shaping this reality to be distinctly suited and meaningful to you?

HERMES – Luck is a leap of faith, and you never know which side of the probability you will end up having. There are times when the world leaves us no opportunity to choose wisely, and we are thrown into a fit of quick decision-making that may or may not end in catastrophe. Usually, they do end up horribly, but on the rare occasions that chance is on your side, recall a time you made a reckless, potentially dangerous, and non-advisable decision that, by a stroke of luck, ended better than expected. Would you ever dare do it again with the same stakes at hand?

I'll probably make more of these but with specific themes soon >:3. Khaire, self-love and enlightenment be with you! Happy journaling!

[darimaa2]

olympian gods x object shows

kinda proud of these

[ghostychocoreal]

Finally finished all the designs for the Olympians in my Hades game based D&D campaign :D

(A lot of them are inspired by the Hades and Epic designs, mostly Neal Illustrator’s because I’m a really big fan, so if there are similarities then that’s why!)

[cr4zy-nat]

After Apollo just became a god:

Poseidon: ok, Zeus asked me to teach you how to be an Olympian god.

Poseidon: it's pretty easy you just have to follow 2 steps

Apollo: what steps?

Poseidon: step 1) you have to be pretty vengeful, especially if someone attacks your children

Apollo: even if it's a child I don't care about?

Poseidon: especially if it's a child you don't care about, they will never see it coming

Poseidon: can you do that?

Apollo: please I can be both pretty and vengeful at the same time!

Poseidon: good!

Poseidon: step 2) fuck everyone and everything, you can even turn into an animal for extra points

Apollo: can't I just fuck everyone as myself?

Poseidon: if you want to

Apollo:...

Apollo: soooo am I an Olympian god now?

Poseidon: yes!

Poseidon: sooo you wanna join me Athena and Hera in overthrowing Zeus?

Apollo: yea I don't see where that could go wrong

You can't tell me this didn't happen

[rowenllyn]

DCxPJO - Divine Alfred Pennyworth

Part of my DC/Percy Jackson crossover, in which the Batfam are all demigod-adjacent to different divine parents, and were brought together by Bruce and Alfred who wanted to build somewhere safe for demigod orphans, which obviously spiralled into more, a family.

This is part of my Alfred introspection, Alfred being the exception to the demigod filled house, as instead he himself is divine, the primordial Ananke, deity of inevitability and necessity, the dictator of fate and circumstance. And what that means, to grow to care for people that from the start, from the first meeting, you know just how much pain the world intends to give them...

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Alfred has been around for a very long time, and doesn't have that much of an active role anymore with the Olympians and the pantheons taking up their positions, his work mostly going along in the background by itself. But he's still around, so at some point in the early 20th century he decides he's gonna go out onto the mortal plane and see what humanity is about. And he gets thrown straight into 20th century Europe and the wars. Which is an interesting experience for someone who is fresh to the planet. Especially with the knowledge he has that his kind are to blame for it, its a big realisation he goes through realising quite how much of what goes on up on that mountain spirals out to the billions on earth. However, once the war comes to an end and his service with the intelligence agencies comes to its end, he finds himself in America looking for something new, something less horrifying than war, and instead finds the Waynes. From them he learns to love humanity, to see the beauty and kindness in the face of the adversity that is Gotham and the worst parts of humanity. He sees family for the first time, a healthy, loving family, one that cares for its members and cherishes it children, so different from what he has seen over his years watching the Olympians with their demigod offspring. He's welcomed into this home with open arms and kind smiles, a young couple with a baby on the way, and it's so nice. The worst part of it all? Ananke is god of inevitability, he knows that the Wayne's will have to die, he knows that Bruce will live a very sad life, with lots of pain, but for the first time ever, he wants to be part of what he sees. He wants to relieve some of that sadness, to take some of that pain and to help a young boy in pain. And so he does. He takes up a full time position in the human world, shedding most of his divine drapings, except for the fact he ages weirdly, and when the time comes and he is needed, he becomes a young boy's father. And along the way a family grows, and suddenly Alfred is the patriarch (cause lets not lie to ourselves, Alfred is the head of that family not Bruce) of a clawed together family full of people hurt by the divine and the human. Who have been abandoned by their divine patronage, and Alfred swoops in and adds them to his home of wayward children.

He teaches them the old ways, teaches them to pray and believe, to give offerings and how to fight. But he also teaches them how to be kind, how to cook, how to love, how to make friends. He teaches them how to be divine, but also how to be human. And when they reach a certain age, he sits them down and he explains that they come from divinity, and the dangers that surround it, how they must learn to cloak themselves in the mist-like smog of Gotham, to wear it as a shield, to bring it with you where you can and to search for it when you can't. He teaches them that children of divinity do not live long in this world, not if they do not take the right steps. So he teaches and he drills and he prepares. Not just them but himself.

He knows demigods die, and they die young. And yet he still got attached, he loved them like his own. So when his grandchild dies, when he looks down on that young body, a body not killed by the divine threats he had instilled in them to look out for, but a mere mortal? He is not prepared for the pain he feels. And he realises that he ignored the inevitability. The inevitability that his grandchildren will lie dead before his feet more times than he will ever want. That he will bury them and even if that does not last, he will still have to prepare their bodies for burial and stare at their pale lifeless faces knowing that this was necessary.

That his family will have multiple deaths when they are so young and Alfred can do nothing because it is fate that they die, that they go through so much pain. And all he can do is comfort, is to wipe the tears and to keep the narrative running. Because that is Alfred's job, to see what is coming and to allow it to come. And he has already overstepped by becoming a character in the narrative instead of just an overseer, but he saw a boy who needed comfort and stepped forward. And in doing so he built a family, he built a dynasty of legacies that may be fuelled by pain, but who will become legendary. And he loves them. His family. The one he built.