Imagine having to knowingly plan a war that will destroy one of/your favourite city, and on top of that you cannot openly be on the side you want to, so you act where you can but mostly have to leave intervention on your favoured side to the gods that are on that side.
You care so much about the son in that war (and another man who isn’t even your son) so you want to literally destroy the human fate of death to avoid it, and no, you don’t do that just because you can. You get reminded it would be a bad idea and would have other gods do the same, so you back down.
Yeah, you shit-talk your least liked son to his face but you still immediately get him medical attention when he comes to you, hurt. (That same son, by the way, has his mother tell his sister to go fuck him up. Which she does. Violently.)
You (possibly against your better judgement) purify a dude who killed his own father in law for terrible reasons, because you are a god of this sort of thing, and you even take him up to your house for it. Then this dude decides to hit on and wants to sleep with your wife (he can’t even, like, do this OUTSIDE or something*).
You, as the last bastion of everyone’s safety, gets summarily abandoned when facing the single greatest threat to the order since you and your siblings defeated your father and his forces, get mutilated (your son does come and help you get back on your feet) and then have to fight this monster again. You win, sure, but at what cost?
Your wife has drugged you to sleep. Twice. And basically dosed you with aphrodisiacs once**.
Your son thinks it’s a smashing idea to feed you, and the rest of the divine family, your grandson. As a test. And then that family keeps fucking up in the impiety department…
Someone ELSE thinks it’s a smashing idea to feed you their son to test if you’re an all-knowing god who will be able to tell he’s eating human flesh. You turn him into a werewolf and destroy the whole city.
It is entirely possible you haven’t had a choice when it comes to a number of your extra-marital escapades, because Eros and his arrows might have been involved. Or Ananke***.
Lastly, you want to dunk on Zeus? Do it elsewhere. I’m not interested.
(*We’re not discussing the question of consent and sexual assault here, but basically all the young women the gods get with are unmarried (yes, even Alcmene), and the tryst happens outside the woman’s father’s house for a reason. **Look, I think “Hera gussies herself up and gets Aphrodite to loan her a piece of garment that will make her irresistible and then distracts Zeus with sex” is absolutely hilarious, but like. He can’t say no to her in that situation. That’s the point of loaning that piece of garment from Aphrodite. ***See the giants, and the fact that they needed a mortal to fight with them, and Heracles got prophetized that he was the one to help. Hence his existence is Necessary, which leads all the way back to Perseus.)

















