RS Be Like: I'm Not Going To Make Hera And Zeus Siblings Because Incest Is Disgusting. Therefore I Will

RS be like: I'm not going to make Hera and Zeus siblings because incest is disgusting. Therefore I will make both of them sleep with their in-laws.

Even if they aren't related in LO, it would've been way more interesting if Cronus would've slowly start to perceive Hera as his own daughter in time. And the worst part is that Rachel couldn't even think of Hera manipulating Cronus through her intelligence or cunning. It had to be sex.

It took me centuries to figure out that one of my favourite dynamics from fiction is the problematic father-daughter one, where the father is either a villain or a very morally grey figure and the daughter has mixed thoughts and feelings about it, but ultimately wants to be loved by him.

Raven and Trigon

Emily and Kozmotis Pitchiner

Hera and Cronus

Rose and Albert Vanderboom

Since a lot of Greek Mythology Retellings are more or less an excuse for P0rn and follow a similar pattern, I'm really surprised that there isn't one book inspired by that one myth where Thespius offered to Heracles his fifty daughters as a prize for killing a (not the Nemean one) lion, and he slept with all of them and left each one of them pregnant with a son either in fifty nights or only one.

Fifty Shades of Heracles when?

The Merry Cemetery

Achilles: *raped women and had a female sex slave*

People: Yeah but he loved Patroclus so anyway Patrochilles Supremacy forevaaah!

Perseus: *deeply loved his mother, killed his mother's rapist, never cheated on Andromeda on top of saving and marrying her instead of turning her into a slave, and is one of the closest things to positive masculinity that we have from Greek Mythology*

People: Hey, let's turn him into the head of patriarchy and then ship him with Medusa!

Perseus literally challenged Eros to help him with his love for Andromeda and to help him rescue her, that shit is romantic af and yet we keep getting Perseus x Medusa published fanfic.

Euripides Andromeda fragments

Charon's appearance varies from that of an ugly old man to an eldritch sinister monster in modern pieces of Media. But one physical description which I find to be quite interesting, yet I've never seen being used, is him having burning balls of fire for eyes.

Here's one passage that suggests this possibility:

Dante also described him as having eyes of fire in Canto III of the Inferno. On top of that, his name is usually translated as "fierce brightness", which might be an allusion to his eyes.

And again, I don't remember any character design for him where he has "fire-like eyes". Now I'm really curious to see how would he look like if someone would draw him like this.

Will never get over the way IrenHorrors draws Greek Mythology Characters

Athena, Aphrodite and Artemis

Nyx and Semele

Eros×Psyche and Orpheus×Eurydice

Charon, Melinoe and Thanatos

Hades and Persephone

Medusa, Hecate and Eris

Pandora and Lamia

I wish she wouldn't have followed some common modern perpeceptions, such as the shipification of Hades and Persephone or depicting Medusa as a beautiful woman (there's a difference between being terrifying and being unattractive). Otherwise I love her art.