Yeah, she can get vengeful and maybe even petty, but she doesn’t always express it in a fit of impulsive rage. The Hera we know in this telling is just a bit too… composed for what we know about her from the myths. And Hera gets suspicious, although maybe she doesn’t have all the details yet. However, say Semele also gets pregnant around this time. Also the underworld is probably like, really fucking excited about this. But he can’t take direct action against the baby lest people start asking questions. He girlbossed a little to close to the sun, if you will, and now Persephone is pregnant. Zeus has just clowned himself up his own ass and beyond. With that out of the way, let’s move on to the speculation: Zeus Does The Dick Move Of Manipulating (and/or Framing) Hera Again this is purely my ravings made for fun and I absolutely acknowledge that I could be wrong. The focus on Hades’ “infertility”, on how Apollo, who is arguably the antagonist who has caused the most damage to Persephone thus far has his eyes set on Zeus’ throne, and on Metis and Thetis who are both known for being disposed of by Zeus before they could bore him children who could be a threat to him, all seem to point that eventually the big one-upmanship that Persephone will deal to them is bearing and raising the son of Hades that will depose Zeus.Īlso it is part of my theory that both Dionysus and Zagreus will be purple with the main difference being that Zagreus will have white hair like Hades while Dionysus will have black hair like Zeus. Zagreus’ inclusion as a separate entity is a bit more debatable, since there is at least one version in which he is born, killed and reincarnated explicitly as Dionysus, but as I mentioned before in the previous part there’s a bunch of narrative cues in the story that seem to be pointing to his appearance specifically as a son of Persephone and Hades alone. Ok, so Dionysus is 100% coming since we were already introduced to the currently not pregnant Semele and he historically has a connection to Persephone in some of the myths. But hey, what is fandom for if not for having fun trying to get ahead of the author in guessing what they’re planning, am I right? I have faith in my theory, of course, but I also understand that I could be completely wrong about it. This part however is WILD in terms of the details I speculate on. After all, even though the female Olympians are not born from Rhea in this version, they are born from the explicitly confirmed as a fertility goddess Metis, who in the original myth was devoured/assimilated(?) by Zeus specifically to prevent her from siring children who would replace him.Īlso, last part was a bit far reaching, but not too much given the point of the story we’re at in now. Instead of it being that the previous usurpers rose to power thanks to fertility goddesses, it could be that those were their downfall, since fertility goddesses are destined to produce the next heirs of the world. Demeter could just be displaced in her interpretation of the Rule of Successions. Ok so a few mild corrections and warnings first: I framed my theory last time under the assumption of a prophecy, only to realize immediately after that there’s no need for it, per se.
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