Obvious outcome, but heartwarming to actually read nonetheless. In a certain sense Poseidon’s pretty messed up here. He didn’t hire someone because of personal reasons (his wife can’t get over a dress) and on top of that left him out all alone to find his own way home. Despite knowing that he was swept against the tide a long time ago and lost his family. He could have at least given him a consolation prize and maybe a ride back home. What was he supposed to do if Hades didn’t show up? Fend for himself?
@ExLegendary I don’t want to be that guy, but I feel it needs to be put out there. At that point you are putting objects above an actual living being. No matter how sentimental the objects, that really doesn’t get sympathy in my book. Also, yeah. Didn’t even think about their parents being titans. So yeah, it seems very weird that she would treasure a family heirloom from the group that hated them and they killed. Aren’t they still locked up in Tartarus or something? Not like she can’t ask for another dress. To answer your question about how much of the mythos is being followed, I’d say “about as much as the author cares incorporate” is a pretty appropriate answer. Basically just whatever suits his story telling needs. For example Cerberus should be constantly at the gates of the underworld. Yes, he got that Zeus cheats and Hera curses, but that felt like it was just comedy. I don’t think the author’s gonna mention how Zeus and Hera are also brother and sister. Not to mention Poseidon also cheats (I don’t think he’d care that much about keeping his wife happy when he cheats on her about as much as Zeus; aren’t like all the cyclopes his or at least a number of them? That’s another thing. Probably not gonna get the “turning into animals and forcing women to have sex with us [gods] part”. If we do (or have) gotten the minotaur I don’t expect we’ll get his origins). And clearly the whole rape of Persephone is out (Demeter actually seems to rather like this Hades). Plus, while Hades cheated the least out of his brothers (maybe being the oldest made him the most responsible?) he still cheated a few times and here he seems to be very loyal (if not completely apathetic to the thought of love before meeting the main heroine). It seems like the author uses correct mythology when he wants to move the story along or make a joke (because the mythos makes it very easy), like with Hera in that magazine or when Aphrodite openly showed interest in other men in front of her husband (Hephaestus). At the very least, this is far from the most “liberal” take I’m sure any of us have read on greek mythology.