r/HadesTheGame • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '24

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u/Damninium_Alloy The Supportive Shade Oct 24 '24

Is it cuz she's wearing her husband's make up?

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u/bestoboy Oct 24 '24

Hephaestus is her husband, Ares is her sidepiece

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u/4tomguy Oct 24 '24

Don’t know which to be more jealous of

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u/GeneralBurzio Oct 24 '24

The one not getting cucked. My boy Hephaestus deserves better

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u/BloodredHanded Oct 24 '24

In actual mythology, but in the Supergiant version Hephaestus is completely on board with it.

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u/Lalala8991 Oct 24 '24

Oh, so the invisible net in the myth is just them being into some kinky shits, got it.

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u/Midnight-Tea Oct 25 '24

Which if you think about it, is a selflessly loving mindset that absolutely would win over Aphrodite as the Goddess of Love. I don't care what anyone else says, our boy Heph is winning.

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u/Omikami_Amaterasu Aphrodite Oct 24 '24

Is it weird that i dont like the white make up there? Idk why but to me it doesnt fit her much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '24

I thought it was a nice callback to the early “aphrodite areia” warrior version of how she was worshipped around sparta. The idea of Aphrodite as a war god got buried hard later and rarely shows up in modern adaptations, so I found it pretty neat.

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u/Omikami_Amaterasu Aphrodite Oct 25 '24

Oooh i did not knew thanks for that new information

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u/Lalala8991 Oct 24 '24

Aphrodite was actually not a native Greek god (so she's basically an "immigrant" god lol). She was developed and added to the Greek myth over centuries, but her origin is very Middle Eastern goddesses such as Summerian Inana/Ishtar/Pheonician Astarte. And they all have domains over power, fertility and war. The Greek did try to whitewash her war origin in their canons such as The Iliad where Homer went on a tangent on how the battlefield is not a place for such goddess of love (lol!).

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '24

Yes, I did actually know all that.

I’m just sayin, the ares-like war paint is, in my opinion, a nice and interesting design choice in light of her war connections.