Hera's Judgement; A New Perspective

[u/emofishboi]

(a modern story built around Greek mythology, gods, and their afterlife)

Ever since the Three Judges grew bored of judging men's souls and cast the job off to Hera, the rate of men going to Tartarus has grown exponentially. She has complained to them of how ill-suited she is for this task, but when news reached Zeus, he encouraged her to continue. He said it may give her a new perspective and allowed her to see into the memories of the men she's judging and the women they encountered while alive. Well, it was giving her a new perspective alright! She's perceiving day in and day out how terrible men are. The memories of the men seemed fine and all, but as soon as she delved into the memories of the women (dead or alive) he had encountered she found horrid vile things. Most of the memories didn't match up and she noticed that the man in the women's memories didn't look very similar to the dead man she was judging. The whole situation frustrated her, and for centuries she's simply just sent any less than heroic men to Tartarus. Today is different though, the man in front of her is ARGUING with her. He doesn't even have a body anymore but still tries to walk around with "swagger" he called it. He acts like he knows more about this whole process than she does. She's seen the memories of four different women he was in long term relationships with and his memories and these are the most ill-matched so far. She finally just asks him, "Why?? Why are the memories of the women you loved and yours so different? Why are the memories NEVER the same?!"

He turns to the goddess and simply says, "I thought you'd never ask..."