u/EeveeWantsVengence

Two in one day, apologies in advance

I've touched on Leuce before but it was time I finally gave her a look

My Leuce is quite different, mainly in the change to her relation with the Oceanides. I heard some sources link her to being related to Laurel trees as Daphne is, so I imagined her as a tree nymph from the mortal realm instead, and the Oceanides as a more modern family that likely didn't exist back then.

Her and Hades met just a few years after the war, and the two quickly became friends and soon after fell in love. All was going well until one day, when Pandora's box was opened. One of the plagues released turned into a blight that infected many groves of plant life in the mortal realm, including Leuce's home grove. As the trees wilted and withered away, Leuce's poor sisters tragically met their fates.

Seeing the damage that was killing the nymphs, Hades realised that Leuce was likely next. In his desperation to save her, he took her to the underworld which he was not yet the king of, searching for help to stop the plague, but he was too late.

He laid Leuce down in the underworld, and stayed with her as she died, accompanied by Hecate who consoled him in his grief.

Hades has struggled with his guilt over Leuce's death for centuries feeling like he failed to save her, and the trauma occasionally rears its head when he feels he is failing in his current relationships, particularly Minthe.

I promise I kissed the brick 💖

homeboy Ares' turn yaay

Ares is as always our chaos mongering bad boy with more muscles than brains, but he still hides a sweet personality behind all the bravado.

Ares is very frequently banished to the mortal realm for standing up to Zeus, leading to him having a lot of lightning scars (and other scars in general) Ares is fiercely protective of those he considers his family, even if he's brash and awkward about it.

Centuries ago it was everybody's expectation that Aphrodite would marry Hephaestus, but after a very messy split where she confessed she never wanted to be with him and subsequently admitting her feelings for Ares, safe to say the family was thrown a tad into disarray.

Ares used to be a bit of a playboy, with lovers such as Eos and several mortal women and nymphs, but he has been loyal to Aphrodite ever since she revealed her feelings to him. Together they have 4 children: Eros, Harmonia, Deimos and Phobos.

Ares does have other children, but most were mortal and passed away, much to his upset.

Decades prior to our story, Ares was banished yet again to the mortal realm and ended up on Demeter’s property, and was found by Persephone who helped him and nursed him to health. He's considered her to be like a little sister ever since (As such he takes great pleasure in annoying her)

(Tiny headcanon, Ares has Eros help him to straighten his hair because he doesn't want to look like his father.)