I know! In my story hes a problem drinker, and when Persephone leaves the Underworld for six months of summer he goes on a bender and forces all the souls of the dead to return to earth. And then, BOOM! Zombies.
And Artemis and Apollo are sharing an apartment in New York City, where she attends a slam poetry group and he stays inside all day playing his guitar and wooing persons of indeterminate genders. And Hephaestus is living in an alleyway with three cats because the other Olympian gods always make fun of him.* (The whole thing is narrated by Athena**, who thinks that all her relatives are completely nuts. Except for her dad, because since she popped fully-formed out of his head she's unable to see that the Great and Powerful Zeus is now that creepy old guy who sits in mall food courts and waggles his tongue at underage girls.***)
* This is actually true- Hephaestus was ugly and had a bad leg, so all the other gods laughed at him. That was why he tended to stay under Mount Aetna.
** I am basing her off of Nancy Drew. That whole "plucky heroine who loves her dad and, despite being subversive in a lot of ways, still basically enforces traditional societal norms" thing.
*** I say "now", but he really always was. He was just more inventive about it in the Mycenaean Age.
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on 2007-03-24 01:19 am (UTC)And Artemis and Apollo are sharing an apartment in New York City, where she attends a slam poetry group and he stays inside all day playing his guitar and wooing persons of indeterminate genders. And Hephaestus is living in an alleyway with three cats because the other Olympian gods always make fun of him.* (The whole thing is narrated by Athena**, who thinks that all her relatives are completely nuts. Except for her dad, because since she popped fully-formed out of his head she's unable to see that the Great and Powerful Zeus is now that creepy old guy who sits in mall food courts and waggles his tongue at underage girls.***)
* This is actually true- Hephaestus was ugly and had a bad leg, so all the other gods laughed at him. That was why he tended to stay under Mount Aetna.
** I am basing her off of Nancy Drew. That whole "plucky heroine who loves her dad and, despite being subversive in a lot of ways, still basically enforces traditional societal norms" thing.
*** I say "now", but he really always was. He was just more inventive about it in the Mycenaean Age.