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War and the Underworld by themoonflower
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer
19 Sep 2022
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ACTUALLY PEAK WITH A SHIT TON ON ARES AND ALSO AN ARES/THANATOS
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Left off at work 7.
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chronological order:
Papa Ares chapters 1-3
Marked By Death (overlaps with Papa Ares chapter 3)
Ares At Troy
Papa Ares chapter 4
A Fellow Student of Death
Death and Rebirth
Papa Ares chapter 5
War in Pieces
The Stone Sorcerer -
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Thanatos—no, Lord Thanatos, he is properly his lord again—makes a soft sound, and then his gauntleted hand comes up to rest on Ares’ shoulder. “Does this mean we’re okay now, my disciple?”
“Yes, my sovereign,” Ares murmurs, and they just stay that way for a while.
Aphrodite is half right: Ares is a conqueror by nature, and truly submitting to someone else for long in any aspect of his life is antithetical to his very being—physical chains are not the only kind that he cannot abide. While his reverence for his god is real and deep, his submissiveness to his lover is a parchment-thin veneer. If his lord were to try to assert any actual dominion over him beyond acknowledging the role Ares chooses for himself and playing out its expected counterpart, he would rebel and they both know it.
What she doesn’t understand is why Ares chooses to do it anyway, polite fiction though it may be. It’s not that he wants to give up control. It’s about self-control.
Sometimes he wonders how he would have turned out if, in his youth, he hadn’t fallen for this quiet god and devoted himself to becoming worthy to offer him the reverence which only Ares seemed to recognize was his due. If he hadn’t acknowledged someone greater than himself in more than just the “I respect your authority within your own domain” sense and developed the discipline of considering someone else’s wishes alongside his own, instead of letting his own arrogance go unchecked.
A lot more like his father, no doubt.