As Someone Who Hates Zombie And Zombie-adjacent Media, As Well As Video Game Culture, I Absolutely Love

okie say what you will about arcane s2 but Ekko is the goat, king among plebeians, hero in a sea of messes

Ah how the ocs grow

Well, look at that, me regularly posting the next chapter within 3 days. Shocked myself to be honest. 

I don’t know what spurred me on to full on start writing this fic and it got longer and more large scale than I thought but hey I’m in for the ride Though in truth I blame @shima-draws for this I’m tagging you this time too since I really want you to see this part :) I am happy that it was well received. I really wasn’t expecting anyone to read it XD

Hope everyone enjoys reading!

As I promised, here is Kadin Crescent. I FINALLY decided to draw him; Awkward, adorable Kadin.

I’m rising from the dead just to say how dare this post

That awkward moment when the single instance in this show so far of a relatively stable society in an apocalypse is a communist town.

Voltron Characters Summed Up In 1 Sentence

Takashi Shirogane: We all know the original plan for me was to stay dead after season 2 and in hindsight that would have been better than dealing with what comes in later seasons.

Keith Kogane: I might be the only somewhat well developed character in this show simply because of how much I change for the better while everything else is either rushed or confusing.

Lance McClain: I am the only normal Paladin who isn’t insanely smart or an alien, maybe a little annoying, and all I wanted was to live a peaceful life with Allura and I sTiLl cOuLd nOt hAvE tHaT.

Katie “Pidge” Holt: I causally hack into alien technology I barely know about because we all know that I am the smartest and most capable person in existance. 

Hunk Garrett: I actually am a cinnamon roll that thankfully got some characterization squeezed in at the last two seasons of the show. 

Allura: I have suffered all my life and instead of actually getting to balance my character’s suffering and have a satisfying or happy ending, which you know, is what good writing actually is, I die in favor of fixing a genocidal killer’s mistakes.

Coran: My goofy nature makes you forget that I am literally millennia older than all the Paladins, Allura included, and despite being one of the most lighthearted characters in the show, I still lose the only family I have left.  

Romelle: I was brave, courageous, and quick thinking in season 6 but soon became useless and irrelevant, basically Allura’s sidekick. 

Lotor: I’m an abuse victim that unsurprisingly went down a dark path in life and in the end I never got a chance at redemption. 

Matt Holt: I was teased for like 4 seasons and when I finally hit the stage, all of you loved me.

Acxa: I randomly got a shoehorned redemption “arc” in season 7 and was barely present to help the Coalition at all in season 8.

Krolia: No I won’t ever say my husband’s name on screen and no I will not explain the meaning of the name “Yorak”. 

Honerva: I am the definition of selfishness, and I don’t own up to the fact that Alfor was right and had I listened to him and not got overworked on quintessence I actually could have had a life and family with Lotor and Zarkon. 

Zarkon: I am the definition of a big fat mess, and don’t do quintessence kids. 

I might do more characters later :PPPPP

Okie so hot take: I don’t think Melinoë is as good of a protagonist as Zagreus. And here’s why.

It all comes down to motivation. Why did Zag go through the events of Hades 1? Because he was living in an abusive and volatile household and had to find some way to make things better for not just himself but his house. Otherwise he surely would have lost his mind having to deal with the abuse he got (remember at the beginning of the game basically only Nyx and Achilles were helping him. Everyone else is either neutral towards him or outright hostile). He needed answers, he needed to find out who and what he was by trying to find Persephone. And in the end he succeeded and was able to create a better life for himself and his house. Hell, even his relationship with his dad improved.

Now let’s look at Mel (yes this criticism is only addressing Early Access Hades 2). Why is she going through the events of Hades 2? Because… she’s been groomed since basically birth to kill Chronos. She doesn’t really have any other motivation than because it is what is expected of her essentially. She even says during her confrontation with Chronos, AFTER HE THREATENS TO HURT HER FAMILY, what do I care I barely know them (yeah sure she could just be bluffing to Chronos but that is still a very chilling thing to say when supposedly all of this is to save them and it makes her reunion with Hades lowkey ring hollow or weak). In another scene she even says the same thing to Hecate and says Hecate is more her mother than anyone else. Heck even in the flashback scene with young Mel and Hecate (which was very cute I’ll admit) she says she would want her mother to come back so Hecate isn’t sad. This makes all her motivations to kill Chronos and save the Underworld seem very… disconnected from the main component of the game? Being saving the house of hades and her family??

Like it’s expected of her and she was raised at birth to basically be prepared for this but she doesn’t have any personal reasons for doing any of this than just not letting Hecate and the others in the Crossroads down. Hell when she comes back from killing Chronos for the first time it honestly feels like Hecate is more interested and invested in what happened than Mel herself.

It makes her a really weird protagonist especially when comparing to her brother and how effective he was as a protagonist. Think about it, with Zag we got really in depth and character revealing moments where as the player we understand why he is doing all of this and so it is easy to go along for the ride because we like Zag and want to help him. Mel says she cares a lot about what is going on and wants revenge, but it all feels surface level (and which is understandable she doesn’t know these people, all she can say is “the titan took my family” when let’s be real she sees the people in the crossroads as more of her family). It honestly just seems like because she is expected to kill Chronos since she could think, she feels she has to do all this. It feels weird how she is disconnected from the core point of the game being to save the house of hades when Zag was so integral to that same core point in the first game.

I dunno, just my thoughts, I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks.

Edit: just fyi cause I feel with the comments I’ve been getting from my posts, I like hades 2 I am excited especially for the official release. I recognize my criticism/analysis could be wrong or out of date since the game isn’t finished yet. These are just my initial thoughts.

Finally colored young Eclipsa in! 
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And then he did

odysseus to palamedes the moment he's forced on the boat taking him to war

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