Zeus allows Hercules to return with Meg, but he doesn’t make him a mortal. Herc thinks he’s got the best of both worlds. He gets divinity and the girl. And everything is great, for a while. But Meg keeps getting older, while Hercules stays the same. He has to watch the beautiful, vibrant woman he fell in love with grow old and weak, and finally die. But now Meg is in Hades’ clutches, who has a habit of keeping grudges. And no one ever cheats death twice.
well, um, you may not have known this about me 'cause i try to keep it a secret, but i actually can't resist a good hercules prompt. and then i see this "ASAP PLZ" and this "epic," and i'm like, i'm having so much fun reading WiPs on this site that i may as well give one a try! this has the most plot that i've ever written in ANYTHING, so it's gonna be a doozy, and i'm loving it so far! i hope you do too
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she woke up, or something, she didn't know, to the one face she never wanted to see again. "do you even know how much i hate you?"
"whoa whoa whoa. whoa. is that any way to talk to the guy who single-handedly plucked you out of tartarus? not to mention made you young and hot again?" hades smiled down at her, his favourite minion
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Thank you for filling! I adore your style, particularly concerning anything Hercules, which you seem to be fond of. I love how you included facets of the less-than-Disney version(hints at a Zeus who has a casual attitude towards monogamy, Persephone), and I can't wait to see what you do with it.
Re: "eternity" (2/?)planesandcranesJuly 1 2011, 00:10:56 UTC
honestly, i haven't even replied to your last comment because i wasn't sure how because it was too nice and now this! just! thank you so much! thank you so incredibly! your comments mean the world to me, you're just TOO KIND. <3
just something like a disclaimer here: the idea that persephone actually really likes being with hades isn't something i made up all on my own, it was actually inspired by a fanfic i read quite some time ago, called "hope springs eternal: a subterranean romance," which is pretty much as perfect as fanfic can get, holy geez. it's amazing. anyway, this persephone is all mine, in fact, i was going to make her a bit closer to myth/other fanfic, but she just wouldn't shut up, and suddenly she'd become someone of her own accord. you go, underworld-queen! assert yourself
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no excuse for leaving olympus would have been satisfied persephone's mother, and hercules wasn't sure what kind he could use, either. he had no one to visit on earth anymore, his foster parents and phil long gone. and he wasn't really a celebrity down there anymore, just another deity. instead of asking him for his autograph, now people visited him in the temples, asking his statues, mostly, to keep the ones they loved close to them
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the first time hercules entered the underworld, he'd been so overcome with -- everything he could have possibly been overcome with, that he didn't really pay much attention to it as a place. now, though, he was trying so hard to drown out his own thoughts that he should not be doing this, that this was a bad, bad idea, that he tried to soak in everything. the sudden chill that struck him, the way the wind must have felt for meg, like knives on his skin. he looked up and saw what looked like icicles, dripping something. he didn't know what it was, really, but it felt like despair. it was so dark he couldn't see where he was going, but persephone held his hand, pulling him along, as she was "the official guide to the underworld, though i'll save you the spiel
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she wanted nothing more than to run to him. she wanted to fling herself at him and hold onto him and never let go, to kiss him fearlessly and forever
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holy geez, i'm sorry! i'm so late! i had to travel for a family emergency, and a lot of things just happened. HOWEVER, i've totally finished this! and though it's probably not even two thousand words, it's the most i've written since nanowrimo 2009, so THANK YOU. i hope you like it. (:
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persephone had never seen anyone like megara. truthfully, though, she hated to admit, she didn't know many people at all, so maybe everyone fascinated her, but megara fascinated her
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Re: "eternity" (8/8!)athena799July 19 2011, 08:40:40 UTC
Lovely! I absolutely love your style, and you're quite identifiable by the non-capitalization quirk ;)
At the very end I was reminded of how Hercules in Greek Mythology did actually half live in the underworld and half on Olympus, because he was half god. It rather works, doesn't it?
Re: "eternity" (8/8!)planesandcranesJuly 19 2011, 20:24:10 UTC
thank you so much for all your sweet, sweet reviews! they really made my day. (:
i had to lol about the non-capitalization thing because it's like...i know it looks unprofessional and i want to fix it but...i just think it's weird how much bigger the capital letters are than all the others! i'm so strange! :p
and...i didn't even think of that...that's so cool! thank you for reminding me! i absolutely love your username as well, athena is my favourite. (:
Zeus allows Hercules to return with Meg, but he doesn’t make him a mortal. Herc thinks he’s got the best of both worlds. He gets divinity and the girl. And everything is great, for a while. But Meg keeps getting older, while Hercules stays the same. He has to watch the beautiful, vibrant woman he fell in love with grow old and weak, and finally die. But now Meg is in Hades’ clutches, who has a habit of keeping grudges. And no one ever cheats death twice.
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"whoa whoa whoa. whoa. is that any way to talk to the guy who single-handedly plucked you out of tartarus? not to mention made you young and hot again?" hades smiled down at her, his favourite minion ( ... )
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that was a way of saying my life revolves around it without making me sound crazy. thank you! :p
thank you so so so much. i'm so happy you like it!
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Yeah. I'm rendered inarticulate by your awesome.
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persephone had never seen anyone like megara. truthfully, though, she hated to admit, she didn't know many people at all, so maybe everyone fascinated her, but megara fascinated her ( ... )
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At the very end I was reminded of how Hercules in Greek Mythology did actually half live in the underworld and half on Olympus, because he was half god. It rather works, doesn't it?
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i had to lol about the non-capitalization thing because it's like...i know it looks unprofessional and i want to fix it but...i just think it's weird how much bigger the capital letters are than all the others! i'm so strange! :p
and...i didn't even think of that...that's so cool! thank you for reminding me! i absolutely love your username as well, athena is my favourite. (:
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