Fields of Asphodel, etc.

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Forced into an arranged marriage with the God of the Dead, only you can decide what to make of your new life. Befriend misfit deities, repel giant attacks, find the culprit behind the river goddess’s mysterious illness, and use your powers to nudge Fate in your favor! Decide what kind of deity you want to be—whether you’ll answer prayers, how you’ll develop your powers, and what role you’ll take in governance.

Fields of Asphodel is a ‘cozy’ game—not an action-packed adventure or dramatic soap opera, it focuses on daily life and developing relationships. In fact, FoA lacks mechanical stats at all, relying instead on a system of traits and roleplaying. The romances are very light and slow burn, particularly in this first installment, and there’s a heavy emphasis on consent and self-determination, as well as platonic relationships.

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Supposing it had worked out this way, though, and the whole thing had somehow gone under Zeus's radar, I think Iasion would have been unsurprisingly a different sort of parent. Still protective as parents often are, but not to the degree that Demeter felt she had to be, because, well, the big obvious threat to the PC's well-being is not right there all the time. They'd have been raised as the only child of the king of Samothrace, which is certainly not the grandest of kingdoms but has a lot going for it, so they'd have lived comfortably, received a good education by the standards of time and place, etc.

When he got the call to go to war, he'd likely have wanted to leave them behind as the person running Samothrace in his absence, but if they insisted on going, he'd not have been able to say no (being a pushover with an adult child whose autonomy he also recognizes). The PC's gender might complicate matters here, but only slightly in terms of outside expectations and norms and the like.

As for what he did, well... he ran a kingdom? As well and generously as he could. He also built a temple to Demeter in his city and was known to make offerings and prayers there frequently, (partly because he loved her and partly in hopes that she could hear him). He also sometimes dispatched people to other locations with rumored ties to her to discover what they could. He had an inkling, of course, as to why she suddenly went no-contact, but there wasn't a lot he could do from his position.

So Alekto I think is definitely inclined to gender euphoria, though she doesn't tend to feel a lot of gender envy these days because in that respect she's exactly who and how she wants to be. She admires all kinds of femininity, but she's quite pleased with her own particular expression of it for herself. She feels particularly good when doing things like choosing her clothes for the day and combing her hair or bathing, ways of interacting with her body that are gentle and caring, but also 100% when she's having a good spar and really pressing the limits of what that body can do. She can likewise get a hit of happiness from seeing herself in either very feminine, colorful clothing or well-polished armor.

Pyri still does experience gender envy, particularly towards Charon and a little bit Hermes as well. It's not a huge or particularly heavy feeling, but it does hit them every once in a while. They're very firmly nonbinary, but conscious that they still 'read' as more feminine than they'd like. For them, the ideal situation would be one where no one has any kind of guess about their gender or thinks about it at all—while that's not really a look, per se, they think they'd get closest by being as androgynous as possible, and they'd rather lean towards masculine if they had to lean at all. But they also don't particularly want to permanently alter their body, so it's still something they're kind of in the process of figuring out.

Euphoria for them can sometimes happen if they really think they look good that day, for example, but they tend to aim more towards a sort of contentment that allows them to not think too hard about how they're reading to other people or what they're expressing, so it's more a factor of who they're with and where they are than how they look as such.

Charon is quite stably content with things, having really no sense of gender envy towards anyone. They admire people who are able to preserve a sense of who they are over a wide range of 'expressions,' such as Alekto and her comfort with both armor and very fine clothing, but they don't feel themself to be particularly lacking in this area, either. He's just generally quite settled with that aspect of his life, and he's been respected for who he is for a very long time now, which helps.

As for the cis characters, I think Hekate's made a point of considering her gender on numerous occasions, as she's firmly of the opinion that it's one of those things that might change as she does, over long centuries of evolving as a person. So far she's not really noticed anything that gives her cause to second-guess that she's a woman, and she tends to prefer expressions of gender that are more feminine, so she's comfortably but not thoughtlessly settled in her identity, while open to the thought that it might change in the future.

Hermes went through a phase in his life where he didn't think he was 'masculine enough' to fit certain standards that were foisted upon him. This was serious enough that he started to genuinely wonder if maybe he wasn't a bit nonbinary or fluid or something of that nature, but after experimenting for a bit and talking things through with people he could trust, he decided that he's probably just a guy who doesn't feel the need to be 'as masculine' as convention would dictate. He's still trying to decide whether he wants to occasionally make more femme choices in, for example, accessories, but it's not something that's usually front of mind for him at the moment, either.

I usually leave this stuff up to people's personal headcanons, but here's a 'default' option I guess, for if you don't have one:

The preference to not, y'know, actually harm someone is usually accommodated with some combination of just being light with it (and/or, e.g., scraping instead of just digging in), and also blunting them by various means, yes.

'Madness' (I don't love this as a name for the concept, but what happens doesn't really fit 'revelry' and it is a myth-accurate domain of Dionysus) is the explicitly Dionysian option, for everyone who's been asking for that over the life of the games (the wine part is already implied if you chose to help Ikarios grow wine grapes in the first place). It becomes an option if you've taken at least two of the 'Dionysian' options across the games. Currently, you can simulate this by choosing to look into the Underworld and its properties when the character builder asks what you did in the library.

That is also currently (after a fix), the way to simulate the conditions needed for the 'chaos' option, which can alternatively be gained simply by living in the Underworld full-time (or almost full time—three weeks a year on Olympus or less, basically). Chaos is the 'primordial' domain of the Underworld itself, and you need a stronger connection to it than just living there part time to tap into it in a situation like that.

For nightmares, you need to have learned a little bit of dream magic from Hypnos, which means you went to see her and didn't arrive as quickly as possible, since doing so means you wake him up prematurely and he's a bit grumpy about it and disinclined to offer extra perks. (This can be simulated by the character builder as well, by choosing to have gone at the second available opportunity rather than the first. I think it explicitly mentions learning dream magic.).

Corruption is specific to the Hekate route, and in particular, to her magic still being cursed after the final encounter with Crataeis, Kyra, and Echidna (and of course connected to yours, still). You have to tap into her power, and then choose to go further, reaching beyond what she's offering you to where she's containing that corruption in her magic. Naturally, she's going to want to discuss that afterwards.

All of these options are also only available if you go after the attackers. Madness, nightmares, and chaos can be gained either way, but if you want corruption (like vengeance), you need to go first thing, so no one is there to theoretically stop you from killing people.