Aeneas worst nightmare

From as far as I can tell, loving a mortal was fine, but marrying them wasn't really preferred and seems to even cause the God a bit of embarrassment. At least for Merope (the Pleiad) it did:

"Others think that Merope appears to blush because she had a mortal as husband, though the others had gods. Driven from the band of her sisters because of this, she wears her hair long in grief, and is called a comet, or longodes because she trails out for a long distance, or xiphias because she shows the shape of a sword-point. This star, too, portends grief." - Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 192

This is due to them being, well mortal, so they'd eventually die. It's why some of the Gods will try immortalizing their spouses (usually while they are still beautiful)

But other times they won't (maybe can't? idk it's interestingly strange) such is the case here (or that one version Iasion lives and he grows old with Demeter by his side)

Then again, laying with a mortal could also cause shame:

"Some call the seventh Sterope, and relate that she became invisible from shame, because she alone among her sisters had had intercourse with a mortal man" -Theoi summary section

so It's kinda up in the air/depends on the individual God ig lol

I should make a post on this subject but that's another side project I'll push back for months and maybe forget about ANYWAY

Back to the couple at hand:

I'm stealing Merope's lore a bit lol

I still like my HC that Elektra meets Corythus during and Etruscan festival. That's just fun to me lol. I'll say he's in his mid to late twenties when they first meet. Then Corythus would ask Elektra to marry him one day and she accepts.

Maybe this is after Merope's own marriage, which effects Elektra's feelings, making her feel embarrassed to be married to a mortal too. (Idk I'll figure it out) Regardless, Elektra starts feeling embarrassed about her marriage. I don't think she'd act in grief like Merope does.

I think she slowly starts to physically distance herself from Corythus, returning to her home in Samothrake for a few days and that drawing out to months, then years.

The entirety of Corythus' thirties are lonely due to his wife being away. He falls into a depression maybe and his friends have to help him out of it.

A line from Theoi reads "The rising of the Pleiades in Italy was about the beginning of May, and their setting about the beginning of November."

...that man would be looking at those stars every night just to get a glimpse of her ACK

Anyway, when she does visit, I do think she stays for about a week (can't be too cruel and have her just show up for an afternoon and then leave) and so she visits him after being gone for two years, Corythus being about 39-40 by now. But then Elektra returns a few months later, during a festival no less, to Corythus' surprise and joy.

This is when she tells him the news that she's pregnant... but also the news that she had an affair with Zeus.

(Because this is the story line that Iasion is son of Corythus and Dardanus of Zeus; why not still have them as twins lmao, this isn't the first time twins have been born like this in myth lol)

Ik Elektra could just play it off as being purely Corythus' children, but I like drama lol. Their relationship clearly isn't strained enough obviously lolol.

Probably gonna divide this post for another in how that whole business when down, especially because I have Elektra actually stay with Corythus during her pregnancy. I never wanted them to have an angry fallout, and they don't. Still making Corythus upset, but I genuinely do want them to have a positive time together during Elektra's pregnancy honestly.

Especially when Elektra does leave again when the children are born. Yep. (This is also why this needs to be another post because I can't find the words to explain them and their feelings at the moment XD ) But Elektra is extremely maternal. She loves her kids, she wouldn't leave them. So she takes em with her. Yep. Corythus is alone again.

I have their dialogue in my head actually lol of Elektra saying she wishes to raise Dardanus in Samothrake and Corythus being "Oh, uh, sure.." then Elektra says she's taking Iasion too because she can't separate the two of them. The interaction ends with Elektra promising to give Iasion to Corythus when he's half of age to maturity so that he can be raised in the culture of Etruria (since he's the only heir; and Corythus is old.. so yknow politics)

I'm pretty excited over the dialogue in my head lmfao

So Corythus would have to wait until Iasion is about 8-9 years old

In the drawing I made of Corythus and Elektra, Corythus is now 60 years old (making Iasion to be in his twenties) so he's close to death in the age expectancy of Ancient Greece. So now with all the children grown (Iasion, Dardanus, Harmonia), Elektra now starts worrying over Corythus' mortality.

I think this would be a panicking phase for Elektra. She'd start visiting more and staying for longer, looking after his health. She'd gain heavier guilt for not loving him more, burdening them both with shame. She can't make up for all the time they've lost together, but she wants to give as much love as she can before he dies.