#athena complex

This really sucks because I really wanna see their posts again (and there were two that I really really really need to see again). But if nobody reblogged then those posts are gone... forever. I have faith that people reblogged, though, I just need to find them.

If anyone has ANY post from them that they reblogged, please tell me!! Genuinely I will be so thankful.

Here are the two post I'm looking for:

One is an Athena Complex big 4 (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades) headcanons post. I think it was about them feeling/using their power for the first time. The only thing a recall concretely is Hades being oblivious af (and something to do with Cerberus). There was a panel of the character before each set of headcanons.

The other is a Hades & Poseidon & Zeus fic, and actually if I dig through my very numerous ChatGPT prompts I might find it (sorry, I think I fed the fic to AI because I loved the style so much, maybe I shouldn't have done that but if I do find it that way then I sure won't regret it) but I might not (it will also take a helluva long time 'cause I didn't name any of them) . Uhh it's kinda hard to explain the premise but what I remember is: Hades spits out bad coffee (on the stairs?) and goes to the kitchen (and sets the cup in the sink?) and lies down on the floor. I don't remember what Poseidon was doing but he also joins Hades on the floor. Zeus gets up to use the bathroom and calls out to his brothers if they're in there just in case, and Poseidon answers that they're in the kitchen on the floor and Zeus ends up joining them too. Yeah. At some point either Zeus or Poseidon narrowly avoids stepping on Hades's coffee-spit.

I loved *all* of their Greek mythology headcanons though, literally if you can find a single one please tell me.

I did a google search and found some of their not Greek mythology posts, and a couple of Gm headcanon posts which I will reblog (but on a seperate blog probably).

(I'm too scared to reach out to the bigger blogs they interacted with; some of them are restricted anyways.)

Yeah. Thank you (if you read this far lol).

I don't really have a lot of hcs about Athena Complex, so sorry that this is short /gen

Medusa and Nereus are practically Poseidon's parents. They just kinda mutually adopted him. Though Poseidon has no idea of this adoption.

Everyone is creeped out by Hermes, except Hera. Tbh, Hermes is too scared of Hera to mess with her.

Iolo is the equivalent of a tired dad.

Despite being the goddess of Victory, Nike can never win a game of chess against Athena (nor against Iolo, but it's not like she's ever going to admit that)

Sybil once gave Adrian a rabbit's foot. He still has it somewhere.

Adrian is naturally good with horses.

Adrian feels like the god's curse lifts a bit when he's around water, especially the sea.

You may be asking? Hey, hey Zesty. What the fuck is Athena Complex. Why are you fixated on it?

Athena Complex is. Complex.

Ok so like Athena has some parental (daddy) issues and projected it onto Poseidon and assumed she was in love with him. Through the sheer power of miscommunication Poseidon gets sentenced to reincarnate into a mortal for like the rest of time because he started a rebellion. Then Athena, who is like. Very much not in any sort of healthy emotional space decides that no she is not mourning him she wants revenge so she disguises herself as a teenage guy (real cisgender of you Athena but like there's also some inferiority complex about her body coming in here) and hunts down Poseidon's reincarnation to take her revenge. Something about breaking his heart through the power of really super good friendship. Adrian, who is Poseidon but not Poseidon since he doesn't remember being Poseidon, is like very confused but kinda just. Rolls with it? There's something about like a curse there but I cannot tell you the specifics of it to save my life.

The first season may be messy and the second season isn't completely perfect either, but it's entertaining.

Other things this series has to offer:

- is this family ok? NO

- the absolute most crack stuff

- really deep emotions in recent chapters (like the second season has an insane quality increase it is worth it)

- totally cishet behaviour (half of it is projection while the other half is like. Kinda right there. Its confusing)

- some really interesting and cool interpretations of the Greek gods I've never really seen before. This is coming from someone who devours Greek Mythology inspired content like I'm a vacuum and it's the little dust particles underneath furniture. For example, Apollo leans WAY more into the medicine god persona. He's more serious and older brother like. They actually treat Hera like she's complex here too. Not in a "forgive her" type of way but in like a "this is why she's like this." Actually, that's all the characters really.

- pomeranian ares (I'm not kidding)

- some really cool metaphors

- world building. Like. A lot. Mostly in the second season.