#drunkflame

Heracles: Greetings, all. Welcome to the Fuck Prometheus support group meeting, where we discuss how much we want to fuck Prometheus. We have a new member today.

Melinoe: Hail. I was under the impression that this club would be where we discuss how much we want Prometheus to go fuck himself.

Heracles: Out. This support group is not for you-

Melinoe: no no

Melinoe:

some dionysus/prometheus from hades ii that I am writing because Why Not.

Prometheus looks at him cautiously while Dionysus moves around him, without touching him, knowing he wants it, he wants him. He doesn’t remember when it started; time runs really weirdly here in his little bubble. Prometheus was hurt, and Dionysus found him by chance (if chance is something that exists, which Dionysus doesn’t think at all), and helped him only because he was not supposed to. His father hates him, his family pities him, at best, but Dionysus can’t stop admiring something so beautiful, so full of spite.

“It could happen.”

“You worry too much.”

“And you don’t worry enough.”

"Well, if [Mount Olympus] is burning, baby, let it burn, I say!" !!!! WHAT!!! WHAT! HOLY FUCK! Is my crack theory that Dionysus invited Prometheus to his party because Dionysus admired him TRUE?! Does this mean that Dionysus resents his family??? That Dionysus avoids his problems??? That Dionysus is glad that Prometheus is fucking shit up??? Does this mean that Dionysus admires Prometheus for going apeshit and being an unstoppable force that is confronting the family Dionysus never dared to???

One of Dionysus’ lines, “what’s [Prometheus] gonna do, cook our meat?”, is likely a direct reference to a line from the play, The Birds, by the comic poet Aristophanes. Prometheus is featured in the play, and the main character tells Prometheus “I know we’re not supposed to like you, but thank you for giving us fire for cooking meat”, to which Prometheus says “I hate Gods”

Oh cool. A possible reference to a real play, nice.

But get this-! Remember how Dionysus saw Frinos and goes “I hope that frog doesn’t sing” as a reference to Aristophanes’ The Frogs? The time Dionysus went to the Underworld to resurrect a poet?

Well that poet was Aeschylus. Writer of Prometheus Bound.

And get this. It was said Aeschylus became a tragic poet because Dionysus showed up to him in his dreams and told him to write tragedies.

Meaning it’s very likely that it was Dionysus himself made sure Prometheus Bound got written. THE play that is the reason Prometheus is remembered fondly as a hero rather than a traitor.

Then there’s the Aesop legend where Dionysus got Prometheus drunk on nectar before work and that’s how Prometheus accidentally made queer people, but I choose not to regard it since it’s clearly for giggles— how is Dionysus there if there are no mortals yet and he’s half mortal? Anyway.

I’m also thinking about a new line in the update. In the game, Prometheus states how he admires mortals for striving for perfection despite their short, painful lives. In turn, in the update, Heracles talked about how Dionysus doesn’t care for perfection as he understands that it can never be achieved, which is why he parties all the time.