#leuce

Don’t be ridiculous, Hec. Of course I’m not in love with that girl. Look at her and then look at me. I am a god. I am the terrifying God of the Underworld. I am a king. She is just an Oceanid. She’s not even that beautiful. She’s not on my level. She’s not even immortal. Besides, what even is "love"? I’ve never heard of it in my life. What is it, Hecate? I truly don’t know. If I were in love, I would know it. So, I’m not. Yes, that's right.

My Leuce design! In ZagWorld, Leuce is Hades' former fiancée. While she won't appear in the main story, we’ll see her through flashbacks. Hades once built a home for her in Elysium, where she eventually passed away. To honor her memory, Hades transforms her into a white poplar tree near that very house

I know I already posted this but I had it saved so you get it again xD

10000 thanks to @ibrithir-was-here for this beautiful Christmas gift! She's based off my tragic pearl of a girl interpretation for Leuce, Hades' first try at abducting a girlfriend. I have been staring at this image for hours--look at all the color! The light! The shine! GAH 🦪

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“She was a nymph, an Oceanid; a daughter of the Titan Oceanus and his wife, Tethys. Hades fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god turned her into a white poplar which he placed in the Elysian Fields. To celebrate his return from the underworld, the hero Heracles crowned himself with a branch of this tree.”

Instead of a short tragedy about the King of the Dead losing someone he loves to the Death, Riordan decided to make Hades a total idiot who went "my wife wants to kill Leuce, so instead of letting her go home i'm gonna turn her into a tree which is basically the same as dying" 😐