The image of Icarus and Moros is slowly slipping into the deepest reaches of my brain and hear me out HEAR ME OUT
Icarus died a tragic death, right? Either he got cocky and ignored his father's warning but seeing how he is in the game I can't help but think it's not hubris that lead to his death.
Maybe just maybe he was too giddy with the feeling and made a mistake. The fates decided to do that just because. They really said "he's going to feel so free, and then plummet to his death" just for shits and giggles.
And so Moros, Doom incarnate, would have been here to witness his death. To welcome him on the other side, after a tragic fall. Icarus had felt a presence while he was flying seconds before he realized the wings were melting, and doom was there, looking him straight in the eyes, a certain melancholy painted on his face. Icarus didn't have to ask, he knew that was Moros. He knew in an instant that he was going to die. And an instant later he accepted the embrace and fell to his death.
I like to think Icarus finally visits Mel at the crossroads (after some convincing) and he ends up meeting Moros there. And he remembers so vividly his presence like a cold embrace and a chill down his spine but at the time, compared to the heat of the sun and the wax melting down his back, it had almost been a welcome feeling.
Moros recognizes him too, surprisingly. Surely the embodiment of doom witnessed countless preordained deaths. Why was Icarus' special? Because he died chasing freedom, something Moros unknowingly yearned for. Of course he cared for the fates and their design, to great lengths but unadmittedly, he wondered what having the choice would be like, to be the one responsible for his own actions. And so witnessing this death... Icarus experiencing a freedom like no other, for it to be harshly taken from him. Doom couldn't help but feel remorse at such an outcome and so he remembered. He remembered the second that stretched into eternity as they stared each other down into mid air. He remembered embracing the mortal with his arms as he fell to his doom and accepted his fate.
And so when they meet again at the crossroads. Moros is surprised to see him almost whole, unlike all the other shades he had met, and so he grows curious. He eagerly asks MelinoΓ« about him and maybe will try to go out there to meet him and talk to him, maybe apologize somehow, maybe he feels guilty. I don't know there's a lot ot unpack there I need to rotate them into my brain like rotisserie chicken I have FEELINGS ABOUT THESE TWO!!! (and 3 if you count melinoe my girl has 2 hands for a reason) I think they're neat and I really wanna expand on their relationship they need to interact INEED THEM TO TALK