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Harmonia and Her Loved Ones

So, in my universe, she's the eldest child of Ares and Aphrodite (and twin to Himeros), but her story is generally very… um, yeah.

The first art shows her and her beloved Cadmus, second shows a bit about her children. Basically, no one got a good ending.

Did gods and Universe just hate Harmonia??? Or maybe because she represented harmony and peace bothered them because Olympus has no chill???

Literally on her wedding day she got a gift from her husband made by Hephaestus - a robe and a necklace. A CURSED NECKLACE that literally led to the destruction of this entire family for generations. Why? Because Heph is still angry that Aphrodite "betrayed" him when he forced her into the relationship. Boyyyyyyyyy!

I feel so sorry for Harmonia. Her grandmother (Hera) indirectly killed her daughter Seleme who was in a relationship with her grandfather (Zeus) and pregnant with Dionysus. Then her second daughter, Ino who took Dionysus under her care also experienced Hera's wrath for it, because why not. Goddness drove her granddaughter's husband (Athamas) mad and he killed their older son (Learchos) so Ino jumped into the sea from a cliff to save herself and her younger son (Melicertes). Poseidon turned them into sea gods, so profit. Agaue, another daughter, was stunned by Dionysus and led in killing the King of Thebes - Pentheus. Did I mention that he was her own son? Imagine waking up from a trance and seeing your son's torn body and blood on your hands. The fourth sister Autonoe helped Agaue kill her son, her nephew, and then Autonoe's son was torn apart by his own dogs. It happened when Artemis turned him into a deer when he UNWITTINGLY saw her naked in the forest. And finally Polydorus, the last child and only son of Harmonia and Cadmus… who actually nothing happened to. He was supposed to die on a hunt so… maybe that's it? But apart from their direct children, do I have to remind you of the whole story of King Oedipus and his family who are descendants of Harmonia? No one ends well there! And when the necklace was finally consecrated in Delphi, in the temple of Athena… the tyrant Phayllus decided to steal it for his beloved. And how did it end? Their son went mad and killed his entire family after burning down his house. Bravo!!