#zarex

Like come on

"I'm so sorry your dad is so terrible, honey. Wanna live on my sacred Island instead?"

And he saved her sisters too???? And turned them into goddesses????

And he was rising their son himself???

And apparently Apollo had no problem with Rhoeo marrying his apprentice??? And Zarex adopted Anius??? And they had 2 more childern??? (I saw the 2 extra children only being mentioned on Wikipedia tho, so if anyone have other source talking about them please share with me 🙏🏻)

Also, Zarex was grandson of Chiron and Chariclo who is said to be Apollo's daughter (in some versions of the myth at least) which makes Apollo Zarex's great grandfather.

And Anius later become the king of Delos (you know the same island where Apollo WAS BORN) and also his father's priest 🥺🥺🥺

Why is no one talking about this??? Look I love Hyacinthus, Cyrene and Admetus, but we're sleeping on some good stories.

Anyway, Rhoeo is now on my top 5 Apollo's lovers list. Slay queen

mythology aesthetics

RHOEO, ANIUS, & ZAREX

Finally! The 12x12 sprite requests are open!

How it looks: Main stats: Character Main weapon (if got any) Passive skill(s) Active skill

Additional stats (optional) Personal ship Body shape Special items Gender (if it’s unnoticeable or smth) Traits And else… How it writes:

Character: Zarex in armor “The awesome hero in awesome armor” Main weapon: The Sol “Ultimate melee multifunctional sword” Passive: The Void Vessel “No one knows what that means, but it sounds cool” Active: NONE “This item shines with nothing!” Ship: Zag “Personal small ship fits 2 persons. Or just one LARGE person”

Here they are!!!

Their myth is super underrated so for those of you who never heard about them I made a post talking about their story -> Rhoeo's Myth

Quick summary: Rhoeo was Apollo's lover, he saved her life when her father wanted to kill her. Anius was their son, he was raised by Apollo and later became king of Delos and Apollo's priest. Zarex was Apollo's apprentice and he later married Rhoeo and adopted Anius

Those Rhoeo and Zarex's designs are showing them at the begining of the story, around the time Rhoeo was pregnant, I see them being in their early 20s back then. Zarex would 100% grow a beard as he got older (maybe I'll draw them older one day)

Anius is 15 yo here.

And now the headcanons!

• Rhoeo was a great musician, she had a beautiful voice and could play many instruments. It's the reason Apollo fell for her.

• Anius was born prematurely, that's why Rhoeo prayed to Apollo to save him.

• When Apollo was taking care of baby Anius, Zarex was making sure Rhoeo was doing allright and feeling comfortable on Delos, they bonded over their love for music.

• After almost dying when she was thrown to the sea in a wooden chest, Rhoeo was afraid of both water and small spaces, which made her avoid coming to the beach (which was a nightmer since Delos is a small island). Sometimes she would have nightmers about being traped in a chest again, it would cause her to wake up in the middle of the night and even tho her room was quite big she would feel trapped and go sleep rest of the night outside. Apollo and Zarex would try their best two help her overcome her traumas.

Zarex: but why? Why tough??

Mee: Because it's real FUN!

Zarex: How fortunate that I'm into this too, little brother.

Zarex is my third main OC, in fact TWO OC's : First (psycho), and True (hero)

Today I'll tell you about the True one.

His full name is Zarex Malvere, son of Derek Malvere - the great adventurer! But actually Z (pronounced zet) didn't know about his father until became The Void Vessel, as Derek was.

In the one of crew's adventures, the First Zarex appeared and asked the True one to do a duel. The True one got victorious, and after this the crew decided to throw the glitch out of their world, into the place he came from: the storage of deleted files.

First Zarex was a real cheater, and was punished for it, and deserved the deletion from my hard drive.

It all happened in Terraria, and all the Z's knew that they are in the game, but didn't know that they were under someone's control.

But in the last few seconds in the ritual of deleting, the First Zarex ripped the ropes that were holding him and attacked the True Z. In the middle of the battle, they both stepped into ritual circle and... Looks like nothing bad happened, and the glitch was deleted, but he actually stuck inside of the True Zarex's body... Well, only the soul was stuck, the body completely disappeared. And now he's like a parasite that were both an enemy and helper, because double thinking is good, right?