March open

[inthenameofhades]

Who: Zagreus and you!
When: After the Eplum event
Where: Horizon (& Zagreus's Domain specifically)
What: Zagreus finally visits Horizon
Warnings: NA

Immediately upon his arrival to Horizon, Zagreus's appearance had altered to align much more closely to how he appeared at home: red and black exomis adorned with three canine skulls on one shoulder, a belt made of more skulls, arms adorned with golden bands. And around his head a crown of fiery, ever-burning laurels. The only difference was the now the symbol of the Chariot had been etched into the metal greaves he wore above his fiery feet.

Driven by the compulsion to create, he had also swiftly begun construction of his Domain: a space for which the most immediately notable feature was the river of blood surrounding it. Perhaps you will dare to attempt to cross it.

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Comments

[monomachy]

Diana takes a few moments to collect herself, swiping her hands across her cheeks to dry them. Few of these portraits look similar to the marble statues peppered across her domain, mirrors to the ones on Themyscira, but she can see some parts of the stone depictions in these portraits. Maybe she's fooling herself into it, but it's a comfort to see that some things are consistent across worlds.

When she feels ready, she turns to Zagreus and smiles, full of warmth and gratitude. "I would like that. I would be glad to know of them, even a little."

[inthenameofhades]

He gives her a bittersweet smile, and lets her take the moment to gather herself. He has never lost his entire family like she did, but...he knew how it felt to find his Mother, after a lifetime of separation. He knew what it was like to be desperate for information, to find that lost connection.

"Do you know that they all helped me? The Olympians," he says, gesturing towards the painting of them all. "I was...wanting to get away from Father. Find answers. Find someone who had been missing in my entire life. But escaping from the Underworld isn't easy. Meant to be impossible, actually.

"But they helped me. Gave me their blessings, and their boons of power. None of them had ever met me, but they knew I was family. They wanted me to join them. Our family...our family has a lot of faults. Gods can be ugly, at our worst. But they all showed me great kindness, and...I'll always be grateful to them for that."