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Medium Likes: Fic, art

General Likes:
- Fluff
- Pining
- Hurt/comfort
- Character/relationship development
- Age gaps
- Regency era settings
- Older characters finding love
- Forced/pretend relationship tropes
- Beards/facial hair on guys (descriptions of beard burn, finding beards attractive, etc.)
- Bara/buff guys
- Slow burn/longfics (basically don't be afraid to waffle in your fics, I love it)

Medium DNWs: Graphics

General DNWs:
- Bestiality
- Omegaverse
- Mpreg
- Heavy angst/no happy ending
- Underage (<16) characters in sexual situations (romantic okay)
- Noncon (I'm okay with all shades of dubcon)
- Body horror
- Character bashing
- Genderbending
- Cheating/infidelity in requested ships
- Poly or other ships unless requested

Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Characters/Pairings: Hades/Persephone
Fandom-specific DNWs: Mentions of them being with other partners (past relationships, especially in Hades' case, are okay), depictions of Hades and Persephone as explicitly evil entities (justifiably cruel is fine, great even).
Prompts: I love these guys more than anything so I would be happy to receive any and all fics about them! Explorations of their relationship, how Persephone came to love Hades, heck how Hades came to love Persephone (what did he see in her? Was it part of a ploy to bring about more death through Demeter's retribution? Did he ever find Persephone to be more than he bargained for?), retellings of any of their stories, AUs like modern AUs, regency AUs, or heck PWPs about their first time together or how they still find it fun to be together after all of eternity. I'm okay with darker stuff as well like Hades being more manipulative as long as his motivations are ultimately of love and Persephone is happy in the end.

Fandom: Hades (Video Game)
Characters/Pairings: Hades, Nyx/Hades, Hades/Persephone
Fandom-specific DNWs: Depictions of Hades as explicitly abusive towards Zagreus (distant, cold, callous, jerkish, fine, just not deliberately cruel), Hades 2 spoilers
Prompts:
Hades: I adore this man so much, I don't even know how to say it. Bad enough that he's Hades but his character design is so? oh my God? What an absolute specimen of a man? All this to say that I would love absolutely anything of him, especially art, because I adore him. I'd also love genfic exploring pretty much anything, like Zagreus' childhood or his relationship with Nyx before Persephone or while they raised Zagreus together

Nyx/Hades: As much as I went into this game a Hades/Persephone lover, I am also a lover of pretend relationships and oh boy is this ship a juicy one. tbh in this canon at least I love this ship even more than Hades/Persephone so if you made something of this ship for me I would owe you for the rest of my life. I like this ship best as Nyx/Hades&Hades/Persephone but Nyx/Hades/Persephone stuff is also okay as long as the focus is on the Nyx/Hades part. My cheating DNW also applies here but I'm fine with them being in a relationship during the time when Persephone had left the Underworld since she and Hades are basically separated at the time.
For actual prompts (lol sorry) I would love anything about how they officially get together, with Persephone's permission, of course. I imagine Hades is far too loyal to Persephone to even entertain the idea that he harbours any sort of feelings for Nyx even if e.g. they were sleeping together during the time Persephone was absent from the Underworld. I'd love an exploration of how he comes to terms with that or what his feelings for Nyx even are. As much as they are business partners, Nyx has deferred to Hades and helped him out a lot what with raising his son with him and all that. They also have that absolutely adorable dialogue in the post-game where Hades thanks her for everything she's done, including standing by him even when he cut ties with Olympus. Like hello? He is just so awkwardly sincere in that scene and I love it. I imagine that's what he would be like in a romantic relationship with Nyx, like way too stiff and formal in a really endearing way. Or I mean I also think they're really hot together so PWPs would be good too!

Hades/Persephone: They are so different in this game but damn are they good. Like making Hades pine long-term for Persephone? Genius, 10/10 no notes. I would love anything about them pre-canon like how they become used to the fact that this relationship has been forced between them, how Persephone came to love him, or how a relationship feels for Hades. Maybe he's just starting to get used to the fact that there's someone who loves him for all his flaws, Persephone is excited and nervous about having a baby, then Zagreus is born a stillborn and it all falls apart before his eyes. Or post-canon stuff about pretty much the same thing. Maybe Hades is even more cagey and apprehensive than before? Or is he so desperate to have Persephone that he's happy to cling on to anything she gives him right away? As long as there's a happy ending for them because, you know, I do actually love Hades.

Fandom: Arthurian Mythology
Characters/Pairings: Galehaut/Lancelot du Lac
Fandom-specific DNWs: Lancelot/Guenevere (background stuff/discussion between Lancelot and Galehaut about Guenevere/Lancelot's pining is all fine), period/religion-typical homophobia
Prompts: Exploration of any canon scenes or canon divergence! I would love a happy ending for these guys :') Galehaut deserved better, he even got erased from retellings so quick, he can have a happy ending IN MY HEART. Casual/comfort sex that's not so casual, Galehaut's declarations of love slowly winning Lancelot over, Lancelot escapes being kidnapped by Morgan just in time to confess his love to Galehaut, heck AUs where Arthur offers Lancelot to Galehaut as part of a truce, or Lancelot is Galehaut's knight from the beginning for whatever reason and there is much pining.
5-minute shitpost summary of them (since it's so hard to find their story without paying for books) here

Comments

hades/persephone || yearning & beard grooming

[muscle_wizard]

The newest item added to the House order was so small and innocuous not one shade questioned it and soon enough a small glass bottle of pure rosemary oil was sitting on Hades' desk. It was neatly tucked in to the side of his scroll with his pens and ink, doubtless ready to unleash a comedy of errors on a more foolish man. Hades pocketed it without a word and resumed an endless Hell that could only be described as clerical.

In his bedroom when he was sure to be alone, knowing Persephone would tend to her garden for hours more, enthused now that a flowering bulb had appeared, proving her right that even in this smothering darkness she could bring beautiful life into this world. He recalled her hands gently cradling the infant leaves and stalks... and all too quickly he felt the phantom brush of her fingers brushing through his beard. It was the first time she'd voluntarily touched him - carding through his thick hair delicately to find his chin. Delicate as to not hurt him, feeling how thick it was, neither the two of them speaking, lost in this new ritual of her choosing.

He wants her to do it again. Wants her this time to feel it silky and sensuous, to allow her to remind him that the desire in him has only grown dormant, that maybe with her guidance the winter chill in his body can melt away.

He unstoppers the bottle and grooms his beard with a severity that implies he will not allow one strand of hair to betray him, not the teeth of his comb, nor his large fingers who have mastered the art of holding tiny pens. The scent is warming, and trapped in his beard, he knows it will linger in his sinuses all night.

Taunting him with warmth he could only dream to feel.

Pitiful.

Hades sits in his master bedroom and waits for Persephone to come inside.