User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Hephaestus the Hypocrite/@comment-4515675-20111120073632

I don't like how you're trying to turn Aphrodite into some victim while Hephaestus is the bad guy. First of all, I need to understand if you're talking about the gods from the series or the ones from mythology. In mythology, Hephaestus never cheated on his wife, he was a very nice god, one of the few in my opinion.

In the series, well I don't really consider it as cheating. Why? Because RR had to give Hephaestus children so he could use the demigods that come from him in the story. In other words, having children with mortals it's not necessarily something that Hephaestus would do but more like something that RR had to do in order for the plot to work.

Aphrodite on the other hand really cheats on him in both the series and mythology. Even when she's not seeing a movie start she cheats on him with his own brother, Ares. I don't really feel sorry for them at all, being all beautiful and perfect (they somewhat remind me of Jason and Piper). You can't say that Hephaestus is a hypocrite because RR needed him to have children. It's not in his character to cheat, it's just the way the author had to write it so we could have demigods from him as well.