Ares

I personally don’t know, I would hate to have really any of the Olympians as a parent. Like if I was a son of Aphrodite I would probably ask Chiron if I could sleep outside in a tent. I would hate to be a child of Ares because I am only a violent person when provoked and my siblings would make fun of me for it, which would lead to me bashing their brains in. It’s the same for most of the gods, like Demeter(never one for plants), Apollo(he doesn’t give a dam about his kids), Athena(cold hearted and prideful, and all the rest of them. The only god whom is not half bad a parent is Poseidon. The only god I would love to have as a parent is Hestia(she would have to adopt me), because she’s all around amazing, plus I dream of going to culinary school one day so that would only help.

I put this as a reply but I wanted more people to see it so:

A child of Ares, a son of Aphrodite, and a daughter of Athena as a group on a quest. The child of Ares and daughter of Athena would constantly be bickering like a couple who has been married for 50 years and I could see the son of Aphrodite and daughter of Athena having an enemies to lovers if you wanted. The child of Ares could also low-key despise the son of Aphrodite because they sorta like the daughter of Athena but eventually go from enemies to friends to partners in crime. This would work even better when you look at their godly parents. First of, Athena and Ares. They don't have the same mom but are always bickering and acting like siblings. I could see the child of Ares and the daughter of Athena developing a similar relationship. The parents represent two sides of the same drachma because they are both war gods but have very different approaches to war. Ares is all about blood and violence but Athena always takes the more strategic route. I could also see the kids being similar with A (The child of Ares because I'm tired of writing so much. It's supposed to be summer and I'm supposed to be sleeping) always trying to kill anything in a 5-mile radius and B (The Daughter of Athena) always taking like three years to come up with a plan but it almost always works. The son of Aphrodite is the one I'm probably most excited about. The only real example (Ones that we know well) of a child of Aphrodite we have are all girls. This means that you have a lot of space to expand on and experiment. Really the only kids of Aphro that we see are overly feminine and a bully (Drew) or overly tomboy-ish and an MC (Piper). This gives you room for a nice in-between. The son of Aphrodite could love make-up and dressing up but always hate it when people assume he is shallow. (why did I make this so long) His fatal flaw could be insecurity and he would always try not to wear make-up because everyone outside his cabin always teased him about it. The others wouldn't know and would make fun of him (Teasingly) about being a son of Aphrodite when really it's mostly girls. Eventually, A and B would learn about him being insecure and I could see the child of Ares (honestly I've been here for half an hour) promising to kill those people while the daughter of Athena is trying to buy some more make-up for the son of Aphrodite but learning they don't accept drachma as currency and not stealing because morals. The child of Ares just straight up yoinks the make-up 'cause ScrEW MoRaLs. This could be a great dynamic between these and I could write more but I need to be a human being and eat.

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I don't know if this counts as fanfiction post. But when your creating a team that will be a trio like Percy, Annabeth and Grover, how do you come up with their godly parents {Do you do opposite domains, similar domains, gods associated with eachother}? Can someone write a good trio for a child of Ares

You became a god/Goddess?

I say I'm new but I just mean to this site. I've read the books and everything. Except for the ones on Magnus Chase. Here are a few things about me:

Name: Echo357

Nickname: Echo

Gender: Female (straight)

Age: Over 15 but under 18. I'll let you guess or whatever

Parent: If Atemise has children then I'd be her daughter but I'd be the daughter of Ares

Books or Movies: Okay so don't kill me. I actually like the movies but I love the books.

Favorite book: The Lightning Thief. Mostly because it's how it all got started and I love how Percy is confused about everything.

Weapon: My weapon would be bow and arrow but I just got a new dagger and I tested it out for knife throwing and I did pretty well.

Thats my new dagger

So, I may or may not have built Camp Half-Blood in one of my Minecraft worlds... ;>

IT LOOKS SO COLL THOUGH!!!!!! I got, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, Dionysus, Hades, Iris, Hypnos, Nemesis, and still adding more!!!!

I don’t know what sentence I should use to start this. Ares is mostly described as a mean god and a sword-swinger. Ares literally hates me since I’m an Athena child (that’s in my username, so go figure), but I still think Ares needs some backup. In the post that @SayuriDarling did about Ares vs. Athena (that was a l-o-n-g time ago if you remember) there was a few...nasty comments about Ares. I think Ares’s brutal attitude was inherited from his parents, Zeus and Hera (well, both are grumpy most of the time). I mean, Ares isn’t a bad guy and is willing to fight for Olympus at (add: almost) any cost.

Poseidon

Ares

Zeus

I think it's between Poseidon and Zeus. In mythology, they were both r*pists, sexist, Ares stood up for his daughter when she got r*ped, is literally the only feminists god, and would overall be a better dad. He wasn't just a bully who cared about war and bloodshed

I searched in love with percy just for fun, to see what sould come up, and

Hear me out for a bit here.

I say this because:

1) For most of the fight Ares was pushing him back and he had the upper hand

2) He had the sea with him. This doesn't speak for his swordplay skills.

3) The 'Ares is a god' argument isn't correct either. He wasn't going all out, and he was fighting at the level of the most skilled human swordsmen, not as a god.

4) Percy defeated Ares with brains, not strength.

Waiting for lots of hate...

What characters in Greek myths do modern authors/filmmakers always seem to get wrong? Part 1

Mainstream media has a tendency to twist up original characters to form a whole different plot for their stories. Here are the ones I think are the most used or twisted:

Hades- Films such as Disney's Hercules (for the record, if the rest of the gods are Greek then Hercules (Roman) should be Heracles) portrays Hades as a character who's vengeful, evil, and wants to overthrow Zeus to become the King of the Gods. When in Ancient Greek, he couldn't be bothered by that stuff, it just simply didn't matter to him. Sure, he had to get the Underworld because it was assigned to him in a game, but I'm pretty sure he was content with his job. Another reason he's seen as evil is because he seems to have the goth stereotype on him in every movie. Now I can't say that he's goth or not, but one thing's for sure: goth ≠ evil. He's cold and distant but he is a lot better than his two brothers.

Ares- In the films that he has been portrayed in, particularly Wonder Woman, they show Ares to be some tactical war general (which is typically his Roman form, Mars) and seen to be some kind of genius in strategy. But in reality, he was actually a brute who picked fights with anyone he wanted to. And although I personally don't believe he's a coward in the sense, he was a bit of a wimp in the reasoning that he's a sore loser. He's like a bully that loses over and over again. The tactical side of war was Athena's job.

The Amazons- The Amazons are always seen as bad*** warriors who don't let men shove them around. But in reality, they were barbaric soldiers who killed men and enslaved them simply for being men and waged meaningless wars with a lot of kingdoms. Think Ares but he's multiplied and all female. Pretty much as lame as Ares can get but they're seen as these all powerful warriors. They are sexists and they are no better than the patriarchal society they live in. Not to mention a lot of films and books depict them as the children of Ares who worshipped him when in the myths, they were enemies of him (because he's a male).

Poseidon-The God of the Seas, especially in the Riordanverse, is depicted as some chill, cool person who's apparently at liberty to judge Zeus. But he is a very vengeful god. I would say his anger issues are greater than that of Zeus. I've already discussed how I think Poseidon is put in an undeserving good light in media so I'll leave this here. Don't forget the Seas are dangerous and far from "chill".

Persephone- Persephone is usually seen as some sweet, naive girl who hated her husband for kidnapping her. But she is the Queen of the Underworld. Her innocence died when she got the role. She's also assumed to hate her husband for kidnapping her, sure it was something scary to go through, but she did love her husband later on and both stayed very devoted to each other.

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Sources/Credits: Basically any movie I mentioned and the internet

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Let me know what you think.

-Wirelo

Chief Journalist: Daily Olympus

I don't think Ares is a good or bad god.

Ares is a god of war, he's literally war. His name means ruin, bane and he's headstrong, brave, and fearless. None of the Ancient Greeks needed another god of war. The goddess of war, Athena, represented the tactical side of war. The one that fought with empathy and honor. Whereas Ares fought simply for the love of bloodshed and violence.

The hatred of Ares shows us who the Ancient Greeks were, no they weren't looking for unending peace or eternal harmony or anything, but they despised the side of war which was simply mindless brutality which is exactly what Ares embodies.

It's also important to note that Ares was never the first person on the battle field, he was only called in mid-battle. He also never attacked unless provoked.

Now, I can understand if you find this odd, but I actually can excuse Ares for his actions. Every god that you see in mythology, does exactly what they are the god of. Artemis hunts and protects and has something to do with the moon. Apollo also hunts, plays music, deals with medicine, and has something to do with the sun. Poseidon takes care of the seas, earthquakes, hurricanes and natural disasters of the sort. So why is it that Ares shouldn't kill savagely? Why shouldn't he love the disturbing part of war? That is what he is the god of. Yes, it's immoral and wrong, but it's nothing new for the gods. The minute Ares was born, he was destined to do that right? Why shouldn't he?

I think the fact that he never attacked unless provoked shows at least some level of control for a god of war. I mean, what kind of person would you be if you provoked a god, especially one of the 12 olympians.

The Ancient Greeks didn't worship him before war, they worshipped Athena. I don't know exactly if he was hated or not but I know he wasn't respected cause he wasn't needed. The gods obviously didn't like him either, Zeus said if Ares were not Hera's son, he would banish him into Tartarus deeper than the Titans.

So all in all, I don't think Ares is good or bad, he just is.

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Of course, when I say opinionated things like this, it's only to share my opinion and to see what you guys feel about it. This particular post doesn't have any source/credits cause it's just how I feel.

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With something to think about,

-Wirelo

Chief Journalist: Daily Olympus

Is Aphrodite completely at fault for cheating on Hephaestus?

Now, right off the bat, I want to clarify that cheating is absolutely not ok. But when we're talking about Aphrodite and Hephaestus's marriage, then I kind of have to give a sort of exception.

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When Aphrodite arrived on Mount Olympus, there was a whole lot of attention drawn towards her. So much that all the male gods flirted with her, the female ones got jealous, and the entire cycle. To call attention to more pressing matter, Zeus decided himself, that he was going to marry Aphrodite off to Hephaestus. I also heard a version where Hephaestus sort of blackmailed Zeus to do so. Either way, Aphrodite had no say in her own marriage. Typical.

Now, we know that Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty, and pleasure. So why would the goddess of beauty want to marry a god who was supposedly the most ugly, and he's crippled. You can't blame Aphrodite for judging Hephaestus by his looks because well, she's supposed to be judgmental isn't she?

When they lived together, Hephaestus gave his wife everything she could ever need. Except for the pleasure, wether Hephaestus actually loved her is unknown, maybe he was just happy he married the most beautiful goddess. But if you're not going to give the goddess of love, and beauty, and pleasure everything she needs, if you're going to be distant, then it's a matter of time before she ends up cheating on you.

So she saw Ares and eventually hooked up with him. Ares knew that Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, why did he go along with it? Well, it might be because he wasn't the brightest or maybe it was because no other god really respected him. Not even his parents liked him, he was said to be foolish, and he just didn't get the attention. So I guess it didn't matter to him if Aphrodite was married.

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Now we all know how they got caught and humiliated. But I don't think Aphrodite is completely at fault. Everything happened without her consent. I felt the need to make this post cause' when a lot of people think of Aphrodite, they think of the most humiliating thing that happened to her. But she's not really at fault.

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Let me know what you think.

-Wirelo

Chief Journalist: Daily Olympus

Hehe..So, I'm re-reading TLT. I am up to the part where they (Annabeth, Percy and Grover) meet Ares in the restaurant.

Ares called our dear Perseus Jackson "Little cousin."

I need to take the time to process that I forgot Ares and Percy were cousins. Gods of Olympus that's weird. AND THE FACT THAT ANNABETH IS HIS NIECE- That means that..Clarisse is- Oh gods-

WHYDIDINOTJUSTREMEMBERTHISBEFOREANDGETOVERIT.