This Is What I Was Thinking Too. And What’s Sad Is It That Because She Was Trained (and Lowkey Groomed??)

This is what I was thinking too. And what’s sad is it that because she was trained (and lowkey groomed??) at birth for this task, she barely knows anything about this family she is supposed to be fighting tooth and nail to save (and is like the core goal of the game which is weird cause now we have a protagonist that is kinda disconnected from them which I talk about here).

ok. ive cooked. i dont trust hecate.

i was a bit confused why she rubbed me the wrong way instantly, and i think ive finally figured out why. i dont think she cares about melinoe. and i know that hecate on some level does care, she has to, but thats the point.

i think hecate has raised melinoe to be a weapon, and nothing more. no maternal care. no love. just training and training and death to chronos death to chronos and it makes me Scared for mel. whats going to happen when chronos is gone? what happens when her purpose is fulfilled? because no one ever asks her how shes doing either!!! no one in the crossroads checks in on her!!! they check in on her Task sure but never how shes feeling, how she's faring with all this. mel tells hecate shes feeling the pressure and hecate tells her to channel it. fuck, even as a kid, hecate only played hide and seek with her as TRAINING. they only see her for her purpose they dont see HER.

and!!! in a way!!! this would parallel zagreus! think about it!!! zagreus was hated by a lot of the house of hades because they saw his defiance as brattiness - oooo daddy won't let me go out so i'll RUN AWAY - when we know his feelings on the matter are a lot more complex.

do you think, when we finally get zagreus back safely, he's going to look his little sister in the eyes for the first time and find that she's just like him?