I know Hera has a bad rap in myth because she's upset with Zeus being overly willing to mess around, but I always figured that was just emblematic of a very specific set of misogynistic traditions.
[She can't see him glance skywards before replying. He should be safe in another dimension, but he still feels like this is VERY dangerous territory for a son of Jupiter -- even one given to Juno as a champion -- to be treading.]
Definitely some different expectations and traditions in ancient times. So I'd probably have to go more so with true.
In all honesty, she's probably just as temperamental as any of the other gods. She just doesn't have the freedom to 'mess around' like the others do, since her main aspect is being the goddess of marriage.
Most things in Greek or Roman mythology can be boiled down to the classic 'It's Complicated'.
Oh I've tried to avoid complicated, but it seems to find me a lot anyway. The journey to see Hercules was just my most recent quest...there's a whole bunch of other stories I could share with you sometime.
True. And I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing, just something I can't really change. And it's not like everything that is complicated has been bad.
It just means that we'll have plenty of good stories.
I'll share my own. When the time comes. I might not be dealing with Olympians, but Riverdale has its share of interesting drama. Sometimes it's really hard to explain that it's just a small town.
Well! Since you've already provided me with a lovely story today (sort of, by way of Hercules), here's one in return. A bunch of boys felt like they needed to brag about their entirety of their conquests. And look, these weren't conquests. These were, "I'm so desperate to win I talked to a girl in a library and said it was a hookup." Very pathetic. My BFF and I decided to turn the tables on them. To show how truly desperate they were. We walked the head of these loser boys into a trap and showed him a bad time in a hot tub with some maple syrup. (It's a Riverdale thing.) Said BFF wore Uma Thurman's wig from Pulp Fiction. It was wild. And she really got into it, like she became possessed with the ghost of a different person.
When it was all said and done, we got a lecture for our vigilantism, but I don't actually regret it. Sans Betty acting like a different person. I'd pass on that. For her sake.
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True or false?
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Definitely some different expectations and traditions in ancient times. So I'd probably have to go more so with true.
In all honesty, she's probably just as temperamental as any of the other gods. She just doesn't have the freedom to 'mess around' like the others do, since her main aspect is being the goddess of marriage.
Most things in Greek or Roman mythology can be boiled down to the classic 'It's Complicated'.
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Does that include you, Mr. Son of Jupiter? Or have you generally avoided complicated, journeys to see Hercules aside?
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Not that it's a bad thing. It isn't.
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I'll share my own. When the time comes. I might not be dealing with Olympians, but Riverdale has its share of interesting drama. Sometimes it's really hard to explain that it's just a small town.
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When it was all said and done, we got a lecture for our vigilantism, but I don't actually regret it. Sans Betty acting like a different person. I'd pass on that. For her sake.
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Though I'm not sure I want to know the details of the whole maple syrup thing.
Is your friend okay now? Or I guess last you were home?
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[No, but that's Riverdale.]
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[But he understands to some degree what she might mean by that. At least in as much as he's been given.]
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