I expect Aphrodite to be highly motivated to seduce and placate her husband, now that he's King of Olympus. I wouldn't expect Hephaestaean will go for it, though the temptation of a sex goddess in bed is certainly up there. If this story was on the other part of QQ, I'd expect to see her stay on as concubine, but Zoat hasn't gone in for that sort of thing. I don't believe we've seen Aphrodite in the story yet, so it's hard to say which way things will go.
Nine months premature?
Yes, after their first vertical tango, she wanted proof that he was really Zeus and ask to see his true face. So Zeus in all his wisdom showed her, and she died instantly. This ability is stated just two chapters ago. Technically Dionysus would only be a few days old at most when this happened.
Why Kratos as a replacement for Ares? First thing I see when I click on the link is that he is a staunch supporter of Zeus' oppressive regime, and the second thing is that he likes to mock Prometheus and Hephaestus?
You framing it like that removes or at the very least softens the responsibility off of Aphrodite for making the entire thing possible. She is the only one who could have created this entire circumstance to begin with. It all started with her.
Semicolon.
Nah, he's Deus in Machina.
That's what Deus ex Machina means?
Yah. And that's bad.
Because Zoat is re-writing things so everybody in the Greek pantheon hates Zeus.
That's because he did.
Zoat hand-waved all that so Hephaestus became an instant expert at drawing Titan power and god combat.
Yup, but Zoat nerfed Zeus so none of that applied to the one in his story.
1. Aphrodite was forced into a marriage she never want. It's not like there was ever love between Aphrodite and Hephaestes to begin with. She never made any Oaths to him of her own free will. That changes the nature of the game dramatically. Is it really betrayal if you never chose to enter into the relationship to begin with? Modern sensibilities would straight up declare that if Hephaestus tried to force a relationship with Aphrodite that she didn't want, that would be the equivalent to assault and rape.
No but the odds of Zeus pulling off anything remotely like this are infinitesimally small
If you think castrating the man who has been openly and unapologetically fucking your wife for literal millennia is anywhere close to the horrific shit Zeus or some other Greek gods have done for much smaller offences then you haven't read enough Greek myths
I feel like you're pulling the "skill" thing out of your ass
I would argue that it's extremely unfair to say that being able to finally get revenge on one of the guys who has made your life hell and has been fucking your wife for thousands of years is unreasonable or the action that's e should base all future interactions upon
Okay it's pretty clear that you don't understand the concepts of shared responsibility, sanctity of marriage, respect for your partner or even just how unrepentantly fucking a mans wife is a dick move and if you can't grasp those basic concepts then there is absolutely nothing that can be said to convince you otherwise
I am, I think it's because you have an open quote near the beginning?
What sanctity is there to a marriage that was forced, and that Aphrodite never wanted to be in to begin with? How can there be respect for a partner you didn't choose and had to remain in a legal relationship with due to it being enforced at the tip of a lightning bolt?
The previous chapter straight up said that Zeus hasn't lost a step from the power he had in the past. Moreover Hephaestaen is extremely new to his power and has little experience with it, as compared to Zeus who fought in several wars and overcame and slew great monsters like Typhon who was said to be so powerful that if Zeus didn't act as quickly as he did he would have become king over the Gods and Man because none of the other Olympians could do jack shit to it.
He let his father, the man who crippled him and was the root cause of over half his sufferings, walk away. Either Ares did something worse to him, Heph is prideful to a previously unexplained degree, or he's just decided to be willful, and castrated the guy because he felt like it.
And arranged marriages are things we consider to be more immoral than not these days. Moreover forcing women to be in relationships they don't want to be in is kind of a big no no. Did you know that?
Ah yes, a typical arranged marriage. Where someone threatens to physically harm you if you don't comply. That makes it perfectly reasonable. They had to comply to the situation for practical reasons. They didn't want to be harmed, so they got married to not be harmed. But Aphrodite also wanted to have sex with Ares, and there was no consequence for doing so, so she did that for practical reasons as well.
