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Hades watched Maci suspiciously, unbeknownst to her. ''He'' knew that how he was choosing to handle Melinoe was wrong – but he didn’t know if Maci would realize it, as she was recovering from the Thanatos debacle and still on edge from being deprived of all socialization. He feared that if Maci decided that she could connect with Melinoe over their shared mistreatment ''by him'' that they could unite against him. He had not shared with Maci the details of Melinoe’s mysterious prophecy, either – the gist of which stated that Melinoe would grow to become either the embodiment of all goodness, or the manifestation of all evil, but just one, and only time would tell which. As Melinoe grew into toddlerhood Hades bit back bile and extended an olive branch to Maci, softening his demeanor to her completely - Maci by this point was so fragile that she did not think twice, and leapt at the opportunity to finally warmly reunite with her dad. |
Hades watched Maci suspiciously, unbeknownst to her. ''He'' knew that how he was choosing to handle Melinoe was wrong – but he didn’t know if Maci would realize it, as she was recovering from the Thanatos debacle and still on edge from being deprived of all socialization. He feared that if Maci decided that she could connect with Melinoe over their shared mistreatment ''by him'' that they could unite against him. He had not shared with Maci the details of Melinoe’s mysterious prophecy, either – the gist of which stated that Melinoe would grow to become either the embodiment of all goodness, or the manifestation of all evil, but just one, and only time would tell which. As Melinoe grew into toddlerhood Hades bit back bile and extended an olive branch to Maci, softening his demeanor to her completely - Maci by this point was so fragile that she did not think twice, and leapt at the opportunity to finally warmly reunite with her dad. |
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Hades’ course of action was to make Maci complicit in Melinoe’s neglectful abuse. Melinoe was a bizarre child. Even as a newborn, she never cried and |
Hades’ course of action was to make Maci complicit in Melinoe’s neglectful abuse. Melinoe was a bizarre child. Even as a newborn, she never cried and hardly slept, and as she got older, she never spoke; she just stared all day at her caretakers with her huge blue eyes. Even though Melinoe was inoffensive, Hades encouraged Maci to be cruel to her. Maci did not want to lose her father’s sudden approval, and gleefully participated as her kid sister’s bully. When Melinoe learned how to walk, she took to following Maci or Hades all around, and their actions escalated from shooing her away to even locking her out of sight within the palace. Sure, Maci should have known better, and… she kind of did; but she told that voice in the back of her head to shut up. The unhappiness of Zeus’ bastard child came second to Maci finally at long last getting to bond with her father and experience his remorse after all that he had subjected her to. She convinced herself it was a necessary sacrifice to make. |
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For a total of eight years, Maci and Hades primarily were responsible for “raising” Melinoe – Seph wanted absolutely no part of her life, and refused to even interact with her. Through these eight years, Maci remained isolated from the world outside the palace with her father as her only companion, and through these years, Melinoe was consistently mistreated, but Maci and Hades' relationship seemed great. And then… that prophecy… [[File:origimelmel.png|thumb|left|link=https://64.media.tumblr.com/05e508736bc80d97a817a9d9996614cc/5049951510780ed6-d5/s1280x1920/c57f391dcef3fa8511476a657d682eed0b755ec9.png|Melinoe once the evil half of herself had taken over, the incarnation known colloquially out of universe as "OrigiMel."]] |
For a total of eight years, Maci and Hades primarily were responsible for “raising” Melinoe – Seph wanted absolutely no part of her life, and refused to even interact with her. Through these eight years, Maci remained isolated from the world outside the palace with her father as her only companion, and through these years, Melinoe was consistently mistreated, but Maci and Hades' relationship seemed great. And then… that prophecy… [[File:origimelmel.png|thumb|left|link=https://64.media.tumblr.com/05e508736bc80d97a817a9d9996614cc/5049951510780ed6-d5/s1280x1920/c57f391dcef3fa8511476a657d682eed0b755ec9.png|Melinoe once the evil half of herself had taken over, the incarnation known colloquially out of universe as "OrigiMel."]] |
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