THE THING ABT HADES 2 THAT I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT (okay there's like ten things but this is a big one) is that given that it is a roguelike and meant for infinite replayability,,, how is it gonna square that with the fucking DIRE PREMISE, right? like it's not just zag trying to go see his mom and fighting his dad about it, it's A TITAN HAS TAKEN OVER THE UNDERWORLD AND IS BESIEGING OLYMPUS ykwim?? very very curious what that endgame is going to look like

i was joking about the alcoholism thing, please

Since Ruan Mei's critters are just little cat versions of existing characters imangine how cute Aventurine and Bodyguard!Reader would be like, they're still together even as munchable and tasy little critters.

TB: *sent attachments of Aventurine and Reader as critters*

A: ....

*Aventurine sent 100 000 credits*

A: deliver them to me

I mean Ruan Mei doesn't know what to do with them anyway 😭

This man will sponsor her researches just to get two cat cakes and won't regret it even for a second

Also. While all other cat creatures are attached to Ruan Mei, those two are attached to each other only.

Regarding your mer stuff... would mermen know what chalk is??

Aventurine sees it for the first time and is like that raccoon with cotton candy

or would he just straight up eat it

here is my rendition of merman aventurine with his first chalk

Hypnos got his beauty sleep. Keep cooking, self-care king~💤💜

i forgot how fun it is to draw mermen before this thank you

I love the Hades fandom so much

aventurine after visiting ikea

lil guy examination from doctor ratio

ratiorine for april fools day

just know that this will be my energy if (when) i don't get invited to participate in hades II's technical test

Please someone redraw this with Dr. Ratio and Aventurine because this is the exact vibe they have in my head post-Penacony.

when mel gives zag his first nectar he freezes in a panic and he's like oh god. i knew this was coming and i still don't have anything for her. what do i do

and he frantically yanks one of his dog skulls off his shoulders and is like here :) i'll uhh give you something better for my ten-heart event i promise

and she's like omg thank you, i've always wanted to use dog bones in my rituals and from a hound of hades, this is so thoughtful and just what i wanted!! and he's like what :|

i’m especially fond of this daydream hour doodle. “i would kill for you” yuri vs “i should kill you” yaoi

I kinda love that, as far as we've seen, when it comes to mentor figures, it boils down to Achilles in Hades 1: Violence belongs to a past I've buried Odysseus in Hades 2: KILL THEM!

if hades 1 was about a toxic family and learning what can and can't be healed, one of the things i'm most looking forward to in hades 2 is how melinoë's reunion with the hades fam is going to affect things

on the one hand i'm sure they'd each love her no matter what, and as a bonus, she seems more responsible than zag (hades approves); she's a gardener and level-headed (persephone approves); and zag would be thrilled to have a partner in crime, not to mention another god with red blood so he'd feel less alone. so it's nice to imagine things might be fine when they all meet. but on the other hand mel feels like a perfectionist who doesn't share her negative emotions as easily as zag (big hades energy) so things could also get worse when half your family is emotionally stunted/doesn't want to talk about the trauma you've all gone through

i think zag will take meeting her well, but will be fighting the classic oldest sibling "you're getting the better version of dad, back in MY day he would insult me for BREATHING" urge constantly. maybe we'll overhear a conversation about it between him and hades. i could see it maybe being a small side conversation with mel at one point, but i think/hope zag is self-aware enough that he wouldn't want her to think or worry about that sort of thing.

that said, he's mad jealous that hecate gave her so much freedom and her own funds already?? mel's like "? why wouldn't i have money of my own? headmistress allows me a budget for my potion ingredients and i stick to it, then she started giving me more for books and things i like" and zag's chewing his lip to pulp cause he was three hundred years old before hades would allow him to even touch money and that was only the stuff he plundered from tartarus

not even getting into hades and persephone trying to process "adult?? daughter??? daughter is adult???" (poor persephone has gone through this feeling twice.) i think zag will process better because he's more inclined to see a sibling as an equal but mel's parents were planning on raising a baby, not... meeting a fully-grown perfectionist witch who talks to frogs and color-codes her potion ingredients and logs every unsuccessful run with a list of things she did wrong and areas to improve

I'd absolutely listen to this man's voice play deceitful tricks on me all day, 10/10. (Clips are from the technical test livestream featuring Greg Kasavin and Amir Rao, which you can watch on YouTube.)