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love all of these they are so funny. in my mind Athena’s cursed curse was super vague. Like boy oh boy if you play the flute Something Bad will happen, preferably in relation to your flute playing. and from then on (OR MAYBE ALWAYS…) Apollo had a weird animosity towards flutes. That or because Marsyas. I like Apollo knowing but simply not caring, because it’s funny and I think he’d just go “well, regardless, the flute is still a distasteful instrument!”.

Potentially consider writing that (from that one version) Athena, instead of cursing that one specific flute, cursed every single flute that would ever be made but the curse is just Apollo hates you for playing it now. Euterpe: (epic flute solo) Apollo: Wonderful! Truly, your skill is unparalleled for creating such a beautiful sound on such a DISTASTEFUL and UGLY instrument!

Euterpe: Apollo: Euterpe please why did you pick this weak tube you could have picked any other instrument to master and elevate to divine- Euterpe: dude can you chill literally once. come on man

hehe thinking about the whole “sons usurping their fathers” thing / prophecy and what if you made this an anticipated Thing that would happen eventually on Olympus that Zeus was chill about actually.

Awkward teen Apollo: (internally) haha, I wonder what being a King would be like!

Also awkward teen Athena: Father Apollo’s fantasising about patricide again!!!

Apollo: (horrified) NO! FATHER, I WASN’T-

Zeus: 👏👏🎊🎊 YES!! THAT’S MY BOY!! 🫵🫵 JUST LIKE HIS FATHER!! 💪💪🎉🎉 MY BOY I GO STRAIGHT TO “SLEEP” AT “4:00PM” ON A “TUESDAY” WITH NO SURROUNDING GUARDS, AS THE KIDS SAY,

Potentially consider writing that (from that one version) Athena, instead of cursing that one specific flute, cursed every single flute that would ever be made but the curse is just Apollo hates you for playing it now. Euterpe: (epic flute solo) Apollo: Wonderful! Truly, your skill is unparalleled for creating such a beautiful sound on such a DISTASTEFUL and UGLY instrument!

Euterpe: Apollo: Euterpe please why did you pick this weak tube you could have picked any other instrument to master and elevate to divine- Euterpe: dude can you chill literally once. come on man

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maybe he, as god and founder of many cities and homes, sees them with their absolute DOGSHIT nests and is greatly endeared. (And also gives them a home in his own temples)

Consider Apollo, being the god of building and founding cities etc. as well as the god of vermin (eg mice, locusts) to also be the patron of pigeons. Specifically the nasty (lovingly) pigeons in cities.

what if this was how he protected crops from locusts and the like. Put a statue of him in your fields (like a scarecrow) so all the assorted bugs sit on it, wait for it to ominously glow from the heat of the divine and voila! Pest control!

also COMPULSORY GORGEOUS MOTH WING CLOAK WITH METALLIC SILVER, BRONZE AND GOLDEN LINING ofc. AND ALSO epic staff / spear.

CANNOT believe I have not said this yet but no matter what form he’s in moths LOVE Apollo he has to be so careful around moth areas if he’s trying to be sneaky because they will IMMEDIATELY sit on and all over him. He’s used to it now but the people around him are DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY NOT. (Artemis is deeply jealous)

au (but the universe is ours??) where Apollo is literally just a mortal depressed single dad trying to provide for his 6 children with his either office or teaching job (was a doctor but hours were wayyy too long to be a single parent of 6 so.) and then the universe does a heehee and somehow he gets switched with deity Apollo. single dad pollo’s like “why can I never get job satisfaction despite enjoying so many different things!” “YOU ARE BUILT TO MICROMANAGE RUNNING KINGDOMS AS CROWN PRINCE OF OLYMPUS AND THE UNIVERSE MY LORD” His peers ask him for advice on absolutely crazy worldly matters like “my lord the essence of your charge (the SUN) has reached the surface of our world (filled with the people we love) and has breached their barriers within the past millennium. I bow to you and your unfathomable array of knowledge, what can we do to mend this tear in their shields?” And he’s like “👍👌💦💦 OK! YES OK. UM” (he is crying. He is crying again because he pronounced emojis OUT LOUD SOMEHOW and he is going to get FIRED from his JOB and WHERE ARE HIS CHILDREN.) This au’s god Apollo is NOT built for office work that man is scared of ringtones. He gets really nervous like a dog and bites his wrist in half. He has NEVER seen a computer before his ass lives in space crafting wonderful and horrible things from afar. He sees his assorted children and is like “WOW… tiny things… how wonderful… like my own but SO SMALL…”. Utterly distraught at not being able to keep the lights on (once again, the SUN) during night so he can help his kid do homework up late.

disease Apollo being Freaky™️ and disease™️ has two rats in his skin called Ched (Coronary Heart Disease) and Tube (Tuberculosis) and he pulls them out in fields so they can run around. Enrichment

TOA Apollo’s Naomi Solace voice “(cooing) what is this wet rat toxic man doing in my backyard! I will give you FIVE (5) kisses if you unsterilise yourself, darling. How was the nuclear waste was the nuclear waste fun” (secret canon reason why Will Solace glows.)

crying over Apollo appearing in a nuclear power plant like a cryptid and skittering everywhere, setting all the Geiger counters off to horrifying levels. he is trying to eat the nuclear waste.

WAIT THE FESTIVAL FITS SO WELL!

Maybe the tradition of weaving a new chiton every Hyacinthia comes from Hyacinthus clawing his way up from death. Unfortunately buck naked. And the people of Amyclae wanted to do more for their local god (and beloved of Apollo) who takes care of them and will continue to do so for millennia than simply lending him clothes every year, so they made him new clothes every year, and this eventually turned into a tradition!

everyone of every class celebrates his festival because everyone of every class needs food and plants and things and he protects them all! HE STAYS WITH THEM AND LOOKS AFTER THEM ALONGSIDE APOLLO ON THE EARTH DURING SPRING, THEN WHEN THE EQUIVALENT OF AUTUMN COMES HE AND APOLLO LEAVE FOR HYPERBOREA TO STAY UNTIL WINTER COMES AGAIN!

They take gryphons which spread the seeds across the fields and plough them, then fly with them back to Hyperborea once they’re done! And the gryphons come back every year in preparation of Hyacinthus’ return to help renew the harvest once again, serving as a sign that he’s on his way! (Once again ignore the parts where it doesn’t make sense!)

The swans are just there to yell at him. Also Apollo

INCREDIBLY UPSETTING (me. It’s upsetting me.) HYPOTHETICAL VARIATION OF HYACINTHUS’ DEATH & REBIRTH:

OK we’ve got “Apollo grieves Hyacinthus so so so much he will not let him fully die and he becomes the Hyacinthus flowers”. And he is somewhat sentient as flowers. But how would Apollo feel, knowing and realising that every single year, Hyacinthus is dragged up from death to be reborn and split into thousands of little pieces of himself, to feel every single piece of himself dying and rotting and decaying individually, mere months after feeling a remote shadow of the life he once had? And this happens every single year!

WORSE THOUGHT: WHAT IF HYACINTHUS ASCENDS. and Apollo sees him alive again and he cries and sobs and clutches him so so tightly and is so relieved that he’s back and Hyacinthus is crying and laughing and holding him upright and they embrace and for a few months everything is so, so wonderful. Then Hyacinthus falls… ill. He shows signs of being poisoned. Soon, he cannot leave their bed, and sooner, he is gone once more. Apollo is utterly and wholly inconsolable, but not as inconsolable as he is next spring, once he sees Hyacinthus standing, once again, at the gates of Olympus, shaken and silent and slightly colder than he was last time.

How would they cope? Desperately holding and kissing each other (and yeah also doing each other) out of fear the next day may be one of Hyacinthus’ last, and as a way of trying to show how much they care without actually talking about anything? What if Hyacinthus grows jaded and his self-disgust takes root and grows as he sees how completely destroyed his Apollo has become out of worry of grief for him? How would Hyacinthus feel, knowing that even through climbing out of the underworld, through Greece, up Mount Olympus and through its gates, Apollo could and would only look at him like he’s already grieving for him (or maybe he never stopped)? What if they grow to feel deeply sick at the sight of each other for a tense, uncomfortable while? What if this snaps one day when Hyacinthus is very, very late for his usual arrival, when Apollo suddenly realises he chose to stay down, alone in Greece, Without him, to avoid seeing him again?

And what if, eventually, they learn to live with this cycle? What if they move to Hyperborea when Hyacinthus arrives (OKok this doesn’t make wider sense but IT’S OK) so they can see the world together, see what’s changed in the year he was gone, and spend the more of the moments they have gently basking in each others’ presence while they have it? What if every time Hyacinthus is brought above the ground once more, he visits places and friends he’s made in Greece, catches up with them, brings souvenirs and gifts and greetings to Apollo once he reaches him?

I imagine Aphrodite fits into this by either being the one to carry Hyacinthus into Olympus every time, out of care, or helping Hyacinthus on his journey to Olympus. which is very relevant bc he could choose to just stay in Greece during spring But also Of Course he goes to Olympus (almost…) every single time bc that’s where his love is. (His journey up to Olympus is therefore motivated by love and there’s no better person to guide that journey than the goddess of love herself!)

holy moly. you are on to something here. I’m actually obsessed with this now

Venus on Tinder is SICK of the guys holding up fish in their profile photos and actually goes on a fishing date with one and proceeds to absolutely DESTROY him at fishing. (based off of that one type of Venus who’s fishing & also general association with sailors / fishing!)

Venus on Tinder is SICK of the guys holding up fish in their profile photos and actually goes on a fishing date with one and proceeds to absolutely DESTROY him at fishing. (based off of that one type of Venus who’s fishing & also general association with sailors / fishing!)