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storypaint) wrote2009-01-05 01:55 pm
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From the Depths (Hades gen)
Title: From the Depths
Day/Theme: Oct 8 // power play
Series: Disney's Hercules
Character/Pairing: Hades monologue, pre-movie
Rating: G
Excerpt: I'm sure all you hear from him is good things. Oh Zeus, merciful Zeus, powerful Zeus. Yeah, yeah. He's been tormenting me from the womb. Brothers or not, I know the feel of his fingers in my eyes. You don't get to the top without fighting dirty.
Gods have long lives. More importantly, they have long memories. Yes, I remember the day I was born into this pathetic cosmos with utter, burning clarity.
Gods are born. Not a lot of mortals know that. Gods are born and they rise on luck and merit and by the will of that bastard Fate (he's been around so long he thinks he knows everything). There was a quick scramble for power and of course my brother ended up on the top of the heap.
I'm sure all you hear from him is good things. Oh Zeus, merciful Zeus, powerful Zeus. Yeah, yeah. He's been tormenting me from the womb. Brothers or not, I know the feel of his fingers in my eyes. You don't get to the top without fighting dirty.
Which is why he stays there at the top, while the rest of the fools simper around him. Sure, he sealed the Titans, yadda yadda, but if they all rose up at once they could defeat him easily. But he sold them on this idea of peace, love, prosperity, absolute rule, and they're still chewing on it today. Let's face it, my siblings are not the brightest flames on Hestia's hearth. They went and gave democracy to the Greeks without keeping any for themselves. Okay...?
Not that I want democracy. Couldn't trust the women with golden fruit, couldn't trust the lot of them with governing the world.
Me? Well, you flatter me. Of course I'm qualified. I could sell ice cubes to an Entruscan. I know how to make the people happy. Not that dear old Zeus believes that. He's still tossing lightning bolts down here when he gets bored and drunk. It's like he forgets I live underground. Stay classy, bro.
Stay classy. Stay happy. Because one of these days I'm going to knock your sandals off.
Day/Theme: Oct 8 // power play
Series: Disney's Hercules
Character/Pairing: Hades monologue, pre-movie
Rating: G
Excerpt: I'm sure all you hear from him is good things. Oh Zeus, merciful Zeus, powerful Zeus. Yeah, yeah. He's been tormenting me from the womb. Brothers or not, I know the feel of his fingers in my eyes. You don't get to the top without fighting dirty.
Gods have long lives. More importantly, they have long memories. Yes, I remember the day I was born into this pathetic cosmos with utter, burning clarity.
Gods are born. Not a lot of mortals know that. Gods are born and they rise on luck and merit and by the will of that bastard Fate (he's been around so long he thinks he knows everything). There was a quick scramble for power and of course my brother ended up on the top of the heap.
I'm sure all you hear from him is good things. Oh Zeus, merciful Zeus, powerful Zeus. Yeah, yeah. He's been tormenting me from the womb. Brothers or not, I know the feel of his fingers in my eyes. You don't get to the top without fighting dirty.
Which is why he stays there at the top, while the rest of the fools simper around him. Sure, he sealed the Titans, yadda yadda, but if they all rose up at once they could defeat him easily. But he sold them on this idea of peace, love, prosperity, absolute rule, and they're still chewing on it today. Let's face it, my siblings are not the brightest flames on Hestia's hearth. They went and gave democracy to the Greeks without keeping any for themselves. Okay...?
Not that I want democracy. Couldn't trust the women with golden fruit, couldn't trust the lot of them with governing the world.
Me? Well, you flatter me. Of course I'm qualified. I could sell ice cubes to an Entruscan. I know how to make the people happy. Not that dear old Zeus believes that. He's still tossing lightning bolts down here when he gets bored and drunk. It's like he forgets I live underground. Stay classy, bro.
Stay classy. Stay happy. Because one of these days I'm going to knock your sandals off.