History Characters / HadesOlympianGods

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Hephaestus and Aphrodite in myths famously do not get along despite being married. However when you get their duo boons here, their interactions show that they actually get along rather well, with Hephaestus calling her "Aph" and Aphrodite noting that her husband's skills really are a boon to Melinoë and referring to him as "Dear".
* AffectionateNickname: He refers to Melinoë as "Witchy" after their relationship has progressed far enough.

* InTheHood: She wears a hood that, coupled with her upsweeping hair and the pot of glowing coals that sits a top her head, gives off the impression that when you're looking at her, you're looking directly into the heart of a fiery hearth.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Befitting her being the patron goddess of women and marriage (and motherhood by extension), she has quite the sizable bust.

* MythologyGag:
** In ''Hades II'', she appears with weapons and white warpaint across her face - the same warpaint as Ares, which may be a reference to her lesser known Spartan aspect of Aphrodite Areia - the Warlike Aphrodite. Likewise, her weapon is shown to be a spear in reference to her epithet of Aphrodite Encheios.
** Several gods mention that even though Aphrodite looks young, she's actually a very old deity. This references the most popular version of her birth from the foam where Uranus' genitals fell after C(h)ronos castrated him, which would make her older than any of the Olympian gods, as well as the fact that she began as an adaptation of the Mesopotamian fertility goddess Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte, meaning her origins predate most of the Greek pantheon in general, not just the Olympians.

* OnlyFriend: If Zagreus gets close to her, she'll begin telling him stories of her adventures with Callisto the wood nymph, [[MythologyGag who can apparently shapeshift into a bear]]. However, there are some later implications that she and Callisto are more than just friends.

* MythologyGag: Literally. If Zagreus gains enough favor with Dionysus, he will ask him if he is up for pulling a little prank on Orpheus. When Zagreus replies that he likes that idea, Dionysus asks if it wouldn't be funny if he told the musician a tall tale about how the two of them are in fact the same person. Zagreus then goes through with it, and Orpheus swallows it raw. In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Zagreus was Dionysus' name before he was dismembered and resurrected. This version of the story comes from the Orphic Mysteries, which was supposedly founded by Orpheus. Therefore, the real joke of this gag is the implication that Orpheus founded an entire religion based on a prank.

* HavingABlast: Some of his boons add explosive properties to Melinoë's moves.

* MightyGlacier: His boons are about tanking and dishing out damage, and his attack boosts grant the ability to deal massively-powerful AOE at the expense of waiting upon recharge timers.

** Seemingly played more straight in ''Hades II'' as they all band together to stop Chronos and save the Underworld. Whoever's boon Melinoë picks, they express their grievances to her and earnestly tell her they'll do whatever they can to save their family. However, this could be the TeethClenchedTeamwork that results from a GodzillaThreshold; whatever petty grievances the Olympians may share amongst themselves, they pale in comparison to the return of the Titans.

* AffectionateNickname: Though initially cold to Zagreus in the first game, Demeter begins addressing him as "little sprout" after he pays her tribute. She also had a habit of addressing Persephone as "Kore", [[{{Downplayed}} though Persephone herself dislikes the nickname]]. In the second game, Demeter also addresses Melinoë as "little sprout" upon their first meeting then later refers to her as "flower".

* CoolOldLady: Both figuratively, and quite literally due to her [[AnIcePerson ice powers]]. Despite not even having the little information the other Olympians have about Zagreus she agrees to help him anyway [[spoiler: after the first time he makes it to the surface, even if he doesn't make it past Hades]] and provides boons just like the others.

* DivineDate: In this story, she sired her daughter with a mortal farmboy and worshiper of hers. To some extent, she regrets bearing a child with a mortal, as Demeter worries that her daughter's semi-divine status would let her come to harm, explaining Demeter's [[MyBelovedSmother tendency to smother her daughter]]. [[spoiler:In ''Hades II'', she blames Melinoë's mortal blood for allowing Melinoë to sustain grievous wounds if you obtain Demeter's blessing while heavily injured.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: Zagreus lampshades how odd it is for a harvest goddess to grant ice powers that drain the life of those affected, while Achilles indicates that she is capable of far worse if riled. [[spoiler:Should you reach the surface with one of her Boons, Hades implies she has currently locked the world in winter while waiting for Persephone's return, and will do a ''lot'' worse were she to learn the truth. And in the [[GoldenEnding true ending]], Hades says outright that not even Zeus himself would be able to hold back Demeter's fury if she learned the truth about his and Persephone's breakup.]]

* TheLostLenore: She [[MayflyDecemberRomance fell for a mortal farmer]] and clearly regrets being left behind when he died. It's kind of understandable why her mood is so icy having lost [[spoiler:both a lover and a child]].

* HeartbrokenBadass: She's the goddess of the harvest. However, she takes on her much deadlier winter form [[spoiler: due to Persephone's disappearance. She is beyond bitter not knowing where her daughter is and has taken her grief out on the surface world, blanketing it in snow.]] Every other conversation she has with Zagreus is her warning him on being careful whom he loves, or how much she misses her daughter and worries for her safety.

* SequelNonEntity: Absent in ''Hades II'', and unlike Athena, his lack of presence isn't explained.

* EvilOldFolks: She's both the oldest and the most openly callous and malicious of the Olympians, with some competition from Ares. [[spoiler: She baselessly blames mortals for her daughter's disappearance, and has responded by creating the aforementioned EndlessWinter, which has resulted in mass starvation and war. And it seems she is the one Hades fears finding out about Persephone the most, saying that if she found out Persephone was in the underworld, not even Zeus could stop her retribution against all of them.]] Additionally, most of her interactions with the other gods involve her belittling their domains by mentioning that her cold could render them pointless.

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: Both of his Duo Boons with Hera in ''Hades II'' are this. Unlike the other gods, who will combine their powers to synergize with each other's abilities, Zeus's Duo Boon with Hera will strip you of all of her boons, but power up all of Zeus's; Hera's does the opposite.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Goddess of the Hearth''']]