History Characters / HadesChthonicGods

* MysteriousVeil: Fitting her mystical nature, she wears a veil over most of her face, leaving only the lights of her eyes visible.

** In-universe, She's acting as a BeefGate for Melinoë because if the princess can't get past her mentor, then defeating Chronos is out of the question. Hecate also explicitly identifies testing Melinoë in combat (albeit non-lethally) as the reason why she's attacking her. It's not a lethal combat so much as it is a spar; should Mel prevail, Hecate compliments her student's fighting skill, then lets her keep going on.

* KickTheDog: During one argument with Melinoë, Nemesis goes so far as to say Melinoë losing her entire family to Chronos isn't as bad as her losing her mother Nyx because Melinoë was far too young at the time to even remember them. Even Nemesis herself admits in the follow-up conversation that that was a step too far.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Advancing Hecate's affection rating will have her remind Melinoë consistently that Hecate is not her birth mother, to the point that Hecate says that she's just been using Melinoë all this time and doesn't care a wit about her. Melinoë quickly sees through this for what it is: Hecate feeling bad that she's failed to live up to her loyalty to Hades, nothing that Hecate didn't have to show Melinoë any care or affection at all.

* BoyishShortHair: Eris wears her hair in a pixie cut and is among the most action-oriented out of the female members of the cast, actively hampering Melinoë's progress and taking sweet pleasure in using her as target practice for the [[{{BFG}} Adamant Rail]].

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: As per Hecate's pact with Nyx, Eris is free to come and go from the Crossroads as she pleases. But she also goes out of her way to make life as irritating as possible for everyone else, using Hecate's cauldron to create explosives, pelting Melinoe's tent with arrows, and harrassing Shades with the trauma of their deaths. This makes all of her relationships, particularly with her mother, siblings, and Hecate, strained at best. While Melinoë claims that she doesn't hate Eris, it's also clear that she isn't ''fond'' of Eris either.

* HatesTheirParent: The only child of Nyx so far to express an explicit dislike of her. Given most of her other children (with the exception of Hypnos) are rather no-nonsense, serious, and devoted to their work, it's not hard to see Eris as the odd one out or the BlackSheep, which makes her animosity with Nyx unsurprising.

** Eris might have also developed an InferioritySuperiorityComplex due to her being the outcast amongst her elder siblings who are more dutiful and ''her'' belief that ''they'' think they're better than her.

* NeverMyFault: Eris blames all of her behavior on her mother for creating her and making her the embodiment of strife, taking no responsibility at all for her actions, as she's just doing what she was created to do, and she's doomed to do it no matter how hard she tries not to. But when Melinoë asks her how hard Eris tried to change, Eris replies that she didn't try very hard.

* PowerAtAPrice: Her Discordant Bell keepsake increases both the damage you deal and take after each encounter.

* RecklessGunUsage: Goddess of strife, generally chaotic, iresponsible, and troublemaking, and yet, as her art shows, [[AvertedTrope excellent]] [[{{Irony}} trigger discipline.]]

* SecretAIMoves: She can wield the Adamant Rail in the much the same way as Zagreus could in the first game, including powering-up by dropping a bomb directly on herself. However, she can also fire even quicker than the player ever could, in two-pronged spreads, wide shotgun blasts, and fire several bombs in quick succession whereas Zagreus could only fire one or two bombs at a time, at most.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Pun unintended. She has zero care for cleanliness during her stay at the crossroads, even littering directly in front of [[NeatFreak Melinoë.]] The beach that serves as her arena seems to be where she hangs out, with a small chair and piles of wrappings nearby.

* TurnsRed: [[spoiler: During her boss battle, every time she loses 25% of her health, she uses the special ability of her Exagryph aspect to double her damage output]].

* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: Their sprite holds the planet Earth between the tips of their fingers.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being a Cthonic Goddess who served the House of Hades and was a close associate of Hades and Persephone, she's nowhere to be seen in the first game.

** Her interactions with Melinoë, while initially demeaning and childish, become less so the more they talk to each other. It probably has to deal with how Mel tries to treat her as a regular person instead of a nuisance.

* NeverMyFault: Eris blames all of her behavior on her mother for creating her and making her the embodiment of strife, taking no responsibility at all for her actions as she's just doing what she was created to do no matter how hard she tries not to. But when Melinoë asks her how hard Eris tried to change, Eris replies that she didn't try very hard.
-->'''Eris:''' ''[to Melinoë]'' Don't hate me, babe. OK? It's not my fault I keep lying to you, manipulating you, shooting you with the Rail, making you clean up after me, saying awful things behind her back...

* StrongFamilyResemblance: You can tell just by having a look at him he's Thanatos and Hypnos' brother.

* PowerAtACost: Her Discordant Bell keepsake increases both the damage you deal and take after each encounter.