"Kore. Kore. Kore. Or should I say, Persephone, Bringer of Death."
- Picture yourself awoken from an hangover and you’re in this strange house. You wander around this home until out of nowhere, Cerberus, guard dog of the gates of the underworld, appears in front of you and is about to viciously attack you. Fortunately Persephone tames him almost immediately, but what if this was an less-fortunate mortal soul that Cerberus was set upon?
- While with good intentions, Eros’ crashing Psyche’s wedding to a cruel man is full-blown terrifying. It’s nighttime and the torches are blown away from a wind coming from nowhere, Psyche is hypnotized and carried away by Eros, who has turned into a whole other being that isn’t the same fun-loving god of love, but a terrifying monster. “Ugliest creature you ever met”, indeed.
- Persephone gets woken up in the middle of the night and sexually assaulted by Apollo. If there’s nothing more frightening that that, it’s that the creep is now stalking her, deciding he’s going to make Persephone “his girl”, and wants to marry her.
- Even creepier when you learn that he's held in high esteem among most Olympians and that Zeus has outright said he doesn't want to do anything about it because that might reflect badly on Olympus in general, which is unfortunately the kind of thing that often happens in real life when influential or well liked people commit heinous acts. That raises a lot of questions; has Apollo done similar things to other girls? Have the other gods done similar things only for their transgressions to be covered up?
- In chapter 113 it becomes even more sinister because Apollo is blackmailing Persephone by using those photos that he took of after the rape to use against her if she tells anyone. This is eerily close to revenge porn, since Persephone doesn't want anything to do with him and he knows this for a fact.
- A random and chilling aside from Apollo in Episode 139, said while he's on a date with Daphne:"Her defiant little face just makes me want to smoosh it, but also, I can't stop thinking about it."
- Apollo's influence is shown through the story in the form of a winding, undulating musical stave that invades comic panels, often seeming to twine around characters (most frequently Persephone) as if restraining them. Whether this indicates some form of magical mind control effect or the trauma he's inflicted is hard to say, but the visuals are very, very creepy.
- Episode 25 starts of with a glimpse of Hades’ childhood. He’s having a rather happy 6th birthday with his beloved mother, Rhea, when all of a sudden, Kronus calls out to Rhea, looking for Hades and she quickly tells him to hide. She tries to seduce her husband from looking for their son, repulsed as she is of it all. But he’s aware of what a terrible liar she is and finds Hades almost immediately and swallows him whole. As Hades is crying for his mother to not get eaten by his dad, Rhea can only look on in horror. It’s no wonder Hades still gets nightmares about it to this day.
- On her first day as an intern, Persephone is tricked into going to Tartarus by Minthe. Later on as Hades comes to her rescue, he walks into a scene where Kore is being strangled by a tree branch in the shape of an arm. If Hades hadn't come in time to save Kore, she would have spent an eternity tortured in Tartarus.
- Hades arranges for the photographer that took a photo of him and Persephone and sold it to the tabloids kidnapped, then decides to brutally torture him starting with tearing out the eye that snapped the photo of the tabloid that started the mess. Beware the Nice Ones doesn’t begin to describe it!
- Minthe severely and physically abusing Hades in episode 76 and completely averts Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male. Doesn’t get any better in the next episode because Hades claims to still love her and blame himself for making her angry, despite clearly being shaken by Minthe’s abuse, which often happens to some real-life abuse victims.
- Persephone's dark side. While only hinted at with a Death Glare, glowing eyes, and hair getting unkempt, her true form is her with tree-branch horns and her indulging a sadistic streak where she attacks farmers with enjoyment.
- Chapter 124 shows Apollo making good on his threat of making Persephone marry him, when he goes to Hera's office and asks for her approval. What's horrible about it is that he knows that Persephone hates him for raping her and taking pictures of her after the assault happened and is forcing himself into her life thinking that they're a couple. However, check out Apollo's Entitled to Have You and Narcissist entries and it becomes clear he doesn't care about her at all and only wants to marry her due to her being the daughter of the traitor Demeter which will make his status higher. Parental worries comes into play too, as Demeter told Apollo to stay away from daughter, but that doesn't stop him from wanting and asking Hera's approval to marry her.
- After Hera tells Apollo that she will not approve of the marriage Apollo gets so angry that it looks for a moment like he might hit Hera but he stops himself. This goes to show if pushed he would hit a woman if he doesn't get what he wants. Then he went and asked Zeus if he could marry Persephone, even though Zeus doesn't really have that kind of authority to do that.
- Hera lays some Disproportionate Retribution on a motel clerk who is selling Persephone's belongings online in Chapter 141. Not saying the little pissant didn't deserve some sort of punishment, but it still comes off like a member of the aristocracy abusing her authority.Hera:Too late.
- Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis. In her introductory chapter, she immediately gaslights one of her children while colluding with the other regarding their courtship (already nightmare fuel in and of itself). It's not clear how much of Apollo's horrible behavior was on her instruction or if she's simply an Opportunistic Bastard who took advantage of an already ugly situation, but it's clear she IS planning something and isn't above using her own children or involving innocent people to make it work. And visually, she's straight-up terrifying with the Uncanny Valley Makeup, Black Eyes of Evil and Power Floats (perhaps even a Ghostly Glide) to drive home that this woman - whatever her deal is - isn't normal.
- It's slightly eclipsed by her tinfoil hat and how depressing the overall conversation is but Zeus killed and devoured Metis. No wonder Demeter doesn't want him to know what Persephone's capable of. Metis was Hera's mother and was neutral at worse to the Olympians and it still didn't save her from him.
- A cliffhanger in Chapter 148: KRONOS IS WAKING UP.
- In Chapter 152 Minthe pushes things too far, threatening out loud to spill Hades' insecurities to Persephone, and revealing that she's the one who reported her and Demeter to Zeus. Persephone is furious, and a Foregone Conclusion occurs.Persephone: Stop talking.
- Chapter 155 has Hera suffer a severe nightmare involving Kronos. She wakes up screaming for mercy and is in such a state that she accepts help from Zeus to comfort her.
- Chapter 162 shows that Hera was torn in half by Kronos once he learned that she deceived him, and is left lying in a pool of her own ichor while the remaining traitors defeat Kronos. This only adds to the nightmare fuel of her scars reopening.
- Chapter 171. Apollo stalks Daphne in the forest as she tries to get away from him, trying to blackmail her and calm her down with his music. It's implied that Apollo can control someone through his music, which he attempts on Daphne, all the while the latter is screaming about how she knows what he did to Persephone as he attempts to charm her with his music.
- The fact that a few weeks ago, Daphne herself was singing his praises and looking forward to the possibility of being his girlfriend adds a touch of psychological horror to the situation.
- Persephone finally tells Hades what Apollo did to her. We see lights going out, windows cracking, and Hades growing into his true form. Many readers mistook the silhouette of his true form to be Kronos given how similar he looked.
- The winding musical stave representing Apollo shows up during the scene. At the end of the chapter, the bright blue light associated with Hades's rage-fueled power seems to be burning the stave.
- Zeus' flashback to his youth shows Kronos at the height of his power — and the height of insanity; he's depicted as a colossal, dark red silhouette against the horizon, who would howl a bloodcurdling scream for hours on end at seemingly no provocation; the child Zeus and his adoptive nymph mothers frequently had to flee in the face of his destructive rampages.
- Turns out that Hera can see and hear Kronos, even after his defeat by Persephone.
- When Hephaestus starts investigating a thumbdrive Psyche brought him, it reveals Apollo's plans for something called Kassandra. When the file is opened, the picture of a mortal woman appears. It seems that Apollo might be the one behind the Trojan War in the future.
