YMMV / Stray Gods

• Adorkable:
  • Freddie gets very excitable about traditionally nerdy interests. If allowed to, she geeks out hard over Hecate's reliquary, going on a long tangent about how great it is to have seen it, and is very keen to share her own interests with Hecate over tea. She even gets very giddy over Hecate saying her usual "catchphrase", considering it extremely cool. If the player sided with her earlier, she later shows up as backup for Grace, packing a makeshift flamethrower and a mace like she's going on an adventure. Freddie's enthusiasm for knowledge, willingness to jump into danger for her best friend and general warmth make her very endearing to fans. Grace puts it best.
    Grace: You are such a dork. I adore you.
  • Asterion is absolutely awful with words and basically trips over himself every other sentence, yet his affection for Hecate and general helpfulness makes him rather lovable nonetheless.
  • Charon has only one scene and no intelligible dialogue, but that is enough to establish him as a big cuddly guy who just wants some social interactions again. If Grace is keen to indulge him, he practically squeals in delight like he just made his first friend in a thousand years (which for all we know might well be true).
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Most of the minor characters that aren't available for romance are this, but these stand out:
  • Medusa, due to her interesting, creepy design and still being one of the more sympathetic interpretations of the character.
  • Orpheus, who only gets to have one scene to show his awesome musical skills and disappears completely afterward.
• Jerkass Woobie: Persephone is frosty and bitter and has a bad tendency to prioritize her own needs above others' at times, but given what a bad hand she had been dealt, one can hardly be unsympathetic. She was kidnapped by Hades and physically abused and manipulated by him for centuries. When she finally kills him, the other gods punished her for it, making her feel humiliated and robbed by the people who had not lifted a finger to help previously. During the war, her own mother was one of the Idols who died, leaving her even more alone. And in the game proper, Calliope, a former lover of hers, dies, living her filled with regrets and anger, making her lash out at the innocent Grace. She might have a hard shell, but that is only because life keeps beating her down until she is forced to grow one.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The first verse of Medusa's song includes creepy theremins as she paralyzes Grace in an attempt to eat her, and no matter what options you pick, Grace is unable to move as Medusa explains what's happening to her.
  • The Furies are three silent goddesses of vengeance who stalk their prey with butcher knives, are older than the pantheon and thus can't be commanded or subdued by normal means, and will not stop until their punishment is enacted with blood.
  • The Gap. After the Fall of Rome, all the Idols have a roughly 1000-year gap of memory. This gap in memory is roughly from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. Persephone mentions how Zeus essentially called all the Idols to war, and the next thing she knew it was the 1600's and she was a nun in Trieste in an entirely new body.
• That One Achievement: Getting the Maestro achievement requires you to hear all 44 songs and their variations, which is made more difficult by the fact that some songs can only be heard on specific routes. And while other songs only have a few variations, The Ritual has seven.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: In Act 3, Orpheus serves as a brief obstacle in Grace's journey to the underworld, but ultimately not much more than that. Considering this is a Greek Mythology Musical, and Orpheus is the most well-known character in Classical Myth to do with songs (Persephone even says he's much more than a muse), his mother is usually stated to be Calliope and his father may be Apollo, and that his journey mirrors Grace's (potentially more successful) quest to save Freddie, it's a bit of a missed opportunity he didn't have more of a presence in the rest of the plot. Instead, after one song, he just... walks off-screen if Grace makes certain choices.
• The Woobie:
  • Aphrodite was the only one of the pantheon to be captured and tortured during World War II and begged for mercy that only came when her husband sacrificed himself for the entire pantheon. This led her to have PTSD that didn't end no matter what she tried, leading to vicennial (once every 20 years) parties to be reborn in a new body where she'd temporarily forget her past. Depending on your choices, Grace can either offer her the 'mercy' she's come to know, or encourage her to keep going, neither of which are easy decisions to make.
  • Eros saw his mother suffer for at least 80 years and couldn't do anything to help her, and has given up on her domain of love since it can't help her suffering. His portion of the song section is begging his mother to find a way to make it through because he can't bear to watch her 'die' again.

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