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* HappilyAdopted: Urania and Euterpe by Apollo.
* HappilyMarried: Hades and Persephone.
** Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Yes, ''really''.
* IncestIsRelative: Par for the course when dealing with a work about the Greek Pantheon, so even gods who are related to one another are linked romantically at times. Besides the usual offenders, Apollo sleeps with both Hestia and Demeter at various points, [[spoiler: resulting in the birth of Terpsichore and Polyhymnia]].
* HappilyMarried: Hades and Persephone.
** Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Yes, ''really''.
* IncestIsRelative: Par for the course when dealing with a work about the Greek Pantheon, so even gods who are related to one another are linked romantically at times. Besides the usual offenders, Apollo sleeps with both Hestia and Demeter at various points, [[spoiler: resulting in the birth of Terpsichore and Polyhymnia]].
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* AdaptationalBadass: Five of the nine Muses take to the battlefield at one point, and do very well. By contrast, in classical canon, they were not martial goddesses
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* IncestIsRelative: Par for the course when dealing with a work about the Greek Pantheon, so even gods who are related to one another are linked romantically at times. Besides the usual offenders, Apollo and Hestia sleep together at one point [[spoiler: resulting in the birth of Terpsichore]].
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* IncestIsRelative: Par for the course when dealing with a work about the Greek Pantheon, so even gods who are related to one another are linked romantically at times. Besides the usual offenders, Apollo and sleeps with both Hestia sleep together and Demeter at one point various points, [[spoiler: resulting in the birth of Terpsichore]]. Terpsichore and Polyhymnia]].
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** Specifically, while he famously pursued [[spoiler: Daphne]] against her will in classical mythology, here the two are lovers. Which means...
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** Specifically, while he famously pursued [[spoiler: Daphne]] against her will in classical mythology, here the two are lovers.happily in love. Which means...
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** Specifically, while he famously pursued [[spoiler: Daphne]] against her will in classical mythology, here the two are lovers. Which means...
* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler: Peneus]] is hit with this. In the classical tradition, his [[spoiler: transformation of Daphne into a laurel]] was done at her request to protect her. Instead, here he is disapproving and [[spoiler: he just straight-up ''murders'' Daphne]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler: Peneus]] is hit with this. In the classical tradition, his [[spoiler: transformation of Daphne into a laurel]] was done at her request to protect her. Instead, here he is disapproving and [[spoiler: he just straight-up ''murders'' Daphne]].
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* MistakenForCheating: Aphrodite with Eros by mortals in Eros and Psyche's chapter. As a baby, Eros was so warm to the touch that only Ares could touch him comfortably, so he often curled up in bed with Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Eros.
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* MistakenForCheating: Aphrodite with Eros Ares by mortals in Eros and Psyche's chapter. As a baby, Eros was so warm to the touch that only Ares could touch him comfortably, so he often curled up in bed with Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Eros.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Classical mythological tradition usually has the Nine Muses as the daughters of Zeus and a single Titaness. Here they're daughters of Apollo, who in myth would be their half-brother, and various women.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Classical mythological tradition usually has the Nine Muses as the daughters of Zeus and a single Titaness. Here they're daughters of Apollo, who in myth would be their half-brother, and various women.
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* IncestIsRelative: Par for the course when dealing with a work about the Greek Pantheon, so even gods who are related to one another are linked romantically at times. Besides the usual offenders, Apollo and Hestia sleep together at one point [[spoiler: resulting in the birth of Terpsichore]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Apollo has the longest list of lovers in-series.
** Erato, one of the Nine Muses and Apollo's daughter with [[spoiler: Amphitrite]], leaves a "constant trail of heartbroken men and women" behind her, a characteristic she apparently picked up from her father.
** Erato, one of the Nine Muses and Apollo's daughter with [[spoiler: Amphitrite]], leaves a "constant trail of heartbroken men and women" behind her, a characteristic she apparently picked up from her father.
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* ChickMagnet: Apollo is noted at one point to have ''many'' female admirers. Most of the Muses, who in this are his daughters, are born after encounters with various goddesses and mortals.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Icarus, who after spending several years as Poseidon's not-entirely willing lover leaves the palace, and is either crushed by the pressure or drowns. Then he wakes up in the underworld...
* InterruptedSuicide: Eros gets Zephyr to interrupt Psyche's.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Psyche, who wants to have a normal life.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Psyche, who wants to have a normal life.
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* CuddleBug: Ares, believe it or not, often receiving hugs and cuddles in his chapter. They're usually of the cool-down variety.
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''Gods and Monsters'' (titled "Gods and Monsters 2017" distinguish it from [[Literature/GodsAndMonsters other works with the same title]]) is a retelling of Greek Mythology by {{ShahnaStoryteller}}. It features several connected short stories featuring tales of famous episodes of Greek mythology, most with some twist or other.
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''Gods and Monsters'' (titled "Gods and Monsters 2017" distinguish it from [[Literature/GodsAndMonsters other works with the same title]]) is a retelling of Greek Mythology by {{ShahnaStoryteller}}.{{ShanaStoryteller}}. It features several connected short stories featuring tales of famous episodes of Greek mythology, most with some twist or other.
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''Gods and Monsters'' (titled "Gods and Monsters 2017" distinguish it from [[Literature/GodsAndMonsters other works with the same title]]) is a retelling of Greek Mythology by {{ShahnaStoryteller}}. It features several connected short stories featuring tales of famous episodes of Greek mythology, most with some twist or other.
Originally published on the author's tumblr, it was collected [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10669833/chapters/23617803 on Ao3 here]] and is for sale [[https://shanastoryteller.bigcartel.com/ here]].
!! Gods and Monsters features the following tropes:
* AbledInTheAdaptation: A variant. Hephaestus' typical origin story involves the fact that he was deformed and that Hera, disgusted, threw him off Olympus after his birth as a result. In this, while he's born a normal baby, he loses his legs below his knees as a result of the fall.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: From Arachne's chapter: "They tell tales of Hephaestus’s ugliness. They are not true."
* AdaptationalConsent: Downplayed with Apollo was infamous for chasing down unwilling women in the mythos. Here, while he's still rough with men, Artemis keeps him from forcing himself on women.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Aphrodite, one of the most jealous of the Olympians, is here pretty reasonable by godly standards. She becomes something of a protectress to Arachne, for instance, and her tests of Psyche are of the SecretTestOfCharacter variety rather than the "I-want-you-dead" variety.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Artemis is usually portrayed as chaste. Here, while she's sworn off the company of men, she ''definitely'' hasn't sworn off the company of women.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Zeus has almost no redeeming qualities in this work.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Zeus and Hera, natch.
* BreakTheHaughty: Hera, in the earliest iteration we see of her at the beginning of the Hera and Hephaestus chapter, is extremely proud and willing to endure an abusive marriage with Zeus for the sake of power. That slowly breaks her, and she's a shell of a woman by the time [[spoiler: Hephaestus rescues her]].
* ChocolateBaby: [[spoiler: Hephaestus]].
* CompositeCharacter: After spending time in the underworld, Icarus starts helping out with maintaining the underworld and picks up the name Thanatos.
** [[spoiler: Achilles is ''somehow'' sent back in time and becomes Charon the boatman.]]
** [[spoiler: Demeter is actually Gaia, Mother Earth herself.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Arachne. She journey's to Hephaestus' forge ''twice'', once as a spider.
* DudeMagnet: Even in a story where most characters are quite attractive and have many lovers, special mention has to go to Icarus/Thanatos. While still mortal, he attracts Apollo and Poseidon. After going to the Underworld he catches Hades [[ChickMagnet and Persephone's]] eye, and settles into some sort of relationship with both of them.
* HappilyMarried: Hades and Persephone.
** Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Yes, ''really''.
* LoopholeAbuse: Artemis is supposed to remain a virgin. A young woman who wants to, ah, [[UnusualEuphemism thank her]] for something claims that virginity is "a man’s invention and a man’s concern", and since they're both women...as can be inferred from the above trope on Adaptational Sexuality, Artemis takes this to heart.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Hephaestus]], usually seen as one of Zeus and Hera's three children, is in this the son of Hera and a mortal man. He is thrown from Olympus in this version for this.
Originally published on the author's tumblr, it was collected [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10669833/chapters/23617803 on Ao3 here]] and is for sale [[https://shanastoryteller.bigcartel.com/ here]].
!! Gods and Monsters features the following tropes:
* AbledInTheAdaptation: A variant. Hephaestus' typical origin story involves the fact that he was deformed and that Hera, disgusted, threw him off Olympus after his birth as a result. In this, while he's born a normal baby, he loses his legs below his knees as a result of the fall.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: From Arachne's chapter: "They tell tales of Hephaestus’s ugliness. They are not true."
* AdaptationalConsent: Downplayed with Apollo was infamous for chasing down unwilling women in the mythos. Here, while he's still rough with men, Artemis keeps him from forcing himself on women.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Aphrodite, one of the most jealous of the Olympians, is here pretty reasonable by godly standards. She becomes something of a protectress to Arachne, for instance, and her tests of Psyche are of the SecretTestOfCharacter variety rather than the "I-want-you-dead" variety.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Artemis is usually portrayed as chaste. Here, while she's sworn off the company of men, she ''definitely'' hasn't sworn off the company of women.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Zeus has almost no redeeming qualities in this work.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Zeus and Hera, natch.
* BreakTheHaughty: Hera, in the earliest iteration we see of her at the beginning of the Hera and Hephaestus chapter, is extremely proud and willing to endure an abusive marriage with Zeus for the sake of power. That slowly breaks her, and she's a shell of a woman by the time [[spoiler: Hephaestus rescues her]].
* ChocolateBaby: [[spoiler: Hephaestus]].
* CompositeCharacter: After spending time in the underworld, Icarus starts helping out with maintaining the underworld and picks up the name Thanatos.
** [[spoiler: Achilles is ''somehow'' sent back in time and becomes Charon the boatman.]]
** [[spoiler: Demeter is actually Gaia, Mother Earth herself.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Arachne. She journey's to Hephaestus' forge ''twice'', once as a spider.
* DudeMagnet: Even in a story where most characters are quite attractive and have many lovers, special mention has to go to Icarus/Thanatos. While still mortal, he attracts Apollo and Poseidon. After going to the Underworld he catches Hades [[ChickMagnet and Persephone's]] eye, and settles into some sort of relationship with both of them.
* HappilyMarried: Hades and Persephone.
** Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Yes, ''really''.
* LoopholeAbuse: Artemis is supposed to remain a virgin. A young woman who wants to, ah, [[UnusualEuphemism thank her]] for something claims that virginity is "a man’s invention and a man’s concern", and since they're both women...as can be inferred from the above trope on Adaptational Sexuality, Artemis takes this to heart.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Hephaestus]], usually seen as one of Zeus and Hera's three children, is in this the son of Hera and a mortal man. He is thrown from Olympus in this version for this.
