Hades

**Hades**, also known as **Pluto**, is the God of Wealth, the Dead, and the Underworld from Greco-Roman mythology. He is the eldest son of Kronos and Rhea, an Elder Olympian, and is a founding member of Mount Olympus and the current ruler of the Greco-Roman Underworld.

## Overview

**Hades**, also known as the **Unseen One** or **Haides**, is known as the king and supreme ruler of the underworld originating from the myths of ancient Greece. He is the Greek counterpart of the Roman God **Pluto**.

Born from the union of Cronus and Rhea, he later participated in the war against the Titans and successfully won along their siblings. While Zeus and Poseidon ruled the sky and the sea territory respectively, he claimed the darkest place, located inside the earth, where the light of the sun is not allowed to shine, which is the realm of the dead (although he's not the god of death himself, as the role would be taken by Thanatos).

His duty subsequently made him often unable to leave his own world and therefore, he is not considered to be one of the twelve Olympians, but is still referred as one of the principal gods. He has many assistants and servants, among others are the judges who judge the human soul (Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aiacos), Cerberus the guardian of the underworld, and the Moirae who control over fate.

One of the most famous myths mentioned in history is the abduction of Persephone, goddess of spring, where Hades kidnapped her. Demeter demanded her daughter to be released and he did, but not before giving the pomegranate fruit to Persephone, which made her the queen of the underworld, therefore every half year she must return to him. Hades also appears in the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.

## Appearance

Hades appears as a handsome young man in his early 20s, with pointed ears and a marble-like complexion. He has wavy dark-green hair reaching his shoulders, and heterochromia, with his right eye being gold while his left is blood-red with black sclera, which he often hides with his hair. When he is passionate about something, his eyes "flare with purple fire."

In his first appearance, he was wearing the typical male uniform that Apollo wanted everyone to wear, which consisted of a white blazer with gold embroidery, a short-sleeved white dress shirt and a blue tie. He wears a dark-gray vest underneath the blazer and gray-colored dress pants. He also wore black leather boots.

When he is first shown in his palace, his hair grows past his waist and becomes mist-like at the end, resembling wisps of black smoke, and on top of his head is a crown made out of black thorns. He wears an intricate black Grecian-styled robe with teal linings, the ends of his robe are threaded with the souls of cruel and sinful rulers of Ancient Greece and Rome, with notable faces such as Nero, Commodus, and Caligula, and resembling light-blue flames from afar.

## Personality

Hades is an extremely quiet, solitary, and independent god, choosing to rely on his resources as opposed to that of others. He is intensely bitter for the negative things that have happened throughout his life: The most prominent of these is the fact he was originally left to rule Haides by himself and was mostly unvisited by anyone unless they have no other choices, in addition to not having a throne for himself on Mount Olympus where he was feared and despised by most of his nieces and nephews.

He maintains a casually calm, reserved manner but is capable of a violent and terrifying temper, though it is quite tame in comparison with his wife, brothers, and sisters.

He is noted to be particularly honorable and just, though he can be a harsh god. He respects oaths and the laws of morality, particularly when tempted to revive his daughter Bianca after she was killed. He made it his goal to bring living sinners to justice as well, and would dispatch the Erinyes to drive them to madness until they were either killed or made amends for their misdeeds.

He is noted to be very hard-working and busy, rather unlike many of the gods who take their duties and responsibilities in a much lighter manner. He is also extremely intelligent, shown by his incredible ability to invent new and original, often the perfect definition of poetic justice, punishments for sinners in the Fields of Punishment on the spot. In spite of his intelligence, however, he is somewhat inept at the concept of romance, to the point where he was forced to rely on Zeus' advice to propose to Persephone, which the entire pantheon had agreed to be a stupid decision, Zeus included. That said, his intelligence makes him a brilliant strategist and tactical thinker, and is extremely difficult to outwit in a debate, argument, or battle of wits.

Despite his honorable habits, there is a cruel and darker side to him. He also carries grudges for an extremely long time, a trait he passes onto all of his children. His cruel traits mirror that of his father Kronos in terms of cunning, ruthlessness, and deviousness. He, however, is not evil like his father, but rather distant and bitter due to past tragedies which led him to behave the way he does, though he tries his best not to show it.

He has a secret softer side of his own. His wife, Persephone, stated that he was a kind and generous man, being quite a bashful dork when they started dating, and still after thousands of years married to each other. His darker side stemmed from the bitterness he feels at being hated and feared by his fellow gods, which led to his habit of holding grudges.

At first glance, he can appear as a strict and demanding father to his children, though he does genuinely love for his children. However, due to his own experiences, or rather lack of experiences, with his parents, he often struggles with parenthood in general.

It is hinted that he has a dark and twisted sense of humor, since Apollo mentioned that Hades sometimes shadow traveled behind him and said "Hi!" in order to startle Apollo so that he would shoot his plague arrows in the wrong direction, thus infecting the wrong city, because Hades would find that funny. He also has the habit of visiting the Fields of Punishment and laughed at the damned souls there, to the point where none of its inhabitants are surprised by his appearance anymore.

### Roman Form

Hades can change into his Roman counterpart of **Pluto**. As Pluto, he has a more relaxed demeanor than his Greek aspect that tempers his more disciplined, militaristic, and warlike nature. While Hades was envisioned by the Greeks as a fearsome and powerful being, the Romans believed that Pluto was less associated with death and more associated with riches. Both associate him with the Underworld.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Hades are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Hades.
* **Lack of Worship & Offerings**: As a pagan god, Hades gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain his immense divinity. If he stops gaining offerings from his loyal followers, his powers may become immensely weakened. Due to his essence being tied to the Western Civilization, he can gain power from those associated and symbolized by his divine domains, or associated with him or the myths surrounding him.
	+ Due to his status as a chthonic god, he can maintain and even strengthen his divinity by absorbing the spiritual energy of the souls of the deceased or of the Realm of the Dead itself.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Hades. However, due to his immense power, only a chieftain god’s Symbol of Power is capable of killing him.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Hades can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Longinus**: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Hades, to the point where he can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Hades can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* Due to his role as king of the Underworld, he was referred to as *Zeus Katakhthonios* (“[the] Zeus beneath the earth”).
* His Roman name Pluto, a Latinized form of the Greek title *Ploútōn* (one of Hades' epithets), means “the Rich One”.
* His sacred symbols are the Bident, his Helm of Darkness, Cerberus, and the Drinking Horn.
	+ His sacred animal is the screech owl (since its cry is considered a bad omen).
	+ His sacred plants are the white poplar, the cypress, and the narcissus.
* The only day he is officially invited to Mount Olympus was during the Winter Solstice, which is the darkest day of the year, and when ancient and dark magic is at its strongest due to his lack of presence allowing the surpressed miasma of the Underworld to go loose.
* In the text of the *Suda*, Macaria appears as Hades's daughter only, no mother mentioned.
* He likes his family, work-free family vacations, strawberry *daifuku*, and pomegranates.
	+ He hates paperwork, egg-related dishes, being mistaken for the Devil, and nagging nagging mothers-in-law.
* The dwarf planet Pluto, once officially the smallest and farthest planet categorized, was named after him.
* He frequently hires the greatest actors and musicians from the Elysium Fields for his entertainment.
* He is very well versed in constellations, though most of them are tragedies.