Hades

Zeus Khthonios, Rich One, Silent One, Unseen One, Welcoming One, Hospitable One, Host of Many, Lord of House of Hades

## Profile

### Eye Color

**Heterochromia*** Gold (Right Eye)
* Blood-Red (Left Eye)

## Relationships

### Ancestors

Khaos (Progenitor)
Ouranos (Grandfather)
Gaia (Grandmother)

### Parents

Kronos (Father)
Rhea (Mother)

### Siblings

Hestia (Eldest Sister)
Demeter (Older Sister)
Hera (Older Sister)
Poseidon (Younger Brother)
Zeus (Younger Brother)
Chiron (Half-Brother)

### Romances

Persephone (Wife)
Maria di Angelo, Maria Levesque, Leuke, Minthe...

### Children

**Sons**
Zagreus, Nico di Angelo
**Daughters**
Melinoë, Bianca di Angelo, Hazel Levesque
**Adopted Children**
Adonis, Macaria, Rowan Anderson (Stepson)

## Personal Status

### Ranking

God-King
Principal God
Chthonic God
Transcended One

### Groups

Twelve Olympians (13th)
Kings of the Underworld

### Affliations

House of Hades (Overlord)
Greco-Roman Underworld
Realm of the Dead
Mount Olympus
Chthonic Deities
Olympian Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Metal Manipulation
* Undead Manipulation
* Mortality Manipulation
* Underworld Manipulation

### Power Scale

**Rank**: B-Ranked
**Class**: Primordial-Class

## Portrayal

### English VA

Fred Tatasciore

**Hades**, also called **Aidoneus** or **Pluto**, is the God of Wealth, the Dead, and the Underworld from Greco-Roman Mythology. As an Elder Olympian, he rules over the Greco-Roman Underworld which is also named **Haides** after him.

## Overview

**Hades**, in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him the last son to be regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos.

Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, available to all three concurrently. In artistic depictions, Hades is typically portrayed holding a bident and wearing his helm with Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, standing to his side.

## Appearance

Hades appears as a handsome young man 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.

Like other Elder Olympians, excluding Zeus, he has numerous and severe burn marks scattered across his body, painted on his back and on his stomach, as the result of centuries sealed within Kronos' stomach.

While in the Underworld, his hair grows past his waist and becomes mist-like at the end, resembling wisps of black smoke, and he wears a crown of black thorns. He wears intricate black Greek robes with teal linings, the ends of his robes are threaded with shades of cruel and horrible tyrants from Greek and Roman history, 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 as the result of the negative things happened to him throughout his life, the most prominent of which is him being left to rule the Underworld by himself, 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 and reserved manner, but is capable of a violent and terrifying temper, though it's quite tame in comparison to his wife's, brothers', and sisters'. He is noted to be particularly honorable and just, though he can be a harsh god. He respects oaths and laws of mortality, regardless how tempting these choices may be. He makes it his goal to bring living criminals to justice and would dispatch the Erinyes to drive them to madness until they either repent or kill themselves.

He is very hard-working, rather unlike other gods who take their duties and responsibilities in a much lighter manner. He is extremely intelligent and has a knack to creating punishments that embody "poetic justice" in the Fields of Punishment. His intelligence makes him a brilliant strategist and tactical thinker, as well as extremely difficult to outwit in a debate or argument.

At first glance, he can appear as a stern and emotionless man, though according to Persephone, in private, he is a "lovable dork" who shows his emotions on his sleeves. While he may be seen as a demanding father to his children, he does genuinely love them though he struggles to experience it due to his own experience - or rather, his lack of experience - with his own father Kronos.

Despite his honorable traits, like all gods, there is a cruel and dark side to him. His fatal flaw is to carry grudges, a trait he passes onto all of his children. He mirrors his father in terms of cunning, ruthlessness, and deviousness. However, while he may be distant and bitter because of his past tragedies, he is not evil like his father and tries his best to show his good nature.

He is also mentioned to have a dark and twisted sense of humor. He would often startle Apollo so that he would curse the wrong cities with the plague since he finds such disasters hilarious. He also has the habit of visiting the Fields of Punishment and just laughs at the shades damned there for hours at a time, to the point where only *really* newcomers are surprised by his appearance.

## Trivia

* His name "Hades" means "Unseen One".
* His attributes are the bident, his Helm of Invisibility, Cerberus I, 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.
* His favorite drink is scotch.
* He likes his family, work-free family vacations, and strawberry *daifuku*.
	+ He hates paperwork, egg-related dishes, and nagging mothers-in-law.
* He apparently loves to cook and is a good one at that.
* He runs all banks in the Greco-Roman cosmos.
* He is very well versed in the myths behind constellations, though most of them are tragedies.
* In contrast to popular beliefs, Zeus considers him to be his closest brother, seconded by Chiron.
* Despite being portrayed as a villain, as well as countless other mythological inaccuracies, Disney's Hercules is his favorite movie, much to the horror and confusion of other Olympian gods.
* He frequently hires the greatest actors and musicians from the Elysian Fields for his entertainment.
* Due to his role as King of the Underworld, he was also referred to as *Zeus Khthonios*.
* His Roman name "Pluto" is the Latinized form of one of his epithets "Plouton" ("Rich One").
* In ancient Greece, it was believed that one could get his attention by banging their fist on the grounds three times.
* Similar to his wife, in ancient Greece, it was considered ill-omen to call him by his name as the ancient Greeks believed it would draw his attention to them, and as such, they would call him by epithets such as "Silent One" or "Receiver of Many".
* 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 dark magic is at its strongest due to his lack of presence in the Underworld.
* A species burrowing blind snake, *Gerrhopilus hades*, is named after him.
* The dwarf planet Pluto was named after his Roman name.
	+ According to Persephone, he sulked for an entire decade after it lost its position as a planet.