Hades

Or Pluto, or any of the other names.

Hades drew the short straw when it came to dividing the realms. I wonder what he thought? I wonder if he simply wanted to make the best of what he had, dividing the underworld into three, and taking a Queen for it. Did he have any choice except for to take Proserpine by force? Was he simply so downtrodden by the monotony of it, by the sheer neutrality, that he needed some consort from the living, some mediator to expound his love upon?

I read that Hades, contrary to popular representation, is not evil but neutral. Then again, aren't these inextricable from each other? It is doing nothing that allows evil to flourish. But I do not think that Hades is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, no. Hades, Pluto is a fair man. Death itself is the most neutral state, as one is inert and completely subject to other's opinions which are given without contradiction from oneself. Autonomy disappears. Hades is not evil, he is simply an overseer of souls, a doler-out of the God's punishments. I wonder what he was like before, before he was the God of the Underworld with his part-time Queen. Idealistic, possibly, and full of the arrogance of Victory and Youth. I would like to write a story, perhaps a play, about Hades, about Proserpine, his neice and half-bride, about his domain and his court.