[Wanda listens, finishing off her tart as he speaks. He doesn't spin the tale in such a way that it reinvents it entirely, but there's something in the way he tells the story that makes it feel new again.
She wonders if he realizes that his stance on Hades, setting him up to be a man with understandable feelings and needs rather than an outright villain, isn't all that unlike the way he spoke of pirates. Desperate men driven to do terrible things.]
It's rare that people remember that Persephone was a goddess in her own right. For all that the gods had a hierarchy I think I could subscribe to the idea that it was her choice to split her time between two people she loved.
[She lifts an eyebrow.] I suppose this makes my pomegranate just as unfairly villainized?
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She wonders if he realizes that his stance on Hades, setting him up to be a man with understandable feelings and needs rather than an outright villain, isn't all that unlike the way he spoke of pirates. Desperate men driven to do terrible things.]
It's rare that people remember that Persephone was a goddess in her own right. For all that the gods had a hierarchy I think I could subscribe to the idea that it was her choice to split her time between two people she loved.
[She lifts an eyebrow.] I suppose this makes my pomegranate just as unfairly villainized?