Diner Sunrise

Route 66 series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

John Milner at Mel's Drive-In

Mel's Classic Style Drive-in and Diner (This one in Orlando Florida)

I’m nowhere near done yet but I’m getting so, so heavy. I feel like an overripe fruit about to burst. I’m plumping up so fast I can’t contain my belly in any of my tight maternity dresses, let alone anything I used to wear before I got pregnant. I get winded to easily to do any work, my waddle slows me down so much that I’m better off staying off my feet entirely, which leaves me with no choice but to just keep swelling until I pop. Every morning I wake up thinking I can’t grow any rounder than I already am, only to wake up plumper and fuller the next morning. It doesn’t matter how heavy I feel or how much I want to move around or fit in my clothes, I have no choice but to keep growing.

Do you think Nemesis fantasizes about being the Knight to Melinoe's Princess and being quest-given to fight Chronos for her or something. Then she sees Melinoe out on the Run somewhere covered in blood and bruises and such and it fills her with unfathomable rage.

Okie so hot take: I don’t think Melinoë is as good of a protagonist as Zagreus. And here’s why.

It all comes down to motivation. Why did Zag go through the events of Hades 1? Because he was living in an abusive and volatile household and had to find some way to make things better for not just himself but his house. Otherwise he surely would have lost his mind having to deal with the abuse he got (remember at the beginning of the game basically only Nyx and Achilles were helping him. Everyone else is either neutral towards him or outright hostile). He needed answers, he needed to find out who and what he was by trying to find Persephone. And in the end he succeeded and was able to create a better life for himself and his house. Hell, even his relationship with his dad improved.

Now let’s look at Mel (yes this criticism is only addressing Early Access Hades 2). Why is she going through the events of Hades 2? Because… she’s been groomed since basically birth to kill Chronos. She doesn’t really have any other motivation than because it is what is expected of her essentially. She even says during her confrontation with Chronos, AFTER HE THREATENS TO HURT HER FAMILY, what do I care I barely know them (yeah sure she could just be bluffing to Chronos but that is still a very chilling thing to say when supposedly all of this is to save them and it makes her reunion with Hades lowkey ring hollow or weak). In another scene she even says the same thing to Hecate and says Hecate is more her mother than anyone else. Heck even in the flashback scene with young Mel and Hecate (which was very cute I’ll admit) she says she would want her mother to come back so Hecate isn’t sad. This makes all her motivations to kill Chronos and save the Underworld seem very… disconnected from the main component of the game? Being saving the house of hades and her family??

Like it’s expected of her and she was raised at birth to basically be prepared for this but she doesn’t have any personal reasons for doing any of this than just not letting Hecate and the others in the Crossroads down. Hell when she comes back from killing Chronos for the first time it honestly feels like Hecate is more interested and invested in what happened than Mel herself.

It makes her a really weird protagonist especially when comparing to her brother and how effective he was as a protagonist. Think about it, with Zag we got really in depth and character revealing moments where as the player we understand why he is doing all of this and so it is easy to go along for the ride because we like Zag and want to help him. Mel says she cares a lot about what is going on and wants revenge, but it all feels surface level (and which is understandable she doesn’t know these people, all she can say is “the titan took my family” when let’s be real she sees the people in the crossroads as more of her family). It honestly just seems like because she is expected to kill Chronos since she could think, she feels she has to do all this. It feels weird how she is disconnected from the core point of the game being to save the house of hades when Zag was so integral to that same core point in the first game.

I dunno, just my thoughts, I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks.

Edit: just fyi cause I feel with the comments I’ve been getting from my posts, I like hades 2 I am excited especially for the official release. I recognize my criticism/analysis could be wrong or out of date since the game isn’t finished yet. These are just my initial thoughts.

mom: we got food at home you don't need mcdonalds

my sibling and I pretending in the back that we're dying and only mcdonalds chicken nuggets can save us:

Virgil portal mel driving a car

Whether you enjoy the relationship or not…

Jayce being in love with Mel doesn’t seem like something the creators did just to squash people’s mlm fantasies. They’ve been set up as so integral to each other’s stories, especially with a Noxus arc coming up, that wanting to forget they ever happened and put them with other people feels beside the point to me.

Mel's Drive-In

Route 66 series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

Riot Kings, page 147

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(would he have gone through with it? Yes.)

Mel’s Drive-In Hollywood

I mean yeah Viktor was rude as well but it's because of what they were speaking about. He was triggered by what she was suggesting. He also knows she was using Jayce at first at least and that's the source of his bitterness.

Respectfully no.

Viktor has an attitude with Mel the first time we see them talk as @thisislostinlace pointed out on your last ask. Viktor is just kinda socially cold and seems like an introvert to me.

Mel was never using Jayce she was working with him (and Vik). And what "she was suggesting" was protecting Piltover (and Zaun) because Hextech put them on the map and other nations were watching them.

Vik has never seen war so he really doesn't know what he's talking about. Mel knows they need protection from Zaun but really it was just an excuse to protect Piltover (and Zaun by default) from Noxus and others. Elora and Ambessa warn her of this. It's in the script go rewatch Mel's scenes or something IDK?

Noone wants to acknowledge this but Viktor/Jayce didn't manage to help the undercity besides the gauntlets and other tech for workers. If Jayce is guilty of this so is Viktor. But especially Viktor because he knows what its like there and what those people need but he spends his time in that lab worrying about himself.

Also Mel has always genuinely had feelings for Jayce

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I was getting shit online a few days ago for being a bi butch.

A couple days later, I finally watched this 1996 interview, where Leslie Feinberg (author of Stone Butch Blues) makes an offhand comment about... bi butches.

I don't believe in afterlife, but I do believe that Leslie was personally giving me a butch clap on the shoulder ❤️