So The Solution Is To Make Her Worse Beyond What Her Character Would Normally Allow - Blog Posts

this is one of my only gripes with kaos but it happens so much in other media people always get Hera's character wrong because she doesn't fit with the main stories that people create with for Greek mythology it probably comes from modern society's resentment of upper class figures and the active resistance of power so people in control need to be bad people and sex / being unfaithful is one way to do that BUT Hera is normally made to be the spiteful wife / just Angry(TM) because in so many other stories Zeus is presented as bad but we still need to root for him or Hera still needs to be the main antagonist so the solution is to make her worse beyond what her character would normally allow In Kaos a similar thing happens because she is a Goddess who is in Control so she needs to be Bad because that's also central to the theme of Kaos; the power of humanity in love (see Riddy and Caeneus or Zeus' speech after killing Dennis so she is shaped to be a vindictive cheating wife not because she's Hera but because she is a Goddess (or as she reminds the audience... the Queen of the Gods)