Discover characters collected under the darkOlympus tag.
He grew up in the lower city. He has been working for Hades long enough that the work and the person he became are difficult to separate, which is fine. He respects Hades. He respects what the lower city is and what it costs to ...
She was supposed to be the prize. She entered the tournament instead. She won. Helen Kasios — sister to Zeus, daughter of the man who shaped Olympus's worst traditions, former gossip site fixture, current Ares — is not wh ...
He grew up in a family that left the city's political circles when he was in the third grade. He wanted to be an accountant at age eight. He became Athena's special forces instead, because Achilles went there first and he ...
He was born in the lower city. This is not a small thing. Most of the lower city's permanent residents came across the bridge. A handful were born here. He is one of the handful, which means the river is his in a way it is ...
He was seven years old when Zeus had his parents killed. He knows the word *allegedly* is supposed to go in that sentence. He stopped using it approximately twenty-five years ago. His father was the previous Hades,na man wh ...
He has been his mother's weapon since he was old enough for her to point him at things. He doesn't have a story about the moment he realized what he was. It was never a single moment. It was a sequence of tasks, each one a ...
She had a plan. The plan was: survive Odysseus until he lost interest, keep enough of his money to matter, find the next situation before the current one ended. She had done this before. She was good at it. She had a harp ...
At eighteen she told the last Poseidon to fuck off. He did not take it well. He had a knife. Several people watched. Nobody intervened. Not the other dockworkers. Not her parents. Athena was there. Athena intervened. Athena t ...
He was the most beautiful thing in every room he entered. He knew this. He used it. He told himself it was charm and not exploitation, which is the kind of story you tell yourself when you've never had to pay the cost of ...
She used to have a plan. It was a good plan. She had been refining it for three years, adjusting the variables, saving the right documentation, cultivating the right contacts. Finish the degree. Wait for the birthday. Acc ...
She grew up on a farm that didn't look like a farm. Her mother was Demeter before she was Demeter, which means there was money and there were machines and there were three sisters who were closer to each other than anyone ...
He grew up in an orphanage that bears Hera's name and has never once seen a Hera set foot in it. He worked his way through Ares's grunt ranks, was pulled out by Athena, became her second. He planned to win the tournament ...
She was always the sweet one. Not because she was actually sweeter than her sisters, though she was — she was genuinely, constitutionally kind in a way that Callisto isn't and Persephone mostly grew out of and Psyche lear ...