[ SECRET POST #2418 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2418 ⌋

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Comments

[cassandraoftroy]

It probably doesn't hurt that, by the start of the series, Xena had rejected Ares and soundly kicked his ass every time he tried to interfere with her life. Despite his being a god and her being mortal, there's an odd sort of equality to their interactions. I don't watch Hannibal, but the impression I've gotten from fandom is that it doesn't depict a relationship of equals.

[othellia]

This. She's defeated him multiple times on a mental/strategic level and can hold her own with him on a physical level. Not to mention that there've been several times where he's been completely reliant on her for his survival (the body swap episode, the reality-altering quill/parchment episode, and most of season six come to mind), so yeah. There's definitely a shifting equality that sometimes falls on one end and sometimes the other.

Also a large part of his characterization comes from just who he is: the God of War. Like you can't fault a character for acting out their magical/genetic code.

(Also awesome Callisto icon. I love her so much. <3)

[cassandraoftroy]

Yeah, exactly. I was remembering that one time he got turned mortal when I wrote my comment. And you said it really well -- sometimes the power balance tips one way and sometimes it tips the other, but fundamentally she refuses to think of herself as less than his equal.

Thanks! Callisto is my favorite; she's so wonderfully crazy.

[othellia]

Speaking of Callisto, I'm sure the answer is 'yes', but did you watch the episodes of Hercules that have her in them? "Surprise" is fun enough and explains how she starts down the path to immortality (and later godhood), but "Armageddon Now" parts one and two are amazing.

[cassandraoftroy]

I almost certainly saw them when they first aired, but the Hercules-and-Xena rewatch I was doing with my boyfriend a while back kind of got derailed (I forget by what; one of the Star Trek series, maybe?), and so we haven't seen them all; I think we must've gotten to "Surprise," because when last we left Callisto, she'd just become a god and was trapped in lava with Velasca (I think that's where we were? We hadn't gotten to Dahak yet). We should go back to watching those...