Episode 33: Your Royal Majesty

Season 1

Apr 24

Editor: Bekah Caden and Annie LaHue

Released: 14 October 2018

Hecate is walking to work when she passes by a magazine stand. The stand is selling copies of a tabloid with a picture of Persephone and Hades on the front cover. She is not amused.

Hades happily walks into work with Cerberus, singing as they walk in. He wishes the three-headed dog a good day as he heads to the elevator. As the elevator heads up, Hades thinks about the photo Persephone sent him, and he wonders how he should reply. He wants to tell her she would be a better subject for a painting, but chides himself. He ponders how grateful he is that she is in Olympus and not here, since if a photo of her is this distracting, imagine what it would be like if she was in the Underworld.

Hades is heading into work, sending bidding good day to Cerberus, who is off to guard the gates of the Underworld. Hades rides the elevator to his office, thinking about the photo Persephone sent him and wondering how he should reply. He wants to tell her she would be a better subject for a painting, but chides himself, instead opting to reply that he doesn’t know why Hera keeps that portrait up, and that he hopes she is well. He is relieved that she is all the way in Olympus and not there in the Underworld, since even just a photo of her is distracting.

“Even a photo of her is so distracting. Lucky for me she’s all the way over in Olympus. Imagine if she was here all the time? I’d be done for.”
Hades

Hades enters his office to find Minthe, his personal assistant, sitting in his chair. He tells her to get up, and she immediately clings on to him, acting as though nothing is wrong (even though she stood Hades up at the Panathenaea), but Hades is unamused. She caresses him and simpers, asking why he didn’t come over after the party, saying, “Don’t tell me you’re still mad,” while leaning in to kiss him. He removes her hand from him, saying that she really let him down by not coming to the party. Minthe gets angry, and yells that his whole family hates her, but Hades calls her out by saying that she was bored and was playing games. Hecate then interrupts them, and sends Minthe away to type up notes.

Hecate cheerfully asks Hades if he enjoyed the party, because he seemed to have a pretty good time, before calling him an idiot while throwing the tabloid on his desk. On the cover is the photo of him and Persephone leaving his home, captioning her as an anonymous flower nymph trying to sleep her way into the royal family.

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