In most versions of the myth, Hades is the villain. The captor, the thief, the vile being cast from Olympus and forced to live in solitude in the Underworld, among the souls of the dead. It’s his cruelty they speak of, his past crimes they hold against him. No one ever talks about how he saved Persephone. Dragged her to hell as his queen, then curated an entire realm just to make her happy. How he plied her with love and affection and signed his soul over to her the second he laid his eyes on her form, overtaken by her beauty and purity.
