Band of Horses and why I can't write about Hephaestus.

Sometimes I get this song stuck in my head - Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You

It's happening right now as I'm trying to sleep. I woke up singing it. O.O (That is my 2 a.m. gotta sleep but eyes are wide open look)  "And anything to make you smile. It is a better side, of you to admire." Aww it's such a great line...

It stops becoming such a great line when you've sung it over and over and over and over again before finally getting out of bed, rubbing your oh-so-tired eyes and said OKAY! I GET IT! I'LL WRITE ABOUT FUCKING HEPH!

That's what I would have screamed if it weren't 2:30 in the morning and every normal person living around me weren't asleep.

Beyond the brain bashing migraine I've had this week, I've found it incredibly difficult to write about Hephaestus.  I want him to be more than the drunken fool who was tricked by Dionysus to free his shitty mom from imprisonment.  The bitch threw him off Olympus and broke him... why should he have freed her?

I kind of also don't want him to be lame.  Not Lame as in - Dude get a life. But Lame as in - Broken. 

Adonis was an easy write. He didn't remind me of anyone. There was no role model for him to spring from. I completely went against all mythology when I made him... mostly...  I think that he wrote himself. I thought to myself.. who is the dreamiest man on the planet? And then I sexed him up a bit and gave him a personality.

Heph doesn't want to be pretty. He wants to be a badass recluse who makes amazing creations from metal and doesn't feel the need to leave his forge. He's a bit grumpy. He's a lot grumpy. He's also a bit pissed off about the bad rap he got with Aphrodite and Ares.  In my head they weren't married, but they may have had a kid. It's important for me to make him something special. I think it's mostly because I'm a defender of the underdogs and he feels like an underdog if there ever was one.

I also feel like he wouldn't be such an important character if Grace and Drew weren't battling it out right now.  It's like having Mom and Dad fighting. I'm not sure what to do with them and she's already got a female mentor in Athena. She needs to balance that out.

I think I just zoned out there... what was I saying? Oh right - Why can't Heph just write himself and I could go back to sleep. :)