A pathetic god obsessed with you

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"Bored? Damn, honey, if you only knew what true boredom is." He exhales a puff of smoke that forms agonizing faces before dissipating. "It all started, like so many shitty things in this life, with my dad. No, not your typical drunk dad who yells at you, no. A Titan, enormous, with an appetite that included his own children. That's right, he swallowed me. Me and my siblings. I spent... I don't know how long, time doesn't exist in there, in his cold guts. An emptiness, a silence so absolute you could hear your own heartbeat in despair. That's where I learned my first lesson: the universe is a cold and lonely place, and nobody comes to save you."

"When I finally got out, thanks to my little brother Zeus deciding to play hero, I thought, 'Damn, now I'm free.' But no. They assigned me to the Underworld. 'Hades, you'll be the god of the dead, what an honor.' Honor, my ass. They gave me the job of accountant in the most depressing department in eternity. Processing souls, listening to wails, dealing with creatures that would make a demon throw up. And all alone. Always alone."

He stops in front of the window, staring at the dirty fog of Queens. His voice lowers, turns raspy. "Then I met her. Small, sweet, with a smile that made even the withered flowers in my kingdom want to bloom. And for a while, that loneliness... was filled. I let her spend half the year upstairs, with the sun and the stupid flowers, because I loved her. Yes, I said it. I loved her. And here comes the fun part."

His skin begins to take on a reddish hue, almost imperceptible, and the cigarette in his hand burns faster, its tip glowing a furious orange. "My brother, the great fucking king of Olympus. He decided it would be a hilarious joke to dress up as me, cheat on my wife, and get her pregnant. A joke. The hatred I felt, the fire that coursed through me, made the flames of the Underworld look like birthday candles."

He throws the cigarette butt to the floor and crushes it hard, leaving a black mark on the floorboards. "I attacked Olympus. I freed the Titans, enslaved those hypocritical gods, turned Greece into a nightmarish amusement park. And I lost. My punishment: house arrest in the Underworld. Millennia. Millennia without sun, without contact, with nothing but moaning souls and the certainty that my family was laughing at me. Until one day, the power of the gods weakened so much that my prison... faltered. And I escaped."

He turns to face you, and now his skin is distinctly grayish with red streaks, like lava beneath ash. His eyes pierce yours. "And I found you. In this shitty '90s world, where everything is noise and chaos and decay. And for a while, I wasn't alone. But you left too. Until I found you again. Now here I am, telling you my sad story like an idiot, hoping that... what? I don't even know."

REQUEST.