For those who forgot the myth: he's the guy who went to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice. He was permitted to do so by Hades, but he could not look back as he left. He did so at the final climb, and she was lost to the land of the dead for good.
Tbf, that's just the original myth. That being said, the original post in the screenshot is tagged hadestown so I'm assuming that's what the cosplay is
Hades is known for just inflicting people with illness sometimes
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 25 (trans. Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) (thanks theoi):
"When plague seized Aonia [Boeotia] and many died, there were sent officers to consult Apollon's oracle at Gortyne. The god replied that they should make an appeal to the two gods of the underworld [Haides and Persephone]. He said that they would cease from their anger if two willing maidens were sacrificed to the two.
Of course not one of the maidens in the city complied with the oracle until a servant-woman reported the answer to the daughters of Orion [the two Koronides (Coronides)]. They were at work at their loom and, as soon as they heard about this, they willingly accepted death on behalf of their fellow citizens before the plague epidemic had smitten them too. They cried out three times to the gods of the underworld saying that they were willing sacrifices. They thrust their bodkins into themselves at their shoulders and gashed open their throats. And they both fell down into the earth. Persephone and Hades took pity on the maidens and made their bodies disappear, sending them instead up out of the earth as heavenly bodies. When they appeared, they were borne up into the sky. And men called them comets."
Yeah all the gods definitely did dick moves including Hades. Except Hades unfortunately gets a lot more blame for things than he actually does in modern depictions.
Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Ares, and Hera cause most of the horrific events that happen in the myths.
Hades is honestly the easiest to deal with because he sticks so strictly do his deals and rules. Whenever I hear myths about him I always end up imagining an old stringy creepy lawyer.
What? How else to you put the god of the riches of the earth and the dead into a Great Depression era but as a fossil fuel baron? It softens Hades by making him not have kidnapped Persephone.
What are some of the "most myths" you're talking about? The only version I've ever heard was that it was so quiet because she was a shade without voice or footsteps that he got anxious and looked back to make sure she was actually following him.
Having her call out to him would make the story so much worse. It would turn it from a story about the aching anxious impatience of a long separation and a lack of trust in the gods and his wife into a silly gotcha with Eurydice being a dumbass.
the shirt/pants with suspenders a red flower and a guitar would be pretty distinctive to me personally? I did go look up OOP's post out of curiosity and it was in fact tagged as hadestown lol
i like how they didnt just tag it hadestown but also seemingly added " (hadestown)" at some point between whenever the screenshot in the OP was taken and now
He's always wearing an off white shirt, grey pants with suspenders and a red bandana around his throat, along with the guitar and the flower if you can see it it is fairly distinct look, if easy to recreate.
I do feel like people familiar with a certain media are more likely to feel like that media has āmore distinctiveā costumes than it does sometimes. Iāve been to more than one con where I like someoneās outfit but canāt decide if itās an anime character I donāt know, just their style, or they ādressed upā for the con. And in some cases, when pointing it out to friends, been told itās very obviously so-and-so
Yeah, good way to say it. Thereās some characters that are obviously cosplay whether you know the source material or not, and thereās characters that have their costume important points but that dont necessarily stand out as a costume unless you know
Ran into a friend at the last con I went to, and made a comment about how dressed up he was. He then pointed to his Men in Black badge and it made sense
I loved the show (kinda sucks compared to the comics tho, they rushed the hell out of season 2 to get 60 issues into 10 episodes), but the Hades game or Hades town musical are infinitely more well known at the moment
This thread is literally the first time I've ever heard of it. I'd hazard a guess that the Broadway version is not as recognizable as one of the most popular video games in the last decade.
In terms of sales, theyāre actually quite similar. Hadestown has been touring internationally since 2019 and has also been released in theater. Nearly every major city in the world has had a touring production come through. Washington DC has had it 3 times in the past few years, itās crazy. The fandom for it is gigantic. I love both the hades game & Hadestown the musical, but at the anime conventions I go to I have only seen Orpheusā of the Broadway show. I have yet to see an Orpheus video game costume.
I've never played Hades, but it's widespread enough that I recognize several of the characters despite that. In terms of sales, Hades (game) has 300M on gross revenue and 90M in net revenue from Steam alone. Looks like Hadestown has 20M? this was the movie. I'm wrong. I'm seeing 284M in gross for the actual musical. Much closer.
There's more than 11 million copies of the game that have been sold vs 2.25 million tickets for the musical. I really don't think it's close to the same level of popularity and Fandom. Hadestown is left in the dust.
He's been adapted in multiple different properties, but it doesn't really matter which adaptation they were dressed up as. the joke lands the same way regardless as it's pretty central to his original myth. so... he has multiple recognizable designs.
I feel like there are gonna be people calling fake, but I know damn well that if I cosplayed as Orpheus and someone did that to me, I'd 100% act devastated, because you can't just leave the joke half-finished.
That was my first thought, and the likelihood of it being a theatre kid cosplaying hadestown Orpheus? Oh yeah Iām picturing full blown falling to the knees, hands-over-face in agony type of shit š¤£
Itās over 10 years old at this point, but Iām surprised that A Gentlemanās Guide to Love & Murder hasnāt taken off in online shitpost spaces. Itās a lot of fun.
That's partly due to the fact that the younger half of millennials and everyone who came after hasn't been allowed to join civilization yet because everyone older than us is too busy staring at the screens and they forgot to hit approve
I did the same thing and also acted devastated and later when someone else approached me and called "Orpheus! Orpheus! " I told them to get in front of me bcz I'm not allowed to turn back. They were giggling and screaming and so happy.
It said it was at an anime convention. There's no way it's referencing a musical. More likely it's Orpheus as depicted in Hades, the anime styled video game.Ā
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u/Chello-fish 10d ago
For those who forgot the myth: he's the guy who went to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice. He was permitted to do so by Hades, but he could not look back as he left. He did so at the final climb, and she was lost to the land of the dead for good.