Hecate (HEKATE)

Am I portraying the Goddess of Witchcraft, or a mere shade? Let me know here, please!

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Player Information

Name: Ducky
Age: 46
Contact details: nightlocke@plurk | A Duck#0728 on Discord
Other characters: Saash, Xander Woods

Character Information

Name: Hecate
Canon: Lore Olympus
Canon Point: Episode 153
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: Unspecified, but older than Hades, and he's 2000.

World Information: The Underworld, where Hecate hails from, is very much like modern-day Earth. High rise buildings, fast cars, cell phones, all of these exist there, and also in Olympus, the realm of the gods. (Not that Hecate isn't one of those, but she prefers the Underworld.) Meanwhile, the Mortal Realms is a place that languishes in antiquity, the setting of most mythology a la Ancient Greece. Both Olympus and the Mortal Realm experience day and night, while the Underworld is a world of shadows where the sun does not dare show its face.

Personal History: Hecate's wiki article Little is known about Hecate's history, save that she was already in place when Hades arrived to take power as the King of the Underworld. However, it's very clear that they came to some sort of agreement between them, and she's served as his faithful right hand ever since. Mythology says that she battled the Titans in her time, and helped serve as a negotiator between the reign of the Titans and the Olympians. In comics canon, Hecate also knew Persephone before Hades met her. Hecate spent time in the Mortal Realm with Demeter and Persephone, learning about herbs and poisonous plants, and she and Persephone became pen pals after Hecate returned to her place in the Underworld. She is known to the other gods--when Hades wakes up after Minthe assaults him, Hera informs him that Hecate told her where he was. It's simply unclear how much the Olympians know about her.

Personality: Hecate comes off as sassy, independent, and no-nonsense. She's not afraid to get things done--even if it's not necessarily a good thing that's getting done. (See her happily aiding Hades in his threatening and then torturing a reporter who'd printed Persephone's images in an Olympian scandal rag.) When Hades is "out of the office", so to speak, it is Hecate who keeps the employees of Underworld Corp. in line. When Thanatos slacks, she is the one who punishes him (most visibly by making him wear the 'punishment shirt'). She is the one who takes Minthe in hand when the river nymph assaults Hades, and suspends her from work. (Yet Hecate has no real qualms about slapping Hades himself around a little when she thinks he's being dumb, either. Or when she thinks he's besmirched Persephone's honor.) And yet she has a caring side as well--she is very concerned with how the world sees Persephone after the tabloid rag connects her with Hades, and challenges Hades himself, asking him if he showed Persephone his best side. She reassures Demeter that Persephone is safe, after the mother goddess appears in her sanctum, worried about her daughter. Hecate may be aware of Persephone's act of wrath, but if she is, she doesn't seem to care about it, and is perfectly content to help the Goddess of Spring keep her freedom.

Hecate does reflect myth by helping Persephone when the latter is at Underworld Corp, trying to help Persephone when she can, despite her own duties. Hecate does seem to do more yelling at Hades and keeping him in line, though--be it by yelling at him or helping him in turn. But in and out of the office, she's not all business--she took time off even to study poisonous plants in the Mortal Realm, and even chose to pass, instead of wearing her usual Underworld attire.

It has been intimated that Hecate loves chaos, relishing in both causing it (though she hasn't really been seen to do it in canon much) and riding the wave caused by others' chaos. Hecate seems to be telling herself that, however, as she's incredibly loyal to people she sees as 'hers', and even goes out of her way to help both Hades and Persephone, instead of letting them flail about. To a degree she cares about Thanatos and Minthe, too--both as employees of hers and on their own merit, but Hecate lacks the closeness with those two that she has with Hades and Persephone. (She even gave Hades a letter that Persephone wrote her, when he was obviously going mad with curiosity.) Hecate tries to shame Thanatos into not slacking off, and she tells Minthe that she wants to help the nymph, but that Minthe makes it difficult. Hecate comes off as quite enduring in her way--she has seen the reign of the Titans come and go, and seen the rule of Zeus and the other Olympians come to the fore--and she's still here, secure in her own power and keeping her own secrets, with a Mona Lisa smile on her face.

Key themes: Protecting those she cares for (Hades and Persephone currently, Hecate definitely views them as hers), riding the wave of chaos, enjoying creature comforts. (That said, there's a degree of lying to herself that Hecate does...)

Main Motivation: Playing the game so that she remains in power and comfort, regardless of who wins.

Skills: Hecate is the Goddess of Witchcraft. In canon, not much is shown of that, though she seems to have the ability to teleport. When Persephone was near hibernation, Hecate used hydrokinesis to help bring her out of that state. She can identify curses simply by looking at them, as she did in the case where Persephone turned the nymph Minthe into a plant. She made the attempt to dispel it, but was unable to--but a curse set by another god (or goddess in this case) shouldn't be an easy thing to foil, anyway.

Recently her true form has been revealed; currently it seems to be three heads on a single body, but there are also extra sets of arms involved. Greek myth has her with three bodies, it remains to be seen if the comic will echo mythology. I won't say her powers are evolving, per se, but they're being revealed as we see more of Hecate in the comic.

Item: A thin golden band with a dark veil falling from it.

Sample: With Lena and reconnecting with Persephone.

Notes: I threw a bit of mythology in here to fill in some potential blanks.