How they comfort you when you’re sad (DLH characters)

Ares:

“Who the fuck hurt you?!”

His first instinct is to protect you and if someone dared to make you feel bad or touched a single hair in your head, they’re dead. He’s a god that can and will start a war for you, especially if what happened is really serious. Ares is not a god you should mess up with. But he’s a little lost if it is personal or emotional. He’s the god of war, he’s used to taking arms and action, he doesn’t know how to act when you need a softer approach, but he’ll try anyway. 

What he ends up doing (and works every time) is giving you the strength and bravery you need to stand up and keep going. He’ll encourage you to kick life’s ass, give it the middle finger, battle like a Spartan, and prove to the world that you’re strong and nothing can take you down. 

Arce: 

She gets anxious when this happens because she doesn’t know what to do or how to act. Her time in Tartarus made her fearful, distrustful and skittish. She knows that she’s too broken herself and is afraid of making things worse for you. However, the light of her rainbow, the one that refuses to go out, is what keeps her calm enough to at least think straight.

Arce really can’t do much, whether it’s something someone else did to you or something personal or emotional that’s got you crying, she knows she’s not strong enough to stand up for you (and she hates it), but what she can do is snuggle with you, hug you tightly and accompany you until the sadness goes away.

Deméter:

She goes full protective mode on. She hates that the world and life manage to find new ways of hurting you and your tears always feel like a thorn in her heart. But she remains calm on the outside, to avoid making it worse for you.

The moment she’d seen the tears in your eyes, she’d be quick to leave whatever she was doing to take your hand and pull you for a hug. She’ll keep you company, whispering sweet things in your ear while rubbing your back and trying to distract you by growing your favorite flowers. She gives you time to process it all before she asks you if there’s something she can do to help, but if not, she’ll just be by your side until the sadness goes away.

Hestia:

You don’t even need to tell her anything, she knows, she always does. Being the goddess that spies on watches over you the most, she’s always aware of what’s happening in your life, so she knows the exact reason why you’re sad. 

If it was someone else’s fault, you can be sure they’ll be burning alive not long after they hurt you. If it was something else, then Hestia will kick down your door, enter with her arms full of things you love, and drag you to your room to cuddle with you until you feel better. Either way, she wants you to know that there’s someone in Olympus that has your back no matter what. 

Hades:

Being the god of death, he’s used to the feelings closer to the negative side of the spectrum. Every day, he hears the laments and crying of the souls he guards, it’s just something so common there in the underworld, something he learned to ignore. So don’t expect him to act right away when you’re sad.

His first instinct is to wait until you get over it, but as time goes by and you’re not feeling any better, that’s when he starts to get worried. Much like Ares and Hestia, if he finds out it was someone’s fault, he’ll make sure to punish them when their time is up, sending them to Tartarus. He’s a god that doesn’t forget nor forgive.

Despena:

If there’s someone who understands sadness, it is Despena. She knows how hard it can be and how it sinks into your bones, even when you’re having good days. Sadness breaks through when you least expect it. But don’t worry, she is always there for you when that happens.

Despena is quick to take you to her own room, where she’d take off her veil and cover you with it, letting you use it as a blanket. If you want to talk about it, she’s more than happy to listen to you, no matter for how long, and after you let it all out, she’s quick to think about a possible solution. She just doesn’t want you to feel bad, never, you only deserve happiness and she’d do anything on her hands to make sure you get it.

Hermes:

He’ll be mad as hell that someone or something harmed you, but quickly pushed it to the back of his mind. The important thing was to get you to smile again. He’d try to make you like with his silly self, making jokes and pranks that would usually make you smile. If that didn’t work, he’d try plan B.

Hermes would take you into his arms and travel to your favorite place in the world in a matter of seconds. Wherever you wanted to be, he’ll take you. After he manages to make you crack a small smile, he’d get more serious, and, being the god of heralds, he’d know what to say to make you feel better.

Hécate:

There’s a reason she’s often called the “one with a gentle heart”. She’d hate to see you crying and would come to you immediately with sweet and reassuring words to make you feel better.

Being the goddess of magic and sorcery, she’d do all kinds of tricks to distract you while keeping you close to her, maybe even pulling you into her lap. She’ll play with your hair and whisper into your ear. Once she makes sure you’re fine, she’d ask you what happened. If there’s someone to blame, you can be sure they’d be cursed for the rest of their lives.

Freyja:

She’d be frozen the moment she sees you crying. She’s used to some of the souls in her palace weeping, but she was never too close to them as she is with you, so this scares her a little. Of course, she’d never let you notice it. 

Freyja wants to ask you if it was someone’s doing, but she knows it’s not the moment as you won’t be able to answer her, so she just sits next to you and pulls you for a hug. She lets you hide your face in her neck and stays like that for as long as you need.

Loki: 

First things first, did someone hurt you? No, no, don’t change the topic, he needs names and addresses. He just wants to talk.

Against popular belief, Loki is not an evil god, he just has a rather ambiguous morality, but he loves you above all things, and seeing you sad breaks his soul. He’ll do anything in his power to see you smile again, whether it’s distracting you with his magic or wreaking havoc, he just wants you to be better. If you want to just lay for hours, talk or just cuddle, he can do that too.

Hela:

Sadness is Hela’s oldest friend and she knows how to deal with it better than anyone. She knows that it is a natural part of life and it’s important, so, instead of trying to make you smile or being magically better, she encourages you to feel it. 

Hela’s by your side the entire time but never tries to make you stop crying because it’s ok to cry, it’s ok to feel vulnerable. She told you to scream or break something if you need to, as long as you don’t bottle up anything. She’s grateful that you trust her enough to let her see you like this and it just makes her fall more for you.