Clavis and my Hades crush

"What are you saying?  You'd really give up being queen?"

Confessing your love

^ The code for these pictures are so messed up and tangled I can't even... So I got Clavis's ending on Angelique Special.  wow, what a sweet ending.  I love that it's all about the hands.  It just makes me go "Dawwwwwww".  Holy crap this guy is tall.  Like I said, I was just going to go for him really quick because he was the most compatible with my blood type and birthday but I really fell for this character.  It still really bugs me that you can't have a Queen and a King of a universe.  They even compare it to being a mother and father in one of the OVAs. (Hhhhhhnnng!)  I think that Clavis was the start of my whole Hades crush realization too.  Now I go through manga looking for these long back haired characters.  Most of them end up being villains or half demon somethings though and those are not really what I'm looking for.  I really like the sweet, shy, quiet guys that just look really intimidating.  So what counts as a Hades crush?  First off you have to know about the Original Hades in Greek mythology without any christian influences.  I'm trying to remember if he was the oldest brother?  I just know that he was in line to become ruler of the gods but drew the worst lot.  Zeus getting the Heavens, Poseidon getting the Seas and Hades getting the Earth.  Hades is usually described as being a very handsome and passive sort of man.  While he's intimidating at first and his line of work may be dark if not a bit morbid, he is not evil in the slightest.  It bothers me so much when he's the villain in western adaptions

Hades Crushes usually have

• Black or cool colored hair
• Small, scowl like eyes
• The hair has to be long (it really depends on the styling) covering his face
• Thought to be the villain or rude at first.
• Quiet if not intimidating disposition
• Snark may be included but more on the side of quick snide remarks or jokes
• Mysterious or somewhat misunderstood pastime activity
• End up just being really shy and fall deeply in love.
• Usually have a cute fault or an unexpected, secret obsession.

Masato Hijirikawa from Uta no Prince Sama is so on this list.  First because they introduced him as the snooty rich kid that doesn't like people (he acts a bit differently in the game though.)  By episode 3 he's playing twinkle twinkle little star and by the second season he admits he's afraid of hugging.  He's not past punching Ren in the face though.  He's also very serious about everything.  You might think that he's a stretch because of his hair and because he's more traditional Japanese than anything.  He counts because he was introduced as a character for you to dislike at first.  He's not mean, just very stand offish.  It's weird because I'll put him on this list but I don't consider Yorihisa from Harutoki a Hades Crush.  Maybe if I saw him with his hair down?  Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe Yorihisa would count?  mmmm.  I can't quite put my finger on it, but he doesn't.

Oh man, Lord Zagato is on this list.  When I was going through my Magic Knight Rayearth phase in Jr High, I didn't like him.  My sights were set on Clef.  I'd only seen a bit of the anime though and it wasn't until highschool when my friends passed around the manga that I found out that he wasn't a "villain," he was just in love. WHAT A TWIST!  I wish we could have gotten to know this character more because he's absolutely interesting.  Just look at that little sad face.  dawww...

So here's a weird thought.  Magic Knight Rayearth and Angelique came out about the same time.  The manga for Rayearth came out 1993 while Angelique came out 1994.  The character designs and fantasy style are very similar.  I wonder if some one was influenced or if it was a coincidence?

Like I said above, Clavis is on this list for all of these reasons.  His little quirk is that he likes to watch the guys play sports and his favorite foods are a little silly.  It's just funny to think that these guys have a favorite food.  It's funny thinking they eat at all.  It's funny thinking they have to do anything normal people do.  While it was really the games that drew me to him was the TV anime with his whole "I need you" thing.  Second is his little grumpy chibi form in the manga that I just laugh whenever I see him.  Finally the snark in the OVAs.  It's weird.  At first it doesn't seem like he has much of a personality but I really love the guy.  

Ah, how could I forget Hades himself from Kamigami no Asobi.  Whats odd is that he had very christian undertones to him but not in the way that you think. Saying that he wants to take on people's misery and whatnot.  It's very odd considering what we do to him in the west.  He's just such a gloomy little sweetheart.