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• Mother Shelter Us (Father Shepherd Us) by Follow_the_clues

  Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell  

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  18 Oct 2025

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  • Hades/Persephone (Hadestown)
  • Eurydice/Orpheus (Hadestown)
  • Hades (Hadestown)
  • Persephone (Hadestown)
  • Orpheus (Hadestown)
  • Melinoe (Hadestown AU)
  • Demeter (Hadestown)
  • Eurydice (Hadestown)
  • Hermes (Hadestown)
  • The Fates (Hadestown)
  • The Workers (Hadestown)
  • The author knows almost nothing about greek mythology
  • do not judge this
  • Hermes is portrayed as Allie Daniel
  • Persephone is portrayed as Victoria Hamilton-Barritt
  • What if Orpheus was a child of Hades and Persephone
  • what if the author took cloudmachine too literally
  • this was written impulsively
  • Song: Young Man in America (Anaïs Mitchell)
  • Orpheus (Hadestown) Needs a Hug
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • like completely
  • Hades is portrayed as Chris Jarman

  Summary

  Now gather round brothers and sisters… and understand. You see the world didn’t always begin with man, it began in the warmth of a hearth and a child born of the world above and down below…
  Because Orpheus might be a young boy looking for his purpose… but his love will help the world go back in tune…

   

  Or, I took the lyrics to “Cloud Machine” and thought, what if Orpheus was the son of Hades and Persephone

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