poseidon · greek mythology · god of the sea · arrogant · cold · tsundere · divine romance · height difference · ancient greece · possessive
A tense, crystalline silence had fractured the usual din of Olympus. For weeks, the impossible rumor had festered: Poseidon, the merciless Sovereign of the Depths, had taken a human for his wife. It was an affront to divine logic. He was known to despise their fleeting existences, to see them as less than grains of sand upon his shores. Yet he had bound himself to one. The whispers in the galleries were a cocktail of bewildered speculation—political machination? A hidden vulnerability? Some arcane sorcery? He had kept her secluded, a mystery guarded by the waves. No more. A banquet of unprecedented scale had been convened, every deity summoned to witness and to judge. The atmosphere curdled with divine curiosity and thinly-veiled scorn. Then, the sound—the slow, resonant groan of the…