YMMV / Hades II

• Fanon:
  • As soon as they were announced, Nemesis and Melinoë started getting shipped. Because Nemesis looks like a buff, no-nonsense warrior woman, this has led to jokes that Melinoë has her brother's tastes for partners considering Zagreus's romance with Meg. Some people expand it into showing Melinoë with a crush on Moros, matching Zagreus's romance with Thanatos, another dark-skinned blonde Tall, Dark, and Handsome man.
  • Despite them yet to be seen interacting, Zagreus has been uniformly portrayed as a loving and doting older brother to Melinoë. Given that Melinoë was born after the events of the first game, it created the fanon that Zagreus helped raise baby Melinoë, even taking her around the Underworld to introduce her to others, and perhaps sparring on occasion. This was helped along with footage from the Technical Test, which showed a family portrait of Hades, Persephone, Zagreus, and a baby Melinoë; it depicts the four of them and is accompanied by Melinoë saying to herself, "Remember what they took from you".
• Friendly Fandoms: One quickly formed with Delicious in Dungeon after Hephaestus's reveal, due to the similarities between him and Senshi, both being bearded Big Beautiful Men with horn ornaments on their head and long black hair.
• Funny Moments:
  • A shade named Dora tells Melinoë that she's "trifling with powers far beyond [her] comprehension, witch" in a somewhat threatening manner, only to then revert to a more normal form and ask Melinoë if she's okay with being called "witch" like that.
  • During the flashback to when a younger Melinoë plays hide and seek with Hecate, the Narrator starts to describe Melinoë's search, only to get shushed by her for doing so. Not only is the moment is denoted with a Record Needle Scratch, but it's here that the Narrator's identity is confirmed to be (after being implied in the first) Homer due to child Melinoë using his name outright as he hurriedly pretends to not know what she's talking about - and then helping her in her game of Hide and Seek.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In a flashback, a young Melinoë is seen playing hide-and-seek with Hecate.
  • Hecate and Melinoë's relationship is very loving, with the goddess of witchcraft consistently praising her student whilst the princess gives her teacher the utmost respect.
• LGBT Fanbase: The moment the first trailer was released, the game already had a massive amount of queer fans much like its predecessor, with people quickly falling in love with the attractive character designs.
• Preemptive Shipping: Melinoë and Nemesis got immediately shipped for what is implied to be a long and complicated story of resentment between them and just how good-looking they both are. Other fans ship Melinoë and Moros for the same reason, or ship all three of them together.
• Tearjerker:
  • Melinoë was taken away from her parents and brother shortly after her birth for her own safety, so she has no memories of them whatsoever.
  • Mixed with Heartwarming is how Mel keeps a portrait of her family holding her as a a baby. Just the fact that the prompt to interact with it is "brood" tells you how much she's hurt by her given situation.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Melinoë herself is this; fans theorized that a Hades sequel would follow up on Zagreus, but they chose to instead use Melinoë, another obscure deity linked to Hades.
  • Moros is likewise obscure, having rarely been featured in mythology or its adaptations, while Hecate, Nemesis, and Chronos have.
  • Skelly, or rather "Schelemeus", returns as the player's training dummy. While still a jokester, he is now more recognized and revered in Erebus.
  • Selene, a Titan and the moon incarnate, is revealed to be an ally to Melinoë.

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