His eyes flicked back to Persephone when she started to speak before smiling lightly. “I don’t think anyone would blame you for not taking the marriage role. Sometimes we all have just too many domains to even care for.” The god chuckled lightly. Ares knew that well though for he was the god of many things and sometimes they don’t even go with each other. It could prove stressful, but they were divine and thus, can handle it easily enough. Or not. Yet he had a feeling there was a punishment dealt out to the gods who didn’t act as gods, so to speak.
“Mh, that is why I appreciate her as my mother. No one really understands the shit she has to go through and that her personality towards others is a reflection towards that.” He commented with a small hum. Ares was always on the side of his mother and perhaps it was because she openly favored him, but that was just another story. “I think he loves her as well, he just doesn’t think things through. My mother told me once that the throne spoiled him—he would have been a good father had he not been the king.” He shrugged lightly. “I don’t know how much of that I want to believe."
There were times she was even regarded as a goddess of love, and she had often rebuked that as well. She didn’t need to take on a role for something that was so private for her. She loved openly and selflessly, without reservation and she put others before herself more often than not. But that didn’t mean she wanted those things, she just was– and sometimes she answered the prayers of those that loved as she did. So many had feared Aphrodite, but she did not. "You have more than you even remember I imagine I don’t even remember them all.”
When he spoke of Hera she could tell that he loved her, in the same kind of ways she loved her mother only– perhaps there was more of a gentleness with her mother than with his. Her mother had tried to protect her from all the evils and wickedness of the world– at times to the extreme. But Persephone settled, her face softening. “Mother hates him now, I think at one time she loved him– hell I think even he loved himself but, there is a difference between Father.. and the king.”