Hecate

Hecate is the Titan Goddess of Witchcraft, Necromancy, Doorways, and Crossroads closely associated with the Moon. She is Melinoë's mentor and leader of the Underworld's resistance against Chronos. Hecate hang out in the Crossroads. Hecate is strong-willed, independent, and a morally dubious witch. She is primarily a source of comfort and encouragement for Melinoë, serving as a mentor to Melinoë, and loving her dearly, but is very strict and rigorous with her training. However, Hecate does not see herself as a parental substitute and is shown to be greatly annoyed whenever Melinoë implies that she sees her as anything more than a teacher. Hecate is very mysterious, withholding much of her past involving dark magic and avoids answering certain questions as much as possible. One such instance is when Melinoë asks Hecate for a way to remove the curse of Arachne. Hecate explains that Arachne's fate is not for Melinoë to undo and accidentally reveals her knowledge of the feud between Arachne and Athena. When Melinoë questions her on how she knew about the feud between them Hecate brushes her off. She also possesses a sense of humor, finding it fun to transform Melinoë into a sheep during their fight at Erebus. She reserves her attention and affection exclusively for Melinoë and acts very strictly with her other pupil Nemesis, who Hecate puts in second place due to seeing her behavior as a detriment and only tolerates both her and her sister Eris because of her oaths to Nyx. Hecate is more covertly blaming herself for Chronos taking over the Underworld, as she was tasked to defend it from such forces, seeing it as her greatest failure. Hecate wears a large, wide-brimmed hat with a crescent moon and the Silver Sisters braided cord, alongside a purple cape over her top and dress. The top is of a lighter shade than the cape and ends with a silver trim; above it she uses a silver crescent moon neckpiece as well as a pin of the House of Hades's symbol. For the bottom part, she uses a purple dress below a burgundy one, the latter noticeably having a star pattern on top, and both being topped by a black fabric; above it she uses a loose double silver belt, adorned with moons and the circle seen in her spells. Her belt and shoulders have green tassels hanging from them. Most of her face is veiled by a burgundy fabric, leaving only her green eyes visible. Although most of her body is not visible, her outfit leaves her toned midriff exposed. She has pauldrons in the shape of a head on each shoulder which connect to her neckpiece and veil with silver moons. Her hair is long and braided and is shown to emit a silvery green tone under the moonlight. Her signature weapons are a pair of Torches. Hecate was charged with detecting any threats against the Underworld. Unfortunately, Hecate like many others did not foresee the return of the Titan of Time, Chronos. When the Titan attacked, she was ordered by Hades to escape with the infant Melinoë and to take care of her. Hecate took Melinoë, Hypnos and the unfinished portrait of the royal family to the Crossroads. Melinoë is able to finally kill Typhon for good and collect the final reagent needed to deal with Chronos. Melinoë then casts the incantation and proceeds to Erebus to make her to Tartarus. Hecate like always waits for Melinoë at the edge of Erebus but this time, she is caught by Chronos who takes her to the House of Hades as a prisoner. Melinoë defeats Chronos once again and gives the empowered Gigaros to her brother Zagreus from the past. However, Zagreus refused to kill Chronos and instead gave him a second chance. This created a timeline where Chronos was reintegrated into his family, becoming a dotting and loving grandfather to Melinoë. In the present, the memories of this timeline causes Chronos to have a conflict of heart who releases Hecate from her prison. Ultimately, Melinoë spares Chronos after he frees their imprisoned family members and restores the House of Hades. After restoring the House, Melinoë chooses to still remain in the Crossroads with Hecate in order to keep watch over Chronos and keep Time flowing. Hecate, Melinoë and Chronos leave with Selene on her chariot to Mount Olympus to deliver Chronos to the Olympian Gods. Once Chronos leaves, they are joined by Artemis and Apollo who sing as they travel back to the Crossroads. From then on Melinoë focuses on her new task of keeping Time flowing, by destroying alternate versions of Chronos and Typhon. Melinoë is also able to finally locate the Three Fates who have a small chat with her. Before they leave, the Fates imply that Hecate hasn't been entirely honest with Melinoë. With that knowledge, Melinoë goes to talk to Hecate. Hecate takes Melinoë to the Hot Springs to talk privately, it is there that Hecate reveals a great secret; she is an older Melinoë from a different future. Unlike the Melinoë of the present, Hecate was put on the Cocytus river and rescued by Selene who informed her of Chronos's usurpation of the Underworld. Hecate trained by herself and finally defeated Chronos however, things went awry when she tried to enter his subconsciousness, as the power of Nightmare and Time sent her to the past before Chronos ever returned and caused her to be transformed into a Titaness. Hecate ultimately bid her time throught the aeons such as integrating herself to Hades and Persephone to wait for the eventual return of Chronos and change the outcome of the events that she had previously suffered. With this final revelation Hecate thought that Melinoë would hate her but this only strengthed Melinoë's love of her which causes Hecate to also tell her that she loves her. After their talk in the Hot Springs, they swear to never reveal the truth to anyone and continue their work as usual.