To be fair, the majority of the Greek gods are dicks 90% of the time. You reach a point where you think that "this is as bad as it's going to get", and then your teacher brings up the Niobids in a PowerPoint presentation... :P
It's been my favourite myth since I was seven (for reasons unknown even to myself; I think the transformation sequence was very captivating to my younger self) so I definitely like having a crack at it... but in the case of Persephone, she at least has a choice, or what can be perceived as a choice, while Daphne really is the victim of circumstance and a petty quarrel between gods. What you can do is write a version where Apollo is also a victim of sorts (though at least with precedence, unlike Daphne); in a way, neither of them consent to the tragic event they get involved in, as it's being engineered by Eros.
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It's been my favourite myth since I was seven (for reasons unknown even to myself; I think the transformation sequence was very captivating to my younger self) so I definitely like having a crack at it... but in the case of Persephone, she at least has a choice, or what can be perceived as a choice, while Daphne really is the victim of circumstance and a petty quarrel between gods. What you can do is write a version where Apollo is also a victim of sorts (though at least with precedence, unlike Daphne); in a way, neither of them consent to the tragic event they get involved in, as it's being engineered by Eros.