CHICAGO — Despite her best efforts, 15-year-old Katherine Vargas reportedly cannot write any Hades fanfiction without incest cropping up as part of the story.
“So I started playing Hades and saw all the gods and goddesses and was like, this is like a perfect sandbox for shippers like me, so I got writing,” said Vargas, about her first story that envisioned Ares and Athena in an enemies-to-lovers romance. “All of a sudden, it starts picking up tons of interest from incest fetish people, and I was like, ew, what?” The one-time honor student claims she was unaware that the two were siblings.
Undeterred, the potential college aspirant attempted more stories with other romantic pairings. “Apollo and Artemis! Aphrodite and Ares! Zeus and Poseidon! I became the number one incest fanfic author on AO3. How? Tell me how?!” Vargas said. “So finally I looked up their family tree. Turned out it was more like a family knotted-up ball Christmas lights. Jesus.”
James Vargas, the author’s father, 44, began to notice a clear change in his daughter’s behavior as she spent more and more time writing these stories. “I stopped seeing her for days! And when I did see her, she’d be all weird,” he said. “Like I made her favorite potato skins, and at dinner I asked if she wanted hers naked or filled up. Then she sorta just stared into my eyes for a minute, then called me a creep, and ran off. Whereas she usually likes her skins filled up.” It is reported that Katherine Vargas has deleted her account on the website Archive of Our Own (AO3).
At press time, Vargas reportedly decided to start writing fanfiction in private, beginning with a vanilla romance about the main character of Hades’s parents, Hades and Persephone, but was horrified to find that Hades is Persephone’s uncle.
