To piggyback on the Hades question, what would Asterion think of his Asterius counterpart? Particularly his devotion to Theseus? Even more scandalous, what about the fan shipping of Asterius and Theseus? Personally, I like all the sexy porn (adorning my walls) of it. Though, when I stop to think about it, it is weird to ship Asterius with his killer in the afterlife, who then ran off with Asterius' sister after killing him only to then abandoned her later then Asterius becoming his manservant in the afterlife after Theseus civilized him. Though you could also see it as two enemies becoming lovers and devoted to each other in the afterlife to make sweet man on bullman love for all eternity. Boy, explaining what shipping is to Asterion would be an awkward conversation.
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I think Hades' shipping of Asterius and Theseus works very nicely as a sort of metanarrative nod to the fact that the whole games was originally going to be based around people playing as Theseus to, allegedly, fight(?) the Minotaur. With this in mind it can be a cute thing, and I appreciate it.
With that out of the way, yes. Shipping Asterius with Theseus only makes the minimum amount of sense if you disregard everything else: that Asterius' sister told the secret of the labyrinth to Theseus, who in turn possibly left her to die in Naxos. And all of this happened because Athenians murdered Androgeos on the Panathenaic Games. And, later, Asterius father would die in his quest for revenge. Theseus destroyed Asterius' family irreversibly.
Minotaur Hotel's Asterion has an unique take on Theseus. One day we'll have a flashback and see what kind of person he was. I'll just say that Hades' portrayal of Theseus would make Asterion feel alienated. He fundamentally disagrees with it, so much he can't even begin to describe why.
I've been learning little bits and pieces of the mythology revolving around King Minos' rule and when you put it together like that, it does make it sound so much worse.
I need to do more reading on Androgeos' story, I don't believe I've ever heard of Androgeos before this game. I also didn't know that the bull that sire Asterion is also part of Heracles' feats. Did Asterion ever have any interaction with that bull in life?
He saw the bull. Maybe even saw it many times, simply because it didn't live far from the palace, seeing how prized it was. But it was just a regular bull in intellect, and never could have recognized Asterion.
Asterion may have seen the bull often, but may never have gotten close enough to touch it.