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Thank you for pointing it out.

Yes.

No, in the future he will have a change of appearance and become “handsome”. However, there is still a long time to go before this happens.

No, it is not. This is because both are two completely different myths. In the case of the myth of Zagreus it could be said that it was Zeus himself who wanted to make Zagreus his successor, this in a voluntary way. Subsequently, Hera conspired against Zagreus which resulted in the death of this last one, until he was basically "reincarnated" in the son of Zeus and Semele who was called Dionysus. Now in the myth of Zeus and Metis things are very different, this because from the beginning there was a prophecy that stated that the second son of the relationship of Zeus and Metis would dethrone his father. It could be said that Zeus would be dethroned by his own son, as he once did with his father. So not wanting to suffer such a fate, Zeus swallowed Metis making the prophecy could not be fulfilled. Although in the end Metis was able to give birth to Athena, but this second child was never born and therefore Zeus remained as the king of Olympus. In short, both are different myths that have no relation between them. I hope this is enough to answer your question.

Well, it could be said that he has two notable powers, the first of them that perhaps does not fall into the category of power, would be his great affinity with the forge while the other would be that he has some control over fire. In addition to this it can be mentioned those that a god has by default, as could be super strength, super speed among others. What you mention about magic is something that I totally agree with you. In fact, in this chapter it was seen that Hephaestus endowed the bracelet he created with the power of shadows so that it could have the same capabilities as Hades' helmet. Anyway, Hephaestus will learn magic among other powers, but that will be in the future of the story. Finally, thank you very much for your suggestions.

Yes, he will.

It depends on the myth, sometimes Hephaestus is just ugly and for this reason Hera throws him out of Olympus, this having as a direct consequence that his leg becomes crippled. Although there are other versions where Hephaestus was born with these defects and for this reason Hera ends up throwing him out of Olympus.

No, he is not.

That is very simple to explain, since on the cover it is the future appearance of Hephaestus, not the current one. The current appearance of Hephaestus was described in previous chapters, but to give you an image you should imagine that the golden lines that run down his body are similar to open wounds added to the color of the skin of Hephaestus makes it less than graceful.

Well, I mean in the previous chapter it was mentioned that they both considered Hephaestus to be too young to know. Besides, it was implicitly stated that the existence of other pantheons is a well-kept secret, one that Hephaestus must not even have known about until he is older. Also, I don't think at any point I made Hephaestus grateful for being an ignorant fool, he simply understands that both Hera and Athena must have had their own circumstances for them not to tell him and that's it. Although this again probably sounds like excuses to you, anyway, thanks for sharing your opinion.