Sixth Option: Modern Gods, The gods have always relied on the human race, and the human race the gods.
Yet the mortal world, as time has progressed for them, has changed this dynamic considerably.
Some gods have kept their titles, still basking in the worship the humans have given them under their original names. Then there were the gods who learnt to adjust, much like Thanatos’s family, and the names they've once named claim to have adapted much like the human world.
The last were gods who faded through time. Gods no longer worshiped due to their irrelevance, or the sheer history of havoc they wreaked upon humans centuries ago, when gods could once walk the earth. Gods not worthy of being worshiped.
Now the rules are simple; gods cannot mingle amongst humans unless their power specifically calls for it. They can only influence the mortal world.
And Zeus has found himself in some hot water these last few centuries because of this, and of his troubled past with the humans resurfacing. Think of it as society deciding to dig up some really old tweets and choosing to cancel you centuries later over them... But those tweets contained some of the worst atrocities known to man, and well worth canceling.
Somehow, he's managed to convince a concerning amount of gods that this wasn't just his fight. That it was all of ours... which I, Thanatos, and quite a few other gods, knew for a fact that it was not.
His solution to a problem he more or less created?
A do-over.
Leave it to Zeus to flip the table whenever he was losing in a board game. How utterly childish.
A story where a terrible college student gets the history lesson of his lifetime when he accidentally crosses into the Greek gods world during a coup d’etat
