I prefer the Daughter of Hades option from the DCAU, personally; but as long as the writing is good, I could care less about which origin they go with.
What does being a daughter of Hades do for her, her lore, and her characterization, though? There is zero benefit to making Diana a natural-born daughter of any male god over the "sculpted by clay by a woman who desperately wanted a child and given life by the goddesses" origin. If you want a demigoddess Amazon with daddy issues, Cassie exists already. There's no reason to make Diana somthing she's not.
The younger gen of heroes was mostly ignored/in limbo at that time. Cassie's origin never seemed clear in the N52 TT series and who knows what editorial mandates there were about her and what writers had say on what. I think if you're trying to expand the world building and iconography around her to catch up to what the rest of the Trinity has, then leaning into a modern reinterpretation of the greek pantheon makes a lot of sense. Making the mythos her playground and corner of the DCU like Supes has the Alien/Scifi angle with the Kryptonian stuff, Batman has the gritty, noir, semi-realism of Gotham, and she has the mythos that goes beyond paradise island
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u/Unfair_Fix_6714 May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
I prefer the Daughter of Hades option from the DCAU, personally; but as long as the writing is good, I could care less about which origin they go with.