Hecate: the goddess being called on and the woman answering the emergency

Hecate: the goddess being called on and the woman answering the emergency Hecate changes a lot between Absolute Wonder Woman and Grimm, and the difference goes well beyond how she looks. In Absolute, she is woven into Diana and Circe's practice of magic. Circe calls to her through offerings and prayer. Diana invokes her during important workings. When the Hieron is consecrated, Hecate is named for her connections to crossroads, death and magic. That gives her a continuing place in how Diana understands the world and approaches a problem. She also participates in the story personally. In the flashback surrounding Diana's escape, she speaks with Circe about the situation and the game that has been arranged. So she isn't just a name Diana says to make an effect happen. She has knowledge, relationships and a position among the other gods. Heather Angelos is a much more unsettled introduction to Hecate in Grimm Universe #1. She remembers being told she was a goddess. She remembers wings, weapons and a confrontation that seems ridiculous when she tries to fit it into her everyday life. She's sitting there trying to decide what to make of all that when a monster passes her window. She goes out anyway. The wings, hammer and shield come with her, but her reason for intervening is immediate: people are going to get hurt. When she confronts Neptune, she admits her life has been turned upside down and that she doesn't fully understand why she cares so much. She still refuses to let him destroy other people with his grief. That puts Hecate on opposite sides of the prayer, in a sense. Absolute's version is a divine presence someone else seeks out for guidance and help. Grimm's Heather is the person trying to understand what has happened to her while she becomes the help arriving for somebody else. I wouldn't take Heather's wings and hammer and add them to Absolute Hecate's powers. I also wouldn't assume Heather has demonstrated every ritual ability attached to Hecate elsewhere. The comparison works because the books give the name different jobs. One helps shape Diana's magical world. The other has to step outside her apartment and decide what being this goddess means today.