Thread 96082709

Medusas are traditionally beings who have been cursed with ugliness. They are so unbearable to look at that any mortal who does so is instantly turned to stone. They are self-loathing, and fall victim to their own reflection. They hide away in dark, secluded places. This is why more medusae should be depicted as shy, self-isolating NEET jimiko girls, the way god intended.

>>96082709 (OP)
>le monsters are misunderstood

Fuck off tranny stop being to deconstruct our hobby

>>96082709 (OP)
It's a form of projection. Imagining that a being has such low self estime and loathing in spite of actually being beautiful and/or powerful that someone like themselves can slide right on in and provide the validation they crave.

That, and I want to have sex with them and there really isn't a deeper answer than that.

>>96082709 (OP)
Also I'm trans by the way, if that matters.

>>96082709 (OP)
>>96082766
Would.

>>96082709 (OP)
Medusa was the name of a Gorgon
the proper pluralism is medusae
you are faggot

>>96082709 (OP)
>Medusas are traditionally beings who have been cursed with ugliness.

Medusa, and maybe her sisters(?), were, but the general span of their species wasn't. There's conflicting accounts: some were Echidna's brood, some were born from the sea monster Ceto, and some were birthed by Gaia.

They were originally ugly, but by 500 BC you were already seeing beautiful Gorgons being depicted. Looking this up the bigger surprise (for me) is that the older Gorgons kind of resemble Oni or maybe some kind of East-Indian Monster with the curling lipped face and the teeth. They also used to have wings.

>>96082709 (OP)
> Medusas are traditionally beings who have been cursed with ugliness.
Okay, 1: Medusa was one individual member of a species of monstrous creatures called a “Gorgons” (singular: “gorgon”).

2: except for Ovid’s writing, Medusa wasn’t cursed to be a snake-haired monster, she just was a snake-haired monster. Like you wouldn’t say Wasps are “cursed” to have a bad attitude, they just do.

So much the actual traditional portrayal of Medusa is as a ruthless monster who’s just been that way since birth. Heck, since she’s not even the main focus of the myth she appears in, she doesn’t get a lot of development, really just an obstacle Perseus has to overcome with courage and wit.

So… yeah, for that reason alone Gorgons make for good boss-monsters to challenge players and encourage out-of-the-box thinking

>>96082709 (OP)
>Medusas are traditionally
Medusa is the name of ONE SPECIFIC WOMAN you culturally illiterate fucking retard. "They" arent traditionally shit, read a book

If she wasn't fuckable Poseidon wouldn't have went for her in the first place

>>96082709 (OP)
Even the greeks started making medusa more fair as time went by. You're acting like its a "New thing" for people to make the female bad guys hot

>why do people use their imagination?
kill yourself OP

>>96082709 (OP)
Ugly? A woman that can make a man rock hard with a glance sounds like she is pretty good looking..

>>96082709 (OP)
... traditional games?

>>96082709 (OP)
There is no such fucking thing as "medusas"
It's Medusa, singular, cause it's her name, that fucking deviantart fetishtaur thing you posted isn't even remotely similiar to a gorgon

>>96082766
>low self estime
I wish gookmoot would IP ban India and Canada (aka India 2) already.

>>96082709 (OP)
>Medusas are traditionally beings who have been cursed with ugliness. They are so unbearable to look at that any mortal who does so is instantly turned to stone.
Medusa is one character. Gorgon is the name of the species. Only some versions of the myth depicted them as cursed humans, and others depicted them as born that way. And Gorgons were already being depicted as beautiful by the later ancient Greeks. In some versions they were so beautiful that their beauty killed the onlooker, but did not turn them to stone.

Anyways the real question here is: was Medusa and the Gorgons inspired by Pelasgian/pre-Greek solar deities? Minoans (possibly) worshipped a snake goddess, and that serpentine hair might be a misinterpretation or deliberate demonization of a solar halo.
Which is why my idea of the Gorgons is an angelic, heavenly beast in the service of good with solar powers and ophidian beauty

>>96086299
>There is no such fucking thing as "medusas"
Actually there is. Medusas is an accepted plural for the form of jellyfish.

>>96082709 (OP)
people mix up Medusa and gorgons

>>96082709 (OP)
>They are self-loathing, and fall victim to their own reflection. They hide away in dark, secluded places. This is why more medusae should be depicted as shy, self-isolating NEET jimiko girls, the way god intended.
And probably absolute freak in the sack (but lights have to stay off).

>>96087605
>Only some versions of the myth depicted them as cursed humans, and others depicted them as born that way. And Gorgons were already being depicted as beautiful by the later ancient Greeks. In some versions they were so beautiful that their beauty killed the onlooker, but did not turn them to stone.
Hell, haven't some versions of the myth had the petrifying gaze as a divine GIFT because the Gorgon Sisters were so supernaturally beautiful that it was the only way they could fend off the hordes of men after them?

>>96087894
There's a lot of interpretations of a bunch of stuff in Greek myth. The longer you study it, the more you realize it's less one religious and cultural canon and more like the folklore of a dozen Mediterranean islands stuffed into the same trench coat.

>>96087980
So we can still post Rider, right?

>>96088119
>redditbuddy image
>redditcore franchise
>redditcore post
Every time.

>>96087894
Maybe. I havent heard of that specific one.
Although the specific story of Minerva turning Medusa into a monster with a petrifying gaze so she wouldnt be raped is a modern fanfic of Ovid (whos version is also a fanfic written centuries after the original myths) created in the 20th century by feminists.

>>96088241
But RIDER!

>>96088119
>>96088329
Kill yourself ND
Kill yourself like you tried to kill your own mother.

>>96083227
>sees Greek noun
>declines it in Latin

>>96083554
I think you underestimate the horniness of the greek gods. They would fuck anything that can fuck back and half the things that can't.

>>96082709 (OP)
Traditional games?

>>96092928
That was mostly just Zeus, Poseidon had standards, though he also invented cucking as we know it today, so he's not exactly a paragon of morality either.

>>96082709 (OP)
Blame that mostly on Ovid. He was the one that created/popularized "the Medusa was a rape victim transformed into a monster to protect her."

>>96087894
>Hell, haven't some versions of the myth had the petrifying gaze as a divine GIFT because the Gorgon Sisters were so supernaturally beautiful that it was the only way they could fend off the hordes of men after them?

That was Ovid. He rewrote a bunch of myths as part of a hit piece on a someone politically powerful after Ovid was exiled for seducing the guy's daughter.

>>96093005
"too sexy for her own good"?

>>96093019
So which version did she eat her sisters?

>>96093026
Pretty much. Medusa has always been the mythological mother of Pegasus and Chrysoar by Poseidon, but earlier version have the conception as being romantic. Ovid introduced the idea that she was cursed for desecrating Athena/Minerva's temple with Poseidon/Neptune. It was never directly stated but was heavily implied.

>>96093053
That is something the Fate writers came up with, but it might be loosely based on an urban legend about a vengeful Snake Goddess born from a Miko getting sacrificed to a Snake God by her envious sister and then coming back as a Lamia/Marilith like human/snake chimera to have vengeance on her sister.

>>96082709 (OP)
What gane are you talking about?

>>96082709 (OP)
why would you deliberately depict ugliness when you don't have to, you'd have to be really retarded to do that

>>96092924
He's clearly of Roman descent, do not insult his tradition you bigot.

>>96088241
>Crying reddit over anything you don't like
You're as pathetic as BB and his fans.

>>96082709 (OP)
Why would you look at something ugly? Them being ugly hampers thier ability.

>>96094400
out of sheer morbid curiosity

>>96094307
>t. redditor

>>96082709 (OP)
>How come medusas are depicted as being beautiful?
Being attractive encourages people to look at her.