#Nausikaa

[persephoneist]

Odysseus and his girls idk

Design notes beneath the cut

Circe is inspired by minoan frescoes in her wardrobe, but her overall look is kind of "witchy surfer girl that smells of patchouli" as the main inspo lol since shes the daughter of Helios.

Penelope is supposed to be an ideal woman so she is largely inspired by minoan snake goddess/mycenean frescoes. very typical bronze age depiction of a woman. shes very ornate bc she doesnt move a lot. Lots of blue that is specific to Odysseus.

Calypso is supposed to be from the tyrian/carthaginian region (northwest africa) with berber inspiration for her face tattoos. lots of purple in her designs due to carthaginian inspo. All this is bc her father Atlas is believed to have etymology from North Africa/the Berber language (his name may come from "Adras" which is the word for mountain.)

Nausicaa is the least ornate bc shes unmarried, so she hasnt recieved a lot of gifts that would come from marriage like jewelry. she is dressed like the classical period, and has no makeup to show that she's younger than the other women. idk why shes a redhead i just like the idea. She'd be probably from modernday Corfu, which has associations to Artemis (which she also has!), and has the oldest Doric style temple, which added to her classical appearance.

Odysseus’ “prize” (read: sex slave) is from the neighboring cities around Troy, so she’s already not as ornate as the rest of his women as seen in her dress. girl was probably a goat herder before being taken as a prize. the metal she wears is bronze. her hair was shaven to indicate she’s a slave and i intend to redesign her to keep that shaven hair quality. Minoan frescoes are design inspo there.

Odysseus is just purely vibes based. His hair is wavy bc waves, with two noticeable scars from youth. Something about "despite everything, it's still you". The gems in his necklace are the same color as the bodice of Penelope's dress.

[tamaruaart]

So uh, currently designing Nausikaa if she was in hades/in hades 2, and I wanna share some fun facts! (Because she's underrated asf-)

She's actually a descendent of Poseidon, as Poseidon made love to Periboea and she bore him a son Nausithous, and he had two sons Alcinous and Rhexenor, Rhexenor had a daughter Arete (who Alcinous married 😬) and they had several children, one of those being Nausikaa.

In some later works, it is said that she marries Odysseus's son Telemachus. And those are the versions I'm willing to accept as canon because it makes WAY more sense than Telemachus marrying Circe-

Her father Alcinous wanted her to marry Odysseus because of him being very wise and admirable, however, the two of them actually never form a romantic bond, if anything, it is said Nausikaa was a bit of a mother figure to Odysseus since she ensures him home and was rather helpful when he washed up on Phaeacia/Scheria.

Nausikaa is very beautiful and young (she was about sixteen), and Odysseus describes her beauty as that of a goddess, Artemis to be more specific.

So yeah, that's that :D

(guys please if you ever do make another hades game PLEASE include my girl she is so underrepresented 😔)

[a-d-nox]

alcinous, king of phaeacians (asteroid 11428)

Alcinous was the father of Nausicaa, Halius, Clytoneus, and Laodamas. Alcinous and his wife, Arete, live on an island named Drepane. This is the island that Jason and the Argonauts visited after their adventures on the land of Colchis - where he stole the Golden Fleece from. The Colchian army demanded Medea, but it was Alcinous who said that she would only go back with them if she were still a virgin; if not, she was Jason's wife, and he (Alcinous) would be forced to protect the couple. The army went home. Alcinous is also one of the rulers who Odysseus tells his tales to. IN MY OPINION Alcinoos in your chart can represent a) where you protect couples, b) where you might be protecting the wrong people, c) where you take in strangers, and/or d) where you listen to others.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of alcinoos along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of alcinoos AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede alcinoos!

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[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Odysseus' reintegration into the world bound by mortal limitations foregrounds both his age and the distance he has traveled. The shipwrecked sailor who manages to crawl ashore naked on Scheria, bereft of companions, possessions, any token of identity — of all but the bare ember of vitality (cf. 5.488-90 — a lonely spark in a pile of ashes) — meets the young Nausikaa, whose life (like that of Telemachus) is just opening to the possibilities before her. The scene in which Odysseus, awakened by sounds that evoke in him fears of hostile men, faces instead a group of teenage girls playing ball, is both comic and poignant as it measures the difference between their expectations and stages of experience. Later, as he is challenged to compete in an athletic contest, Odysseus acknowledges the toll that age and journeying inevitably take. This is not, then, the epic of the beautiful death (one way to read the Iliad (e.g., see Vernant 1991: 50-74)) but the epic of timeworn, embraceable life.

John Miles Foley, A Companion to Ancient Epic, 2005.

[astoryofsuchwoe]

"Have you heard of that resistance group?"

CHAT.... THE RESISTANCE MY BELOVEDS. so sorry if any characters ive drawn are off at all FHBDKSNF

okay. trying to list them off ;

itsaso ; @lookatmysillies

nausikaa ; @rockwgooglyeyes

minerva ; @cloverandstuff

cindy ; @tsukacchako

felix, bastienne, orian and yuuki ; @sotogalmo

token ; @kyokills

vic and trix ; yours truly!

[rockwgooglyeyes]

Ta-da!! All four of my Alien Stage OCs in stunning technicolor! (not necessarily stunning im just making a joke) but yeah here are the official colors/designs for my little guys when they're at the Garden!

Notes to add context to their appearances/backgrounds:

At the time of the current competition (season 39), Onyx is actually 20 years old, being about nine months older than Dian (Di's turning 20 on the 13th of October!). They're both comparatively pretty young though. Nausi is 26-27 and Yumi will be 18 during her season.

Nausikaa's eyes are no longer heterochromatic because I wanted Yumi's to be and I didn't want to double up. They're like . . . reptile/cat yellow now, which lines up with her other predatory features

Dian, Nyx and Nausikaa's hair grow naturally in reddish-orange, grey/black, and teal respectively, due to genetic modifications and specific breeding. On the other hand, Yumi's hair is naturally brown but her bangs are almost always bleached to keep up with her dual-toned image.

Yumi is the youngest, she'll be participating in Season 40, as she was in the same class as @alien-til-i-stage's Macbeth and Inna. She's babey (in presentation and age. do not ask her about the horrors because she knows them all too well)

Nyx is mixed Korean and European (maybe Irish because of his coloring?), Dian is Mexican/Filipino/Indonesian, Nausikaa is Egyptian/Greek, and Yumi is predominantly Korean (as in, she has some other ancestry but none of it is significant enough to be noteworthy)

[lookatmysillies]

ALNST OC Incorrect Quotes

Are incorrect quotes considered lame now? Probably but we ball

Tov, Tallis, and Himei:

Castor and Nyx:

Castor, Kyo, Azure:

Itsaso and Nausikaa:

@ivanttakethis @azureitri @rockwgooglyeyes

[sotogalmo]

11:06 (yesterday) — 12:33

I remember saying I'll do one in return, sorry this is so late @rockwgooglyeyes (all of them belong to him, minus seba & yume)

Sebastian's opinions on them:

-Dians cool. He's really nice and kind,, better then what I've experienced. He's refreshing.. (deja vu again.... He mumbled)

-Nyx is so much more refreshing. It's so nice to see how I'm not the only one here that thinks those same thoughts!

-Yumi? .. by name and her talent .... She's eerily similar to Yume. But I could be wrong! (please let me be wrong)

-Nausikaa..? Nu-a-sick-aa? ... Nice name, but I don't think I've met that person..

Yume's opinions on them:

-Dian? Oh, he's interesting! .. similar in a deja vu way. But he's honestly the better one out of all of them

-Nyx? Pssh, just like Sebastian. ~Yume said with disdain in his voice.

-Yumi? She's a mirror. It's.. weird to see her... I feel weird when I see her. which is concerning....

-Nausikaa? Who's that?

[nobrashfestivity]

Gaston de Latenay, Nausikaa scans by Book Graphics blogspot/2014

[its-langgg]

(attempted) alnst oc masterpost! ✰

oc profiles: (belongs to their respective creators)

Aegaeon

Akane

Aurien

Ava

Azure

Bunny

Castor

Cinnabar

Cirrus

Daiki

Dian

Ellie

Evon

Flor

Gabriela

Himei

Innamorati

Isla

Itsaso

Jae

Ji Woo

Khoi

Kyo

Lang

Lark

Macbeth

Min

Minori

Monica

Moran

Murrelet

Nausikaa

Naz

Nene

Nero

Noora

Nyx

Rosca

Rose

Ryu

Saachi

Sai

Solei

Stasya

Tallis

Tina

Toon

Tov

Vera

Vermillion

Vii

Yumi

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oc zodiac signs: (created by @/aurienneirua!)

oc flower symbolism: (created by @/sotogalmo!)

masterdoc: (created by @/alien-til-i-stage!)

[mythologer]

Wilhelm Marstrand, Nausikaa brings the shipwrecked Odysseus' clothes, 1835.

[dootznbootz]

Literally just found out about you today and I'm already follow in you. As fellow tele-GONE-y hater, I absolutely stan with all the hate we have for that stupid fan fiction. Circe used to be one of my favorite books, I still think the writing is good. But when you look at the original source material? Yikes- I don't get why Miller chose CIRCE out of everyone. If she wanted to write a feministic story that's fine. But why chose a female character whom you have to make better and corrupt all the other characters in the source material so that Circe is more sympathetic? Why couldn't she write a TRUE feministic story about some other character?? I personally would've loved a story about Nausikaa. Which would make more sense considering she is a character who is often forgotten in most retellings of the Odyssey.

Circe isn't a sympathetic character, she was never supposed to be one. To make her sympathetic is to make everyone around her terrible. I'm so angry when people use this book for insight on Circe character because it is so different to actual Circe.

I'm also so very salty about what she did to my boy Hermes because what.

Thank you so much!!! Sorry this took a while to answer! Thankfully most folks are not a fan of the Tele-GONE-y either :'D it's mostly the "well, actually" folks who talk about it. >:(

"If she wanted to write a feministic story that's fine. But why choose a female character whom you have to make better and corrupt all the other characters in the source material so that Circe is more sympathetic?"

This right here, is exactly how I feel with so many of these "feminist retellings". Feminism is about lifting each other up. If you have to make everybody else "worse" to make your main character better, then...that's just not good storytelling.

This goes along with the whole "all men are bad no matter what" that happens all the time and I hate it so much. Even if the system may be sexist, that does not mean that every single male agrees with it.

You put everything into words well but I like to ramble so Ima say shit too but it's basically the same thing lol

With the whole "every horrible thing Circe has done is done fo a reason. she's defending herself, she was wronged, men are so evil uwu" is just fucking lazy and SUCKS. >:( LET WOMEN BE FLAWED, COWARDS!

I actually really love Odyssey Circe as a character. She's morally gray and does whatever she wants as a goddess. Yes, she terrifies Odysseus but she's COMPLEX. Why does she need a reason to turn men into pigs? Why can't she just do it "for funsies"?

I think it takes away from her as a goddess to always have a reason for her to do the things she does, you know? Immortals are fickle and don't have the same morals as mortals. I think Miller changed so much as "to have a morally gray protagonist?? No, that's wrong!" which BORING!!!!!!!

I fucking love Penelope. But I still have her a lil mean and even a bit snooty sometimes as her and Odysseus are like-minded. Hubris would be her downfall as well. She is petty and holds grudges like no other. because she's a PERSON. Not "bland empowerment in a can for everyone to consume". Ofc, she has her wonderful qualities like her intelligence, devotion, determination, and yes, she does have her kind moments (she goes 0 to 100% real quick. She takes the "Do no harm, Take no shit" phrase to the extremes. lol)

But honestly? I think there's a real problem in writing in many YA books and especially in fandom where people treat female characters as goddesses (which yes, understandable) but then they can't...make her human you know? Almost like they cannot see any of the woman's flaws or even WANT her to have flaws because "woman doing a bad thing that isn't done 'cutely' ("endearingly clumsy", "quirky chatterbox", etc. traits that are usually not the greatest are "cute" now simply because she's a woman. Maybe a love interest sees her that way but those traits would probably be considered annoying to many others.) regardless is antifeminist"

And even then, so many things that I want to write about are what many would consider feminist when...She's just existing. And I'm getting silly with it. Penelope is athletic and a naiad (75% but you know. with her parentage) but I don't write her that way TO make it feminist. I'm not doing it for that. I just like tiny but mighty wife ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't plan to write other women as "lesser" for not being athletic for example. Anticlea doesn't understand why Penelope likes doing that stuff but she's still supportive and they enjoy weaving together. I am NEVER putting down another female character for not being "girlboss" enough.

I really hate that this book has made people constantly bring up the Tele-GONE-y AND Shittalking all of them. I don't like looking at retellings and seeing "a new feminist take". Usually goes against the entire story to begin with. Often portraying good male characters in the original as "bad and horrible".

Also no hate to those that enjoy Circe the Book, but to me, it sounds like trauma porn. adding rapes that were never there, making the victim of the situation the PERPATRATOR because, clearly, a man cannot be a victim. I heard about her hating being a mom despite her literally having servants and she's a GODDESS in the Odyssey. She could literally have a nanny/nurse if she wanted.

Fun fact: I was watching a video essay about villainesses and how to write them well and as soon as it started to talk about historical villainesses and how Circe was a "femme fatale", I exited the video. She's an "antagonist", she lets them stay there but she's still...Not GOOD. To be a femme fatale means to usually seduce. She does not seduce Odysseus. He was literally commanded to by Hermes and her.

[astoryofsuchwoe]

I WANTED TO. MAKE A GOOFY SETUP AND TAKEDOWN ANIMATIC(?). SO HERE WE ARE. in my head this would be a "promo" video that turns into them goofing off

apologies for the tags/lh

nausikaa; @rockwgooglyeyes / itsaso; @lookatmysillies / felix, bastienne, orian, yuuki; @sotogalmo / cindy; @tsukacchako / minerva; @cloverandstuff / token; @kyokills / vic, trix; me

[rockwgooglyeyes]

okay fellow alien stagers new oc her name is Nausikaa (which means burner of ships)!!

if anyone wants their oc to be in lesbians with her, let me know, hit me up

she/they pronouns (transfem woman)

26-27 (actual birthdate unknown but goes with 8/4)

slit pupils and visibly large cuspids (creacher) (abnormally good sense of smell) (autistic as hell) (maybe like 5’3’’ heightwise? small and loud vibes)

kind of gives off middle school bully vibes but they won’t be mean to you, she just teases out of love

ugly laugher and toothy smiler. they do not care to be palatable or even polite to others (does not care what people think of them). she can be a little overbearing when she likes someone (ivan style) even when it’s just a platonic affection (nyx hates her dumb ass)

not a rule follower by any means. detention is a girl’s best friend

gives off extreme shark vibes to me. her main motif is probably going to be “blood in the water” and the ocean . . .

before and after the incident, Nausi is a big sister kind of figure to Sai (@bittersweet-adagio) whether they want her to be or not. also relatively close with Akane (i think) (@aakaneeee)

eventualky goes missing and is presumed dead before graduation, but actually she ran away and successfully escaped

in the present, Nausi is part of the rebellion >:)

[apriciticreveries]

which alnst oc ship / pairing is your favorite : D ?

( himei, tallis, castor, kyo, itsaso, naz : @lookatmysillies / tov : @ivanttakethis / azure : @azureitri / nyx, dian, nausikaa : @rockwgooglyeyes / solei : @solei-eclipse / toki : @zerostyrant / inna : @alien-til-i-stage / akane : @aakaneeee / ellie, vera, khoi, sai : @bittersweet-adagio / flor, rosca : @sotogalmo )

[lookatmysillies]

Hey Blue!! I hope you're doing well and having a good day so far!!

I really love Naz's design, it's super cool and the hairstyle you chose for her is just *chef's kiss*

I wanted to ask, do you think she and Nausikaa would get along? They honestly seem like they have similar . . . personalities? Both confident and bold, maybe able to say things with more surety than their ability to actually follow through . . . either way, she's awesome and I'd love to just learn more about her in general!

Hi Rock, I’m doing well! Just drove through downtown during a beer festival and almost ran over at least 15 drunken patrons though. We ball. Hope you’re having a good day, remember to eat and drink water (I’m stealing ur line)

I’ve been thinking about a Nausikaa and Naz friendship, they really are so similar!! I feel like they would get along very well. Naz has a difficult time making friends, but they seem like the type of duo to find common ground quickly, maybe even within the first few weeks of Anakt Garden, and be buddies from then on. They seem like they would wrestle WWE Friday Night Smackdown style for fun. When they see each other across a room they yell “BRO” and run at one another full speed while Itsaso and Akane look on in disappointment.

I’m also cooking up a Naz and Ji Woo (@starry-skiez) friendship in my head due to their mutual understanding of one another’s tendencies to fixate on a single person except they never actually have deep conversations and instead Naz and Nausikaa just sneak attack Ji Woo for fun sometimes.

Some other general things about Naz: They have a pretty high-pitched voice, which translates to their singing, and their music always has to have maximum energy. She would scream Welcome to the Black Parade at top volume during karaoke night type beat. For her performance outfits, they Must Be Tall and wear boots with a solid several-inch heel. As mentioned in previous posts, they’re prone to emotional outbursts due to an unfortunately overwhelming cocktail of bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD. She seems like she’s chronically on monster energy drinks. Their relationship with their guardian is complicated; she’s emotionally neglected but genuinely cared about. It’s a difficult combination.