#mythological tropes

[starrysnowdrop]

Mythological Tropes

Hali ✨🌊

Benevolent luck-giving animal whom nobody can find 🦄

How iconic of you to get this result! Some examples I can think of include unicorns, dragon turtles, leprechauns, genies, etc. Also the cheshire cat from alice in wonderland which is not mythology but would be an excellent example if it was. I think the personality of this result is one of a person who is light-hearted, fun to be around, uncannily wise and cunning when you least expect it, and reclusive. You do your own thing, and can easily enjoy yourself wherever you go. Others find it very mysterious.

I think this result fits Hali perfectly! All of those traits are very much Hali, but she’s not reclusive all the time, just when she’s upset. I tried to do Yume, but the results didn’t fit her at all, so I tried Aymeric instead. Here’s his results!

Aymeric 💙❄️

Extremely hot extremely idiotic hero 🦸🏻‍♂️

There are too many examples to even list, but you're very iconic, even if others find it frustrating that you constantly leap before you look, so to speak. You tend to have luck on your side and frequently come out on top. Many people crush on you, sometimes without understanding why, and you may or may not realise this. But you're very brave and good at fighting, so this is good! Good for you.

The results speak for themselves… 🤣

Tagged by: @spotofmummery Thank you so much for tagging me!!! 🥰💖

Tagging: @meepsthemiqo @traveler-of-light @otherworldseekers @cygnus-exul @mimble-sparklepudding @ainyan @lookbluesoup @disciple-of-frost @irisopranta and anyone else who wants to do this! Just say I tagged you!!! 😉

Quiz HERE!! ((Sorry I was a dumb dumb and forgot to add the quiz link!!))

[otherworldseekers]

Mythological Tropes: Severia and Nero

king asleep in mountain till needed

WAKE UP...!!! WAKE UP, MY MAN!!!! just kidding. before you went asleep you were relied on by others a lot, you were very dutiful and responsible and such a force of good that even though now you slumber, everyone hopes you will wake up and get back to saving them soon. you have earned your rest, king! this is the sexiest result btw

This sounds very nice, very restful for her. I approve. 

shape shifter who isn't exactly evil but causes a lot of mischief

very cool! examples of this include lamias, tanukis, and the god loki. also many others. anyway, you're a trickster spirit, definitely, and you are charismatic and cause fun and a sense of being at a party in any room you enter. there's something graceful about how chaotic you are. you are also kinder than people realise. but they usually don't realise it because they are too busy projecting EVERYTHING onto you. yet you're fresh and fun and take everything in stride. good for you!

LOL perfect. 

QUIZ

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Tagging: IDK everyone who hasn’t been tagged yet. You deserve a tag too.

[ooc-miqojak]

Mythological Tropes

This uh. This is pretty specifically and quite literally exactly what she is. A mischievous shapeshifter... I just haven't done much with the shape-shifting yet, since I'm debating the extent of it, and she's not sure of the extent of it yet herself, either. (Being Dreadlord-based and all, naturally a little shape-shifting is called for. XD) And her chosen approach to all the chaos magic changing her? Mischief! Why does chaos always get a bad rap? Because of the Legion, I guess? Mischief is the essence of chaos! - it doesn't always have to be cruel and angsty fel stuff.

Uquiz here!

Tagged by: @talesooc , @fettered-wings (thanks!)

Tagging: @garrennorassin , @twosidedsana , @torbeen , @kanekuran , @blood-red-inque , @talthorn-sylvoran ,@albaney-beckwith , @turning-through-the-never , @zalandrissa-highvale , @fel-temptation , @saltsparkle , @kharrisdawndancer

And anyone else who wants to - if you write more than one OC, pick who you want to do it for, or do it for them all - or don't do it at all! I'm not the boss of you! XD

[talthorn-sylvoran]

Mythological Tropes

Your Result:

Benevolent luck-giving being whom nobody can find

How iconic of you to get this result! Some examples i can think of include unicorns, dragon turtles, leprechauns, genies, etc. also the cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland which is not mythology but would be an excellent example if it was. I think the personality of this result is one of a person who is light-hearted, fun to be around, uncannily wise and cunning when you least expect it, and reclusive. You do your own thing, and can easily enjoy yourself wherever you go. Others find it very mysterious.

This is very Talthorn appropriate! A whirlwind of enthusiasm and magic before disappearing again! It used to be rare where he would be in one place for too long, but he has been captivated by one being for a while. He does not mean to be reclusive at times, but he is a passionate man that becomes focused on what he has deemed important (Pursuits of knowledge, friendship and love) The magi is full of surprises and secrets he will share with the right people.

Thank you for the tag @whitedawn-wra !!

Uquiz here! Tagging others for the fun! @konietzko-sylvoran @sharpen-jadescythe @bread-elf @sirensdxn

I don't know how many people like to do these, but they are fun!

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[royaltea000]

Hmmmm…monkey

[anteomnia]

storylines about people falling in love with gods, yes, but also the hidden meaning of people falling in love with a personified concept.

sally jackson falling for the tumultuous sea and watching it pull away from her like the tide when she bore it a son. the largest parts of the planet she lives on, once a safe place, and yet she can never seek it out again.

zagreus falling in love with death itself, slowly over time, as he dies over and over, constantly returning just to fight once more. finding peace and love and home in death, as the god of blood and life.

gale dekarios falling in love with magic, constantly feeling like there’s More and Never Enough. gale trying to complete the weave, to appease his lover, and being scorned in both regards. a wizard being punished by magic.

[lyculuscaelus]

The way you can put Odysseus in so many situations like Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/No Comfort, Soulbond, Presumed Dead, Modern AU, Angst, Fluff, etc., literally proves him to be the one living up to his epithet, Odysseus polytropos, aka, the man of many tropes

[melodyartist-blog]

Could you draw a visualization of doomed by the narrative please?

I have many examples of characters that are doomed by the narrative, literally all the characters in Greek tragedies, but I made these two as a first example, a god and a mortal

I wanted to make Cassandra since you know, she always knew her destiny and nobody listened to her, so yeah that was a great example but then I thought that even Helen knew that her beauty would just lead to destruction and death, in some version she even gets killed for her "sin" but I'm not gonna talk about that :D

So yeah I took a perfect line from the musical Paris that Cassandra says.

And then we have Ares or more specifically my interpretation and vision of Ares, I always like to make jokes at his expense, I mean you are a god of war but you always end up losing... But I think he also has more depth than what I like to show, and that's when he wears his armour, don't get me wrong he is a douche in both versions but I think that when he puts his helmet and cloak on he is a different type of person.

[prokopetz]

The problem with trying to outsmart fairies is that, yes, the rules of hierarchy and hospitality to which they bind themselves are eminently exploitable, but none of those rules say they can't just stab you if you piss them off.

[sophieinwonderland]

The lack of ancient time travel stories is existentially terrifying

Through all the ancient myths and legend that exist, it's horrifying to think that none involved traveling to the past. There were some with sped up time or people sleeping a long time. But travel to the past just wasn't a thing that existed as a concept.

Today, it's everywhere. There's not a single person who hasn't heard of time travel. But in ancient stories, even the gods themselves are subject to the whims of time.

It seems like such an obvious thing to tell stories about too. Who hasn't made a mistake and wished they could go back and do it over again? It's so basic.

Yet it's like through all of human history, nobody even considered it until the couple hundred years. It's as if the idea was so incomprehensible that we couldn't think of it.

Until, that is, after we did.

That makes you wonder though, what possibilities are out there that might still be so obvious be we haven't thought of yet? And why couldn't we think of time travel before then?

We all think of imagination as unlimited, and yet something as simple as getting a do-over on a past mistake is unheard of over thousands of years of fictional stories we've recorded.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Gustave Boulanger (French, 1824-1888) La Danse champêtre, 1876 Opéra national de Paris, Paris, France

[astralnymphh]

werewolf!ellie :3

[makeriia]

Fantober day 31!! A free day again.

Recently gotten into HADES, and I think about them a normal amount (lie)

[ellilyre]

Some time ago I was playing Hades II and Odysseus said something that just didn't leave my mind.

I was half paying attention, so I may have misunderstood it, but I remember Mel asking why he is not with his family, and him saying something about the sirens' song.

And that led me to imagine

Odysseus came back to the home he has longed for for so long and... And it's not that great. Penelope is not as beautiful, the meals aren't as delicious, the flowers aren't as colourful as the sirens promised him.

He knows it was all lies. He knows the world he was shown isn't real and will never be. But-

But when Penelope and he fight over mundane things, or when Telemachus argues his choices (trivial things that happen in every family) he can't help but remember what he could've have (even for just a split second before dying.)

His tragedy is over, he is home. He knows this is the best he could ever have, the happiest he could ever be, and yet he is haunted by the illusions he was promised.

He will never be satisfied with what he can have. Nothing will ever be as beautiful as what the sirens offered him. He will never be free from what he saw.

[sarafangirlart]

Not to be a hater (again) but I’ve just realized that a lot of tropes used to make Medusa a tragic feminist figure accidentally circle back to being misogynistic, for example:

- Medusa being a priestess of Athena not only was this never stated by any Ancient Greek literature or even by Ovid (it’s a modernish invention) but Ovid straight up contradicts it, he says that she had many suitors meaning she was eligible to be married and was never a virgin priestess. It low key falls into the trap of making a victim of sexual violence as pure, innocent and unsexual as possible, which having suitors just wouldn’t allow, so she is made into a priestess.

- Athena was actually helping her bc girl power yeah… no. Women don’t always support women, trying whitewash what Minerva/Athena did isn’t feminist, especially if you turn around and villainize Perseus when Athena literally helped him kill Medusa.

- Medusa’s design being beautiful I’ve talked about this before but it’s really gross how a lot of Medusa designs that use her tragic backstory also really sexualize and prettify her, which goes against the whole point of challenging your audience to sympathize with a monster, bc you won’t challenge your audience if you ask them to sympathize with a pretty lady with snake makeup and hair at all. It’s also pretty unfair how a male monsters in mythology are allowed to stay monstrous and ugly while Medusa needs to remain beautiful even after Athena “cursed” her.

- Medusa being isolated which is especially frustrating to me bc she has her sisters who loved her deeply and mourned her death, but it also overshadows Danae’s story, who was actually forcibly isolated by those in power (even if you go with the version where she was locked up with her nurse she still couldn’t interact with her friends and family) and victim blamed and used by powerful men. Adding unnecessary tragedy and sexual assault to an already tragic story is something writers still do now unfortunately.

Btw you can still make sympathetic portrayals of Medusa, just don’t fall into any of these pls