#the harpies

[synkverv]

some headcanons i have about feyd-rautha's pets, the cannibal hoes, the harpies, the babes with the power

group headcanons:

from left to right, their names are lera, magdalina, & uko

none of them were ever slaves; magdalina and lera are giedi prime socialites (the daughters of non-harkonnen highborns) while uko is originally from off-world

they were cannibals BEFORE becoming feyd's harpies

everything they eat is raw

they are not allowed to have sex with anyone besides feyd and each other

feyd usually has sex with all three at the same time; he likes to feel "ganged up on" by them

lera and uko will have sex with each other when feyd's away to pass the time

they are not allowed to sleep in feyd's bed with him except for special circumstances

they are loyal to feyd-rautha and nobody else, they listen to and obey feyd-rautha and nobody else

uko is killed by falling debris during paul's coup while lera and magdalina are imprisoned with the rest of the harkonnens on arrakis and are later sent back to giedi prime (following feyd's death)

individual headcanons:

LERA:

lera is female, aromantic, and pansexual

the mark on her forehead indicates that she is feyd's favorite and the one who would carry his children as his concubine

she is the newest and youngest harpy

she can throat sing and feyd often has her perform for him while he watches magdalina and uko have sex

lera is the only one feyd allows to initiate sex with (uko and magdalina must wait until feyd wants to have sex)

she prefers to eat men's organs

MAGDALINA:

magdalina is female and heterosexual (although she is not opposed to having sex with lera and uko when feyd desires it)

she was the first to become one of his harpies

she is the oldest harpy

although lera is his favorite, magdalina is the most skilled at sexually pleasing feyd

she is the most dominant of the harpies in bed

magdalina is bitterly jealous of anyone feyd is attracted to or has slept with (lera, uko, margot fenring, paul atreides, vladimir harkonnen)

she would be a threat to any children feyd fathers with other people

UKO:

uko is non-binary and bisexual

they were feyd's second harpy

they are the most violent and barbaric of the three; slaves know to keep their distance from uko to the best of their ability

uko isn't particularly loquacious and enjoys growling, hissing, and spitting at anybody (who isn't glossu rabban or vladimir, feyd's direct family members are off limits and they know this)

uko loves to bite feyd and lera; they also intend to sharpen their teeth to points in the future

they like to be on a leash

uko is the most likely to cannibalize one of the other harpies and not necessarily out of desperation to eat

[thetudorslovers]

Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. The harpies seem originally to have been wind spirits (personifications of the destructive nature of wind). Their name means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers', and they were said to steal food from their victims while they were eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their families) to the Erinyes. When a person suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the harpies.

Pottery art also depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures.

To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind:

"[T]he Harpyiai (Harpies) of the lovely hair, Okypete (Ocypete) and Aello, and these two in the speed of their wings keep pace with the blowing winds, or birds in flight, as they soar and swoop, high aloft."

In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were depicted as vicious, cruel, and violent.

The harpies were called "the hounds of mighty Zeus" thus "ministers of the Thunderer (Zeus)". Later writers listed the harpies among the guardians of the underworld among other monstrosities including the Centaurs, Scylla, Briareus, Lernaean Hydra, Chimera, Gorgons and Geryo.While Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness.

[tomoleary]

Chris Sprouse and George Pérez “The Harpies” Original Pin-Up Art for War of the Gods #2 (DC, 1992) Source

Colors by Rick Taylor

[cactaceaeart]

Dungeon Meshi’s Lady Monsters

10x10cm

watercolour

[sarakipin]

Happy One Year Anniversary my Love 10.29.23

[nataliedecorsair]

Try to find every hidden critter in the first art🐸 Also, they did have fun and even flew around together And the aftermath of having fun is here... A lot of things in Hedwig/Yadwiga's Borderlands AU and her relationship with Vaughn is based on the relationship between my husband and I. And today we have another anniversary, so I'm posting these arts to honor it. (the in-game look is a result of me messing around with 3Dmodels + drawing; expression sheets are based on my Disney art studies; the last two arts is how I drew them 8 years ago and now xD) You can read about the characters here More comics and other arts can be found by the Pticenoga hashtag The biggest compilation of art with them + all the new stuff is here

[talibri]

Three cool looking species of raptors:

The Harpy Eagle, the Bateleur Eagle and the Bearded Vulture 🦅

Those are some cool looking birds if i say so myself.

[sanctus-ingenium]

catch

[sockssquishiiii]

can someone please remind her how to perfectly balance herself

i mean look at her wobble.

[spicymancer]

A Bird in the Hand

Monster Researcher Eclair (and Andie) study the Steppes clan Centaurs and Mountain Harpies.

[dunmeshistash]

Ryoko Kui - Harpy

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Forest Creatures by Maéna Paillet

[chaamomiles]

MOTHER, TELL ME YOU WILL STAY.

[butcher--bird]

mara..shes a harpy

[sarakipin]

I really liked how this sticker turned out, so I'm posting it separately 🐍🕊️

[nataliedecorsair]

I wanted to give you some of Pticenoga's Borderlands AU backstory, how she was raised by Shade and before starting her shenanigans with Vaughn.

Plus a bonus comic about how she decided to set up a meeting for Vaughn and Shade, but didn't tell Vaughn who is supposed to be there x) Mostly because Vaughn has met Shade before in his macabre World of Curiosities museum and thought that Shade is too weird for him. Well, that's the kind of person that would raise a feral harpy siren, gotta deal with it!

When she was very young, nothing bothered her much as she was just a wild baby exploring the world x) And Shade was a good father figure to her. However, as she grew older, she realized that she doesn't really "fit in": yeah, Pandora is a crazy planet, but not every person there is crazy. There are plenty of "regular folk" like Shade or other people from their town - and many others. And she was frequently called a monster, a mutant and many other things by the regular kids and even adults. She was wild though, could bite them or fight with them in a pretty feral manner, and, even though she protected herself, it didn't help the situation much. She wasn't crazy enough (and too small) to fit in with the psychos or bandits, was "too human" for actual monsters living on Pandora, and for a long time she had no idea she was a Siren, as even for Sirens she looked too different. Only when she hit her teens, she was able to confirm that she is one, started using her powers, and in her human form she could see the full extension of the glowing pattern she had on her skin. She still, however, didn't know why she wasn't born "normal", and there were no older Sirens around.

At some point, she decided to become independent and live on her own. Her "wild" upbringing was helping that a lot, and she felt fine being away from people. She'd still visit Shade frequently, of course, and at some point she'd even met Zer0 and could hang out with him for some time. As Zer0 is a mystery himself, they had some common ground between them (though constantly listening to his haiku were exhausting xD). Sadly, Vault Hunters attract attention, not always positive, and that was the reason why she got spotted by a big bandit gang (could be the beginning of Vallory's gang, but before she took over). And local scientists like Tannis already declared that there may be some connection between Sirens and the Vaults. And they noticed that she's a Siren, but also pretty young (and dumb). After the first Vault on Pandora was opened, there was plenty of weird and valuable stuff around, but it wasn't so easy to get it when you're just regular bandits. And when Eridians, the aliens that are guarding the Vault, are everywhere. The Sirens like Lilith were too strong for them, and hiring a Vault Hunter is expensive, so they decided to wriggle into her favor and use her to gain access to the area. She didn't know she was dealing with bandits first, she naively thought it's a rare case of nice fellows just wanting to be friends and such, plus the Vault could have answers about her origin, and the new "friends" confirmed it.

At some point, she realized she was being used, and got into a fight with the bandits - and lost, as there were too many of them, and she had too little experience, and they knew about Shade. She got kidnapped and told that she'd do everything they told her to do, or they'd kill Shade, so she had to obey. She helped them to fight the way to the Vault and get some of the riches, and during the process she felt that she really does have a connection with Eridians - they boosted her powers and helped her to get free, and kill every presenting member of the gang. She was worried about Shade though, so she left immediately to find him before the remaining members found out what happened and could harm him. But she was too late - the water source in their town of Oasis was poisoned, and every single person there died. Except Shade though - he lasted longer, but dehydration made him insane, and he turned corpses into the stuffed dummies he could talk to (though she didn't have much of a problem with this part). As she was gone for at least several months, he didn't believe she's real, and she had to adapt to the new reality.

She never got back to the Vault after that as she felt it was a source of more trouble than anything good (in her view, the price was too much for a bunch of physical stuff).

That lasted for years, and became a bit easier as her powers, enhanced by the Eridians, wasn't only serving the destruction,  but could eventually "heal" some part of Shade's mind, so the moments of clarity became more frequent (she didn't know it's the reason, though). And you still need money, whether you like it or not, so, when Shade decided to use his World of Curiosities as a spot of illegal deals and smuggling, she didn't resist, but would watch over him in the shadows in case something goes wrong.

Eventually, she calmed down and just embraced herself. And, after some time, she met Vaughn, whose personal struggles she could sense right away, as she had to experience "being different" herself.