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oracleofdiscord · 1 year ago

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Paris + The Gods

please pretend that it looks like ares is taking the crown from paris instead of giving a crown to paris because having paris actively hand it over didn't work with the rest of the concept for this drawing

also please pretend that it actually looks like aphrodite is leaning over instead of looking like she's the same height as paris - a lot of the shading i used to indicate that she wasn't standing up straight got killed by the glowy hair effects

bonus flats + simpler shading under the cut, bonus ramblings in the tags

#paris of troy #aphrodite #apollo #ares #this drawing was inspired by me talking with a friend about the trojan royal family #and realizing that even for someone from a family with a lot of connection to the gods #paris has a *lot* of connection to the gods #i mean the connection to aphrodite should be. obvious #and there's also the story of ares for some reason deciding to enter a bull contest that paris was holding #(for those who aren't aware of this story: ares wins and paris gives him a crown as a prize)#and then paris was skilled with a bow and a lyre which would have been in apollo's domains #and the variant of achilles death i've seen most has apollo working with paris to kill achilles #(which means it was paris who apollo went to avenge hector and also apollo's son(s) that achilles killed)#and paris's first wife was a nymph and his second wife was a demigod #also this is stretching things but you could argue there's something to be said #for how athena - who (according to one account of tiresias's story) had blinded a mortal man for seeing her naked -#and hera - who had reason to not be very fond of trojan princes -#were both willing to accept a mortal trojan prince as their judge #and were both willing to offer up extremely generous rewards #although i do say that that's stretching since you could also just say they both wanted the apple badly enough #to accept the judge and offer up those prizes no matter who the judge was #also it has occured to me that since paris is also called alexander #everyone in this drawing has a name that starts with 'A'#anyway i think the joke i made to my friend is that paris might be godnip #like catnip. but for gods. godnip.#my art

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