Michael Stearns ([info]helldray) wrote,
@ 2007-07-22 12:14:00
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Scylla
Those Greeks! It's like there's a moral in every monster. For some reason yesterday I took an interest in Scylla. First, you have Glaucus, the man-fish-god-thing, who fell in love with her, a beautiful sea-nymph and one of Poseidon's groupies or something. But she would have none of that! So first we have beauty rejecting the poor loser. Then Glaucus goes to Circe, to ask for a love potion, but Circe ends up falling in love with him, but of course, Glaucus is too hung up on Scylla to be interested in Circe, and hey, who knows if he was interested in Circe anyway? She's always turning people into pigs! Anyway, Circe illogically takes it out on Scylla (why didn't she just feed the love potion to Glaucus?) and turns her into a horrible sea monster with ravenous snarly dogs sticking out of her waist who snatch and devour anyone who comes near. So, maybe Scylla was a bitch on one level, but you can't blame someone for not being interested (it probably had nothing to do with him), and guys have to understand that aphrodisiacs are not an appropriate solution!

So in my interpretation, Scylla is a pitiable sort of character, and why not? It's not like the topless hottie residing in that pack of toothy grins wants to eat people, or at least, it's a far sadder thing if that's the case, because we're to assume she has no control over it. She's an emotionally-unstable man-devouring monster and it's totally beyond her control. HOW LIKE A WOMAN.

Seriously though, I just thought it would be neat to draw.



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