Warrior women?

[Ukase]

Anyone recognize who this might be, and what she's doing with the Warriors (Mortimer Kal SF)? 

 

To the left is a twin of this girl. They look kind of Cimeroran, but I certainly have never seen women hanging out with the Warriors before. Anyone familiar with a lore reason for this? 

Just curious. 

Edit: Looks like her name is Persephone, and the gal to the right is Aphrodite. 

Edited September 15, 2022 by Ukase

[The_Warpact]

23 minutes ago, Ukase said:

Anyone recognize who this might be, and what she's doing with the Warriors (Mortimer Kal SF)? 

 

To the left is a twin of this girl. They look kind of Cimeroran, but I certainly have never seen women hanging out with the Warriors before. Anyone familiar with a lore reason for this? 

Just curious. 

Edit: Looks like her name is Persephone, and the gal to the right is Aphrodite. 

Gang girls named after the Greek goddesses.

[Sakura Tenshi]

I feel terrible to suggest this reality, but, I'm pretty sure those girls are just sort of trophy girlfriends for Odysseus. Like some mobsters like to have lots of pretty girls hanging off them at all times, small time gangs like the Warriors would be liable to do the same thing.

[TalynDerre]

Not just trophy girlfriends, but sacriligious trophy girlfriends. 

 

Persephone, the one in this picture, is the wife of Hades.  There is a Greek myth where Odysseus (and another guy whose name I cannot recall right now) are able to travel to the underworld, and they get the bright idea to try and kidnap Persephone and force her to marry one of them.  For obvious God-and-Goddess-of-the-Underworld reasons, that does not work, and they are trapped in Hades for their hubris until Herakles busts them out some time later.

 

Odysseus is hubristically challenging the God of the Dead with that girlfriend's name.  I am sure that is not going to come back and bite him some time later...

[Black Zot]

5 hours ago, TalynDerre said:

Not just trophy girlfriends, but sacriligious trophy girlfriends. 

 

Persephone, the one in this picture, is the wife of Hades.  There is a Greek myth where Odysseus (and another guy whose name I cannot recall right now) are able to travel to the underworld, and they get the bright idea to try and kidnap Persephone and force her to marry one of them.  For obvious God-and-Goddess-of-the-Underworld reasons, that does not work, and they are trapped in Hades for their hubris until Herakles busts them out some time later.

 

Odysseus is hubristically challenging the God of the Dead with that girlfriend's name.  I am sure that is not going to come back and bite him some time later...

 

So he's living up (or maybe down) to his namesake.  Most of the protagonist's issues during the Odyssey were brought on by him cheesing off the gods, especially Poseidon.

[MistressOhm]

22 hours ago, Black Zot said:

Most of the protagonist's issues during the Odyssey were brought on by him cheesing off the gods, especially Poseidon.

 

The Iliad is very much a 'war movie' wherein the exploits of Odysseus were documented, along with those of all the other heroes of the time.  But the Odyssey is very much a "pissed off a god, now I'm paying for it" journey epic... not to mention the soap opera going on at home, wherein his wife is basically forced to open her home to a bunch of layabout suitors (who plot to kill Odysseus as soon as he appears) and it turns into a "does he get home in time or doesn't he?" drama.   

 

Penelope's test to him about "moving his marital bed" is always good for a chuckle - he made the headboard out of a living tree that the house was built around, so in order to move the bed, the entire house would need to be destroyed and the tree uprooted.  THAT's someone who's committed to his marriage.

 

A lot of the Greek tragedies are based on someone's ego (hubris, yes!) getting too big to be properly contained, and then the Gods arrange for 'correction'.  As a society, they had a lot of great ideas, but their concept of just retribution for pissing off someone much more powerful than you?  Chilling what could happen. 🙂 

[tidge]

A million years ago I read something about the difference between ancient and modern tragedies, it is approximately this: ancient tragedies are motivated by external, typically divine, forces, but modern tragedies arise from the manifestation of an individual's self-destructive passions.

 

And some modern literary advice I think I can attribute correctly (to Kurt Vonnegut): "Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."

[Major_Decoy]

They don't dress like anyone else in the organization, they don't follow any of the naming patterns, so I'd assume that they're not in the organization. They're standing there, looking over Odysseus' shoulders.

 

The warriors have at least one arc where they're trying to capture a god: it's possible that these two women are there to represent the gods they're named after. Any Odysseus is kind of under their thumbs. He claims to be a clever tactician and know that the villains are out to double cross him, but it could just as easily be that these two are giving him advice because as he gains power, so do they gain power.

 

Meanwhile, he wanted to trap a god to try to get out from under their watchful eyes.