The snake lashes are a nice touch
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Does that mean she has snake eyebrows? Nose hair? Ear hair? Pubic hair?...
Only one way to find out, and thanks for volunteering!
Lotta snakes in the Brazilian rainforest.
The Brazilian has no bush.
OMG snake pubes. I wonder if there's a treatment available for that STD?
Medusa pulling down her partner's pants. "Aww, there's only one snake?"
Hydra Guy: "Cut off a head, and two more will grow."
Rules 34's about to get spicy
just wait until she gets older and gets that "upper lip snake"
Her eyebrows are already an exception and we haven’t left her face. So, I’m guessing no.
The eyebrow snakes might be coiled together sleeping.
and leg hair
For that matter, we all have small hairs all over our body.
It is a shame that she turns folks to stone, she has a pretty face and interesting hair. Finding someone to spend life with, has to be pretty rough for the snakegirls.
Blind people are her only option, but there's the open question if picturing her face after feeling with the fingertips triggers the effect. If yes, it's memetic and not her gaze.
Fucking perfect response, lmao. Got a good chuckle out of me man, thanks!
Seeing her reflection in a mirror is safe, so I would think the blind would be safe.
Only a special mirror - medusa gets defeated by a polished shield iirc
Edit: i misremembered
Find a blind guy with aphantasia.
There truly is someone for everyone 🤣
Can blind people from birth picture things?
Daniel Kish, a man with blindness, uses echolocation to navigate the world and teaches others how to do it. He had done a bit of tv stuff and I think a TED-like talk or two about blindness and perception.
I don't have any direct quotes, but you may find your answer from him.
I remember the late Ben Underwood whom had the same talent. One bit stuck with me comes to mind when Ben was walking the neighborhood with a tv reporter... "What's to my right", reporter asks. "{Click click} It's the side of a house, uh with stuff in front of it.", and Ben replies with more detail, "{click click} ...cans, yup garbage cans."
That would put the fingertips in range of the snakes though.
Canonically she turns people to stone due to being ugly, not specifically due to having snake hair!
I saw this joke recently in another comic. Was there a big joke or popular comment that sparked these?
Seems to be a bit of a worn-out joke at this point
does medusa want to turn people into stone? or is it more a side-effect? maybe she can't control it but doesn't actually want to hurt anyone?
Well, since the only myths we are given are not from her perspective, but her enemies', we can't say for sure, but consider:
You are a faithful priestess of Athena on a remote island. One day, the literal God of the Sea and Tempestuous Rage decides to walk into Athena's Temple and brutally rape you. Athena, the goddess you have so faithfully served, but who refused to protect her own priestess in her own temple from her own uncle, takes some serious offense at the sacrilege of her priestess being raped in her temple, and the Goddess of Wisdom decides that the only appropriate action is to punish the priestess by cursing you to never be able to be in the company of anyone ever again, and to add insult to injury and betrayal, you've been turned into a monster. Now, you have just been raped, cursed and transformed, and so you run away to an island. Now, when random men start coming to your island to "slay the vile monster", what do YOU do? The last time a man came to your island, he raped you and literally ended your existence as a human being, and the clear and stated intention of these men is to kill you. So yeah, you probably don't feel too bad about some dick-waving "heroes" getting turned to stone.
And when that one guy inevitably comes along with the help of Athena and chops off your head? Turns out that not only were you pregnant the whole time from the rape, but your children are born from the gushing wound from your beheading and are a flying horse and a giant.
Oh yeah, your head? Athena was so proud of herself for all of this shit that she made your severed, tortured death mask her personal symbol and stuck it to her fucking armor to intimidate her enemies.
Well, when you put it like that...
Everyone should read Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes. One of the most eye-opening and comprehensive studies of Greek mythology I've ever encountered.
I feel like I need to play God of War III again to fuck those gods over.
Absolutely. If nothing else, Haynes shows just how much mortals (particularly women) should despise Athena. Athena is not your friend. The Mousai were chill, and the Moirai didn't fuck around, content to do their duty to the universe, but the big gods, the Olympians? They were pretty much all deeply awful beings, not worthy of respect, only fear. Even if you were "lucky" enough to end up attracting their attention (either because they seduced and/or raped your mother, because they want to seduce you, because they want you to be their champion in some petty chess game, or all three), the best you could hope for was living a life tormented by all of the other gods who didn't choose you to be their special little toy, then dying and regretting all your life choices in the afterlife.
Hot take, I like the old God of War games better. It was a fun power fantasy series where you rampage through all of greek mythology as a man litterally far too angry to die. Yatzee from zero punctuation (now at secomd wind) said something like "Kratos ripped a dudes head off because he needed a torch"
It's not a hot take. Everybody knows the "rebooted" series is crap. Not only I wanted a refund, but I demand they pay me for the trouble of playing their shit.
Ten minutes into the game and I regretted buying it. "I don't fucking know your dead wife. Leave me alone! Rampaging Greek mythology is what I want to do!"
I disagree that it's crap. I think they're very good. But I also think they're not fully comparable outside of the fact that they are different style of games.
People can have preference but sadly if you prefer the originals you'll likely feel as if you've lost the chance of more like them.
I actually think the combat is not that different to original, but just with a different perspective. I think this can be felt especially in Ragnarok and in the free DLC of it that really focuses on on the combat.
You are do fucking off base it is hilarious
MFW
Sounds like she needs some sapphic love in her life
Maybe her and Midas should hook up.
I believe it's due to her being so horrifically ugly in the original myths
The workaround of autists of looking inbetween the eyes, would that work?
I never thought of that, my eyes go to mouths.
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