[original post date: February 21, 2014]
sketches!
1. au in which chnunie is actually a living fucking vulture that follows eury around; alternatively, au in which chnunie was actually a living fucking vulture that followed eury around, up until its death, at which point this god of decomposition just shrugged and tossed him around his shoulders instead
2. ADAU moments
3.epi’s hair is so important
#ADAU #AU #Eury #Epiales #Macaria #Giselle #2014
[original post date: February 19, 2014]I'm counting this as the very first Elysium Drama Update because!!!
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what if zeus just outlawed pomegranate growth in the underworld, it keeps causing problems
Yeah Ganymede officially damned himself to the Underworld yesterday-- I mean, he did it deliberately, but it happened. He used the standard Persephone-grade method of shoving a pomegranate in your face and now he's officially stuck down there.
It was a lot less dramatic than this picture suggests but after we did it I had this same image in my head, and I was gonna just sketch it out/do something with the computer for it but it wouldn't have had that REALLY dramatic feel I was going for.
...basically what i'm saying is i sat down and painted this at 1 in the morning
anyway i hate painting things lol kill me
#ElysiumDramaUpdate #Gany #Epiales #Macaria #2014
[original post date: February 18, 2014]✧*̥˚
an ancient greek piece of pottery was found today
(haha this is so crappy but i've been meaning to do a picture like this for a million years, what's the point in having greek gods as characters if you can't do stuff like this all the time weeoo)
#Macaria #2014
[original post date: February 16, 2014]
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remember when I was redesigning the Olympians because yeah that was a thing I was doing
Drew this forever ago but I just now finally got around to coloring it, oops. Ares definitely needed to be redesigned (in Hercules/the series he was a short fat balding man played for comedic effects). Athena could have stayed the same, since I really liked her design, but ehhhh I was already redesigning Ares so whatever why not. (Her voice from the series can stay the same though, that was SPOT ON)
So yes, Ares is in red, and that's Athena there in blues. For anyone that doesn't know: Ares was the Greek god of war and crazy things like masculinity and bloodlust. Athena was his direct counterpart, his half-sister and godDESS of war, as well as wisdom, arts and crafts, and a few other things. Though generally represented as the calmer rational side to Ares' violence, Athena had a nasty temper and is responsible for turning Medusa into the monster everyone knows her for.
Fun fact about Ares-- canonically and mythologically, all the other gods were afraid of him/disliked him because of his violent tendencies and nasty attitude. BUT believe it or not as far as I've found Ares is one of the only main gods who has never raped anyone, which is a gigantic deal because EVERYONE did it, even fan favorite Hermes. In fact, one of Ares' more popular myths involves one of his mortal daughter's being raped by Poseidon's mortal sons. When he found out about it, he abruptly went and murdered the guy.
Way to go, Ares. You might be horrifyingly violent and terrifying, but you're not as terrible as you could be--
and! oh hey look who it is
also down there is just what it says, a helmetless face ref for ares.
i don't know if i'll keep his hair black but probably, just because i'm lazy
#Ares #Athena #Thanatos #ElysiumOlympians #2014
[original post date: February 9, 2014]✧*̥˚
why hello there ganymede, newly permanent resident of the Underworld
his hair's not officially going to stay forever curly now, he'll style it when he feels like it, it'll switch back and forth, but just for a comparison's sake whatever
I did in fact deliberately switch him from (disney) Zeus's colors to (disney) Hades's colors but he's also in blues now because Ganymede represents the Aquarius constellation/zodiac sign. Thus the new chiton pin, too.
#Gany #2014
[original post date: February 6, 2014]✧*̥˚
whenever apollo does something particularly dickish or stupid hermes takes the time out of his busy day to follow him around with a megaphone yelling ever helpful reminders at him until apollo snaps and attacks him with his own caduceus
haha in mythology hermes and apollo are actually more or less best friends and it's super cute what a bunch of jackasses
also perhaps unrelated but i recently realized i've been picturing apollo as more or less tamaki suoh from ouran high school host club, except *actually* an asshole and if you look at mythology this is actually a spot on interpretation of apollo jfc
#ElysiumOlympians #Apollo #Hermes #2014
[original post date: February 4, 2014]✧*̥˚
oh god they look like some kind of weird little family (pfft Loki hasn't even met Ganymede yet)
yeah I wanted to compare heights since everyone in Elysium is basically pretty tall, especially my characters. Loki is 6'2, Maci is an even 6'0. (For comparison's sake-- in real life I would come up to just barely Maci's shoulder.)
Ganymede's 5'5 (or 5'6? honestly i don't even remember what the hell I decided blehblehbleh), he's very small and very slight. aw baby
He's already gone through the character initiation rites of "horrible trauma and crying hysterically in front of other people" so I can officially call him mine now
#Gany #ELoki #Macaria #2014
[original post date: January 31, 2014]✧*̥˚
ganymede outfit ref and also color ref for myself bc i keep changing things minutely ugh okay okay this is what i'm sticking with
oh god he's so cute what have i done
(also he looks like a weird recolor of chris colfer no matter what i do and i guess i'll have to resign myself to that it's not like it doesn't work well lmao)
#Gany #2014
[original post date: January 29, 2014]
whattttt even WAS this AU mess i'm just putting these on one post cause i do not remember this at all wtf wtf
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I need to stop posting things at 1 in the morning
Looking at my collection of Melis (there are five versions of her total, scroll back a bit to find the compilation picture), I decided that I wanted some more. Actually, the exact mental picture I had was "Melinoe multiplying and multiplying into dozens of random, increasingly weirder alternates of herself; cut to Eury and Epi staring in vague horror, because they SOOO did not sign up for that."
Things I've decided about the one I've affectionately nicknamed "Mouth":
-Probably kills people. Almost definitely kills people. Half of the Melinoes are murderers so I mean
-Kills people really apathetically though. Just kindave a thing to do to pass the time.
-She only talks through her second mouth. For the record, she CAN talk through her actual mouth, but it's easier to talk through the middle one.
-May or may not be another mouth on her stomach running along the color seam on her body, THAT one's vertical.
Things about Mel2, who've I've affectionately nicknamed "Eyes":
-she probably manages not to bump into anything at all.
-Why does she bleed red blood instead of gold ichor? No one knows. The other Melinoes suspect a possibility that she's been putting /mortal blood/ on her eye wounds for no goddamn reason what the HELL
-She isn't actually blind but she might as well be. She hallucinates everything and doesn't see anything the way it's supposed to look.
-Her eyes were self-gouged, of course, because they weren't working right, as mentioned above. Physically removing her eyes didn't fix her perception problem at all, and now she has no eyes to match.
-Clingy. Physically clingy. Meli and OrigiMel are purposely designed as opposites (fucking DUH) and one of the things I've played with between them is physical contact-- OrigiMel had a thing where she hated hated HATED being touched (does anyone even remember that anymore? it was like 4 years ago lmao) and Meli now is very, VERY snuggly with her family&friends. That's a deliberate balance. So there's a whole bunch of Melinoes who are either aloof or clingy, and of course the creepy bleeding eyeless one is a snuggler
-All the Melinoes have the same mental maturity but not all of them reflect it (Meli acts more childlike than OrigiMel ever did)-- Mel2 is also more childlike
-Also probably kills people. Whoops.
i have crayon brushes on Sai (they're my FAVE by the way, I completely shaded that drawing of Rane w/them hghghghgh) which are perfect for imitating the drawing style of children
anyway yeah all versions of Melinoe coexist simultaneously in her head, including Mel1-4 I've just designed. so actually ty and bel are probably really familiar with all of them?? yeah.
of course Meli knows what they all look like and act like, they're all herself.
Finally, Mel3b's shtick is that she's everything Mel3 is not: her view on things is that she's aware of the evils other versions of her have done, but she has hope that maybe tomorrow will be the day nothing happens, maybe tomorrow will be better.
Essentially, the pessimist and the optimist.
So, what's special about them? Well, as most Melinoes tend to express, these two are alternatively good and evil. Specifically, the good and evil forms of each other. So, which one is which?
Good question. No one knows. /They/ don't know which one of them is supposed to be the good one or which is supposed to be the evil one. There IS an answer (I know it, I'm keeping it a secret), but they're both ambiguous about it. Is the pessimist, always thinking the worst will come, the evil one? Is the optimist, hoping for the best, the good one? Or is the pessimist the good one, wishing evil wouldn't be caused, and the optimist the evil one, deluding herself into thinking nothing's wrong?
so yeah.
also coloring Meli's colors on the opposite sides is REALLY WEIRD
#Melinoe #Meli #AU #2014