No.27
[original post date: July 29, 2012]this was the first drawing I ever posted to Tumblr! but preserving the very long stupid caption I wrote on Facebook at the time ahah, as follows.
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Melinoe, Vali, and Nari are bffls because they're immortal children (or, er, dead) and have no one else. It's so much fun playing/drawing/writing them that I wanted to find more dead/immortal children for them, so I dug around Greek mythology and came up with these guys. The Niobids!
In Greek mythology, a mortal queen named Niobe had 14 children- 7 sons, and 7 daughters. Of course, Niobe was kind of an idiot, and bragged constantly to everyone about how much better she was than Leto, the mother of twins Apollo and Artemis, because Leto had had only 1 son and 1 daughter, in opposition to her 7 ea. Naturally, this pissed off Leto pretty badly, and in turn, Apollo and Artemis got pissed off, too. So, they went down to Niobe and her kids, and shot 12 of them with arrows, to make it even; Apollo killed all the boys, Artemis killed all the girls.Niobe was absolutely devastated at the death of her children, despite it being entirely her own fault, and she prayed to Zeus to turn her into a rock so she wouldn't have to deal with the guilt and misery any longer. He complied, and somewhere in the mountains is a rock that cries every night.
The two surviving children were Amyclas (not shown because who cares) and a girl named Meliboea. Meliboea was so traumatized by the slaughter of her siblings that her skin turned permanently a sickly greenish pale, and she changed her name to Chloris.
There is a nymph with the same name who lives in the Elysian Fields (aka where every other character we all play lives), and since I wanted to incorporate Chloris a little, I combined the two of them. Fun fact, she was the nymph who, at the gods' requests, turned Narcissus, Hyacinthus, and etc etc into flowers.
I am not even totally sure of all characterizations for this bunch yet. What I have so far is as follows;
-I know that the 'doxa-twins will be the most pessimistic, cynical things ever, like, not even morbid/creepy, just nasty and pissed off 24/7. Out of all of them, they're the only ones who really continue to be offended and bitter over their murder.
-All of them live together in Elysium; once they all got there, Chloris quickly grouped them together and stashed them in her house, where she regularly suffers nervous breakdowns over them.
-And seeing as she's in no state to do much of anything, Astyc and Archer, the second and third oldest, run the house.
-The younger kids, from Neaera on, insist on calling Chloris "Meli", short for Meliboea, which was her old name, which will be quite confusing when the Melinoe-Meli eventually meets them.
More to come, probably. I'll probably oneshot them with ValiNariMeli.
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These guys aren't relevant other than being the first appearance of Eupie & Cleo/Eudo so I'm only tagging them uwu
#Eupie #Cleodoxa #Eudoxa #2012