[OOC] Shifting Worlds

[kapuchu]

I would kinda like to see the Wendigo & Gorgon battle it out... the two giants (almost literally) fighting for supremacy xD

[Syben]

I wonder kapu. Would you let gregory increase his size through his own power o.o

...not that'd I'd ever use it other than to hulk smash a city... but..

I mean... wouldn't it be nice to have someone hulk smash a city.

[kapuchu]

He's a piece of living rock... with tons of rock at his disposal. I'll let your imagination come up with the rest :P

[EldritchOne]

I think I'll take your idea after all Kap, I kinda like it anyway, and it'd further the sort of unearthly quality if people have a hard time trying to figure out what gender he is - probably genderless/taking on characteristics of both- in his gorgon form.

I figure if the Windigo and Gorgon decided to fight one another, it;d be a battle for the ages.

[kapuchu]

And on the side there's a certain little human-looking demon facepalming, wondering why men can't ever resolve a conflict without violence :P

[Syben]

EldritchOne said
I think I'll take your idea after all Kap, I kinda like it anyway, and it'd further the sort of unearthly quality if people have a hard time trying to figure out what gender he is - probably genderless/taking on characteristics of both- in his gorgon form.I figure if the Windigo and Gorgon decided to fight one another, it;d be a battle for the ages.

I do have a very technical question for you... what exactly is your gorgon comprised of. (did kapu let you keep the statue-man form? if so question applies for that too) Is it snake scales, stone scales, both? The dreams of children and the souls of the teletubbies?

[kapuchu]

Snake scales. He changed it because you commented on it, I believe. At least I assume it's snake scales.

[EldritchOne]

Yep snaky scales, go back a few comments you'll find I notified ya of the changes.

[kapuchu]

I'll make a reply later. In a Raid in TERA atm.

[kapuchu]

I'll make a reply later. In a Raid in TERA atm.

[kapuchu]

Alright. Posted.

Agnar isn't making an appearance just yet. Any of you guys in the forest can bumb into him if you want. Gimme a shout and we can make a collab of that, if you want.

Also, Eldritch, I was kinda sad that he changed his form back to human >< I had written an awesome paragraph (in my opinion) about Lily's reaction/thoughts to his half-gorgon appearance... but then I re-read a bit of your post (to make sure I got the details right) and noticed that he changed back <.< Two paragraphs gone >< xD

[EldritchOne]

kapuchu said
Alright. Posted.Agnar isn't making an appearance just yet. Any of you guys in the forest can bumb into him if you want. Gimme a shout and we can make a collab of that, if you want. Also, Eldritch, I was kinda sad that he changed his form back to human >< I had written an awesome paragraph (in my opinion) about Lily's reaction/thoughts to his half-gorgon appearance... but then I re-read a bit of your post (to make sure I got the details right) and noticed that he changed back <.< Two paragraphs gone >< xD

Aw damn it man, if you said I'd have shifted some shit to allow you to post em.

I still can if I you want!

[EldritchOne]

double posted by accident.

[kapuchu]

Nah, don't worry xD

[kapuchu]

Okay... let's try to make the message here, then, since the PM won't bloody edit it! Here's what I wanted to write ><

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[/quote]"She stumbled a few steps backwards, shocked by the usually hidden nature of the Shifters being so decidedly not hidden. The scales hinted at something reptilian, but the "hair" made it almost painfully obvious as to what exactly he was. His form was what Lady Medusa had become when the Goddess Athena cursed her for losing her innocence in a place devoted to it. Like a snake shedding its skin, so too had Medusa shed her innocence, being the unwilling victim of Poseidon's urges. She had been the same, yet something entirely new after the ordeal.

Gorgon."

This is pretty much what I wrote, if a bit less awesome than the original <.< Can't remember everything verbatim.[/quote]

[EldritchOne]

Well, Nanas was a non-existent thing, but I managed to turn up a primordial Gorgon from the web called "Gorgon Aix" who in one case is the son of Typhon and Echidna.

"A few ancient sources also mention another Gorgon, one who predates the rise of the gods of Mount Olympus, this was the Gorgon Aix. The Gorgon Aix was a monstrous goat, with skin of serpents, who sided with the Titans early on in the Titanomachy. In these few sources, the Gorgon Aix is said to be the father of the other Gorgons with Ceto, although the monstrous goat is killed by Zeus during the war."

"Zeus defeated the gorgon Aex (or Aix), who was either the daughter of Helios (with a head as terrifying as her body was beautiful) or alternatively the son of Typhon and Echidna. He used the skin of a goat and fixed upon it the head of the gorgon Aex. It was said Zeus gave his Aegis to his daughter Athena once the war was over."

"Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 13 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"But when Jupiter [Zeus], confident in his youth, was preparing for war against the Titanes, oracular reply was given to him that if he wished to win, he should carry on the war protected with the skin of a goat, aigos, and the head of the Gorgon. The Greeks call this the aegis. When this was done, as we have shown above, Jupiter [Zeus], overcoming the Titanes, gained possession of the kingdom."

Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Gorgon and Ceto [were born]: Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa.

Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 151 :
"From Typhon the giant and Echidna were born Gorgon . . . From Medusa, daughter of Gorgon, and Neptunus [Poseidon], were born Chrysaor and horse Pegasus."

Seems I have luck on my side after all, as Ceto was a female sea god and that Aix took the form of a goat - a symbol common for masculinity- with a coat of serpents, I now have some level of proof of a male Gorgon. Admittedly the tale diverges, this is just one version of it, but given thats the same for all mythological stories given enough time I'd say I have a reasonable foundation now. Regardless, in this tale they had Typhon as a grandpa, and given he was described "as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpent heads "with dark flickering tongues" flashing fire from their eyes and a din of voices and a hundred serpents for legs" I figure he'd fit as backup.

Woo!

[kapuchu]

I'd say that counts well enough... Still, I have to admit that I like the idea of him being male yet having a somewhat feminine body when fully Shifted xD

It would give us an excuse to go: