[original post date: February 22, 2014]✧*̥˚
It's apocalypse day!! No, not kidding. The famous end of the world prophecy of Norse mythology had been carefully calculated by Norse historians to be taking place on... today. Yay!
You can find all these things out from Google (a lot of versions are different, so I strongly suggest googling Ragnarok yourself!), but basically what happens is that the sun and moon get swallowed, the Fenris wolf breaks free and eats Odin, Jormundandr breaks free and eats Thor, Loki and Heimdall kill each other, the world is doused in water, poison, fire, and then water again, and then eeeeverything ends. Two survivors are left over (don't get excited, they're pre-decided: Lif and Lifthraser) to repopulate the Earth and start all over again.
#Fenris #Jor #2014
[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