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Circe - Blog Posts
"What I want... is you dead."
Out of all of Wonder Woman's villains, Circe is without a doubt my favorite. I love her dominant and sinister personality as well as her design. I was so happy when they included her as one of the main antagonists of Creature Commandos, and I loved her scheme of weaponizing internet incels into being a glorified army for her. I also love her design with the black torso piece, the silver armor around her neck, waist, wrists, and ankles, and the green arm cape with the green loincloth. So I decided to do some artwork of her today. How does it look?
"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."
Circe - Madeline Miller
"when he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul. I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain."
Circe - Madeline Miller
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Circe
Circe the Weaver
Goddess of Magic
While reading.
My brain: You're tired. Enough for today.
My fingers: I can't stop turning pages. It's so interesting. Let me finish this chapter.
Y’know I find it funny that we all thought Odysseus was gonna cheat on his wife in There Are Other Ways, but he then pulls an ‘I have a wife’ card on Circe.
And Circe is actually being respectful about it, which is quite ironic since Circe in Greek mythology turned a man into a woodpecker for being faithful to his wife.
In honor of the eclipse:
Helios sending Circe to Aeaea for killing her husband, and then in the same breath giving her brother said husband’s kingdom
Helios who killed his daughter’s attacker the moment he realized she couldn’t chase him away on her own, killing him before he could lay a hand on her
Helios who saved Hephaestus during the Gigantomachy, and who gave his “thank you” gift to his son
Helios who threatened to drive the sun chariot into the Underworld because Odysseus’ crew ate his favorite cattle. Helios who threatened ZEUS.
Helios who wanted to ease Demeter’s suffering of being separated from a beloved daughter, and told her where she was taken
Helios who rides his father-in-law’s river in a CUP. Every. Night.
Okay so I know Casta is a real name ok it’s own, HOWEVER imagine it’s a nickname. She got it as a child living on Aeaea.
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When she was young, her cousins, the Nereids, would laugh and welcome her into their pools when they noticed her. Her babbles would transform one into a small fish. The others would hold her close to their sides, caress her hair, and call her “Casta” after the spells she weaved
When she was older, her mother first showed her the herbs that grew in the soil. Together, they dried and crushed leaves into fine powder before tossing it into the boiling pot. Circe would hold her shoulder, not tight enough to hurt but tight enough to show she was proud. The potion would hiss in her ears, but though it all she heard her mother mutter “Casta”
But she was not “Casta.” She was not whatever “pure” thing they saw in her. She was cursed since the moment she rose from the sea foam her grandmother claimed, her grandfather’s golden touch burning her back and shoulders.
She was Cassiphone. “Brother killer.”
She hadn’t paid her name any mind until another form emerged from the earth. This one, a young boy her mother called “Spelldon.”
And when she first held this small, precious thing, delicately enough he must not have known she was there, she was glad she was “Casta”
Spelldon turns Valentine into an animal
Valentine turns himself into a bat, then back into a human to get out of it
Spelldon turns him into a slightly more insulting animal