Gorgon thread.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

Do we want to continue debating the origins of Rider or not?

[Anonymous No.]

Nah.

[Anonymous No.]

Dunno lol.

[Anonymous No.]

Rider's been done to death (interpret that however you like). Let's analyze Medea's origins!

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350018
What's to debate?
There are many versions of Medusa and her origins and her end, and for Rider they chose a more of a tragic victim turned monster origin, to fit in with her role in the story and her relationship with Sakura.

Trying to determine her exact nature OUTSIDE of what Nasu has written in the VNs(F/SN and HA) is useless and pointless.

[Anonymous No.]

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE SNAKES

WHERE ARE THE SNAKES NASU

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>2350052

The niece of Circe? Guide of the Argonauts and seducer of Jason? Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350066
When did he say that?

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

Medea - so awesome and so awful at the same time.

I'd love to discuss the awesome aspect, but the awful aspect leaves me busy shedding a single very heavy tear for every high schooler who's had to put up the play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350117
I came back from a month abroad (having studied the play on my own while I was away) to find that the rest of my English class had been convinced by the teacher that Medea was some kind of feminist symbol. All the girls at my table thought she was the shit. Which I think is horrible.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

Medea is quite the experienced murderess, if Euripides is anything to go by.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

I would have my disquiets about trusting a woman who would offer her son a cup of poison, but that's just me.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>2350149

>Medea was some kind of feminist symbol

What the hell?

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>2350189

What in God's name was that teacher telling them, anyway?

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

This is now a Sorceress thread, apparently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350280

>Sorceress
>5th Caster

Sugoi, but not sugoi enough.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

I really don't know about this... Medea, feminist symbol?
Sure, she knew what she wanted and didn't let anyone push her around, but maybe killing your kids is a bit drastic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350189
My sentiments exactly.

>>2350273
I'm really not sure. I wasn't there, but when I tried to argue with the girls at my table, I seem to recall them being stubbornly convinced that Medea had achieved some kind of victory over Jason with her final actions in the play. Horrifying.

>>2350298
>Sure, she knew what she wanted and didn't let anyone push her around, but maybe killing your kids is a bit drastic.
Yes, it's a bit too drastic. Any woman who can kill her children is suspect in my mind. It makes my stomach turn. I also don't believe she really achieved much in regards to exacting vengeance on Jason. Haven't read the play since highschool though.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>2350313

I wonder if the usual apologists will come in and try to make excuses for Medea's deplorable nature.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>2350344

There's not really a lot to excuse, nor is there a lot to explain. It's pretty much all there.
Gets hitched with Jason, blows up golem, gets fleece, kills princess, kills king, stabs kids, flies off in... golden... sun... chariot...?

Okay, it gets a bit more complex in the context of Nasuverse.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2350344
Um, um... the Gods made her do it?

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>2350590

Let's not forget that Medea was one of the first shipwrights, in her own small way.

She ensured that the Argo was built with a piece of enchanted wood in its prow, so that it could speak to its crew.

[Anonymous No.]

Reported.