#Helios

found a WIP from a year ago that idk if i’ll ever finish….. perhaps one day

warmup doodles if i dont get the actual doodle done by midnight

How I feel designing any character/god with a lot of gold:

Circe retelling Ai generated image on the cover It was shocking to see that this book has 885 pages “Circe was the daughter of Helios, born into a divine court where beauty was currency, daughters were property, and silence kept powerful men comfortable.” So you’re probably using that retelling as source “The world may call her monster. For the wounded, she will become home.” But… she wasn’t called a monster? Saying it here because I don’t like this book, she kinda turned the guy into a pig, but actually it was a boar Myunique is an american arguing this ridiculous book will “reclaim” Circe 😑 And according to the “What’s it about?” in this book Aeaea works like a women’s shelter 😐 “morally gray heroines,” Your character isn’t morally gray if she’s organizing a women’s shelter and only curses abusive men Reading this thing shortly after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe only made the experience worse “I laughed when priests grew solemn.” Well smiling during serious moments can be annoying, so in this case I don’t blame them for criticising you “He called me daughter when he wanted me to remember that names could be taken back.” By page 2 we see that Helios is a bad father “A better question is what kind of world teaches a woman to make bodies confess.” So it’s fair to assume the myth of Picus will be ignored Looks like she’s in good terms with her sister Pasiphae “I learned which kings paid tribute in public and traded girls in private. I learned which priests blessed marriages they knew were cages. I learned which gods laughed when mortals begged. I learned which women kept small knives in their sleeves and which ones kept poison under the tongue.” All deities are terrible except Circe, all men are terrible except the love interest Theron 😑 “Feasts in my father’s court were never meals. They were declarations with seasoning. Mortal kings arrived to display loyalty. Minor gods arrived to display access. Nymphs served wine, poured water, lowered their eyes, and learned which hands to dodge.” The first 3 chapters are basically this paragraph, over and over “People often mistook my father’s warmth for mercy, which proved how easily heat can confuse the desperate.” Helios wasn’t like that “I went to him because daughters in sun courts learn many forms of walking toward fire.” Honestly at this point it’s good the writer doesn’t know about Helios’ daughters Lampetia and Phaethousa, because she would find a way to ruin these characters and for sure would turn their mother Neaira into a victim of abuse or something like that “The nymph lowered her tray as he leaned toward the men beside him and murmured something meant for their amusement. Their laughter came easily. Hers cost more. She kept her face smooth, the practiced kind of smooth women learn in rooms where fear must look like service.” You have to be kidding me 🤦‍♂️ Being able to use this meme a second time is sad Helios have mortal men from nobility as guests in his parties. The Titan is the leader of Sun Colonies(whatever that means) and invited mortals to form alliances The prologue is mostly about how Circe is opressed in the court of Helios and how servant nymphs work in fear of Lords, divine or mortal “『Shrine cows live longer than opinionated daughters.』” Can you two talk about anything else ? “, and a mortal lord who has already asked whether Helios’ daughters all glow in the dark.” In what universe mortal men can make such comment to the daughter of a Titan, in the house of said Titan, and not fear punishment? “『Sent here or sold here?』” So… in this book nymphs can be sold and trafficed into service to deities. The ammount of misoginy in this retelling goes beyond the myths “Makron leaned from his saddle and said something to a nymph holding the awning rope. The nymph looked down. His companions laughed.” Myunique you know not every interaction between a man and a woman worked like a hostage negotiation right? 😑 “If he touches someone he should fear touching, remember every room has corners where women survive because another woman stayed quiet at the correct moment.” That’s not how life works “Pasiphae at twelve, already learning to smile through insult. Circe at eight, still asking why servants cried where gods could hear them. Their mother absent.” Many pages later Pasiphae had this comment when talking about their mother: Aeetes should learn to let buried women in peace. So, yeah. Another retelling where a mother character is ruined Perses exist but he’s mentioned once , when Circe made a comment about him using beauty as a weapon or something like that This review will be long “『Our mother had a mother?』 Circe balanced the blade on her palm. 『Bold claim.』” Why wouldn’t your mother have a mother? The process of making this book was probably: it’s been 5 pages since a female character was harassed, I need to change that 😑 “People who demanded names from servants often disliked surrendering their own.” Nothing Pheres said or done prior to this scene matches such description. All he did was complain a servant broke a wine glass cup and by complain I mean comment on a low tone of voice “Most cruel people had inherited a bruise and mistaken it for a crown.” Again, nothing he did in this scene deserve such criticism This Eumelia is just here to be opressed: she was sold to work for Helios, burn her finger while carrying a hot pot, dropped a bowl with food, broke a amphora with wine, accidentally splashed wine in the clothes of a lord, and now there’s this broken cup “『Because our brother enjoys placing matches near curtains.』” Yeah whatever “『Our mother’s mother was called Persa of the Deep Garden. She grew poisons that could make gods sleep and medicines that could make mortals endure divine attention. Father admired her until admiration required listening. Then he found her difficult.』” “『Our family misplaces women creatively.』” Where do I start? Hypnos could make gods sleep, divine attention didn’t require special medicine, the grandmother wasn’t Persa she was Tethys, quite insane to get a backstory on the oc gradma while the mother remains without name, are you claiming that Helios told Persa’s father(or someone else in the family) to basically get rid of her? Also by the end of the chapter we have 2 new scenes of men tormenting nymphs, with another scene where Circe uses magic to basically see into the mind of a Lord named Therakos where we discover he might be violent to the women in his palace too, and he mistreat his wife(who doesn’t get a name) I guess that was supposed to be shocking or at least dramatic, but due to the Law of Diminishing Returns the emotional impact of such scene was gone by chapter 2 Ok this one is a nitpick but there’s way too many gold/golden things in this. Just because Helios is the Sun Titan doesn’t mean he can’t have different colors in the house Looks like there’s a caste system where certain “river houses” have more value than others I have no idea if this Thaleia is supposed to be the same Thaleia we meet at Chapter 1. My confusion is because the first Thaleia has been serving Circe for months, but this one she had no idea who she was until the nymph presented herself Myunique, you’re a writer, you could have used a different name

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CALYPSO: I had no friends but the sky and sun. :( URANUS and HELIOS: Who said we were friends ?

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I love the idea that Icarus was in love with Helios but, I actually think Helios was the one who loved Icarus. Helios’ domain is specifically the sun (Apollo would share this domain because he is the god of light). Helios is the one with the chariot and the horses, who brings the sun across the sky. So tell me why the day Icarus is finally free, it’s a beautiful sunny day. So beautiful he’s basking in it. Probably hasn’t seen the sun in forever. It’s warm, it’s bright, it makes him feel loved. He wants more and more. He’s joyful. I choose to think this was a gift for him. Terrible in hindsight of course, but it did its job. Helios showed his love for Icarus and he fully appreciated it. It’s like someone wearing a sweater you just knitted for them. They loved each other. Icarus didn’t just laugh and smile as he fell. He was held in the rays of the sun god, kissed by his light, and loved. And honestly, that’s how we all want to go out, yeah?

Circe retellings part 5 “Ulysses realized that the men he sent had been swallowed by her light. He seduced her into falling asleep; she would never cease to postpone her service as guardian of the island of the sun.” … I’m not reading this Ai generated image on the cover. And she looks like a stereotype of medieval witches “But their gifts were celebrated, while mine were whispered about like a curse.” “ She bends things. Not like a goddess. Like something older .” The power to control things and animals wasn’t that shocking for mythological beings So we have Perse being a bad mother from page 1 and Helios hates her for… scaring Glaucus? Also what is this? Glaucus only became a sea god by the time Circe was an adult but here he’s already one and also it’s a pervert towards Pasiphae? “Rescued from the clutches of bandits by the sorceress Circe, she taken to Circe’s island and taught the secrets of sorcery so that no longer will she be at the mercy of anyone.” Ok then “When Odysseus, Hermes, and other figures of legend cross her path, alliances shift and betrayals cut deep. Circe must decide who she will become: the monster the world fears… or something far more dangerous.” So you probably invented new ways for Circe to suffer Why tf the Furies would be watching Circe’s birth? Is it to showcase how incredible but dangerous this character is? 😑 “The servants flinched from her gaze, whispering of ill omens and the silent curse that clung to her.” “Cice was marked—not merely powerless, but dangerous, her voice a shadow in the golden halls.[…] The gods would not forget the test of her song, nor the way it lingered, stubborn and strange, in the corners of their shining world.” Circe retellings aren’t very creative when writing her childhood “The gods, arrayed in a circle of judgement, glimmered with cold, immortal disdain.[…] Zeus’ voice thundered, naming her crime: she had wielded forbidden power, trespassed the boundaries set for nymph and goddess alike.” “—each syllable a fragment of power, a word from the tongue of her grandmother Hecate, goddess of crossroads and witchcraft.” I’m supposed to believe that in this story, the Olympians don’t like to see nymphs using magic? Hecate wasn’t her grandmother “revealing herself as a fundamental archetypal figure for those seeking integration of the shadow and mastery over their own psychic and astral reality.” I wouldn’t associate Circe with shadows Bunch of ai generated image Translation: Circe doesn’t tolerate rivals because she doesn’t dispute. The ones who try confront her don’t find a simple enemy, but a cruel mirror, capable of returning each one to their own psychic deformity. Still, Circe knows how to set free. She loves without imprisoning. She initiates without holding back. She even helps the man she loves to leave, because she understands that true power lies not in possessing, but in allowing the journey. Her love doesn’t promise eternity, it offers awareness. And here she shows she is well opposite to Calypso. Circe totally tried to dispute with Scylla over the affection of Glaucus. She imprisoned Picus in the form of a bird when he rejected her. To say Circe is better than Calypso is like comparing armed robbery with a knife to armed robbery with a revolver Translation: Circe knows the limits. She understands pain, but does not sanctify excess. Her ethics are not moral, they are sunny, ancient, and impersonal. Exiled, feared, perhaps widowed, a Sarmatian or Scythian, for being too untamable for any male throne, Circe remains on the fringes of the human world; whether by choice or for survival is a question. Not sure if that’s the best description for her

20260615-西門町掃街-1 我發現只要躲在相機後面，人群越多越好拍。 如果人太少，反而會怯場。 重點是，手動鏡拍攝真的拍糊了一堆照片…還好沒有哪幾張是因為糊掉而感到遺憾！不過當然能準焦是再好不過了。 今天丟圖沒太大把握，因為審美觀已經不同，但是拍攝的方式沒有太大的改變。先熱熱身吧，未來再慢慢調整拍攝的感覺。 Canon6D+八羽怪

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god i love this game ( helios design also by @.violet-gleam )

[Helios being a 28 foot tall titan crossed the ocean while holding a struggling Inyo in his hold. He got to Greece before placing the violent lady into her dads arms gently.] "She is banned from the state's of America from now on. She was violent in my region and I won't put up with her anymore Ares."

[Ares automatically opened his arms when the resisting wildcat, Inyo, furiously growling at such a humiliating deportation, was passed out of the titan’s hands] Who are you to make prohibitions? Don’t you dare put bans on my child!

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