Hilarious in hindsight. · 2:22am Aug 28th, 2017
A long ways back, I had a scene in mind for a Quiververse story where one character angrily referred to another character as a harpy, only to retract the statement - "I don't want to insult the harpies."
Then, years later, word came along for the movie and we got our first look at Captain Celaeno and her crew. Yes, they're anthropomorphic parrots, but given the connotations connected to the name 'Celaeno' in Greek myth...yeah, by my reckoning, they're harpies.
It'll be years before I can even get to the point where I can incorporate the events of the film into the Quiververse, mind you, but I do plan on laying the groundwork for a potential appearance for harpies in general, and Celaeno and her crew in particular, into the storyline. And that goes for most everything else that the movie's giving us, too.
Yeah. That IS an interesting piece of info. Indeed, the irony is quite delicious.
Plus, hey, knowing Celaeno and her crew would actually be EVEN MORE of a reason to not want to insult the harpies. :-D
Now that's a coincidence! I feel the same way regarding the monkey things that follow Tempest since I once had an idea involving a diplomatic visit from a monkey kingdom. Which included visits from the Flutterpony princess and Zebra King.
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True. Celaeno and her crew are clearly not the worst sort of pirates you'd want to run into, but they aren't horrible folks in the slightest. Still, not a wise idea to insult pirates regardless.
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Truthfully, it's not that much of a coincidence. We've already seen minotaurs and centaurs running around in the story, so the notion of more creatures from Greek myth being sapient races in this world isn't farfetched. How they did it this time, however, is a nice unique spin and one that I like.
I'm still on the fence about the creatures following the Storm King, however. They could belong to his race (which I tentatively want to call satyrs), or they could be the same race as Grubber (big hedgehog/mole things). I'm very hesitant to label them as any sort of pure primate, however, given the precedent set by the show itself.
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Still gonba ge awesome regardless of what they are.
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Not arguing that.