#Ocypete

[feenick]

I've had these three around for a decade now

#fee draws #sketch #harpy #monster girl #podarge #ocypete #aello #I never did change their names in the end

[purseowner4thequalityanimation]

Shin Megami Tensei NINE's demon roster consists of new designs, returning designs and REPEATED designs. And no demon demonstrates this better than Harpy, whose model appears in NINE's roster no less than 5 times. Rather than just post 5 gifs and be done with it like I normally do, I have decided to curate a short overview of the BEST Harpy appearances in MegaTen! Hit "Keep reading" (after viewing this post in my blog because the formatting gets fucked up if you don't) NOW!!!!

Harpy and Furiae appear in Shin Megami Tensei 1 but they don't share assets yet so who gives a crap. Siren is a blue harpy, I guess.

Furiae returns in Shin Megami Tensei II with a new sprite, joined by

Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello! There's some slight asset resharing among them as Aello and Furiae share the same base sprite, but the others share with non-harpy demons so as far as this post is concerned they're original. Combined with artist Kazuma Kaneko's tendency to embellish demon designs in artwork and you'd never expect that all these birds were destined to be textureswaps for an underperforming 2002 XBOX JRPG.

But they were! Now we're cooking! In Shin Megami Tensei NINE the 5 bird-ladies return in one fabulous package. If you love Harpy then you'll love Harpy being given a haircut and a dyejob and reappearing four times. You'll love how they appear alongside themselves for hours of gameplay because they're within the same 10-28 level range. As an added bonus for the asset-reuse lover, said gameplay takes place in looping CG render backgrounds arranged into dungeons so just imagine leaving the town square in Ocarina of Time and arriving in that exact town square except mirrored. By the end of NINE you will love asset reuse, because you will not make it to the end of NINE otherwise. (The harpies are also in Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE but without the looping backgrounds it just isn't the same.)

Honorable mention to Persona 1 which squeezed in the named furies Megaera, Tisiphone and Alecto by using the same upperbody sprite as the three named harpies. Unfortunately Atlus were too afraid to include the named harpy Podarge for a total of 7 unique birdladies, so Persona 1 will only be commemorated by an opacity-reduced overlay of the six they bothered including.

Only regular Harpy survived to the DS-3DS era, using her Soul Hackers design where her head kind of looks like a pinecone. After gracing us with her presence in Strange Journey (+ Redux) and Shin Megami Tensei IV(+ Apocalypse), the Harpy disappeared from the pages of SMT history never to be seen again. As for actual history, I think Harpies were evil birds in Greek mythology but don't quote me on that.

Special thanks to @veskscans for the SMT1/2 art of Harpy, Furiae, Ocypete, Celaeno and Aello, and @eirikrjs for the Soul Hackers Harpy scan. NINE gifs by me, other sprites from the MegaTen wiki.

#Shin Megami Tensei #NINE #MegaTen #Harpy #Furiae #Aello #Celaeno #Ocypete #my writing

[thetudorslovers]

Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. The harpies seem originally to have been wind spirits (personifications of the destructive nature of wind). Their name means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers', and they were said to steal food from their victims while they were eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their families) to the Erinyes. When a person suddenly disappeared from the Earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the harpies.

Pottery art also depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures.

To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind:

"[T]he Harpyiai (Harpies) of the lovely hair, Okypete (Ocypete) and Aello, and these two in the speed of their wings keep pace with the blowing winds, or birds in flight, as they soar and swoop, high aloft."

In this form they were agents of punishment who abducted people and tortured them on their way to Tartarus. They were depicted as vicious, cruel, and violent.

The harpies were called "the hounds of mighty Zeus" thus "ministers of the Thunderer (Zeus)". Later writers listed the harpies among the guardians of the underworld among other monstrosities including the Centaurs, Scylla, Briareus, Lernaean Hydra, Chimera, Gorgons and Geryo.While Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness.

#harpies #the harpies #the harpy #greek mythology #greek gods #greekmythologyedit #mythology #mythical creatures #mythologyedit #ocypete #hesiod #ovid #mythology moodboard #celaeno #aello #maimie mccoy #daisy ridley #olympus #mythological monsters #gods #greek myths #userthing #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #women in mythology #erinyes #moirae #classicaledit #ancient greece #ancient greek mythology

[briefbestiary]

Daughters of Thaumas and Electra, and thus sisters of the rainbow goddess Iris and the forsaken Arke. The harpies are perhaps most famous for their role in plaguing Phineus.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #folklore #legend #myth #mythology #monster #harpy #harpies #greek mythology #greek folklore #greek legend #the hounds of zeus #storm wind spirits #aello #nicothoe #ocypete #podarge #celaeno

[rokkzalm]

Ocypete

FED038 / E957B8 / 7C47AB / 3B8423 / 5F271A

#ocypete #thunder #brave frontier #bf1 #palette

[arkadarp]

because I have the means, @lesbianapplejack

this is Ocypete, she and Celaeno are in lesbians

#mlp #mlp:fim #mlp comics #ocypete #celaeno #lesbianapplejack

[eirikrjs]

Idk I think classic SMT would probably never get the 3D remake treatment, even if ported on modern systems. If their big cash cow (Persona 3-5) got a very compromised and lazy porting job (AI upscaling, etc), then I doubt they'd really care about games which mean essentially nothing to the wider masses.

At this point, yeah, SMT 1/2/if... would need full remakes and not ports. These hypothetical remakes would be an investment for sure, but I think a worthy one. They would definitely be in 3D if only for the dungeons themselves; if they don't want to do the 3D demon models in the budget way I was talking about last night, I guess they could upscale the original sprites (or animate Kaneko illustrations like in the DS/3DS era). Both seem plausible to me for different reasons (Atlus being Atlus, or realizing 3D would make the games more palatable to modern audiences and more worthwhile to release on every possible platform). All they really need to do is be able to recreate screenshots like these in 3D:

The demons can probably even get by with limited animations akin to their sprites or just some simple/generic ones, such as Ocypete here flapping her wings. Absolutely cut corners with palette swaps, which would be more faithful to the original experience anyway. Give me Leonard and Leonard Incubus:

The more I think about this, the more plausible it sounds and the more I want it.

#smt #atlus #leonard #ocypete

[evileyeaisling]

Theyre a ten but they adopt everyone and everything

Don’t talk to me or my daughter or my daughter or my dog or my daughter or my son or my daughter ever again

#about aisling #sorta ooc #celaeno harpy #aello harpy #cheddar black shuck #ocypete harpy #sorcerermarlwulf #nettle sorceress #anonymous #anon ask #anon

[moths-daily]

Do you know what moth this is? I found this beauty on the knocker on my hotel door :)

I was in Branson Missouri if that helps

Thank you!

I can't tell for sure, but perhas an enyo ocypete?

#[non motd] #[motd asks] #moths #moth #lepidopterology #lepidoptera #pretty moth #nature #insect #bugs

[stellara-palette]

Ocypete

#DD0605 | #FEF06F | #FECA3D | #C563D0 | #4D8826

#color palette #colour palette #palette #red #yellow #purple #green #5 colors #brave frontier

[feenick]

My main harpy trio

Now in the same 80x80 sprite size I've done at least 100 of by this point.

#fee draws #harpy #pixel art #podarge #ocypete #aello

[agnerd-bot]

Not quite a new bio, buuuuuut...

A Fanservant zine I was a part of came out! I wrote up the bio for the Harpy Sisters Aello, Ocypete, and Celaeno, and the fantastic Altermyniad made the art for 'em. Feel free to check 'em out! There's a ton of amazing Fanservants here besides mine, so I hope y'all like it!

#fate #fate fanservant #fate zine #fate oc #fanzine #fanservant #this is actually my first time contributing to a zine and I think I did a pretty decent job #structure's a bit different than my usual #but I hope y'all like it the same

[glapplebloom]

The 100th Issue of Friendship is Magic...

Team Rainbow Dash has made it to Ornithia, Captain Celaeno's hometown and Bird Kingdom. Ignoring the class system, Celaeno's family worked for the Royal Family, so she lived up high. And they came at a perfect time: there's a wedding happening and Rainbow Dash is excited. The last wedding she attended had a Changeling invasion and the other groups found hidden temples, so that's basically a formula for excitement.

Too bad for Dash apparently the Tree of Harmony was already discovered and mastered. Most of it. So far it is more friendly since Celaeno knows these guys so well they're practically family. Even the King and Queen are friendly to her. Especially Ocypete who according to Prince Aello they were like Sisters. It's a shame she's marrying Prince Huginn of the Western Ravens. He doesn't seem as friendly as the other bird royalty. And our two Spy Couples think something is up with him.

So Ocypete explains to the group about their Tree of Harmony called the Tree of Love. According to her, while the Elements of Harmony is a General term, the Trees represent a specific type of deep connection. Theirs is love, which is why each bearer is married. Also explains the sister thing with the dogs. Not Zecora's or Capper's though since that focused on friendship like the ponies. She explains it as Love, Family, History, Purpose, and Patriotism. Those sound so dumb. Love and Family makes sense, but History? 

How does having the same history make your bond strong? There are stories about overcoming your history and being better than the past. How does having the same purpose make your bond strong? People can have the same purpose but different ways of doing it to the point that you may question that purpose. How does having patriotism make your bond strong? In fact, that leads to more conflict than anything. Let's not forget like Purpose, people can take things to extremes you question said patriotism. 

And here's where the Knights of Harmony finally get introduced. Ocypete explains they were the ones who built the temples and taught each realm how to use the elements. Their home was Cunabula, a place of eternal peace and love. The outside world was in chaos and they wanted to help others find their own Elements of Harmony. They "never sought to rule other lands". They were looking for a 6th bond by the time the story focused on the Birds.

They had lights to show each connection, but as each one got shut off the Queen at the time worried about an attack. So they hid their city waiting for an attack that never came. There was only one light that kept shining and that was the Knights of Harmony. So when the lights were coming back, the Birds wanted to activate their own Elements. Thus the fast forward to have three couples being the element bearers. We got the King and Queen, the Prince and his wife, all that remains is the Princess. She needs to be in love, so she is getting married.

I'm a single person, so I wouldn't know, but getting married should be something you do AFTER you fall in love. And Celaeno seems to agree. As the two birds talk in private, Dash and Spitfire go investigating the carvings. We go back to Lyra and Bon Bon who are spying on the fiance. Bon bon being the better of the two. The bird talking didn't work out and our Spies got found out. 

And here is where things start going faster. We basically get confirmation that Celaeno and Ocypete are in love (which I do support, it's like a Pirate Aladdin/Jasmine thing going) even with the reveal her father gave our bird a ship as long as she didn't take his bird. And as Ocypete leaves, Celaeno gets hit and captured. Which leaves Dash and Spitfire who also get captured.

When we see them, they're on Celaeno's ship and are about to crash. Celaeno saved them just in time but her ship is gone. With everyone safe and regrouped, they figured out the plan: the wedding is to ensure the Elements NEVER get activated since Ocypete is marrying someone she hates. So they got a wedding to crash and thanks to Rainbow Dash Celaeno arrives just in time to object to this union. And during a fight with the Raven, it is revealed Celaeno is the 6th bearer, thus confirming the two birds are in love.

With the Raven defeated, he reveals the reason he did this: to save the Kingdom from being Destroyed. Cue big splash page of Ceridwen explaining who she is, what their plan is and her attempt to destroy the kingdom. We don't see the resolution since Dash has to Rush to Equestria/Canterlot to warn Twilight of the Knights of Harmony. Back with Twilight, alongside Starswirl and other smart ponies try to figure out where these temples came from but find nothing.

That's when Rainbow Dash comes crashing in with a warning the Knights of Harmony are coming. And this is their 100th issue, a lot crammed into one comic to rush to the finale. For the good, honestly I do like Celaeno and Ocypete’s story. They were the two focus of this story so they get to do a lot of talking about their relationship. While I would have liked a flashback or two, it still shows more character to the one who does need it. 

If this was split into two or three issues, I think it would benefit more. But now the thing I am not a fan of: the world building. Between this and their story, this is all the information we get about the Knights of Harmony and it's only their side of the story. With how they act and how they categorize the Elements they aren’t as beneficial as they’re selling themselves to be. They want control and anyone not following their way is a threat.

It's why during the rewrites I made sure to include the Knights so they can be introduced sooner. To build up to their confrontation. And this issue does show how well that could have worked. Again, if it wasn’t crammed into one issue it would have been a good build up. As for the rewrite, honestly I think most of this story could be kept. Just change the Elements of Love to some other Love Based McGuffin and boom. 

#green lantern apple bloom #mlp review #MLP Revisit #idw comics #comic series #season 10

[goattrain]

I heard that in the mlp idw comics, celaeno gets a gf named ocypete 👀

always happy to hear about new good birds! She looks neat :>

Is it a canon relationship too, or just a shipping thing?

[thewapolls]

What an odd progression these monsters have had...

So the unique development here is that the enemy HARPY in WA1 got split up into the specific named Harpies of Greco-Roman myth: AELLO the "storm swift", CELAENO the "dark," OCYPETE the "swift wing," and PODARGE the "fleet-foot." I like how WA2 opts out of the bird aspect for a more unique look with big bat wings. It's a nice change of pace that still keeps them fairly recognizable as harpies. I also like how the humanoid bust emerges from the bat silhouette rather than just slapping wings on a woman's torso. But after WA2 the models they all share are this weirdly Mothman specific looking design? despite there not ever having been an actual Mothman enemy in any of the Wild Arms games??

SIREN is a pretty sensible recolor of the HARPY. It appropriately is a seafaring encounter in the overworld. Alter Code F introduces this strange harpy-centaur looking design that never shows up again.

VALKYRIE is a bit of a stretch but I guess it fits as a flying woman.

LAMIA is an odd one off monster that appears in Alter Code F. It shares the SIREN model which does happen to be a sort of combination of a SIREN and a more obscure LAMIA design, although typically you'd expect LAMIA to be a mix of snake and woman, there are some that depict her as part beast.

I have absolutely no idea what BIBER ZEHR is about... I tried just running the Japanese BI-BE-RU-SHUU-RU[ビベルツェール] through google and all the top returns are WA4 walkthroughs...

(a damn... I missed ARCHON, a 3rd version of the SIREN and LAMIA in Alter Code F)

#wild arms #in hind sight i should have bunched at least the first 3 harpies into one poll option... #considering theyre nearly indistinguishable from one another #both in lore appearance AND model progression #my bad...

[300iqprower]

most wanted summer alt(guys included)?

AH i knew i'd forgotten something!

My joke from last time aside, because if I named all of them i'd be here for another 3 weeks, there are 3 big ones.

Avenger Medea, as previously discussed, with an Argo Cruise Ship summer vacation that gives us Jason's Okeanos outfit and Lancer Peleus, Foreigner Orpheus, Rider Circe, a teaser of Caster Penelope, and Pretender/Ruler Jason who is STILL a dedicated Argo support servant but is now a really good one and not a one off gimmick. The villains are the Boreads and you have new allies in Aello, Ocypete, and Calaeno, as well as who else but Medea as the welfare.

Hundred Faced Hassan, who's having an identity crisis and has to come to terms with her DID and sense of self and its blatantly not a gag event but a very serious one because they fucked her out of any chance of real characterization in both Zero and the main story so damnit someone has to do it. The villain is some new Foreigner like Hastur or Shub Niggurath fully formed and the parallel of 1000 young to the 100 personas as you effectively have to go around meeting all these various identities that were a part of Hundred Face Hassan, and also we get Predator Scuba Gramps.

Rider Caesar, but he's played completely straight. Like he's a massive himbo who doesn't even realize he's in a gag event and very seriously thinking he has to save everyone and very egotistical but also too stupid to be mean. Just absolutely PEAK himbo with just enough narcissism to give him room for character development and make his genuine love for Cleo meaningful. He's as ripped and half naked as Summer Gawain but all his skills and even his NP are completely serious, and the costumes are instead the 3 outfits of what he SHOULD look like. The only female swimsuit the entire cast is Summer Cleopatra and it's still only a costume, and the only returning summer servant is Summer Caeneus. All the others are male swimsuits, the reason being Rider Caesar is so OP he broke the game into allowing male swimsuits. The villain or the welfare is my Pretender Brutus i've talked about.

#fgo #fgo au #writing shit #never thought i'd get an ask #summer 7 #yes i do have a followup to the Argo idea yes thats what I meant by teaser #fate grand order #fate medea #fgo caesar #hassan of the hundred faces #jason and the argonauts