#harpina

[moonstruckdraws]

It’s herrrrr

HIPPODAMIA

It’s her it’s her it’s her it’s her

AND I GET TO RAMBLE

Yes yes it is Harpina, Hippodamia’s grandmother (don’t ask about the sun symbolism; it’s just there) I very much liked this idea by @sarafangirlart of Hippodamia looking like Harpina (and I’ve looked at her Hippodamia too much to not take inspiration from it. I can only hope they look different enough ack—)

I wanted Hippodamia to basically be a softer shaped Harpina with wavier hair and doe-eyes (she’s got strong genes)

I also said in a post that I envision Hippodamia with dark grey hair from her stressful living situation, and that she keeps her hair short. Not only to make it easier to cut when mourning another dead suitor, but to not look as alike to her grandmother.

She also has slight eyebags, it may not be noticeable but that’s kinda the point with her having thicker bottom lashes.

Ain’t no way she’s gone unscaved from all those cart crashes, so I have her one ‘healed’ scar on her right arm from a spear that grazed her. I like to think she got it with her second suitor Alkathous because he’s the only one that turned into a spiteful spirit. Part of the reason being that Hippodamia got hurt while in his cart just adds a whooole other layer that I love.

She probably takes lots of herbal baths because of bruising.

It’s the fact i haven’t even gotten to her jewelry yet… there’s one I am excited to show but I have to draw it—

And her hair put up too—

[sarafangirlart]

As a small child Hippodamia thought horse Harpina was her actual grandma who was transformed into a horse.

[floravaenus]

I'm so interested about Harpina and Oenomaus relationship like from Oenomaus side, its obvious or at least implied that he clearly loves her, after all, he names a city and a horse after her. But what about Harpina side? I like to think she is emotionally cold (probably trauma after Ares assaulted her) towards him, but Oenomaus still loves her because she was all he ever had when growing up. Even if she is cold and looks at him with dead eyes, she still raised him, made sure he was well-fed, clothed, educated (in the sense that she taught him things herself), and generally well cared for when nobody ever would and tried that he lived comfortably, Oenomaus probably has codependency issues and a complex toward his mother and project those issues onto his daugther Hippodamia.

[sarafangirlart]

“Ares is the ONLY Greek god to not have single myth stating or even IMPLYING that he assaulted anyone!”

Harpina and Phylonome:

[sarafangirlart]

“Ares doesn’t have any myths where he assaulted women” look up Harpina and Phylonome.

[sarafangirlart]

What if Hippodamia looked like Harpina

[sarafangirlart]

Can we also stop saying Ares never sexually assaulted anyone? I've seen at least two well sources posts that show that he did rape women.

Harpina and Phylonome especially stick out to me. Phylonome was a followers of Artemis and likely would’ve preferred to remain a virgin and Ares had no reason to disguise himself as shepherd. Harpina’s sisters are all said to be kidnapped and raped by the gods and there is no reason to think Ares didn’t kidnap Harpina as well.

Just bc the word “rape” isn’t used doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.