Myth query

[mrissa]

Who is the most interestingly unfortunate female figure in any mythology for a big, burly, somewhat hapless hockey player guy (defenseman) to make a pass at?

I don't mean the instantly unfortunate mythological figures, the "you want to date me? gobble chomp you're dead" kind. I mean the "complicates his life in an interesting way" kind.

Carter (yes, for those of you who have been following along, it's one of those stories) has already had run-ins of various sorts with the Queen of Air and Darkness, the Puck, and Baba Yaga. In case that helps.

Comments

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

How about Helen of Troy?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She air deed by the time hockey is invented, I'm afraid.

But the general impulse towards Homer's Idiot might not be bad: any of the squabbling trio might do. Or, God help him, more than one of them.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Medea

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Well, there's Andromeda if he gets there before Perseus, or Electra to be rescued from the father who wants to sacrifice her -

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

eris. she'd be a little tricky to date.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Just a little!

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Persephone during her seasonal appearance on earth? It wouldn't be fun to tangle with a jealous Hades...

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps that's the wrong season, if we're talking about Hockey... :(

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

How about one of the little goddesses that hang on the back of Ares' chariot?

Discord, with her golden apple, maybe?

Or if you want someone from a different 'round of mythos, a hujing?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Google isn't telling me much about hujing myths. What is it?

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

He accidentally encounters Artemis naked in the sauna? But the hounds are stopped by campus security. Hilarity ensues.

Nah, probably a bad idea. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There is no campus, dear heart. That's only in Pamela's book.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

The Muses might be interesting. "His playing is inspired this season!"

[palinade.livejournal.com]

What about folkloric figures like Columbia or Old Mother Hubburd?

Um... the Irish myths are peppered with female figures, but I'm not well versed in them.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I thought of Persephone, too, and a jealous Hades...or Skadi, Norse goddess of winter and war -- I bet she'd be an interesting hockey groupie.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Skade would be almost The Cute as me in a jersey. And Njord totally wouldn't get why it interested her.

Njord probably plays water polo, the bloody kind like the Hungarians in that one "this is for the tanks you right bastards" year.

If that isn't a tangent I don't know what is....

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Aunt Dahlia.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Silly the Mark! Only one Wodehouse character has achieved the status of myth!

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for a virgin goddess, a vestal virgin, or a selkie (but I loffs the selkies and the dirt/iron divorce policy, so I always votes for a selkie.) Kitsune, the Japanese fox spirits, are usually not easy girls to love, but it sounds like they're at least easier to love than the chinese fox spirits.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is very hard to get selkies to Bemidji.

Duluth...um, still probably a no. But Bemidji? Not so much.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Myths about women with teeth in Australia? That's kind of boring. Lots of women have teeth in Australia.

Oh, wait, that's "down under." Never mind.

I think I'd have written that last line as just, "I like soup." This is, after all, a guy from Bemidji. Otherwise, bang on the nose.

LOKI. Oh, Scott, oh my oh my....

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

*is nearly too busy humming 'Tam Lin' to be of any use*

Frankly, my first thought was "Why not a Loathly Lady? Loathly Ladies are *very* complicated. Or, you know, someone suspended in a vat of boiling water, like Elaine. Dating her would be quite difficult."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I haven't done any Loathly Ladies before. Carter might get through a Loathly Lady all right. I mean, if Gawain played hockey, he'd totally be a bruiser defenseman, so there's some of that in it.

I think a series outline is now in order.

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

Circe?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I believe the song is about how the monkeys have the hockey sticks, but I suppose piggies would also scan!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Morriggan, the Celtic goddess of sex and death?

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

How about the Lady of the Lake? He could be playing hockey on one of the frozen lochs :P

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm now imagining kind of a dull, soft thudding sound as someone tries to punch a sword through a couple feet of ice.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

How about Hebe? She could bring him Gatorade during his games and irritate the other gods by not being there to bear their cups. I also like the idea of the Morrigan, as someone suggested - she would certainly enjoy the fighting at hocky games.

Also, does the Snow Queen count as mythological?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If Wodehouse does, HCA certainly does.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have a helpful suggestion, I just wanted to say "Pandora's Penalty Box."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That has much nift.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

I vote for a maenad, for the whole polar-opposites thing. Plus I could totally believe a maenad getting boozed-up and excited over hocky, letting her hair and, er, other things loose at the rink.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Despite there being actual glass, it's not really a "put 'em on the glass" kind of experience. Too chilly.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Deirdre of the Sorrows, of Irish Gaelic myth. She put a geas on some poor slob at a dinner party so that he was forced to steal her away, leading to his own death and that of his brothers.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmm.

[(Anonymous)]

What about Skade? She is Norse goddess of winter and the chase. Seems appropriate for a hockey player and could be an interesting person. I read that she was the inspiration for Hans C. Anderson's The Snow Queen.

Heathah

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's funny! The Snow Queen is utterly unlike my concept of Skade. But copperwise suggested her above, too, and I think it's a good idea.

Two Egyptian Deities

[ammitbeast.livejournal.com]

Ammit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit) and Sekhmet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet) come to mind...

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hi, don't mind me, I'm just leaving three more comments to bring the total up to 69.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Two.