And her good times are just getting started. Athena turns her into a mutant for doing it in her temple. Thanks, for all your help lady. Being pretty got her trouble, so now she's ugly. Troubles are over right? Yeah, no. Her social life is toast. Try having friends when your face turns people into stone. Time to be a bit of a shut in. Off to live in BFE where we won't kill anyone who tries to have so much as a conversation with me. I would probably go a little nutter too if all that happened to me too. I mean she probably talks to the statutes like Tom Hanks talks to volleyballs.
And to top it off, people keep trying to kill me her to prove they have the best beard, and are awesome Greek dudes. Truth is they are a bunch of home invasion creeps, on the level with the neighborhood kids who throw rocks at the crazy cat lady's house down the street cuz their best friends brothers classmate once heard a story from someone saying she's a witch.
And this Perseus guy shows up and chops off her head because Athena told him it's the only way to kill this kraken thingy. Yeah, sucks to be Medusa. Start to finish. If Perseus were smart, he would have come at this all different. Think about it. Her head works just as good still attached.
Picture this: Perseus rings the doorbell and yells in "Hey, Medusa. I hear you got screwed by the gods. That totally sucks and I feel ya. I myself am not a a fan of those dicks. So I got this job that's really gonna stick it to 'em, and I need your help. You want some payback?" So Medusa goes with Perseus and saves Argos from the Kraken. Three cheers! The peasants rejoice. Yay. Medusa and Perseus both get mad props. She is a heroine instead of an outcast, doesn't have to live in the smelly underworld, and finally got a chance to give a big fat middle finger to the gods who dicked her over in the first place. Everybody wins. All she has to do is wear a mask.
So this is some of what I was thinking about when I doodled these up.
