About Fate medusa gorgon
Rider (Medusa) - FateBackgroundMedusa is the True Name of Rider in Fate/stay night. Her character is based off of a creature in Greek mythology. She and her two sisters were known as the Three Gorgon Sisters of the Shapeless Isle. In her legend, she was at first a beautiful woman, but due to Athena’s jealousy, transformed into a demon. Eventually, as commanded by the gods, the hero Perseus cut off her head after reflecting her petrification powers back at her with a shield.What are Medusa’s aliases in the Fate series?Medusa is also known as the “Bewitching Black Servant” and the “Female Monster of Gorgon.”AppearanceIn Fate/stay night, Rider appears as a tall beautiful woman with long straight pink hair that runs nearly the entire length of her body. She wears a sexy black dress with black thigh-highs. Her more recognizable feature is the blindfold she wears over her eyes and the red tattoo on her forehead. In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Medusa is more humanized and doesn’t wear the blindfold. Sometimes, she is seen with glasses on. Her 3rd Ascension form in Fate/Grand Order also presents her without a blindfold on, leaving her eyes visible. PersonalityRider is both sultry and rational. She doesn’t speak much and is extremely loyal to her Master. In all routes of Fate/Stay Night, she is immediately willing to sacrifice her life to protect her Master’s life, whether it be Shinji or Sakura. She likes alcohol, snakes, and reading, but hates mirrors.AbilitiesRider (Medusa) is an expert in close-combat. When
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A small nerdy child who was a little too obsessed with reading stories about gods, goddesses, monsters, and heroes, some of my research for this feature caused pools of familiarity to well up in my brain. For the most part, however, I found myself learning a lot! And I think now I'm even more fascinated with how Fate chops and rearranges classic characters and narratives into a big messy pile of colorful anime nachos. Even if proper care and thoughtfulness isn't always Fate's chief concern (and boy, sometimes I wish it were), its eagerness to be in conversation with human history is infectious.GORGON & ANAThe Fate series is rarely content to draw stories and characters from only one set of mythology. The Gorgons should be familiar figures to my fellow fans of the Greek myths. Medusa herself is probably one of the most famousmonsters in the history of Western literature, so I won't go into too much detail for her background. One thing of note, however, is that all three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Eurayale—are eligible for summoning in FGO canon, and they're depicted as reclusive divine spirits, not grotesque monsters. Fate's take on their story consequently resembles a metanarrative more so than a straightforward adaptation. Their perception as monsters instigates their tragedy.In Fate's version, Athena banishes Medusa to the Shapeless Isle, and her two sisters tag along to keep her company. Not content with mere banishment, however, Athena also creates rumors about a monster named Medusa to lure witless heroes to their isle looking for glory. Medusa takes it upon herself to defend her sisters, but the ceaseless onslaught of deluded challengers gradually wears her down until she gives in, physically and mentally, to becoming a monster. Her body turns into the powerful snake-haired and petrification-happy creature from legend, and she devours her sisters, completing her transformation into the Gorgon that Perseus eventually slays.This is the large and in-charge Gorgon who gets summoned to Babylonia as a stand-in for the primordial goddess Tiamat. In Fate parlance, she's a member of the “extra” class Avenger due to her single-minded concern with extracting revenge for what was done to her. I'm glad there's at least an acknowledgment from the story that Medusa was dealt an extremely shitty hand for her to end up in this situation, but I don't think Babylonia delves into the Medusa legend deep enough to extract any thesis beyond “people suck.” It's a shame, because there's a lot of room for interesting contemporary takes on her legend.What I do like, however, is the resolution to Gorgon's role in Babylonia. When she gets summoned, a younger version of her also gets summoned, almost like a counterweight. Again, one of the neat quirks of Fate is that Heroic Spirits aren't limited to one version of a character from one point in their life. This small Medusa goes by “Ana” when she meets our heroes, and we can imagine her as Medusa before her banishment or very soon after. She's
