working with norse deities
óðinn: "don't worry, i'll get it done. just don't ask me how."
frigg: "secrets are worth gold. yours are diamond. share with discretion."
loki: "i'll break your bone so it'll heal right this time."
sigyn: "would you rather be right or be loved?"
angrboða: "you are the only god you have to live with."
freyja: "go loud. we'll deal with the consequences."
freyr: "...we gotta? okay. baby, hold my beer."
njǫrðr: "can i interest you in some chill the fuck out in this trying time?"
hel: "i'll hold you through it—and you still have to do this."
fenrir: "...can we bite them? we could, in fact, bite them."
jǫrmungandr: "this too shall pass."
gullveig: "fuck around. find out. remember."
þórr: "not everything is a nail, but a screw still bows to a hammer."
sif: "everything is a little more possible with a belly full of warm food."
skaði: "there is always an opportune moment. find it."
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gullveig wins by doing absolutely nothing
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The Evermore Grimoire: Norse Mythology
Gullveig (meaning ‘power of gold’) a female figure in Norse mythology associated with the legendary conflict between the Æsir and Vanir. In the poem Völuspá, she came to the hall of Odin where she was speared by the Æsir, burnt three times, and yet thrice reborn. Upon her third rebirth, she began practicing seiðr (a form of of magic telling and shaping the future) and took the name Heiðr (meaning ‘bright’). Some believed that Gullveig could have been one of Freyja's (goddess of love) incarnations as she wept tears of gold and owned the golden necklace Brísingamen, one of the most precious pieces of jewellery in Old Norse literature. It was she who, according to the Ynglinga Saga, first brought seidr to the Æsir, and who first taught it to Odin (king of Asgard). Thus, the connections between Freyja and Gullveig’s defining characteristics (magic and material wealth) are quite clear, making interrelation of the two quite probable.
artwork by IrenHorrors
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I know not everyone liked the Book 7 OCs but I actually really liked the concept behind Gullveig so here she is!
*Do Not Repost Without My Permission*
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Ok since yesterday there was a wild discourse on whether or not Gullveig's design is misogynestic which as someone who never liked her design and found it to be unappealing I didn't care and it started getting on my nerves so I ended up making this redesign and fixed her broken hand.
I am not claiming it's better then the OG because it's not supposed to be a fix up, it's just a redesign and I don't want to hear anything anymore about Yoshiku. I wasn't there when they had to design her so I have no idea why they made X or Y choices, for all I know they could have just obeyed the IS art direction or did it because they genuinely liked it without thinking too hard about it. I personally think her design doesn't make sense but this apply to Book 7 as a whole.
Also, I had to look up OG Gullveig (the Mythology one) to make this one and ... let's say that when I looked at the reference, her current design made suddenly much more sense.
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How can my snake wife be this cute?
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