#minthe

Their body types would actually not be a bad choice of character design if the artist wasn't also obsessed with giving them facial features that are meant to mirror youthfullness, innocence, pouty expressions, or general behavior of a born sexy yesterday character.

That isn't to say you can't draw a character with an hourglass body with larger eyes or cuter expressions, but where Lore olympus and Tears on a withered flower go wrong is that they exaggerate both the childlike aspects of the character designs along with their behavior. It's basically a case of the author wanting to create what they think is a "perfect woman" and a perfect woman to them is a sexy voluptuous woman who also is not only aware that they're sexy but they are also infantalized. Persephone and Hae Soo are a fantasy first, and a character second.

Secretary Ha and Minthe are one example of being attractive in the same way.

Minthe and Secretary Ha don't feel like they are designed solely to match the ideal tastes of whatever bodytype the author likes most, theres more to them aside from what makes them sexy or ideal. They weren't designed to be a dream girl for the reader or a fantasized insert of the reader, they were designed to simply be interesting characters by the author and their designs reflect on who they and what they are supposed to be.

The only downside to all these characters that is common is that all of them end up revolving around a male character and almost nothing else.

Adonis and Minthe:

Sadly not a lot myths, but etymology for those interested.

Fabulati sunt antiqui Minthen nynpham non indecoram fuisse Cocyti filiam, quam ubi Proserpina cum Plutone deprehendisset, tam diu indignationem dissimulavit, donec Pluto recederet. Deinde post gravem reprehensionem in mentham herbam convertit, et de prisco nomine appellavit. Istud cum in monte Pylo propinquo accidisset, mons etiam nomen inde accepit ut ait Sostratus in secundo introductionis fabulosae historiae. Fratrem etiam spurium, qui furto conscius assensisset vel propter metum, vel propter reverentiam Plutonis, in sylvestrem herbam prope similem odore et aspectu convertit. The ancients narrated that Minthe, a rather attractive nymph, was the daughter of Cocytus; Proserpina, having surprised her with Pluto, hid her indignation up till when Pluto left. Then, after a severe reprimand, she changed her into the herb mint, and called her with her ancient name. And as this happened on a mountain close to Pylos, the mountain too took its name from this, as Sostratos narrates in the second book of his Collection of Mythical History. And similarly she changed her half-brother, who, apprised of the affair had assented to it, either through fear or out of respect for Pluto, in a forest herb similar in smell and shape.

-Natalis Comes (Natale Conti), Mythologies, 3, 3

μίνθα ἢ μίνθη, τὸ καλούμενον ἡδύοσμον, ὅπερ ὠνομάσθαι φασιν ἀπὸ Μίνθης· ἣ δ᾽ ἦν μίνθα or μίνθη 'mint' is the so-called "fragrant" herb, said to have been named after Minthe the concubine of Pluto, who was changed into this plant; mint (or Minthe) is mentioned by Cratinus in the Laws: Lying with cheese, and mint, and oil

-Pollux, Onomasticon 6.68

"Mint", which some call fragrant, for it is of the Kallainthos, the wild, fragrant, which Demeter, seeing it, made barren. Orpheus, before that great tree, upon the earth, and it bore fruit; hence we call it "mind" in opposition to "foul odor".

An inspired drawing based on the jealousy card. I will try to keep this short. Saw people both in my discord and tumblr talking about the oracle cards Lore Olympus got and then saw the one for jealousy. I was like, "weren't they both jelly of one another over that rotten blueberry? " (on the NOSE, i know.) Also Persephone has a well established jealous streak over that known cheater. L.O Hera and Minthe made her insecure and jealous on screen. Now that's what I gathered from the chunk of the series I read , and subsequently stopped reading because I didn't like it. Lore olympus is fanfiction of fanfiction, it is inspired by Greek mythos, not based on it. Big difference. I also understand the irony of drawing something I don't like : but you can get inspiration from ANYWHERE! :3