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can anyone think of mythological figures who are like strong/powerful in some way and get captured/kidnapped by an opposing force and then don't get unkidnapped
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I've got like
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Hippolyta/Antiope
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but I wish for more options
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I GUESS ALSO PERSEPHONE
mitzi
i was going to say persephone but i didn't know enough about her to say if she was strong/powerful ...... there are so many adaptations.
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she's pretty fuckin op
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but otoh she also gets half unkidnapped
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i feel like i've researched some who died in captivity but i can't recall who
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I might go with Persephone anyway because that seems like a pretty appropriately goth way to go about the reference but if anyone can help me think of people or even monsters/animals that aren't more Greeks it would be amazing.
目を閉じたらどう？
Koshei the deathless and Marya Morevna but she gets rescued at the end
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I for some reason thought Koschei the Deathless was a like. recent book character from something.
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no he's russian folklore
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wiki has taught me the errors of my ways now
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there's also the ballad of Tam Lin in celtic myth. In which Tam Lin was going to be a fairy tithe to hell and was kidnapped by the fairy queen but he also gets rescued
目を閉じたらどう？
Does Enoch ascending to become Metatron count
目を閉じたらどう？
is it a kidnapping if god takes you to be an angel
目を閉じたらどう？
I guess that's not an opposing force
It's Just Deca
i guess technically in a way Loki(though he's prophesied to be freed in ragnarok so ymmv if that counts)
dragillionaire
my first thought was persephone tbh
Celizabeth Hood
orpheus and eurydice? :|a i mean idk if it counts as being "kidnapped/captured" since eurydice died
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but orpheus went to rescued his wife and almost did but beefed it
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DOES Enoch ascending to become Metatron count. I'm not sure it technically does but I could use it anyway.
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Eurydice probably falls into the category of "Greek historical figures who are very pretty and probably also very good at some kind of art but don't actually get to do much except get kidnapped and probably die"
God of Brats
does solomon capturing 72 demons not count
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it does not, but only because I would have to pick which one, and there's no actual lore about their individual relationships to Solomon or anything
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danta
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IF I DO PICK A GODDAMN PILLAR I'LL HAVE TO GO LOOK AT ALL THEIR SPECIALTIES AND SHIT AND TRY TO PICK THE MOST APPROPRIATE ONE
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that or I'll have to declare that Makai Ouji is an influential classic in this beam saber universe
lotus 龙 wife
Freya and Freyr (and their dad) are hostages by the Aesir since the Vanir lost against them and never went back to the Vanir (but I think it was a negotiated thing, so idk if that is quite right)
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there really are a lot of greek ones huh. especially ones that aren't powerful they are just Really Really Hot
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they're just so hot that the gods and also Theseus absolutely could not help themselves
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the greeks knew what they liked and what they liked was kidnapping as seduction
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i mean
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why not,
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arguably Osiris, in that he's always the god of the dead, even as he's also STILL the god of life and growth
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but there's like spells in the book of the dead where he complains about having to live in the underworld now
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i mean he's not exactly kidnapped, but.
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S...amson and Delilah?
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i was googling and went through this list and i can't stop laughing abt "[Hades] probably recognizing Theseus and Pirithous’ plan because he had already abducted his wife himself,"
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phaseblast: AGSBFBDBG
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yaysunshine: was one of them kidnapped at some point, I can’t find reference to this
Ms Properpants
On the subject of Norse mythology: Balder might work if you squint? He dies rather than get kidnapped, granted, and it's said he will eventually get out of the Underworld, but will remain firmly stuck until after Ragnarök.
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I guess it’s less of a kidnapping and more a prisoner-of-warring so it doesn’t quite fit :|a
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wiki apparently has a whole page devoted to the collection of kidnapping in greek mythos and im laughing
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that said i legit have no idea bc the point of most of those stories is if the person "kidnapped" is powerful they escape/etc under their own power too
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: yeah this is where I’m struggling
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not enough Hippolyta/Antiopes
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i mean like my other immediate thought was
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"stolen by the fae"
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but that doesn't necessitate Powerful Protagonist or anything
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it doesn’t have to be a protagonist it’s just whatever fits for an edgelord naming a stolen mech “haha I stole and subjugated this”
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oh i just meant in the way that like, usually they're the protag in the specific story
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"stolen by fae" stuff is usually just [random children] or whatever
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right yeah if they don’t even like have a name obv I cannot name a mech after them
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yeah 
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