I went for
a monstrous humanoid with this one. I think my love for the harpy comes from reading Ronja
Rövardotter by Astrid Lindgren as a kid. The “bird-witches” in that book scared
the hell out of me. They wanted to claw out your eyes, how terrifying is that!
Either
that, or The Golden Fleecing by Carl
Barks.
Originally,
in ancient mythology harpies where beautiful women with wings. Only later they were
mixed up with sirens, and became ugly bird-women. I tried to design a harpy
that can be both, and in the Weird Opera world beautiful harpies with colorful
feathers exist. No matter how beautiful, however, all harpies are evil bird-witches that want to claw out your eyes.
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