Study Guide

Scylla

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Scylla is a big crazy sea monster. She's most famous for munching on some of Odysseus' crew when the hero cruised through the narrow strait where she makes her home. The giant whirlpool Charybdis is on the other side of the strait, so losing a few men to Scylla was the lesser of two evils. There are a lot of different opinions out there about what exactly Scylla looks like. Most say she has the upper body of a woman with a fishy tail and a ring of snarling dogs sprouting from her waist. Others say that she has six snake-like heads growing from her, too. Either way, not great. In later mythology, it's said that she was once a beautiful sea nymph and was turned into the hideous man-eating monster by the sea witch, Circe. Moral of the story: stay the Hades away from Circe.

Basic Information

Name	Scylla
Nickname	Skylla, Godzilla Girl
Sex	Female
Current city	A narrow strait somewhere in the Mediterranean

Work & Education

Occupation	Sea Monster
Education	Ceto's School of Sea Monstery

Beliefs

Political views

Protect our oceans!

Family & Friends (& Enemies)

Parents	Phorcys (Dad) Ceto (Mom)
Siblings	Ekhidna Ladon Medusa and the Gorgons The Graiai
Children	I'd only eat them.
Friends	Charybdis (The whirlpool demon who lives across the strait from me. I really just don't have anybody else to talk to.)
Enemies	Circe (Who turned me into this awful creature.)

Relationships

Relationship status	Extremely single
Interested in	I mean, does it matter? Who's going to go out with me?

Favorites

TV Shows	True Blood The Blue Planet Snorks
Quotations	"I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it." – Tori Amos "It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans" – Khalil Gibran "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." – Arthur C. Clarke
Books	Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Captain Ahab: the guy you love to hate.) Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (I wish the giant squid had eaten them.) The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Odyssey by Homer (Even though Homer makes me out to be some kind of monster, I do love the attention.) "Diving Into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich Grendel by John Gardner Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Music	On the Sea by Beach House Bad Reputation by Joan Jett Crazy For You by Best Coast Drift Dive by the Antlers Wide Awake by Katy Perry What the Water Gave Me by Florence and the Machine Oh Love by Green Day Dragula by Rob Zombie (For when I'm feeling monstrous.)
Movies	Creature From the Black Lagoon (I know it's the sea monster part of me, but I think he's sexy.) The Abyss Monsters Inc. Titanic (Otherwise known as the all-you-can-eat buffet.) Bridesmaids The Little Mermaid Whale Rider Jaws

Activities & Interests

Likes	Sailors (for dinner) Scuba divers (for dinner) Kite boarders (for dinner) Surfers (for dinner) Boogie boarders (for... well, you get the point)
Interests	Cryptozoology Oceanography
Groups	Monster Human Alliance Sea Monsters Cannibals of the Mediterranean

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