Scylla
Profile
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 GraiaiChildren 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 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. ClarkeBooks 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 StevensonMusic 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
JawsActivities & 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
OceanographyGroups Monster Human Alliance
Sea Monsters
Cannibals of the MediterraneanSpotter's Guide
People disagree on exactly what Scylla looks like, but everyone knows she's a total monster. We've never made a point of getting a glimpse of her because, well, she has a habit of eating people. In pictures we've seen, she's got the body of a woman from the waist up, but from the waist down there's a whole lot of crazy. Sometimes she has a long fishy tail and six hungry heads set on long snake-like necks (perfect for snapping up passing sailors). Other times she's shown with a pack of hungry, drooling dogs sprouting from her waist (also great for sailor-munching—go figure).
Sex: Female
Age: Hard to tell
Build: Monstrous
Complexion: Slimy
Hair Color: Green
Facial Hair: We wouldn't be surprised.
Scars/marks/tattoos: None
Jewelry and accessories: Ring of slobbering dog heads. NBD.
Clothing: None
Armor: None
Type of Weapon: Teeth—lots of 'emTypical Companions:
Charybdis
Known Hangouts:
The Strait of Messina
Sightings
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
The Odyssey by Homer
Scylla makes her most famous (and most grisly) appearance in this epic poem when she gobbles down six of Odysseus' men.
Dec 20, 2019
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
Ovid gives us the scoop on how Circe turned Scylla into a psycho monster all for the love of the hunky Glaucus.
Dec 20, 2019
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey
Don't miss Scylla in Marvel's digital comic version of Odysseus' greatest adventure.
Dec 20, 2019
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Kratos goes up against Scylla and her monstrous brood in this hack-and-slash video game. (She looks totally disgusting in this one.)