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Syrinx

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Syrinx was not a lucky nymph. Unfortunately for her, she caught the attention of lusty god Pan, who chased her all around and tried to have his way with her. To escape him, Syrinx begged the naiads of the River Ladon to transform her into a bunch of reeds. Pan was so bummed that he cut some of the reeds and bound them together to make the first ever pan flute. What do you think: twisted or romantic?

Basic Information

Name

Syrinx

Nickname

Pan Flute Girl

Sex

Female

Current city

The shore of the River Ladon, Arcadia

Work & Education

Occupation

Um, being reeds?

Education

The Artemis School of Chastity

Beliefs

Political views

She's a bunch of reeds now, so she doesn't really care what happens.

Family & Friends (& Enemies)

Parents

Ladon (Some say the river was her father.)

Siblings

None

Children

None

Friends

Artemis
The naiads of the River Ladon

Enemies

Pan

Relationships

Relationship status

Single

Interested in

Nobody

Favorites

TV Shows

Planet Earth 
Once Upon a Time 
Revenge 

Quotations

"Pan, Pan is dead."
– from "The Dead Pan" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban"
– from "A Musical Instrument" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
– Aesop

"Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water"
– from "Wade in the Water"

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
– Winnie the Pooh

Books

"A Musical Instrument" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
"The Dead Pan" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (yeah, she loves her) 
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
"Birches" by Robert Frost 
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank 
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
"in Just" by e. e. cummings 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 
The N**** Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Music

Down to the River to Pray (the Alison Krauss version)
We Are Never Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift 
Syrinx (La Flute da Pan) by Claude Debussy 
Bottom of the River by Delta Rae
Spectrum by Florence + the Machine 
Wade in the Water by Eva Cassidy 
The Temples of Syrinx by Rush 

Movies

Pan's Labyrinth 
Beasts of the Southern Wild 
Spirited Away 
Psycho 
Les Misérables 
A River Runs Through It 
Cloud Atlas 
The Virgin Suicides 

Activities & Interests

Likes

Arbor Day
Wetland preserves
Marshy soil

Dislikes

Global warming

Interests

Ecology
Botany

Groups

Nymphs 
The Nymphs Fanclub 
Wetland Conservation Society
Reeds rule!

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