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I've actually always like the name Medusa. Obviously it's inextricably tied to the mythological monster. I know in the oldest stories she was always a monster but I always found her a tragic character because of the version where she was just a priestess of Athena, raped in her temple, and Athena punished her by turning her into a monster. Horrible! So, unfortunate associations whichever way you tell her story.

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Cool name otherwise.

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PS: I don't know how many of you here play the Assassin Creed games, but in the most recent one, Odyssey (which takes place in ancient Greece), they did a cool take on Medusa (and the sphinx, and the Cyclops as well). In the history of that game there are these devices that corrupt people, and so in the game when you battle these monsters and defeat them, you remove the device that corrupted them, revealing their mortal human selves. So, Medusa, for example, was many women, who just happened to have been corrupted by a device and then killed, and then someone else found that device and so on and so on. I mean, there's a bit more to it, but that's the gist. Anyway, the Medusa in the game was pretty cool! Deeply sad, but cool

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https://youtu.be/z9bpghQ7OqM

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My PNL = http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275

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