Poll: Minotaur, Mermaid, Mogwai, Mujina, Muse, or Myling?

[Baffle]

It was King Minos who required the tribute, not the minotaur. It was just a way to shit on the little guy.

 

[hermes]

Voted minotaurs because they build cool labyrinths.

They might struggle a bit underwater but once you have the kinks sorted out, just think what marvels they can build down in the depths! Instead of hedge mazes it will be corral and reef mazes!

The minotaur didn't build his own labyrinth, that was made by the guy who helped his human mother have sex with his dad the bull.

Sorta diverse portfolio, had Daedalus.

Makes you wonder, if no one could navigate the labyrinth, then how did they get the minotaur in the middle? I'm picturing the minotaur being in a cage, and them building a maze around him. Daedalus had the cage latch on a bit of string, which he yanked just as the thing finished work.

I always assumed that the Minotaur could navigate the Labyrinth, otherwise he'd be wandering round lost as well.

Wait, so the minotaur could leave any time? Why bother with the Labyrinth at all? Just dump prisoners in a broom closet with the guy and be done with it. Then again, I think The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break comes to the same conclusion - he walks off to start a career as a cafe chef.

I think he was free to roam the labirinth, but wasn't smart enough to leave it. He was a creature, after all.

OT: bringing a Mogwai underwater would be a terrible idea. So, mermaid it is.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Do the minotaurs or mermaids look like this?

Spoiler

Then I pick them.

 

[sageoftruth]

Do the minotaurs or mermaids look like this?

Spoiler

Then I pick them.

Don't ever change.

 

[Frankster]

Voted minotaurs because they build cool labyrinths.

They might struggle a bit underwater but once you have the kinks sorted out, just think what marvels they can build down in the depths! Instead of hedge mazes it will be corral and reef mazes!

The minotaur didn't build his own labyrinth, that was made by the guy who helped his human mother have sex with his dad the bull.

Sorta diverse portfolio, had Daedalus.

Well damn, that kinda shoots down my entire reasoning.

In light of that, switching my votes to mermaids cos assuming they ain't the man killer variety (and even if they are i guess), then they are pretty easy on the eyes...Well depending on the version used but im assuming we are going with disneys interpretation of mermaids complete with bra seashells!

Edit: since there's no way to change my vote that i know off, consider minotaurs to be -1 and mermaids at +1.

 

[Silvanus]

Hmmm, now that I think of it, not sure if the Minotaur was imprisoned in the Labyrinth. I'd sort of assumed that it was just where he lived. The Labyrinth being to keep people away and/or weird interior decor.

According to the Bibliotheca, the Minotaur itself is also confined;

"So they sent to Minos and left it to him to claim satisfaction. And Minos ordered them to send seven youths and the same number of damsels without weapons to be fodder for the Minotaur. Now the Minotaur was confined in a labyrinth, in which he who entered could not find his way out; for many a winding turn shut off the secret outward way."

The Bibliotheca is one of the best and most authoritative sources we have, but it's worth noting that not all Greek storytellers were in agreement. Some others disagreed that the Labyrinth was even a maze, and depicted it only as a winding path to a single interior area, or even a simple prison.