Tisiphone

[pkk]

It feels like in-game Tisiphone is quite a boring character compared to her role in classic literature.

At least in Roman times, she is prominently features in literature: Both Virgil and Ovid have her wear a dress red from the blood dripping from it and a belt (in Ovid's Metamorphoses the belt is a live snake). Unlike the gorgons, she has real hair, but still has snakes in her hair.

In Virgil's Aeneid she is the only guardian of the gates of Tartarus mentioned by name (using a whip or flogger in her right hand (and mocking those she uses it on), and sending venomeus snakes with her left hand).

In the pseudo-plutarch she falls in love with a young mortal, Cithaeron, and send him a love letter. He doesn't reply, so she sends one of the snakes from her hair to him to coil around his neck and choke him to death. In the pseudo-plutarch the citation given for that story is "History of Boeotia" by some Leo of Byzantium, but I have no idea if that work survived.

But the work that has the most on her is probably the Thebaid. It starts with Oedipus praying to her for revenge on his sons. At that time she happens to sit at the river Cocytus, having loosened her hair to allow the snakes from her hair to bathe in the river. Upon hearing hte pryer she quickly gets up to get to Thebes, the crowd of shades making way for her. There is quite some description of her journey, and she then incites Oedipus sons to fight each other.
She later again appears multiple times, inciting mortals to start or continue wars or battles.
The last time she appears in that work is at a siege, where she is carrying the Stygian blade. However, she doesn't fully trust her own strength there, and so decides to call on Meagera for support. Since they both aim for maximal blodshed, on Meagera's suggestion they decide to each support one side in the battle.

In-game, on the other hand, she seems to be the least interesting character among the furies. Basically, so far, she never says anything other than "murderer" when I meet her.

[Specific Beef]

They have to make the three different, and different from the other gods too. Given how verbose and expressive the other characters are, it's good to have the occasional Tisiphone, Charon and Bouldy encounter for a person/rock who simply cannot engage in banter.

And, to me, Zagreus's efforts to squeeze more out of her than just "murderer" are interesting in themselves since you're in the same boat as Zagreus, always looking for signs that she understands more than she can express.

Also, from a rhythm point of view, I think it can be a bad thing if conversations are always yay-long. As the player, a timer starts in your head in games and you know you're not getting out of this conversation until this game's idea of a chat length has ticked by. Short conversations, especially ones that are humorously short, mix things up and buy goodwill for those longer conversations elsewhere.

[Lorska]

Least interesting one? I'm always happy to see her, trying to teach her to say something else instead is fun.
Her boss mechanic is also cool.

I find the other one far less interesting, you know the one that always acts like an a** and isn't very smart either. I think I prefer having someone scream "murdeeeeeeer" at me rather than "No u".

[BassChamber]

Im starting to teach her more words now LOL.

In this game, she is quite interesting in fact, in an eerie way.

[MULTIPASS]

After many runs, Zagreus eventually starts trying to teach her to say something else which begins a process that unfolds over the course of many more runs. It's one of my favorite interactions in the game.

Thanks for sharing all that background information, it's interesting.