Gorgeous Monster: An Age Gap Mafia Romance (Marchetti Mafia Book 1)

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I should’ve known better than to make a deal with a monster. When my ex-boyfriend puts a hit out on me, there’s only one man I can run to for protection. Cristian Marchetti. The head of the Marchetti Mafia Family. My best friend’s father. My last resort. Cristian’s protection doesn’t come free. But what he wants might cost me my life. He’s the mafia king, and I’m his sacrifice. And now, I must become his wife. Gorgeous Monster by Charity Ferrell – eBook Details

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It's worth repeating that, despite Gorgon being in the trope name, other types of monsters and genders can have this apply. Do note that some researchers have linked the gorgons to pre-greek solar goddesses, making this a Cyclical Trope. The Gorgon in the Xanth series is pretty and the Reluctant Monster version. The petrification was the result of her magical talent, which she couldn't turn off. She eventually married Magician Humphrey, who gave her a magic veil that rendered her face invisible. She found at least one practical use for her talent— glaring at pans of milk to make 'gorgon-zola cheese', which was noted by Dolph to be a little crumbly. The Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III. It's an avatar of pure destruction out to end existence ...but for some reason, it decides to take the form of a completely nude green woman. Her appearance in Dissidia is pure fanservice ◊, though based on her original concept art. ◊ The protagonist of Little Medusa is a very cute and adorable gorgon, embarking on a quest to stop the evil and spiteful goddess who cursed her. GURPS Banestorm describes a game-world with a race of Medusas who typically have the Beautiful Appearance advantage.In Disney's Aladdin: The Series, Jasmine got turned into a "hideous snake person" by Mirage. Truth be told, there wasn't all that much that's hideous about her, but the poisoned spines were something of a turn-off... to everyone except Aladdin, who willingly dosed himself with the same potion to be with her. An actual gorgon also appears in the series. And later, a lamia appears...and she's one of the most beautiful monsters of all...well, from the waist up, anyway.

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Berserk has Slan and several female Apostles who qualify. Like everything else in Berserk, this trope is also playing with. Not a Gorgon, but in Divine Blood Eija Semezou is a gothically beautiful Japanese-Greek girl with an aura that terrifies most people that come near her. For further fun, its noted that the aura is pretty much useless against some of the more dangerous people while making normally harmless people dangerous. It's suggested she might grow out of it when she gets more control of her powers, but pointed out that she already has more control than most adults. She has a bit of a phobia when dealing with crowds, but it's hard to tell if the phobia resulted from the aura, in which case it's rather reasonable, or the aura resulted from the phobia. Solaron, protagonist in the Dungeons & Dragons story The Tale of Solaron, is a rare male example of this trope. Given that he is able to seduce most any lady he talks to he seems quite attractive by human standards. The title of this trope itself, by the way, has solid foundations in later interpretations of Greek Myth where the Gorgons became Progressively Prettier, at least in literature if not art. In the oldest versions of the Gorgon legends, they were said to be hideous-looking, hence Medusa's classic snake hair and scaled face. Older depictions show them with bulging eyes and fangs, with evil grimaces (often considered a direct comparison to a rotting corpse). However, as centuries passed, many tellings had the Gorgons as mortal women more lovely than Aphrodite, causing that goddess to curse them such that any who saw their loveliness would be turned to stone. Others went so far as to say the Gorgons were so beautiful, their faces could stop men's hearts. Another version, first recorded in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is that Medusa was originally a beautiful temple maiden, and Neptune was so captivated by her beauty that the two became lovers, going as far as to have hanky-panky in Minerva's temple (where Medusa was the high priestess). Minerva, disgusted that the maiden would do this, turned her into a Gorgon as punishment. A harsher variation on this claims that Medusa wasn't a willing participant, but Minerva chose to punish her anyway because she couldn't punish Neptune (although a softer variant of this harsher variant is Minerva transforming Medusa to protect her from Neptune). The gorgons who appear in Shadowchasers Series are rather attractive if you can get past the snake-hair. (Because interaction with humans is impossible in this reality, a gorgon can use simple dark sunglasses to render her gaze harmless.)Note that while much "classical" art portrays Medusa (after her change) as horrifically butt-ugly, the whole Cute Monster Girl and Not Evil, Just Misunderstood thingie is a fairly old interpretation, although more prominent in modern takes. She regains her hideous face from the first game in her boss fight. It's explained that she was using Glamour to make her face look human, but she let the mask slip because she needed all her power to fight Pit.

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Medusa herself was briefly resurrected by Circe in Wonder Woman (1987). When one character remarks that she does not look at all ugly, Medusa lashes out that such stories were lies started by Athena. The first Gorgon you meet in the first game, Medusa herself, is fairly attractive (and topless, to boot), but the other Gorgons you meet are not as much ugly as faceless. II's Euryale, by contrast, is depicted as a green, scaly battleaxe. In American Horror Story: Roanoke, this is Played With - the actress who plays Scáthach is played by Lady Gaga, and as such, is still attractive despite the attempts to make her appear disheveled and wild. This is averted in Return to Roanoke, where we are shown the real Scáthach, who appears much less like a woman and more like a thing.

A Song of Ice and Fire: In A Storm of Swords, woods witch The Ghost of High Heart describes seeing a vision of "a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs." It later becomes clear that this was meant to represent Sansa Stark at King Joffrey's wedding feast, where she wore a hairnet encrusted with purple gemstones, one of which, unknowingly to her, contained a poison that was used to assassinate Joffrey. The Mythology based RTS Age of Mythology has the archer variant like the one from Clash of the Titans. Medusa is a lithe, pale skinned beauty whose "snakes" are just ankle-length hair that get blown around a lot during battle. The whole "turn to stone" thing is the product of her Mystic Eyes Of Petrification (one of a good number of Mystic Eye types in the Nasuverse), and is easily mitigated by an enchanted visor or sexy nerd glasses. Oh, and she's really attractive too. Who is she? Rider. Justified in that this is supposed be Medusa before she was transformed into a monstrous creature. Her actual monster form looks more like a giant demonic mass of shadow snakes all joining together into a huge worm thing. As well as the fact that Word of God says that history is Written by the Winners, so what is recorded in legend is not necessarily what actually happened in-universe. In fact, this may even be an example of Shown Their Work, as most myths actually present Medusa as having once been very beautiful, either being turned into a monster because of Athena's jealousy, or because Poseidon had sex with her (or raped her, the myths vary) in Athena's temple. Rider can still become the famous ugly monster version for a power boost. She just chooses not to because she loses control of herself in the process. Onmyoji: the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi appears in his humanoid form as a Bishounen with pale features and actual snakes as parts of his humanoid body. Other notable instance is Kiyohime, depicted as a beautiful woman with a serpentine lower body. In The Laundry Files, "gorgonism" strikes humans randomly, from old South Asian grandmothers to young attractive middle-class girls (presumably, males also). When a gorgon looks upon a target, her gaze turns some of the target's carbon atoms into silicon, resulting in instant flaming death. Gazing upon a gorgon whose eyes are closed or covered, on the other hand, has no effect.