I need a little help with worldbuilding regarding Lucifer and goddess Eris
I’m not exactly sure where I should ask this as it crosses multiple topics so I’ll ask here first.
Long story short, I’m designing characters based on mythological figures as well as animals. Poseidon is an orca, Hermes is a falcon, Quetzalcoatl is a Quetzalcoatlus, for example. I am both a mythology and biology nerd, though an amateur one. These characters are meant to adhere to the animal they are based on rather than the myth, however. So Poseidon is female as orcas are a matriarchal species.
Lucifer is a viperfish, a type of deep sea fish, in reference to the serpent of Eden and the fall from Heaven. His bioluminescence referencing the “morning star”. And his golden lure in the shape of an apple in reference to the forbidden fruit.
So I’m deciding about the goddess Eris. She’s also associated with the golden apple so I’m wondering if it would be more fitting to:
Merge the two characters
Make them besties but the same species
Make them besties but different species