Fatal beauty by Develv on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

"It was Bagoas, the eunuch favorite of Darius. His youth and femininity was surprising.
In a long, purple-blue Median dress, he stood, keeping an impressive posture.
Mutilated since childhood, he had lingered in an unnatural youth, and seemed younger than he really was.
His pale face was beardless, and his features fine and regular, his coal-black hair falling around his neck. His womanish mouth was scarlet-red, and his eye-brows and eye-lashes painted black. Blue-purple chalcedonite stone gleamed in his earrings, necklace, and finger-rings. His cruelly red lips were thin and closed, and his eyes held an enigmatic stare."
From Iskander (1920) - Louis Couperus.

Dangerous, fatal and beautiful Bagoas, he was an angel of vengeance, and caused the death of Alexander. He destroyed Alexander by his beauty, passion and narcotic wine. He loved as well he hated him.
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Art by Deva.