Clytie

**Family** | Leucothoe (sister)

**Clytie** was the victim in Natural Causes (Case #32 of Graecita).

## Profile

Clytie was the late daughter of the titan, Oceanus, who had blonde hair and green eyes. She was initially born an oceanid but due to circumstances that happened before the events of season 4, she was transformed into a sunflower nymph. At the time of her death she wore an off-shoulder yellow gown made of sunflowers and a matching sunflower hairpin.

## Murder details

While the girls are having fun with the nymphs, a frankincense tree nymph ran to her fellow woodland spirits, panicking, and announced that a nymph by the name of Clytie was attacked by a carnivorous plant. This caused a panic, and wanting to calm everyone down, Natalie and Mia decided to go save Clytie and asked the frankincense tree nymph to lead them to her. The nymph, whose name is Leucothoe did as she was told and led the duo to the carnivorous plant, but it was too late as Clytie was already dead. After taking a look at the scenery, Natalie and Mia came to the conclusion that the only way the plant could’ve attacked Clytie is if she came close to it and since no would is stupid enough to go near a carnivorous plant, it was obvious someone fed her to it and they were dealing with a murder.

## Killer and motives

After collecting enough evidence, Natalie and Mia went to confront Leucothoe for the murder. Leucothoe acted shocked by the accusations, claiming that although she and her sister had their differences, she would never stoop low enough to kill her, but after Natalie and Mia pressed her with evidence, she eventually confessed to the crime, claiming that she did it out of self-defense. Leucothoe explained that a few nights before Persephone descended to the underworld, she walked in on Clytie giving a necklace to Minthe, that looked like Persephone’s. Leucothoe suspected something shady was going on, so she his from the two nymphs and eavesdropped at them, watching Minthe wear the necklace and take the appearance of the underworld’s queen. Leucothoe was shocked at what she saw but she didn’t reveal herself and walked away from the nymphs, keeping what she saw to herself. However, after Persephone made her departure, Minthe suddenly disappeared and the other nymphs grew concerned, wondering where she has gone. Leucothoe thought of what she’s seen that night and knew Clytie was somehow involved in this, so she confronted and asked her why Minthe was disguising as the queen of the underworld. Clytie refused to answer Leucothoe’s questions and told her to fuck off, so Leucothoe decided to let it go. However, today, while Leucothoe was collecting frankincense, Clytie approached her, carrying an axe and tried to swing it at Leucothoe. Luckily Leucothoe turned before Clytie could hit her, and she ran away screaming. Clytie ran after her and Leucothoe was forced to fight her, eventually grabbing the axe from her. Leucothoe used the butt of the axe to knock out Clytie, but what she didn’t notice is that there was a carnivorous plant near them, so when she hit Clytie she pushed her toward the plant and it ended up eating her. Leucothoe was horrified and didn’t know what to do, so she ran to get help from the other nymphs but didn’t have the courage to admit she was the one who pushed Clytie. Although they felt Leucothoe was somehow justified for what she’s done, Natalie and Mia took her to Demeter and the nymph explained the reasons why she killed Clytie. Demeter was furious, not because of the murder but because Leucothoe didn’t her about Minthe and Clytie’s plot. She pardoned the nymph for the murder but she began panicking, thinking about what could have happened to her daughter and not wanting to fall victims to her wrath, Natalie and Mia quickly ran back to their friends.

## Trivia

* Clytie is an actual figure in Greek mythology.
	+ Additionally, she was modeled after American actress and singer, Dove Cameron.