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The Guardian of the Hesperides and The Drake of Hera. The son of Phorcyus and Ceto, this makes him Medusa’s brother.

His blazing eyes keep watch over the garden of the Hesperides. He can speak different languages and his muscular, serpentine body has a grip so tight that no human can pry him off.

His powerful tail fatally lashes anyone unwise to approach the dragon from the rear.

Ladon was the serpent-like dragon that twined and twisted around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples. In pursuance of his eleventh labour, Heracles killed Ladon with a bow and arrow and carried the apples away.

The following day, Jason and the Argonauts passed by on their chthonic return journey from Colchis, hearing the lament of "shining" Aegle, one of the four Hesperides, and viewing the still-twitching Ladon.

In an alternate version of the myth, Ladon is never slain, and Heracles instead gets the Titan god Atlas to retrieve the apples. At the same time, Heracles takes Atlas’ place, holding up the sky.

Ladon, while large and terrifying physically, seems to be a sensitive soul at heart. As his sole purpose is to protect the tree of the Golden Apples, it would stand to reason that he has very few interactions with anyone, the Hesperides being an exception.

(I did not want to draw one hundred heads because one its too hard and two thats weird. I made his design more like a drake not a true dragon but still close to a dragon. I gave him Proton wings and also based his design off of Tigrex)

Description
The Guardian of the Hesperides and The Drake of Hera. The son of Phorcyus and Ceto, this makes him Medusa’s brother.

His blazing eyes keep watch over the garden of the Hesperides. He can speak different languages and his muscular, serpentine body has a grip so tight that no human can pry him off.

His powerful tail fatally lashes anyone unwise to approach the dragon from the rear.

Ladon was the serpent-like dragon that twined and twisted around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples. In pursuance of his eleventh labour, Heracles killed Ladon with a bow and arrow and carried the apples away.

The following day, Jason and the Argonauts passed by on their chthonic return journey from Colchis, hearing the lament of "shining" Aegle, one of the four Hesperides, and viewing the still-twitching Ladon.

In an alternate version of the myth, Ladon is never slain, and Heracles instead gets the Titan god Atlas to retrieve the apples. At the same time, Heracles takes Atlas’ place, holding up the sky.

Ladon, while large and terrifying physically, seems to be a sensitive soul at heart. As his sole purpose is to protect the tree of the Golden Apples, it would stand to reason that he has very few interactions with anyone, the Hesperides being an exception.

(I did not want to draw one hundred heads because one its too hard and two thats weird. I made his design more like a drake not a true dragon but still close to a dragon. I gave him Proton wings and also based his design off of Tigrex)