Post by Hades on Aug 12, 2010 9:02:43 GMT -7
How did you find us? ‘Tis Todd
First Name: Hades
Last Name: N/A
Middle Name: N/A
Age: Just a millennia or so younger than Time
Height/Weight: 6’3” ; 200 lbs.
Eyes: Brilliant blue; turn to flames when he is angered/impassioned
Hair: Brown
Character description/personality:
2-inch pink scar over his heart. Gold arrowhead lodged in his chest. His face is covered with stubble unless he has to make official appearances.
-Overworked, understaffed
-Loves Persephone
-Loves his dog
-Surprisingly understanding of mortals from having to deal with their souls, and because he has a true love.
-Resents the Olympians, but more as a passing grudge than hatred
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: God
Powers:
- Helm of Darkness grants him invisibility while he wears it (can be any kind of hat he wants when he’s not wearing it)
- Can summon and command the dead
- Has the power to punish souls as he or others sees fit. He may also override any punishment when he feels it's unfair.
- Can summon blue hellfire. This causes pain without destroying or burning anything.
Weaknesses:
- Loves his wife more than she is capable of loving him, leading to frustration and emotional outbursts around her.
- An act that is disloyal to his wife or one that he thinks might hurt her causes him excruciating pain.
History:
Hades was the first male child born to Chronus and Rhea. Ergo, he was the first to be swallowed by his father. His brother and sisters soon followed, and they all spent quite a few eons milling around, undying gods with no purpose. After eons of waiting, baby brother Zeus got Chronus to vomit up the godly siblings. They banned together and overthrew Chronus. The age of Olympus began. Well, not for Hades. Zeus laid claim on the heavens while Poseidon took both land and sea. The goddesses took their own specialties, and Hades was left with the dirty work. If they were going to have mortals, they had to have someone make sure they were properly awarded in death.
And so, Hades became Lord of the Underworld.
Immortal life went on, wars were waged, and Hades stayed put. He had assistance from Charon, Hermes and a few other minor gods. There was also his faithful dog, Cerberus, keeping watch for him. It was still a full-time job for one deity. While the other gods gallivanted around the world and sky and spread their seed, Hades tended to the souls they smote.
Aphrodite was talking with her son Cupid about love and how he thought everyone should have it in their life. He thought even Hades, in the Underworld, should have a wife. So he waited near one of the entrances to the Underworld where a beautiful maiden was said to admire the flowers every day. As Cupid – being love, was blind, he did not see that the maiden was Persephone, daughter of Demeter. He stirred a commotion of fauns and birds and animals that was so loud it caught Hades' attention and he surfaced to see what it was. Cupid shot him with an arrow of purest love, and Hades fell for Persephone and whisked her away.
This did not please her mother. Not at all. Demeter was ready to fight Hades, until her daughter ate a pomegranate seed in the Underworld and sealed her fate. But Hades, the love-sick god he was, wanted to make Persephone happy. The deal finally came to Persephone being allowed to leave the Underworld every spring and summer to visit her mother. Her departure back to the Underworld brought her mother’s sadness and fall and winter.
He wanted her to be happy. He set aside patches of land for her to grow flowers, showered her with gifts, anything that would possibly make her smile. He’d even write her short poems when the mood struck him, though he was usually distracted by the dead and his poems took a morose turn. She was his unwilling anchor, and every time she left, the Underworld suffered with him. Even after the whole Adonis thing.
One year, when the summer was reaching its end, Hades couldn’t wait. He waited at the entrance his wife would be using, his heart literally aching for her. And then, a nymph caught his eye. She looked so much like his beloved Persephone even. Sick of waiting, they began to make love in the field. And then his love turned on him. The arrowhead lodged in his immortal heart burned hotter than any flames of Tartarus, and Hades screamed in agony. Whether it was curiosity or concern that drove her, Persephone quickly arrived on the scene. Without hesitation, she turned the nymph into a sapling. Hades fell to his knees, clutching his slowly-calming heart. He knew his wife had been unfaithful, but being disloyal to her hurt him far more.
Again, the world continued turning. As civilizations rose and fell, the gods shifted. Through the Fates, the pantheons of the world gradually became aware of each other. Some were wary, yet placid. Others waged wars against each other. Others still learned to cooperate, share and work together. During this time of exchange, Hades met Osiris, the Egyptian lord of the dead. As wars mounted and death tolls rose, they thought it was time for a deal. Every one hundred years, one of the gods would get to take a vacation for one year while the other took double duty in the Greek and Egyptian afterlives. To avoid inter-pantheon relationships, Hades gave Persephone his blessing to take a vacation as well, so long as her mother kept the seasons as they were.
Canon or Original?: Canon sort of. I’m putting my own touches on him.
Character is from: Greek mythology and a good few novels/movies
First Name: Hades
Last Name: N/A
Middle Name: N/A
Age: Just a millennia or so younger than Time
Height/Weight: 6’3” ; 200 lbs.
Eyes: Brilliant blue; turn to flames when he is angered/impassioned
Hair: Brown
Character description/personality:
2-inch pink scar over his heart. Gold arrowhead lodged in his chest. His face is covered with stubble unless he has to make official appearances.
-Overworked, understaffed
-Loves Persephone
-Loves his dog
-Surprisingly understanding of mortals from having to deal with their souls, and because he has a true love.
-Resents the Olympians, but more as a passing grudge than hatred
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: God
Powers:
- Helm of Darkness grants him invisibility while he wears it (can be any kind of hat he wants when he’s not wearing it)
- Can summon and command the dead
- Has the power to punish souls as he or others sees fit. He may also override any punishment when he feels it's unfair.
- Can summon blue hellfire. This causes pain without destroying or burning anything.
Weaknesses:
- Loves his wife more than she is capable of loving him, leading to frustration and emotional outbursts around her.
- An act that is disloyal to his wife or one that he thinks might hurt her causes him excruciating pain.
History:
Hades was the first male child born to Chronus and Rhea. Ergo, he was the first to be swallowed by his father. His brother and sisters soon followed, and they all spent quite a few eons milling around, undying gods with no purpose. After eons of waiting, baby brother Zeus got Chronus to vomit up the godly siblings. They banned together and overthrew Chronus. The age of Olympus began. Well, not for Hades. Zeus laid claim on the heavens while Poseidon took both land and sea. The goddesses took their own specialties, and Hades was left with the dirty work. If they were going to have mortals, they had to have someone make sure they were properly awarded in death.
And so, Hades became Lord of the Underworld.
Immortal life went on, wars were waged, and Hades stayed put. He had assistance from Charon, Hermes and a few other minor gods. There was also his faithful dog, Cerberus, keeping watch for him. It was still a full-time job for one deity. While the other gods gallivanted around the world and sky and spread their seed, Hades tended to the souls they smote.
Aphrodite was talking with her son Cupid about love and how he thought everyone should have it in their life. He thought even Hades, in the Underworld, should have a wife. So he waited near one of the entrances to the Underworld where a beautiful maiden was said to admire the flowers every day. As Cupid – being love, was blind, he did not see that the maiden was Persephone, daughter of Demeter. He stirred a commotion of fauns and birds and animals that was so loud it caught Hades' attention and he surfaced to see what it was. Cupid shot him with an arrow of purest love, and Hades fell for Persephone and whisked her away.
This did not please her mother. Not at all. Demeter was ready to fight Hades, until her daughter ate a pomegranate seed in the Underworld and sealed her fate. But Hades, the love-sick god he was, wanted to make Persephone happy. The deal finally came to Persephone being allowed to leave the Underworld every spring and summer to visit her mother. Her departure back to the Underworld brought her mother’s sadness and fall and winter.
He wanted her to be happy. He set aside patches of land for her to grow flowers, showered her with gifts, anything that would possibly make her smile. He’d even write her short poems when the mood struck him, though he was usually distracted by the dead and his poems took a morose turn. She was his unwilling anchor, and every time she left, the Underworld suffered with him. Even after the whole Adonis thing.
One year, when the summer was reaching its end, Hades couldn’t wait. He waited at the entrance his wife would be using, his heart literally aching for her. And then, a nymph caught his eye. She looked so much like his beloved Persephone even. Sick of waiting, they began to make love in the field. And then his love turned on him. The arrowhead lodged in his immortal heart burned hotter than any flames of Tartarus, and Hades screamed in agony. Whether it was curiosity or concern that drove her, Persephone quickly arrived on the scene. Without hesitation, she turned the nymph into a sapling. Hades fell to his knees, clutching his slowly-calming heart. He knew his wife had been unfaithful, but being disloyal to her hurt him far more.
Again, the world continued turning. As civilizations rose and fell, the gods shifted. Through the Fates, the pantheons of the world gradually became aware of each other. Some were wary, yet placid. Others waged wars against each other. Others still learned to cooperate, share and work together. During this time of exchange, Hades met Osiris, the Egyptian lord of the dead. As wars mounted and death tolls rose, they thought it was time for a deal. Every one hundred years, one of the gods would get to take a vacation for one year while the other took double duty in the Greek and Egyptian afterlives. To avoid inter-pantheon relationships, Hades gave Persephone his blessing to take a vacation as well, so long as her mother kept the seasons as they were.
Canon or Original?: Canon sort of. I’m putting my own touches on him.
Character is from: Greek mythology and a good few novels/movies
