A Virgin?! I thought those were all Extinct!
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Post by Aphrodite on Nov 7, 2011 19:04:20 GMT -5
FULL NAME: Aphrodite DATE OF BIRTH: The beginning of time I suppose, God's don't have birthdays. AGE: Uhm...She looks about 25, but as for her real age, I'm sure she's about several million years old. SPECIES: Goddess-- occasionally human just for fun, but with all of her powers intact. ABILITIES: Aphrodite possesses most of the abilities of a god such as immortality and the ability to teleport from Earth to Mount Olympus at will. She has also shown to possess some strength, enough to physically fight with the Goddess Discord, as well as the ability to fly and change her appearance. However as the goddess of Love she rarely displays these powers. As the master of love, lust and desire she has the trademark power to arouse physical and emotional love, desire and lust in mortals and gods alike. The only gods who have an immunity to her powers are Athena, Artemis and Hestia.
PERSONALITY:
Aphrodite is referred to as the original modern-day valley girl, with somewhat of a dumb blonde and usually vain persona. She is essentially good-natured and helpful; Always wanting to help out and make everything better even though her love spells usually tend to backfire in the end-- like the time she caused a War lock's son and a Virgin sacrifice to fall in love...Or the Joxer incident with the bells..Because of these reasons Aphrodite is close friends with Gabrielle & Xena- Gabrielle mostly- because she sees the Goddesses kind hearted personality and genuine need to do what is right, whether or not it goes against the other God's wishes. Gabrielle is one of the few honest and unselfish friends Aphrodite has. Most of the Olympian gods were self centered and ridiculous, but Gabrielle had nothing to prove to the Goddess of Love and no reason to try and impress her. Aphrodite admires those honest, simple and innocent qualities in others. It is what makes her almost Mortal in a way, getting to experience those heart bursting emotions through another being-- and no one topped the gussy mushy soul mate floating on cloud nine feeling like Gabrielle and Xena. Even when she had nothing to gain, Gabrielle always put others first. Something that at first appeared to be rather strange and somewhat foreign to Aphrodite but through out the years managed to rub off on the Goddess, and she found herself caring more and more for those aforementioned close Mortal friends she had made and usually didn't bother to give a second glance to in the past.
Aphrodite is a sucker for Classic romantic love stories, seeing as she is the Goddess of Love, could you blame her? Many innocent and needy Mortals have won over her heart and managed to persuade her into helping them out by telling her their sappy real life stories of love or triumph over the heart of another.
She is very bubbly, cheery and happy by nature, always the lover- with a weakness for hunky and well built men- not the fighter but that's not to say that she will not defend herself should the situation arise. Especially with Discord, Aphrodite's strong dislike of Discord has caused her to physically and verbally have non-stop show downs with the other Goddess with little to no provoking required; most of the time Aphrodite came out on top. She also tends to get VERY temperamental when someone talks or actually attempts to destroy one of her temples. As cupid said in the past: "When the Goddess of Love decides to do something petty and spiteful, she can be a tad difficult to reason with." Although, Aphrodite rarely displays this other side of her personality, she would much rather be having fun and getting a back massage by a sexy man servant. It's safe to say Discord's death later on was reason to celebrate rather than mourn for the Goddess of Love. Her husbands unfortunate demise during the Twilight of The gods, however, was another story, because the two were connected she felt every second of his pain and regardless of her actions or what her brothers and sisters assumed she did care for him greatly.
HISTORY:
As in the myth of her birth, Aphrodite first appears rising out of the sea in a giant seashell. As a joke, she then uses the seashell to go windsurfing. Before her marriage to Hephaestus she is portrayed as being a bit promiscuous; she steals a boyfriend away from Hera and because of that Hera places a curse on her son Cupid. Cupid falls in love with a girl named Psyche, who is said to be more beautiful than Aphrodite, which makes her extremely jealous. Out of jealousy, Aphrodite tries to shoot a love arrow at Psyche, but Cupid tries to stop her. This only makes things worse when Hercules is accidentally hit and falls in love with Psyche. Thanks to Hera's curse, Cupid literally turns into a green-eyed monster with jealousy at the thought of losing Psyche. The curse is eventually lifted when the truth comes, after he confesses his love for Psyche and she marries him. Aphrodite gives Psyche Ambrosia to make her a goddess to make amends, since she is the one who started the mess. Although she soon realizes she is now a mother-in-law, which does not make her very happy. She becomes a Grand -mother --much to her dislike of being referred to as a grandmother now-- later on when Psyche and Cupid have a son, Bliss.
On Hercules, Aphrodite is usally the comic relief or the viewers' window into politics of Mount Olympus.Though she was originally a scheming Goddess, devious and almost as uncaring as Ares, she quickly evolves into a more benevolent fun-loving character as the years go by, though still prone to mood- swings. She is also the only member of the Olympian family Hercules seems to have any sort of close relationship with, referring to Aphrodite as his favorite little sister on numerous occasions; despite the trouble she seems to cause him. He also appears to have a somewhat close relationship with her son-Cupid who refers to Hercules as "Uncle Herc".
Aphrodite determines to break up a royal family marriage that will end a war, only because the newly allied kingdoms plan to destroy her temples. As her son Cupid explains to Gabrielle, "When the Goddess of Love decides to do something petty and spiteful, she can be a tad difficult to reason with." She later develops a friendship with Gabrielle and tries to save her during the massacre of the Olympian Gods. Ap -hrodite becomes one of the survivors of the Twilight of the Olympian Gods, organized by Xena when the gods, under Athena's flag, join together to kill Eve. Aphrodite remains unconvinced that Eve will willingly destroy the gods, to the point where she sneaks Xena and Gabrielle into Olympus itself.
After the Twilight of the Gods, Aphrodite becomes mentally unbalanced due to Ares losing his powers [because he healed Eve without permission while she was dying on Mt. Olympus during the Twilight of The Gods in order to save Xena from possibly being killed by Athena, Xena's power to kill gods came from Eve and were only possible as long as Eve was living and breathing]; Love must be balanced by War. Her powers are stolen by Caligula who was holding a very confused and weak Aphrodite prisoner while he slowly drained her of her powers by kissing her, whom Xena later tricks into killing himself in order to break Aphrodite from the state of amnesia she was in. Unfortunately, this also meant that while Aphrodite got her memory back, her immortality was gone and she was forced to live out her life as a human, along with Ares, for a little while. Later on, Xena helps restore Aphrodite's and Ares's powers with the golden apples she stole from Oden in Valhalla, thereby restoring balance to the universe and once again returning the ability to LOVE to the world, that had gone without it for the short time Aphrodite was mortal. [This means that Aphrodite is one of the Olympians to survive all the events until the present day--along with Ares-- They are the only Olympian Gods still alive and ruling over Mount Olympus.
ROLEPLAY SAMPLE:
Aphrodite was lacking--in the entertainment department these days. She had no interest in sitting around at Olympus forcing herself to make conversation with Athena. As willing as she was to put their differences aside and be "civil" with her sister,In all honesty the two had absolutely nothing in common.That made conversations a drag..And Aphrodite wasn't one for boredom and awkward silence.Wrinkling her nose a little, she entertained herself by spying on the mortals below from Mount Olympus. There was nothing of interest in Jappa; Some war declared by someone or another but as her eyes scanned over Sparta she noticed something familiar. With a big smile and a playful giggle Aphrodite vanished, Reappearing in a flash of bright pink and vanilla smelling rose pedals.
"Gabrielle!!" She called out, her blond curls swaying gently with the wind. Aphrodite missed the few adventures she took part in with Xena and Gabrielle. Although she spent some time with Gaby after Xena's recent death, she missed her terribly. Gabrielle had a way of making an impression on someone that would last and Aphrodite wouldn't deny that she had a bit of a soft spot for that Battling Bard from Potidaea. The fact that she was mortal didn't bother her at all, instead she found herself keeping an even closer watch on Gabs. It always helped to have a Goddess on your side.
"Hey Pumpkin. I've been great! Aphrodite said,hugging Gabrielle close."Well I always look this fabulous.." She half joked with a smile."But you look stunning yourself!" She complimented, placing a gentle hand on Gabrielle's cheek before pushing a strand of the Bard's hair out of her face. It was quite the honor to receive a compliment from a god or a goddess, especially The Goddess of Love. But Gabrielle was nothing compared to her followers ,She was her friend. One of the few honest and unselfish ones she had. Most of the Olympian gods were self centered and ridiculous,but Gabrielle had nothing to prove to her and no reason to try and impress her. Aphrodite admired those honest ,simple and innocent qualities in her. It was almost as if she were mortal too--Almost. Even when she had nothing to gain, Gabrielle always put others first. She helped rescue Aphrodite from that wannabee God Caligula, refusing to leave her side until she was back to normal once more. Aphrodite never really got the chance to repay the favor but she would. And it would be big.
Stretching her arms out high over her head--she let out a long and loud yawn--her see through baby pink dress blowing back and exposing her bare mid riff. As if it wasn't exposed enough as it was..She didn't expect to cover up much with a see thru over dress, but then that was the point wasn't it? The Ocean always fascinated Aphrodite, one of the few things that honestly brought a smile to her face. Although the smell of salt water she could do without, on a day like this she would tolerate it."It's so nice out today." She said enthusiastically. It was rare to witness such a lovely day in Sparta.
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