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apollo | olimpos | unreserved.
player.
NAME: Yun
JOURNAL:
E-MAIL: milexiander@gmail.com
CONTACT INFO:
CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/A
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Apollo
SERIES: Olimpos
CANON POINT: Post end-series
APPEARANCE: [ behold, a pretty boy. … yeah. ]
DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: Shadow Warlock—can’t… really see him be anything else. As a character, he doesn’t really get physical with other characters, and in canon, he’s more of the ‘sitting on a pedestal in a high-and-mighty manner while shooting spells at you’ sort of character, so… yeah. Unless there’s a class that utilizes bow and arrows, which also fits his general character as the ‘twin’ of ‘Artemis’.
PREVIOUSLY IN HOLYRELIC: n/A
PERSONALITY:
The key to Apollo’s personality is that he is inquisitive – inquisitive in the way that a person who sees everything can be inquisitive. This is shown by the fact that he’s all but run out of material to ‘say’, for god says nothing but the truth, but it also makes him incapable of lying to himself. He has all but figured out the truths of the world from attempting to ‘say’ them aloud, though that in itself is but an impression of his. He has the impression that he knows the one truth of the world, and over the course of the manga, that impression shifts so that realizes that there are things even he does not know of, and his awareness of the things that he is not aware is one of those things that he was previously unaware of.
To put it simply, he wasn’t aware that he didn’t know, and only until he said it aloud to Ganymede did he realize that there are things even he doesn’t know. And because of Apollo’s inquisitive personality, he immediately wants to know why. Little things that contradict his line of thinking bothers him easily, and he is the sort of character to brood when things begin to conflict. Apollo likes his time alone, and while he too experiences boredom from the task of killing a millennia’s worth of time, he has the tendency to fall into deep thought without any awareness of the things around him. Another paradox. A god is supposed to ‘see’ all, but while he is thinking, there are even things that he cannot hear.
As a character, he gives off a higher air born of confidence, but not necessarily pride. Because he is above the lives of so many people, being a god, he, at the beginning of the manga, did not particularly want to get to know them. And because of this, he doesn’t have a sense of ‘pride’ in himself so much as it’s a simple feeling of the things as the way they are. He is analytical, logical, but also prone to irrational bursts of anger – Hades’ mere presence makes him irritated, and he professes to Artemis that it is because he doesn’t understand what the heck the other is saying. Thus, it’s clear to the reader that Apollo doesn’t like the unknown, and doesn’t like the thought of not knowing something. He gets irrationally irritated when he doesn’t know something, and is prone to throwing tantrums.
It’s never clearly defined in the manga what exactly ‘Artemis’ is. Apollo believes that Artemis is his beautiful older sister, and for the longest time, Artemis was the only thing of value to him. However, Hades reveals to Apollo that Artemis is but his ‘mirror’, and that a mirror only reflects him when he is there. Thus, ‘Artemis’ isn’t a being on her own, but rather a figment of Apollo’s imagination. He cannot refute Hades’ statement, and thus this is the truth. However, he seems to be genuinely confused as to what Artemis really is. If Artemis is his mirror, then are the things she says but a reflection of what his heart is saying?
This is a vital part of his characterization, as Artemis gives us insight into what Apollo truly thinks beneath his mask, a part of Apollo that not even Apollo himself was aware of. Artemis becomes upset when Apollo attempts to tell her that she is a mirror, and constantly tries to change the subject to something more pleasant – which shows that Apollo is upset by this revelation, enough to want to deny it. Artemis also repeatedly tells Apollo that she loves him – which may be a reflection of Apollo’s heart. Apollo loves himself, and because he treasures Artemis and Artemis is his mirror, then perhaps he treasures himself above all.
He really is an egotistical being. But it’s the sort of egotistical thinking that doesn’t show arrogance. He thinks of himself first and foremost, and has only recently begun to see humans as ‘individuals’ rather than ‘insects’. He isn’t ‘arrogant’ in the traditional sense of the word in that he doesn’t take that sort of pride in his abilities, accepting them for merely what they are. He can perform things that humans cannot. He is above the human race. It’s the way things are, and he doesn’t think of it anymore than just fact.
However, because of his inquisitive nature, Apollo has recently begun to immerse himself in human culture. ‘Befriending’, in the loosest way of putting it possible, a young girl called Iris, he eventually begins to question things to do with human nature in an attempt to understand them. For Apollo, it’s a way to kill time, but it also definitively shows his inquisitive nature. He is eternally bored, due to his godhood, and thus he likes interesting things. If something can challenge his way of thinking and give him insight to what he previously doesn’t know, then he will obsess over it.
That kind of an obsessive behavior can be gleaned through Artemis, who questions why Apollo became so focused on Iris to the point of which that was all he talked about during their ‘conversations’. And Apollo becomes genuinely confused as to why that is.
As a character, Apollo is a selfcentric character. Time doesn’t mean anything to a being who lives outside of it, and he doesn’t seem to understand what it feels like to not die, for gods cannot die. However, he is impatient, so one can say that his pace is rather quick. He becomes irrationally impatient if the other he is speaking to is stupid, and he cannot stand idiocy – in fact, he looks down on those who he’s deemed to be ‘idiots’, shown by the way he clearly looks down upon Poseidon. However, if the idiot is entertaining enough, he stands a chance of sticking around just to see what makes them tick. He is always trying to understand something, and once that thing has been understood, it becomes ‘boring’, and thus cast aside.
He shows this sort of behavior with people. Poseidon is simple-minded and fairly straightforward, and because Apollo has had an eon to understand him, Poseidon is a very boring person to him. But Iris is interesting, for while she is an idiot, she gives him insight to human nature. Ganymede, he also considers as an idiot, but Ganymede is entertaining to look at simply because he does spontaneous things that not even Apollo can fully predict, and thus he finds Ganymede interesting.
He also finds Ganymede interesting because Ganymede is beautiful. As a character, Apollo likes beautiful things. He likes his own face – this is shown in a conversation with Artemis, who says that ‘you are more beautiful than I am, Apollo’, and how he doesn’t deny it. He also professes that he keeps Ganymede around simple because he’s pretty enough to be not boring to look at. One can say that Apollo’s interest in someone is directly proportional to how entertaining and beautiful they are, and one can say that Apollo is a very shallow god because of it.
He is also fickle, shown time and again to cleverly go back on his word, and because of his inability to lie, he’s developed ways to speak the truth in a round-about way enough so he can take his words back later without repercussion. Because of this, he can be classified as a troll. He likes riling people up and taking a look at their reactions – it’s both entertainment and his way of fishing for information.
All in all, Apollo is shallow, fickle, mocking, but a surprisingly diligent thinker, and he doesn’t know himself well enough to be able to define himself as anything more than a god. And that is what Apollo is.
samples.
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
[ why don’t you have a pretty boy floating over your head-- ]
And just what are you doing with… that.
[ … he must mean your relic, since he’s kind of pointing at it the way a nobleman would point to something small, furry and utterly disgusting. the first thing you might notice is that his eyes are technicolour. the next thing you should notice is that he really is floating, and god why-- ]
When a God speaks, you should answer, you know? So speak.
[ … well, that explains it. ]
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
What was decidedly strange about these portals, he thinks, was that they led to nowhere interesting.
Large dimensional hops should be interesting. It isn’t as though he is going to go through all that effort to find a gate like this, walk through it, and find himself reappearing in an area stuffed to the ears full of grass and monsters and other distasteful things—just like every other area he’s gone through at this point. In a way, it tries his patience. It’s annoying that something like this makes absolutely no sense and comes to absolutely no fruition, and while he will admit that for the mortals, it must be an invigorating mode of travel, it’s something dull for a God who is used to appearing and disappearing instantaneous from just about anywhere.
It’s almost annoying how whatever system that is at work here replaced his usual ‘mode’ of appearing and disappearing with this system of unwieldy gates and annoying devices that he has no intention of learning how to work.
Still, though, it doesn’t explain why, time and again, he finds himself drawn to warp through those gates. Maybe it’s the idea that there might be something of worth at the other end if he picks the right combination—or maybe it’s just the fact that there are so many possible combinations, that his endless curiosity can’t be satisfied until he’s gone through all of them and ascertained for himself that there really was nothing of interest but more land and monsters and the occasional mortal who sold things. It makes him scowl a little to think that he’s killing time with such an inane and inelegant method.
But then again, time killed is time killed, and for a being who lives outside of time, he can’t exactly call it a ‘waste’. Not if time is killed in the end.
Therefore, he picks another set of words, and walks through the gate.
ACCEPTED
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