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lovely_aphrodite[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Junabi
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:greenfire
IM: Johinnabara
PLURK: Does not have
E-MAIL: rlcaponi@gmail.com
RETURNING: Seto Kaiba, Son Goku
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME:Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
SERIES: Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Xena Warrior Princess
CHRONOLOGY: End of both Xena and Hercules.
CLASS: Hero-ish
BACKGROUND:
Stuff you've read before: In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings. A land in turmoil cried out for a hero. Aphrodite told them to shut up already they were ruining her mud bath.
AncientNew Zealand Greece: There is no set time period which Aphrodite comes from, the first Olympics happened at around the same time as Julius Caesar started to invade. The masses roll their eyes and history buffs cry out in pain. Instead of a specific year it’s a time of myth and legend; when the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering. When the gods weren’t up on Mount Olympus they were an active part in the world. They would appear before the people they wanted to do something and tempt them to do so. They didn’t have the power to force a person to their will, but being gods they usually had something to bring the bargaining table. They are not all powerful, and despite some similar abilities (being able to teleport, invisibility, invulnerability) they only have power over their own archetype.
Aphrodite is one of Zeus’ many children. She has a fairly good relationship with her siblings, or as well as any of the gods who have different motivations can be. She’ll call Zeus ‘daddy’ and refers to Hercules as ‘baby-brother.’ Unlike the myths, she is not married to Hephaestus, but they have had/do have a fling. (It also doesn’t hurt that for a deformed god Hephaestus is a hunk.) It’s heavily implied that Aphrodite has had many flings with other gods, but while she will tempt a mortal with the chance to get some Goddess of Love action, she doesn’t follow through.
Aphrodite is also a mother and mother-in-law/grandmother if you can get her to admit that. She has one son, Cupid, but there is no mention of who the father is. Unlike the myths, there is no mention of Cupid being Ares’ son, or of the many trysts between Ares and Aphrodite. Instead, their relationship is portrayed as simply symbiotic. War needs to be balanced by Love and vice versa. The two get along surprisingly well for thinking that the other has their priorities mixed up.
Aphrodite’s first appearance is a familiar story from the myths. She rises out of the sea in a giant clam…and then promptly uses it to wind surf to shore. Aphrodite doesn’t like to be visually active in mortal’s affairs. As she explained to Cupid “Mess with mortals all you want, it’s what they’re there for, but don’t get involved.” Most of her early actions were selfishly motivated and revolve around a temple being knocked down or defaced.
While she is all about love, if one of her temples is getting knocked down she will happily start a war. To that end she tricked Hercules’ friend, Iolaus, into taking a golden apple to make any woman fall in love with him. That woman happened to be a princess engaged to a neighboring prince whose fathers had been fighting for years. Their fathers were planning to knock down some of Aphrodite’s temples as a gesture of good faith because they were ‘eye-sores.’ Temples are the way of keeping score of which god was more powerful at that moment, so rather than allow that to happen Aphrodite used her love powers to cause a war. In the end Hercules foiled her plan by using the apple to make the two father’s love each other instead (in a brotherly way, because zomg no gay people in Ancient Greece!)
She used a similar tactic later, when once again one of her temples was being threatened by the peace brought on by a prince and princess marrying. However this time she gave a bell to the bumbling idiot Joxer to make him suave and debonair whenever a bell rang. It also had the effect of making the princess go out of her mind with love each time. This time her brilliant plan was foiled by Xena and she once again lost one of her temples.
Not that she seemed to run out of temples, because every time she appeared it was always at a different temple or shrine. The shrines and statues acted as a cell phone service to the gods. If you were in their temple and said something bad, chances were they heard you. If you said something good they heard you too, but were expecting that. If you asked for something…well your offering better be pretty damn good. Fish, not going to cut it.
Aphrodite’s last truly stupid move was getting incensed when her temple was defiled with “Xena Rules!” messaged by a bunch of hoodlums. Egged on by Ares she gave Xena’s ‘friend’, Gabrielle, an enchanted scroll that would make whatever she wrote actually happen. Of course as a result of this she was turned into a mortal. This was when she found out that mortal hygiene was not as easy as it looked. She quickly became so smelly that not even standing around in lingerie in front of soldiers worked.
After that experience she seemed to calm down in the realm of interfering with mortals (at least where either Hercules or Xena could see). She still appeared, but she was there more to help than cause strife. It also helped that through Herc and Xena she met some mortals who were worth more than a passing glance. There aren’t many but there are enough to at least look first.
The world changed a lot following those episodes...of her life. Things were great up until Xena got pregnant. Xena's child ,Eve, is the messenger of the 'god of Eli' and is a portent of the end of the Gods of Olympus. When she was pregnant, Zeus tried to kill Xena. During that, Hera turned against him to save Xena, and was killed by Zeus. Zeus was then killed by Hercules before he could stop the child from being born. (Confused yet? It gets better).
Eve is born, and Athena takes over Olympus now that Zeus is gone. The gods are constantly trying to destroy Eve except for Aphrodite (because that's not how she rolls) and Ares because he's in love with Xena. During one of the Gods' attempts to kill Eve, Xena and Gabrielle are frozen for years. Long story short (too late): while they're out of the picture, Eve turns evil and when Xena wakes up she saves her by getting her baptized (why was this show cancelled?)
During the baptism Xena is gifted with the ability to kill Gods so long as Eve is alive. She quickly takes out Poseidon, Discord and Hephestus in a very anti-climatic fight. Athena comes up with a plan to use the Furies to make Gabrielle go insane and kill Eve. Aphrodite was against the plan because Gabrielle is her friend. However Athena said there was no other way and went along with it.
Due to the Furies, Gabrielle mortally wounds Eve and Xena ends up throwing her chakram in Gabrielle's head before she knows what she's doing. At this point when both Eve and Gabrielle are mortally wounded the other gods appear to finish the job. During the fight, Aphrodite appears to help Gabrielle. She isn't able to do any healing without Athena's blessing (which she won't give because it's her plan) so she's not able to do much besides get Gabrielle and Eve out of the way.
After the fight all of the gods are dead except for Aphrodite, Ares, Athena and Artemis. Aphrodite sticks around while Xena is desperately trying to save Eve and Gabrielle. To help her friend, Aphrodite agrees to take the three to Olympus, knowing full well Xena is going to kill more of the gods. Right before the final battle starts, Xena tells Aphrodite to leave so she doesn't get hurt.
New Stuff! Big climatic battle occurs, and in the end the only survivors of Olympus are Aphrodite and a now mortal Ares. Without Ares the balance between Love and War is completely thrown off and Aphrodite goes a little...funny. She shacks up with Caligula as he's the most evil human she can find. He starts draining her powers (they never explain how) every time they kiss. He becomes a god, and Aphrodite turns mortal.
As the show has no problems killing of gods, Caligula is quickly taken care of, but Aphrodite couldn't get her powers back from him. Without the goddess of love horrible things happen to the world. No one is able to love at all. Mortals could 'like' things, but the ability to love was completely gone.
Fortuantely it was Xena to the rescue. She beat the crap out of Norse Gods and got Aphrodite a golden apple to restore her immortality. But Xena couldn't just bring back Aphrodite, she also had to bring back Ares. The newly immortal Aphrodite and Ares go back to the much emptier Olympus, and continue to reign through to the present day.
PERSONALITY:
“Hey, don’t believe everything you hear about blondes.”
She is in many ways the stereotypical blonde valley girl. She is very self-centered. It’s easy to be when you’re a god and used to being worshipped. She brings love to the world, it’s only natural that all the mortals should want to thank her for it. If it doesn’t directly affect her, she sees no reason to help out. She’s the goddess of love, what does she care if you’re hungry? You can still be in love if you’re hungry. Love is more important anyway, which is why poor people should still give her offerings. This also leads to a lot of jealousy. NO ONE is allowed to be prettier than her, and NO ONE is allowed to be more important. And by ‘no one’ she mostly means women, as men don’t count in beauty contests. If you insult her, you can forget about her helping you out. However, it’s very easy to win her favor back with flattery.
She can also be rather flaky. She usually enjoys her job, but tends to get bored easily. When that happens she doesn’t care about her duties and will just mess around with people. For example, making every woman everywhere hate all men just for fun. Mortals are there to be played with. So if the Goddess of Love decides to take a vacation they just have to deal with it.
She is not entirely bad however. She is the Goddess of Love. She gets very sentimental when people are really in love and will go out of her way to make them stay that way. She also loves cute things, especially when they’re hers. She is very loving, provided she’s in the right mood. She can also get very emotionally involved and if anything goes wrong with someone she cares about she’ll cry for them.
While there are many jokes about being blonde, there is intelligence in there…if she can be arsed to give a rats ass about whatever your little problem in. She’s a god. She’s had a lot of time to figure out how things work. The information is there, she just doesn’t always decide to share it.
POWER:
1. Greek God: There are certain powers that the entire pantheon share:
- Teleportation. As part of this they can also appear invisible by not completing the teleportation. They stay in the 'in-between' area so they can see, hear and interact with their surroundings but others can't see them. Their presence is obvious to anyone with even the slightest bit of extra awareness.
- Lightning hands! All of the gods are able to shoot lightning from their hands. Aphrodite's is of course pink. It's not that strong, because she's not a fighter. The shock is uncomfortable but not damaging.
-Temporary creation. The gods can just make things appear. Baren room? No problem, now it's fully decorated. Bored? No problem, here's a hot tub. They don't stick around though. For the sake of the City, I'll put a limit on her that they only last for 30 minutes and then disappear.
2. Cheesy love spell:. She can enchant an item to either make someone fall in love with a specific person/anyone, or make an item to repel anyone/everyone. Items could include golden apples, potions, jewelry etc. She is not able to stop the enchantment but a fail-safe plan will be equipped with every spell.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [Video]
Okay, so I’ve been thinking. Now, follow me on this.
There’s been a lot of fighting lately, and a lot of bad vibes coming from everywhere. Clearly, War is a little too powerful right now. What’s the opposite and balance of war?
Love!
And how lucky for all of you that you have your very own love goddess hanging around looking for something do. We just need to get some more love worship going on and we can have this place back to sunshine and rainbows in no time!
I don’t know how you normally do worship wherever you’re from, but in my day it meant temples. We just need to remind people that love is still in the world and what better way to do that than with a temple dedicated to yours truly?
I know what you’re gonna say. ‘This world is more crowded, there’s not enough room to just tear something down to make it.’ Save your breath, I’ve gotten those lectures enough from my baby-bro Hercules. And have more faith, I’ve got it covered.
::takes out a large piece of paper that looks like a floor plan. That is if you can pay attention to it long enough when there is a large breasted love goddess in lingerie leaning over it::
I found this little shopping district downtown with these stores that have the most awesome shoes. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s apartments above them. So I figure if we just knock down some walls and get a higher ceiling on this baby, I can move right in and we can get some love back in this city.
I know, I know. A second story temple? The idea shocked me too at first. But hey, I’m willing to make sacrifices. And if we can set up an offering schedule with the shops underneath then all the better, right?
So, who’s with me?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Aphrodite took a step out of the building she had just arrived in, huddling to herself for warmth. While the night air would have been warm to most people, to a recent mortal wearing nothing but the barest of lingerie it was cold. How could she be cold? She was a God, she didn’t get cold. She also didn’t get kidnapped, but here she was. The first thing she had done when that stupid machine had sent out those ridiculously tacky necklaces was try to get home. She had waved her arms and everything, but didn’t disappear.
This wasn’t fair! She had just been about to head back to her temple and enjoy a bubble bath while her muscle boys…whosit and whatshisname…massaged her shoulders. Is that too much to ask? She had a busy day. She had to read all of the mortals’ little love scrolls and go through the jewelry and fruit they left her to make sure it was up to snuff. She didn’t have time for this!
At least if someone was going to kidnap her they could have brought her somewhere a little more decorated. It looked like Tartarus warmed over. Hades would love this stuff, all the metal that was around. It would fit his decorating theme. It sure as hell didn’t fit hers.
At least she had bothered to wear shoes today. She bent a leg to take a look at the soul of her shoes and almost instantly stomped it back down. “Just great!” she said to herself, pouting and bouncing in a mild tantrum. “Adorable new shoes, and they’re getting damaged on…” Aphrodite trailed off to test the odd street material and leaned down to get a closer look at it. “Whatever that is,” she completed finally.
The pout stayed firmly on her face as she walked further down the street. Everything was so cold and distant. Just how big was this city? She couldn’t see a tree for miles. “Well,” she said, trying to make herself feel better. “At least it’s well lit!”
Her ‘cheerful mood’ lasted all of two seconds before she heard a strange rumbling noise. She looked around trying to find where it was coming from when it happened again. “Huh?” she looked at her abdomen just as it made the most disgusting liquidy noise ever. That was new. That hadn’t happened to her since that time she gave Gabrielle an enchanted scroll and had ended up as a mor…
“No,” She said stopping in her tracks. “Not possible, not happening.” The noise, she had discovered was her stomach, sounded again. Worse, now it was starting to hurt.
“No…No…No!” she cried, and stamped her feet even harder onto the ground in a full on goddess-turned-mortal tantrum.
“Ow!”
All of the stamping caused one of her heels to snap off her shoe. She groaned, and started hobbling down the street wondering just how much worse this could get.
FINAL NOTES:
There are many inconsistencies in old myths, and even more when you throw two camp action dramas into the mix. As before this Aphrodite will follow only the myths that are shown or alluded to in the shows, though she will know of myths that don’t directly involve her.
NAME: Junabi
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:
greenfireIM: Johinnabara
PLURK: Does not have
E-MAIL: rlcaponi@gmail.com
RETURNING: Seto Kaiba, Son Goku
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME:Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
SERIES: Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Xena Warrior Princess
CHRONOLOGY: End of both Xena and Hercules.
CLASS: Hero-ish
BACKGROUND:
Stuff you've read before: In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings. A land in turmoil cried out for a hero. Aphrodite told them to shut up already they were ruining her mud bath.
Ancient
Aphrodite is one of Zeus’ many children. She has a fairly good relationship with her siblings, or as well as any of the gods who have different motivations can be. She’ll call Zeus ‘daddy’ and refers to Hercules as ‘baby-brother.’ Unlike the myths, she is not married to Hephaestus, but they have had/do have a fling. (It also doesn’t hurt that for a deformed god Hephaestus is a hunk.) It’s heavily implied that Aphrodite has had many flings with other gods, but while she will tempt a mortal with the chance to get some Goddess of Love action, she doesn’t follow through.
Aphrodite is also a mother and mother-in-law/grandmother if you can get her to admit that. She has one son, Cupid, but there is no mention of who the father is. Unlike the myths, there is no mention of Cupid being Ares’ son, or of the many trysts between Ares and Aphrodite. Instead, their relationship is portrayed as simply symbiotic. War needs to be balanced by Love and vice versa. The two get along surprisingly well for thinking that the other has their priorities mixed up.
Aphrodite’s first appearance is a familiar story from the myths. She rises out of the sea in a giant clam…and then promptly uses it to wind surf to shore. Aphrodite doesn’t like to be visually active in mortal’s affairs. As she explained to Cupid “Mess with mortals all you want, it’s what they’re there for, but don’t get involved.” Most of her early actions were selfishly motivated and revolve around a temple being knocked down or defaced.
While she is all about love, if one of her temples is getting knocked down she will happily start a war. To that end she tricked Hercules’ friend, Iolaus, into taking a golden apple to make any woman fall in love with him. That woman happened to be a princess engaged to a neighboring prince whose fathers had been fighting for years. Their fathers were planning to knock down some of Aphrodite’s temples as a gesture of good faith because they were ‘eye-sores.’ Temples are the way of keeping score of which god was more powerful at that moment, so rather than allow that to happen Aphrodite used her love powers to cause a war. In the end Hercules foiled her plan by using the apple to make the two father’s love each other instead (in a brotherly way, because zomg no gay people in Ancient Greece!)
She used a similar tactic later, when once again one of her temples was being threatened by the peace brought on by a prince and princess marrying. However this time she gave a bell to the bumbling idiot Joxer to make him suave and debonair whenever a bell rang. It also had the effect of making the princess go out of her mind with love each time. This time her brilliant plan was foiled by Xena and she once again lost one of her temples.
Not that she seemed to run out of temples, because every time she appeared it was always at a different temple or shrine. The shrines and statues acted as a cell phone service to the gods. If you were in their temple and said something bad, chances were they heard you. If you said something good they heard you too, but were expecting that. If you asked for something…well your offering better be pretty damn good. Fish, not going to cut it.
Aphrodite’s last truly stupid move was getting incensed when her temple was defiled with “Xena Rules!” messaged by a bunch of hoodlums. Egged on by Ares she gave Xena’s ‘friend’, Gabrielle, an enchanted scroll that would make whatever she wrote actually happen. Of course as a result of this she was turned into a mortal. This was when she found out that mortal hygiene was not as easy as it looked. She quickly became so smelly that not even standing around in lingerie in front of soldiers worked.
After that experience she seemed to calm down in the realm of interfering with mortals (at least where either Hercules or Xena could see). She still appeared, but she was there more to help than cause strife. It also helped that through Herc and Xena she met some mortals who were worth more than a passing glance. There aren’t many but there are enough to at least look first.
The world changed a lot following those episodes...of her life. Things were great up until Xena got pregnant. Xena's child ,Eve, is the messenger of the 'god of Eli' and is a portent of the end of the Gods of Olympus. When she was pregnant, Zeus tried to kill Xena. During that, Hera turned against him to save Xena, and was killed by Zeus. Zeus was then killed by Hercules before he could stop the child from being born. (Confused yet? It gets better).
Eve is born, and Athena takes over Olympus now that Zeus is gone. The gods are constantly trying to destroy Eve except for Aphrodite (because that's not how she rolls) and Ares because he's in love with Xena. During one of the Gods' attempts to kill Eve, Xena and Gabrielle are frozen for years. Long story short (too late): while they're out of the picture, Eve turns evil and when Xena wakes up she saves her by getting her baptized (why was this show cancelled?)
During the baptism Xena is gifted with the ability to kill Gods so long as Eve is alive. She quickly takes out Poseidon, Discord and Hephestus in a very anti-climatic fight. Athena comes up with a plan to use the Furies to make Gabrielle go insane and kill Eve. Aphrodite was against the plan because Gabrielle is her friend. However Athena said there was no other way and went along with it.
Due to the Furies, Gabrielle mortally wounds Eve and Xena ends up throwing her chakram in Gabrielle's head before she knows what she's doing. At this point when both Eve and Gabrielle are mortally wounded the other gods appear to finish the job. During the fight, Aphrodite appears to help Gabrielle. She isn't able to do any healing without Athena's blessing (which she won't give because it's her plan) so she's not able to do much besides get Gabrielle and Eve out of the way.
After the fight all of the gods are dead except for Aphrodite, Ares, Athena and Artemis. Aphrodite sticks around while Xena is desperately trying to save Eve and Gabrielle. To help her friend, Aphrodite agrees to take the three to Olympus, knowing full well Xena is going to kill more of the gods. Right before the final battle starts, Xena tells Aphrodite to leave so she doesn't get hurt.
New Stuff! Big climatic battle occurs, and in the end the only survivors of Olympus are Aphrodite and a now mortal Ares. Without Ares the balance between Love and War is completely thrown off and Aphrodite goes a little...funny. She shacks up with Caligula as he's the most evil human she can find. He starts draining her powers (they never explain how) every time they kiss. He becomes a god, and Aphrodite turns mortal.
As the show has no problems killing of gods, Caligula is quickly taken care of, but Aphrodite couldn't get her powers back from him. Without the goddess of love horrible things happen to the world. No one is able to love at all. Mortals could 'like' things, but the ability to love was completely gone.
Fortuantely it was Xena to the rescue. She beat the crap out of Norse Gods and got Aphrodite a golden apple to restore her immortality. But Xena couldn't just bring back Aphrodite, she also had to bring back Ares. The newly immortal Aphrodite and Ares go back to the much emptier Olympus, and continue to reign through to the present day.
PERSONALITY:
“Hey, don’t believe everything you hear about blondes.”
She is in many ways the stereotypical blonde valley girl. She is very self-centered. It’s easy to be when you’re a god and used to being worshipped. She brings love to the world, it’s only natural that all the mortals should want to thank her for it. If it doesn’t directly affect her, she sees no reason to help out. She’s the goddess of love, what does she care if you’re hungry? You can still be in love if you’re hungry. Love is more important anyway, which is why poor people should still give her offerings. This also leads to a lot of jealousy. NO ONE is allowed to be prettier than her, and NO ONE is allowed to be more important. And by ‘no one’ she mostly means women, as men don’t count in beauty contests. If you insult her, you can forget about her helping you out. However, it’s very easy to win her favor back with flattery.
She can also be rather flaky. She usually enjoys her job, but tends to get bored easily. When that happens she doesn’t care about her duties and will just mess around with people. For example, making every woman everywhere hate all men just for fun. Mortals are there to be played with. So if the Goddess of Love decides to take a vacation they just have to deal with it.
She is not entirely bad however. She is the Goddess of Love. She gets very sentimental when people are really in love and will go out of her way to make them stay that way. She also loves cute things, especially when they’re hers. She is very loving, provided she’s in the right mood. She can also get very emotionally involved and if anything goes wrong with someone she cares about she’ll cry for them.
While there are many jokes about being blonde, there is intelligence in there…if she can be arsed to give a rats ass about whatever your little problem in. She’s a god. She’s had a lot of time to figure out how things work. The information is there, she just doesn’t always decide to share it.
POWER:
1. Greek God: There are certain powers that the entire pantheon share:
- Teleportation. As part of this they can also appear invisible by not completing the teleportation. They stay in the 'in-between' area so they can see, hear and interact with their surroundings but others can't see them. Their presence is obvious to anyone with even the slightest bit of extra awareness.
- Lightning hands! All of the gods are able to shoot lightning from their hands. Aphrodite's is of course pink. It's not that strong, because she's not a fighter. The shock is uncomfortable but not damaging.
-Temporary creation. The gods can just make things appear. Baren room? No problem, now it's fully decorated. Bored? No problem, here's a hot tub. They don't stick around though. For the sake of the City, I'll put a limit on her that they only last for 30 minutes and then disappear.
2. Cheesy love spell:. She can enchant an item to either make someone fall in love with a specific person/anyone, or make an item to repel anyone/everyone. Items could include golden apples, potions, jewelry etc. She is not able to stop the enchantment but a fail-safe plan will be equipped with every spell.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [Video]
Okay, so I’ve been thinking. Now, follow me on this.
There’s been a lot of fighting lately, and a lot of bad vibes coming from everywhere. Clearly, War is a little too powerful right now. What’s the opposite and balance of war?
Love!
And how lucky for all of you that you have your very own love goddess hanging around looking for something do. We just need to get some more love worship going on and we can have this place back to sunshine and rainbows in no time!
I don’t know how you normally do worship wherever you’re from, but in my day it meant temples. We just need to remind people that love is still in the world and what better way to do that than with a temple dedicated to yours truly?
I know what you’re gonna say. ‘This world is more crowded, there’s not enough room to just tear something down to make it.’ Save your breath, I’ve gotten those lectures enough from my baby-bro Hercules. And have more faith, I’ve got it covered.
::takes out a large piece of paper that looks like a floor plan. That is if you can pay attention to it long enough when there is a large breasted love goddess in lingerie leaning over it::
I found this little shopping district downtown with these stores that have the most awesome shoes. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s apartments above them. So I figure if we just knock down some walls and get a higher ceiling on this baby, I can move right in and we can get some love back in this city.
I know, I know. A second story temple? The idea shocked me too at first. But hey, I’m willing to make sacrifices. And if we can set up an offering schedule with the shops underneath then all the better, right?
So, who’s with me?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Aphrodite took a step out of the building she had just arrived in, huddling to herself for warmth. While the night air would have been warm to most people, to a recent mortal wearing nothing but the barest of lingerie it was cold. How could she be cold? She was a God, she didn’t get cold. She also didn’t get kidnapped, but here she was. The first thing she had done when that stupid machine had sent out those ridiculously tacky necklaces was try to get home. She had waved her arms and everything, but didn’t disappear.
This wasn’t fair! She had just been about to head back to her temple and enjoy a bubble bath while her muscle boys…whosit and whatshisname…massaged her shoulders. Is that too much to ask? She had a busy day. She had to read all of the mortals’ little love scrolls and go through the jewelry and fruit they left her to make sure it was up to snuff. She didn’t have time for this!
At least if someone was going to kidnap her they could have brought her somewhere a little more decorated. It looked like Tartarus warmed over. Hades would love this stuff, all the metal that was around. It would fit his decorating theme. It sure as hell didn’t fit hers.
At least she had bothered to wear shoes today. She bent a leg to take a look at the soul of her shoes and almost instantly stomped it back down. “Just great!” she said to herself, pouting and bouncing in a mild tantrum. “Adorable new shoes, and they’re getting damaged on…” Aphrodite trailed off to test the odd street material and leaned down to get a closer look at it. “Whatever that is,” she completed finally.
The pout stayed firmly on her face as she walked further down the street. Everything was so cold and distant. Just how big was this city? She couldn’t see a tree for miles. “Well,” she said, trying to make herself feel better. “At least it’s well lit!”
Her ‘cheerful mood’ lasted all of two seconds before she heard a strange rumbling noise. She looked around trying to find where it was coming from when it happened again. “Huh?” she looked at her abdomen just as it made the most disgusting liquidy noise ever. That was new. That hadn’t happened to her since that time she gave Gabrielle an enchanted scroll and had ended up as a mor…
“No,” She said stopping in her tracks. “Not possible, not happening.” The noise, she had discovered was her stomach, sounded again. Worse, now it was starting to hurt.
“No…No…No!” she cried, and stamped her feet even harder onto the ground in a full on goddess-turned-mortal tantrum.
“Ow!”
All of the stamping caused one of her heels to snap off her shoe. She groaned, and started hobbling down the street wondering just how much worse this could get.
FINAL NOTES:
There are many inconsistencies in old myths, and even more when you throw two camp action dramas into the mix. As before this Aphrodite will follow only the myths that are shown or alluded to in the shows, though she will know of myths that don’t directly involve her.
