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=== Know Your God ===
 
=== Know Your God ===
Height: 6’2″
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'''Height''': 6’4″
  
Weight: 210 lbs.
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'''Weight''': 210 lbs.
  
Hair Color: Blonde hair
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'''Hair Color''': Blonde, usually in a short and conservative style
  
Facial Hair: Some scruff
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'''Facial Hair''': Some scruff
  
Eyes: Baby Blues
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'''Eyes''': Baby Blues
  
Distinguishing Features: A few tattoos
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'''Distinguishing Features''': During moments of extreme emotion, Apollo's eyes turn from blue to a dazzling yellow the color of the sun itself. Apollo has a tribal tattoo on his stomach of a sun around his navel, and a tapestry of Greek symbols and astrological symbols down his right arm. He also has a scar across his right shoulder blade from where Python landed a near mortal blow.
  
 
=== Family ===
 
=== Family ===
  
Parents:  [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]]
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'''Parents''':  [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]]
  
Siblings: [[Artemis]], my twin sister.
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'''Siblings''': Many
  
Spouse: Never been married, but I have loved at times.
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'''Spouse''': None
  
Children: None
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'''Children''': 4, including Asclepius and Orpheus
  
 
=== Professions ===  
 
=== Professions ===  
  
Unemployed Singer
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While not in the Complex or running errands for Zeus, Apollo is owner of a club named Solaria. It lies a few blocks down from the God Complex.
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The club is a haven for music lovers, a place where anyone can go and simply indulge in their own preferred genre of music.
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It is a gift from the God of Music to his people, and in turn, gains him favourable worship from those that adore him.
  
 
=== Residence ===
 
=== Residence ===
  
I have the 32nd floor assigned to me in the [[God Complex HQ]] and I have an apartment off the GC complex.
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Apologies resides on floor 32 of the God Complex, in an apartment that houses a large collection of varied music as well as space for his bow and a quiet room where he looks into the future.
  
 
=== Personal Information ===
 
=== Personal Information ===
  
General Overview: A god of the people, I lost myself in it all. I forgot how to shine. Trying to regain that glory.
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'''General Overview''': A loyal and friendly man, Apollo's first priority is his fellow Gods. While he possesses more power than most of the others, he remains humble and polite among his peers, and dotes on his sister Artemis. An avid hunter, Apollo is often found hunting alongside his sister when time allows.
  
Likes: My music, my family, hunting with Arty.
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'''Nicknames''': Olly (to Artemis only)
  
Dislikes: Bullies, cheats, and those that step on others to make themselves higher.
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'''Likes''': All forms of music, lazing in the sun, keeping his archery skills sharp in contests with the other Gods.
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'''Dislikes''': Disrespectful and rude mortals; not getting enough sun; badly tuned instruments and bad players.
  
 
=== Skills / Abilities ===
 
=== Skills / Abilities ===
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'''Babble-speak.''' Apollo can communicate in all languages and dialects.  
 
'''Babble-speak.''' Apollo can communicate in all languages and dialects.  
  
'''Music God.''' I am able to hear any and all thoughts involving music, and separate/process it all. I can also give or take away the ability to have perfect pitch and control. I can feel the emotion put behind music and truly understand it properly.
 
 
'''Instrumental Apparitions.''' I can create perfectly in tune instruments of any design or make, with a single thought. However if I don’t bless you, said instruments will play out of tune, and will always be out of tune, no matter how much work is done on them.
 
 
'''Sun/Light.''' I have the power to control them.
 
  
 
=== Personal Attire ===
 
=== Personal Attire ===
  
Normal Daily Wear: All depends on what I’m doing. I can be in anything from jeans and a to a fancy expensive suit.
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'''Normal Daily Wear''': When not on official business for Zeus, Apollo is often seen in casual clothing, quite often jeans, boots and shirts that bear witty slogans or pop culture references. However, when he is performing a task for his father, Apollo  wears suits of either dark blue or black.
  
Alternate Dress Wear: No alternate clothes, just those mentioned above
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'''Alternate Dress Wear''': No alternate clothes, just those mentioned above
  
 
=== Magical Artifacts/Weapons ===
 
=== Magical Artifacts/Weapons ===
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=== Historical Synopsis ===
 
=== Historical Synopsis ===
  
Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and twin brother to Artemis. He is the god of the sun and music, among other things. Apollo and his sister are known as the gods of the bow and arrow, and no one is as good as shot as they are. He is the patron deity of Delphi and is considered an oracular god.  
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Born on the island of Delos to Zeus and Leto, Apollo is the god of many things including the sun, music, medicine, disease, prophecy and truth.
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He is a slayer of several great mythological beasts, including Python, an act that led to the establishment of what is now the modern Olympics.
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Apollo is also an oracular deity, considered the patron God of Delphi and the most Hellenic of the Pantheon due to his varied and often contradictory gifts. He was gifted foresight for his humble nature, but has never spoken a single word to another of what he sees, preferring to let the future unravel as it is intended.<ref>The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. (10 Jan 2019). Apollo.</ref> <ref>Wikipedia Apollo</ref><ref>Wikipedia Hyacinth</ref>
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=== Introduction ===
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Hello, dear mortal.
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My name is Apollo.
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You may not have heard my name, but you will have heard the fruits of my favor every time a musician plays a beautiful melody, or the sun shines upon the innocent and the carefree.
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My favor is easy to gain, my friend, and I encourage you and your fellow mortals to come up, say hello and possibly befriend a deity.
  
Apollo is the god of mousike, therefore he resides over music, dance, and poetry. He also created string music, and a lyre was never too far from his reach. He is the protector of the young, and children’s health and education concern him. He was a powerful god and could heal just as fast as he could hurt.
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But do please remember… should you force me to turn away, your greatest melodies will become chaotic noise… the sun may never shine upon you again…
  
He has loved many but never married. Whether it was Daphne getting turned into a laurel tree, or the accidental death of Hyacinth by a discus, Apollo has never really been lucky in love. He killed the creature Python, a son of Gaea because he tormented his mother, Leto. After he killed Python, Apollo had to create and watch a set of games, which was called the Pythian Games, which later turned into what we now know as the Olympics.<ref>The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. (10 Jan 2019). Apollo.</ref> <ref>Wikipedia Apollo</ref><ref>Wikipedia Hyacinth</ref>
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But I don't think we will have much trouble on that score… so come and say hi, my friend. I may be a God and a son of Zeus, but you never know - I might just brighten up your day.

Revision as of 15:40, 13 July 2020

Apollo is god of the sun, healing and prophecy, he is currently voiced by Ryan O'Hara.

Apollo2.jpg

Know Your God

Height: 6’4″

Weight: 210 lbs.

Hair Color: Blonde, usually in a short and conservative style

Facial Hair: Some scruff

Eyes: Baby Blues

Distinguishing Features: During moments of extreme emotion, Apollo's eyes turn from blue to a dazzling yellow the color of the sun itself. Apollo has a tribal tattoo on his stomach of a sun around his navel, and a tapestry of Greek symbols and astrological symbols down his right arm. He also has a scar across his right shoulder blade from where Python landed a near mortal blow.

Family

Parents: Zeus and Leto

Siblings: Many

Spouse: None

Children: 4, including Asclepius and Orpheus

Professions

While not in the Complex or running errands for Zeus, Apollo is owner of a club named Solaria. It lies a few blocks down from the God Complex.

The club is a haven for music lovers, a place where anyone can go and simply indulge in their own preferred genre of music.

It is a gift from the God of Music to his people, and in turn, gains him favourable worship from those that adore him.

Residence

Apologies resides on floor 32 of the God Complex, in an apartment that houses a large collection of varied music as well as space for his bow and a quiet room where he looks into the future.

Personal Information

General Overview: A loyal and friendly man, Apollo's first priority is his fellow Gods. While he possesses more power than most of the others, he remains humble and polite among his peers, and dotes on his sister Artemis. An avid hunter, Apollo is often found hunting alongside his sister when time allows.

Nicknames: Olly (to Artemis only)

Likes: All forms of music, lazing in the sun, keeping his archery skills sharp in contests with the other Gods.

Dislikes: Disrespectful and rude mortals; not getting enough sun; badly tuned instruments and bad players.

Skills / Abilities

Immortality. Technically immortal. Immune to the effects of aging, cannot die by any conventional means, and is immune to all known mortal diseases and infections. As a deity, they are able to teleport, or "pop" anywhere in the mortal plane with a few exceptions, the God Floors of the GC HQ are mystically protected, so no teleporting to or in between them, anything on the non-mortal plane, i.e., the Underworld, Atlantis, and the Void, are non-accessible without a guide.

Babble-speak. Apollo can communicate in all languages and dialects.


Personal Attire

Normal Daily Wear: When not on official business for Zeus, Apollo is often seen in casual clothing, quite often jeans, boots and shirts that bear witty slogans or pop culture references. However, when he is performing a task for his father, Apollo wears suits of either dark blue or black.

Alternate Dress Wear: No alternate clothes, just those mentioned above

Magical Artifacts/Weapons

I had my brother, Heph, turn my golden bow into a small pendant for a necklace. If I need it, I just tap on it and it comes to full size. It’s pretty dope. He also turned my sword and shield into a wristband, and my lyre into a glass guitar that sparks when I play it, like a plasma globe.

Historical Synopsis

Born on the island of Delos to Zeus and Leto, Apollo is the god of many things including the sun, music, medicine, disease, prophecy and truth.

He is a slayer of several great mythological beasts, including Python, an act that led to the establishment of what is now the modern Olympics.

Apollo is also an oracular deity, considered the patron God of Delphi and the most Hellenic of the Pantheon due to his varied and often contradictory gifts. He was gifted foresight for his humble nature, but has never spoken a single word to another of what he sees, preferring to let the future unravel as it is intended.[1] [2][3]

Introduction

Hello, dear mortal.

My name is Apollo.

You may not have heard my name, but you will have heard the fruits of my favor every time a musician plays a beautiful melody, or the sun shines upon the innocent and the carefree.

My favor is easy to gain, my friend, and I encourage you and your fellow mortals to come up, say hello and possibly befriend a deity.

But do please remember… should you force me to turn away, your greatest melodies will become chaotic noise… the sun may never shine upon you again…

But I don't think we will have much trouble on that score… so come and say hi, my friend. I may be a God and a son of Zeus, but you never know - I might just brighten up your day.

  1. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. (10 Jan 2019). Apollo.
  2. Wikipedia Apollo
  3. Wikipedia Hyacinth