| Destruction at it's finest |
[April 13, 2008 @ 9:45pm] |
Character Name: Perses
Pantheon: Greek
Parentage: Krios and Eurybia
Patronage: Destruction
Residence: Perses has many different homes scattered across the face of the mortal world. He has a home in Las Vegas, one in Brazil, one in London, and one in Japan. He didn't choose these locations for any reasons other than he enjoys the differences of them, observing the different people, cultures and climates.
Personality: Perses is a rough around the edges kind of guy. He's gruff and fairly unemotional toward the rest of the world. He doesn't harbor hate or love toward anyone particularly. He has loved, and he has hated, but things happen and feelings fade. There will always be spots in his heart for both his consort and his daughter, but he doesn't mourn or pine for the former, nor does he give much wonder to what the latter is up to. You have to let them grow up and fly on their own sometime, is his entire opinion on the matter.
This means while he has reason to be bitter toward people, especially the way that the Titan Wars ended, unless it's all thrown back in his face, he doesn't actively think about any of it. He can be civil and cordial to those around him, no matter the people involved. It's not to say that he's hollow or any way devoid of feeling. Most of the time he's just capable of resolving the matter internally. He's not very into sharing things. Talking about his feelings, or what's wrong. He's also not very big in working things out in a rational manner. If he's provoked to the point of things needing to be resolved, his nature and instinct take over. Things will quickly deteriorate into a highly physical situation.
For the most part, Perses is indifferent toward human beings. They amuse, and they're fun to watch, but he's never really lived among them. While he has homes all over the world, he doesn't generally associate with mortals at all. He doesn't have mortal friends or relationships and never has.
History: Everything in life was pretty perfect until a bunch of Olympians got it into their heads that they needed to take over the mountain. Perses had a lovely consort, Asteria, as well as a beautiful daughter, Hekate. He had the world to play with, his brothers and family. And then it all just went to hell.
Years prior, while still a fairly young god, Perses met the Goddess of Hate. Styx showed a particular interest in the Titan, and began to pursue him with adamant fervor. There were attempts to rebuff her, to make her go away entirely. He wasn't interested in her in the way that she really wanted him to be. But she wouldn't quit. So eventually, Perses gave in and took Styx to bed. He had no real idea that he was her first, and didn't really care when he found out. Once he was done with her, he tossed her aside, expecting her to be satisfied with what she'd gotten. Styx then pursued Perses' brother, Pallas, in an attempt to make him jealous. It backfired on her twofold. Not only did Perses not care, but Styx fell in love with Pallas.
Being one of only three sons born to Eurybia, Perses had pretty close ties to his family. Had he actually cared about Styx, it might have bothered him that his brother took his seconds and ran off to get married and have kids. As it was, he was happy for Pallas, and never gave Hate another glance.
It was some time after this that he met Asteria. He put more into his relationship with her than he ever had with anybody outside of his immediate family. Their relationship never progressed to marriage, despite the urgings of his parents and hers, but they did have a little baby girl together, who Perses thought the world revolved around. He spent as much time with his family as he could, right up until the start of the Titan Wars.
Perses felt obliged to help, not only his father, but his brother as well. The young upstart, Zeus, was seeing fit to attempt to fulfill a prophecy named by Ouranos and Gaia long before the Thunder God was ever born. It should have gone smoothly. They were Titans, after all. The rulers of the cosmos and their sons. The younger gods had only themselves and a bunch of hopeful, but inexperienced children. None of it went as planned, however. Perses found himself engaged with a cousin who should have been helping, not hindering the cause, Prometheus. Physically, the Titan of Forethought had nothing on the Titan of Destruction. Prometheus received a heavy beating, attempting several times to get away. Eventually he managed, completely out thinking Perses, and led him into an ambush. The two burst through the walls of Zeus' temple, and the Olympian made no hesitation in using his thunderbolt on the Titan.
Perses' disablement gave ample way for Styx's betrayal. A thing that Perses had plenty time to figure out. Pallas had only one weakness in his impenetrable goat-like skin. One spot. It was a closely guarded family secret. A thing that he'd never thought Pallas would tell anybody, not even his own wife. But he did, and Styx told Zeus. Who told Athena. Who then, without the hindrance of Perses alongside his brother, slew Pallas, thus ending the Titan War almost instantly.
They were all bound in Tartarus for ages for their crimes against the new King. When they were let out, Perses found his consort gone, having been chased after and desired by Zeus, she turned herself into a quail to flee his advances, then jumped into the sea, where she became the island of Delos. By this time, Hekate had also grown into a woman. Perses didn't attempt to force a relationship on her at all, giving her the space a young woman would require, letting her come to him when she needed him and wanting nothing more.
He spent a good long time away from the mountain and the world below. Not particularly having any desire to face anybody at all. There were Olympians and Underworlders alike that he held ire for. Not wanting to be put right back where he'd come from, he thought it best to keep to himself. He had a little contact with his remaining brother, but stayed away from family as well, lest they desire to talk of the whole ordeal.
As time passed, Perses felt everything fade. The hate he'd felt for Styx for betraying his family, the hate for the Olympians, and even the love he'd had for Asteria. With the new, clearer mindset, he decided he could attempt to venture back into the world and lives of other Greeks.
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