Post by Hadrian on Nov 11, 2009 16:30:13 GMT -4
Name:
I am known as Apollo, but you can call me Hadrian.
Age:
I am much older than I look.
Appearence:
Hometown:
Born in Delos, Greece, but I suppose Olympus was ‘home’.
Family:
Mother, Leto. Father, Zeus. Sister, Artemis.
Special Abilities:
Apollo possesses the conventional Olympian godly attributes of superhuman physical properties, vitality, and functional immortality. He has not aged since reaching adulthood, is immune to harm from conventional means of injury and cannot suffer from any Earthly disease. Should he sustain any non-fatal injury, his metabolism enables him to recuperate at a superhuman rate of speed. Apollo is somewhat stronger than the average Olympian God and can lift about 40 tons optimally.
Apollo also has other magical abilities including the ability to rapidly heal the injuries of other living things. As the God of the sun he has the ability to radiate great heat and light at will which are comparable to the levels of a small sun. As a prophetic god, he can mentally foresee events in alternate futures and predict outcomes with a certain amount of accuracy. It was through his precognitive powers that he delivered prophecies to his Oracle at Delphi.
Apollo can shape-change into other forms including those of persons and animals, as well as travel between dimensions such as from Olympus to Earth. He can also cast spells that enable him to send disastrous plagues, inflict curses, or bestow certain powers on others as he did to the Trojan princess Cassandra. Apollo is a master harp player and archer and in his arsenal carries mystical arrows, some of which possess flaming auras at the tip that radiate solar heat and flame.
Weapons of Choice:
Fire, Arrows.
Status: (demon hunter, witch, demon, etc)
Greek god
History:
‘The Pantheon of Ancient Greece, like all Pantheons of all religions, was dependent upon belief. The prayer, worship and sacrifices of the mortals of their realm. So when that belief began to falter, so did the Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus. The citizens of Greece, either by their own free will or by force, began to believe in another God. A God who was spreading out of his realm and into the realms of others, him, his son and his army of angels over powering all.
Fearful of death, a death they thought they would never have to face, the Olympians pooled their power, using their last remaining strength to ensure that although they would die, they would one day be reincarnated. The big flaw in this plan being that they could not control where they were born, or to whom. So, when they were finally reincarnated, they had no idea where each other were.’
Apollo was reborn as Hadrian Writingham, the son of a Duke, in the year 1792 in London, England. From a very young age, Hadrian knew that he was very different from the rest of his family. When he was scolded by the nurses who cared for him, he would grow very warm, much like an intense fever and could easily burn anyone he touched whether he meant to or not. This led him to severely injure his very favourite young nurse – she had been bathing him and he became very annoyed with her – so he made the bath water that he sat in boil to a frenzy, and he splashed her, burning her face and causing her a great deal of pain. Feeling extremely guilty over this, which was made worse by the nurse being very forgiving toward him because she ‘loved him’ as her own son, Hadrian later kissed her face and preformed his first healing in his second life. He was six years old.
Though that bit of information is perhaps enough to explain the oddities to follow in the life of the boy, it is not all that there is nor is it the most important.
Hadrian stopped aging at 23. His family and friends grew old and died, but he always remained healthy and handsome – an attempt at suicide, twelve years after everyone he knew had officially died off, shed light on just what and who he was. Stabbing himself six times in the chest, he lay bleeding and in pain and alone, when he had a vision of his past life. He understood then that anyone he had recently loved was not really his family, that his real parents and sister were probably out there waiting for him, that he was the reason the sun shone each day, and that he would have to get used to living forever. After this vision, he stood up on his own two feet, completely healed, and completely aware.
He has lived mostly alone for the better part of the past few centuries, searching for any sign of the rest of his family. While searching, he practices his old powers and abilities - he can easily take the shape of any animal he chooses to, and he can also curse those who wrong him - though he is making an attempt at crontrolling the urge to try and rule the free world. He saves the smiting for exceptionally cruel individuals.
A recent enough vision of a young American woman, who just happens to resemble him a great deal, has him currently rushing to the States – though he isn’t too sure that if this is who he believes it is, that she will welcome him with open arms. He is also extremely amused that in this vision, the woman does not seem to have nearly the same level of power he does. But she is much younger than he... kind of.
I am known as Apollo, but you can call me Hadrian.
Age:
I am much older than I look.
Appearence:
Hometown:
Born in Delos, Greece, but I suppose Olympus was ‘home’.
Family:
Mother, Leto. Father, Zeus. Sister, Artemis.
Special Abilities:
Apollo possesses the conventional Olympian godly attributes of superhuman physical properties, vitality, and functional immortality. He has not aged since reaching adulthood, is immune to harm from conventional means of injury and cannot suffer from any Earthly disease. Should he sustain any non-fatal injury, his metabolism enables him to recuperate at a superhuman rate of speed. Apollo is somewhat stronger than the average Olympian God and can lift about 40 tons optimally.
Apollo also has other magical abilities including the ability to rapidly heal the injuries of other living things. As the God of the sun he has the ability to radiate great heat and light at will which are comparable to the levels of a small sun. As a prophetic god, he can mentally foresee events in alternate futures and predict outcomes with a certain amount of accuracy. It was through his precognitive powers that he delivered prophecies to his Oracle at Delphi.
Apollo can shape-change into other forms including those of persons and animals, as well as travel between dimensions such as from Olympus to Earth. He can also cast spells that enable him to send disastrous plagues, inflict curses, or bestow certain powers on others as he did to the Trojan princess Cassandra. Apollo is a master harp player and archer and in his arsenal carries mystical arrows, some of which possess flaming auras at the tip that radiate solar heat and flame.
Weapons of Choice:
Fire, Arrows.
Status: (demon hunter, witch, demon, etc)
Greek god
History:
‘The Pantheon of Ancient Greece, like all Pantheons of all religions, was dependent upon belief. The prayer, worship and sacrifices of the mortals of their realm. So when that belief began to falter, so did the Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus. The citizens of Greece, either by their own free will or by force, began to believe in another God. A God who was spreading out of his realm and into the realms of others, him, his son and his army of angels over powering all.
Fearful of death, a death they thought they would never have to face, the Olympians pooled their power, using their last remaining strength to ensure that although they would die, they would one day be reincarnated. The big flaw in this plan being that they could not control where they were born, or to whom. So, when they were finally reincarnated, they had no idea where each other were.’
Apollo was reborn as Hadrian Writingham, the son of a Duke, in the year 1792 in London, England. From a very young age, Hadrian knew that he was very different from the rest of his family. When he was scolded by the nurses who cared for him, he would grow very warm, much like an intense fever and could easily burn anyone he touched whether he meant to or not. This led him to severely injure his very favourite young nurse – she had been bathing him and he became very annoyed with her – so he made the bath water that he sat in boil to a frenzy, and he splashed her, burning her face and causing her a great deal of pain. Feeling extremely guilty over this, which was made worse by the nurse being very forgiving toward him because she ‘loved him’ as her own son, Hadrian later kissed her face and preformed his first healing in his second life. He was six years old.
Though that bit of information is perhaps enough to explain the oddities to follow in the life of the boy, it is not all that there is nor is it the most important.
Hadrian stopped aging at 23. His family and friends grew old and died, but he always remained healthy and handsome – an attempt at suicide, twelve years after everyone he knew had officially died off, shed light on just what and who he was. Stabbing himself six times in the chest, he lay bleeding and in pain and alone, when he had a vision of his past life. He understood then that anyone he had recently loved was not really his family, that his real parents and sister were probably out there waiting for him, that he was the reason the sun shone each day, and that he would have to get used to living forever. After this vision, he stood up on his own two feet, completely healed, and completely aware.
He has lived mostly alone for the better part of the past few centuries, searching for any sign of the rest of his family. While searching, he practices his old powers and abilities - he can easily take the shape of any animal he chooses to, and he can also curse those who wrong him - though he is making an attempt at crontrolling the urge to try and rule the free world. He saves the smiting for exceptionally cruel individuals.
A recent enough vision of a young American woman, who just happens to resemble him a great deal, has him currently rushing to the States – though he isn’t too sure that if this is who he believes it is, that she will welcome him with open arms. He is also extremely amused that in this vision, the woman does not seem to have nearly the same level of power he does. But she is much younger than he... kind of.