Post by Hermaphroditus on Dec 13, 2008 16:00:00 GMT -5
HERMAPHRODITUS
Ambiguous Ambidextrous Ambivert
Ambiguous Ambidextrous Ambivert
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Name: Hermaphroditus
Age: If it's an immortal, then state how old he/she looks like
Type: God
Gender: ?
Orientation: bisexual
Title/Position:God/dess of Hermaphrodites
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Skin: Pale olive
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Black
Markings or Scars: None
Body type: Slender
Clothing: Hermaphroditus wears a peplos, a sort of dress, and prefers the shades of red and pink that come from madder root dyes
Overall Description: Hermaphroditus has a thin, delicate figure with soft curves like a woman. She is short, standing at only 5’2, and has a round face framed by chin length, black hair, but has just enough firmness to hint at masculinity. His eyes are a strange yellow and her long lashes help to draw attention to them. Her lips are full and pale against the olive tone of his skin. Another trait giving away the ambiguity of her gender is the small, but present adam’s apple.
Hermaphroditus, like many gods, takes on a young looking form, appearing to be nineteen or twenty. Hermaphroditus also is not terribly muscular, though is, like all gods, in good shape. She stands straight, but has a seductive sway to her hips and is graceful in his movements and gestures.
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Personality Description: Though Hermaphroditus has learned from past mistakes and realizes that if someone, to apologize for trying to take sexual advantage of him, offers him a bath in their pool, there is a chance it might be a trick, Hermaphroditus retains much of his gullibility. The main difference now is that she can only be tricked by things that are fairly obviously lies, rather than completely obvious. One way she can be manipulated is through his emotions. She thinks with her heart, not logic, and can be provoked to revenge or a trusting adoration before he gets all the facts. However, Hermaphroditus is very well aware that he is not a fighter, and so she will use spells or schemes to get his revenge rather than straight combat.
However, Hermaphroditus is loyal to his family to the end, and will do anything to protect them. He will also tend to trust them and generally want to help them. This primarily extends to immediate family, such as parents, and siblings, though is also willing to do anything that she believes will help the gods as a whole, particularly if presented with a plan to make people believe in them again. However, Hermaphroditus will typically, when trying to help the gods or those he cares about, try to find a way to do so without using physical force. Hermaphroditus has no skill in battle, though as most gods has enhanced durability, and does not care for fighting, even when she is not involved in it.
Hermaphroditus also has a loyalty and protectiveness toward natural hermaphrodites, feeling that they are his people. She is not ambitious, however, and as long as she can rule over, protect them, and from time to time create them, he is satisfied. Any other goals are more inspired by emotion than desire for power.
From Salmacis, Hermaphroditus gained more assertiveness and sexual forwardness, though his originally shy nature holds back the lust of Salmacis, creating an individual who is flirtatious, but will not try to force herself on anyone she finds attractive. He can also be vocally forceful when speaking his mind, though primarily when she doesn’t feel there is any danger in doing so.
Hermaphroditus was originally bitter about being fused to Salmacis, but has since grown used to them being together in this manner.
Likes: Love, hermaphrodites, family, dancing, singing ,wine, small animals
Dislikes: Violence, battle, death, mortals who fail to worship the gods, being tricked, when her own interests conflict with one another, gender roles and sexual stereotypes
Strength: Willing to work with others, loyal, compassion
Weaknesses: Physically weak compared to other gods, gullible, easily intimidated
Powers/Abilities: She is capable of imbuing items or liquids with specific gender energy, which will leech out into a person the longer they are in contact with that item. The effects on the person are temporary, and once all the energy in the item has been leeched out into people, the effect it had is no more. If a person touches an item of the gender they already are, they will simply become more feminine/masculine than they already are. He is also able to imbue an item with hermaphroditic energy, which will ensure that the person gains qualities of the opposite gender, but the effects are slower and not as dramatic. To do this, however, Hermaphroditus must be in physical contact with the item. This energy does not leech into Hermaphroditus, however, and Hermaphroditus is incapable of changing his own gender qualities.
Hermaphroditus also cannot directly imbue an individual with this energy, unless they are an undeveloped fetus. If she does this to a fetus, the energy will not leech out of them, but rather will permanently make them hermaphroditic. However, she will not wantonly do this whenever she encounters a pregnant woman, and would need some reason to do so. To do this, Hermaphroditus must be in physical contact with the mother. It cannot happen through energy leeched from imbued items.
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Spouse/Lover: None
Relationship Status: single
Family: Aphrodite [Mother], Hermes [Father], Tyche, Rhodes, Peitho, Eunomia [Siblings]
History: Hermaphroditus was born the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He was a relatively normal baby, fully male, though even in his infancy, he had an unusual beauty about him that marked his lineage. As he aged, this beauty turned to handsomeness, though being surrounded only by the nymphs who raised him on Mount Ida, who treated him as the little boy he still was at heart, he was unaware of the effect his appearance might have on others. He was relatively happy and enjoyed his life, but as he aged he grew bored of his home and wanted to explore new places.
Wandering off on his own at fifteen, Hermaphroditus made his way to the woods of Caria where he encountered a nymph, Salmacis, in her pool. She tried to seduce him, but he rejected her, blushing. Finding him all the more attractive for the redness in his cheeks, the nymph did not give up, though she pretended to accept his words and claimed she’d leave and allow him to bathe in the pool alone. Believing her, Hermaphroditus began to undress as soon as she was out of sight, not knowing she was hiding in the bushes, and once he dove into the water, Salmacis was overcome with desire and dove in after him, grabbing him and forcibly kissing him.
He struggled to get away, but the more he fought, the tighter she held. Never wanting the beautiful boy to escape, she prayed to the gods that they would never be separated. Her prayers answered, their two bodies fused into one, and Hermaphroditus emerged from the waters, in shock from what had happened. He, who was now a she as well and yet not fully either one, was horrified, and so cursed the waters so that if anyone were to bathe in it, they would become hermaphroditic themselves, so that he would not be the only one to suffer such a fate and humiliation.
As time went on, however, he grew used to her changed body and less bitter. It was also through this change that Hermaphroditus gained the unique trait which defined his position among the gods: the god(dess) of hermaphrodites. Since then, Hermaphroditus has wandered the lands, doing as she pleased, and blessing, or cursing, mothers with hermaphroditic children.
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Roleplaying Sample: It was a cold, icy night, beautiful in its own right, though devoid of life. The trees were bare and not a hare or bird could be seen. It was pleasant to look at, though Hermaphroditus far preferred the merriment of spring, when the world came to life again, the trees set free from their sheaths of ice. However, Hermaphroditus did enjoy this, too. The look of the trees and the sound as their frozen branches clinked together in the stiff breeze.
Then she saw his mother, lost in the beauty of the snow, and approached her. Hermaphroditus’s own step was not so gentle, however, and it marred the glistening snow in a path as he approached her, and it crunched under his feet as she went. Yellow eyes gazed upon her, and Hermaphroditus thingyed his head slightly for a second.
“Hello, mother,” he greeted in a voice that sounded neither masculine or feminine, breaking the silence.
Hermaphroditus had nothing in particular to talk about, but always enjoyed speaking with his mother. Well, unless Ares was there, but that was just because she was a bit frightened of Ares. He’d never done anything to him, but Hermaphroditus had heard of his temper, and was well aware that one with her delicate disposition would not fare well against such fury. However, that was a matter for another time, or rather no time, as Hermaphroditus only ever intended to deal with such thing by purposefully not dealing with it and merely avoiding being in the same room as him.
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Your name: Robin
How long have you been RPing? Five years
Where/How did you find us? RPG Circle
And...welcome to Olympian Tales! 