Aphrodite

is one of the Twelve Olympians appearing in Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Background===
Aphrodite was revered as the goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty. In Roman Mythology, she is known as . 
Originally, Aphrodite was a Machine God sent by Chaos from another Universe to colonize another planet. After thousands of years of wandering out across the universe, she and the other ship gods made an emergency landing on Earth, which met 78% of their landing conditions. There, humans started to worship them as gods. During 12,000 BC, she was killed by Sefar, and eventually reincarnated in Greece as a Divine Spirit.
She is one of the many Earth Mothers that inherited the power of all creation from the Goddess of Çatalhöyük's Potnia Theron in 6,000 BC.
Aphrodite has two sides to her Divinity:Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 8: Thou, Disarray the Star Emotionally（I） , the chaste and lofty Muse of astronomy, and , the lusty and sensual goddess of the earth.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 12: Thou Art the Ardor that Corrupts the Stars (IV) Although she was the goddess of Love and Beauty, as the daughter of Zeus, she also acted as the god of Death sometimes. Her body was the Platonic ideal of the female form, and Scandinavia Peperoncino suspects that Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess of Venus, had some influence on her divine manifestation. 
Jason was supported by Aphrodite and upon realizing that the King of Colchis was unshakable, she decided to control Medea's mind to help Jason. Medea was made to blindly love Jason, which resulted in her betraying her father and her country for a foreigner she had never seen.
Aphrodite, along with Athena and Hera, the three most beautiful goddesses, chose Paris to act as a judge for the Golden Apple. Hera offered a throne and wealth, Athena granted victory and wisdom, and Aphrodite promised the most beautiful woman in Greece, Helen of Sparta. In turn, Paris chose Aphrodite.Fate/Grand Order material IX - Paris's Servant Profile, translated by ComunCoutinho on Reddit
Caligula is the descendant of the goddess Aphrodite. A man called Aeneas was the son of Venus and Prince Anchises of Troy. Aeneas in turn was an ancestor of Rhea Silvia, the Great Mother of Rome.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City, Section 13: Thou, Disarray the Star Emotionally（V) She is also the mother of Eros/Cupid and the ancestor of Gaius Julius Caesar.
===Personality===
Apollo notes that Aphrodite tends to cheat on her husband, Hephaestus, as said husband tends to be considered a gloomy, uptight, can't-look-away-from-your-forge-for-a-minute type of spouse. Proper Human History Apollo speculates that she cheated on him because he cared more about his work than her. 
As observed and noted by Koyanskaya and Scandinavia Peperoncino, the Aphrodite of the Proper Human History is the complete opposite of her counterpart in the Atlantic Lostbelt. It is stated that both of them have a different opinion and feelings regarding Humanity, with Aphrodite of the Proper Human History being genuinely loving and caring towards humanity and empathizes with them greatly, she was horrified at the fact that giving her blessings led to the destruction of the City of Troy. 
==Role==
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Event: Akihabara Explosion====
Aphrodite is summoned as a side effect of Galatea being summoned, since a piece of her was inside Galatea. She inhabits a statue of Nero Bride and pretends to be the statue brought to life. After the Singularity is resolved, Aphrodite and Artemis - who had realized that "Nero" was actually her - speak about what she was doing there before Aphrodite fades away. Aphrodite says that as long as Galatea was happy with the outcome, then she's happy.
===Other Appearances===
In Fate/EXTELLA during the final route, Nero Claudius summons Venus into herself by using the Sword of Mars as a Catalyst, becoming Saber Venus as a result.
==Abilities==
==References==
Category:Divine Spirits
Category:Greek historical and mythological figures
Category:Characters in Fate/Grand Order (Part 2) 
Category:Twelve Olympians
Category:Characters in Fate/EXTELLA
Category:Introduced in 2021
Category:Roman historical and mythological figures
Category:Earth Mother Goddesses
Category:Venus
Category:Aliens
Category:Spacecraft
Category:Machine Gods
Category:Trojan War (topic)