Aphrodite (Lostbelt)

is one of the Twelve Machine Gods appearing in the Atlantic Lostbelt in Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Background===
Formally the / , one of her main purposes was the admonishment and the management of mankind's growth as a civilization on behalf of the Machine Gods as an education terminal. Within the world of the Lostbelt, there was a shift from the Proper Human History in 12,000 BC that ultimately led to the Age of Gods continuing into the modern day. After a conflict in the past with the Twelve Olympians, she, Zeus, Poseidon, Artemis, Demeter, and Hera were the only remaining gods.
===Personality===
Aphrodite was hinted to have been much more kinder and more considerate to humanity prior to the war. However upon the war's end and her being one of the survivors, Zeus forcibly altered her mind, overturning her role as a goddess of love and rendering her much colder, callous and uncaring as a result.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 15: Souls that will Eventually be Equals（II）
Due to the removal of her capacity to feel love, Aphrodite is shown to have become openly war like and has seemingly developed bloodthirsty, sadistic and cruel tendencies in stark - contrast to her Proper Human History counterpart. As seen during her interactions with Scandinavia Peperoncino, where she openly stated that she was greatly excited at the prospect of warring and conquering the other Lostbelts and openly admitted that she would have relished and revel in the prospect that her giving her blessings to humans would lead to the damnation and death of an entire city from Scandinavia's retelling of the Fall of Troy. A reaction in complete opposition to her counterpart who felt nothing but horror and sadness at the events of the fallen city.
Despite her many affairs, this version of Aphrodite only ever loved her husband Hephaestus, and never loved again after she lost him in the Olympiamachia. Before fighting Chaldea, she swears her victory on her husband and her last words before dying is calling out for Hephaestus.
==Role==
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City====
Before Chaldea's arrival, Aphrodite brainwashed Mordred, Frankenstein, and Minamoto-no-Raikou into killing each other.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）
During a meeting, Aphrodite gets agitated by Ashiya Douman's rantings about the Alien God's descent. She replies that is none other than Zeus who'll save the planet, so there is no place for the Alien God. Demeter warns her that what Douman did to the India could easily happen to Olympus. Aphrodite warns the onmyouji about underestimating Zeus, as it was by his power that Sefar was destroyed and the Atlantic Lostbelt came to fruition. She tries kill him when he continues his rantings, but Dioscuri stop and remind her that Kirschtaria Wodime ordered cooperation. After Zeus' speech about cooperation, the goddesses ask him how he can consider Kirschtaria a sworn friend. He answers he recognizes Kirschataria as an exception among humans.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 1: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus Later, the goddesses appear alongside Dioscuri and Europa when Ritsuka, Mash, Sherlock Holmes, and Miyamoto Musashi flee from Talos. Aphrodite is angered by their lack of respect, but suspects they know how to bend the knee after meeting gods from the previous Lostbelts. She then demostrates her power by releasing a mental attack that bypasses their defenses to subdue them. Europa orders her to stop, and calls upon Zeus to declare the group's punishment. However, she and her allies are stunned by Minerva, thus allowing the group to escape.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 3: Olympus's Reception (Second Half)
Back at Olympus, Aphrodites walks its corridors when she encounters Beryl Gut. She berates him for standing in this hall dedicated to the gods, but he calms with his charm and quick wits. She pities him a little after he said he came from a godless world, saying it's not too cruel for anyone to live in such a world. She asks him to came to her temple and tell her about it. Beryl asks her about finding a person he's looking for, but she doesn't know nor care. She spends her days mostly in her temple, and even if she knew, she advises against going to city now since Demeter is destroying it now. She considers Demeter to be too kind even now.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus - The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 6: Thou Art the Harvest that Reaps the Stars (III)
She later encounters Koyanskaya after the latter finished a meeting with Beryl. She confronts her about he annoying loudness, for which Koyanskaya apologizes. She is amused by Koyanskaya's musings that she is panicking now that Demeter is dead. She senses a power from her similiar to Douman, and wonders if they're related. Koyanskaya explains she is an Alter Ego like the Apostles of the Alien God. She is not one of them though, instead they are her business partners. Aphrodite wonders what sort of Servant she is, and recalls someone saying: "Without anyone or anything to call on them, seven malignant Saint Graphs stand alone." Koyanskaya attributes this to Grigori Rasputin, and claims it has nothing to do with her. She then wonders if the sign of the Beast is connected to Aphrodite, calling by her Roman name, Venus. Aphrodite asks her if she and her Proper History counterpart can no longer get along. Koyanskaya answers they're no longer compatible due to an ordeal regarding love for humanity. Aphrodite asserts she exists to rule humanity, not to love them. Koyanskaya suspects they may get along in that case.
Later in the gardens, Aphrodite discusses beauty with Scandinavia Peperoncino. She declares that as the goddess of beauty, one only needs to follow her words to be beautiful and happy. She then asks Peperoncino how he could it lose the Indian Lostbelt, as she looked forward to conquering the other Lostbelts with Zeus. Peperoncino apolizes for his lack of ability, then compares Aphrodite to her Proper History counterpart. He recalls how the Trojan War where gods gave their favor, including the Proper History Aphrodite, that resulted in the destruction of a city, which the former didn't desire. Aphrodite says she would've done the opposite with delight.
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Aphrodite is ordered by Zeus to destroy Chaldea in her true form. She declares she'll redeem the sins of Demeter, claiming the latter lost because of her twisted love. Aphrodite herself cannot be swayed by such things as she is the goddess of love. She then swears to bring victory on the name of her husband, Hephaestus. She then appears over the city's eastern district in her true form, and unleashes a mental attacks that brainwashes Musashi and Sherlock into attacking Ritsuka, Mash, and Caligula.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) Her attack is then temporarily counteracted by Caligula's Noble Phantasm, Flucticulus Diana. As the group fly toward her in the Stymphalides Blackwing, Aphrodite increases the output of her attack, as Caligula counters with his Noble Phantasm. Suddenly, she is grabbed by Golden Bear, a mecha built from Kintoki's Spirit Core. It disables her with Giga Golden Spark, leaving her vulnerable to a shot from Black Barrel. When the Priestess of the Alien God appears before, Aphrodite wonders if she did the same for Demeter. The Priestess asks her if she has any last regrets. Aphrodite replies that she has none, for as a machine she cannot have any. She calls out Hephaestus' name before ceasing all functions.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City, Section 13: Thou, Disarray the Star Emotionally（V)
==Abilities==
Aphrodite is a massive intelligent life-form guidance vessel and Spiritron info-warfare fighter. A device for controlling others. Scandinavia Peperoncino states that Aphrodite is not the kind of opponent that can be overwhelmed with sheer firepower. He says that it doesn't matter how many Heroic Spirits fight her. They will never be able to touch her. Aphrodite claims she was looking forward to invading the other Lostbelts with Zeus, and that she was extremely disappointed when Chaldea defeated them first. She wanted to kill Ivan the Terrible, Scáthach-Skadi, Qin Shi Huang, and Arjuna Alter. 
Aphrodite has two sides: , the chaste and lofty Muse of astronomy, and , the lusty and sensual goddess of the earth. Aphrodite's Proper Human History counterpart had two sides to her Divinity. Although she was the goddess of Love and Beauty, as the daughter of Zeus, she also acted as the god of Death sometimes. However, in the Atlantic Lostbelt, Aphrodite only retains one side. After the Olympiamachia, Zeus burned Aphrodite, making her forget about love.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City, Section 16: Souls To Be Equals in Due Course (III) She now believes beauty is control, and love power.
Aphrodite's Life Scale when measured by Mash Kyrielight's Black Barrel is 3800. Her Saint Graph Designation is Assassin.
===Combat===
Thanks to Caligula's Flucticulus Diana canceling out Aphrodite's song, Chaldea gets an opportunity to attack Aphrodite directly. While Golden Huge Bear holds her still, Miyamoto Musashi buffed by Ares Klironomia, Caenis, Mash Kyrielight buffed by Athena Klironomia, Caligula and Sherlock Holmes attack her and successfully damage her. Golden Huge Bear injures her even further with Giga Golden Spark although it has no notable effect on her. Mash then uses Black Barrel, killing her.
===Skills===
====Class Skills====
*One Who Crosses the Sea of Stars (— Rank)
====Personal Skills====
*Authority of Love (A+ Rank)
* (A++ Rank): Beauty is Aphrodite's domain, so she and only she decides what is beautiful. She says that Humans must comply with her aesthetics.
* (EX Rank)
===Noble Phantasm===
Aphrodite's Noble Phantasm is Mindhack Mycenae, a song of love that twists the target's very Soul. She uses massive Magical Energy projections to interfere with their brains, redefining their values, minds, and sense of self. A form of Mental Pollution that forces those who hear it to kill everything they hold dear, even as it sings of love and affection. She can carry mental attacks accross a massive area, instantly inducing mental breakdowns in any intelligent life-form, even a Servant. Caligula is able to counter the effects of Aphrodite's mind control with Flucticulus Diana. Golden Huge Bear was also seemingly immune to this attack.
===Other Capabilities===
*Terminal: Aphrodite can create a humanoid terminal to act as her Familiar. Mash Kyrielight states that her Magical Energy is overwhelming. When first meeting her, Mash is immediately able to estimate that she must be a god from the Atlantic Lostbelt. Castor states that Aphrodite doesn't need to restrain herself against Ashiya Douman, despite him being a god-eating Alter Ego. He says that with her Authority, she could surely destroy any Servant with a Spiritual Core connected to a brain and head.
==References==
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