Apollo

Apollo (アポロ), meaning Destroyer (破壊者) in Greek or Apollon (アポロン), meaning Strength (強さ) or Father Light (父の光) in Greek, or Phoebus (フィーバス), meaning Bright One (明るいもの) in Greek, is the God of Sun (太陽の神), God of Light (光の神), God of Healing (癒しの神), God of Art (芸術の神), God of Entertainment (娯楽の神), God of Celebration (祝祭の神), God of Stories (物語の神), God of Archery (弓術の神), God of Truth (真実の神), God of Poetry (詩の神), God of Prophecy (予言の神) and God of Plagues (疫病の神). He is the Sunlight General (太陽光将軍) of the Animal-Human War. 
As the god of music he is the leader of the Zeusians. He, along with his great-granduncle Eros, are the two main protagonists of Twin Shot, and the only ones who were officially shown in the game. His animal symbols are a roe deer, a swan, a cicada, a hawk, a raven, a crow, a fox, a mouse, and a snake. 
== Background ==
He is the twin brother of Artemis. He and his sister are skilled in archery, as Apollo is the God of Archery while Artemis is the Goddess of Hunting. His parents, Zeus and Leto, are grandchildren of Gaia and Uranus, via Cronus, Rhea, parents of Zeus, Coeus and Phoebe, via Leto. 
== Personality ==
Apollo has patience, as he and Eros fought off various enemies at Mount Olympus and Holy Grounds. But they have sought to break the cycle of protecting the land, by defeating the demons once and for all, as the cycle they claimed to have plagued them for an eternity. He believes that he is the most charming, most dazzling and shiniest god of all time. His narcissistic behavior develops into his mindset of "beauty", calling the defeats of his opponents beautiful. 
== Appearance ==
Apollo is an orange cat. In his true human form, Apollo is a young man with blonde and slightly pink, long hair. 
== Abilities ==
=== Battle Prowess ===
Apollo has great superhuman strength and combat skills, and the Homeric hymns also described that no ropes could bind him. During the very first Olympic games (which were for the gods), he defeated Ares in boxing and outran Hermes. Apollo once engaged Heracles in battle, and they were equally matched, only when Zeus threw his thunderbolt between the two of them did the fight stop. Apollo participated in the battle between the Olympians and Typhon, and apart from being one of those who were not taken out by the colossal Storm Giant, he set Typhon's loincloth on fire by shooting a "blazing volley of arrows". 
=== Archery ===
As the God of Archery, Apollo excelled in archery and other target-shooting-based activities, such as basketball. His arrows are invisible to mortals, and would always strike its intended target, regardless of the distance. His archery skills can only be rivaled by his sister, Artemis. His godly archery skills return even while human, much to Apollo's surprise.
=== Swordsmanship ===
Given Homer's description him as "Apollo of the Golden Sword", Apollo is an expert swordsman. It was revealed that he once had an extremely sharp sword made of adamantine and gold, but rarely used it, and he later gave it to Hermes in exchange for the flute.
=== Musical Ability ===
As the God of Music, Apollo is the leader of the Nine Muses, as well as an expert musician who could play any musical instrument perfectly, though he is most often seen with his lyre. Apollo was able to play his lyre flawlessly while holding it behind his back and not looking at the strings. Apollo was also the one who taught Pandora how to sing and play the lyre, making her irresistible to Epimetheus. Apollo is determined to master the newly invented Valdezinator. Despite being stripped of his godly powers, Apollo had still retained his extraordinary musical talents. His music can be used to cause temporary memory loss or increase the speed of corrosion, based on the song that he sings.
==== Audiokinesis ====
Apollo can make a sharp ultrasonic whistle-like sound that can temporarily stun his opponents, making them clutch their ears in confusion. In one of his bursts of godly powers, Apollo can loose a guttural roar, described as "a song with only one note: pure rage and only one volume: maximum." The onslaught of pure sound can cause others to crumble into ash, leaving behind a charred outline on the asphalt. Apollo was left stunned by this as he had never actually killed someone with his voice alone in his thousands of years of existence.
=== Heliokinesis ===
As the God of the Sun, Apollo has absolute control and divine authority over sun, along with Helios. 
==== Photokinesis ====
As the God of the Sun and Light, Apollo has absolute control over sunlight.
===== Sunlight Rays =====
As his twin sister could create shots of moonlight, it is probable that he can generate rays of sunlight.
===== Dazzling Appearance =====
Apollo can appear in "a blaze of golden light" or surrounded by a flickering aura of honey-colored light.
==== Pyrokinesis ====
As the God of the Sun, Apollo has absolute control and divine authority over the flames of his Sun Chariot. However, this power of his is inferior to that of Hephaestus, the God of Fire, and Helios, the original driver of the Sun Chariot and Titan of the Sun. Examples of abilities he derived from this province are:
===== Fiery Appearance =====
Apollo can appear in "a huge ball of fire".
===== Fire Generation =====
In one of his bursts of godly power, Apollo is able to use flames to cauterize Luguselwa's stump. He is later able to fire a blast of flames from his hand that burns two Germani to ash.
===== Fire Immunity =====
Apollo is completely immune to any amount of fire and heat. In one of his bursts of godly power, Apollo was left unharmed by the firestorm it released which was stated to be enough to kill whoever managed to break it.
=== Supernatural Sight ===
As the God of the Sun and Light, Apollo is able to see almost anything and anywhere during the day - he remarked that he "saw a lot".
=== Vitakinesis ===
Apollo has control over healing, being able to heal people. He can resurrect the dead as well, and has the secondary authority to Resurrection, with the primary being his son Asclepius, the tertiary being his great-grandaunt Chaos, the quaternary being Yellow Oil Cat, the quinary being Jean Perry and Justine (Big) as well. As the God of Healing and Medicine, Apollo could manipulate and modify a person's anatomy, as well as restore the injured to full health.
==== Enhanced Healing ====
Apollo could instantly heal wounds - he healed all of Annabeth's wounds by speaking an incantation, and later did the same with Chiron. His demigod children were able to channel his healing abilities when they hummed a hymn to him in Ancient Greek, but it required a good deal of energy on their part. His immortal son, Asclepius, was revealed to slightly surpassing him in this regard. In one of his godly bursts of power, Apollo appears to somewhat treating others' injuries.
==== Disease Manipulation ====
Apollo also had power over plagues and epidemics, and he channeled this ability through special arrows that exploded into foul vapors that spread the very disease he wanted inflict his victims with. During the Trojan War, when Agamemnon offended him, Apollo infected the latter's army with a plague. It's mentioned that Apollo was the one who created hay fever. Even as Lester he has this power, only it was considerably weaker and required a hymn about himself, creating a plague arrow. However, he only succeeded in creating a hay fever arrow, not the more deadly illness that he was aiming for.
=== Prophecy ===
As the God of Prophecy and Foresight, Apollo is able to see into the future. However, he is unable to tell anyone future events, as then the information would become meaningless. This is a dangerous ability. Apollo does not have full control over this power either. He does not always know what the prophecies mean, nor can he always control when they are told.
=== Madness ===
It is believed that Apollo drove Orion insane with the urge to hunt every beast on earth.
=== Truth Sense ===
As the god of Truth, Apollo possibly knows when people are telling the truth or lying.
=== Couplets Curse ===
Apollo's demigod children can curse others to only speak in rhyming couplets that can take days or even weeks to wear off, so Apollo himself most likely has this same ability as well.
=== Flight ===
Apollo has the ability to fly.
=== Invisibility ===
Apollo can float invisibly.
=== Hypnokinesis ===
Apollo has the power to induce slumber - he put others to sleep just by snapping his fingers. However, it is unknown as to what extent his power over sleep is, being lesser than those of Hypnos. 
=== Shapeshifting ===
Apollo is capable of altering his appearance at will, shown when he transformed into his mortal alter-ego "Fred". He was later forcibly transformed by Zeus into the mortal teenager, Lester Papadopoulos. 
=== Power Granting ===
Apollo had the ability to grant the gifts of longevity and naiad-hood to whomever he desired - he transformed his lover, Cyrene, into a naiad with a very long lifespan. He also grants the Sybil who wrote the Sibylline Books as many years of life as there were grains on the beach where they were; however, he regrets doing this. He also, like all gods, has the power to create new gods; however, this comes at a price. For every god he creates, he loses a piece of his own power as was seen with Hemithea and her sister. This creates very minor gods bestowed with only a tiny fraction of actual powers. The stronger he makes them, the weaker he becomes.
=== Teleportation ===
Apollo can forcibly teleport others both to his side and away from him.
=== Cloud Transformation ===
As was mentioned by himself, Apollo had the ability to turn himself into a cloud.
=== Dreams ===
Similar to a demigod, the mortal Apollo received dream visions. When he was a god, Apollo could send dream visions as a way of communication. Although the mortal Apollo initially had no control over his dreams, he manages to take control of his dreams later. 
=== Weaknesses ===
Like his father Zeus, Apollo gets in trouble over love. Also he is god of sun and light, which is weak against darkness if there is enough amount of the latter. 
== Twin Shot ==
Shemesh encountered Apollo and engaged in a music battle. Apollo then let Shemesh's guard down with a backstab while performing Shostakovich’s most famous suicidal piece. Shenesh was furious and angrily assaulted Apollo while claiming that the sun god has cheated. Apollo counter-attacked by firing lights and shooting arrows at the demon while dodging and evading attacks. Apollo then proceeds to finish Shemesh off with Sunshine Arrows and at his dying breath Shemesh mutters “Not beautiful…” and fades away as Apollo proclaims his victory with the “beauty” of his bane’s death, 
== Twin Shot II: Good & Evil ==
Eros and Apollo of Team Guardian from Five Grand Cardinals fought over the invasion of the demons, where Baraq was killed by the twin archer gods. 
== Twin Shot Adaption ==
=== Characters ===
* Eros and Apollo are adaptions to the Angels from Nitrome's Twin Shot.
* Interesting enough, the different skins of angels in the game are uncanonically portrayed by a god:
**Pink angel: Eros
**Orange angel: Apollo
**Ghostly angel: Aether
**Shadow angel: Erebus
**Tiger angel: Dionysus
**Statue angel: Hephaestus
**Devilish angel: Cacodemon, nicknamed "the second Satan". A vengeful evil spirit going on a killing spree after being exiled by the demon king Beelzebub.
=== Status Effects ===
* Apollo's Healing: When picked up, the heart will restore one heart to the angel's health, but does nothing if the angel is already at maximum health.
* Greatest Gift of the Gods: Grants invincibility or immortality for a short time; if turned permanently on, will make the player invincible or immortal continuously until turned off.
* The Purpose of the Wings: Grants levitation.
* The Speed of Mercury "Greater Haste": Bestows the ability to move faster.
* Hades' Bonus: This powerup takes effect after the player has completed the level they are currently playing. If the player touches the powerup and then loses a life, the word "bonus" disappears. When collected, the words "bonus" will appear at the bottom of the screen in rainbow letters. After the player completes the level, they will be transported to a bonus level, where they start off with twenty seconds to collect as many coins as they can. A big pipe appears on the top of the screen, spilling out coins, gems and bombs. The game continues as normal once all health is lost, or the player has run out of time. The pipe can shoot small white and red circles that have numbers at the middle of them. The number will change (9-0). When the player hits it with an arrow, the number it had will add some seconds.
* "Lahkesis Messed Up!": Causes the two players' positions to swap. The effects of this are unknown in three or four player mode.
* Cupid's Love Shots: Infectious arrows that will kill any enemy by letting them fall for charm status effect and finally burst in one shot, regardless of health.
* Phoebus Apollo's Sunshine Arrows: Arrows that travel faster and farther than other arrows, and also can go through enemies, meaning that two or more enemies can be killed in one shot.
* Hephaestus' Explosion Arrows "Katsu (喝)!": Arrows that can kill multiple enemies when they hit a surface. These arrows can also destroy certain walls, causing bits of the wall to go away, and coins to fall out. This arrow can also kill the player when it detonates, if the player is not careful.
* Shapeshifting of the Gods (Grow): Can be used to increase the size of the player. The player can jump only half as high as a regular angel, and quarter as high as a small one when large.
* Shapeshifting of the Gods (Shrink): Can be used to decrease the size of the player. The player can jump twice as high as a regular sized angel, and four times as high as a large one.
=== Cheats and Treats ===
* Mercy of the Gods: Lets the player skip a level.
* Return of the Spartan: Lets the players play as a Spartan from Double Edged.
* John Lewis' Farting Dance: Some sound effects are replaced with farts.
* Assistance "Let me lend you a hand": Lets the player choose between three forms of multiplayer games
** Normal: The regular multiplayer mode, as seen without buying cheats. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
** Tag: A multiplayer mode where the player with the crown at the end of the level is the winner. The player gets the crown by shooting the other player, and when the other player shoots back, the first loses the crown.
** Friendly Fire: A multiplayer mode where the players can kill each other. When one player shoots the other, a red bat begins to fly over his head. When the round is over, the player with the most bats wins.
* Lahkesis' Tricky Shuffling: Lets the players play levels in a random order, and shuffles in some original levels from Twin Shot with them.
=== Good Levels ===
==== Motive ====
Eros and Apollo, as members of Team Guardian, sought to defend Holy Grounds when the Demons strike back again, with Beelzebub as the commander.
==== Bosses ====
Baraq was reborn to be the final boss of the Good Levels. As King Cloud, Baraq will follow where the player runs, then it will shoot thunder at the ground. If king cloud shoots the same area twice, there will be a hole, and if the player drops through it the player should try to hit king cloud's eye, either by standing on crumbling rock, or by shooting it in midair.
Then king cloud will drop coins and a heart, then it will get electrocuted, and hover on the rocks, trying to hit the player, then it will go back up, dropping bombs. Then king cloud will repeat the process. After the player hits king cloud three times, he will blow up, give the player lots of coins (silver and gold) and the player will have completed the game's good levels.
==== Ending ====
"With the dark creatures clearly outmatched our twin heroes once again stand triumphant! As the last of the evil cowered back to their land it is time to celebrate with a banquet!" Dionysus hosted yet another fest with Apollo holding a drumstick in one hand while Eros holds a cup in one hand and a bottle in the other.
=== Evil Levels ===
==== Motive ====
Down at Evil Grounds the demons are planning another attack, but things are different as this time Eros and Apollo grew impatient and invaded the territory, and sought to break the guardian cycle by annihilating the demons once and for all.
==== Bosses ====
Esh was reborn to be the final boss of the Evil Levels. The Angels must use the bats as platforms and shoot its eye, then shoot it on the ground when it turns to stone, until it breaks.
==== Ending ====
"As the dust settled it was clear things would never be the same again. In time harmony spread across their land and statues were built in honour of the heroes." A stone carver dark creature is turning the flying fire monster into a statue of the gods.
=== Interactive ===
* Clouds of Zeus: Clouds let the player fly all around and shoot lightning in the evil levels.
* Rewards of Hades: When shot, a large number of silver and gold coins fly out.
* Dionysus' Fun "I love to fly! Wee Wee Wee!": Will make the angel fly up until it hits a roof.
* Conveyor Belts "Complexed Mechanism These Days": Will move anything that touches them.
* Switches "This is Fun Pushing Around!": Angels can use them to turn wood platforms on and off.
* Arrows: After the player has shot an arrow into the wall, they can stand on it for a short while.
== Quotes ==
* (To a mortal) Behold the light of life! I shall light your way and guide you through the chaotic paths!
* (To a dark creature) Take this!
== Trivia ==
* Apollo is the Greek equivalent of multiple gods:
** Amaterasu, the Shinto goddess of the sun. 
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