Typhon

**Titan Deities**

* Coeus (Brother)
* {Phoebe} (Sister)
* {Hyperion} (Brother)
* {Theia} (Sister)
* Iapetus (Brother)
* Mnemosyne (Sister)
* Krios (Brother)
* Themis (Sister)
* {Kronos} (Brother)
* {Rhea} (Sister)
* {Oceanus} (Brother)
* Tethys (Sister)

**Minor Deities**

* {Nereus} (Brother)
* Phorcys (Brother)
* Ceto (Sister)
* {Thaumas} (Brother)
* The Erinyes (Sisters)

**Monsters**

* {Elder Cyclopes}
* {Hekatonkheires}
* {The Meliads} (Sisters)
* {Echidna} (Sister)
* {Antares} (Brother)

**The Gigantes**

* {Alcyoneus} (Brother)
* Clytius (Brother)
* Damasen (Brother)
* {Damysus} (Brother)
* {Enceladus} (Brother)
* {Mimas} (Brother)
* {Pallas} (Brother)
* {Polybotes}} (Brother)
* {Porphyrion} (Brother)
* {Thoas} (Brother)

**Creations** (Daughters)

* {Chimera}
* {Crommyonian Sow}
* {Othrus}
* {Theban Sphinx}

**Typhon**, also known as **Typhoeus**, is an Evil God from Greco-Roman mythology who is said to be the bane of the Olympian gods.

He is the creator of many legendary monsters, such as the Chimera, the Lernaean Hydra, and the Nemean Lion.

## Overview

**Typhon** was the last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus and is the deadliest monster in Greek mythology.

The husband of Echidna, he is the father of a large number of the monsters of Greek myth. His many children include the Chimera, Cerberus, Othrus, the Hydra, the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion.

When Zeus imprisoned the Titans, it caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels). So Gaia sent Typhon to destroy Zeus as an act of revenge. Typhon was depicted as having a human upper half and a bottom half covered in snake coils.

## Appearance

Although he is known as the most fearsome monster in all mythologies, Typhon's human appearance can only be described as underwhelmingly plain, especially among the beautiful and flawless gods. According to Piper, he is the type of person who would fit in perfectly in a crowd because of his complete lack of any outstanding features.

He has short black hair that is swept back and unkempt with dark-amber eyes. When standing among members of the Belial Clan, it's revealed that many of his facial features come from his father's side, such as his sharp eyes, his short ears, and his flat nose.

His usual attire consists of a gray tracksuit bottoms with an orange stripe down the side, black sneakers with vibrant orange laces and soles, and a black T-shirt underneath a zipped-up white tracksuit jacket with a stand up collar, gray sleeves with an orange line running down the sides and orange cuffs. When he first appeared as the Young Devil Gathering, he wore an elegant three-pieces suit.

### True Appearance

His true form is much more in line with his infamous status of "Father of Monsters" and is somewhat accurate with how he is typically portrayed in mythology and popular media. In this form, he is as tall as the sky itself, and while standing up, his shadow is large enough to shroud the entirety of Greece and other Mediterranean countries in darkness.

He has the face of a monster, though it is hard to identify what species of monster it looks like, as it changes every second to an even more terrifying one than the last. His body is more-or-less humanoid from the waist up, excluding the evil eyes scattered across his torso, while his lower part is formed entirely of hundreds of millions of coiling serpentine dragons. He has three pairs of leathery wings, and his matted hair is made out of black tar, and his breath smells like a mixture of death and volcanic smoke.

## Personality

Despite this fearsome reputation, Typhon is generally a cheerful, kind, and well-meaning person. He is extremely loyal and protective of those he holds dear, and is willing to help them by any means possible, even if it means he'd be hurt in the process.

As surprising as it may be, he can be easily intimidated by those who are authoritative or have a strong personality, especially when they speak severely to him in the same way that his mother did. Nonetheless, he consistently displays a determination to improve himself, and even when he doesn't fully understand how to do something, he tackles it with enthusiasm.

He does not appear to bear anyone any malice, and even when people are cruel or harsh to him, he responds calmly and politely. He has also proven himself to be a very brave and honorable person, having saved Zeus' life during the Tytanos Faction's attack on Mount Olympus to pay him back after he allowed Typhon to be released from prison and sent to live with the Belial Clan in the Netherworld.

As surprising as it may sound, he is fairly innocent about matters of a sexual or perverted nature, and would blush heavily at the idea of thought alone, despite being a father to countless monsters. According to him, while he and Echidna were married, they never did it and the children they had were created through non-sexual manners. Artemis later confirmed that he is still a "billions-years-old virgin".

Later on, it is revealed that he suffered from millennia-worth of trauma because of his mother's verbal and emotional abuse. Because of this, he often sees himself as a disposable spare in Gaia's plans and constantly strived to gain her affection, something himself acknowledged to be all in vain, and even constantly seeks out others' validation as a result.

## History

### Early Life

Typhon was born sometime in the late Paleozoic era as a cambion child of the demon Belial, who raped the young goddess Gaia during one of his trips to the mortal world. Ashamed of the whole events, she used her authority to create a prison deep beneath the Earth and locked him there in absolute darkness, only making the occasional visits to ensure his imprisonment and to verbally torment him to relieve her own frustration from her marriage with Ouranos.

### Gigantes Camp

For a long time, he was abandoned by Gaia within his prison for what he could only presume to be several millions of years, and was only released by his mother thousands of years after the Titanomachy. She intended to use him - or rather, his demonic powers - as the Gigantes' secret weapon, and sent him straight to the Gigantes' camp where he was regularly abused, physically and emotionally, by his half-brothers under the pretense of training.

During his time at the camp, there were only two people who reached out to him out of genuine care. The first was Damasen, the peaceful bane of the War God Ares, who tried to protect him from the rest of their brothers as much as possible. The second was Echidna, his half-sister through Gaia's coupling with Pontus, who often used her Healing Magic to nurse him back to full health.

Eventually, romantic feelings began to blossom between Typhon and Echidna, and with Damasen's blessing, the two entered a secret relationship, with Echidna beginning to find a way to escape the camp to seek a life of domestic bliss with each other.

### Escape & Domestic Life

When the Gigantomachy began its final conclusion, due to her arrogance, Gaia refused to release Typhon into the battlefield and abandoned him back at camp with only Echidna and a handful of guards to watch over him. Unfortunately, none of them knew about Typhon and Echidna's relationship and the two took advantage of this situation and escaped to an unknown location.

The two began to live as husband and wife and, despite never having sexual intercourses with each other, they became the parents of many children created from Typhon' powers. However, as a result of his demonic nature, his children were all either born as monsters or gradually turned into monsters as they grew up. Despite this, he and Echidna still loved their children with all their hearts.

### War Against the Olympians

Typhon and Echidna's domestic bliss didn't last for long, as when Gaia found out about their elopement, she cursed their entire family and turned them into senseless monsters, disgreading the fact they were her children and grandchildren. She transformed Echidna from a nymph into a dragon and sicked her onto the oracle temple at Delphi. Their children were then robbed of their mind and wholly turned into animalistic monsters that wreaked havoc across the Mediterranean region and slaughtered countless innocent humans.

His transformation, however, was the most drastic, mainly due to his demonic blood. He lost all sensibility and became an absolute beast who embodied destruction, the monster who rendered the world worthless. Everywhere he went, endless carnage and destruction followed. While it was her initial plans to use him to avenge her precious children, he quickly turned on her and destroyed her almost to the point of oblivion, and it was only by the skin of her teeth did her fellow Protogenoi manage to rescue her in time.

At the sight of a demonic beast who nearly killed the first Mother Earth Goddess, all gods quickly abandoned their stations and fled for their own survival, as not even the most insane of Evil Gods would be able to control him. Upon Mount Olympus, the Twelve Olympians were planning the same, but before they could evacuated their pantheon, Typhon appeared from the horizon in a surprise attack, and Zeus decided to stay back to hold him for his family to escape to safety.

### Defeat & Imprisonment

Due to their differences in power, Zeus was heavily injured and was on the verge of death, but thanks to divine intervention, he was able to survive and defeat Typhon with Keraunos. He then banished him into a prison beneath Mount Etna where his fellow Olympian Hephaestus' forges were located and had him be the warden of Typhon's new prison.

## Equipment

**Celestial Bronze Sword** (天体青銅の剣, *Tentai Seidōnoken*): During his battle against Zeus, Typhon was said to be wielding a sword the size of a mountain made out of pure celestial bronze. It's unknown what happened to the sword, though it is a popular theory among historians that it was melted down by Hephaestus to forge Typhon's chains.

## Trivia

* Because of his past, he has **Nyctophobia**, or fear of the dark.
* He is quite good at musical instruments, such as the lyre or the bass.
* Mount Etna's eruptions were said to be either his fiery breath or his attempts to escape.
	+ Because of this, he is often mistaken for Enceladus, the gigas who was slain by Athena during the Gigantomachy.
* He was more seen as a volcano-demon hurling red-hot rocks than a storm giant in mythology.
* In mythology, he was envisioned as having two hundred hands, consisting of fifty serpent-headed fingers on each hand, and a hundred heads, one was human while the rest were bestial (of bulls, boars, lions, leopards, serpents, etc.)
* In some myths, instead of being imprisoned beneath Mount Etna, he was imprisoned underneath the Serbonian Bog.
* In Ancient Greece, he was worshipped as the god of the Arimoi, who were said to live above the place where he was imprisoned.
	+ It's unknown where the Arimoi lived, though some speculated it to be in Cilicia, Syria, Lydia, or the island of Ischia.
* He and Hephaestus shared several similarities.
	+ Both are associated with Mount Aetna.
	+ Both are deities associated with volcanoes and volcanic eruptions.
	+ Both are unfavored firstborn sons of kings (Belial & Gaia) and queens (Gaia & Hera).
	+ In some myths, they were born from Hera through parthenogenesis because of her envy after Zeus gave birth to Athena.
* Despite popular belief that the word "typhoon" originated from his name, *Typhon*, in reality, it's most likely that his name only influenced it, as the word itself originated from the Portuguese *tufão* from Arabic *ṭūfān* (طوفان), though its ultimate origin is thought to be sinitic *dàfēng* (大風／大风).