Clotho

* Erebus (Father)
* Nyx (Mother)

**Clotho**, also known as **Nona**, is the Primordial Goddess of Life and the Beginning from Greco-Roman mythology. She is one of the Moirai, goddesses of fate, and is responsible for spinning the threads that symbolize life, thus deciding who will be born and who will be saved from death.

## Overview

**Clotho** is the youngest of the three Moirae Sisters, and is derived from the Greek personification of fate. Clotho spins the thread of life. Clotho was responsible for spinning the thread of human life. She also made major decisions, such as when a person was born, thus in effect controlling people's lives. This power enabled her not only to choose who was born, but also to decide when gods or mortals were to be saved or put to death.

Clotho and her sisters (Atropos and Lachesis) were the daughters of Erebus and Nyx, though later they are said to have been born of Zeus and Themis. Clotho is also mentioned in the tenth book of the *Republic* of Plato as the daughter of Necessity. Her Roman equivalent is Nona.

As one of the three fates her impact on Greek mythology was significant. Clotho, along with her sisters and Hermes, was given credit for creating the alphabet for their people, forced the goddess Aphrodite into making love with other beings, weakened the monster Typhon with poison fruit, persuaded Zeus to kill Asclepius with lightning, and even aided the gods in their war with the Giants by killing Agrius and Thoas with bronze clubs. Even though Clotho and her sisters were worshiped as goddesses, their representation of fate is more central to their role in mythology.

Clotho also possess her life-giving powers in the myth of Tantalus, as shown when she brought Pelops, Tantalus' son, back to life, with the exception of his eaten shoulder, which was replaced by a chunk of ivory.

## Appearance

Despite popular belief, Clotho is neither an old crone nor is she a hideous hag. She is an attractive woman with a curvaceous body and long pink hair falling down to the middle of her back in a quite wavy ponytail.

## Personality

Clotho usually is a stoic, mature, and calm individual. To some, her speech seems inhuman and almost robotic, as she pauses between words and speaks of people as if they are experiments or projects. Compare to her sisters, she is much more responsible and takes her duties as a Goddess of Fate more seriously and is always trying to keep things in order.

Unlike her sisters, she has shown much more compassion to humans and their daily struggles, though she couldn't do much to help them due to her domains restricted her to only deciding when and where they would be born and to whom they would be born.

According to Apollo, she does have a weakness, which is her fondness for good alcohol despite her low tolerant for it. When she is drunk, she displays a much more cheerful and even childish side of her, and is very easy to please, which is how the gods were able to convince her to save people such as Peplos or Alcestis. However, after a dozen of mortals were saved through this methods, her sisters had decided to always keep an eye on her whenever she's drunk to prevent more instances like this to happen.

## History

### Early Life

Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho were created by the primordial goddess Ananke billions of years ago when the life-forms came into existence on Earth under the commands of the Celestial Prince Michael. Like all other fate deities, they were taken in and trained within Diegesis for the entire duration of their immortal youth, being taught how to generate, manipulate, and sever the Threads of Fate.

### The Titanomachy

After the Kronides defeated the Titans and took over the control of the pantheon and of the Ancient Greek cosmos, the Moirai arrived on Mount Olympus to celebrate their victories. They appointed the new rulers with their new domains, as well as re-appointing the domains formerly belonging to the, now imprisoned, Titans to more suitable candidates.

### Rivalry with Norns

At some point in time, the Greco-Roman Moirai and the Nordic Norns had formed a fierce rivalry against one another, to the point where each group would waste no opportunity to insult the others behind their backs. According to Hades, this rivalry had been so old that no one even remembered why they even fought in the first place, said groups included.

## Equipment

**Threads of Fate** (運命の糸, *Unmei no Ito*): As one of the Moirai, Clotho was trained within Diegesis since the day of her birth to generate, manipulate, and sever the threads of fate - physical manifestation of one's destiny and lifespan, with said person's countless potential and alternate possibilities are sealed within.

**Bronze Club** (青銅警棒, *Seidō Keibō*): Clotho and her sisters each own their own truncheon-like club made from pure Celestial Bronze which they have all shown their immense mastery over. During the Gigantomachy, when the Gigantes Agrius and Thoas bashed into their sanctuary on Mount Olympus in a suicidal attempt to destroy the Olympians' threads of fate, the Moirai had used their clubs to bash their heads in, killing them instantly.

## Trivia

* Her name, Clotho, means "spinner".
* The asteroid 97 Klotho is named after her.
* Klotho, an enzyme that is encoded by the KL gene, is named after her.
* In Ancient Rome, as Nona ("ninth"), she was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born.
* In some myths, she is either the daughter of Nyx and Erebus or of Zeus and Themis.
* In Ancient Greek religion, murder and suicide was considered blasphemy against her authority.
* Like her sisters, she also has/had an apprentice in the form of Eileithyia.