Tartarus

**Tartarus**, also known as **Tartaros**, is the Primordial God of the Abyss from Greco-Roman mythology. He is the son of Khaos and the consort of his older siblings, Erebus and Nyx.

He works the warden of the inter-pantheon prison Kokytus, located in the heart of the Realm of the Dead.

## Overview

According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod's Theogony, **Tartarus** is both the name of the third primordial deity that represents deep darkness, as well as a location described as being far below the earth. It is a deep abyss - even far below Hades - where divine beings that pose a threat to the gods of Olympus (i.e. the Titans) were imprisoned. It further served as a dungeon of torment for mortal souls, as divine punishment for their wicked deeds in life.

## Appearance

Tartarus has the appearance of a short young man in his late teens - early 20s, with turquoise eyes and short and spiky white hair. According to Piper, he is more adorable than handsome, partially because of his limited height.

He typically wears a white double-chested trench coat with black lapels that is fastened by four buttons on either side and has a badge with a six-pointed cross on his left chest. He has a black belt with a large buckle around his waist, slightly baggy white pants and white boots with furry black liners. He has a sheathed sword hanging around his upper torso by a thin chain.

His casual clothes consist of black T-shirt with a black-and-white striped long sleeve shirt underneath, black jeans, and black-and-white converse. He also wears multiple silver chains around his neck and has his ears pierced with cross-shaped piercings. According to Nyx, his outfit looks like a blatant copy of an e-boy fashion Pinterest post.

Tartarus is described to be monstrous in his true form, standing at immense height and has purple glistening flesh rippling with muscle. In place of where his face should be is a swirling whirlpool and inward spiral of darkness, his booming voice sounds like it is being drawn back inward rather than projecting outward, and his laugh is like a mountain "cracked in half". Countless tendrils of darkness radiate from his body like a mass of coiling serpents, wrapping around his arms and legs and waist, and everything around Tartarus seemed to be drawn to him.

## Personality

Despite his fearsome reputation, Tartarus is considered one of the most laid-back gods in the House of Hades, spending the majority of his free time with his stepchildren or indulging in his own private hobbies. It is because of his carefree lifestyle that influenced much of his own stepchildren, resulting in gods such as Euphrosyne and Eleos amid gods like Eris or Dolos.

As the god of the abyss, he himself is obsessed with the "abyss" that is the internet, especially social media, to the point where Erebus and Nyx have jokingly referred to him as the "Wannabe E-boy God" because of his obsession. Despite his insistence that he is experimenting if this could become a potential source of worship and reverence, no god has shown genuine belief in his experiments.

Although he is one of the most infamous Evil Gods in mythology, he doesn't seem to believe in many things these gods believe in, such as spreading chaos or being evil for the sake of being evil. According to him, his status as a God of Evil is less of a god who embodies evilness and more of a god who protects the world from evil, as he himself embodies the primordial abyss that all the villains of the Greco-Roman mythology are sealed into.

However, like the majority of the primordial gods, he has proven to be generally an impartnity, as he chose to remained neutral and almost ambivalent of the constant wars that were waged between the gods of his pantheon, and even asking Nyx and Erebus to do the same.

His impartiality does seem to be limited as he had helped Gaia more than once to overthrow her family, first with creating Kronos' sickle to execute Ouranos and second with creating the Gigantes from their dead brother's corpse to overthrow the Olympian gods. After he rescued and took Typhon under his wings, however, his relationship with Gaia was permanently severed and he vowed to never help her ever again.

## History

### Early Life

Tartarus was one of the first Greco-Roman Primordial known as the Protogenoi, created by Khaos himself from the divine energy of Hylemorphes. He then created the Depths of Tartarus, a great palace deep within the Realm of the Dead as his abode and ruled over it for thousands of years.

He later expanded his territory and created the Greco-Roman Underworld, the first Underworld unaffiliated with the Abrahamic Underworld of Sheol, which he named Erebus after his lover and older brother. He and his two lovers, Erebus and Nyx, continued to rule over it for hundreds of years before the Titanomachy began.

The land was then be claimed by Hades after he defeated him in one-to-one combat in the heart of the Depths of Tartarus, which impressed him so much that he not only gave Hades the title of king but also offered to be his mentor and guidance when it came to chthonic matters, which the young god agreed. He and the other chthonic gods of the pantheon then pledged themselves to Hades and the Olympian gods and became some of their great supporters during the war.

### Typhoeus

At some point in time, shortly after the Typhonomachy, he was asked by Hephaestus to come and help him deal with Typhon, who was his nephew through Gaia, Tartarus' closest sister. This closeness between them, however, was shattered when it was revealed that not only did Gaia have locked him away in complete isolation for millennia, she also mentally and physically abused him, not to mention the signs of sexual abuse possibly under her orders or watch.

Together with Hephaestus, they planned a way to rescue Typhon from beneath Mount Etna and took him back to the Mansion of Night where he and the remaining primordial gods dwelled, completely hidden from the Olympians' eyes.

To cover for the tremors and eruptions caused by Typhon's tormented screams and the occasional patrol group sent from Mount Olympus, he created a non-sentient monster in his demonic form and placed it in the prison where Typhon was once sealed. He then created a portal beneath the island that led straight down to the Depths of Tartarus, which, because of the sudden appearance of Poseidon, he wasn't able to seal away, still remains to this day, largely because he had forgotten about that also.

During Typhon's stay in the Mansion of Night, more secrets about his past were revealed to the Protogenoi, which sickened them to the core and Gaia's name began to enter their mental blacklist. However, with time and proper guidance and treatment, Typhon was able to mentally recover, piece by piece, and began to see Tartarus as his only father figure, something he himself reciprocated. His physical health, however, kept becoming worse and worse, until he fell into a dead-like comatose state because of the Elphegort Sleep Disease.

### Angelos Concordat

Several centuries after the Great War and the Holy War, the Heavenly Council gathered the remaining pagan pantheons together to sign an official peace treaty in the Garden of Eden, guarded by the primordial gods of each pantheon.

It was there when the idea of the Kokytus Prison, an inter-pantheon prison located in the deepest depths of the Realm of the Dead for the worst criminals of the supernatural world, was proposed and accepted, with the Greco-Roman Pantheon being assigned its construction. After its construction, Tartarus, being the Primordial God of the Abyss, was personally assigned the duty of the prison's warden by the Elder Seraph Raguel himself, which he claimed to be "both an honor and a terror at the same time".

## Trivia

* He personally believes monogamy to be the death of romance.
* He hates having to work during his vacation and can be annoyed, if not outright violent.
* Because of his unique circumstances, he can only work the night shifts at Kokytus.
* He is the second-youngest of the original Protogenoi, only a couple of years older than Eros.
* He is considered the weakest among the children of Khaos, as his powers are limited to the abyss that he creates and rules over.
* He, like the location that shares his name and that he is, is able to hold monsters within himself. He was even able to hold Titans within the abyss inside his body, though it is unknown for how long.
* He is the oldest God of the Underworld and have ruled over the Greco-Roman Underworld for thousands of years before Hades' ascension to the throne, even helping and tutoring him and many other chthonic god-kings in their respective realms.
* He is currently petitioning the Heavenly Council for the role of "God of Social Media".
	+ According to him, since social media is an "abyss of eternal sorrow and wastefulness", it'd be more fitting if a god like him to govern over it.
	+ In the mortal world, he has four Youtube channels with a total of 14.5 millions subscribers, an instagram account with over 263 millions followers, and two twitter accounts with more than 95 millions followers.
		- He is currently working on his TikTok account which already has over 72 millions followers and 6.35 millions likes
* According to Hyginus, Tartarus is the offspring of Aether and Gaia.
	+ In some myths, however, he is the offspring of Aether and Hemera.
* Despite the myths between them, Tartarus and Gaia's relationship is entirely platonic.