Typhon

**Half-Sisters*** **Titans**
	+ Mnemosyne
	+ Phoebe
	+ Rhea
	+ Tethys
	+ Theia
	+ Themis
* **Others**
	+ Erinyes
	+ Ceto
	+ Echidna
	+ The Meliades
	+ The Nesoi

**Daughters**

* Chimera
* Crommyonian Sow
* Gorgo
* Theban Sphinx

**Creations**

* Anemoi Thuellai
* Harpies

* Mount Etna
* Mount St. Helens

**Typhon**, also known as **Typhoeus**, is an infamous Evil God from Greco-Roman mythology who is said to be the bane of the Olympian gods. With his wife Echidna, he sired some of the most terrifying monsters in mythology, such as the Hydra, the Nemean Lion, and the Chimera.

## 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

Despite being known as the most fearsome monster in mythology, Typhon's human appearance can only be described as underwhelming, especially among the supernaturally beautiful beings such as the gods. He is said to have dark-amber eyes, almost brown in color, and medium-length thick black hair which was swept back and fairly unkempt.

While he isn't exactly hideous, he isn't exceptionally handsome either, and the most people could use to describe him is average-looking. He is of average height and has a physique that is slightly muscular yet not too much, at most could only be called well-built, with a plain face with short ears and flat nose, which is neither attractive nor unattractive. According to Issei, he is the type of person who would fit in perfectly in a crowd because of his complete lack of any outstanding features.

Typhon's true form, however, is much more in line with his infamous status of "Father of Monsters". He has the face of a monster, though it is hard to identify what his face looks like, as it changes every second to an even more terrifying monster than the last one. He is more-or-less humanoid from the waist up, but instead of normal legs, his lower part is formed entirely of thousands of giant coiling serpents of various kinds, both supernatural and mundane alike. He has massive leathery wings and long matted hair made out of jet-black tar and smelled like a mixture of death and volcanic smoke. He is as tall as the sky itself, and just by standing in one place, he is able to shroud the entirety of Greece and other countries in darkness.

## Personality

Despite his 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 that means sacrificing himself in the process.

As surprising as it may be, he can be easily intimidated by authorative people, 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 Khaos Brigade' attack on Olympus to pay him back after he allowed Typhon to be released from his prison and sent to live with his father's descendants in the Netherworld.

It is later 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

Typhon was born sometime in the late Paleozoic era as a result of the demon Belial forcing himself upon the young goddess Gaia during one of his trips to the mortal world.

Ashamed of his existence, she used her divine power to create a prison deep within the Earth and locked him there for the majority of his childhood in darkness and isolation, only making the occasional visits to ensure his imprisonment and to verbally and emotionally torment him.

When the Gigantomachy broke out, he was let out by Gaia for the first time in his life to be trained as the giants' secret weapon, intending to use his half-demon powers to overwhelm the Olympians and ensure her children's victory. He was sent to the giants' camp where he was regularly abused under the pretense of training.

During his time here, there were only two people who reached out and took care of him. The first was Damasen, the giant born to oppose the War God Ares, who tried to protect him from the rest of the giants as much as possible. The second was Echidna, the oldest daughter of Gaia and Pontus, who healed him of his injuries and nursed him back to help.

Soon, he fell in love with Echidna, and with Damasen's help, the two eloped to Delphi and lived a life of secrecy. The two married and started a family of their own, however, because of Gaia's inherent hatred toward him that all of the children born of them came out monstrous and were more men than beast.

Their happy domestic life would soon come to an end when the Gigantomachy ended with the Olympians' victory over the giants. As a last result, she sought Typhon out, only to find out he had defected and ran away with her own daughter. Angered, she cursed their entire family with madness and transformed them into true monsters. The children turned into vicious monsters who threatened humanity, while Echidna became a giant Dragon and was sent to attack the oracle temple in Delphi as revenge against the gods.

Typhon's transformation, however, was perhaps the most monstrous as because of his demonic blood, he became an abomination beyond the imagination of the gods. She then ordered him to attack the Olympian gods while she took advantage of the chaos and released the Titans from their prison. What she didn't know was that it was because of his demonic blood that protected his mind from her control. While he couldn't control his body, he still had total control of his mind and could do nothing but watch as his mother controlled his body to destroy the pantheon. According to him, this was perhaps the one of the worst things Gaia had done to him, as even though he wasn't responsible for the destruction his possessed body had caused, it was still his hands that their blood were spilled upon.

Eventually, his nightmare would end when Zeus defeated his possessed self and crushed his body underneath the volcanic Mount Etna, where it would become his prison for millennia until the Greco-Roman Pantheon linked themselves with the western civilization and moved across the globe, and with them, his prison. His latest prison was Mount St. Helens in the United States, where he would stay until the revelation of his true parentage.

## 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 giant 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).