Icarus Iscariot

Icarus Iscariot (Eee-car-us Ee-scare-ee-uht) Is a cherub, Head of Terminations and Acting Manager/Staff Affairs Overseer at CupidCo.'s headquarters office, and a primary antagonist of AphroDesia (show).

## APPEARANCE

Icarus is one of two "Porcelain Doll" model cherubs left in the world. He has olive colored "skin", with a single red tattoo of a hear on the back of his neck. His hair is golden, with brown highlights near the top, and his eyes are black and as dead as his soul.

Icarus is usually seen sporting his official CupidCo. employee uniform, and possess a pair of quad-wings. Usually, however, only one pair can be seen.

It is hypothesized the second pair comes out when he is stimulated/aroused.

## PERSONALITY/PREFERENCES

Icarus is very impish at heart. He enjoys playing pranks and tricks, slacking off, and often never stays in place for more than a short moment. He's constantly up and about, doing "work".

## HISTORY

Icarus, in his youth, was not well liked. He often had times empathizing with others and tended to be perceived as simply mean spirited and annoying. Icarus was very frustrated in his social isolation, but found comfort in his "aviary", or the multitudes of birds he would rescue over the years. Icarus was a tinkerer, often seeking to take after or surpass The Watchmaker's own abilities. He started by building tools to assist disabled or injured birds who required small and intricate tools. Eventually, he got the idea to design and build his own wings after having worked with and studied birds wings for so long.

Icarus was warned against this by The Watchmaker, but hoped that if he could design and build the wings successfully, he would win the approval and friendship of his peers. What occurred instead, however, was a near-fatal accident in which Icarus just barely survived. Icarus was saved, but much of his body was destroyed and unfixable - including an intricate, one-of-a-kind floral tattoo he had been born with.

Due to a lack of materials on hand and a need to make haste, Icarus was rebuilt much smaller and with much less care than he'd originally been. This was a devastating blow for Icarus, who was now much smaller than his peers and thus more easily made fun of. Icarus' peers, sure of his folly and blaming his naivety and stubbornness, turned his fall into a story which persists to this day.

Icarus blamed both the Watchmaker and his peers for his misfortunes and left. He spent the next few centuries a wanderer, travelling the world and perfecting his wings.

In 1910, Icarus was approached by Eros, who had acquired the rights to own further produced cherubs but had also stumbled across Icarus' wing designs. A trade of secrets was made between the two. Icarus would hand over his furthermost work, and be given the funds to perfect them. For this alone, he would be allowed to complete them.

Icarus began to work under Eros' supervision before discovering Eros' own plans to destroy every cherub manufactured before 1910. That included the whole of his kind, the "Porcelain Doll" models. Seeing that everyone was destined to die eventually, Icarus made a deal of his own with Eros - he would take care of them for him instead.

In 1914, the third to last "Porcelain Doll" cherub was destroyed, and CupidCo. named Icarus the Head of Terminations upon its opening six months later.