The Putti

A **Putto** (putti in plural), also known as a **Cherub** or **Cupid**, is an angelic figure depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged, equated with love and passion.

## Appearance

Putto are depicted as chubby winged children or infants, however, unlike the archetypal depiction of cherubs they are portrayed as having an ethereal appearance with a crimson red coloration. Most of the time they do not even have a full body but instead appear as the heads of infants with two or six wings around them. Like any angel, they can manifest multiple eyes as well but still retain their infantile appearance. Their red coloration symbolizes their equation to love and passion.

## Description

Putti are angels equated with love and passion, and are also the Heavenly spirits of either unborn children or infants that passed away at birth. Putti are said to be lesser versions of the Cherubim and are the lowest in Heaven's hierarchy. Though often mistaken for Cherubim, they are different from one another, as among the tasks of the Cherubim is to watch over and care for the Putti akin to daycare workers.

The putti are said to work under Chamuel, the archangel of love and relationships, although it is revealed that they may also work under deities associated with love such as Cupid, Eros, or Hedone but that in of itself is a rarity. For a putti to work for these deities the latter must request permission from Chamuel and the offices of Heaven. They must also never be used for vindictive reasons as Aphrodite quickly retracted her statement for wanting to use one of the Putto to instill jealousy and hatred in a woman for she would be punished accordingly by Chamuel.

Putti are winged, allegedly because lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds, and boyish because love is irrational. Their symbols are the arrow and torch, "because love wounds and inflames the heart." Similarly to the Roman god Cupid, Putti carry two kinds of arrows, or darts, one with a sharp golden point, and the other with a black tip of lead. A person wounded by the golden arrow is filled with passionate love, but the one struck by the black arrow feels aversion and desires only to flee. According to one putti the black arrow is only shot at those that are being seduced by mortals of impure heart and twisted love.

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Immortality:** The Putti possess immortality, a state where one has eternal life and is undying. They never age, are completely self-sustaining, free from all bodily necessities, and can survive virtually any kind of harm, remaining immune to all forms of decay. Any damage done to the Putti would either be regenerated or simply remain non-fatal. As a byproduct of having everlasting life, the Putti may have an infinite reservoir of life energy that fuels the dynamic system of their immortality.

**Passion Manipulation:** The Putti can sense and manipulate all forms of passion, including love, sex, pleasure, desire, etc. of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling passion, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.

**Dance Manipulation:** The Putti can manipulate dance, bestowing dancing talent upon others and taking it away.

**Music Manipulation:** The Putti can manipulate and generate music, an art form who's medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

**Dimensional Travel:** The Putti can travel between different dimensions and universes, and cross over different planes of existence or travel across various forms of reality.