Rick Riordan Presents/Cupid

**Cupid** (also known as Amor in Latin) is the Roman god of erotic love, affection, and desire. He is the lieutenant of his mother, Venus. He is the frequent playmate of Hymenaios and Ganymede. His Greek counterpart is Eros.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Roman God Physiology:** As a son of Venus and Mars, Cupid is very powerful. In spite of the fact that he is a minor god, his omnipotent romantic allure makes most of the gods actually fear him. The only known deities who have at least a partial immunity to himn are the virgin goddesses.

* **Transformation:** In their natural, fully empowered form, gods are radiant with a divine light so intense that no being less than a god can look upon them without disintegrating to ashes. To interact with mortals and heroes, gods take on a lesser form which can be safely observed.
* **Omnipresence:** Gods can appear in multiple places at once so long as their domain is being invoked. It is unknown how many of these "copies" can be made at once or what powers the god retains while in this state.
* **Power Bestowal:** Gods can impart their power onto others to create new gods but only minor gods, for with each new god created, the older god loses a small and equal amount of power.
* **Telekinesis**
* **Shapeshifting**
* **Teleportation**
* **Levitation**
* **Telepathy**
* **Enhanced Strength**
* **Enhanced Stamina**
* **Immortality**

**Love Manipulation:** As the god of erotic love, affection, and desire, Cupid has absolute control and divine authority over love, lust, and desire but not quite as much as his mother. He cannot create love from nothing. His form of love seems to be harsher and more enforced than his mother's which might be due to Cupid being a son of Mars.

**Appearance Alteration:** As the god of desire, Cupid can change his appearance at will depending on the perception of beauty of the person he is in the presence of.

**Invisibility:** Cupid can render himself invisible in order to assault others unexpectedly. He cannot, however, will himself to become invisible while sleeping. This ability was first shown when he lived in a villa with Psyche. He later became invisible when Nico and Jason faced him.

**Astral Projection:** Cupid can send his spirit to other locations. He sent his spirit out after Psyche and briefly communicated with her as a disembodied voice since his physical body was too weak for him to travel.

**Wing Manifestation:** Cupid is able to fly by way of the large, white, feathered wings protruding from his back.

* **Flight**

### Abilities

* **Archery:** While not quite as skilled in archery as Apollo and Artemis, Cupid is quite an impressive archer on account of his long experience of striking others' hearts with his arrows.
* **Multilingualism:** As a god of love, Cupid is fluent in French due to it being the "language of love".

## Equipment

**Arrows of Romance:** Cupid's power over love is usually exercised and enforced through his romantic golden bow and arrows. Anyone stuck with these arrows will instantly be filled with uncontrollable desire and love for another, which he can choose. He used this to make Apollo fall in love with Daphne.

**Arrows of Coerced Romantic Confession:** Cupid can force anyone to confess their true romantic feelings by shooting them through with his arrows. He can always tell if a person is lying. The only known person Cupid did this to was Nico di Angelo, with the latter being forced to tearfully admit his secret love was for Percy Jackson.