Tyche/Fortuna

**Tyche** is the Greek goddess of chance, luck, destiny and fortune. Her Roman counterpart is **Fortuna**.

## Basic Info

### Alias

Goddess of Luck, Chance, Destiny, and Fortune, Lady Luck, Mom (By her children)

## Family Info

### Siblings

* Hermaphroditus (Brother)
* Eros, Harmonia, Deimos, Phobos, Anteros, Adrestia, Beroe, Golgos, Priapus, Eryx, Aeneas, Lyrus, (Maternal immortal half-siblings)
* Pan, Nomios, Agreus, Palaestra, Angelia (Paternal immortal half-siblings)
* Max, Angelica, Damon, Primrose, and Markell (Maternal demigod half-siblings)
* Hector, Travis, and Malachi (Paternal demigod half-siblings)

### Offspring

Taylor Brown (By Felix)Kimberly Maldonado (By Diego)

### Extended Family

Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and Kelene (Cousins)

## History

### Family

In literature, Tyche might be given various genealogies. She has been described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, thus one of the Oceanids, or of Zeus, or even Prometheus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").

She is sometimes named as the mother of Plutus, the god of wealth; usually, however, he is the son of Demeter and Iasion.

In other myths (and the one I ultimately went through), Tyche is the daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, and brother to Hermaphroditus

### Hero Myth

According to the Pausanias in his *Description of Greece*, Palamedes created the first pair of dice and gave them as an offering to Tyche.

### Worship

Tyche was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as *Tyche Protogeneia*, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia ("firstborn"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city. In Alexandria the *Tychaeon*, the Greek temple of Tyche, was described by Libanius as one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world.

Stylianos Spyridacis concisely expressed Tyche's appeal in a Hellenistic world of arbitrary violence and unmeaning reverses: "In the turbulent years of the Epigoni of Alexander, an awareness of the instability of human affairs led people to believe that Tyche, the blind mistress of Fortune, governed mankind with an inconstancy which explained the vicissitudes of the time."

According to Matheson, the Goddess Tyche was often worshipped as the personification of a city and its fortune. Matheson also states that there were cults to Tyche all over the Mediterranean. In Athens for instance, citizens would give tribute to *Agathe Tyche* alongside other gods. Other gods seem to also be presented alongside Tyche including Dionysus at Corinth.

There was a Temple of Tyche that contained a figure called Nemesis-Tyche, an aspect of Tyche. According to Edwards, Nemesis and Tyche begin to share cults in the Roman period.

The mural crown of Tyche of Sparta depicts the Spartans soldiers repelling Amazons. Palagia argues that this depiction is important to Spartan mythology.

## Personality

Tyche is known as a somewhat fickle goddess, sometimes playing favorites with many different mortals, granting luck to those she likes and curing others with bad luck, Most of the times, she gives good luck to mortal who deserve it or some who are going through tough times and bad luck to mortals who've done bad things, as a way of giving them karma (she works well with Nemesis when it comes to these things. Tyche, is a very nice goddess with helping people with they're luck as her favorite thing to do. Tyche is very protective of her daughters and will do anything for them. Tyche is a more "go with the flow" goddess who isn't afraid of the future - she lives in the present and enjoys every moment. In her Olympian Family, she is the one who keeps everyone on their toes by constantly surprising everyone. One day, she's shy and quite, the next, she's the loudest and most energetic in the room. She is completely random, and that's okay! Her friendliness and loyalty is greatly appreciated by the other gods. She is also a very superstitious goddess, staying away from the number 13 while also embracing the four leaf clover. Taking risks isn't much of a problem for her, she has faith that everyone will turn out fine in the end. She may or may not be comfortable in social situations. Sometimes, she can be too erratic and easily frustrated

## Appearance

Tyche is described as a very beautiful goddess with wavy light brown hair and very shiny blue eyes. Tyche is described in wearing many golden accessories and charms that represent good luck (A four leaf cover necklace, a Horseshoe bracelet, ladybug earrings, etc) along with wearing a beautiful Greek dress with golden lining.

## Powers and Abilities

### Goddess Powers

Tyche, as the daughter of two Olympians, is a pretty powerful goddess

* **Tychokinesis:** As the goddess of luck, fortune, and chance, Tyche has absolute control and divine authority over luck and chance.
* **Probability Manipulation:** As the goddess of fate and chance, Tyche can manipulate probability, how likely an event is to occur, and or how likely it is that a proposition is true.
* **Blessing Inducement**: Tyche has the ability to bless people with good luck
* **Curse Inducement**: Tyche has the ability to curse people with bad luck
* **Destiny Manipulation**: Tyche, as a goddess of Destiny and Fate, can perceive, shape, and manipulate destiny/Fate, allowing her to affect reality and events in several ways, both overt and hidden.

## Etymology

Means **"chance, luck, fortune"** in Greek

## Trivia

1. Her colors are Green and Gold, which represent luck
2. In some myths, she was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, making her one of the Oceanids
3. She is often identified with Nemesis, since they both rule over luck and chance
4. She is often seen holding a cornucopia or horn of plenty
5. Tyche only as two children and both represent her respective counterparts
	1. Taylor represents her Greek counterpart
	2. Kimberly represents her Roman counterpart
6. Her roman counterpart, Fortuna, is where the word "Fortune" comes from