Eros

**Eros**, also known as **Cupid**, is the God of Love, Lust, and Desire from Greco-Roman Mythology. He is one of the primordial gods and was worshipped in Orphism as the god **Phanes**.

He is the thirteenth of the Filii Tredecim, being one of the survived Nephilim from the Edenith civilization.

## Summary

**Eros** is the mischievous minor god of love and desire in the ancient Greece and the counterpart of the Roman god, **Cupid**. Various sources mention different tales about his true origin, varying from being son of Aphrodite by either Zeus, Ares, or Hermes.

Nevertheless, all legends involving his existence picture him as an attendant to Aphrodite, where he causes the love between mortals. His figure is described to have an appearance of a winged young man or a baby who carries the bow and arrows of love. Even as a god, he lacks good archery skills and in some myths, he is blindfolded, resulting in mostly missing his targets.

Eros was a god not simply of passion but also of fertility. His brother was Anteros, the god of mutual love, who was sometimes described as his opponent. The chief associates of Eros were Pothos and Himeros (Longing and Desire). He also shared a sanctuary with Aphrodite on the north wall of the Acropolis at Athens. He caused the love between Apollo and Daphne, after Apollo made fun of him. He later fell in love with a mortal woman named Psyche, eventually becoming her husband and from their union, Hedone is born.

According to some depictions, Eros is instead a Primordial God of Love and Desire and a child of Chaos or Nyx. Parmenides, one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, instead makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence. He is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the firstborn Light for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. He was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos.

Eros appears in many myths, though not by name. In every instance of love or romance, Eros is present, because he is love. Despite this, he has no actual role in myths, aside from his presence as love. According to Hesiod's Theogony, one of the most ancient of all Greek sources, Eros was the fourth god to come into existence, coming after Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus. He was also equivalent to Thesis (Creation) and Physis (Nature).

## Appearance

Eros appears as a kind-faced boy in his late teens, with youthful and cherubic features. He has short light-brown hair and eyes, with the latter described as "hiding away a poisonous sea of malice and heartbreak". He has a friendly and charismatic air around him, which drawns people toward him unconsciously.

He wears a cream-colored university cardigan, with a white dress shirt and a green-plaided tie underneath, eggplant-purple dress pants, and black loafers.

He is almost always seen hanging around with a little amorino with blond hair and ruby-colored eyes.

## Personality

Eros is genuinely sweet and caring, but also has a mischievous streak in him. He has a refined taste when it comes to necessities and clothing, as well as a habit of stirring dramas between gods and mortals just for personal entertainment, regardless of the consequences. He loves gossips and hearing about the relationships of others, even if it is not his business.

He enjoys how unpredictable his domains are and knows the true power and possibility [Love] possesses, being the direct relation of the primordial [Desire]. Because of this, he can be easily offended when his domains are regarded as "unnecessary matters", which is most famously shown in the myth of Apollo and the naiad Daphne.

He also has a darker and sadistic side to him, as he considered "love is never fair". He enjoys tormenting those who had offended him by various means, both short-term and long-term. An example for this is with his and Hathor's past conflict, which resulted in him creating the Cleopatra-Caesar-Antony love triangle; leading up to the downfall of the Ptolemic dynasty and Ancient Egypt as a whole.

Despite this, he can also be merciful to those who had truly repent and became remorseful of their past acts of disrespectful.

Like other members of the Filii Tredecim, he holds strange feelings toward the Abrahamic Heavens, as while he's grateful that he was allowed to live even after his survival was discovered, he's still very much afraid of the Heavenly Host and the angels. Despite this, he is still affiliated with Heaven, mostly because of his mother's status among her heavenly peers.

He is fully aware of how he is often seen by gods, humans, and monsters alike, as well as his almost monstrous reputation as a cruel and heartless god who only cares about his own enjoyment. However, it seemed that he prefers to be viewed as such, sometimes even goes out of his way to make sure his reputation stayed the same for unknown reasons.

## Trivia

* Eros' appearance is based on Shinya from *Tokyo Afterschool Summoners*.
* His divine symbols are dolphins, flutes, roosters, roses, and torches.
* He has a terrible eyesight and required either glasses or contact lenses to do his work without "accidents".
* In Plato's Symposium, he is considered the son of Penia (Poverty) and Porus (Expedience).
* In ancient Greece, the fourth day of every month is sacred to him.
* His most well-known festivals are the Erotidia in Thespiae and the Eleutheria in Samos.
* He is considered to be one of the patrons of homosexual love between men.
	+ He, along with Heracles and Hermes, he bestowed qualities of beauty, loyalty, strength, and eloquence, respectively, onto male lovers.