Hypnos

Surnamed "The Bountiful," this is the god who puts cares to flight, and soothes the bodies of both mortals and immortals. He can fashion shapes (illusions) that seem to be true forms. Hypnos is the younger twin to Thanatos and imitates his brother in everything.

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**Symbol:** Poppy, River Lethe, Cottonwood

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**What's your character's favorite dessert? Do they have a sweet tooth? Fave savory snack?** Baklava. And for savory, well, any sort of nuts will do in a pinch.

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**Weapon of choice?** Gunna have to go with a yawn. Do you know how infectious they are? Try yawn sniping.

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**Who is your character's best friend? Barring romantic partners.** Definitely Than or Persephone. Wait. Why not both??

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**What does your character smell like?** Your favorite lover's morning breath, last night's makeup, a sleepy smile, and je ne sais quoi... perhaps day old perfume, floral oil.

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**What is your favorite animal?** "Anything soft."

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**Core truth:** "A truth... mmmm, maybe that it's better to be underestimated and passed over than memorable and always in the spotlight."

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**Controversial opinion:**  Tilting his head in thought, he leans over and with none of his usual sleepiness, "Olympus gods are lesser than the underworld gods and titans."

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**Ideal to get mad about:** Hypnos doesn't have anything he'd get mad about?? It would take a lot to make him angry. Cry? Oh, he'll do that over almost anything. The people that he cares about can generally take care of themselves. "I would go to war for Mother or my siblings." Oh, I guess he'll kill over that.

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## Titanomachy

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## Sun Court

In the SUN COURT, Hypnos is dedicated to his work, gently teasing other's to fall into the warm bliss of sleep. Ever-forgetful, Hypnos became reacquainted with Selene, his nocturnal friend, though his supplication to her was interrupted by Janus, the two-face god. (#the-royal-chapel) Some indeterminant time later, Hypnos, while at work, interrupts his twin brother's work with a reunion. (#le-clos-des-vignes-closed)

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## Roaring 20s

In the ROARING 20s, Hypnos has awakened and has assumed the mask, Easton Faraday, a graduate student from Boston. He's Sleep incarnate and is a hedonist wrapped in a forgetful enigma. He knows where to find some sweet music and is well-versed in philosophy. His hobbies are dancing (blues, swing), eating at Daisy Dukes Diner, writing, panic napping, and making friends everywhere he goes, and, of course, doing favors to help induce sleep for those that crave it.

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## Quotes

***The following are about sleep from other sources:***

*"… whenever in his imagination a man sees delights, straightaway the vision, slipping through his arms, is gone, winging its flight along the paths of Sleep."* (Argive Elders. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 420).

*"… almighty Sleep releases the fettered sleeper, and does not hold him in a perpetual grasp."* (Ajax 1. Sophocles, Ajax 675).

*"What presumption of man, can match your power, Zeus, who are no subject to Sleep or Time or Age, living forever in bright Olympus?"* (Theban Elders. Sophocles, Antigone 605).

*"Divine Sleep, god who knows no pain, Sleep, stranger to anguish, come in favor to us, come happy, and giving happiness, great King! … come with power to heal!"* (Sailors of Neoptolemus' crew. Sophocles, Philoctetes 830).

*"O Sleep, rest of all things, mildest of the gods, balm of the soul …"* (Iris 1 to Hypnos. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.623).

*"Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed."* (Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82, Religio Medici II.12).

Sancho: *"… but this I very well know, that while I am asleep, I feel neither hope nor despair; I am free from pain and insensible of glory. Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep."* (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXVIII).