Korina

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* Adult
* Child
* Young Adult
* Wings

23 (2nd timeskip)

Betty

Charlie (Pet)

Artemis

Keion

Stella (Self-Proclaimed Best Friend)

The Seductive Rose

Korina is the titular character of Korina's Origin. Though she is the daughter of Morpheus, he leaves her in the care of Thanatos at a young age.

To read more about Korina in Origins of Olympus, go here.

## Appearance

Korina is a young woman with light blue eyes and blue hair. It was plain blue in her childhood, though as she grew older stars started to appear in it, giving her hair the appearance of a galaxy or nebula. Her skin is tanned and dotted with freckles under her eyes.

According to Thanatos, Korina bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Asteria.

Her standard outfit is a purple-gray tunic layered over a blue tunic with a purple gradient at the bottom, fastened with a gold rope belt and pins. She has two thin gold bracelets on her wrists, and in her adulthood she also wears a thicker bracelet on the upper part of her right arm. In her childhood and young adult years, she wears a gold hairpin given to her by Thanatos on her hair. In adulthood she wears a gold circlet instead.

Starting from the episode "Angel" (Episode 166), Korina has a white pair of wings on her back.

## Lore

***The following section contains mentions of topics that may not be suitable for all audiences, including:***

***Child Neglect and Abandonment; Violence; Death; Sexual Assault;***

**Reader discretion is advised.**

For the first seven years of her life, Korina was raised by her father, Morpheus. For the most part, he neglected her and she was often left to play alone. One day, she came across a crystal ball containing a star in her father's library. She accidentally knocks it over, causing Morpheus to snap at her. This was the catalyst for him to realize that he was unable to raise Korina any longer, and so he left her with his sworn brother, Thanatos. While under his care she would befriend and later develop a crush on his son, Mors. She would also be trained to be a servant by Thanatos and Betty, the spirit of an elderly woman who took on a maternal role with Mors and Korina.

As Korina got older, she took on more servant duties. This coupled with Mors' personality changes and sleeping around caused them to drift apart somewhat, though they remained friends. While they would occasionally come into conflict with each other, Korina was his confidant and tried to mediate his conflicts with others, especially Thanatos. During this time she would discover her ability to alter dreams and Thanatos would help her train them. Thanatos would discover her crush on Mors and discourage her from pursuing it, saying that Mors' anger would endanger her and that it would be best for him to marry someone of equal social standing rather than a servant. This sent Korina into a downward spiral, and while it would be cleared up soon after, her insecurities about being a servant would linger.

Korina and Mors would begin hanging out together more often, even going to the Mortal Realm together. Mors would be put on thin ice with the gods after killing a human in self-defense, making Korina apprehensive about going back, though in the end she would still follow Mors on another trip there. Korina met a man there who attempted to sexually assault her, though Mors intervened, killing and reviving him multiple times. He would be imprisoned in Elysium soon after. Korina dealt with immense guilt from the whole situation, as well as the grief that came with Charlie's death soon after. It was during this time that Thanatos became more controlling of Korina, which came to a head when Korina heard her mother's voice in her dreams and attempted to leave Purgatory to find answers. He had an emotional breakdown and in his giant form, he chased her around the castle in order to prevent her from leaving. The castle would be repaired and he would apologize to Korina, though it is clear in her dreams that this incident stuck with her.

Over the next five years Korina would continue to work as Thanatos' servant and train her magic with him. The two of them get invited to a party celebrating the opening of Camp Oasis, where the gods reveal their intentions to recognize Korina as the Heir of Death. The party rekindles Korina's insecurities as well as her resentment towards Thanatos, this time for how she was practically raised to be a servant with no other life skills. She becomes determined to prove herself at her own detriment, and Thanatos worries for her well-being. He visits Mors in prison with the hope that he would have some way to help her, and ends up breaking fate and freeing him. Thanatos' wings are ripped off as a punishment and Morpheus pays him a vists, but pays little attention to Korina, souring what little care she had left for her father. Soon after this Mors and Korina get into an official relationship, though Korina wants to keep it secret due to Thanatos' past reaction to her crush. It goes well for a while, though the gods' plans get in the way of it. Their intentions now are for Korina to take over her father's position as the God of Dreams, and to make up for her lack of experience, marry her off to one of the Olympian demigods. Though Korina does not want to go through with it, she is afraid to rebel against the gods. On a trip to Olympus, Korina meets Keion, a son of Zeus who later ends up being one of her suitors. Mors is angered by this arrangement and even more angered by the fact that Korina seems so passive about it, implying that she is cheating or has the intention to cheat. One night, Korina has a dream where she is given wings and wakes up in pain, which is dampened by Thanatos' magic. When Mors and Korina have another argument over the Olympians' arrangement, he insinuates that she would have enjoyed being sexually assaulted by the man from the Mortal World. His words anger Korina so much that it disrupts the magic soothing her pain, which is now so strong that it causes her to pass out. When she wakes up, she puts her relationship with Mors on break.

Thanatos notes that her magic is getting stronger and suggests that she try to find her mother and ask about it. She goes to Olympus and enlists the help of Keion and his sister Zenobia, who take her to Zeus' office. There, she discovers from records that her mother is Asteria. She also finds out that Mors' mother is Keres. Hera catches Korina in Zeus' office and makes a deal with her: she won't tell Zeus about what happened but Korina owes her a favor. After returning to Purgatory, she confronts Thanatos with her knowledge of Mors' lineage, and this leads to him telling Mors the truth and Mors storms off. During the situation between Mors, Thanatos, and Keres, Korina mainly acts as a mediator but otherwise stays out of it. After that, she goes back to Olympus to ask Keion about Asteria but ends up running into Morpheus. He is hostile towards her at first, but agrees to tells her eveything he knows about Asteria. Later on, they meet at his home and Morpheus tells Korina of how they loved each other and how one day she gave Korina to him and left. He does not know of her whereabouts and apologizes for how he has treated her, leaving his estate as a gift. While not fully forgiving him, Korina acknowledges his feelings and accepts the apology and his estate.

### Personality

Korina is an extremely reserved and quiet person, as well as self-conscious and even socially anxious at times. Despite this, she tries her best to be patient and polite with everyone, even if their intentions with her may not be good. She often worries over any consequences her actions might have and is willing to keep certain things secret in order to maintain the peace.

### Relationships

#### Morpheus

Though Morpheus is Korina's father and was her primary caretaker for many years of her life, he was neglectful of her and was barely in her life. Korina held out hope for many years that Morpheus would come to take her back home someday, though that hope faded over the years and she became more outwardly resentful of him. Korina seems to have made peace with why he did what he did, but she probably wouldn't be very willing to let him back into her life in the near future.

#### Mors

Mors was Korina’s first real friend, and continues to remain her best friend throughout her life. She is often the only one who can reason with him when he gets angry and even when he is being difficult she tries her best to be patient with him. As she grew older she developed a crush on him.

#### Luchnos

Luchnos had a hand in raising the children when they were younger, though both in childhood and adulthood they treated him more as a peer than an authority figure. Korina is on good terms with Luchnos, as shown by how the two of them play dress up when they aren't working. He was also once a confidant of hers, though that changed when he told Thanatos about her feelings towards Mors.

#### Betty

Betty acted as Korina’s mentor as well as her mother figure. Korina looks up to Betty and goes to her for advice. Even after Betty moved on to the afterlife, Korina continues to use her recipes and think about how she would handle situations.

#### Charlie

Though everyone in the castle seems to have a positive relationship with Charlie, Korina may well have been one of the closest to him. She was the one who initially brought up the idea of having him as a pet and she is typically the first to notice or show concern if something is up with him. In the wake of Betty's departure and Mors' imprisonment, he became her close confidant up until his death.

## Skills/Abilities

### Dream Magic

As the daughter of Morpheus, Korina is able to use magic pertaining to sleep and dreams. She is able to put people to sleep with a simple touch and alter their dreams. This can be done one of two ways: by falling asleep and altering someone else’s dream from within it, or by altering it from the outside, which does not require being asleep.

Within dreams, Korina is able to create objects and people, who are able to act on their own but appear to be extensions of her in some way. She is also able to create locations from either imagination or memory, as shown by her dreamscape. Within the dreamscape she is able to store dreams and access them through doors, as well as access other people's dreams. However, she can only access the dreams of people she can picture them clearly in her mind.

### Healing

Korina is able to do basic first aid and use her magic to heal minor injuries.

### Shield

Korina is able to create a shield of magic in front of her to block attacks. If an attack breaks the shield, it still blocks the attack but dissipates shortly afterwards.

### Fireball

Korina is able to conjure up a fireball in her hands and shoot it. She is also able to fire smaller star-like projectiles with her magic.

### Light Magic

Korina is able to create a burst of light in an area that can temporarily blind people. While both of her parents used light magic, Asteria was more proficient with it and as such, Korina likely inherited her proficiency with it.

### Flight

Korina grows a pair of wings during the episodes "Visit From Mother" and "Angel", and throughout the following episodes begins learning how to fly, glide, and land.

### "Seeing through stars"

Like her mother, Korina has the ability to "see through stars", which seems to allow her to see from a star's perspective. In the episode "Star Destroyer", when Korina uses this ability she appears to astral project to the star's location, where she can then observe its surroundings.

## Trivia

* Korina is a Greek name meaning "maiden".
* Korina's favorite food is a peanut butter and banana sandwich.
* Some of the locations in Korina's dreamscape include a library, an enchanted forest with a version of Mors who fawns over her, a recreation of the lake Mors took her to, and a world inhabited by animals and animal-like beings where she is the princess.
* Korina's favorite perfume is lilac, and it can be assumed that lilacs are one of her favorite flowers as well.

## Gallery

Child Korina wearing the plain tunic she had when living with Morpheus. The tunic later became her nightwear.Young Adult Korina in her nightwear.Young Adult Korina in the clothes she wears while in the human world.Korina wearing the dress Aphrodite gave to her to a party on Olympus celebrating the opening of Camp Oasis.Korina reference sheet by Kainabunny.