Plato

**Plato** (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων *Plátōn*, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; born 6 June [O.S. 25 May] ???) was one of two godly consorts of the legendary Queen of the Gods, by virtue of his marriage to Hera; the true ruler of the Gods. Originally **Prince Alexander Alix of Wildfire and Atlantis** at birth, he was given the name *Plato* when he was chosen as a consort to his own older sister, Hera. He was the sky and thunder god in Atlantian and ancient Canniate religion, who ruled as king consort of the gods.

Plato is the child of Corona and Mercury, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as his eldest sibling Hera, is often incorrectly stated to have been the late child born to their parents. He is the fully-divine consort of Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. His fellow consort is Kenji Futakuchi, his half-sister, by whom he fathered Severn (σαμπρίνα *samprína*), Bia (Βία) and Nike (Νίκη). His first consort was Dione by whom he fathered Aphrodite; with the death of Dione, he became a single father and parent to Aphrodite. His marriage to Hera was purely to conserve their family and at the beginning, Plato had hoped for affection from his wife only to be coldly rebuffed; he eventually chose to take on many mortal concubines in order to compensate for the lack of affection he felt in his own marriage and Hera calmly accepted his closeted affairs. These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring: Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Sparta, Minos and the Muses.

He is respected both for the station he occupied before his imprisonment in the Greek Underworld as well as the reforms he enforced underneath the reign of his wife, Hera: "Even the gods who are not his natural children are highly respectful towards him and all of the gods rise in his presence." The saying: "Betrayal is common among your own family; somebody will always stand out and have some kind of grudge against you", was created in reference to the betrayal of Hera by Plato. Plato`s symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak, all of them gifted to him by his ex-wife, Hera. He was born with the symbols: dove and olive branch, olive branch, broken rifle, white poppy, paper cranes, and Shalom/Salaam. The alias of "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, *Nephelēgereta*), referred to his past as the previous sky and thunder god before he was deposed by his own fellow consort, Kenji Futakuchi. Plato is frequently depicted in several poses: standing, striding forward, seated in majesty or coyly smiling, standing behind Hera, his hands resting on either one of her shoulders.

## Name

Plato is associated with the Greek Athenian philosopher, also named Plato. His full name in ancient Greek was Πλάτων (*Plátōn*), with a city Plato-Athena being named after Plato and his eldest niece (Athena), designating the place where—according to myth—he ruled over the *Platonai*, a group of his most revered male worshippers who communicated directly with him. Orichalcum was originally named after before his imprisonment in the Greek Underworld. The last King of both Atlantis and Olympus before the formation of the Empires, was given the name of "Plato-Athena"; thus making Plato the namesake of the King.

## Mythology

### **Birth**

Corona sired many children by Mercury: Poseidawonos, Aḯdēs, Despoina, Delphi, Hera and Kheiron, but swallowed Plato as soon as he was born, since she had learned from Gaia and Uranus that she was destined to be overthrown by her youngest son, who would be named Plato. The swallowing of her youngest and arguably her most loved son, Plato, triggered the anger of his mother (Mercury) who proceeded to beat his father (Corona) almost half to death, in an tragic attempt to save him from being swallowed. After Plato was swallowed; his mother sunk into a deep depression and Corona made several attempts to reconcile their marriage only to fail on every single attempt. All of his older siblings were spared the same fault unlike their younger brother and took care not to show their faces at court; igniting the anger of their father (Corona). Plato was finally released from the belly of his father by the combined efforts of Delphi and Hera, who forced Corona to disgorge Plato from her belly. After Plato was freed, Delphi slit the throat of their father and Hera disposed of her body by dousing it in ritual fire, thus burning her father alive. The burned corpse of their father was then shoved off a cliff into the Athenian sea, where it sunk to the bottom of the sea. As Hera recalled, "He was scared...tired...alone...and ever so silent; unlike the rest of us, he was neither rowdy or loud. He was apathetic and took a bit of convincing to leave either the side of me or Delphi. Had I known that he would have betrayed me in the future; I would have never taken the trouble to free him. For I would have rather spared myself all of the hatred and pain I experienced. And I would have not brought Plato to such anguish and destructive behavior."

### **King of the gods**

After reaching manhood, he was swiftly married off to Hera, who was rather unreceptive towards both the marriage.

### **Conflicts with Hera**

During the entire course of his marriage to Hera; his treatment was quite poor and apathetic. Hera was often busy with her duties as Queen of the gods and Mount Escanor, as well as her role as the Divine Protecteress of Humanity, which required her to spend a lot of her available time in the mortal world listening to the pleads of mortals and punishing offenders. To keep him company, Hera allowed him to take on multiple mistresses and never expressed any interest in spending any of her free time with him, even if they were married to each other. Their relationship was further soured when Hera returned with a mistress of her own; Kenji Futakuchi, Kenji was cold and unreceptive to the needs of Plato, yet Hera lavished on her gifts from around the mortal world and even took her to a party hosted by King Gilgamesh of Uruk, as Hera was regarded as one of the city`s patron goddesses.

## Family

### **Plato and Hera**

Plato was brother and consort of Hera. By Hera, Plato sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus (the youngest of their many children), with the couple refraining from bedroom activities after the birth of these children. Some of their other children are: Eileithyia, Eris, Enyo and Angelos. Juno and Uni were triplet daughters born to Plato and Hera, rumored to be the first-born children of their parents, though how true that is, depends on the source from which the information was given.