Pluto

**Pluto** is the God of Riches, Mineral Wealth, and the Dead from Roman mythology. He is the ruler of the Roman Underworld called **Avernus**.

He is the Roman counterpart of **Hades**.

## Overview

**Pluto**, also known as **Plouton**, was the Roman god of the underworld and wealth, often seen as a Roman counterpart to the Greek **Hades**. Pluto holds a key and scepter, which he uses to protect his kingdom and guard the dead from escaping. The dwarf planet Pluto is named after him.

Much like his Greek counterpart, Pluto was the ruler of dead, but was not the god of death. He was also seen as the embodiment of wealth, as many believed the underworld to locate deep within the Earth. Pluto was previously referred to as Dis Pater, meaning "father of gods."

## Appearance

Pluto has the appearance of a young man in his 20s, with long black hair and blue eyes. His skin is described as being so pale that it is almost blue, like cold milk. He wears a dark suit with a black-and-platinum striped tie and a tombstone-gray shirt.

When he first appeared, he wore the traditional attire of a Roman emperor. His tunic and toga are made of black wool with threads of gold and faces of tormented souls shifted in the fabric. The edge of his toga was lined with the crimson of a senator or praetor, but the stripe rippled like a river of blood. A golden laurel was placed upon his head, each leaf was engraved with a human skull.

## Personality

As Pluto, he becomes more disciplined, militaristic, and warlike than he is as Hades. However, just like his Greek counterpart, he seems to care deeply for his children and any woman he falls in love with, being very protective of them.

When first visiting his daughter Hazel, he apologized for her curse and offered her a present. He then went upstairs and tried to convince his current lover to stay where he could protect her and their child. Ironically, Pluto cares enough that he ignored his daughter's existence, allowing her to live because she was also one of the souls that escaped Avernus.

## History

Similar to other Greek gods, when he and his underground kingdom moved to Rome, Hades began to overlap with other gods, both foreign and native alike. Eventually, after several centuries, he started to develop an additional Roman form known as **Pluto**, the Latinized form of the Greek epithet *Ploútōn*, meaning "the Rich One".

According to Hecate, as Pluto, he bears many resembles to the underworld gods of cultures and regions that was conquered or encountered by Rome, including Dis Pater, the Sabine god Soranus, and the Gaulish god Taranis.

At some point in history, he gained a consort named Aericura, a goddess originated from southern Germany and the Balkans. However, in the modern time, this goddess had disappeared, either faded into obscurity or absorbed and became the same as his main consort Proserpina.

### Modern Time

In 1928, Pluto was summoned to New Orleans, Louisiana, by the fortune teller Marie Levesque using a spell and the two fell in love. Eventually, they had a demigod daughter together named Hazel. Due to his presence is required in Avernus, he was forced to leave them, though he did sent his minions to watch over his daughter and tried to visit her from time to time.

One day, on his daughter's birthday, he visited the two and promised Marie a wish on the river Styx, which she wished for all the riches of the underworld, in spite of his warning that the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows. After he failed to convince her, he granted her her wish in the form of the cursed precious jewels and metals their daughter will be able to summon from the ground, before leaving and never return.

Before he left, however, he visited his daughter and gifted her a set of colored pencils and a sketch pad. He also apologized for her curse, which which caused anyone that touches the stones she pulls from the ground to have bad luck, saying she must hate him for it.

## Relationships

### Lovers

#### Marie Levesque

Marie Levesque was a fortune teller that summoned Pluto. They fell in love and had a daughter together. Marie is the only known mortal lover of Pluto.

### Children

#### Hazel Levesque

Pluto greatly cares for his daughter, Hazel. When he met Hazel on her thirteenth birthday, he gave her art supplies and apologized for her curse. After she is liberated from the Fields of Asphodel, he ignores her so that Hazel can have a chance at a life, however he comes to her and complements his daughter when she defeated Sciron.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, and Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Pluto are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Pluto.
* **Lack of Worship & Offerings**: As a pagan god, Pluto gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain his immense divinity. If he stops gaining offerings from his loyal followers, his powers may become immensely weakened. Due to his essence being tied to the Western Civilization, he can gain power from those associated and symbolized by his divine domains, or associated with him or the myths surrounding him.
	+ Due to his status as a chthonic god, he can maintain and even strengthen his divinity by absorbing the spiritual energy of the souls of the deceased or of the Realm of the Dead itself.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Pluto.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Pluto can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Longinus**: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Pluto, to the point where he can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Pluto can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* Pluto's appearance is based on *Hades* from "Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa".
* His name *Pluto* is a Latinized form of the Greek title *Ploútōn* (one of Hades' epithets), means “the Rich One”.
* The dwarf planet Pluto, once officially the smallest and farthest planet categorized, was named after him.