Apollo

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## Personal Status

### Groups

Twelve Olympians (7th)
**Council of Godheads**

* Reserved Godheads

### Affliations

Mount Olympus
Olympian Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Light Manipulation
* Solar Manipulation
* Supernatural Archery

### Power Scale

**Rank**: EX-Ranked
**Class**: God-Class

## Portrayal

### English VA

Adam Croasdell

**Apollo**, also called **Phoebus Apollo**, is the God of the Sun, Healing, and Medicine from Greco-Roman Pantheon. As one of the Twelve Olympians, he is a ruler of Mount Olympus with immense authority over the Greco-Roman Pantheon.

## Overview

**Apollo** is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the *kouros* (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as *Apulu*.

As the patron deity of Delphi (*Apollo Pythios*), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Apollo is the god who affords help and wards off evil; various epithets call him the "averter of evil". Delphic Apollo is the patron of seafarers, foreigners and the protector of fugitives and refugees.

Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius. Apollo delivered people from epidemics, yet he is also a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows. The invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo and his sister Artemis. Apollo is usually described as carrying a golden bow and a quiver of silver arrows.

Apollo's capacity to make youths grow is one of the best attested facets of his panhellenic cult persona. As the protector of young (*kourotrophos*), Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children. He presided over their passage into adulthood. Long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age (ephebeia) and dedicated to Apollo.

Apollo is an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crops from diseases, pests and predators were his primary duties. On the other hand, Apollo also encouraged founding new towns and establishment of civil constitution. He was the giver of laws, and his oracles were consulted before setting laws in a city.

As the god of *mousike*, Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance and poetry. He is the inventor of string-music, and the frequent companion of the Muses, functioning as their chorus leader in celebrations. The lyre is a common attribute of Apollo. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BCE, as *Apollo Helios* he became identified among Greeks with Helios, the personification of the Sun. In Latin texts, however, there was no conflation of Apollo with Sol among the classical Latin poets until 1st century CE. Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 5th century CE.

## Appearance

Apollo appears an extremely handsome young man, with a tall, lean yet muscular frame. He has bronze-tanned skin and golden eyes like the Sun, with long blond hair often styled into a messy man bun. He is considered to be one of the most attractive gods in mythology.

When he's channeling ethereal energy, his eyes turn into blazing pits of gold-and-silver flames.

## Personality

Originally, Apollo could appear as arrogant, self-centered, and cocky, as is typical among the gods. However, as time passes, his personality progressively changes as he becomes more mature, empathetic, and kind, and starts to feel feelings such as guilt and sorrow over his past actions. Despite this, he still has a significantly big ego even in comparison to other Olympians.

He loves his "little" sister, even though they often clash, as he is the more laid-back, less serious twin. He has also proven to be very open-minded and even, in a way, affectionate person, especially to his children. However, despite being known as the "Protector of Youths", his hands are pretty much tied when it comes to the safety of his own demigod children, as well as the other gods', much to his own guilt and embarrassment

Being the [God of Poetry], he always appears to be obsessing over various kinds of poems, depending on where he visits, with his current favorite one being *haiku* after the last time he visited Japan in the aftermath of World War II. And yet, his poetic skills mostly rely on Greek or Latin poetry as many consider his *haiku* to be a "divine punishment" in their own rights.

Despite his sunny and optimistic demeanor, however, it might actually conceal deep sorrows. According to him, he has never truly moved on from the two greatest loves of his life - Daphne and Hyacinthus - and is haunted by their memories, to the extent where anything that could be associated with them will almost reduce him to tears if he sees it. And like many other gods, he can also become cruel and sadistic at times, placing horrible curses onto those who he *feels* have offended him

## Trivia

* He and his twin share the same birthday on May 24th.
* His attributes are the bow and arrow, the lyre, the laurel wreath, the sacrificial tripod, and the hyacinth flower.
* He and Poseidon are the only two major Olympians who have temporarily been stripped of their divinity and godly powers by Zeus.
* According to him, Hermes once put talaria on him while he was sleeping in Athens, causing him to eventually wake up on an Argentinian beach.
* He likes to make *haiku* (Japanese poems) which probably mirrors the fact that Japan is referred to as the 'Land of the rising sun' and Apollo is the sun god.
* He is the only Olympian to share his name with his Roman aspect. In reality the god had no Roman equivalent and was instead imported into the Roman pantheon, his Greek name Ἀπόλλων (*Apóllōn*) being Latinized as APOLLO (*Apollō*).
	+ Due to this, he remains the "most Greek of all the gods".
* His epithet of "Phoebus" is a reference to his grandmother Phoebe, from whom he inherited his prophetic powers and the Oracle of Delphi.
* Sparta's most important festival, the Hyacinthia, was held in honor of Apollo.
	+ The Pythian Games, one of the four Panhellenic festivals, were held in honor of Apollo every four years at Delphi.
* Apollo's least favorite Roman Emperors are Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus.
	+ It was revealed that he was the one who killed Commodus, having strangled him in his bathtub, under the guise of the wrestler Narcissus.
* NASA's spaceflight program that landed the first humans on the moon was called the "Apollo Program" in his honor, not that the mundanes knew about it.
* Ironically he lies about being the elder twin (Artemis was born nine days before him) despite also being the god of truth. This may simply be him messing with his sister for fun (due to her favored form being a 12 year old and his that of a teenager).
* King Louis XIV of France was his son. Because of that, all the descendants of this king are legacies, including the Spanish Royal family.