Perseus

### Appearance

Man with blue eyes and curly brown hair, approximately late twenties, early thirties

### Occupation

Fisherman (formerly)
Warrior

### Affiliations

Olympians
Argive Royal Family

### Goal

To kill the Kraken and save Andromeda and Argos
Get revenge on Hades for killing his adoptive family
Save his father from the underworld and to defeat Kronos.

### Allies

Zeus, Io, Andromeda, Agenor, Helius, Draco, Solon, Eusebios, Ixas, Djinn, Apollo, Korrina (formerly), Poseidon, Hades

### Enemies

Ares, Hades (formerly), Furies, Kronos, Cyclopes (formerly), the Minotaur, Chimera, Makhai

### Dislikes

His family in danger, Hades (formerly), gods meddling with things they don't understand

### Fate

Lives in Argos and finally gives his son a sword to handle.

### Quote

"I'd rather die in the mud with those men than live forever as a god."

**Perseus** is the main protagonist of the 2010 film, *Clash of the Titans* and *Wrath of the Titans*.

## Background

Perseus is the demigod son of Zeus and Danae.

Acrisius, the King of Argos, laid waste to Olympus. In revenge, Zeus disguised himself as the king and slept with Queen Danaë . This resulted in a conceiving a child. Danaë gave birth to a son, named Perseus. However, as a baby, Perseus and his birth mother were cast into the sea. In retaliation, Zeus stroke lightning, and transformed Acrisius into the creature, Calibos.

Found at sea, Perseus was named and raised by a family of fisherman, a man named Spyros and a woman named Marmara

### Personality

As a child, Perseus was quite adventurous, wanting to travel the world more. However, as he grew older, Perseus came to enjoy the peaceful fisherman life with his parents and sister. However, while Perseus wanted to know who his birth family was, he was happy with the family he had.

Because he was a simple fisherman, most of his initial companions believed Perseus was incompetent. However, the teen demigod was quite intelligent, and in fact, became a skilled leader over the remaining company after the attack of the Scorpions. The men of this small band willingly followed him, even going literally following him into the realm of Hades, all knowing that they might die on this adventure like the witches foretold them.Perseus was devoted to his family and loved them very much. Even though Spyros and Marmara weren't Perseus' biological parents, he still loved them and regarded them as parents, the people who rasied him and was happy with his little sister, Tekla and often helped her when they went fishing together. He wanted to avenge their deaths as much as possible when they were killed by Hades.

Perseus later fought for the world to be a better place for his son, who was one of the only things Perseus ever held dear to. He also showed visible signs of wanting to know who is birth parents were.He was shocked to learn that his father was  Zeus himself and learned the true circumstances of his birth. When Perseus learned that he and his birth mother were cast into the sea, Perseus was taking it all in as Io told him what happened to his mother. Perseus had a resentment towards his father, Zeus, and coldly rebuffed his birth father's gifts and even denied Zeus as his father. However, by *Wrath,* Perseus did regard Zeus as his father and even went on a rescue mission to save him. He also regarded Agenor as his cousin and family member, but had a strong rivalry with his half-brother, Ares, who hates Perseus because their father always favored his demigod child over his god son.

Throughout the *Clash of the Titans* franchise, Perseus was only attracted and in love with two women, but was attracted to their character, and not their looks. His first lover was a woman named Io. At first, he resented Io's presence, but slowly fell in love with her on the quest to save Argos. The two of them married and had a child together, named Helius. He was very much sadden by her death twice and probably never loved another woman again. However, it turned out to be untrue, since Perseus began having feelings for Andromeda. He first met her when she was a princess and she was the only one in the kingdom to show Perseus kindness while everyone in the city was rude towards him. He later saved her life, causing Andromeda to fall in love with him and even offered him to become king, but Perseus refused and said he only served her as a man. When they met again ten years later, Andromeda was slightly jealous when he mentioned his wife very briefly. At the very end of *Wrath of the Titans*, Perseus gives her a very passionate kiss, implying they may enter a romantic relationship in the future, just like the myths.

In a deleted scene of Clash of the Titans, Apollo commented that Perseus is as hot-tempered as his father, Zeus is. It is reflected upon several times, such as Perseus wanting to immediately attack Hades without hesitation and thought. He later grew angry with the Stygian Witches when they would not tell them how to defeat the Kraken. After the events of *Clash*, marrying Io and having a son with her, Perseus became less hot-tempered due to fatherhood calming him down a bit. Since Io died, Perseus had been looking after Helius since, and both of them retain a very strong relationship with one another. To further show how committed he was to being a full time parent, Perseus refused to abandon Helius when his father needed him.

Overall, Perseus was a very brave man, willing to lay his life down on the line for anyone and continued to live in Argos and raise Helius, and giving him a weapon for the first time.