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**Phobos** is a deuteragonist in the comic **In The Forgotten Era.** He is a dragon vampire hybrid, and **The God of Parasites**.

## Appearance

Phobos has ashy dark skin with six eyes, the middle two are red, the other eyes have make-up to make them look like markings, they are pure white. His hair is a messy dark midnight blue and he has curved horns that slightly curve towards his face, he has large bat-like wings hidden by a cape.

His cape is long and red with a white fluffy collar. He has a desaturated brown long-sleeved shirt, ashy black gloves. His shit is tied by a thick leather belt that has white x designs. His pants are long and dark blue, and finally his boots are dark brown with lighter insides, laces and heals.

## Character connections

Atonia: Atonia is Phobos' mother, despite the difficulties of raising a dragon on top of the harshness of their home Atonia raised and loved Phobos as best as any mother could and always protected him even into adulthood. He is very close with his mother because of this and would destroy a village for her.

Kenos: Kenos is Phobos' father, despite his utter abandonment of his other children Kenos genuinely loves and cares for his son and worries for him greatly. Phobos dislikes his neglect of his siblings but he does love his father greatly, especially since Kenos goes out of his way to do things with him like murder.

Umbra: Umbra is Phobos' half sister on their fathers side, the two are very close and Phobos seems to be the only one who can see through Umbra's insane persona and see her as she really is. They often terrorize villages together and come up with new and weirder ways to kill people ranging from funny to downright cruel. They share a deep hatred for what their kind has gone through and Umbra was the one who gave him the idea that taking it out on the masses was a good idea. Though he's more careful in his killing due to his parasitic nature.

Hiavana: Hiavana is Phobos' half sister on their mothers side, he doesn't have much of a relationship with his younger sister but holds an appreciation for her being a goddess which takes attention away from him so he can get away with more and be more relaxed in his dragon heritage. Phobos has tricked her into believing that he's too stunted in development to be talked to on an equal standing.

## Background/story

### Early Life

Phobos was born in the Deepest Frost as the son of the True God of Plague and Illness Kenos and the Mortal Champion Atonia. Because of the fact that he was a dragon Atonia had to hide him for the first five years of his life so nobody would pick up on the unnaturally large apatite of the young boy, or his growing horns and six eyes. To hide his identity Atonia lied about a lot of things, saying that his father was a satyr to excuse the horns and telling him to keep his top and bottom eyes shut constantly, even applying make-up to make them look like cool markings opposed to what they actually were. The only thing she couldn't hide was Phobos' large dragon wings, however Kenos would soon gift his son a large cloak that would make his wings completely disappear and reappear at will.

Hiding his identity was not the only difficult thing about young Phobos' life though, there was the simple problem of the constant food problem in the Deepest Frost and how that greatly conflicted with the biology of young dragons needing to eat constantly to keep the balance of their soul in tact. There were many weeks that would go by were he would have not a drop of blood in sight, no matter how hard his mother would look, no matter how many times she pleaded to the god of the deepest frost she just couldn't get enough blood for him and herself. Atonia would weep at her young sons bed after he cried himself to sleep thinking he would die of starvation. His father would often come by with a large animal for the boy to eat but these visits were rare due to the danger of a dragon being spotted.

Years of only barely getting enough substance to sustain his soul has permanently stunted his growth, making him a comically short vampire and bat for the rest of his life. However there was opportunity in his misfortune, he could pretend that he was vocally and mentally stunted as well to seem less of a threat to the vampires, as nobody would expect a dragon to be so heavily stunted in growth. This would work in his favor, becoming more confident that his little secret would never get out.

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and origin

* Phobos is named after the Greek God of Fear, also Phobos

### Curiosities

* Phobos is 4'7ft, making him the shortest of all adult gods