Cleomenes Phirion

Adventurer in the FBK season 2024. Goes by "Cleo."

Full name pronunciation: Clee-o-men-ees Fear-ee-on

## **Appearance**

* Fantasy race: Gorgon. She has legs rather than a snake body.
* Pronoun: she/her or they/them
* Age: 21
* Voice accent:
* Height: 5'7
* Weight: 120 lbs
* Example clothing outfit worn: A flowing toga under a cloak and a hood. Sometimes Cleo wears a mask, other time a blindfold. But she rarely if ever lets anyone see her eyes.

## **Personality**

* Traits: Very shy and socially anxious, soft-spoken, observant, intelligent, likes learning about magic, likes doing things with her hands.
* Goal: To learn the most powerful spell and undo the curse she placed on her mother and sister.
* Flaws: Sheltered, terrified in most social situations, cannot control her gorgon powers.
* Biggest fear: That she will curse someone else she cares about and be unable to fix it.
* One thing they want more than anything else: For her mother and sister to come back to life.
* Pop culture influences: Medusa, gorgon characters in modern pop culture (Artsmith Mika's Gorgon-chan, Meddy from the Degen comics)
* Tics / mannerisms to help GMs portray them consistently: Always wears a blindfold, but she can see from the snakes that make up her hair.

## **Social Connections**

* Family members:
	+ Melantios Phirion - father. He homeschooled her and tries not to resent her for what she did to her mother, but it's hard sometimes.
	+ Niobe Phirion - mother. Cleo accidentally and irreversibly petrified her when she was 8. Currently a statue in the Phirion house. Cleo has some memories of her mother before she was turned into a statue.
	+ Enyo Phirion - younger sister. Cleo accidentally and irreversibly petrified her when Cleo was 8 and Enyo was 5. Currently a statue in the Phirion house.
* People they know:
* Social class (student/poor/wealthy): middle class
* Occupation: adventurer, homeschooled student
* Combat class: intelligence based spell caster, spell caster with innate magic, and/or agility based martial class.
* Where they sleep at night: Cleo usually sleeps at her home.

## **Background / Personal history:**

* Cleo was born to a Gorgon father and human mother, technically making her half-gorgon. Though she was born with snakes as hair like most Gorgons, her powers did not begin to manifest until she was 7 years old. Anything living that looked into her eyes became petrified - turned completely to stone. Unlike most gorgon magic, which is reversible, this was irreversible and it was as though the creatures had always been stone. Her father came up with the solution to have her wear a blindfold and never leave the house until her powers could stabilize.
* Like most children would, she found it difficult to keep the blindfold on all the time. One day when she was playing with her younger sister in the yard, her blindfold slipped off and their eyes met. Enyo was immediately turned to stone. Cleo realized what she had done and began to cry, her mother turning to rush toward her and comfort her. However, Cleo instinctively looked up at her and Niobe became a stone statue as well, her shocked expression and wide eyes full of love and concern frozen indefinitely.
* Melantios came home from work that day with his worst fears realized. He became a single father to Cleo and tried to reverse the effects of the petrification - even getting gorgon elders to have a look at his wife and child with no avail. Cleo began to study magic while her dad was at work, trying to figure it out herself. As she grew up, she longed to see the world outside her house. Her father let her do so as long as she protected herself and never let anyone look into her eyes.
* Eventually, Cleo heard about the Firebreathing Kittens and decided to join them, hoping to meet friends, eventually control her powers, and maybe find a way to reverse her unique petrification curse.