Apollo

Artemis (twin sister)

 Ares, Hercules, Dionysus, Hermes, Jason of Themyscira, Jason Grace, Perseus (half-brothers), Athena, Hebe, Enyo, Eileithyia, Diana of Themyscira, Persephone, Thalia Grace (half-sisters)

 Apollo's Cabin members (children) Halcyon Green, Asclepius, Lee Fletcher, Michael Yew, Will Solace, Austin Lake, Leonardo da Vinci, Louis XIV, Hymenaios, Aristaeus (sons), Pythia (daughter)

Hecate and Aura (cousins)

Kronos (paternal grandfather) & Rhea (paternal grandmother) Koios (maternal grandfather) & Phoebe (maternal grandmother)

## Equipment

### Weapon(s)

* Golden Bow
* Sunblade

### Item(s)

Lyre

**Phoebus Apollo** is the Greek God of the Sun, Light, Prophecy, Archery, Healing, Plagues, Medicine, Truth, Logic, Order, Music, Art, Poetry, and Knowledge. He's the twin brother of the goddess Artemis, and they are together known as the "**Twin Archers**". He bears the same name as his **Roman counterpart**.

## Personality

Apollo is described as arrogant, self-centered, and cocky, as is typical among the gods. He loves his 'little' sister Artemis, even though they often clash, as he is the more laid back, less serious twin; he is always hitting on her Hunters as well, though she has forbidden it, and they refuse to be charmed by him due to their oath.

However, Apollo also has a dark cruel side: he placed a terrible curse on his son, Halcyon Green, for trying to defy fate to help another in need. One of the factors that fueled Apollo's dark side was his protectiveness of his mother, Leto - after Niobe insulted Leto, Apollo ruthlessly killed all seven of her sons. Later on, he personally asked Hades to eternally torture Tityos for harassing his mother. He even went as far as to flay alive the satyr Marsyas after winning their musical contest, although he later denied having flayed him alive, implying that while he can be quite cruel when angered, he is not so cruel as to painfully kill others.

His sunny and optimistic demeanor actually conceals deep sorrows: he had never truly moved on from the two greatest loves of his life - Daphne (who turned into a tree to escape his advances) and Hyacinthus (who died due to a feud between Apollo and Zephyros), and was haunted by their memories, to the extent where anything that could be associated with them would almost reduce him to tears if he saw it. Apollo also acknowledged to himself that he secretly harbored a good deal of resentment towards his father, Zeus, and his killing the Cyclopes who forged Zeus's lightning bolt had not been a rash decision, as it was easier for him to hate and blame the weapons which his father frequently used to threaten him with, than to hate his father himself.

Apollo was also revealed to have a tendency to brag about his previous accomplishments, particularly his victory over Python, to the point of embellishing it: though he told storytellers that he had vanquished Python with a single arrow the instant he arrived at its cave, the truth of the matter was that he had needed all of his godly strength, his divine powers, and his bow (which he described to be the deadliest bow in the world) to defeat Python, who had been *"no pushover"*. In fact, the battle between Apollo and Python had been such that the former suffered from nightmares about the latter for centuries.

Being Zeus's son that was born out of wedlock, he takes more of his father's side and covers for him when Zeus goes out and visits Electra. Knowing Hera's profound jealousy towards Zeus's mistresses, he warns Zeus when Hera was watching him during one of his visits. After the civil war, he is seen along with Hermes and Hephaestus waiting for Heron to awake, and gives him his mother's ornament, seemingly making Heron contented.

Apollo seems to understand more about being a human, and started caring more for the "little losses". When fighting with Caligula, he was willing to sacrifice himself, because he knew this would be the best chance to save his allies. Even though he says he probably wouldn't have done this if Medea wasn't going to heal him and doesn't see it as something heroic because of that, Perseus says it was heroic especially for a god. The experience gives Apollo a new view of his "wicked stepmother" Hera and a sympathetic stance towards Perseus. He also comes to terms with his relationship with his father and vows to never forget the lessons he learned as a mortal.

## Appearance

Apollo was portrayed as having a resemblance to Luke Castellan, looking about seventeen or eighteen, with the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. He's described to be an extremely handsome god, being as tall and muscular and bronzed as a Baywatch lifeguard, with long golden hair tied back in a *"man bun"* and eyes that shone like the sun, much like those of Hyperion, though less harsh. His radiance was enhanced by his wearing a Greek robe of gold, and a beautiful golden bow and a quiver of magical arrows over his shoulders. His handsomeness was such that even his stepmother, Hera, who had a deep natural hatred of Zeus' mistresses and illegitimate children, did not dare object to his claiming his place among the Olympian gods. Apollo is often seen driving the Sun Chariot, and almost always has a laurel wreath on his head.

When he first approached Cyrene, Apollo wore his best purple robes, and a laurel wreath across his brow. His smile was *"blinding"*, while his eyes *"shone like molten gold"*, and he was surrounded by a flickering aura of honey-colored light.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

Apollo is known as the most powerful son of Zeus, having been trusted with more significant powers and responsibilities than any of his other children. He's easily able to wipe out an entire city with just one shot from his bow and once defeated the mighty Python. Hence, Apollo is an extremely powerful god surpassed only by the seven oldest Olympians (the Big Three, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia) and Perseus Lykaios, and is equal to Artemis and rivaled by Athena.

* **Olympian Physiology**: Apollo belongs to an inconceivably powerful race of Old Gods known as the Gods of Olympus, granting him an almost unlimited amount of power to call upon. He possesses the conventional superhuman attributes of an Olympian, with some of these abilities being considerably greater than the majority of his race and were far superior compared to demigods.
	+ **Allspeak**: Like all Olympians, Apollo can communicate in all languages, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages known as the Allspeak (also called *All-Tongue*).
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability**: Apollo was shown to be extremely resistant to physical injuries, with conventional bladed and mundane weaponry being unable to pierce his skin unless they are imbued with magical properties. He survived to a powerful punch from Shazam wielding the power of Zeus, multiple blows from Wonder Woman, a truck crashing into him at full speed and bullets without any real damage.
	+ **Immortality**: Like all Olympians, Apollo is functionally immortal and cannot die through any conventional means. He's immune to the effects of aging and has not aged past his prime since reaching adulthood, nor is he affected by diseases and infections. As an immortal, Apollo can fade from existence - either from a lack of worship or the diminishing of domains and if other sources of power are destroyed.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Despite his great resiliance to physical injury, Apollo can still be harmed by magic and weapons containing magical properties. His divine life-force allows him to regenerate missing limbs and organs with superhuman effiiciancy and is unaffected by any diseases or infections. As the God of Healing, Apollo's regnerative capabilities was amongst the greatest of the gods, with the Elder Olympians being known for surpassing him.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Apollo has incredible physical strength and is substantially stronger than most Olympians. He was able to harm beings as powerful as Wonder Woman and Superman, matching them blow for blow. When Hercules attacked his Oracle, Apollo engaged him in battle, and they were equally matched, only when Zeus threw his thunderbolt between the two of them did the fight stop. He claimed he could rip off Nero's head, and later matched Nero's strength equally when the latter was thrice as strong as in their first encounter.
	+ **Superhumanly Dense Tissue:** Due to the side-effect of his half Olympian physiology, like all Olympians, Apollo's skin, muscles, and bones tissue are about three times denser than similar human tissue, contributing to his superhuman strength and weight.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Apollo is capable of running much faster than even the finest human athlete. His speed was comparable to Hermes when the former wasn't using any godly powers, having outran him during the Olympic games. As the God of Light, Apollo can move and function at lightspeed, notably being able to react faster than superhumanly possible.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: Despite his extreme muscular size, Apollo has the ability to move his body with flexibility and coordination that are significantly beyond the natural limits of the human body.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**: Apollo's reflexes are in levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
		- **Superhuman Stamina**: Apollo's highly advanced musculature produces no fatigue toxins, enabling him to sustain almost indefinitely and grants him almost limitless stamina.
* **Greco-Roman Magic**: As an Old God and son of Zeus, Apollo naturally and inherently uses Greco-Roman Magic that's also imbued with the supernatural divine energies of the Olympians, which allows him to manipulate magic and various aspects of reality. He wields tremendous amounts of magical power few were capable of matching, with Athena and Artemis being his only equals. His level of mastery and divine power was even acknolwedged by Perseus Lykaios, first of the Lords of Order and the Archmage of Olympus, especially in regards to using healing-based magic.
	+ **Heliokinesis**: As God of the Sun, Apollo has absolute control and divine authority over the Sun. He can manipulate various aspects of sun and solar energy for numerous purposes, such as generating enough light and heat equaled to a thousand suns. His power is to an extent, lesser than Helios, the personification of the Sun and Apollo's predecessor, nor was Apollo capable of matching Ra. He did rival Sol, the Norse personification of the Sun, and equaled Freyr, a Vanir deity assoicated with sunlight and the sun's prosperous energy.
		- **Photokinesis**: As God of the Sun and Light, Apollo has absolute control over sunlight and can manipulate it for numerous purposes. He applies this in many ways such as creating light to hover over him, adjust the brightness from different light sources, and generate light and colors from the plam of his hands. When talking with Perseus, Apollo was able to telekinetically throw Doctor Light and then weaponized his own powers against him.
		- **Pyrokinesis**: As God of the Sun, Apollo has absolute control over the flames of the Sun Chariot and could physically generate explossive balls of fire. He can even absorb sunlight and its thermokinetic energy to transform into a humanoid sun, causing supernatural effects in the surrounding area just as the sun would. This is regarded as the most lethal of Apollo's powers, being capable of inducing enough heat to burn everything around him. After being summoned from Tartarus, Apollo noted that his solar form was nothing compared to Helios, which induced natural disasters including wildfires and droughts across the world by just being there.
		- **Solar Empowerment**: Like other deities associated with the forces of nature, Apollo possessed a connection the Sun, one of the six Primal Sources that contribute to the physical world. This connection makes him stronger at daytime when the sun was at its highest during noon, and loses a considerable amount of power over his abilities effectiveness during nighttime. He's capable of using this connection to fuel his powers, but greater capabilities such as transforming into a solar form often tires him out and requires a great deal of rest afterwards.
	+ **Audiokinesis**: As the God of Music, Apollo holds absolute control over music and sound wave. His son Will Solace could make a sharp ultrasonic whistle-like sound that can temporarily stun his opponents, making them clutch their ears in confusion. He can create sonic vibes and pulses which charge through the air like blasts of energy and generate sonic waves which hypnotize and block the line of sight. In a burst of divine power, Apollo loosed a roar at a severely weakened Commodus, described as *"a song with only one note: pure rage and only one volume: maximum."* The onslaught of pure sound caused Commodus to crumble into ash, leaving behind an outline of a burned man on the asphalt.
	+ **Cursing**: Apollo can place horrible curses on people and objects, having stripped Halcyon of his voice and forced him to wear Python's skin. He cursed Orion with slow and painful insanity that drove him to hunt every beast on Earth. His demigod children are able to curse others into only speaking in rhyming couplets that can take days or even weeks to wear off, with Apollo himself often doing this when annoyed. As the God of Truth, Apollo can induce dubiousness and unbelievability as a dreaful curse, famously cursing Cassandra with never having her prophecies being believed in spite of their accuracy. Apollo had cursed the people of Thebes with horrible plagues for Opedius' hubris, for they had been influenced by the insolence he had towards the gods.
	+ **Flight**: Apollo has the ability to fly, which was shown when he flew to the island of Delos to slay Python, and when he and Artemis descended upon the city of Thebes to punish Queen Niobe for her hubris.
	+ **Healing Magic**: As the God of Healing and Medicine, Apollo was an exceptionally powerful and skilled Healer whose capabilities within the medical arts went beyond the practices of mortals. He's capable of using spells to assist in the healing process for specific ailments, but can manipulate life itself and the anatomy of living organisms by sheer will alone.
		- **Nosokinesis**: Apollo also had power over plagues and epidemics, and channeled this ability through special arrows that exploded into foul vapors that spread the very disease he wanted inflict his victims with. During the Trojan War, when Agamemnon offended him, Apollo infected the latter's army with a plague. As a mortal, Apollo has this power, only it was considerably weaker and required a hymn about himself, creating a plague arrow. However, he only succeeded in creating a hay fever arrow, not the more deadly illness that he was aiming for. It managed to affect not only the Nero Colossus but the entirety of Camp Half-Blood.
		- **Medical Omniscience**: Apollo can instantly discern a person's health status and history, including knowing the required treatment by looking at the injured person. When the reincarnated Perseus was rescued from the Dursley Family, Apollo could tell he'd never received any medical treatment since after Atlanna was killed and the former had been kidnapped. His domain over medicine grants Apolo an impeccable awareness regarding new and old medical practices are being updated and evolving.
		- **Vitakinesis**: As the God of Healing and Medicine, Apollo can manipulate and modify a person's anatomy, as well as restore the injured to full health. Apollo is able to instantly heal wounds - he healed all of Perseus' wounds by speaking an incanatation and removed any injuries when movings his hands over the required area. Apollo stated that Asclepius held greater healing abilities than himself because he devoted all his time into the art. His demigod children were able to channel his healing abilities when they hummed a hymn to him in Ancient Greek, but it required a good deal of energy on their part
	+ **Hypnokinesis** (limited): Apollo has demonstrated some power over sleep and dreams, however its unknown the extent of this power. He's capable of inducing slumber upon others, having placed Perseus by snapping his fingers when conducting a medical examination. Apollo can also send dream visions as a method of communicating with others, however the ones being targeted must already be asleep for the communication to actually work.
	+ **Inspiration Inducement**: As the God of Art and leader of the Muses, Apollo has the ability to grant artistic inspiration upon others. While the Muses were limited to their sphere of influence, such as Calliope with stories and Erato with love poetry, Apollo bestowed inspiration for every form of art. Like the Muses, Apollo can only bestow his gift for either those born with or possess unexlored artistic talent. If a person wanted inspiration, they must earnestly and honestly pray to Apollo for a blessing and once the prayer has been granted, they must devote themselves in the works for life and genuinely offer their thanks to Apollo for his gifts.
* **Prophecy**: As the God of Prophecy and Foresight, Apollo is able to see into the future. However, he is unable to tell anyone future events, except through his Oracles, as then the information would become meaningless. Apollo does not possess full control over this power either and does't always know what the prophecies mean, nor can he control when they are told.
* **Lie Detection**: As the God of Truth, Apollo knows when people are telling the truth or lying. He could discern truths from the lies, with beings such as Loki and Hermes finding it difficult to speak any falsehoods the presence of Apollo. There have been instances where people lied to Apollo, with the god stating this power wasn't absolute unless he is willingly and consciously focusing onto the words being spoken.
* **Nigh-Omniscience**: As the God of Knowledge, Apollo is incredibly knowledgeable and intelligence, even stating himself to "*see a lot*". He was aware of Perseus Lykaios being the Demiurge's reincarnation, foreseeing him fading and being reborn without any prophetic visions. As the God of Logic and Reason, Apollo is both rational and highly logical, mostly thinking before taking action and rarely acting irrationally.
	+ **Cosmic Awareness**: Like every Old God, Apollo was aware of the Multiverse and the realms lying beyond. This grants him a level of understanding and knowledge of the rules surrounding existence which others may find incomprehensible, and was capable of learning things hidden from most people. Apollo was stated to possess a level of innate knowledge of things he hadn't been told, similar to Artemis but was heavily linked to his precognitive abilities.
	+ **Prescience**: Thanks to his prophetic abilities, Apollo has a form of sixth-sense regarding future events without needing to have a vision. He knew Electra was pregnant before she even knew and was seemingly aware that Atlanna would survive the Cold Massacre, but didn't actually know how. Apollo even stated that without having any visions, his futuristic knowledge is limited to simply knowing major aspects of the future and detecting contributing moments that shape it.

### Abilities

* **Master Marksman**: As the God of Archery, Apollo has incredible mastery in archery and target shooting-based activities, such as basketball. His arrows, which are invisible to mortals, would always strike the intended target regardless of the distance. He's also skilled in wielding conventional firearms with unerring accuracy due to his keen eyesight and impeccable hand-eye coordination. Apollo is capable of firing multiple arrows in a few seconds, striking enemies' weak points with extreme accuracy and directly hit small targets in the greatest of distances, and even shoot down targets without directly looking at them. He is able to throw any projectile with the same unerring accuracy, both in direct aim and complicated rebounds or interactions, as seen with him scoring a bullseye with three darts simultaneously thrown in a far distance without effort.
* **Master Acrobat**: Apollo is an extremely skilled acrobat, gymnast, and aerialist, capable of complex acrobatic maneuvers. He's very maneuverable and graceful, and is able to chase and outrun enemies through several terrains with no wasted effort or time, even scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop with ease. In battle, Apollo has proven very agile and evasive, able to fluidly dodge attacks from multiple directions with coordinated flips, twists and sharp turns without losing balance.
* **Expert Swordsman**: Given Homer's description him as *"Apollo of the Golden Sword"*, Apollo is an expert swordsman. It's revealed that he once possessed an extremely sharp sword made of adamantine and gold, but rarely used it, and he later gave it to Hermes in exchange for the flute. He was gifted a new sword forged by Perseus shortly after his return to Olympus, which Apollo often uses for close-range combat. Apollo easily matched Ares in their fight and gained the upperhand against the Warriors of Three, showing to possess superior swordsmanship despite the latter using swords for their entire lives.
* **Musical Ability**: As the God of Music, Apollo is the leader of the Nine Muses, as well as an expert musician who could play any musical instrument perfectly, though he is most often seen with his lyre. During his musical contest with Marsyas, Apollo was able to play his lyre flawlessly while holding it behind his back and not looking at the strings. He was also the one who taught Pandora how to sing and play the lyre, making her irresistible to Epimetheus. His music can be used to cause temporary memory loss or increase the speed of corrosion based on the song that he sings.

## Attributes

* Bow and Arrow
* Lyre
* Sacrifical Tripod
* Hyacinthus Flower
* Laurel Wreath
* Swans, hawks, cicadas, ravens, and snakes

## Attendants

Apollo has several loyal attendants, including the Nine Muses (some of which he fathered children with) and four golden Celedons, all of which accompany him in musical performances.

## Apollo's Chariot

Apollo's sun chariot is the one that brings light to the world, making the mortals believe that it is a huge ball of fire-the sun-in outer space (although Apollo infers that the Sun *does* still exist in space, just that the Sun Chariot is the embodiment of the Sun's *Effect* on Earth).

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* **Golden Bow**: Apollo's symbol of power that was forged by Hephaestus when he was a child after Apollo asked for it, needing the bow and arrows to protect his mother, Leto, from Python. After receiving them, Apollo cornered Python in the sacred cave at Delphi. Apollo killed the monster but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaea. Hence, he was exiled from Olympus for a long time.

### Other Equipment

* **Sun Chariot**: Apollo's sun chariot is the one that brings light to the world, making the mortals believe that it is a huge ball of fire-the sun-in outer space (although Apollo infers that the Sun *does* still exist in space, just that the Sun Chariot is the embodiment of the Sun's *Effect* on Earth).

## Family

Apollo loves both his mother and twin sister above all other women and will fiercely defend them. He is surpassed only by his father and Poseidon in his romances. Many of his demigod children have become famed artists, poets and musicians (e.g. William Shakespeare).

### Mortal Children

 Caterina da Vinci
 Anne of Austria
 Unknown

## Trivia

* Poseidon and Apollo are the only two major Olympians who have temporarily been stripped of their divinity and godly powers (by Zeus). Apollo, however, is the only one to whom this has happened twice
* Hermes was said to have put his Winged Shoes on Apollo when he was sleeping in Athens but then woke up in Argentina
* Hermes was said to have put his Winged Shoes on Apollo when he was sleeping in Athens but then woke up in Argentina in *The Dark Prophecy*.
* Apollo is cousins with the Titaness Hecate on his mother's side.
* Apollo gave Midas donkey ears after he declared Pan the winner in a music contest between the two gods.
* Artemis calls him "big-headed" and many other names siblings often call one another. In fact, when Nico di Angelo pointed out that the sun was just a big fiery ball of gas, Apollo said that Artemis had called him a big fiery ball of gas once, which led humans to believe that was indeed what the sun was.
* Apollo's epithet of "Phoebus" is a reference to his grandmother Phoebe, from whom he inherited his prophetic powers and the Oracle of Delphi.
* He slew the satyr Marsyas, flaying him alive, because he dared to challenge the god of music. However, Apollo denies these claims.
* He likes to make haikus (Japanese poems) which probably mirrors the fact that Japan is referred as the 'Land of the rising sun' and Apollo is the sun god.
* Apollo is the only Olympian to share his name with his Roman aspect because, in his own words, "perfection can't be improved." 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*).
* Apollo told Thalia that "I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees." This is a reference to Apollo's first love, the nymph Daphne, who became a laurel tree to escape him.
* Apollo is the one who informs Thalia of her age, which was previously unknown because of her transformation into a pine tree.
* NASA's spaceflight program that landed the first human on the moon was called the "Apollo Program."
* Ironically Apollo lies about being the elder twin (Artemis was born nine days before him) despite also being the god of truth. The latter 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.
* Papadopoulos is the most popular Greek surname meaning "son of a priest".
* 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.
* Interestingly enough, in the traditional Greek works, Apollo is described as wielding a silver bow and his sister having golden shafts.