Ares

## Powers & Abilities

* **Olympian God Physiology:** As a son of Zeus & Hera, Ares is an extremely powerful god.
	+ ***Immortality*:** Daimons are immortal & can live forever. They do not age like humans & are unaffected by time or succumbing to mortal frailty as sickness or impotence of any kind.
	+ ***Superhuman Agility***
	+ ***Superhuman Durability***
	+ ***Superhuman Senses***: Daimons' senses are enhanced to immense superhuman levels, allowing them to perceive the world in far greater detail than the senses the average human possesses.
	+ ***Superhuman Speed***
	+ ***Superhuman Strength*:** Daimons possess incredible physical prowess. As the God of War, Ares possesses colossal physical strength, which he relies on greatly in many fights.
	+ ***Transfiguration*:** Olympians possess the ability to shapeshift & to transfigure others. Ares had an infamous reputation of transforming his enemies or those who had offended him into serpents. However, he has also been shown to utilise this ability as a way of rewarding.
* **Divine Abilities**
	+ ***Council of Twelve*:** Ares is a member of the Council of Twelve, making him one of the twelve major deities of the pantheon. Every summer & winter solstice, they hold an official meeting to discuss the state of their pantheon.
	+ ***God of War*:** Ares is an extremely fierce warrior, as well as a master of both armed & unarmed combat. However, his occasional tendency to underestimate his opponents & start toying with them has caused him to suffer defeats. Ares has the power to manipulate war, strife, combat, & other forms of conflict - all to a highly advanced level. Through this power, he is able to influence all forms of conflict, including mental, physical, spiritual & conceptual ones, regardless of the area & numbers involved, & he could even control how they progress & draw power both from the conflict alone as well as the dying. Ares could also start conflicts by influencing people or events, raise personal & fanatical armies, control & create weapons of every kind & even grant others extensive abilities of combat. Ares is naturally, extremely skilled in all forms of fighting, weapons & both strategy & tactics as well as statistics of war. He has the incredible power to invoke war & chaos within an enormously large radius, ranging from a city to an entire continent. With this power, he has full control of the city or continent that is in war & chaos at the time.
		- ***Ares' Blessing*:** Ares' blessing, which is only bestowed upon people who show unflinching courage (or blood-lust) on the battlefield, grants the person who receives it superhuman strength & near-invulnerability.
		- ***Necromancy*:** The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares. He once presented her with a ship full of perfectly obedient Confederate skeleton warriors.
		- ***Tactical Analysis*:** Ares seems to have a sixth sense regarding the trajectory of assaults in the heat of combat. He is able to perfectly position his blocks, making his opponents believe he knew exactly what they were going to do the moment before they did it.
		- ***Telumkinesis*:**As the God of War, Ares has a great amount of control over weapons. Although his symbol of power are spear, he can transform it into seemingly any handheld weapon conceivable, including a "huge" hunting knife, an aluminum baseball bat, a Late Medieval two-handed greatsword & a shotgun. He can transform weapons into something far less threatening. Ares is also able to curse weapons, disarm his opponents with a gesture & gain knowledge about a weapon when he sees it.
	+ ***God of Violence***
	+ ***God of Battlelust / God of Rage*:** Ares has control over feelings & emotions of war (such as hate & rage), & frequently induces them in order to start fights. He can instantly cure "battle jitters."
		- ***Powerful Roar*:** When wounded, Ares roars so loud it sounds "ten thousand men."
	+ ***Pyrokinesis*:** Ares is shown to have some control over fire. The flames in his eye sockets also intensify when he is angered. However, he does not possess the command over fire his brother has, nor is he immune to its power.
	+ ***Control of Animals*:** He can summon and control animals that are sacred to him, such as vultures & wild boars.
* **Ares' War Chariot:** Ares uses a changeable war chariot as his preferred mode of transportation. It is usually driven by Ares himself or by his charioteers, Deimos & Phobos. As a tradition, his sons are to drive it when they turn fifteen though a daughter is allowed if she is deemed worthy. His preferred form for his chariot is a motorcycle.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Ares' attendants are usually his twin sons Deimos & Phobos, who drive his war chariot (pulled by fire-breathing horses), though his lover Aphrodite sometimes takes their place. He was also frequently accompanied into battle his sister Enyo. His mountain fortress is guarded by nearly a dozen minor warlike gods.
* Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is named after Ares' Roman counterpart.
* Ares considers the U.S "the best thing since Sparta" as ordinary citizens are allowed weapons & the constitution allows more freedom when it comes to punishment by law.
* Ares' name is believed to be derived from the Greek word ἀρή (*arē*), meaning *"bane or ruin"*.
* He has an intense fear of jars, as a result of his ordeals at the hands of the Aloadae Giants.
* Ares uses sunglasses to cover his eyes, which are actually hollow sockets filled with flames.
* His aluminum baseball bat is actually his sword/spear in disguise.
* Ares was very respected by the Spartans, who worshipped him through human sacrifices. The Spartans also had a massive & chained up statue of Ares in the city's center. According to legend, as long as the statue remains chained, Ares will remain the patron god of Sparta, granting its citizens victories.
* He is his mother Hera's favorite son. He is also his father's least favorite divine son.
* Ares' best quote is "Kill it dead."
* He hates being compared to the character from the game *"God of War."*
* In myth, he is portrayed as a military general or professional warrior but in America, he took on a 1950s rebellious "Greaser" persona.
* His Egyptian equivalent is Horus, his Norse counterpart is Tyr & his Mayan counterpart is Nakon.