Damon Argos

### Other Family

* Max Palacios-Balcazar, Angelica Charity, Aeneas, Phobos, Deimos, Eros, Hermaphroditus, Anteros, Priapus and Hedylogus, Tyche, Herophile, Beroe, Harmonia, (half-siblings)
* The Titans, Elder Cyclopes, and Hekatonkheires, (Divine Uncles and Aunts)
* Comaetho (Paternal aunt)
* Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, Justine Montes, Tyler Solace, Estella Lamb (Divine cousins)
* Cyanippus (Paternal cousin)

### Best Friends Forever After

"Athanasia Ithaca, she's my best friend!"

### Storybook Romance Status

"None, strange for an Aphrodite kid, right?"

## Other Information

### Skills

* Marksmanship
* Swordsmanship
* Parkour skills
* Chariot riding skills
* Spear usage

### Interests & Hobbies

Gun usage

Damon Argos is a 2023-introduced and all-around/fiction-only character. He is the son of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, love, desire, passion, sexuality, pleasure, and fertility and Diomedes, king of Argos, from Greek Mythology, and currently attends Ever After High through the Mythology Program. In the destiny conflict, she is on the Rebel Side, since he doesn't want to be like either of his parents.

## Character

### **Personality**

Damon’s personality can be easily understood if one understands what any good Aphrodite kid should embody: they must be intelligent, they must be loving, they must be brave, and they must have family values. Damon is far more intelligent than most give him credit for. Firstly, Damon is intelligent in the classical way: he is academically intelligent. He gets good grades with relative ease, is well read, and articulates himself with equal ease and ability. Being clear and concise are second nature to Damon. More important is that secondly, Damon’s intelligence expresses itself in developed analysis skills. His love of theater and film may reveal his creative eye, but in equal turn they reveal his analytical eye. Said analytical eye often clashes with Damon’s third intelligence strength: his emotional intelligence. He infamously finds it hard to sit still in a cinema without critiquing the film as he goes, overruling his usually keen intuition for atmosphere and mood (and the social rules of a cinema). Damon isn’t a critical person in most regards, but in all regards he is a thoughtful one. It is true that Damon knows very little about his mortal side (being raised by his mother), but Damon tries to piece together what he can from what he has despite being far, far away from having all the pieces he needs. His curiosity and sharp mind are not to be dismissed because he doesn’t know that which he has been kept from understanding. Damon is, simply, a loving person. He is a simple person, though less simple as in stupid and more so simple as in straightforwardly kind and earnest. He is incredibly easy to get along with; that straightforward kind and earnest nature leads him to be open without question, though he isn’t one to overshare, which pairs well with his charisma and mild mannered personality. Damon has a smile that lights up a room and has many, many friends who will attest he gives very good hugs. He is an incredibly friendly, loyal person, though doesn’t make a show of that and has never thought twice about being there for people -- it is simply the good thing to do, and one should simply do the good thing. Trust is never something Damon demands you earn and he prefers to see trust as something to be revoked.

This leads to situations where Damon is more trusting than he ought to be. He isn’t stupid for not knowing everything about his lineage, but he is naive for trusting that it will be fine. Like his father, Damon is both loyal and cunning, using his charmspeak to his advantage in many situations. He's a skilled warrior, and knows when to back down from a fight he knows he couldn't win. Damon has nerves of steel, which isn’t to say he doesn’t feel fear, but rather that he is both prone and accustomed to pushing past it. Most people know Damon’s brave face well, but would struggle to think of it when they have seen Damon distressed, upset, or angry. Damon isn’t a toxic person, he feels free and wouldn’t stop himself feeling, but he does prefer to feel negative emotions in private. Such bravery is precisely why Damon cannot be described as “stupid”: to know nothing about your story and to still face it head on with a smile is brave; to know that the world has bad but to trust that most people will try their best to be good is brave; to be keen to learn what you are explicitly kept from knowing is brave. Damon has grown up seeing his mom mourn the loss of his dad. Damon’s dad died while Damon was very young and Damon’s mom often left him with the love nymphs while she was busy and he is sad to admit that he doesn’t (or rather, didn’t) know his two parental figures well at all. He finds it hard to admit that what might have had more of an impact on a very young him was how his mom reacted to the loss of his father, not the loss of his father itself. At a young age, he wanted to visit his father's kingdom, being brave and trusting all will be okay is for his mom. His love of family and honest-to-goodness family values are essential to understanding why Damon is the way he is. Despite an unconventional upbringing, Damon has never felt anything but safe, welcome, and loved in his home, and it is this feeling, a feeling that Damon believes ought to know, that informs Damon's moral compass. It should come as no surprise then that Damon has a habit of ‘adopting’ younger campers, who often begin to see him like a big brother figure. This isn’t so much a choice Damon makes but rather the result of him just being him. Damon is unquestioning, as said, for better or for worse. Ultimately, Damon knows he is intelligent, loving, brave, and family oriented. Perhaps the most notable thing about Damon is not that he has these traits, but rather his confidence in embodying them unapologetically.

### **Appearance**

When looking at Damon, you can instantly see the Aphrodite kid in him and is described as a handsome seventeen year old boy. Damon has dark tanned skin, light brown hair that is often tied in braids with pink and white beads in it, and brown eyes. When being raised by his mother, he wore traditional Ancient Greek clothes, but now at school he wears a black jacket, a pink and black shirt, jeans, and black sneakers.

### **Hobbies and Interests**

#### Gun usage

While many of his friends use swords, spears, bows, and other stuff like that, Damon as a favor of using a gun in battle, though most of the time, Zoe keeps a firm eye on him whenever he uses it. He's quite good at using the weapon and only uses it in battle

## Myths

### **How does Damon fit into it?**

Damon, as the son of Diomedes and Aphrodite, has two destines, though he leans more to his father's destiny than his mother's

### **Viewpoint on Destiny**

Damon is a rebel since he doesn't want to fight in a war like his dad, nor does he want to be the cause of a war, like his mom

## Powers/Abilities

### Aphrodite Kid Powers

* He has the ability to alter and control makeup, perfume, clothing, jewelry, and other beauty products (hairbrushes, combs, curlers, straighteners, etc).
* He has the power of amokinesis or love manipulation.
* He has the power of charm speak, or the ability to make people do what he wants just by using his voice (though this power is often delayed for him).
* He can change his physical features.
* He can communicate with doves and swans.
* He can tell what a person's sexuality is.
* He has the ability of love magic.
* He can create a large plume of dense perfume or make-up which obscures them and begins to suffocate anyone else within it. This can give him a chance to attack.
* He has the ability to fire razor sharp scallop shells at high speed which can be shot fast enough that they could pierce the skin on impact. The shells would materialize and fire from his palms, so the size of them depends on Damon.
* He can cause people of any gender to lose all desire to attack him for a short time. Out of an artificial love, the love isn’t necessarily romantic and could be like sibling love. If he attacks while this is in effect, it will automatically wear off.
* He has the ability to entrap an enemy in a large scallop shell, similar to the one his mother emerged from at birth. Once closed, the clam is extremely difficult to escape from. It is highly durable and cannot be teleported out of, after a short time the clam will fade from existence. The target cannot be attacked while they are inside the clam, so the power is purely defensive. It can only be summoned twice in the same fight.
* He can cause anyone who possesses a sexual orientation towards him to be at least slightly attracted to him.
* He has the ability to resist charm speak, charm touch etc. to an extent.
* He has the innate ability to be able to resist the effects of pheromones to an extent.
* He can alter his appearance (including clothes and make-up) for short periods of time, the more he alters his appearance, and the longer he maintains the appearance, the more energy it drains.
* He can curse someone to feel like they’re completely hated and unloved, they’ll feel like they’re ugly and will sink into self-pity for a short time. This gives him a chance to attack or flee.
* He can control the clothing of others, create and transform it at will (not armor). He could turn a girl’s prom dress into a red bikini, create a scarf around someone’s neck and command it to strangle someone etc. Commands and transformations only last for a short time and the target’s clothes revert to normal.
* He has the ability to transform an area into a maze of mirrors for a moderate period of time, as one of his mother’s attributes was a mirror. Whilst in the maze, the target can become disoriented and confused as all they can see is their own appearance, however, the glass is somewhat durable and cannot be broken easily. He can move about while the maze is in place, and the sight of his own reflection empowers him a little. He innately knows his way through the maze, as he created it, but he cannot change the layout of the maze once it is in place. The size of the maze depends on how large he would like it; he can range in size up to that of a battle arena, however, the larger it is the more he is drained. After dismantling the maze, he is significantly drained and may not be able to move for a moderate period of time.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, he possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent.
* Dyslexia: His brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Greek instead of mortal languages.
* Greek: Damon speaks Fluent Greek, being born in Ancient Greece
* Marksmanship: Damon is skilled with using a shotgun as his main weapons
* Swordsmanship: Damon is very skilled at using a sword
* Parkour skills: Damon is very skilled at parkour
* Chariot riding skills: He is known to be very good at riding a chariot, knowing how to use one almost instantly
* Spear usage: He is skilled with a spear
* Immortality: When Damon was seventeen, he gained immortality, which stops him from aging and dying, though he can still get hurt
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Damon is stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Damon is more is more agile than the average mortal
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Damon is more durable than the average mortal
* Superhuman reflexes: Being a demigod, Damon reflexes are faster than an average mortal

## Relationships

### **Family**

#### Aphrodite (Mother)

Damon is pretty close with his mother, and he definitely loves her since she actually was there to raise him. He and his siblings do share a sense of embarrassment whenever Aphrodite does something wrong or is flirting with people whenever they're there

#### Diomedes (Father)

The relationship between the father and son is unknown since Damon never got to meet his father and Diomedes never knew of his son's existence. Damon has heard of his father's role in the Iliad and thinks highly of him

### **Friends**

#### Athanasia Ithaca (Daughter of Athena and Odysseus)

Both Damon and Athanasia are incredibly close friends with one another, to the point where people though they were dating. They like hang with each other lot, along with their other friends. Despite their mothers tendency to not get along well, they are very close friends and allies (Similar to their fathers)

### **Romance**

Damon identifies as Pansexual and is currently single

## Class Schedule

**1st Period:** Mythos Magic

**2nd Period:** Matchmaking

**3rd Period:** Alchemy

**4th Period:** Strategy 101

**5th Period:** Olympian Olympics

**6th Period:** Marksmanship

## Quotes

"You are loved, you are important, you are valid"

"Bonjour, y'all"

"Please, I don't need social approval, and neither do you"

"\*Shoots bullet\* Nobody move"

"I beg your fucking pardon?"-he says, whilst removing his heart shaped sunglasses

"That sounds illegal... I'm in"

"Are you flirting or starting a fight, because at this point, I don't even know"-To Athanasia

## Outfits

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## Trivia

* Damon's middle name is Eros, trying to honor his half-brother
* He has a fear of snakes
* Damon is also close to Rosabella Lycia, daughter of Bellerophon, since his father and her nephew, Glaucus were friends as well
* Damon and Athanasia's friendship are the opposite of their mothers' relationship since Aphrodite is the goddess of love while Athena is a virgin goddess. However, their friendship is similar to the friendship between their fathers, Diomedes and Odysseus
* If he were born in modern times, he would have been born on February 11, Aquarius, the Social nature
* He is pansexual