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Power

Amokinesis Shapeshifting Astral Projection Beauty Embodiement Beauty Inducement Power Bestowel Telepathy


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Powers and Abilities

As the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite possessed many powers.

Acausality : The laws of time and space work differently for the Gods of Olympus. Astral Projection: She was able to communicate with Kratos in God of War through a magical image of her face in a doorway. Beauty Embodiment: Aphrodite's beauty was spellbinding, such that even Kratos could not bring himself to attack her. When he first faced her in Athens she was surrounded by empyreal glory and her beauty "hit him harder than any foe ever had". It was Kratos´s indomitable willpower and focus on his revenge which allowed him resist Aphrodite's charm and seduction. Beauty Inducement: She could also cause others to become beautiful. Immortality : Aphrodite is an immortal, as she cannot die through natural causes or weapons that can easily kill a mortal . Only other gods, divine weapons or other immortals, can probably harm her. Amokinesis: Aphrodite attracts both men and women naturally through her presence and/or by her will. Love inducement: Aphrodite could cause other beings to fall in love with one another. She focuses on thousands of couples at any given time, driving the romance and love among mortals. Power Bestowal: Aphrodite granted Kratos the ability to wield Medusa's gaze. Shapeshifting: A small alteration to her appearance in God of War III is that Aphrodite has auburn hair, rather than the blond hair in God of War, implying that she too can alter her appearance. Telepathy: Aphrodite was able to perceive Kratos' mind when he encountered her. None of the other Olympians displayed this ability like she did. This implies that, as she is the Goddess who oversees strong emotions such as love, this allows her to see into people's minds.


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Personality

She seems to have a very carefree, yet promiscuous outlook on life. In fact, the only thing she cares about is making love, and is actively neutral in the war Kratos is waging against the gods. This promiscuous nature only intensified after the opening of Pandora's Box . After it was opened, the evils Lust/Vanity completely took possession of her which made Aphrodite even more promiscuous than she initially was. This is evident by how she was once more noble and helped Kratos along with the other gods destroy Ares, but became only concerned with sexual intercourse after the evils seemingly took hold of her.
Moreover, she held no love or compassion for her husband Hephaestus, calling him "worthless" and openly cheating on him with his brother Ares and later Kratos. It seems she had harboured these negative feelings towards Hephaestus, even long before Pandora’s Box was opened, as it was only after Ares' death the evils had taken hold of her.
She seems to prefer making love rather than doing anything else. This is a trait largely influenced by the evils of Pandora's box being released. Her only benchmark, it seems, for having sex with someone is whether or not she finds the individual attractive enough to sleep with her.
It is implied by her handmaidens that she is difficult to fully please sexually, due to her being the embodiment of sex and love. She was surprised when Kratos is able to nearly make her lose her composure with his own experience.

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Greek Mythology

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of Love, Beauty, Seduction, Pleasure, and Happiness. There is more than one story about her origins. According to Hesiod's Theogony , she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the sea foam ( aphros ). According to Homer's Iliad , she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married her to Hephaestus , who, because of his ugliness and deformity, was not seen as a threat. Aphrodite had many lovers - both gods, such as Ares , and men, such as Anchises. One day, the sun god Helios caught Ares and Aphrodite in their affair. When he told Hephaestus, the smith god decided to plan his revenge. He created an invisible net, which he set over the marriage bed. No sooner had Hephaestus left their home, that Aphrodite called her lover and Ares snuck into the house and in bed with the naked goddess; but, just in the midst of their lovemaking, the net fell upon the two lovers, trapping and immobilizing them, locked in a very private embrace. Hephaestus immediately walked back to his bedchamber with a host of other gods and exhibited them as they were naked and wrapped in each other's arms.
Her Roman equivalent is Venus .