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Duplicity App [WIP]
Jun. 24th, 2025 11:58 pm« « « DISTRUSTFULNESS » » »
Name: Ganymede Door: left Canon: greek mythology. Broad strokes of the story linked HERE in wikipedia and more in-depth HERE at theoi with more specific mentions from wider-ranging sources. Canon Point: modern-day! post-mytholigical ending, so the constellation is in the sky, he is no longer on Olympus. he has been around a long time. Age: 6,738 years old. 6719 of those he has been immortal. Appearance: Six feet tall, lean muscled but physically capable. Ganymede has tan skin, a delicately-featured face, deep brown eyes and very nearly black hair, which is quite long. He has a spray of freckles across his nose and cheeks that will fade into a summer tan in prolonged sunlight, and show back up in winter, and a somewhat sparse goatee along the lines of his jaw and lips. He usually wears his hair braided back from his face to keep it neat, since it is a bit longer than waist-length on him. His only scars of note--in fact the only on him at all--are all up his right arm from his wrist to mid-bicep, looking like a very large bird of prey gripped his arm and cut deep furrows into it. The scars are plainly old and as well-healed as they'll ever get. Ganymede will also never look a single day older than he did when he was carried off to Olympus and made immortal, and tends to pass for a young man of about twenty to twenty-three. History: Born as the third son and youngest brother to Ilus and Assaracus, children of the King of Troy in 4713 BCE, Ganymede was raised as any royal child might be, to a life of privilege and little hardship. All of that ease abruptly ended at nineteen years of age, when he was abducted from the mortal realm by Zeus, king of the gods and greatest of the Dodecatheon of Olympus, who came in the form of a giant eagle. He was taken to Olympus to serve as the cupbearer to the gods of Olympus, and as consort and lover to Zeus himself for his extraordinary beauty. He spent almost a thousand mortal years in his position, learning to exist as a plaything for the capricious and often cruel pantheon, until Zeus' wife could stand his competition in her husband's bed no longer. The myth says Ganymede was placed in the stars, out of of Hera's jealous reach, as the constellation Aquarius, but Zeus put him back on earth, to keep him out of his wife's way. Since then, Ganymede has tried as well as he has been able to live as a normal man--though his definitions of normal have needed to change somewhat drastically as time goes on. CR AU (Optional): As I've played him over the years, I've put Ganymede in different places at different historical points: Ancient Rome, Elizabethan London, Budapest during the 1838 flood of the Danube, the ghettos of Europe during WW2. He rarely talks about these times given his looks, because it would be impossible to avoid explaining how he has firsthand knowledge of such times and places when he barely looks old enough to drink legally, but he does retain the knowledge of the time passed. A year still feels like a year to him, and he functions no differently to any other human: he just has a lot of those years under his belt. Personality: Positive Trait: Persistence Ganymede has been alive for six thousand years and change, sometimes despite his best efforts, but always aware. He has grown tired of living sometimes, and there have been times when he operates with less than the utmost care for himself, but he hasn't yet buried himself in seclusion to avoid people or living entirely. Even when he lived on Olympus he kept doing his job, however much he was treated poorly and discarded when Zeus' interest was taken elsewhere. Negative Trait: Distrustfulness. Ganymede has had six thousand years to learn how not to trust people. People have called him crazy, have thrown him in mental institutions, have beaten, robbed, and otherwise taken advantage of him for years on end. He tends to think the worst of people first, even though he keeps those opinions to himself as a rule, and he rarely lets someone in fully very quickly. He'll absolutely sleep with you and kick you out in the morning, or leave on his own before his partner wakes up; that's not to say he's callous about everything, but he does fairly firmly believe that once people get what they want out of someone else, they either move on, or hang around to get something else. Negative Trait: Dishonesty. He lies. Ganymede has lied for quite a lot of his life, either to tell people what they want to hear, or to preserve the status quo of circumstances he doesn't want changing. He can be truthful if he wants or needs to be, but coming out with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is a very rare circumstance indeed for him. He has been told he is the most beautiful human ever born, and while that hasn't entirely gone to his head, he also knows very well that he can use his looks to get what he may want with little repercussion. Negative Trait: Vanity. Ganymede is beautiful. Described as the most beautiful of men ever born--taken from Homer's Iliad as 'the loveliest born of the race of mortals'--Ganymede knows he is objectively attractive. This has led to some inflation of his ego: as the saying goes, if you've got it, flaunt it, and Ganymede does. He expects people to look at him, to notice his appearance, and to comment on it, usually in a positive manner. He's no stranger to the opposite after so long alive, but he never stops anticipating the comments he gets about his looks. When someone he finds attractive doesn't seem interested, he'll try to leverage his appearance to give himself a better chance of picking them up. Powers and Abilities: None other than the startling ability to not die. Inventory: a sturdy waiter's corkscrew in his pocket and some extra hair ties Samples: Sample #1 Sample #2 |
