Post by glowlynose on Apr 10, 2011 18:41:36 GMT -5
Eros
Hymn to Eros
[/u]By: Denise Levertov
O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
Let the shadow of thy wings
brush me.
Let thy presence
enfold me, as if darkness
were swandown.
Let me see that darkness
lamp in hand,
this country become
the other country
sacred to desire.
Drowsy god,
slow the wheels of my thought
so that I listen only
to the snowfall hush of
thy circling.
Close my beloved with me
in the smoke ring of thy power,
that we way be, each to the other,
figures of flame,
figures of smoke,
figures of flesh
newly seen in the dusk. [/right]
Name |
Eros
Gender |
Tom
Age |
Twenty-six moons
Rank |
Loner
Clan |
None
Beliefs |
Due largely to his early upbringing, Eros believes that after death, your soul is transported to the Underworld. Then, based on your deeds in life, your soul will be sorted into three categories: heroic, normal, or god-awful and evil. The heroic souls get to live in a special heroic section of the Underworld, where those noble ones get to enjoy an eternity of parties, relaxation, and joy. The normal souls just float around the meadows of normalcy, resigned to an eternity of being lame and boring shades. But the souls of those who were truly evil and despicable during life, they get to go to the place of eternal torture because it's what they deserve.
He does not, however, believe in any sort of higher power. Let the silly humans keep their gods to themselves, because he doesn't need anything to worship. His life has meaning without it. He is tolerant of other beliefs though.
Parents |
Persephone, kittypet, (NP)
Eric, stray, (NP)
Siblings |
Thanatos, brother, DC, (Played by Poltergeist)
Eris, sister, (NP)
Adrestia, sister, (NP)
Other Kin |
Mate |
Not yet
Crush |
Not yet
Kits |
Not yet
Apprentice/Mentor |
Not yet
Appearance |
Tall, dark, and handsome- that is the most frequent description that is attributed to Eros, and he knows it! Who can blame them? His dark brown tabby pelt is meticulously well kept, glossy from excellent nutrition and daily grooming. His body is kept in near perfect condition. His shoulders are broad and well muscled. He will do almost anything to keep himself from looking like a slob.
One of the most striking features about Eros is his eyes. They are a nearly iridescent shade of blue, almost like blue icebergs. Unlike most ice blue eyes, they do not appear to be harsh. Intense, perhaps, but not harsh. Most often they are smiling, though they can appear to be melancholy at times. Most of the time, Eros tries to hide his feelings behind his eyes. How effective he is in this is yet to be determined, because if he's not really concentrating, he's an open book.
Personality |
Healer!
Eros believes with all his heart that life, next to love, is the most sacred thing on this earth. It is his duty, as he sees it, to preserve life at all costs. He will do this in any way possible. If somebody is depressed, he tries to cheer them up. If somebody is wounded, he tries to heal them. When a mother is having kits and he knows about it, he will be there to try and ensure the survival of every kitten born.
It is a conviction deep in his heart not only to see that living things survive, but that they have the best quality of life possible. After all, what use is life if you're going to be miserable all the time? Misery is tantamount to death.
Matchmaker!
If there's one thing that Eros loves, it is love. In his experience, love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Love means happiness forever, when it is good and true. So when he is not off healing the whole world, he is giving relationship advice to boggled souls and making matches all over the place. He loves to see happiness, you see, and since love means happiness, he has to help others fall in love. It's part of his whole quality of life shindig.
Diva!
Despite his commitment to helping everyone he can, Eros is a fairly isolated cat. He tries not to get emotionally involved with anybody that he helps, because what if one time he fails? It would crush him. This way he can just brush off his failures and move on to his next task. You know, the only cat in the whole wide world that he lets himself be attached to is Thanatos.
Thanatos is also the only cat he feels truly comfortable around. As a result of this, he jokes around with his brother and can be quite immature sometimes. He knows that he can be dramatic around Than and not be judged, or hated. His normal self-consciousness melts away when he is with his brother.
Another characteristic of his diva-ness is that he can be very selfish sometimes. Well, a lot of the time, actually. All those good things he does for everybody? Yeah, they're not for the ones that he's helping. He does it so that he can feel good about himself, and he sees each good deed as one more step toward earning his place that special hero section of the Underworld. After all, all that's being judged is your deeds, not your motivation, right?
He tends to think that he is the wisest out of everybody he is in company with, with the sole exception of his brother. Nobody else has heard the enlightening words of his mother, and therefore are still walking in darkness and ignorance. While he tries his very hardest to be tolerant, there is always that little voice in the back of his mind telling him how right he is and how wrong everyone else is. Eros has a very inflated opinion of himself, and if anybody other than Thanatos tries to put him in his place, he resents it with every fiber of his being.
Skills |
Eros is a fairly accomplished actor. He can put on any face he wants at any time he wants. He can be silly, dramatic, tragic, comforting, loving, and even angry if he so chooses. However, he most often prefers to be genuine, so he does not use this skill much.
His matchmaking can be a bit bumbling and awkward at times, but the pairs he manufactures usually end up being happy together. He has made quite a few loner and rogue couples. Of this, he is proud.
He is quite perceptive of the feelings of others. Given his hobby, he has to be. To make his matches, all he really does is take the existing feelings between two cats and encourages them where need be.
His worst skill is definitely fighting. He is god-awful when it comes to combat. It he does get into a fight, he relies mostly on instinct (his instincts are pathetic), and he always tries to heal his opponent afterward, even if he needs it more. So he tries to stay out of fights or let Than do his fighting for him.
History |
Eros's mother was a pampered housecat named Persephone, and his father was a tough street cat named Eric. He snuck into Persephone's yard one night while she was outside. They became friends at a remarkable pace, fell in love even more quickly after that, and Persephone soon gave birth to a litter of four. Thanatos was the firstborn, Eros second, Eris third, and Adrestia last.
From birth, Than and Eros were nigh inseparable. They had little in common with their sisters, so they did everything together and tended to forget that their sisters were even thare. Practically every moment of their lives were spent together. When their father came to visit, they were always the most enthusiastic and shot outside in a frenzy too see him. When their mother explained why their names were so strange and told them stories from Greek mythology (she had learned the stories from the humans, who were nutty Greek history professors at the college), they drank them in excitedly.
When the kits came of age, every one except for Eros was sold off. Eros had always been the owners' favorite, with his dramatic nature and loving ways. The sisters were sold first, to families on the other side of the city, and were never seen again. Thanatos was sold to a family that lived only four houses down, but to Eros, it might as well have been the ends of the earth. They never saw each other except from across the fences, and even then they could not talk. Than's humans always brought him back inside because he was being too loud.
His mother was always very loving towards Eros, showering him in affection and teaching him how to be loving towards everybody. She taught him some rudimentary healing things, telling him it was his duty as a loving cat to heal the sick and care for those who needed it.
He was relatively content in his house, but he missed Thanatos more and more every day. He decided that the next time his father came to visit he would run away with him and try to find Thanatos, because he hadn't seen him on his fence in a long time and was worried that he'd been taken away. So he ran away and searched high and low for his brother, wandering the streets with his father who aided him in his search. Eventually his father gave up and left Eros to search for himself. A few days later, low and behold, he found Thanatos! But Thanatos was not in good shape at all. He told Eros about how his family had been abusive, and how he'd gotten so sick of it that he decided to run away before he died. Than was in such bad shape that Eros had to heal him. Luckily, he recovered very well, almost miraculously.
Since then, they have been living in the wilderness, just being brothers.
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We have a cbox again and we're opening the place up as a closed, members only rp