Eros Areides-Ouranov
Dr. Eros Cupid Areides-Ouranov (a.k.a. Feathers, Lovebird, Dr. Cupid)
Divine Domains
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Divine Goals & Aspirations
Physical Description
Body Features
Facial Features
Identifying Characteristics
Special abilities
- Flight
- Aiding sapients in falling in love
- The discernment to see when someone ought to fall in love in the first place (this was hard won in his early days)
- Immortality
- Divine patience
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Agapemache, the tale of Ares & Aphrodite, I the Book of Knowledge am assured, will be released by Sapha Burnell in 2023.
Eros was born to Aphrodite while she was married to Hephaestus. At first, Hephaestus was ready to cast the cuckoo-child off the side of Mount Olympus as his mother Hera had done to him in his infancy, a fitting punishment for his dastardly and destructive brother. But, Hephaestus' eyes met the child's downy head, Eros' gentle white wings folded around his tiny body like a swaddling cloth. And Eros looked up, up into Hephaestus' face... but... the child did not cower, or make strange. Eros smiled and cooed, his diminutive hand reaching up to grasp clumsily at Hephaestus' crutch. Hephaestus fell into a fierce paternal love for the child, a love which reigns true thousands of years later to this present day of 2017. He showered Eros with gifts, including his famous bow and the arrows in his quiver. While not Eros' true father, Hephaestus treated Eros like a son, and continues to do so. Thus, Eros saved not only himself, but his mother's heart that day. And when Olympus soured too much to Ares and Aphrodite, Eros went with his parents to Thrace. Much can be said of Eros' life after Olympus, how Eros drifted between the disparate factions of his divine family as peace maker and signet of love. Much more can be said of Eros' relationship with his wife Psyche Ourania-Areia. Those stories are yet to be told in enough detail for me to include them in my pages. I shall end with this: Eros continues forth, as locus of love, as husband and doctor, as brother and god.Gender Identity
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Family Ties
Aphrodite
Beyond all attachments is the attachment Eros maintains with his beloved mother, Aphrodite Venus Ourania. They were two love gods in the cantankerous and abusive 'civility' of Olympus, and although there was a period of years where Aphrodite and Eros didn't talk (Psyche's Tale is well known in many circles), since then both mother and son patched their relationship up.
Ares
For the first years of Eros' life, his father Ares Mars Olympia was banished from Olympus. Yet, the boy longed for his parent and underwent a series of secret meetings until finally able to reconnect Ares to his mother, and bring Ares home. Since, there is a ferocious loyalty and devotion between Ares and his eldest son, a love so strong wars were fought to maintain it.
Hephaestus
During the darkest time for Ares & Aphrodite, Eros' mother was forcibly married to Hephaestus Vulcan Olympia. An ugly and gnarled man, Hephaestus was as ugly in countenance as his appearance suggested. Until Eros gazed up at him in his swaddling clothes with eyes full of pure adoration. It was the love between step-son and step-father which saved not only Eros' life, but Aphrodite's. Through the years, Hephaestus held to the love between himself and his step-son, fashioning gifts for Eros and softening over time.
It was this relationship alone which repaired the chasm-like fissure between Hephaestus and the Areosides, eventually creating a space for healing and companionship which remains to this day. Hephaestus and Ares are now as close as they could ever be, and even Aphrodite looks upon Hephaestus with affection. Things between Athene and Hephaestus remain tense, but companionate enough when business is conducted across video call with an ocean in the middle.
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