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| User: | _ares (430484) Ares
Antonio De Luca |
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| Name: | Ἄρης | |||||||||
| Location: | Athens, Greece | |||||||||
| E-mail: | szarqa@gmail.com | |||||||||
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| Bio: |  In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. Myth Basics Deity Name: Ares Other Names: The etymology of his name is uncertain. It is traditionally connected with the Greek word ἀρή (are), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά (ara), "bane, ruin, curse, imprecation". There may also be a connection with the Roman war god Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *M̥rēs; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι (marnamai), "to fight, to battle". Role/Function: The god of Bloodlust, Warfare, and Slaughter, he later also became the god of Agriculture under the Romans. Powers: To insight bloodlust, to encourage battle and war instead of peaceful solutions. Objects and Familiars: Vulture, dog, burning torch, and spear Parents: Hera and Zeus Siblings: Eris is his twin sister. He is also full siblings with Hebe and Hephaistos. He has numerous half-siblings thanks to his lech of a father (although he thinks nothing of committing the same sins himself). Spouse: None Children: With Eris: Enyalios With Aphrodite: Deimos, Phobos, Eros, Anteros, Harmonia, and Himeros. Mother uncredited (typical, huh?): Cycnus, and the Amazons Penthesilea and Hippolyte He favors Enyalios, Deimos, and Phobos, though, as they rode with him to war. Mortal Name: Antonio De Luca Date of Birth: October 4, 1977 Nationality: Italian-American Social Class: wealthy, though not privileged. Parents: Aniello Delacroce and Della De Luca Siblings: none Past Relationships: nothing lasting Significant Other/Spouse: none Children: he knows he has at least four, probably more, but he's never met any of them and they are not the product of any relationship. Overall Health: Average. He drinks and smokes quite a bit, and he has a high stress... we'll call it a lifestyle. He's suffered through a few infections of a more personal nature, too. His doctors harp on him to clean up his act, but it's hard when he's always working so hard for the Family. Education: High School Career: Mafia Don Aesthetics Height: 6'1" Weight/Build: 210, muscular, though the muscles have a slight padding from good living. Hair: dark brown, almost black Eyes: hazel Skin/Other: olive complexion. Description: Ares is a warrior, and as such, he is strongly built and muscular, exceptionally well defined in body. That is not to say that he is without blemish. His many sojourns to battlefields have given him a lattice of scars marring his skin, some deep. Though he is a god, and therefore should have healed without such marks of battle, Ares willed them to stay, the marks telling the tales of his glories of battles past. His skin is dusky, a deep olive tone, and his hair is black and slightly wavy. His eyes are the most telling, though. They are hazel, and they seem to burn with intensity, or perhaps fanaticism, or bloodlust. Ares was of giant stature and had a loud voice, and surpassed the other gods in speed. Psychological Personality: Ares is, in a word, passionate. He is in some ways a slave to impulse and emotion, he acts rashly without considering all of the consequences. He cares nothing for just causes, but rather lives for the moment, the chase, the surge of adrenalin that comes with victory. With a tendency to manic mood-swings, he goes from feeling all powerful at a high to bleak depression at a low. An adrenalin junkie of the worst sort, his ongoing relationship with Aphrodite is, for him at least, based in her ability to inflame his passions. Indeed, his dalliance with anyone is due to this same need: the lust of the moment overcoming all reason. Because of his living this series of lust-driven needs, he rarely considers consequences, which leads him to finish these encounters (both sexual and not) wondering what the hell he was thinking and often ashamed of what he's done ( such as his... we shall call it a strategic withdrawal... to Thrace after the incident with Aphrodite and the net). Ares is a self-centered man, his focus on his own pleasure and desires, and his actions are generally an attempt to insure he gets what he wants. Even so, he does take pleasure in his companions. Some of this pleasure is in the form of their approval, or perhaps their adoration, but he will do what he can to bring them along with him in his adventures, if for no other reason than that he enjoys an audience in his triumphs and someone to commiserate with his failures. Because of his cruel and war-like nature even his own father disliked him. Ares could be bloody, merciless, fearful and cowardly and possessed no moral attributes. Extravert/Introvert: I Sensing/Intuition: N Thinking/Feeling: T Judging/Perceiving: P Hobbies and Interests: war, bloodshed. He will stop at nothing to have his Family on top (both as a mortal and as a God) Strengths: Strength, passion, an inspiring presence, commitment to see things through. Weaknesses: rash, short-sighted, occasionally cowardly, Ares the god was generally not liked or welcome (even though he seems to have been quite attractive to women. Go figure). Relations Friends: Eris. Aphrodite. Hera. Deimos and Phobos. His other (minor) companions. Cronus. Enemies: Apollo. Zeus. Athena. Hephaestus. Nike, Bia, Zelus, and Cratos Romantic Status: Single. No matter what Aphrodite thinks. Significant Other (S): Aphrodite and Eris. Both are significant to him in different ways. Sexual Preference: Straight Present Interests: I'm sure they'd all like to know. Past Relationships: Many. The significant ones he's still in. Likes: War. Blood. Pain. Death. Mayhem. His sister. Aphrodite. His children and companions. Dislikes: Rainbows. Flowers. Cuddly puppies and kitties. His father. APOLLO. Biographical Myth: His greatest nemesis is Apollo, who tattled about his affair with Aphrodite, causing him embarrassment. The story was thus: Apollo once spied Ares and Aphrodite enjoying each other secretly in the hall of Hephaestus, and he promptly reported the incident to Aphrodite's Olympian consort. Hephaestus contrived to catch the couple in the act, and so he fashioned a net with which to snare the illicit lovers. At the appropriate time, this net was sprung, and trapped Ares and Aphrodite in a private embrace. But Hephaestus was not yet satisfied with his revenge — he invited the Olympian gods and goddesses to view the unfortunate pair. For the sake of modesty, the goddesses demurred, but the male gods went to witness the sight. Some commented on the beauty of Aphrodite, others remarked that they would eagerly trade places with Ares, but all mocked the two. Once the couple were loosed, Ares, embarrassed, sped away to his homeland, Thrace. In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the youth Alectryon by his door to warn them of Helios' arrival, as Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite's infidelity if the two were discovered, but Alectryon fell asleep. Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus. Ares was furious and turned Alectryon into a rooster, which now never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning. In the Iliad: Homer represented Ares as having no fixed allegiances nor respect for Orcan, the right ordering of things: he promised Athena and Hera that he would fight on the side of the Achaeans, but Aphrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans (Iliad V.699). During the war, Diomedes fought with Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called for his soldiers to fall back slowly. Hera, Ares's mother, saw his interference and asked Zeus, his father, for permission to drive Ares away from the battlefield. Hera encouraged Diomedes to attack Ares, so he threw a spear at Ares and his cries made Achaeans and Trojans alike tremble. Athena then drove the spear into Ares's body, who bellowed in pain and fled to Mt. Olympus, forcing the Trojans to fall back (XXI.391). Later when Zeus allowed the gods to fight in the war again, Ares tried to fight Athena to avenge himself for his previous injury, Ares managed to overpower Athena by throwing a boulder at her. However, when Hera during a conversation with Zeus mentioned that Ares' son Ascalaphus was killed, Ares wanted to join the fight on the side of the Achaeans discarding Zeus' order that no Olympic god should enter the battle. Athena stopped Ares and helped him take his armor off (XV.110–128). War: Before the Coup of Cronus: Perhaps of all the gods, Ares fared best with the approach of modern times. Never a popular god outside of his own regions Thrace and Sparta, he didn't feel the loss of worship as keenly as the others. Indeed, many of the false monotheistic cults that followed gave enough attention to the bloodlust he craved that his life remained mostly unchanged. Other's homage may have changed, but the fundamental nature of humans to wreck mindless havoc and destruction did not. Indeed, as the centuries turned, the wars became larger and bloodier, his work being done for him by the never ending grind for new technology to make slaughter continue on a larger and bloodier scale. Ares stayed in the region even after the Roman empire fell, building and causing strife between the followers of the false gods that followed in the forms of holy wars and the slaughtering on millions on the slightest provocations. As the war among the gods approached, he turned to his beloved sister to use her powers to sew the seeds of dissension in the minds of the other gods. During the Coup: Ares's lust for power was one of the engines driving the coup. He had always wanted for his father's throne, but knew he would never be able to take it alone. His father was too powerful. But his father had made a few mistakes. The first of which was underestimating the ambition of his son, the second, underestimating the ability of the Gods to hold grudges. Ares gathered to him in quiet council those who had reason to dislike his old man. Those he'd betrayed, those he'd humbled. Those he hadn't given their due. Cronus was first. After all, Zeus had usurped Cronus's throne, his own father. Therefore, Cronus thought it only fitting to aid his grandson in Ares's own betrayal of the Thunder God. Hera was second, his mother who loved him even as his father could not stand to be in his presence. His mother who was being forever betrayed by her husband, his father, neglected, a feeling that he knew well himself and one he knew tormented Eris. His sister, his constant companion and occasional lover, Eris, who he trusted more than any other, who he loved with a violence that only matched his love of pain. She was his rock, and he had not needed to convince her to aid him and his cause. She was only too willing to sew the seeds of discord and strife against their neglectful and often emotionally abusive father. His lover and consort, Aphrodite, who so often rode beside him into battle, arousing his lust along with his blood. The group grew. The centuries had given many of the immortals reason to dislike Ares yes, but then, they had been given as many reasons to dislike Zeus. Ares had sought more than the throne, though. He had offered them a chance. He had done what he did best, stirring their feelings to the point of bloodlust, playing on their passionate desires and needs, and driving them to want what they had lost. Worship. He convinced them that the change would give them a chance, only a chance, to regain what they had lost. To take it back militantly. To force the mortals to once more acknowledge them, where his father's decisions had left them to rot, to languish as their own creatures created false gods against them. Thus, those with no reason to love Ares and many to hate him, were still swayed to his side, and he dared what no one had since his own father had taken the throne by force. Open rebellion on the Throne. Mortal: Biography: Antonio, or Tony, was born in Manhattan New York on a cold October day to Aniello Delacroce and Della De Luca His father, Aniello “Mr. Niel” Delacroce was the second in command of the Gambino mafia family. More than that, he was the quintessential mafia don. He had the cool toughness under pressure that allowed him to make cold, calculating decisions, and the willingness to carry them out that made the young guns show him respect. He had been a faithful follower of Albera Anasatsa and later Carlo Gambino (who was considered the best Don the family every had). He had been Gambino's apparent successor, as well, but for his own reasons, Gambino tapped his brother-in-law for the spot on his death bed in 1976. Instead, Delacroce was offered Manhattan. For his own reasons, perhaps respect for his friend's dying wish, The elder Delacroce accepted the offer. The new Don didn't have Mr. Niel's coolness, though, and the family more and more turned to Delacroce for leadership, and Mr. Niel took many a protege. He also took many a mistress. One of those was Della De Luca It was unclear to the people who knew him just how much he felt for the women he took to his bed or how much they felt for him. He was older, but powerful, wealthy, all the things that could and did tempt young women to part their thighs for a chance. Della found herself pregnant about the same time Gambino passed. She thought that Delacroce would expect her to quietly take care of it and pad her bank account with a bit of hush money. But for whatever reason, perhaps a growing loneliness in his older years or perhaps a true belief in the teachings of Holy Mother Church or a true desire for children, he did nothing of the sort. Or rather, he did pad her bank account, but with the intention that she have and raise their child. Thus on October 4, 1977, Antonio De Luca was born, the child of one of the great New York Dons' but on the wrong side of the blankets. As a child, Tony was much petted by both of his parents. He was encouraged by his mother to be good in school, but that seemed to be a failing proposition from the start. His father, instead, taught him his own values: loyalty to the family and his men, and being a man of his Word. Tony flourished in the environment his father provided, idolizing the old man, and turning into a right terror in the Catholic School classroom where he was sent for an education. In 1985 his father died of cancer in a Manhattan hospital. His mother was saddened by the loss, but Tony was devastated. At eight, it felt as though his world had ended. His father's men had sworn to his father that they would protect him, raise him 'right' and show him the ropes. This was his father's legacy, and so he embraced it with all of his soul. As he entered his teenage years, he found that he had leadership qualities that surprised the men his father had left to guide him. Surprised in a good way. And Tony continued to thrive on their affection. He had gone from just a terror to an unholy terror in the classroom, though. Even the nuns gave up on an attempt to civilize his willingness to start a fight, which he usually finished, even if he'd been the underdog, frowning in horrified disapproval of his lust for women. Perhaps because the women seemed quite pleased to accept his offers for dalliance. By the time he finished high school, he'd been the cause of at least four swelling bellies. The only reason he'd managed to escape a marriage was he had to good sense to swell the bellies of girls whose fathers were not in the Family and feared the idea of putting any pressure on the young Delacroce bastard. The mafia may not have been as visibly powerful as it was in its heyday, but anyone living around Little Italy knew that the power was still there. Merely underground. Once he finished high school in 1996, he took over one of the smaller, failing businesses his father had left for him all those years ago. Soon, he had it turned around not through business sense, but through the proper use of force and coercion. The old timers patted him on the back and chuckled, saying he really was old Niel's son. As his exploits grew, so did his responsibilities until he was in charge of his own group of men. Hired hitters for the most part, they dealt in gambling, prostitution, and extortion for the family and had once more begun calling themselves Murder, Inc after the original squad of Anasatsa. With the support he has grown, he is placed on the precipice of a coup, his supporters demanding he proceed, that the Family needs him, but at the same time, he finds himself hesitating. And he has no idea why. On his/her journal: Ἄρης Disclaimer This journal is part of a game, and not affiliated with the Grecian gods and goddesses in any way. This is for entertainment/gaming purposes only. No malice or infringement is intended and the contents of this journal and it should NOT be taken as true/authorized. 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