Ares, God of War ("Kratos? Never heard of him, but he can kiss my boots.")

Name: Ares

Origin: Thrace

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Type: God

Class: AA

Bio: Son of Zeus and Hera, God of war. He has always been worshiped with ambivalence. Although he represents the physical valor necessary for success in battle, he is a dangerous foe. He is overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and not shy of man-slaughter. Fear and Terror are tied to his chariot. He is a man of unbridled passion and energy, channeled only through the most extreme outlets of both. As such, not only is he a man of battle but also of carnal desire. It comes as no surprise, then, to know he so very deeply desired the heart of the Goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. Though married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite became fell for Ares' looks and fiery passion, but their affair could not go on forever. Hephaestus suspected his wife and set up a trap to catch the two. A thin silver net entwined them and kept them locked in their lovers' embrace, for which Hephaestus called all the Gods and Goddesses to witness. The Goddesses declined for the sake of modesty, but all the Gods came to see the spectacle. Some remarked upon Aphrodite's beauty. Others expressed a desire to trade places with Ares. But not one of them did not mock the two viciously.
Ares has never been one to take humiliation well. He fled to his birthplace of Thrace after that embarrassment.
When he had returned, Aphrodite called their affair off. This did not sit well with Ares. Not one bit. The burning desire within him still roared like a funeral pyre for Aphrodite and he refused to give up so easily. She, however, wanted nothing more to do with him. And when she continued to have affairs behind Hephaestus' back, Ares only grew more enraged. He saw an opportunity in the Goddess of the hunt, Artemis. Aphrodite had been spurned by a man named Hippolytus who devoted himself to a chaste life in pursuit of hunting. He was a favorite of Artemis', but Aphrodite caused his death nonetheless. Artemis was furious and Ares took his chance. He told Artemis of Adonis, a beautiful man and one of Aphrodite's own favorites, and advised her to take what had been taken. He neglected to tell Artemis that he would have killed Adonis himself for sleeping with his beloved Aphrodite, but he's sure it wouldn't have stopped her from wanting to do the deed herself.
Years later, Artemis repaid Ares by assisting Hermes in helping the God of war escape from the clutches of two malicious Giants who threw him into chains and sealed him in a bronze urn for a full lunar year. Luckily for Ares, the Giants' stepmother was not good at keeping her lips shut from spilling secrets to Hermes (as if anyone is). Ares returned to Mount Olympus, expecting perhaps Aphrodite to be at least slightly grateful he was safe and fine. Instead, he came home to a horrible discovery... Aphrodite had slept with Hades. In his rage, Ares beat Aphrodite within an inch of her life. If she had not been immortal, no doubt she would have been broken over and over again well past the time her mortal heart stopped beating. This, of course, is not even well-known to the other Olympians. He was ashamed of what he had done when the haze cleared and he saw her bloody on the floor, but Aphrodite was never the same after that. The Goddess of love had officially become a jaded bitch and deservedly so.
But Ares' rage still burned. Even tossing his love around like a rag doll did not open his eyes to his destructive path.
He began a search far and wide for the offspring of Aphrodite and Hades' coupling. He slaughtered the Oracle at Delphi when she refused to tell him where the child was. He threatened Hermes to tell him what he knew but that God is a master of secrets and not beyond pulling out the "you owe me" card. He very quickly reminded the furious God that if it weren't for him, he'd still be trapped in a bronze urn screaming his head off. But time does dampen the fires of rage, or at least allows it to redirect itself. The child of Aphrodite and Hades proved to be well protected and hidden and after years of searching, Ares found something else to keep him busy. What that is, however, no one can say. Perhaps out of further humiliation for being unable to hunt down the child and unable to repair his relationship with Aphrodite (in fact, he drove it into the ground), he has dropped off the radar for the time being. More than likely he lives among the mortals, concealed and obfuscated from their sight.