Application : Somarium
[Player name] Yun
[Age] 17
[Personal Journal] countervalue
[Other characters currently played]
Rita Mordio || Tales of Vesperia || kyudousha
Vincent Nightray || Pandora Hearts || boat-lights
Kubota Makoto || Wild Adapter || mytokito
*The Cheshire Cat || Alice in Wonderland || beamishly
*Zai Bezarius || Pandora Hearts || hatesmyson
[Character name] Apollo
[Age] Old. Really, really old. He’s a god, after all - he’s had all of eternity to age and beyond.
[Canon] Olimpos
[Point in time taken from canon]
Post Chapter Nine. The story isn’t told in chronological order, but basically, Apollo’s been told that his sister is but a mirror of himself and Iris has died.
[Background]
http://www.storminheaven.org/manga.php?t=129
The entire canon is 2 volumes of art, which hasn’t been fully scanlated yet. A basic summary goes like this: There once was a boy called Ganymede, who was the prince of Troy. And he was a very happy prince, a little useless but very devout, and beautiful as anything. There was a parade in the honor of his coming to age ceremony, and he and his brother were on their way there when Apollo descended from the sky, and kidnapped Ganymede, killing his brother in the process.
Apollo trapped Ganymede in a garden in an undisclosed location, and when Ganymede came to, told him that he could not escape from this garden. And god speaks nothing but the truth. Despite his efforts, Ganymede was not able to leave the garden, nor was he able to tune out Apollo, who constantly tormented him with his words, actions, and general troll-like ways. Eventually, Apollo drops Heinz, another boy, into the garden, telling him that if Heinz were to take Ganymede and run with him to the end of the world, then he would grant Heinz’s wish.
Heinz believed him, and ended up dragging Ganymede to the ‘end of the world’, which only Heinz could see, and was tossed back into his own world later by Apollo, having served his purpose. Ganymede, as usual, despaired.
Before these events, it seemed, Poseidon called for a sacrifice in Apollo’s name, and the citizens of that particular country brought to Apollo’s temple a young girl by the name of Iris. Apollo, who was scandalized that these people deemed Iris to be as beautiful as Artemis (which she certainly did not resemble), simply went back to Artemis, leaving the girl there. However, eventually, boredom drove Apollo to speak with the girl at length, and eventually, she became his pseudo-companion.
Hades appeared around this time to begin opening Apollo’s eyes in terms of what Artemis really is. Faced with the truth that Artemis was but his mirror image, he began to take more interest in Iris, even going so far as to tell her that he had taken a liking to her.
And then, the girl was sacrificed to Apollo in Apollo’s honor, and he grew bored again.
The canon is still-on-going, but that really is the bare-bones of it.
[Personality]
The key to Apollo’s personality is that he is inquisitive - inquisitive in the way that a person who sees everything can be inquisitive. This is shown by the fact that he’s all but run out of material to ‘say’, for god says nothing but the truth, but it also makes him incapable of lying to himself. He has all but figured out the truths of the world from attempting to ‘say’ them aloud, though that in itself is but an impression of his. He has the impression that he knows the one truth of the world, and over the course of the manga, that impression shifts so that realizes that there are things even he does not know of, and his awareness of the things that he is not aware is one of those things that he was previously unaware of.
To put it simply, he wasn’t aware that he didn’t know, and only until he said it aloud to Ganymede did he realize that there are things even he doesn’t know. And because of Apollo’s inquisitive personality, he immediately wants to know why. Little things that contradict his line of thinking bothers him easily, and he is the sort of character to brood when things begin to conflict. Apollo likes his time alone, and while he too experiences boredom from the task of killing a millennia’s worth of time, he has the tendency to fall into deep thought without any awareness of the things around him. Another paradox. A god is supposed to ‘see’ all, but while he is thinking, there are even things that he cannot hear.
As a character, he gives off a higher air born of confidence, but not necessarily pride. Because he is above the lives of so many people, being a god, he, at the beginning of the manga, did not particularly want to get to know them. And because of this, he doesn’t have a sense of ‘pride’ in himself so much as it’s a simple feeling of the things as the way they are. He is analytical, logical, but also prone to irrational bursts of anger - Hades’ mere presence makes him irritated, and he professes to Artemis that it is because he doesn’t understand what the heck the other is saying. Thus, it’s clear to the reader that Apollo doesn’t like the unknown, and doesn’t like the thought of not knowing something. He gets irrationally irritated when he doesn’t know something, and is prone to throwing tantrums.
It’s never clearly defined in the manga what exactly ‘Artemis’ is. Apollo believes that Artemis is his beautiful older sister, and for the longest time, Artemis was the only thing of value to him. However, Hades reveals to Apollo that Artemis is but his ‘mirror’, and that a mirror only reflects him when he is there. Thus, ‘Artemis’ isn’t a being on her own, but rather a figment of Apollo’s imagination. He cannot refute Hades’ statement, and thus this is the truth. However, he seems to be genuinely confused as to what Artemis really is. If Artemis is his mirror, then are the things she says but a reflection of what his heart is saying?
This is a vital part of his characterization, as Artemis gives us insight into what Apollo truly thinks beneath his mask, a part of Apollo that not even Apollo himself was aware of. Artemis becomes upset when Apollo attempts to tell her that she is a mirror, and constantly tries to change the subject to something more pleasant - which shows that Apollo is upset by this revelation, enough to want to deny it. Artemis also repeatedly tells Apollo that she loves him - which may be a reflection of Apollo’s heart. Apollo loves himself, and because he treasures Artemis and Artemis is his mirror, then perhaps he treasures himself above all.
He really is an egotistical being. But it’s the sort of egotistical thinking that doesn’t show arrogance. He thinks of himself first and foremost, and has only recently begun to see humans as ‘individuals’ rather than ‘insects’. He isn’t ‘arrogant’ in the traditional sense of the word in that he doesn’t take that sort of pride in his abilities, accepting them for merely what they are. He can perform things that humans cannot. He is above the human race. It’s the way things are, and he doesn’t think of it anymore than just fact.
However, because of his inquisitive nature, Apollo has recently begun to immerse himself in human culture. ‘Befriending’, in the loosest way of putting it possible, a young girl called Iris, he eventually begins to question things to do with human nature in an attempt to understand them. For Apollo, it’s a way to kill time, but it also definitively shows his inquisitive nature. He is eternally bored, due to his godhood, and thus he likes interesting things. If something can challenge his way of thinking and give him insight to what he previously doesn’t know, then he will obsess over it.
That kind of an obsessive behavior can be gleaned through Artemis, who questions why Apollo became so focused on Iris to the point of which that was all he talked about during their ‘conversations’. And Apollo becomes genuinely confused as to why that is.
As a character, Apollo is a ‘at his pace’ sort of a character. Time doesn’t mean anything to a being who lives outside of it, and he doesn’t seem to understand what it feels like to not die, for gods cannot die. However, he is impatient, so one can say that his pace is rather quick. He becomes irrationally impatient if the other he is speaking to is stupid, and he cannot stand idiocy - in fact, he looks down on those who he’s deemed to be ‘idiots’, shown by the way he clearly looks down upon Poseidon. However, if the idiot is entertaining enough, he stands a chance of sticking around just to see what makes them tick. He is always trying to understand something, and once that thing has been understood, it becomes ‘boring’, and thus cast aside.
He shows this sort of behavior with people. Poseidon is simple-minded and fairly straightforward, and because Apollo has had an eon to understand him, Poseidon is a very boring person to him. But Iris is interesting, for while she is an idiot, she gives him insight to human nature. Ganymede, he also considers as an idiot, but Ganymede is entertaining to look at simply because he does spontaneous things that not even Apollo can fully predict, and thus he finds Ganymede interesting.
He also finds Ganymede interesting because Ganymede is beautiful. As a character, Apollo likes beautiful things. He likes his own face - this is shown in a conversation with Artemis, who says that ‘you are more beautiful than I am, Apollo’, and how he doesn’t deny it. He also professes that he keeps Ganymede around simple because he’s pretty enough to be not boring to look at. One can say that Apollo’s interest in someone is directly proportional to how entertaining and beautiful they are, and one can say that Apollo is a very shallow god because of it.
He is also fickle, shown time and again to cleverly go back on his word, and because of his inability to lie, he’s developed ways to speak the truth in a round-about way enough so he can take his words back later without repercussion. Because of this, he can be classified as a troll. He likes riling people up and taking a look at their reactions - it’s both entertainment and his way of fishing for information.
All in all, Apollo is shallow, fickle, mocking, but a surprisingly diligent thinker, and he doesn’t know himself well enough to be able to define himself as anything more than a god. And that is what Apollo is.
[Abilities]
Oh man, Apollo’s abilities.
According to mythology and echoed in canon, he is the god of light, sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts, the laurel, herding, flocks, sword etc. etc. etc. the list goes on and on and on. Thus, he has control over all of these things, and excels at archery, the sword, etc. Can sing like you wouldn’t believe, and can tell nothing but the truth. This also makes him extremely perceptive to the lies around him, and he can easily see through lies, being the kind of character he is. He is also the god of prophecy, and he is said to be able to see into the future, though canon doesn’t show that in the least. He is the god of healing, shown by the fact that Ganymede cannot die no matter what he did, possibly because Apollo was able to govern that part of Ganymede and heal him each and every time. He can conjure things. Anything. He can summon divine light from the sky to kill things. He can turn himself invisible to humans, and he can make illusions. Basically, if you can imagine something a god is able to do, chances are, he can do it.
He can read minds and hear prayers. If someone is praying to god, he is able to hear their thoughts and intentions. In fact, he can hear everyone’s thoughts and intentions. As a being that can see all, it’s terribly difficult to hide something from him, unless it’s something that he can’t see at all.
He is a god, and he cannot die. And as a god, he is spiritually sensitive to other gods and spirit-like beings, and is sensitive to the powers of others as well. And as a god, it’s believed that he should have strong mental blocks.
He can grant wishes, and he can make miracles happen. This has been shown in canon, and dictated in canon.
And since he is the god of the sun, he is said to hold influence over it.
Oh, and he can float. C: It’s pretty much his default. When he’s not floating, he’s standing, and it hasn’t been shown that he walks anywhere at all. He also doesn’t eat, professing to not need food at all. And his hair has a life of its own. All in all, he’s a floating immortal godmode.
But most importantly, Apollo is unable to lie. Everything he says must be the truth, as he is a god, and thus if he doesn’t know something or if it is untrue, he will be unable to say it.
[Other important stuff]
I’m planning on dampening his powers by quite a lot, the most important change being that he can die within the dream world.
[Sample post]
[The dreamberry seems to have flickered into operation arbitrarily, for the figure isn’t looking towards the small screen at all. Instead, the figure has its back turned to the audience, and seems to be muttering some things under his breath.]
I do not know this world.
[A pause]
Zeus is not above me.
[Another pause.]
I can only speak the truth.
[He seems to be considering something. Again-]
I can tell--
[--lies. He can’t finish that sentence. So it seems that even in this world, he can say nothing but the truth. He goes on.]
I cannot leave by my own volition.
[… interesting. So whoever it is has him trapped as well. It reminds him of a certain blond in a certain miniature garden, and he finds this terribly amusing.]
I will escape.
[He can escape, but not now. That’s the limitation of this world, it seems. But that’s okay, because it’s interesting. It seems like he can kill time like this, and nothing is better than killing time. After all, that is all it is. All it is]
I am Apollo.
[All it is indeed.]
[What do you hope to do with this character in Somarium?] First of all, do gods dream? It’s never explicitly stated either way in canon, and once forced to be in a situation where he must dream, I’m interested in what he might dream about. Second of all, Apollo is an interesting character in that he constantly seeks character development for himself, due to his inquisitive nature and his need to constantly kill time. I’m interested to see where staying in Somarium will take him in terms of his character. Lastly, I hope that he will be able to make a friend.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] The fourth-wall breakage one, because I’ve always disliked the breaking of the fourth wall in serious situations. xD But if it’s for the effects of humor, then go for it?
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Random role-play search.
[Any questions?]
None~
[Age] 17
[Personal Journal] countervalue
[Other characters currently played]
Rita Mordio || Tales of Vesperia || kyudousha
Vincent Nightray || Pandora Hearts || boat-lights
Kubota Makoto || Wild Adapter || mytokito
*The Cheshire Cat || Alice in Wonderland || beamishly
*Zai Bezarius || Pandora Hearts || hatesmyson
[Character name] Apollo
[Age] Old. Really, really old. He’s a god, after all - he’s had all of eternity to age and beyond.
[Canon] Olimpos
[Point in time taken from canon]
Post Chapter Nine. The story isn’t told in chronological order, but basically, Apollo’s been told that his sister is but a mirror of himself and Iris has died.
[Background]
http://www.storminheaven.org/manga.php?t=129
The entire canon is 2 volumes of art, which hasn’t been fully scanlated yet. A basic summary goes like this: There once was a boy called Ganymede, who was the prince of Troy. And he was a very happy prince, a little useless but very devout, and beautiful as anything. There was a parade in the honor of his coming to age ceremony, and he and his brother were on their way there when Apollo descended from the sky, and kidnapped Ganymede, killing his brother in the process.
Apollo trapped Ganymede in a garden in an undisclosed location, and when Ganymede came to, told him that he could not escape from this garden. And god speaks nothing but the truth. Despite his efforts, Ganymede was not able to leave the garden, nor was he able to tune out Apollo, who constantly tormented him with his words, actions, and general troll-like ways. Eventually, Apollo drops Heinz, another boy, into the garden, telling him that if Heinz were to take Ganymede and run with him to the end of the world, then he would grant Heinz’s wish.
Heinz believed him, and ended up dragging Ganymede to the ‘end of the world’, which only Heinz could see, and was tossed back into his own world later by Apollo, having served his purpose. Ganymede, as usual, despaired.
Before these events, it seemed, Poseidon called for a sacrifice in Apollo’s name, and the citizens of that particular country brought to Apollo’s temple a young girl by the name of Iris. Apollo, who was scandalized that these people deemed Iris to be as beautiful as Artemis (which she certainly did not resemble), simply went back to Artemis, leaving the girl there. However, eventually, boredom drove Apollo to speak with the girl at length, and eventually, she became his pseudo-companion.
Hades appeared around this time to begin opening Apollo’s eyes in terms of what Artemis really is. Faced with the truth that Artemis was but his mirror image, he began to take more interest in Iris, even going so far as to tell her that he had taken a liking to her.
And then, the girl was sacrificed to Apollo in Apollo’s honor, and he grew bored again.
The canon is still-on-going, but that really is the bare-bones of it.
[Personality]
The key to Apollo’s personality is that he is inquisitive - inquisitive in the way that a person who sees everything can be inquisitive. This is shown by the fact that he’s all but run out of material to ‘say’, for god says nothing but the truth, but it also makes him incapable of lying to himself. He has all but figured out the truths of the world from attempting to ‘say’ them aloud, though that in itself is but an impression of his. He has the impression that he knows the one truth of the world, and over the course of the manga, that impression shifts so that realizes that there are things even he does not know of, and his awareness of the things that he is not aware is one of those things that he was previously unaware of.
To put it simply, he wasn’t aware that he didn’t know, and only until he said it aloud to Ganymede did he realize that there are things even he doesn’t know. And because of Apollo’s inquisitive personality, he immediately wants to know why. Little things that contradict his line of thinking bothers him easily, and he is the sort of character to brood when things begin to conflict. Apollo likes his time alone, and while he too experiences boredom from the task of killing a millennia’s worth of time, he has the tendency to fall into deep thought without any awareness of the things around him. Another paradox. A god is supposed to ‘see’ all, but while he is thinking, there are even things that he cannot hear.
As a character, he gives off a higher air born of confidence, but not necessarily pride. Because he is above the lives of so many people, being a god, he, at the beginning of the manga, did not particularly want to get to know them. And because of this, he doesn’t have a sense of ‘pride’ in himself so much as it’s a simple feeling of the things as the way they are. He is analytical, logical, but also prone to irrational bursts of anger - Hades’ mere presence makes him irritated, and he professes to Artemis that it is because he doesn’t understand what the heck the other is saying. Thus, it’s clear to the reader that Apollo doesn’t like the unknown, and doesn’t like the thought of not knowing something. He gets irrationally irritated when he doesn’t know something, and is prone to throwing tantrums.
It’s never clearly defined in the manga what exactly ‘Artemis’ is. Apollo believes that Artemis is his beautiful older sister, and for the longest time, Artemis was the only thing of value to him. However, Hades reveals to Apollo that Artemis is but his ‘mirror’, and that a mirror only reflects him when he is there. Thus, ‘Artemis’ isn’t a being on her own, but rather a figment of Apollo’s imagination. He cannot refute Hades’ statement, and thus this is the truth. However, he seems to be genuinely confused as to what Artemis really is. If Artemis is his mirror, then are the things she says but a reflection of what his heart is saying?
This is a vital part of his characterization, as Artemis gives us insight into what Apollo truly thinks beneath his mask, a part of Apollo that not even Apollo himself was aware of. Artemis becomes upset when Apollo attempts to tell her that she is a mirror, and constantly tries to change the subject to something more pleasant - which shows that Apollo is upset by this revelation, enough to want to deny it. Artemis also repeatedly tells Apollo that she loves him - which may be a reflection of Apollo’s heart. Apollo loves himself, and because he treasures Artemis and Artemis is his mirror, then perhaps he treasures himself above all.
He really is an egotistical being. But it’s the sort of egotistical thinking that doesn’t show arrogance. He thinks of himself first and foremost, and has only recently begun to see humans as ‘individuals’ rather than ‘insects’. He isn’t ‘arrogant’ in the traditional sense of the word in that he doesn’t take that sort of pride in his abilities, accepting them for merely what they are. He can perform things that humans cannot. He is above the human race. It’s the way things are, and he doesn’t think of it anymore than just fact.
However, because of his inquisitive nature, Apollo has recently begun to immerse himself in human culture. ‘Befriending’, in the loosest way of putting it possible, a young girl called Iris, he eventually begins to question things to do with human nature in an attempt to understand them. For Apollo, it’s a way to kill time, but it also definitively shows his inquisitive nature. He is eternally bored, due to his godhood, and thus he likes interesting things. If something can challenge his way of thinking and give him insight to what he previously doesn’t know, then he will obsess over it.
That kind of an obsessive behavior can be gleaned through Artemis, who questions why Apollo became so focused on Iris to the point of which that was all he talked about during their ‘conversations’. And Apollo becomes genuinely confused as to why that is.
As a character, Apollo is a ‘at his pace’ sort of a character. Time doesn’t mean anything to a being who lives outside of it, and he doesn’t seem to understand what it feels like to not die, for gods cannot die. However, he is impatient, so one can say that his pace is rather quick. He becomes irrationally impatient if the other he is speaking to is stupid, and he cannot stand idiocy - in fact, he looks down on those who he’s deemed to be ‘idiots’, shown by the way he clearly looks down upon Poseidon. However, if the idiot is entertaining enough, he stands a chance of sticking around just to see what makes them tick. He is always trying to understand something, and once that thing has been understood, it becomes ‘boring’, and thus cast aside.
He shows this sort of behavior with people. Poseidon is simple-minded and fairly straightforward, and because Apollo has had an eon to understand him, Poseidon is a very boring person to him. But Iris is interesting, for while she is an idiot, she gives him insight to human nature. Ganymede, he also considers as an idiot, but Ganymede is entertaining to look at simply because he does spontaneous things that not even Apollo can fully predict, and thus he finds Ganymede interesting.
He also finds Ganymede interesting because Ganymede is beautiful. As a character, Apollo likes beautiful things. He likes his own face - this is shown in a conversation with Artemis, who says that ‘you are more beautiful than I am, Apollo’, and how he doesn’t deny it. He also professes that he keeps Ganymede around simple because he’s pretty enough to be not boring to look at. One can say that Apollo’s interest in someone is directly proportional to how entertaining and beautiful they are, and one can say that Apollo is a very shallow god because of it.
He is also fickle, shown time and again to cleverly go back on his word, and because of his inability to lie, he’s developed ways to speak the truth in a round-about way enough so he can take his words back later without repercussion. Because of this, he can be classified as a troll. He likes riling people up and taking a look at their reactions - it’s both entertainment and his way of fishing for information.
All in all, Apollo is shallow, fickle, mocking, but a surprisingly diligent thinker, and he doesn’t know himself well enough to be able to define himself as anything more than a god. And that is what Apollo is.
[Abilities]
Oh man, Apollo’s abilities.
According to mythology and echoed in canon, he is the god of light, sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts, the laurel, herding, flocks, sword etc. etc. etc. the list goes on and on and on. Thus, he has control over all of these things, and excels at archery, the sword, etc. Can sing like you wouldn’t believe, and can tell nothing but the truth. This also makes him extremely perceptive to the lies around him, and he can easily see through lies, being the kind of character he is. He is also the god of prophecy, and he is said to be able to see into the future, though canon doesn’t show that in the least. He is the god of healing, shown by the fact that Ganymede cannot die no matter what he did, possibly because Apollo was able to govern that part of Ganymede and heal him each and every time. He can conjure things. Anything. He can summon divine light from the sky to kill things. He can turn himself invisible to humans, and he can make illusions. Basically, if you can imagine something a god is able to do, chances are, he can do it.
He can read minds and hear prayers. If someone is praying to god, he is able to hear their thoughts and intentions. In fact, he can hear everyone’s thoughts and intentions. As a being that can see all, it’s terribly difficult to hide something from him, unless it’s something that he can’t see at all.
He is a god, and he cannot die. And as a god, he is spiritually sensitive to other gods and spirit-like beings, and is sensitive to the powers of others as well. And as a god, it’s believed that he should have strong mental blocks.
He can grant wishes, and he can make miracles happen. This has been shown in canon, and dictated in canon.
And since he is the god of the sun, he is said to hold influence over it.
Oh, and he can float. C: It’s pretty much his default. When he’s not floating, he’s standing, and it hasn’t been shown that he walks anywhere at all. He also doesn’t eat, professing to not need food at all. And his hair has a life of its own. All in all, he’s a floating immortal godmode.
But most importantly, Apollo is unable to lie. Everything he says must be the truth, as he is a god, and thus if he doesn’t know something or if it is untrue, he will be unable to say it.
[Other important stuff]
I’m planning on dampening his powers by quite a lot, the most important change being that he can die within the dream world.
[Sample post]
[The dreamberry seems to have flickered into operation arbitrarily, for the figure isn’t looking towards the small screen at all. Instead, the figure has its back turned to the audience, and seems to be muttering some things under his breath.]
I do not know this world.
[A pause]
Zeus is not above me.
[Another pause.]
I can only speak the truth.
[He seems to be considering something. Again-]
I can tell--
[--lies. He can’t finish that sentence. So it seems that even in this world, he can say nothing but the truth. He goes on.]
I cannot leave by my own volition.
[… interesting. So whoever it is has him trapped as well. It reminds him of a certain blond in a certain miniature garden, and he finds this terribly amusing.]
I will escape.
[He can escape, but not now. That’s the limitation of this world, it seems. But that’s okay, because it’s interesting. It seems like he can kill time like this, and nothing is better than killing time. After all, that is all it is. All it is]
I am Apollo.
[All it is indeed.]
[What do you hope to do with this character in Somarium?] First of all, do gods dream? It’s never explicitly stated either way in canon, and once forced to be in a situation where he must dream, I’m interested in what he might dream about. Second of all, Apollo is an interesting character in that he constantly seeks character development for himself, due to his inquisitive nature and his need to constantly kill time. I’m interested to see where staying in Somarium will take him in terms of his character. Lastly, I hope that he will be able to make a friend.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] The fourth-wall breakage one, because I’ve always disliked the breaking of the fourth wall in serious situations. xD But if it’s for the effects of humor, then go for it?
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Random role-play search.
[Any questions?]
None~