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[color=black]A R E S ,   G O D   O F   W A R [/color]
[color=ed1c24]A R E S ,   G O D   O F   W A R[/color]
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[hider=HUMAN][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗦 [/u][/color]
[color=gray]Alexander Miknosos[/color]
[color=ed1c24][u] 𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 [/u][/color]
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[color=ed1c24][u] 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 [/u][/color]
[color=gray]Consigliere[/color][/hider][/center][/cell][cell][center][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 [/u][/color]
[table][row][/row][row][cell][color=black]𝑮𝑶𝑶𝑫
[list][*] Protective
[*] Confident
[*] Resilient[/list][/color][/cell][cell][color=black]𝑩𝑨𝑫
[list][*] Bloodthirsty
[*] Wrathful
[*] Self-destructive[/list][/color][/cell][/row][/table]
[color=ed1c24][u] 𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 [/u][/color][/center]
[color=gray]Ares, ultimately, wants to break his vicious cycle. Though he has tried everything short from fleeing the Colossus or attempting to regain his full godhood again. The latter he saves as a last resort. For he quite likes the feeling he gets from fighting beside and against mortals as a more mortal creature. It makes him feel alive in ways he couldn’t when he was a god.[/color]
[center][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 [/u][/color][/center]
[color=gray]Remaining stuck in his cycle forever and killing Julie. [/color]
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[hider=DEITY][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬 [/u][/color]
[color=gray]Ares[/color]
[color=ed1c24][u] 𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 [/u][/color]
[color=gray] God of War[/color]
[color=ed1c24][u] 𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗡 [/u][/color]
[color=gray]Greek[/color][/hider][/center][/cell][/row][/table]
[center][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 [/u][/color][/center]
[indent][indent][quote] The Greeks enjoyed two gods of war. Ares personified the aspects of the warrior: courage, honor, glory and strength but also wrath, terror, strife and pain. He was a cruel and dangerous god. One only prayed to by soldiers, most prominent amongst them the Spartans. In myth he is often shown to be on the wrong side of battle. He fought amongst the Trojans against the Greek. Amongst the gods, only Aphrodite loved him. Even his father, Zeus, told him that he is the god most hateful to him.[/quote][/indent][/indent]

[center][color=ed1c24][u] 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 [/u][/color][/center]
[indent][indent][quote] Ares’ life is marked by a vicious cycle that has repeated itself for centuries now. At first he will represent strength, courage, honor and valor. A gentleman and a kind hearted warrior. It is not uncommon that he takes a wife in this stage (often time widowers of war). Sadly for him those years are always numbered. With every passing night the clarion call grows a little louder in his head. His muscles beg to be torn apart. He becomes short tempered and violent. Often looking for a fight just to have one. Tensions at home will always rise. If the woman is lucky, she leaves. Though this would send him spiraling into his next phase much faster. Blood will no longer sate him. Boxing, martial arts, wrestling, his usual methods to blow off steam will fail him. So inevitably he will go deeper and darker. Looking up underground fight rings. The bigger the city, the bigger those events are. No-one ever bested him such a depraved ring. Where honor is replaced with blind glory. Where strength is replaced by brutish might. These are his crimson days. Where blood flows but it’s never enough.

If he has a wife and she hasn’t left him yet, doom quickly comes for her. It will happen, for it has happened an endless times already. Blind rage will overtake Ares. Sooner, rather than later. There was a time he would’ve fought it. To no avail. It is an inevitability. He will kill her. If she was smart enough to be gone, the only thing Ares can do is rage on like an inferno. Until he had enough of the bloody murder. What follows are his black days. There’s the burial of his loved one after which he shuns society. Often times he’s wasting away in some gutter. In the old days the worst a man could abuse was alcohol and himself. But in the last two black days have been marked by worse poisons. Mankind, after all, had become expert at Asclepios’ arts.

The dark days have no set end. They can last years, or decades. Once it even lasted a century. But as inevitable as the self-destruction is the fight to regain what he once had. And fight he always does. Somehow he regains an inkling of his former splendor and crawls out of his own dug pit. It takes years and it has never been easy. But once out, his cycle starts anew.

When the gods came to Seattle, Ares had been showing his virtues for five years already. Almost as a prophecy, the second he arrived in Seattle he found someone he loved: Julie. She’s a simple human, but beautiful in his eyes. He loves her, thoroughly. And to his own delight and surprise, she loves him as well. Yet he hasn’t had the courage yet to tell her who he really is. What’s more problematic is that the tell tale signs of his endless, almost prophetic, wheel turning. He recently enjoyed fighting more than he should and has been working as a Consigliere for the local mob. He is slipping…[/quote][/indent][/indent][/hider]