[@Icy Hot] [@fledermaus] My replacement for Nyx/Thanatos has arrived!
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[color=black]H E R A C L E S, D I V I N E  P R O T E C T O R[/color]

[color=crimson]H E R A C L E S, D I V I N E  P R O T E C T O R[/color]
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[hider=HUMAN][color=crimson][u] 𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗦 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Jackson Tobias Drake[/sub][/color]
[color=crimson][u] 𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Early-30s[/sub][/color]
[color=crimson][u] 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Fitness Model/Instagram Influencer[/sub][/color][/hider][/center][/cell][cell][center][color=crimson][u] 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 [/u][/color]
[table][row][/row][row][cell][color=black]𝑮𝑶𝑶𝑫
[list][*] Energetic
[*] Dynamic
[*] Confident
[*]Witty[/list][/color][/cell][cell][color=black]𝑩𝑨𝑫
[list][*] Foolhardy
[*] Stubborn
[*] Overconfident
[*]Vain[/list][/color][/cell][/row][/table]
[color=crimson][u] 𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 [/u][/color][/center][color=gray][sub]As Heracles, nothing comes to mind, but as Jackson Drake, he has fully embraced his new life, so naturally becoming the top male influencer and maybe romancing someone as important and famous wouldn't be such a bad thing either. Truth be told, Heracles might be more like his father than he cares to admit, especially after realizing that Influencers are given a lot of glory. It's kind of like when he saved everyone way back when, now that he thinks about it...[/sub][/color]
[center][color=crimson][u] 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 [/u][/color][/center][color=gray][sub]He has lived as a half-mortal man and has experienced life as a god. Heracles might not be one of them but if he had to admit it, returning to that life didn't seem to be something he'd necessarily like. So that's what he feared: going back to the uneventful life as a God. His life among those he used to call his people was where he's meant to be at. Anything else felt like a betrayal.[/sub][/color]
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[hider=DEITY][color=crimson][u] 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Heracles[/sub][/color]
[color=crimson][u] 𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Divine Protector of Mankind[/sub][/color]
[color=crimson][u] 𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗡 [/u][/color]
[color=gray][sub]Greek[/sub][/color][/hider][/center][/cell][/row][/table]
[center][color=crimson][u] 𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 [/u][/color][/center]
[indent][indent][quote]Heracles — Divine Protector, Glorious Hero, Conquer of the Twelve Labors, and sworn hero of Greece. Heracles - God of Strength and Valor, the embodiment of everything great and deplorable of man, yet nothing was so truer as his devotion to his people.

Admired for his strength and revered by those who always challenged him, Heracles, Son of Zeus and Alcmene always strived to do right by not only his people but, in a sense, by his father too, or rather by his father's wife, Hera, whom he was named for. She had always despised him and had, on multiple occasions, sought his demise. 

But ever the survivor, possibly empowered by his father's tenacity and stubbornness, Heracles never gave in. Even when the Twelve Labors threatened to destroy his very being, the God in him always rose to the occasion. Like a literal super man, he powered through, going far beyond the point of return - [I]twice[/i].

Heracles was the shining example of what it meant to be a hero and his valor was rewarded by evading the clutches of Thanatos by being granted entry into the Olympus Pantheon. Though he would never be equal to anyone, he was a man amongst gods. 

Who could ask for a better challenge, right? [/quote][/indent][/indent]

[center][color=crimson][u] 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 [/u][/color][/center]
[indent][indent][quote]Once he achieved godhood, Heracles thought what he had sought after would finally give him the fulfillment he thought he wanted, but in achieving this, it became what the modern society often said about disappointment: Never meet your heroes for they might disappoint you.

This is exactly what Heracles felt. Or maybe it was boredom. Being a God was great in theory, which that's all it was until it was realized, but now having experienced it, he was bored because all they did was sit around. Sometimes they'd cause mayhem and carnage for the mortals because they were bored or strike fear into them, but that was it. Just a bunch of bored gods sitting around on their fat asses.

Truth be told, Heracles began to despise them. and he never thought he would become suspect to such emotions.

So, imagine the delight that overwhelmed him when the Colossus, an artifact that not even the great Engineer of the Gods, Hephaestus, understood, threatened hem all, and stripped all gods of their power. It wasn't just the Greek Pantheon - but all Gods from all Pantheons that became no more than mortals. 

Heracles was saddened for some he thought of as friends in Mount Olympus, but he could not deny that, in a moment of rare weakness, he felt like this is what [I]they[/i], not him, deserved. Especially Hera. Maybe a taste of [I]his[/i] world would give them some perspective.

Heracles didn't need to adjust because he had lived in the mortal realm as a Demigod, though it had been a few dozen centuries since he walked among the people and that was in Greece, of all places. But where he was imprisoned wasn't anywhere close to Greece. It was in a place called Washington D.C. After a while, it did start to feel like home and the man who was once known as Heracles didn't exist. Well, not in the traditional sense. Heracles, Divine Protector of Greece didn't exist, but Jackson Drake, fitness model/influencer, did. He was also a former wrestler who found a calling in fitness. Heracles' -- or Jackson -- had a passion for it. 

Even with the move to Seattle, Heracles didn't feel like he had to rip his entire life away and start anew. As long as he had his phone close to him and could post whenever, the fifth-highest paid male influencer on Instagram could work from his toilet and still get hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of likes on a single post. 

What more could a man ask for?[/quote][/indent][/indent][/hider]