[center][b][color=fdc68a]Name(s):[/color][/b]
Demeter
Deo - Sito
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[center][b][color=fdc68a]Titles and Roles:[/color][/b]
Goddess of the Harvest, Agriculture, Growth, and Cycle of the Seasons
Maintains control of the original systems that ensure proper agricultural production on Hellas. 
Within Olympus, runs genetic labs focused on flora. [/center]

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[center][b][color=fdc68a]Artifacts and Powers:[/color][/b][/center]
[color=fdc68a]GAIA Device:[/color]
[indent]Subsurface grid to ready and maintain the planet's crust for optimal agricultural endeavors. Built to turn rocks to dirt, infuse the correct nutrients, balance soil pH. Humans were expected to maintain the land, with GAIA as a fail-safe once initial ground preparations were completed. The grid-network has the ability to self-replicate it's structure and expand to new lands as humanity spread across the planet. Part of the initial colony, Demeter brought software and hardware upgrades.
[list][*]Overgrowth - targeted release of short-term extreme growth chemicals; can be used to provide extreme surpluses in the short-term, or completely overrun a grid
[*]Famine - reverse the bioengineering mechanism to cause swift and utter depletion of the land’s capability to produce 
[*]Loose Earth - ability to cause sinkholes through extreme use of the nanobots that breakdown rocks, can swallow entire buildings or individual beings
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[color=fdc68a]GMO Labs:[/color]
[indent]A pristine lab, a true clean environment due to Hades' cleaning drones, in the basement of Demeter's Olympus palace. If she is not at temple or making ever more infrequent visits to the mortals, she is in the lab. [list][*]GMO Crops: blight resistance, calorically and nutritionally dense produce, biosignatures to interface with BEES, antibiotic/antiviral properties for humans and livestock
[*]Godly Fare: specialty, small-scale productions of unique food-stuffs only for the residents of Olympus - modified fruits to induce temporary delirium or extreme virility, aggressive mycelium to reduce organic materials to sludge, etc
[*]Enviro-kits: small seed kits that with minimal water and time grow to fill a manse with a collection of greenery, shrubs, and flowers; highly customizable
[*]Flora-horrors: While the rest of her productions fulfill necessities or trivialities, this collection is about satiating the need to discover. The full collection was deemed too dangerous after a few early incidents, so while Demeter toils away at her lab, testing is done on Hellas and successful experiments are locked away in a vault within Hades domain. The collection includes creations like sentient ivy that seeks out flesh, parasitic fungi that subverts higher brain functioning leaving only base instincts, GMO crops that over-trigger cell growth or immune responses. 
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[color=fdc68a]BEES:[/color]
[indent]Bio-Environment Engendering System - micro drones coded with group-mind behavior to pollinate crops. One of the hardware upgrades that Demeter brought to Hellas. She genetically bonded them to her, so while they typically run their standard sub-routines to pollinate crops, this can be overridden directly by Demeter either in whole or in specific sub-systems. 
[list][*]Sting - self-contained automatic defense mechanism which injects a painful, though typically not fatal, toxin to any creature that interrupts its prime directive
[*]Malicious Swarm - When triggered by Demeter, the hive - or part of the hive - can become exceptionally aggressive, overriding even the coding for self-preservation. 
[*]Entourage - When triggered by Demeter, part of the hive will separate to attend to her. Largely a gimmick, but one that has always been viewed favorably by the mortals. [/list][/indent]
[color=fdc68a]Arion[/color] 
[indent]Personal antigravity travel device, shaped like a small chariot drawn by a carbon fiber equine in full stride. Arion was a gift from Zeus when Demeter complained about the amount of time travelling across Olympus took her away from work.[/indent]
[color=fdc68a]Lotus Staff[/color]
[indent]Small, personal control for GAIA, originally designed as a small portable controller to maintain the GAIA Device, Demeter altered it to its current form. The staff must be in her possession to function as it is neurally linked with a limited range of function. It allows her to perform small miracles - returning life to dead plants, plants to wither on the stalk, create a carpet of flowers for her to tread, etc.  [/indent]
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[center][b][color=fdc68a]Persona:[/color][/b][/center]
[indent]In the time before her ascension, Demeter had been aloof, an introvert, preferring to spend time in a lab with her assistants over anything else. Work was life - there was no distinction, nothing to balance. There was never an end goal to achieve, just more, more. Push boundaries, prove the impossible, consequences were of no concern. Money, accolades, recognition, all of that just served to give her more opportunity. Perhaps in her youth she had been an idealist, feed-the-world sort. But the journey was everything and each time she accomplished something, the high of it dissipated ever quicker. 

In the immediate aftermath of the ascension, Demeter was lost, a shell of a woman, a ghost. She would disappear for weeks at a time, only to return frantically scurrying to and fro in the fledgling Olympus. The goddess does not remember this time, it comes in glimpses in infrequent nightmares. Yet while it seemed at the time that Demeter would be another who disappeared, the terraforming on Hellas seemed to self-correct and again allow the land to flourish. A few decades after Zeus had declared himself as Zeus, Demeter returned in splendor, declaring herself as goddess - Hellas' prosperity and stability as the proof. 

As it was, so it is. There remains no memory of who Demeter once had been. It is likely some few remember those days and remember her troubled ascension. Her life is her work. Sowing life where there was none, a dying planet saved by her hand. The need for more married with a savior complex has allowed the delusion to be complete. Demeter is and always was, a god. Should anyone forget that, she has no qualms about guiding them back to the truth, whatever means necessary. 

The hand that takes also gives, in an unhealthy, abusive pattern. She wishes to save the mortals, sometimes from themselves, sometimes against their will. The goddess abhors malicious intent against anyone who she deems as being undeserving of such action. However, even a small slight against her or the pantheon waives this beneficence. She is a fickle goddess, steadfast only in the rigid logic of her mind. [/indent]
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[center][b][color=fdc68a]Background and Relationships:[/color][/b][/center]
[color=fdc68a]Zeus:[/color]
[indent]Demeter's feelings towards the mortal Zeus had been ambivalent, if respectful. He was the captain after all, and had left her alone to complete her work on the journey to the colony. That she was often completely preoccupied with work allowed her to ignore his more obnoxious and questionable behaviors. 

When he presented the idea of declaring themselves gods - to take advantage of the situation and take complete dominion over the population, Demeter had been easily persuaded. On Arith there had always been limitations, even on the ship, there had been regulations. The colony would allow her to create and experiment in a way like never before. It took little time for her to eagerly agree. Perhaps too eagerly or perhaps in a way easily misread. Something happened between them, something Demeter would agonize over for years afterwards. In the decades of her time away from what would become Olympus, [i]Meredith[/i] died and was reborn as Demeter. Upon her return, she bore no ill-will towards Zeus, no memory of Logan. 

In the centuries they spent together, Demeter would occasionally find herself at odds with the god. Yet they always seemed to make amends. The goddess relied on him, particularly for his mastery over weather. While GAIA could provide the majority of the earth's needs, it could not generate water or temperatures needed to maintain crop production. 

She turned a blind eye to his countless liaisons and love children. He was a god and could do as he pleased and it never seemed to interfere with his duties. In turn, she had utter freedom to do as she wished without intervention from Zeus. It was however, after several unfortunate incidents that had at last convinced Demeter that her more dangerous work had no place in Olympus. [/indent]
[color=fdc68a]Hades:[/color]
[indent]Prior to the ascension, Demeter was perhaps one of the few who did not outright shun the sanitation officer. She had always appreciated people who threw themselves fully and completely into their work, no matter the work at hand. Once Demeter had settled into her new life as goddess, she sought out Hades and was pleased by a fellow god who was so dedicated to his calling. While she is not particularly close to many, she finds her time with Hades fulfilling and dare she say, enjoyable. Even if they spend their time in silence, they are kindred souls. The god of the underworld in many ways she considers an extension of herself - there is no life without death, no beginnings without endings. They are two sides of the same coin and all Demeter causes to thrive, Hades will someday claim. [/indent]
[color=fdc68a]Hermes:[/color]
[color=fdc68a]Apate:[/color]
[color=fdc68a]Isaac/Typhon:[/color]
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