Post by ARTEMIS on Jan 19, 2024 18:31:08 GMT -5
NAME:
orion
CHARACTER TYPE:
deity or creature {giant}
NOTABLE RELATIONS:
son of poseidon & euryale (daughter of minos, not the gorgon), father of the koronides (nymph sisters, menippe & metioche, who turned into comets), best friend of artemis & apollo
PERSONALITY:
speaks bluntly, is on the boastful side. excellent hunter. otherwise, go ham on what he's like.
PB:
open, open open. i honestly don't care. pictured (from left to right): will ramos, joel pimentel de león, son leo
DEETS:
so, it's not written yet, but basically orion was missy's bff for a little, and operated as her 'beard' for a great deal of time. she is asexual and aromantic, and there are very few around her other than her brother that respect those facts. orion was one of the very few who both understood and didn't question it, and to protect her from unwanted advances, acted as her significant other until the day he was killed by the scorpion gaia sent. the truth is they were very, very close, -and as such, he was good friends with apollo, too- but nothing romantic ever crossed between them.
nooooow, i have kind of an idea for him, and if you're up for this i'll make his lover: but, essentially, the story of orion is that he bragged he was the best hunter in the world and could slay anything - claiming he would slay every beast on earth. this pissed off gaia for obvious reasons, so she made a monster - a giant scorpion - to kill him. after the event, both the scorpion and orion were cast into the stars to live out eternity as constellations. i was thinking - what if scorpius, the beast sent to kill orion, was actually in love with him - or what if they were star-crossed lovers? maybe scorpius was also punished by gaia for a different reason, and his/her punishment was to kill orion, and vice versa? and, in a sad way, they get their happy ending - living forever in the stars. until now, obviously.
in any case... most of this is open. this is a person who was extremely important to artemis, and she would be delighted to see him again. in the past, she was very uptight and rigid, but now apollo is helping her flourish with her true self, and orion will find that his goddess friend is a liiiiiitle different than how he remembers her - but maybe a little more like she was when she thought no one was watching.