Name: Helios / Melaine
Age: 17
Birthday: August 10
Gender: Bigender, physically and identifying. Name and pronouns depend on presentation. Helios, he/him. Melaine, she/her. Helios is default. Them/they is fine.
Species: Demigod (Son of Apollo and a Keres)
Class: High School
Grade: 11th
Appearance Description:
Helios is the very picture of a classical Greek statue. Standing at 5’10”ft, he has smooth, tanned skin and a fit but slender build. He’s all gold, golden hair and golden eyes framed by long eyelashes. He has chiseled features with a good jaw and high cheekbones, a Greek nose, and cupid’s bow lips. Helios seems to glow softly, making him very noticeable in a crowd.
As Melaine, she drops to 5’5”ft and possesses a lovely hourglass figure with a large bust and ass and a tiny waist. She has softer, more delicate features, almost like a little doll. She retains hair length and skin color, but her hair turns black and her eyes turn into a dangerous shade of purple. Melaine loses the soft glow, but she has two odd stumps on her back that seem like underdeveloped wings. There are small, light feathers down her spine that stop just shy of her buttocks.
Helios is very fashionable but conservative in style, favoring button ups and slacks as casual wear. Helios favors light colors, whites, blues, silvers and golds. Meanwhile, Melaine prefers dark clothing in girly but sharp, semi-formal styles. Sometimes they wear jewelry in silvers and golds.
Anyone with a good nose will recognize Helios’ godly lineage first, but upon closer inspection, he reeks of evil.
Personality Description:
Helios is an uptight, no-fun-allowed Hall Monitor type of person. Helios tends to take every aspect of his life with a degree of complete seriousness, from his grades to his god status. Helios strives for perfection with everything he does. He believes that if he were to be good and properly god-like, Apollo would come back and accept him into the Greek pantheon. For Helios, it’s a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’.
Helios is obsessed with doing things the ‘proper’ way. He follows rules to the very letter, and he’s mindful of etiquette and manners. He’s very judgmental and intimidating within that. He doesn’t think well of rowdy people that break everything just because they can. He’s blunt enough to say this to their face, too.
While Helios and Melaine are the same person, the doom and death nature comes out more when he’s Melaine. Melaine is still uptight, but also a lot more curious about the world around her than Helios. Helios will scoff and leave when things get weird, but Melaine will stare and perhaps even join in with some convincing. She has a cheeky and almost playful side to her. She’s not constrained by rigid notions of masculinity as Helios.
Like any classical Greek god, Helios is very selfish and prideful, though he’s unlikely to admit it. He loves luxurious things, beautiful people and beautiful art. He thinks of himself as a very big and important. Deep inside, he holds a lot of resentment against Apollo for not treating him the way he should as his son and a god.
As smart as he is, Helios’ knowledge of the world is limited by books and not actual experience. Underneath his intimidating demeanor is an impressionable and curious child. He doesn’t understand morality instinctively, and that’s why he clings to rules to decide what’s right and wrong. He hides his curiosity and bloodlust under shame. As it stands, his reputation means more to him than any notions of guilt. He’s still growing, and part of that growth is to understand where he is in the world away from his father’s shadow.
Powers:
Helios prides himself as the son of Apollo, god of the sun. Helios’ mastered powers revolve on sun magic.
Sunshine Travel – Helios’ body can turn into and travel through sunshine at light speed provided the area he’s traveling to is illuminated by the sun. He can enter through curtains and glass windows, but things under shade are off limits. The process of sunshine travel is fast and instantaneous. When reappearing, Helios will burst out fully-formed from a flashy beam of light.
He can’t use any senses other than sight, so using this power for anything other than travel isn’t really possible. Helios can’t stay in this form longer than an hour at a time and he can’t use it to travel to leave Earth or travel through large bodies of water. This power doesn’t apply to other forms of light.
Miniature Sun – Helios can make a ball of pure sunlight about the size of a baseball. He can adjust the brightness and heat of this ball of light, from being so dim and mild it might as well be a night light to so intense it’s like a miniature sun. The heat and brightness don’t necessarily go hand and hand so the combinations of what he could do can vary. The miniature sun can’t hover more than ten inches from his hand, so while it’s nice that he could make it any brightness and temperature, he’s in danger of blinding or burning himself, so he would have to keep it at tolerable levels.
This miniature sun has a very special quality. It can melt through low-medium illusions and dispel surrounding malicious auras. At a certain mid-level of light and warmth, it can produce an almost calming glow. It’s essentially a torch with nifty add-ons.
Helios has an interesting power. Like Apollo, Helios can heal almost any type of wound and disease, but instead of getting rid of it completely, he’d absorb it into his own body. Helios can then transfer this disease/injury to another creature provided that it’s living and it has a form that could sustain it. For example, Helios can take a huge lump of cancer out of someone. He can transfer it to a pig or a cow, but not something as small as a rat or a bunny.
It’s impossible for Helios to take out fast acting diseases like snake poisoning or fatal injuries unless he has the creature to transfer it to close at hand. He can also transfer things he incurred himself to other creatures.
Species Abilities:
Helios has inherited traits from both Apollo and the Keres. Helios is immortal in the sense that he will stop aging physically and will not die unless he’s killed. Helios is a bit more durable than humans. Basically, he can get shot several times and take a beating pretty well, but put him in a meat grinder and he’ll die like anyone.
Due to being Keres, he’ll be drawn in by shady people and places. Helios has an innate love of the depraved. He thrives in disgusting environments, so he has a strong immune system and he can’t be poisoned or severely irradiated.
He’s also inherited the Keres’ blood thirst. It is, in fact, unhealthy for Helios to go through long periods of time without killing and consuming corpses. It’s an obsession for his species. The more he tries to suppress the desire, the more he’ll become impulsive and seek it out. Helios’ nose is extremely sensitive to dead or dying things. When he is within twenty feet of either, he’ll start salivating and be able to sniff out where it is easily. Helios can grow talons and sharp teeth when they’re hunting and feeding.
As the child of Apollo, Helios has inherited a few lovely things from his father. He has his good looks and talent for the arts. Helios has an angelic singing voice, and he can learn to play almost instrument with relative ease. He’s pretty good with the bow and arrow.
The natural opposition of Helios’ lineage means that he’s allergic to both extreme good and extreme evil. Helios’ personality and natural preferences leans to Apollo’s nature as protector of evil, while his impulses are controlled by the Keres’ need to seek death. Too much good will result in a plummet of his immune system and make him impulsive to seek out blood, while too much evil will result in Helios losing his sunlight powers completely. He needs to be able to maintain a balance of good and evil actions in order to reach his full potential.
Helios was born male, but because Keres are exclusively female and their species flows strongly in his blood, he can shift into a woman at will. It’s about as valid an identity as his male one. If Melaine ever got pregnant, she’d have to stay as Melaine until the baby comes.
Biography:
Helios was born in a union between Apollo, the god of the sun, and one of the Keres. While traveling a blood-soaked battlefield, Apollo met a beautiful maiden wandering around. He fell in love with her at first sight and made love to her only to find out she was a wretched Keres. She was different from the other Keres. She evolved to possess a form that let her walk around battlefields undisturbed.
Ashamed and humiliated, Apollo wanted to forget the incident entirely, but he found out the Keres was with child. The Keres wanted desperately to rip out the god’s child from her body, but Apollo tied her down until she could give birth. After nine months, a glowing babe was born. Apollo named him ‘Helios’. As beautiful as Helios was, Apollo knew that keeping him would only bring shame to his name, so he came down from Olympus and offered the child to an upper middle class family in Greece.
Helios was treated very well by his adoptive family, so much that Helios’ step siblings envied the treatment he got. Helios became used to big rooms, good food, and having people at his beck and call. His lineage was never kept a secret from him. It was a point of pride, in fact, and because of the treatment he got, Helios got used to setting himself above others. Indeed, people were very lucky to be around Helios. He was breathtakingly beautiful, sharp as a knife, and he had impressive magic.
His urges started to come up when he was around ten. Helios stumbled upon a dying animal in the forest, and for some reason he couldn’t understand, he killed it and ate its carcass. The taste of blood seemed to have awakened something in Helios. He grew fangs and talons, and his form shifted into a woman. The blood awakened Melaine. From that point on, the incident replayed in his head to the point of disgust at himself. He wanted it to happen again. He didn’t want to admit that.
That was when he thought: Did Apollo abandon him because he was like this? He started obsessing over being a good boy, perfect in everything, so Apollo would come back and take him up to Olympus one day.
Years went by, and Helios’ urges worsened. He sated it by consuming media – movies, pornography, etc – with violent running themes. The obsession met its breaking point when a maid came up to his room and caught him looking at these things on the internet. Ashamed, and with the knowledge that they were alone at home, Helios pushed her down the stairs and ate every bit of her. To his parents’ knowledge, she just disappeared one day.
Of all his concerns, the worst was the realization that he didn’t feel guilt for murdering and eating her. He loved it, and he would happily do so. He didn’t want to be this kind of monster. He wanted to make sure that it never, ever happened again.
He started focusing all his time and energy into healing, seeming to perform miracles in their small little town. As news spread of Helios the miracle worker, the SA scouts eventually found him and took him to Manta Carlos. He was given a fair amount of money and a car by his parents.
Age: 17
Birthday: August 10
Gender: Bigender, physically and identifying. Name and pronouns depend on presentation. Helios, he/him. Melaine, she/her. Helios is default. Them/they is fine.
Species: Demigod (Son of Apollo and a Keres)
Class: High School
Grade: 11th
Appearance Description:
Helios is the very picture of a classical Greek statue. Standing at 5’10”ft, he has smooth, tanned skin and a fit but slender build. He’s all gold, golden hair and golden eyes framed by long eyelashes. He has chiseled features with a good jaw and high cheekbones, a Greek nose, and cupid’s bow lips. Helios seems to glow softly, making him very noticeable in a crowd.
As Melaine, she drops to 5’5”ft and possesses a lovely hourglass figure with a large bust and ass and a tiny waist. She has softer, more delicate features, almost like a little doll. She retains hair length and skin color, but her hair turns black and her eyes turn into a dangerous shade of purple. Melaine loses the soft glow, but she has two odd stumps on her back that seem like underdeveloped wings. There are small, light feathers down her spine that stop just shy of her buttocks.
Helios is very fashionable but conservative in style, favoring button ups and slacks as casual wear. Helios favors light colors, whites, blues, silvers and golds. Meanwhile, Melaine prefers dark clothing in girly but sharp, semi-formal styles. Sometimes they wear jewelry in silvers and golds.
Anyone with a good nose will recognize Helios’ godly lineage first, but upon closer inspection, he reeks of evil.
Personality Description:
Helios is an uptight, no-fun-allowed Hall Monitor type of person. Helios tends to take every aspect of his life with a degree of complete seriousness, from his grades to his god status. Helios strives for perfection with everything he does. He believes that if he were to be good and properly god-like, Apollo would come back and accept him into the Greek pantheon. For Helios, it’s a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’.
Helios is obsessed with doing things the ‘proper’ way. He follows rules to the very letter, and he’s mindful of etiquette and manners. He’s very judgmental and intimidating within that. He doesn’t think well of rowdy people that break everything just because they can. He’s blunt enough to say this to their face, too.
While Helios and Melaine are the same person, the doom and death nature comes out more when he’s Melaine. Melaine is still uptight, but also a lot more curious about the world around her than Helios. Helios will scoff and leave when things get weird, but Melaine will stare and perhaps even join in with some convincing. She has a cheeky and almost playful side to her. She’s not constrained by rigid notions of masculinity as Helios.
Like any classical Greek god, Helios is very selfish and prideful, though he’s unlikely to admit it. He loves luxurious things, beautiful people and beautiful art. He thinks of himself as a very big and important. Deep inside, he holds a lot of resentment against Apollo for not treating him the way he should as his son and a god.
As smart as he is, Helios’ knowledge of the world is limited by books and not actual experience. Underneath his intimidating demeanor is an impressionable and curious child. He doesn’t understand morality instinctively, and that’s why he clings to rules to decide what’s right and wrong. He hides his curiosity and bloodlust under shame. As it stands, his reputation means more to him than any notions of guilt. He’s still growing, and part of that growth is to understand where he is in the world away from his father’s shadow.
Powers:
Child of Apollo
Helios prides himself as the son of Apollo, god of the sun. Helios’ mastered powers revolve on sun magic.
Sunshine Travel – Helios’ body can turn into and travel through sunshine at light speed provided the area he’s traveling to is illuminated by the sun. He can enter through curtains and glass windows, but things under shade are off limits. The process of sunshine travel is fast and instantaneous. When reappearing, Helios will burst out fully-formed from a flashy beam of light.
He can’t use any senses other than sight, so using this power for anything other than travel isn’t really possible. Helios can’t stay in this form longer than an hour at a time and he can’t use it to travel to leave Earth or travel through large bodies of water. This power doesn’t apply to other forms of light.
Miniature Sun – Helios can make a ball of pure sunlight about the size of a baseball. He can adjust the brightness and heat of this ball of light, from being so dim and mild it might as well be a night light to so intense it’s like a miniature sun. The heat and brightness don’t necessarily go hand and hand so the combinations of what he could do can vary. The miniature sun can’t hover more than ten inches from his hand, so while it’s nice that he could make it any brightness and temperature, he’s in danger of blinding or burning himself, so he would have to keep it at tolerable levels.
This miniature sun has a very special quality. It can melt through low-medium illusions and dispel surrounding malicious auras. At a certain mid-level of light and warmth, it can produce an almost calming glow. It’s essentially a torch with nifty add-ons.
Disease Transference
Helios has an interesting power. Like Apollo, Helios can heal almost any type of wound and disease, but instead of getting rid of it completely, he’d absorb it into his own body. Helios can then transfer this disease/injury to another creature provided that it’s living and it has a form that could sustain it. For example, Helios can take a huge lump of cancer out of someone. He can transfer it to a pig or a cow, but not something as small as a rat or a bunny.
It’s impossible for Helios to take out fast acting diseases like snake poisoning or fatal injuries unless he has the creature to transfer it to close at hand. He can also transfer things he incurred himself to other creatures.
Species Abilities:
Demigod
Helios has inherited traits from both Apollo and the Keres. Helios is immortal in the sense that he will stop aging physically and will not die unless he’s killed. Helios is a bit more durable than humans. Basically, he can get shot several times and take a beating pretty well, but put him in a meat grinder and he’ll die like anyone.
Due to being Keres, he’ll be drawn in by shady people and places. Helios has an innate love of the depraved. He thrives in disgusting environments, so he has a strong immune system and he can’t be poisoned or severely irradiated.
He’s also inherited the Keres’ blood thirst. It is, in fact, unhealthy for Helios to go through long periods of time without killing and consuming corpses. It’s an obsession for his species. The more he tries to suppress the desire, the more he’ll become impulsive and seek it out. Helios’ nose is extremely sensitive to dead or dying things. When he is within twenty feet of either, he’ll start salivating and be able to sniff out where it is easily. Helios can grow talons and sharp teeth when they’re hunting and feeding.
As the child of Apollo, Helios has inherited a few lovely things from his father. He has his good looks and talent for the arts. Helios has an angelic singing voice, and he can learn to play almost instrument with relative ease. He’s pretty good with the bow and arrow.
The natural opposition of Helios’ lineage means that he’s allergic to both extreme good and extreme evil. Helios’ personality and natural preferences leans to Apollo’s nature as protector of evil, while his impulses are controlled by the Keres’ need to seek death. Too much good will result in a plummet of his immune system and make him impulsive to seek out blood, while too much evil will result in Helios losing his sunlight powers completely. He needs to be able to maintain a balance of good and evil actions in order to reach his full potential.
Helios was born male, but because Keres are exclusively female and their species flows strongly in his blood, he can shift into a woman at will. It’s about as valid an identity as his male one. If Melaine ever got pregnant, she’d have to stay as Melaine until the baby comes.
Biography:
Helios was born in a union between Apollo, the god of the sun, and one of the Keres. While traveling a blood-soaked battlefield, Apollo met a beautiful maiden wandering around. He fell in love with her at first sight and made love to her only to find out she was a wretched Keres. She was different from the other Keres. She evolved to possess a form that let her walk around battlefields undisturbed.
Ashamed and humiliated, Apollo wanted to forget the incident entirely, but he found out the Keres was with child. The Keres wanted desperately to rip out the god’s child from her body, but Apollo tied her down until she could give birth. After nine months, a glowing babe was born. Apollo named him ‘Helios’. As beautiful as Helios was, Apollo knew that keeping him would only bring shame to his name, so he came down from Olympus and offered the child to an upper middle class family in Greece.
Helios was treated very well by his adoptive family, so much that Helios’ step siblings envied the treatment he got. Helios became used to big rooms, good food, and having people at his beck and call. His lineage was never kept a secret from him. It was a point of pride, in fact, and because of the treatment he got, Helios got used to setting himself above others. Indeed, people were very lucky to be around Helios. He was breathtakingly beautiful, sharp as a knife, and he had impressive magic.
His urges started to come up when he was around ten. Helios stumbled upon a dying animal in the forest, and for some reason he couldn’t understand, he killed it and ate its carcass. The taste of blood seemed to have awakened something in Helios. He grew fangs and talons, and his form shifted into a woman. The blood awakened Melaine. From that point on, the incident replayed in his head to the point of disgust at himself. He wanted it to happen again. He didn’t want to admit that.
That was when he thought: Did Apollo abandon him because he was like this? He started obsessing over being a good boy, perfect in everything, so Apollo would come back and take him up to Olympus one day.
Years went by, and Helios’ urges worsened. He sated it by consuming media – movies, pornography, etc – with violent running themes. The obsession met its breaking point when a maid came up to his room and caught him looking at these things on the internet. Ashamed, and with the knowledge that they were alone at home, Helios pushed her down the stairs and ate every bit of her. To his parents’ knowledge, she just disappeared one day.
Of all his concerns, the worst was the realization that he didn’t feel guilt for murdering and eating her. He loved it, and he would happily do so. He didn’t want to be this kind of monster. He wanted to make sure that it never, ever happened again.
He started focusing all his time and energy into healing, seeming to perform miracles in their small little town. As news spread of Helios the miracle worker, the SA scouts eventually found him and took him to Manta Carlos. He was given a fair amount of money and a car by his parents.