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[series]: Olimpos
[character personality]: A jaded, cynical young man, Ganymede doesn't often believe in ways of escape. He's been trapped for so long, he's never let his heart fly to hope again. Every time he's done it, there's been only loneliness and Apollo's trickery at the end of it. The plaything of the gods, Ganymede.
He's been described as intelligent and clever, "enough not to get bored with" evidently, and it's true; being a prince, he was obviously raised and tutored to perfection as all princes were. Cleverness is a little harder to define - what's clever by human standards isn't the same as god's standards, and maybe it's his ways with words that define him. He doesn't have much of a way with them, mind, but like any grumpy, normal teenager suddenly thrown into a prison, he's got a mouth on him. He also tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, at least when he's upset. When angered, everything lights up - it doesn't help he's easily irritated.
He doesn't believe in hope. No matter what, even if he were to be let out of the garden, who would he go back to? There's no one. They're all long dead, by now, and any opportunity to go somewhere else is just a chance to go to another prison. He knows there's no escaping a cage anymore, much in the case of a bird with clipped wings. Nothing can convince him otherwise, and most days, he sits against the broken pillars of the Parthenon and pretends to sleep. Immortals don't need it, after all.
Ganymede is, admittedly, a little vain - he was considered the most beautiful being in Troy, nigh the world, after all - and tends to think names are ugly. Most names, anyways; if they've any connection to Greek or Latin (which has a lovely feel), chances are he'll like them better and not consider them ugly. He doesn't find many things beautiful either, being as pretty as he is and being in a world full of beautiful things for as long as he has, and isn't the type to "stop and sniff the roses", so to speak.
Outwardly, he's brash, impulsive, grumpy, pessimistic, irritable, and cynical. On the inside, he's all of the above - and lonely. Though he's had mortal compoany every so often, when Apollo finds an amusing one to try and 'help' Ganymede, he can't connect with them on their level of thought any longer. He thinks them stupid and selfish, foolish for believing some things and not others, and in a way he's come to reflect the company he keeps (he'd vehemently disagree with anyoen telling him he was like Apollo, though). At least, to god-standards. Being immortal and away from everyone you knew for a thousand years creates a sense of loneliness like that, and in the end, the only person he's had as company is Apollo, and if he were to lose even that--
He'd be just as alone as before, and though he's immortal, he's still human. And no human ever wants to be completely alone.
[fourth-walling?] Go ahead!
[physical contact?] you'll be doing the hugging, not him. he won't enjoy it much.
[injury/mutilation/death?] talk to me about it! i'm usually pretty open to any idea.
[general annoyances?] annoy him as much as you'd like. that's what he's here for.
[character personality]: A jaded, cynical young man, Ganymede doesn't often believe in ways of escape. He's been trapped for so long, he's never let his heart fly to hope again. Every time he's done it, there's been only loneliness and Apollo's trickery at the end of it. The plaything of the gods, Ganymede.
He's been described as intelligent and clever, "enough not to get bored with" evidently, and it's true; being a prince, he was obviously raised and tutored to perfection as all princes were. Cleverness is a little harder to define - what's clever by human standards isn't the same as god's standards, and maybe it's his ways with words that define him. He doesn't have much of a way with them, mind, but like any grumpy, normal teenager suddenly thrown into a prison, he's got a mouth on him. He also tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, at least when he's upset. When angered, everything lights up - it doesn't help he's easily irritated.
He doesn't believe in hope. No matter what, even if he were to be let out of the garden, who would he go back to? There's no one. They're all long dead, by now, and any opportunity to go somewhere else is just a chance to go to another prison. He knows there's no escaping a cage anymore, much in the case of a bird with clipped wings. Nothing can convince him otherwise, and most days, he sits against the broken pillars of the Parthenon and pretends to sleep. Immortals don't need it, after all.
Ganymede is, admittedly, a little vain - he was considered the most beautiful being in Troy, nigh the world, after all - and tends to think names are ugly. Most names, anyways; if they've any connection to Greek or Latin (which has a lovely feel), chances are he'll like them better and not consider them ugly. He doesn't find many things beautiful either, being as pretty as he is and being in a world full of beautiful things for as long as he has, and isn't the type to "stop and sniff the roses", so to speak.
Outwardly, he's brash, impulsive, grumpy, pessimistic, irritable, and cynical. On the inside, he's all of the above - and lonely. Though he's had mortal compoany every so often, when Apollo finds an amusing one to try and 'help' Ganymede, he can't connect with them on their level of thought any longer. He thinks them stupid and selfish, foolish for believing some things and not others, and in a way he's come to reflect the company he keeps (he'd vehemently disagree with anyoen telling him he was like Apollo, though). At least, to god-standards. Being immortal and away from everyone you knew for a thousand years creates a sense of loneliness like that, and in the end, the only person he's had as company is Apollo, and if he were to lose even that--
He'd be just as alone as before, and though he's immortal, he's still human. And no human ever wants to be completely alone.
[fourth-walling?] Go ahead!
[physical contact?] you'll be doing the hugging, not him. he won't enjoy it much.
[injury/mutilation/death?] talk to me about it! i'm usually pretty open to any idea.
[general annoyances?] annoy him as much as you'd like. that's what he's here for.