Little Hades Application
💀 Player Information
Name: Kristi
Age: 31
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Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name: Ligys of Nestos
Setting: The legend says that in one day and one night, Atlantis and all its people were lost beneath the waves.
The truth - as much as any history thousands of years past can be truth - is much bloodier. The people of Atlantis engaged in a war with civilizations between the pillars of Hercules and the Strait of Gibraltar, conquering and enslaving millions. They were warriors and slavers, leaving devastation in their wake.
They grew complacent, however, and began to desert the gods, priding themselves on their successes and rise to glory. Poseidon, who had favored Atlantis above all others, cursed them - not to the depths, but to be destroyed by their own hubris. Soon the Spartan army rose up against the Atlanteans with Ares and Artemis at their backs. Battles raged for years, and the priests of Atlantis prayed for salvation from any god who would listen.
They sacrificed their horses to Poseidon. They offered stags to pacify Artemis. They scattered gold in the temples, bled the lambs, burned incense, chanted prayers to the gods of their slaves. The slaves went next.
Finally, they sacrificed their children.
In the furthest depths of the oceans where no light could reach, there existed Ceto, mother of monsters. Hearing the prayers of the Atlanteans, she stretched out her hands and called the waters to swallow their continent whole.
She granted them a new life - not as men, but monsters. With her magic, their bodies could distort with fins and tails, gills, eyes so large it seemed they could see in every direction, patches of skin and nodules that glowed in the darkness at the ocean floor. At will, they could shift from this form to the more human one of their ancestors, though most chose monstrosity over men.
Someday, Ceto whispered in their minds, someday they would rise up once more and retake the world. It would be the age of monsters.
Thousands of years passed. A new language developed, made of a mixture of thoughts, clicks, and whistles, low hums and sharp cries. They bore the memories and language of their forefathers, stored away for some future on land, but no longer called themselves Atlanteans. They were Ketea: children of Ceto, siblings of the Gorgons and Echidna. And how they hated mankind...
Canon Point: Ligys has just been tragically shot in the face with a flare gun by a vacationing American who was just trying to protect his boat from being capsized.
It was a very unpleasant death.
Age: Her developmental stage as a human would put her in her late twenties.
Description:
Ligys' people are direct descendants of ancient Atlanteans, and thus little has changed about their human forms since antiquity: she stands at just above five feet. Her body is thin, giving her an unnaturally long-limbed appearance.
Thanks to ages of deep-sea breeding, she has painfully white skin, light blonde hair, and eyes so large they practically bug out. Her eyes are accustomed to low light conditions, and so in bright light, she's practically blind.
The only traces that remain of her aquatic existence are her dagger-like teeth. It's a rite of passage to sharpen one's teeth in her "society", and thus she retained the look though her gills and fins were stripped away when she died. The rest of her body seems human enough.
Physical changes: None.
Powers: Rather than maintaining her powers, Ligys will be stripped of them. She won't have the magic granted to her by Ceto that allows her to take aquatic form or hypnotize prey, and will instead remain human. Embarrassingly human.
History:
Hell Status: Hell newbie!
What Brings Them To Hell: Ligys' entire race lives and breathes their hatred of humanity. They're notoriously vengeance-minded, and Ligys herself is no exception. She drowns seafaring folk, eats children, and generally wants to see civilization burn to the ground. Worse than all that, she thinks she's in the right. Her moral compass is perpetually skewed because she thinks mankind deserves all the suffering she and her kin can inflict on them.
The Pitch:
Ligys is mentally so far removed to her own sphere of existence as a "mermaid" that throwing her in a situation where she not only has to face her own evils but do so as a human will be an intriguing exploration of her psyche. How does one cope with being in such a hated position? How could she possibly move forward with the knowledge that her eternal existence is quite literally a personal hell, in Hell?
In Little Hades, she will be an alien amongst her own (true) species, as well as self-alientated. She won't want to interact with lowly humans, but what choice will she have when loneliness begins to set in? She'll have no other options when she meets with circumstances she can't handle alone. Who wouldn't want to see a murderous creature like Ligys forced to ally herself with those she has looked on as prey? Worse, to be subservient to one of them because she hasn't the ambition, or cunning to rise to the top on her own!
She's one to keep an eye on. Everyone likes a redemption story, even if that redemption doesn't necessarily take one heaven-ward. Accepting her own humanity and using her nastiness for the gain of others would certainly be entertaining.
Personality:
She's a real piece of work.
Ligys is as single-minded as they come in Atlantis, the entirety of her being focused on the destruction of humanity and the return of her people to their rightful rule. A murderous nature like that doesn't just pop into existence, of course, but is cultivated over centuries. It's bred into her from the meanest, nastiest, most violent of her kind. Given the choice between letting a single human live and global destruction, she would lean towards letting it all burn.
Of course, stripped of her aquatic abilities leaves her as human as anyone, and that comes with a whole basketful of self-loathing and frustration. She doesn't want to be the thing she hates most. She doesn't want to think about what would happen if her family knew what had become of her. She's repulsed by her own appearance and terrified that she might not be able to return to her former glory.
Her frustration isn't solely focused on herself, however. She has little to no experience being a proper human, and thus even the simplest of tasks leaves her agonized. The overabundance of technology is a barrage of things she can't control, and the result is a woman in a near-constant fit of temper. If figuring out how to flush a toilet can bring her to tears, just imagine her reaction when she's confronted with the intricacies of a car or a television.
Though once she might have been imperious and haughty, it's hard to maintain that act when you've been dragged to the same level as everyone else. Now, she behaves like a spoiled child, robbed of what she believes she's owed and given the shaft in the worst way. It renders her far more volatile than she might have been otherwise.
She probably has some good points - a penchant for mercy in rare situations, an unshakeable loyalty for those who prove themselves to her, an inability to hate puppies, maybe - but for the most part, she wants to reign down chaos on anyone with two legs - and nothing is too far below her dignity. Even allying herself with a human isn't too detestable if it means bringing harm to a multitude.
But hey: at least she can hold a conversation.
Setting Fit:
Ligys isn't a Big Bad; I think she'll attach herself to anyone who seems ambitious or on an upward trajectory (as upward as it can get in Hell, anyway), and considering the setting, I'm banking on people playing those characters. Alternatively, if someone presents her with a good idea to cause chaos, she'll be quick to fall in with them.
If those aren't possibilities I can explore for whatever reason, I do know about three people already in the game and several applying this round, so I shouldn't have too much trouble engaging and can hopefully plot out petty trouble for her to get into. For an (un)-living, she would definitely want to be a Reaper even if it is only part-time work. Any opportunity to laugh at the misfortune of the people around her will be appreciated greatly.
Samples:
Test Drive Sample 1
Name: Kristi
Age: 31
Contact:
Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name: Ligys of Nestos
Setting: The legend says that in one day and one night, Atlantis and all its people were lost beneath the waves.
The truth - as much as any history thousands of years past can be truth - is much bloodier. The people of Atlantis engaged in a war with civilizations between the pillars of Hercules and the Strait of Gibraltar, conquering and enslaving millions. They were warriors and slavers, leaving devastation in their wake.
They grew complacent, however, and began to desert the gods, priding themselves on their successes and rise to glory. Poseidon, who had favored Atlantis above all others, cursed them - not to the depths, but to be destroyed by their own hubris. Soon the Spartan army rose up against the Atlanteans with Ares and Artemis at their backs. Battles raged for years, and the priests of Atlantis prayed for salvation from any god who would listen.
They sacrificed their horses to Poseidon. They offered stags to pacify Artemis. They scattered gold in the temples, bled the lambs, burned incense, chanted prayers to the gods of their slaves. The slaves went next.
Finally, they sacrificed their children.
In the furthest depths of the oceans where no light could reach, there existed Ceto, mother of monsters. Hearing the prayers of the Atlanteans, she stretched out her hands and called the waters to swallow their continent whole.
She granted them a new life - not as men, but monsters. With her magic, their bodies could distort with fins and tails, gills, eyes so large it seemed they could see in every direction, patches of skin and nodules that glowed in the darkness at the ocean floor. At will, they could shift from this form to the more human one of their ancestors, though most chose monstrosity over men.
Someday, Ceto whispered in their minds, someday they would rise up once more and retake the world. It would be the age of monsters.
Thousands of years passed. A new language developed, made of a mixture of thoughts, clicks, and whistles, low hums and sharp cries. They bore the memories and language of their forefathers, stored away for some future on land, but no longer called themselves Atlanteans. They were Ketea: children of Ceto, siblings of the Gorgons and Echidna. And how they hated mankind...
Canon Point: Ligys has just been tragically shot in the face with a flare gun by a vacationing American who was just trying to protect his boat from being capsized.
It was a very unpleasant death.
Age: Her developmental stage as a human would put her in her late twenties.
Description:
Ligys' people are direct descendants of ancient Atlanteans, and thus little has changed about their human forms since antiquity: she stands at just above five feet. Her body is thin, giving her an unnaturally long-limbed appearance.
Thanks to ages of deep-sea breeding, she has painfully white skin, light blonde hair, and eyes so large they practically bug out. Her eyes are accustomed to low light conditions, and so in bright light, she's practically blind.
The only traces that remain of her aquatic existence are her dagger-like teeth. It's a rite of passage to sharpen one's teeth in her "society", and thus she retained the look though her gills and fins were stripped away when she died. The rest of her body seems human enough.
Physical changes: None.
Powers: Rather than maintaining her powers, Ligys will be stripped of them. She won't have the magic granted to her by Ceto that allows her to take aquatic form or hypnotize prey, and will instead remain human. Embarrassingly human.
History:
Hell Status: Hell newbie!
What Brings Them To Hell: Ligys' entire race lives and breathes their hatred of humanity. They're notoriously vengeance-minded, and Ligys herself is no exception. She drowns seafaring folk, eats children, and generally wants to see civilization burn to the ground. Worse than all that, she thinks she's in the right. Her moral compass is perpetually skewed because she thinks mankind deserves all the suffering she and her kin can inflict on them.
The Pitch:
Ligys is mentally so far removed to her own sphere of existence as a "mermaid" that throwing her in a situation where she not only has to face her own evils but do so as a human will be an intriguing exploration of her psyche. How does one cope with being in such a hated position? How could she possibly move forward with the knowledge that her eternal existence is quite literally a personal hell, in Hell?
In Little Hades, she will be an alien amongst her own (true) species, as well as self-alientated. She won't want to interact with lowly humans, but what choice will she have when loneliness begins to set in? She'll have no other options when she meets with circumstances she can't handle alone. Who wouldn't want to see a murderous creature like Ligys forced to ally herself with those she has looked on as prey? Worse, to be subservient to one of them because she hasn't the ambition, or cunning to rise to the top on her own!
She's one to keep an eye on. Everyone likes a redemption story, even if that redemption doesn't necessarily take one heaven-ward. Accepting her own humanity and using her nastiness for the gain of others would certainly be entertaining.
Personality:
She's a real piece of work.
Ligys is as single-minded as they come in Atlantis, the entirety of her being focused on the destruction of humanity and the return of her people to their rightful rule. A murderous nature like that doesn't just pop into existence, of course, but is cultivated over centuries. It's bred into her from the meanest, nastiest, most violent of her kind. Given the choice between letting a single human live and global destruction, she would lean towards letting it all burn.
Of course, stripped of her aquatic abilities leaves her as human as anyone, and that comes with a whole basketful of self-loathing and frustration. She doesn't want to be the thing she hates most. She doesn't want to think about what would happen if her family knew what had become of her. She's repulsed by her own appearance and terrified that she might not be able to return to her former glory.
Her frustration isn't solely focused on herself, however. She has little to no experience being a proper human, and thus even the simplest of tasks leaves her agonized. The overabundance of technology is a barrage of things she can't control, and the result is a woman in a near-constant fit of temper. If figuring out how to flush a toilet can bring her to tears, just imagine her reaction when she's confronted with the intricacies of a car or a television.
Though once she might have been imperious and haughty, it's hard to maintain that act when you've been dragged to the same level as everyone else. Now, she behaves like a spoiled child, robbed of what she believes she's owed and given the shaft in the worst way. It renders her far more volatile than she might have been otherwise.
She probably has some good points - a penchant for mercy in rare situations, an unshakeable loyalty for those who prove themselves to her, an inability to hate puppies, maybe - but for the most part, she wants to reign down chaos on anyone with two legs - and nothing is too far below her dignity. Even allying herself with a human isn't too detestable if it means bringing harm to a multitude.
But hey: at least she can hold a conversation.
Setting Fit:
Ligys isn't a Big Bad; I think she'll attach herself to anyone who seems ambitious or on an upward trajectory (as upward as it can get in Hell, anyway), and considering the setting, I'm banking on people playing those characters. Alternatively, if someone presents her with a good idea to cause chaos, she'll be quick to fall in with them.
If those aren't possibilities I can explore for whatever reason, I do know about three people already in the game and several applying this round, so I shouldn't have too much trouble engaging and can hopefully plot out petty trouble for her to get into. For an (un)-living, she would definitely want to be a Reaper even if it is only part-time work. Any opportunity to laugh at the misfortune of the people around her will be appreciated greatly.
Samples:
Test Drive Sample 1