Post by Psyche on Mar 30, 2009 12:53:46 GMT -5
Psyche
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"this is what the birth certificate says. the basics, of course."
FULL NAME/Psyche/
NICKNAMES/None yet./
AGE/19/
DATE OF BIRTH./N/A/
SEXUAL ORIENTATION/Straight/
GOD OR GODDESS OR NYMPH OR WHATELSE/Human - turned Goddess/
CANON OR ORIGNAL/Canon/
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"i'm sexy, i'm cute. the appearance is everything."
HEIGHT/5"7/
WEIGHT/108 LBS/
BODY TYPE/Slim, toned, hour glass figure, beautiful./
HAIR COLOR/Brown/
EYE COLOR/Green/
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES/Piercing green eyes/
PLAY BY/Elisha Cuthbert/
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"some say it's what's on the inside, counts."
LIKES/Romance, to be cared for, music, poetry, to care for the soul, marriage, purity, innocence and love./
DISLIKES/Psyche isn't one for dislikes but if she had some they would consist of; Lies, war, hurt, death, cruelty, pain, loneliness, sadness, un-loyalty and fear of turn mortal again. /
STRENGTHS/Beauty, kindness, loyal, beautiful singing, seductive, constant, calm, gentle, and supportive of the soul, love unconditionally./
WEAKNESSES/Cool emotionally, unable to cope with death, tempted with young handsome men, cares too much, falls in love easily, jealous, some times ,bad tempered, very soft heart - easily hurt, young and innocent./
HABITS/QUIRKS/Fiddling with strands of her hair, nibbling of her lip, flirting, likes to play with fire, go to visit her family./
FEARS/Death, mortality, not having Cupid, being attacked sexually, going to the underworld./
SECRETS/Psyche holds no secrets, she once was a mere mortal and hand many male loves as she was a Princess, she had many admires of her beauty and figure. After she found her love she never went back to any of her other lovers again, yet they still tried to get her attention she pushed them aside, devoted to Cupid./
FULL PERSONALITY/Psyche was the personification of the passion of love.[citation needed] She was the youngest daughter of the king and queen of Sicily. She was the most beautiful person on the island and suitors flocked to ask for her hand. In the end she boasted that she was more beautiful than Aphrodite (Venus) herself, and Aphrodite sent Eros to transfix her with an arrow of desire and make her fall in love with the nearest person or thing available. But even Eros (Cupid) fell in love with her and took her to a secret place and eventually married her and had her made a goddess by Zeus. (Jupiter)./[/color][/font]
"history starts now, or when i was born."
PARENTS/N/A/
SIBLINGS/N/A/
BIRTHPLACE/Delphi./
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS// Cupid | 18 | God | Married |
CHILDREN//
Voluptus | N/A | daughter | single
PETS/N/A/
name | age | occcupation | staus
FULL HISTORY/Envious and jealous of the beauty of a mortal girl named Psyche, Venus asks her son Cupid (known to the Greeks as Eros) to use his golden arrows to cause Psyche to fall in love with the vilest creature on earth. Cupid agrees, but then falls in love with Psyche on his own. When he leans over from a distance to kiss her, he causes one of his own arrows to fall forward, piercing him.
When all continue to admire and praise Psyche's beauty, but none desire her as a wife, Psyche's parents consult an oracle, which tells them to leave Psyche on the nearest mountain, for her beauty is so great that she is not meant for (mortal) man. Terrified, they have no choice but to follow the oracle's instructions. But then Zephyrus, the west wind, carries Psyche away to a fair valley and a magnificent palace where she is attended by invisible servants until night falls and in the darkness of night the promised bridegroom arrives and the marriage is consummated. Cupid visits her every night to have sex with her, but demands that she never light any lamps, since he does not want her to know who he is.
Hugh Douglas Hamilton's "Cupid and Psyche in the natural bower", 1792-1793
Cupid allows Zephyrus to take Psyche back to her sisters and bring all three down to the palace during the day, but warns that Psyche should not listen to any argument that she should try to discover his true form. The two jealous sisters tell Psyche, then pregnant with Cupid's child, that rumor is that she had married a great and terrible serpent who would devour her and her unborn child when the time came for it to be fed. They urge Psyche to conceal a knife and oil lamp in the bedchamber, to wait till her husband was asleep, and then to light the lamp and slay him at once if it is as they said. Psyche sadly follows their advice. In the light of the lamp Psyche recognizes the fair form on the bed as the god Cupid himself. However, she accidentally pricks herself with an arrow, and is consumed with desire for her husband. She begins to kiss him, but as she does, a drop of oil falls from her lamp onto Cupid's chest and wakes him. He flies away, and she falls from the window to the ground, sick at heart.
Psyche then finds herself in the city where one of her jealous elder sisters lives. She tells her what had happened, then tricks her sister into believing that Cupid has chosen her as a wife instead. She later meets her other sister and deceives her likewise. Each returns to the top of the peak and jumps down eagerly, but Zephyrus does not bear them and they fall to their deaths at the base of the mountain.
Psyche searches far and wide for her lover, finally stumbling into a temple where everything is in slovenly disarray. As Psyche is sorting and clearing, Ceres appears, but refuses any help beyond advising Psyche that she must call directly on Venus, the jealous shrew who caused all the problems in the first place. Psyche next calls on Juno in her temple, but Juno, superior as always, gives her the same advice. So Psyche finds a temple to Venus and enters it. Venus orders Psyche to separate all the grains in a large basket of mixed kinds before nightfall. An ant takes pity on Psyche and with its ant companions separates the grains for her.
L'Amour et Psyché, 1819
Venus is outraged at her success and tells her to go to a field where golden sheep graze and get some golden wool. A river-god tells Psyche that the sheep are vicious and strong and will kill her, but if she waits until noontime, the sheep will go to the shade on the other side of the field and sleep; she can then pick the wool that sticks to the branches and bark of the trees. Venus next asks for water flowing from a cleft that is impossible for a mortal to attain and is also guarded by great serpents. This time an eagle performs the task for Psyche. Venus, outraged at Psyche's survival, claims that the stress of caring for her son, made depressed and ill as a result of Psyche's lack of faith, has caused her to lose some of her beauty. Psyche is to go to the Underworld and ask the queen of the Underworld to place a bit of her beauty in a box that Venus had given to Psyche. Psyche decides that the quickest way to the Underworld is to throw herself off some high place and die and so she climbs to the top of a tower. But the tower itself speaks to her and tells her the route that will allow her to enter the Underworld alive and return again, as well as telling her how to get past Cerberus by giving the three-headed dog a small cake; how to avoid other dangers on the way there and back; and most importantly to eat no food whatsoever in the underworld, as that would trap her there forever. Psyche follows the orders precisely and eats nothing while beneath the Earth.
Engraving representing the Ancient Roman sculpture of Amor and Psyche at the Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy
However when Psyche has left the Underworld, she decides to open the box and take a little bit of the beauty for herself. Inside, she can see no beauty; instead an infernal sleep arises from the box and overcomes her. Cupid (Eros), who had forgiven Psyche, flies to her, wipes the sleep from her face, puts it back in the box, and sends her back on her way. Then Cupid flies to Mount Olympus and begs Jupiter (Zeus), to aid them. Jupiter calls a full and formal council of the gods and declares that it is his will that Cupid marry Psyche. Jupiter then has Psyche fetched to Mount Olympus, and gives her a drink made from Ambrosia, granting her immortality. Begrudgingly, Venus and Psyche forgive each other.
Psyche and Cupid's daughter was Voluptas or Delight, the goddess of "sensual pleasures," whose Latin name means "pleasure" or "bliss"./
"it's time to meet the puppeteer."
YOUR NAME/Layla/
YOUR AGE/15 (nearly 16.)/ optional.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE/3 ish years./
CONTACT INFO/PM
- ask for MSN/ pm is okay.SECRET PHRASE/admin edit/ (from rules)
MEMBER TITLE/Psyche/
ANYTHING ELSE/nooope. : )/
ROLEPLAY SAMPLE/The forest was beautiful at night. Psyche dropped her high shoes which she had been carrying and - barefoot - swung her slim body up into the lower branches of a strong oak tree. This was a different clearing to her usual haunt; she was in need of a change of scenery, and so had found herself here. There were a few rustles from below, which startled her and made her breath catch in her throat, but she was safe - nothing except the spiders could climb to her, and they never ventured this close to the edge of the forest. She swung her legs over the edge of the branch, thinking how wonderful it would be for her skin to look the way it did under moonlight all the time. It almost glowed in it's paleness; the black of her short dress contrasting so well, and her coal blonde hair tumbling over her bare shoulders made just the same impression. She looked almost surreal, this radiant, feminine figure sitting high up in a tree, barefooted. It reminded her of the mortal stories about gods and goddesses her father used to tell her - except she was the one dressed in black; not evil, just misunderstood and cast out from mortal society. She laughed to herself, half hoping someone would come across her like this. Someone new; someone interesting.../
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