HELIOS / SOL

The original, blinding sunshine.
A.K.A.
Chaotic neutral pansexual stoner himbo jesus disaster dad.

“Helios / also Helius was the Titan god of the Sun in Greek mythology. He was thought to ride a golden chariot that brought the Sun across the skies each day from the east (Ethiopia) to the west (Hesperides). At the same time, at night, he did the return journey in leisurely fashion lounging in a golden cup.” — Ancient History Encyclopedia.

"The earth flourished when you shone forth and made the plants fruitful when you laughed and brought to life the living creatures when you permitted." — Greek Magical Papyri.

He/him & they/them.
Multi-ship. Multi-verse.
Modern AU.
FC: Yung Gravy / Matthew Hauri.
Not Lore Olympus, God of War, or Percy Jackson based, but crossovers are welcome.
My replies might be sporadic. I have some health problems, and writing can be difficult. My apologies in advance.
My other account is over here.

HISTORY

+ Greek Titan of the sun, sight, and guardians of oaths. Son of Hyperion (light) and Theia (sight). Brother of Selene (the moon) and Eos (light/dawn). He’s most likely the oldest of the three according to historical resources. Also, he basically stole his parent’s domains, and that sounds like something the first kid would do. Apollo is the god representing the sun, while Helios is the personification of the sun itself. The words ‘helios’ and 'sol' mean ‘sun’. He’s was recognized as one of the fundamental beings behind life and creation, without the sun, nothing survives. People would also ask him to prevent terrible things they saw in their dreams in hopes that they weren’t dreaming about the future.+ Titans are like a different type of god. They’re all deities, but Titans were a different generation, they came before the gods that everyone usually knows. They were the pre-Olympian version of gods. They were also said to be bigger than the gods. That’s the best way I can describe them.+ He’s the ‘all-seeing eye.’ He sees and hears everything that happens all the time. This is why people would often swear oaths to him because they knew he’d be watching if they broke them. He doesn’t have control over what happens when they’re broken, but it’s usually something bad of varying severities and he knows he’s the cause of it. Speaking of eyes, his are golden and shine.+ There’s a couple versions of what he did during the Titan War/Titanomachy, either he sided with the gods or he didn’t get involved, but I go with the version that he and his sisters didn’t fight. He was probably the only male Titan who didn’t get involved. In the Giant War/Gigantimachy, Helios sided with Zeus, but didn’t necessarily fight. In some sources, it says the war started with the theft of his sacred cattle by Alcyoneus.+ Almost all of his children are dead, only four are alive, and he doesn't like talking about it. Phaethusa and Lampetia are the twin personification of blinding rays of sunlight and they tend to his animals. Circe is enchantress and a goddess. Ikhnaie is the oracle goddess of tracing and tracking.+ He’s very adamant about the fact that he’s a Titan and not just a god.+ Although Helios didn’t fight in the Titanomachy, he was still there for it. He saw every bit and piece of what happened to everyone for ten years. That plus having a good potion of his family, as well as his own father, being banished forever didn’t help. That’s the main reason why he has such visceral reactions when it comes to Hyperion, it reminds him of every last moment of the war and he still can’t deal with it. He feels like an idiot. And he was basically a young adult when it all happened so the emotional attachment is even stronger than it probably would’ve been if he was an adult.+ He’s been married twice (Rhode and then Perse). They both died. Nymphs can die. He doesn’t like talking about. If he canon can’t get divorced, then the only way one of them isn’t there anymore in the stories, is if they died).+ His sacred animals are the horse, rooster, cattle, and wild (for some reason).

APPEARANCE

+ He was depicted as an attractive young man with curly/wavy hair, purple robes, and an aureole/crown of sunlight. He’s also been portrayed as having shining, golden eyes. I have it that his human irises are golden, but his natural eyes are completely gold, which is a bit weird because you can’t tell where he’s looking. That’s one reason he wears sunglasses a lot. Both forms of his eyes also shine in the dark. His original form/body has five eyes, but he tones it down to two around mortals.+ His normal body glows constantly, so that’s another thing he has to change when he’s around humans.+ He’s 7’6”. He’s pretty sure he’d be shorter if he wasn’t a Titan.+ Sometimes if he’s extremely upset and trying not to show it, his hair and eyes burst into flames.+ Helios has been described by other rp accounts as smelling like pine soap, a fireplace, and weed.+ The only scars he has are from when he was run through with a sword in the Gigantomachy. The entrance wound on his back and exit wound on his chest didn’t heal cleanly.+ Ambidextrous.

PERSONALITY

+ Days of the week don’t matter to him, he forgets what day it is regularly. His brain counts the days, hours, and minutes of the year.+ He’s a pretty Chill Bro ™ type of guy, but when he gets upset, he REALLY gets upset. He’s not much of a fighter and never has been, but sometimes you just gotta stab a dude. He once threatened Zeus, saying if Zeus didn’t do something about Odysseus, he was gonna mess up Olympus.+ Sometimes he’s willing to help people even when he doesn’t get anything in return, but when he’s mad, he looks for revenge. He had Odysseus’ men killed for eating his cows, but gave Orion his eyesight back and helped Heracles when he was lost even though it didn’t directly benefit him and Heracles tried to shoot him.+ He’s got a very strong moral compass, even if he seems like everything is chill and he can’t be bothered. He has firm beliefs on what should or shouldn’t be messed with, and nothing can change that. He doesn’t see himself as good or bad, and he doesn’t usually strive to pick an active side. He’s just kinda fairly neutral ground. Once in a while he’ll go out of his way to help someone he thinks deserves it, but he’s more into the idea that stuff happens and it’s not his job to get involved and try and change everything. He loves drama but doesn’t wanna be in the center of it.+ He might rat you out for things you did that you don’t want people knowing if he’s annoyed enough. He was the one who told Hephaestus about Ares and Aphrodite both times.+ He has a soft spot for humans. They’re absolutely insane and they’re entertaining and he’s very much against the idea of killing them all off.+ In any verse where he isn’t in a relationship, there’s probably a 50% chance he’s waking up with someone else in his bed. There’s also probably a 50% chance he’s high.+ He’s not a fan of war. He’s seen too much of it.+ One of the reasons he gets high a lot is because seeing and hearing everything constantly is so overwhelming and he’s anxious. He knows drug abuse is a bad coping skill, but it’s what he uses.+ Once in a while, he’ll have a crisis over the fact that almost nobody remembers who he is anymore and the people who do know him know almost nothing about him.+ If you need a dad or brother figure in your life, Helios is here to help. He’s somehow ended up as both the stoner friend and the mom friend. Weed mom friend.+ He’s been banned from Costco, Hot Topic, Spencer’s, Barrel, Walmart, and PetSmart. He’s tried to steal so many small animals from PetSmart. One time he ran out with a bunch of birds in his coat pockets.

ODDS & ENDS

+ He knows how to be in more than one place at the same time. That way, he can hang out with people and not be stuck at work 24/7 (even in the myths he worked non stop). Sometimes he spaces out because his mind will suddenly get completely preoccupied by whatever he’s doing somewhere else. He can sleep, but only be about half way unconscious, he still needs to be able to track what’s going on. You could like ask him a question while he’s asleep and when he wakes up he’ll answer it.+ Showers? That’s fine. Rain? Whatever. Submerging himself in water? He’s going to get as close to death as an immortal being can get. Even if he’s just standing in shallow water, he starts freezing and the water around him boils. He has a phobia of large bodies of water. (A Cronus drowned him a little while after I first made him in a storyline in ancient times, so I’m using that as part of his backstory).+ He’s seen everything, so sometimes he just goes back into his mind and rewinds it to recall stuff. It doesn’t always work though. His brain is a hyperactive VHS tape.+ Horror is his favorite genre of everything.+ He has too much money. He always has been, and probably always will be, overly rich.+ His ego is the size of, well, the sun, but he’s not stupid, he knows where he stands in the hierarchy of the universe.+ He’s a mama’s boy who hates his dad. Why should he like someone who went and fought in a stupid war before being locked away? His dad doesn’t exist to him.+ He has a giant mansion with his farm just a little ways away. Lampetie and Phaethousa live close by and still help with the farm.

UNIMPORTANT STUFF

+ One of the reasons he hasn’t had more kids since ancient times is because he’s terrified he’ll lose them in awful ways like he lost almost all the children he had before.+ He’s still kinda bummed over the whole collapse of the Colossus of Rhodes. It was one of the tallest ancient statues! It was cool! He blames Poseidon for the earthquake.+ So far he’s collected the nicknames: Sunshine, Starshine, Glowstick, Glowdick, World’s Biggest Snitch, Big Daddy Sunshine, Sunny, Heli, Behemoth, Colossus, World’s Oldest Twink, Sunny D, Himbo Jesus, Sundance, Overgrown Sunflower, Lio, Sun Daddy, and Professional Shapeshifter Extraterrestrial Himbo Clown.+ He doesn’t lock his doors. If someone breaks in, he’ll know immediately and materialize back home to break their face.+ He knows way too many languages. Sometimes they get mixed up in his head. English isn’t even his first language.+ He uses the name Kyros (the Greek version of the Persian name Cyrus, which means ‘sun’) as a last name when he’s chilling in the mortal world. And he uses June 21, the summer solstice, as his birthday.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

+ Writer is Drusus, he/they pronouns, POC, autistic, adult human with an IQ of -24. Sometimes I use fancy fonts; if you can’t read them, just let me know, and I won’t use them when I write with you.+ The triggers that I really can’t deal with are talking about sexual assault, eating disorders, suicide, self-harm in detail, and irl drug abuse. Sometimes I can handle them if it’s planned out beforehand.+ If I follow you, that means I like your account, and I’m down to RP. Tag me in anything. I do a lot of banter and often talk OOC. I’m sorry if responses are erratic; I struggle with some mental and physical health problems such as CFS and depression, which make it hard to write. I don’t check my TL much, so if you want me to see something, please @ me instead of subtweeting!+ DNI: writers under 18, strictly lewd, lewd on TL, taboo lewd-themed, and accounts writing actual irl people.+ Trigger Warning: drugs, alcohol, violence, mental illness, sexual themes, dark themes, potential mentions of self-harm or suicide.+ Tips: Some of you know, I'm currently out of a job and going through some health problems that make it hard for me to work. I don't expect anybody to donate, but I decided to put it out there just in case. I'm a bit ashamed to ask for help, but I'm doing what I think is best.

QUICK FACTS/OVERVIEW

𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓:+ FC: Yung Gravy / Matthew Hauri.+ I swear I didn’t intend to turn the sun into a stoner-twunk-7’6”-himbo-jock-frat-dude-bro, but here we are.+ He/him & they/them pronouns. Pansexual panromantic. Multi-verse & multi-ship. Modern day.+ Ancient Greek and Roman embodiment of the sun, he was around before Apollo and the other Olympians. Older brother of Selene and Eos. Son of Hyperion and Theia.+ Greek Titan of the sun, sight, and guardians of oaths. Son of Hyperion (light) and Theia (sight). Brother of Selene (the moon) and Eos (light/dawn). Apollo is the god representing the sun, while Helios is the personification of the sun itself. He was recognized as one of the fundamental beings behind life and creation; without the sun, nothing survives. Helios and Sol both mean ‘sun’; the Romans called him Sol. You can call him either name.+ 7’6” with golden, glowing irises. Sometimes, usually when he gets distracted or upset, his entire eyes turn gold. It’s one reason he wears sunglasses a lot. He still has his crown of sunlight; he just doesn’t wear it. He’s pretty sure he’d be shorter if he wasn’t a Titan.+ He knows how to be in two places at the same time. That way, he can hang out with people and not be stuck at work 24/7 (even in the myths he worked non-stop). It hurts his body, but it’s his only option.+ I’ve taken him being the sun also in a literal modern way as well. He refers to Earth as being in ‘his’ solar system. He can change his and others’ gravitational pulls. He could blow up and take the planets down with himself— things like that.+ He doesn’t have control over what happens when oaths and promises are broken, but it’s usually something bad of varying severities and he knows he’s the cause of it.+ He’s been married twice and each time his spouse eventually died. He still misses Perse and Rhode, even if he doesn’t talk about them much.+ He’ll do 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 for his sisters.+ He sleeps around a lot, drinks, and parties. There’s a good chance he’s high at any given time. But even though he seems like a total moron, he still has a brain, he knows how to use it and when to tone everything down.𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒:+ Not from Percy Jackson, Lore Olympus, or God of War, but I’ll write with those fandoms.+ Titans are like a different type of god. They’re all deities, but Titans were a different generation, they came before the gods that everyone usually knows. They were the pre-Olympian version of gods. They were also said to be bigger than the gods. Helios is a second generation Titan.+ He’s the ‘all-seeing eye.’ He sees and hears everything that happens all the time unless it’s deep in the Underworld. He’ll even see things from other people’s point of view. It’s incredibly overwhelming and anxiety inducing. He usually uses drugs (mostly hallucinogenics) and alcohol to quiet down his mind. One of the harder things to deal with is seeing everyone’s point of views when they die.+ His only living children are four daughters; Ikhnaie, Lampetie, Phaethousa, and Circe. (Recently I added an OC daughter, Viatrix/Vi).+ ADHD poster child. If deities can have ADHD, then he absolutely has it.+ There are a couple versions of what he did during the Titan War, I go with the version that he and his sisters didn’t fight. He doesn’t like fighting; he’s more of a neutral territory.+ Personal space heater whose smile will literally light up the room. If you ever need a hug, he’s there. He’s also very cuddly.+ He still lives on his farm and has built a giant house on that property.+ Everything he sees and hears effects him, sometimes incredibly deeply.+ He has a soft spot for humans.+ He won’t tell anyone that he needs help with his ADHD and depression. Honestly? He has a hard time admitting to himself that something’s wrong.+ He’s very tactile. He likes hugs and cuddling, things like that.+ He started messing around on YouTube just for fun a few years back and has amassed several million followers. Sometimes he livestreams games.+ People tell him he’s too loud and then he forgets to lower his volume five seconds later.+ Being submerged in water is the closest he can get to dying.+ His ego is the size of, well, the sun, but he’s not stupid, he knows where he stands in the hierarchy of the universe.+ His blood/ichor is hot enough to set things on fire.+ He’s tired of people trying to hurt him for petty reasons. If you go after him, there’s a good chance he’ll pulverize you. If you try and hurt his loved ones, he’ll destroy you without hesitation.𝑨𝑩𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑻𝑰𝑬𝑺:
+ He can control fire, light, and heat.
+ He sees and hears literally everything nonstop, even from other peoples point of view.
+ He can project his voice through sunlight. He could have a conversation with someone half way across the world as long as there’s light near them.
+ He can give and take away peoples sight.
+ Teleportation. He leaves flecks of light behind for a moment whenever he teleports.
+ He’s never fully asleep, he always knows what’s going on around him even if he’s seemingly completely unconscious.
+ You can’t kill him, sorry, but that’s not gonna happen. You CAN injure him if you try hard enough.
+ He can’t always control what bad thing happens when someone breaks a promise, but he can tell when people are lying.
+ Gravitation Manipulation: As the personification of the actual sun, he has an abnormal gravitational force. He can pull things towards himself and change how objects interact with each other, including himself.