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Player Information
» Name: Ren
» Age: 29
» Journal:

akhilles_heel
» Contact: prettykozi@gmail.com//lilbit075

Deity Information
» Pantheon: Greek
» Deity: Achilles
» Reference: http://www.maicar.com/GML/Achilles.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles
» Divine Family: {Mother, father, etc} Thetis, Peleus; {spouse} NA; {siblings} NA; {children} Neoptolemus
» Mythology: Achilles was born to the Nereid Thetis and mortal Peleus with a predestined fate. He was said to be the greatest warrior the Greeks had ever seen, but he would die at a young age. Frantic to keep her boy away from the Greek warriors, Thetis tried every possible way to keep him alive. As a baby she burned him, bathed him in ambrosia, and finally dipping him into an immortal bath from the river Styx. As a child Peleus sent him to the centaur Chiron to be trained the ways of a warrior banishing any of Thetis’ attempts at giving the boy immortality.

However, eventually Achilles became too much for Chiron to control and he pushed the young boy back on his mother warning her that Achilles would be his own ruin. In a last ditch effort Thetis desguised Achilles as a girl and hid him on the island of Scyros all the while the Trojan war was brewing. There he pretended to be one of Lycomedes daughters in court until Odysseus found him.

It had been ordained to King Agamemnon that the Greeks would lose their battle against the Trojans to retrieve the stolen Spartan Queen Helen without the mightiest of warriors. Achilles. The problem was no one could find him, so Odysseus went out on a tip. At Lycomedes court he found the boy, giving Achilles the outlet he truly craved. His mother’s warning that he would die young if he went to Troy were dismissed as the young Achilles sought his own fame. For his name to be remembered for years to come.

At fifteen he became the General of his father’s Myrmidons, fighting alongside his childhood friend and cousin Patroclus. The war would span ten years, the final year to become his ruin. Agamemnon played favorites, taking spoils for himself until Apollo set a plague on the Greeks once he stole a priestess to the god and refused to give her back. Achilles called him out, showing him for a coward, demanding he return the girl and in return Achilles loses his own concubine. In a fit of rage, the temperamental Greek refuses to fight and sits in his tent for two weeks while his men get slaughtered by the Trojans. He gives Patroclus permission to fight in his armor instead which results in a dead body and no armor. This starts the downward spiral that would be his untimely death. Fueled by his hate, Achilles rages after the man who killed his comrade; Hector.

Still, his bloodlust is not cured and the great Achilles enrages more than a few gods with his arrogance. In the end Achilles was struck down by Paris’ arrow guided by Apollo. The arrow was lodged in his weakest point, the ankle that Thetis failed to coat with Styx’s waters. Achilles would die before the war was over, but he would become the most influential key characters in it’s story.

Character Information
» Played By: Theon McInsane
» Journal:

akhilles_heel
» Current Name: Andreas Karalis
» Birthdate: 4/3/1986
» Height: 5’11
» Distinguishing Marks: Lion tattoo on his lower right arm.
» Family: {mother & father} Arianna and Leone Karalis; {marital status/spouse} Single; {siblings} none; {children} Alexander Patroclus Karalis by Erato ((UPDATED));{pets} NA
» Occupation: Lieutenant, US Army
» Currently Residing In: Fort Lewis, Washington
» Ability: Achilles is known for his swift-feet and god-like fighting skills. As the son of a goddess, he possessed the the status of a demi-god, and in his own mind he was invincible. Despite his terrific abilities, he held one great weakness. His ankle with which Thetis failed to dip in the river Styx to keep him . That weakness still haunts him to this day, giving him an inflamed Achilles tendon if he overexerts it. Aside from his weakness, he still does have that strong pull to fame and glory, using his leadership to command those under him.

UPDATED ABILITIES: Achilles has always been strong, but now he has a fast healing body. He is stronger and holds more endurance than twenty men put together. His heal is still his weakeness (that will never change). He is also faster in running, jumping, and lifting.

» History: Achilles was first reincarnated in century Rome when Alexander the Great reigned to conquest most of the world with his own empire. He again had been brought into a life where the real heroes were men of war. He stood within Alexander’s army, once again a general and still at the tender age of seventeen, following the man through his series of conquests through the Middle East, Persia, and Egypt. When he was twenty-one, Achilles, then known as Hadrianus became one of Alexander’s Diadochi.

Following Alexander’s death, the country went through a series of civil wars, the surviving generals of the Diadochi took over various states to rule. In this live Achilles lived past his twenty-five years that had been taken from him in his earlier life. He died an old man, with many children.

His second resurrection would come during another notable war, this time an American soldier in Vietnam. Stations were different than they were ancient ware fare, as Leonard Carolas he built a repertoire, ending his servitude to the United States Army as a Lieutenant until the end of a war in 1975. He came home a different man than he left, as most men who leave a war to come back home. At thirty-five he suffered severe post-traumatic stress which made it difficult to rebuild a life in a society that did not understand once he finally returned. His wife left him with no children, and no real peace the rest of his days as he spent them under the nose of a psychologist. He was 60 when an argument with a stranger turned violent, sending him to prison for murder. He never returned out of that prison, his last words spoken the year of 1986, the same year he was reborn again.

His third life was the first to give the great Achilles a peaceful start, though he was still the son of a strict military man in Caserma Edeire, Vicenza in Italy. At fifteen they moved to the States and that life that Andreas had become so accustomed to was passed down from his father. It was then that he realized who he really was and set out to not be a fallen hero once again. After high school he joined the US Army at eighteen and has since resided in the only lifestyle he really knows and is comfortable with.

Times may have changed but the the values are still the same for an upstanding soldier. Loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. Achilles is the embodiment of any good soldier. The men relate to him, they understand him and absorb him on a level that only men of war understand.

After seven years he has ranked second Lieutenant, a achievement that is not generally given to someone under twenty years of service, he is therefore the youngest in this position and quite highly regarded despite his young age. He now is stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington.

» Personality: Achilles is a hot-headed hero of the Trojan war. He holds very high standards of himself, a superiority complex because he was the son of a higher being. He was a leader among men, and could wrangle armies by his sheer ambition. Most men couldn’t hold a candle to his craving for acceptance. Whatever a man wants he goes after, and Achilles lusts for it even more. Call it an obsessive nature. That flame that made him so inspirational has never died. He’s an aristocratic warrior with a thirst for power, though today his battlefield is the modern world, his weapons no longer that of a military man, but of a man seeking personal glory.

With this offensive attitude towards himself is a fiery temper that is easily set off when others undermine his position. Agamemnon once made a bad play when the intelligent warrior made him out a coward, which cost Achilles his pride. If that situation was any indication, his temper is still a prized trait, one that flares when things don’t go his way. A phase of sorts until he’s cooled down and can think with rationality. Though, this is not to say he angers without reason. Achilles has just cause for his decisions, be they reckless or not, there is reason to his madness. The typical air of an egotistical man who fills his head with his own arrogance.

He is not to say greedy in the sense of dominating others unjustly, those were the very reasons he loathed Agamemnon in his first life. There is a softer side to this brute. To those he confides in and cares for, there is a gentler man before them. The women that hold his affections are treated well, not as a mere possession on his mantle. The same is given to those friends closest to him. He once went out of his mind for the loss of his closest friend and comrade, defining his utmost loyalty to a man he adored. He is honorable, and those that get the chance to be something more than an acquaintance will find that to be his most admirable trait.

Though he holds his own weakness, he does not accept weakness from others. Achilles strives to pull the best out in those around him, be that through strict demands or stretching a person as far as they can possibly go. That obsessiveness is what brings out his ultimate weakness, which by default is not his ankle, but the lengths he is willing to go to achieve what he must.

» Other Notes: Achilles is heterosexual. His heel will once again prove to be his invariable weakness.

» Sample Journal: They find it strange at times that a man of twenty-five should have such a position over most that are the same age if not older. That look of surprise is generally washed away when they realize I know more than any of them will ever know in this lifetime. Leading men is not just what I do, it has become me entirely.

» Sample Log: He walked into a room with a valor that was not of this time, his head held high, his stature like that of some ancient. There was a grace in the way he spoke and commanded his men. Achilles had learned long ago what it was like to rally men together and hold their attention without lowering their standards. He may have been the best of the best in the days of Troy, but Achilles was no Agamemnon. He was greedy only in the right that he wanted to achieve the best of any soldier. To be remembered. It was still a centralized thought in his mind today.

At fifteen he’d been able to command the Myrmidons, invincible to all of them until the day he fell.

He would not fall again.

Achilles would be the upstanding soldier that he was born to be. It was a mentality he held with each life, though the suffering was great, he knew no other way. Perhaps this was an atonement for the lives of those he loved that he let rip apart from this world. Patroclus, Briseis, his mother---all people that held a hypnotizing power over him and each one he’d let down for the sake of his own head.

While he settled down this hot summer night to sleep, it was when his restlessness would surface. Most in his field were accustomed to it, it was the sensation of loss, grief and dare say guilt. When the world around was quiet and that light breeze broke through his slightly cracked window it was when Achilles could step back in a time that brought him more heartache than any other.

It was then that silence wasn’t enough.

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