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Name| Cupid Eros Amor
Age| Timeless
Sexuality| Overwhelmingly curious
Status| Single
Height| 6'3"
Personality| Reckless, deceitful, hopeless romantic, mischievous, curious, charming and unwavering

Bio| Cupid is the mischievous and winged god of love, and was the son of Venus (Aphrodite in Greek). He was her constant companion; and, armed with bow and arrows, he shot the arrows of desire into the fabrications of both gods and men alike. Wrongly, he is preceived to be angel-like. This is due to the Christianization of a number of Roman and Greek myths during the third and fourth century A.D. Cupid was not always childlike. After the birth of his brother Anteros, he rapidly grew to become a winged man. Secondly, Cupid's personality was anything but angelic. He was quite decietful and many of his deeds resulted in tragic endings for his victims.Cupid's mother, Venus, was jealous of a mortal girl named Psyche whose beauty surpassed even her own. Seeking vengeance, Venus recruited her son, this bringer of misplaced desire, to shoot one of his fearsome poisoned arrows into the young maiden so that she'll forever covet the first reproachful thing she sets eyes upon, thereby punishing Psyche's "disobedient beauty" with a shameful attraction. "I pray thee without delay," said Venus pleadingly to her son Cupid, "that she may fall in love with the most miserable creature living, the most poor, the most crooked, and the most vile, that there may be none found in all the world of like wretchedness." Cupid broke into Psyche's house one night and fully intented to do just this for his mother, but he becomes so smitten with Psyche that he accidentally pricks himself with his own poisoned arrow while watching her sleep. This forever binds the two and leads to Psyche's entry by marriage into the Roman pantheon-and, to put it mildly, a rather tense relationship with her new mother-in-law.
Love may have saved him in the end, but Cupid wasn't so much a romantic matchmaker as a devil subjecting hapless people to a toxic lust, one that blinded them with hypersexual urges. This allegory of a capricious god who pierces mortal hearts only to burden them with some scandalous attraction out of sheer boredom or as favors to other gods is reminiscent of nature's cold mindlessness when it comes to human sexuality. Individuals with the most deviant desires have similarly found themselves at the whim of a terrible randomness. He has buried himself into this work habit, especially after his split with Psyche.