Character Chart
REPRESENTATION OF: Ancient Gortyn (I apologize. I completely forgot that there was no thing for this in the extremely detailed character thing!)
Character’s full name: Amaltheia
Reason or meaning of name: To soothe
Character’s nickname: Ama or Amal
Reason for nickname:shorter than Amaltheia
Birth date: Unknown
Physical appearance
Age: ~5215
How old does he/she appear:16
Weight: 136
Height: 5'5"
Body build: Curvy
Shape of face: square face
Eye color: brown
Glasses or contacts: n/a
Skin tone: tan
Distinguishing marks:
Predominant features:
Hair color: light brown
Type of hair: straight
Hairstyle: Bun
Voice: Uhh... Feminine?
Overall attractiveness: Very attractive
Physical disabilities: n/a
Usual fashion of dress:Toga
Favorite outfit: Toga
Jewelry or accessories: Usually has a hairpiece
Personality
Good personality traits: Passionate, and caring
Bad personality traits: Masochistic, can be lazy, and she is easily influenced
Mood character is most often in: Relaxed
Sense of humor:
Character’s greatest joy in life: Poetry
Character’s greatest fear: Falling to her death
Why?: When she was a small child, she ran around on the buildings, and tripped, falling off one of the buildings, landing on someone, and killing them.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: Being banned from poetry reciting
Character is most at ease when: Listening to Poets and performers
Most ill at ease when: there is a fight going on, interrupting the poetry.
Enraged when: Somebody steals her food.
Depressed or sad when: Witnessing somebody be arrested.
Priorities: Poetry, and People
Life philosophy: The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
If granted one wish, it would be: To have a poet write about her
Why?: She fucking loves poetry
Character’s soft spot: children
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: no
Greatest strength: The desire to please (not sexually)
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Often tries to please everyone, and ends up making everybody dislike her.
Biggest regret:
Minor regret:
Biggest accomplishment:
Minor accomplishment:
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about:
Why?:
Character’s darkest secret:
Does anyone else know?:
Goals
Drives and motivations:
Immediate goals:
Long term goals:
How the character plans to accomplish these goals:
How other characters will be affected:
Past
Hometown: Gortyn
Type of childhood: poor
Pets: None that she can remember.
First memory: Her mother being killed in an invasion
Most important childhood memory: When her father taught her to cook
Why: It is the only way she is able to get by
Childhood hero: Odysseus
Dream job: Sailor
Education: Poor
Religion: Greek polytheism
Finances: fairly wealthy
Present
Current location: Athens
Currently living with: Sapphos and (insert Jean's char here)
Pets:none
Religion:Greek Polytheism
Occupation: Maid
Finances: wealthy
Favorites
Color: orange
Least favorite color: yellow
Music:
Food: Salmon
Literature: Greek Rhapsodies
Form of entertainment: POETRY
Expressions: doesn't use any
Mode of transportation: horse/boat
Most prized possession: Her father's family shield
Habits
Hobbies: Watching people walk by
Plays a musical instrument?: lute
Plays a sport?: no
How he/she would spend a rainy day: reading poetry
Spending habits: doesn't tend to spend much money.
Smokes: nothing
Drinks: Wine
Other drugs: none.
What does he/she do too much of?: Poetry
What does he/she do too little of?: working
Extremely skilled at: cooking
Extremely unskilled at: writing poems or being philosophical
Nervous tics: She will often twist her neck at random times, or have sudden spine chills for no reason.
Usual body posture: Relaxed.
Mannerisms: toying with things in front of her.
Peculiarities: can't
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: pessimist
Introvert or extrovert?: introvert
Daredevil or cautious?: Cautious
Logical or emotional?: Emotional
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: messy.
Prefers working or relaxing?: relaxing
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?:unsure of herself.
Animal lover?: yes.
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself:
One word the character would use to describe self: Boring
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: Amaltheia would describe herself as much less important and/or necessary than other people. She often finds that she is the main reason why people become mad, annoyed, or confused, and so, she avoids social situations, and can be very quiet sometimes. Amaltheia thinks that she can't ever do anything right, but merely got to where she is by chance, and the god's amusement. She sometimes is even scared she is going to annoy herself!
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: Can live with anybody.
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: She finds herself to be really annoying.
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: she considers her complexion to be her best feature
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: How she has some bags under her eyes sometimes.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: Negatively
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: Her shyness.
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: she is confused and can act awkward towards other people because she considers almost everybody to be better than her, but dislikes her.
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others?:sometimes she does.
Person character most hates:
Best friend(s): Sapphos and (Jean's char)
Love interest(s): Sapphos
Person character goes to for advice: Priest
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: (Jean's char goes here)
Person character feels shy or awkward around: Poets
Person character openly admires:Odysseus
Person character secretly admires: Helen of Troy
Brief personality: Amaltheia is a very kind, innocent, and caring person on the surface, but she can be a terrible masochist at times, and sometimes, even appear to be evil. Amaltheia tends to be very impressionable, and can be influenced or persuaded to do something very easily. For some reason, she finds herself very attracted to bad people, like criminals and tyrants. Amaltheia, although masochistic and evel at times, can seriously be a very good and sweet person, caring for children, or making people gifts are just a few of the things shemight do on some days. Amaltheia loves poetry and everything asbout it, except writing it. she cannot write poems to save her life, although she loves listening to poetry performances.
Brief physical description: Amalthia will often be seen wearing a traditional Greek headdress, and will almost always have a white toga on. She has fair skin, and brown eyes to match her light brown hair. Her hair is held back and does not fall down past her neck, as Otis held by the headdress mentioned previously. She often will walk around in sandals. She is fairly skinny, stands at about 5 feet and 5 inches, and has a breast size of 38b.
- brief history:
There is evidence of human occupation in Gortyn as far back as the Neolithic era (7000 BC). Many artifacts have been found from the Minoan period, as well as some from the Dorian (c. 1100 BC). Although it is disputed whether the city was in development during the Minoan period, it is true that the city was in existence during the heroic times, because it is referenced by Homer, among the cities of Crete that were flourishing and were well fortified. The city was complimented by Plato and many others. The city of Gortyn surpassed the prominence of Phaistos during the first millennium BC, Phaistos having been the most significant city on Crete during Minoan times. The period of its great prosperity, however, coincided with the Hellenistic era. Gortyn was the most powerful and prosperous city of Crete and took hegemony of the island, dominating the entire valley from Messara to Levina and, later in the 2nd century after the destruction of Phaistos, extended its power to Matala.
Gortyn had excellent relations with Ptolemy IV of Egypt, and experienced a new period of prosperity during the Roman period. As it had allied with the Romans, it avoided the disaster that happened to many other Cretan cities, when invaded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus in 68 BC.
Gortyn continued to rise under Roman rule, and became the capital of the joint province of Creta et Cyrenaica. From the 4th century it was the capital of a separate province of Crete. The city was destroyed in ca. AD 828 by invading Arabs, who established their own state on the island. One of the first Christian temples was built here and the remains of an important Christian cathedral of Crete can still be seen today. This cathedral, dedicated to St. Titus, the first Bishop of Crete, was erected in the 6th century AD. Built with large isodomic stones, this cathedral keeps its intended height only in the areas of the Holy Bema and in pastophoria. The church structure is a cruciform with a dome which is based on four pillars.
Religious Affiliation: Grecian Polytheism
Powers: N/a