Hermes (Mercury)
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Join date : 2016-09-29
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| Name: Hermes Velox Representative of: Mercury Gender: Male Age: 20 physically, and literally he is as old as the universe. Brief personality: Hermes can't be exactly called a bipolar, but his actions are categorized into two personalities: warm and cold. His personality depends on your treatment of him or the day's weather or the things happening around him. In his 'warm' personality, he is outgoing, playful, and loud. He can be thoughtful, and he cares for everybody. Whenever he feels happy or wanting to go on an adventure or relaxed, he's in this personality. He's usually seen like this. In his 'cold' personality, he can be scrutinizing, always insulting you whenever he has the chance or whenever he feels like it. He doesn't talk much, and prefers to be left at the side of things where he won't be dragged into a mess, only speaking up to insult. He is cunning and witty, and it would only be known once he opens his mouth. His gaze seems to be locked in a glare. Whenever he feels sad or angry or just negative, he spirals down into this personality. He is named after a god, and his neutral traits (traits that can be seen on both personalities) are that he is eloquent, good at business, mischievous, quick (with his hands: his mischievousness, swiftness, and wit can make you lose your things), and knows his limits/when to stop. Brief physical description: Despite his physical age, he only stands to 5'2", and looks really cute. He has pale green eyes with yellow flecks in them. He wears a track suit of some kind, as he's always on the move. In his warm attitude, his hair would be red, and his eyes would still be the same. In his cold attitude, his hair would be a dull red, almost brown, and his eyes would still be the same. - Brief history:
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the one closest to the Sun, with an orbital period of about 88 Earth days, which is much faster than any other planet in the Solar System. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days. It has no known natural satellites. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger to the gods.
Partly because it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface temperature varies diurnally more than any other planet in the Solar System, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day in some equatorial regions. The poles are constantly below 180 K (−93 °C; −136 °F). Mercury's axis has the smallest tilt of any of the Solar System's planets (about 1⁄30 of a degree). However, Mercury's orbital eccentricity is the largest of all known planets in the Solar System. At aphelion, Mercury is about 1.5 times as far from the Sun as it is at perihelion. Mercury's surface is heavily cratered and similar in appearance to the Moon, indicating that it has been geologically inactive for billions of years.
Mercury is tidally or gravitationally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 resonance, and rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. As seen relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun. As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years. An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two years.
Because Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit (as does Venus), it can appear in Earth's sky in the morning or the evening, but not in the middle of the night. Also, like Venus and the Moon, it displays a complete range of phases as it moves around its orbit relative to Earth. Although Mercury can appear as a bright object when viewed from Earth, its proximity to the Sun makes it more difficult to see than Venus. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury: Mariner 10 flew by in the 1970s; and MESSENGER, launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years, before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015.
Religious affiliation: He may not be in a religion himself, but he is worshipped in Roman and Greek religion/mythology. Any special powers or abilities: He can run fast, and is lucky. Being a planet, he can also float, and change his body's temperature at will. (Since the planet is closest to the sun, I figured he'd have temperamental magic.) He can withstand extreme temperatures. He also has a good sense of direction, never getting lost. His color in the chatbox is #CC3300. |
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