Acheron Parthenopaeus

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Oh dear.... this took me 7 days to finish. I swear to god I had loads of fun drawing my favorite character from my favorite book series Dark-Hunter, written by the author Sherrilyn Kenyon. This is my favorite character out of the books, simply because he has so much personality and such a background that you can't really wrap your mind around it. You can't explain Acheron in one word. It's way too complicated. His life is way too complicated for that. That guy is one tortured guy. Poor thing. Here's some info on him: Acheron Parthenopaeus was a member of the Atlantean Pantheon God of Final Fate, one of the last of the Chthonian (Godkillers), and the Leader of the Dark-Hunters. His reputation for vagueness and never answering any personal questions is legendary. Acheron first appears in New Orleans in Night Pleasures to aid Kyrian Hunter and Amanda Deveraeux in regaining Kyrian's soul, so that Kyrian could vanquish the Daimon Desiderius. Ash has strengths & vulnerabilities unknown to anyone but himself and a few more, almost no one is quite sure of his true age and lineage, he is more powerful than regular Dark-Hunters and one of the most powerful being that exists. Like others, he's a source god which means he can tap into and wield the power of the Primal Source. However, he is really powerful even without it. Like Sin-Nana, his Son-in-Law, he fights to protect and defend humanity and the innocent in general against those who would see the innocent destroyed. The king and queen of the Atlantean gods, Archon and Apollymi, were deeply in love, and due to have a child. However, the three Greek Fates, daughters of the Greek Goddess Themis and result of Archon's faithlessness to Apollymi, came to their father, holding hands, and, afraid that their new half-brother Apostolos would deprive them of their father's affections, spoke that Apostolos would be the death of the Atlantean pantheon. No sooner had the prophecy been uttered than almost every other Atlantean god demanded the death of the unborn baby. Unwilling to sacrifice her baby, she fled to her birth home of Kalosis, the Atlantean hell realm, where she knew the others wouldn't follow, with her niece Basi and her Charonte demons. Apollymi cut Apostolos out of her stomach, extracted his godhood, and had Basi place him in the womb of a pregnant queen, merging Apostolos's life force with that of the human queen's child, ensuring Apostolos's safety. The queen chosen was Queen Aara of Didymos. She gave birth to Apostolos and another son as twins. However, when his human mother saw his eyes, which were of a swirling mercurial color, an oracle came forward, declaring that Apostolos would be the death of them all. "None will be safe from his wrath," she said. She then informed them of the twins' connected life force. The King Icarion accused Aara of being unfaithful, to her defense. When both his mother and father refused to acknowledge him, the oracle name him "Acheron" for the river of the underworld representing sorrow. "Then he shall be named Acheron, for the river of woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey will be long, dark, and enduring. He will travel through life alone and abandoned, ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one. No one else ever will." At the age of seven, Acheron was ripped from the arms of his sister, Ryssa, and taken against his will to Atlantis, where he was to be left in the care of his uncle, Estes. From then on, he was trained as a tsoulus, a sex slave, and was abused mentally, physically, and sexually for nine years, being starved for weeks at a time, and beaten severely (for things such as speaking out of turn). In the winter of his sixteenth year, Ryssa received a letter from an attendant of Acheron's asking her to come to the aid of her brother. Ryssa, wanting nothing more than her brother's safety, discovered that her uncle was selling Acheron and took him away to her summer palace. For many months, they hid from their father and uncle while Ryssa, and small servant child Maia, coaxed Acheron out of his shell. When he had finally learned to trust in Ryssa, his father discovered them and sent him back to Atlantis, to be sold by his uncle, yet again. Two years later, Estes died, leaving Acheron homeless. He found work as a prostitute in Didymos, where Ryssa found him yet again. Angry at her for showing him a better life than what he had so long ago, he sends her away. For another month or so, senators from the palace pay to sleep with Acheron to pent their frustration of his twin brother and heir to the throne of Didymos, Styxx, on him. Styxx and Icarion overhear the senators discussing Acheron, and he is consequently thrown in the palace dungeon, where he is kept for several months. Ryssa frees him when he nearly dies of starvation and Styxx is dying with him since their life forces are connected. From then on, Acheron was kept in the palace, but confined to a single room. Acheron has served Artemis for over eleven thousand years. Had he not needed her blood to sustain his life, he would never speak to her again. She has done nothing but treat him the like whore that he feels he is. Artemis claims she loves him, yet she will never be seen in public with him or ever have his name tied to hers. She was so concerned for her own welfare & dignity that Artemis watched as her brother, Apollo, gutted Acheron for his mistress and son's brutal murder (Ryssa and her son). From the start, Acheron learned one valuable thing about Artemis, that she is selfish & everything to do with him is always about pleasing her. If sex doesn't appease the goddess, then seeing him whipped a thousand times over always sates her desire when she can't control him. Artemis has always made a habit to remind Acheron of what he was and where he came from. She would go so far as to keep from him the secret of their daughter, Katra, for centuries only to selfishly keep her daughter's love for herself. Thus, leaving a wound so deep that Acheron cringes when the goddess seeks him out or beckons him telepathically. Acheron loathes that he was tricked back to life with her blood, thus needing her blood to survive, forever her pet and toy...until he meets Soteria (Tory) and she changes everything. Ref: http://linzstock.deviantart.com/art/Rockstar-Taylor-32-59721770