Wymack: Hephaestus, taking in what was broken and cast aside, for in his bones he remembers the same feelings.
Abby: Hestia, goddess of the hearth and home, caring and caring and caring some more, even as her heart bleeds out at the indignities bourn by those she loves.
Dan: Artemis, huntress, free and wild, suffering no man’s power over her.
Renee: Persephone, both dark and light, both death and life, trying to balance the two warring halves within her.
Allison: Aphrodite, reduced to no more than her beauty, forced into a life she never wanted, so she runs and finds her own answers, her own truth, her own self.
Matt: Apollo, light, the sunshine in a dark world, the other half of wild Artemis.
Kevin: Poseidon, strong and powerful, quick to anger and destructive in that rage, second in the pantheon to the all-powerful Zeus.
Andrew: Ares, violently angry, a warrior no man can touch, but yet also one that cares not for his own person, only for those who pray to him.
Aaron: Hades, god of death, an outcast, forever ignored and hated by his own family.
Nicky: Dionysus, a bottle at his lips, ready to celebrate even when times are bleak, for he knows how badly his family needs that levity.
Neil: Hermes, a runner at heart, a liar, a thief, the messenger who travels among the gods and binds them together
mermaid. a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. in folklore, they were natural beings who had magical and prophetic powers. though very long-lived, they were mortal and had no soul.
“Leto bore Apollo and Artemis, delighting in arrows, Both of lovely shape like none of the heavenly gods, As she joined in love to the Aegis-bearing ruler.” – Hesiod, Theogony
Psyche, (Greek: “Soul”) in classical mythology, princess of outstanding beauty who aroused Venus’ jealousy and Cupid’s love. The fullest version of the tale is that told by the 2nd-century-AD Latin author Apuleius in his Metamorphoses, Books IV–VI (The Golden Ass).