Orion
Orion
Orion was a hunting machine. Well, actually he was a hunting giant, but you get what we mean. Some say his love of hunting is what got him killed. After he bragged that he was going to hunt down every wild animal on earth, Gaia sent a scorpion that gave the giant hunter a lethal sting. Of course, there are a ton of other stories about how Orion died, so it might not have gone down quite like that. The one thing everybody can agree on is that after Orion died, he was placed in the stars. He's totally easy to find these days. Just look up; he's one the brightest constellations in the sky.
Basic Information
Name | Orion |
Nickname | The Hunter, Scorpion Bait |
Sex | Male |
Current city | The Stars |
Work & Education
Occupation | Hunter |
Education | Artemis' School of Hunting |
Beliefs
Political views | Poseidon for king |
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
Parents | Poseidon (Dad) Euryale (Mom) or Born when Poseidon, Hermes, and Hephaestus all peed on an ox hide and buried it in the ground. (Yeah, I know. That one's weird even for us Greeks.) |
Siblings | None |
Children | None |
Friends | Hephaestus (who helped me when I was blind) Cadalion (who led me to the sun when I was blinded) Helios (who healed my blindness) Artemis (my hunting buddy) |
Enemies | King Oinopion (who blinded me) Scorpion (who stung me to death) Gaia (who may have sent the scorpion after me) |
Relationships
Relationship status | Single Kind of forced myself on Merope Fling with Eos Flirtation with Artemis |
Favorites
Quotations | "All are not hunters who blow the horn." – Proverb "Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant." – Yiddish Proverb "Vegetarian—that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'" – Andy Rooney "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to heaven." – Led Zeppelin "Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion." – Egyptian proverb |
Books | "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway (I like anything about safaris.) A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper Beowulf (Grendel's just lucky I wasn't around; Beowulf let him off easy.) "My Life had stood - a Loaded gun -" by Emily Dickinson Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (I never hunted vampires, but I think Abe and I have a lot in common.) The Call of the Wild by Jack London The Stranger by Albert Camus (I don't know why I did the bad things I did either.) "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury |
Music | Hard to Love by Lee Brice Gigantic by the Pixies (Kind of required on every giant's playlist.) Truck Yeah by Tim McGraw Rock You Like a Hurricane by Scorpions (That scorpion who killed me sure rocked me all right.) I Will Wait by Mumford and Sons (This one goes out to Eos... I mean Artemis... oh, whichever.) Gangsta by tUnE-yArDs Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin (Reminds me of when I became a constellation. Yeah, I'm a star.) |
Movies | The Avengers (Some people think I'm like the Hulk, but I think of myself as more of a Thor type.) The Deer Hunter King Kong (He's just misunderstood like me.) The Iron Giant The Hunger Games (I would've won fo sho.) Predator Snow White and the Huntsman Bambi (Call me cold, but I'm rooting for the hunters.) |
TV Shows | Buckmasters Arrow Land of the Giants |
Activities & Interests
Likes | Bow hunting National forests Barefoot water skiing Seeing eye dogs |
Activities | Hunting Walking on water Getting frisky with the ladies |
Interests | Gigantism Ecology Astronomy |
Groups | 1,000,000 Hunters United The Federation of Giants We're Not Monsters Stargazers Andre the Giant Fan Club |