Uranus (Ouranos, Caelus)
Uranus (Ouranos, Caelus)
Uranus is famous for his spectacular downfall. His career started out pretty promising—this god of the sky was actually the first king of the gods. He and his queen Gaia, the earth, were in charge of everything way back at the beginning of time. Everything was cool until Gaia got pregnant and had the giant one-eyed Cyclopes and the monstrous many-handed Hekatonkheires. Uranus was totally freaked out by his hideous monster-babies, so he buried them deep under Gaia. This seriously ticked off the lady, so she got their other kids, the Titans, to help her get revenge on her husband. Next thing Uranus knows, the Titans are holding him down, and the youngest one, Kronos, is castrating him with a giant sickle. Yes, that means that Kronos cut off his father's man parts. (Sometimes Greek mythology really just takes it over the edge.)
Basic Information
| Name | Uranus |
| Nickname | Ouranos, Ouranus, Caelus, Aeon, The Big Guy in the Sky |
| Sex | Male |
| Birthday | The sky... well, I am the sky. |
Work & Education
| Occupation | First king of the gods (Forced into retirement) Being the sky |
| Education | The Chaos School of Everything and Nothing (It was a confusing education.) |
Beliefs
| Political views | Me for king |
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
| Parents | Depending on who you ask... Gaia (Mom) or Gaia (Mom) Aether (Dad) or Chaos (pulled myself from Chaos at the beginning of everything) |
| Siblings | Nobody can agree on how all of us primordial gods are related, and we're all too old to remember exactly, so these are all maybes... Gaia Nyx Aither Hemera Tartarus Eros Pontos Ourea |
| Children | I did a lot of procreating while I still could... The Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes, Arges The Hekatonkheires: Briareus (Aegaeon), Gyges, Cottus The Titans: Kronos, Oceanus, Koios, Krios, Hyperion, Iapetos (boys); and Rhea, Theia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Tethis, Phoebe (girls) Born from my blood dripping on the earth when Kronos castrated me: The Furies (maybe), The Gigantes, The Meliae, The Kouretes Born from the magic foam that fizzed up from my man-parts when Kronos threw them in the ocean: Aphrodite |
| Friends | Aether (The bright upper atmosphere who is always up for a chat.) Helios (We used to spend a lot time together when he drove the Sun across the sky.) |
| Enemies | Gaia (My awful ex-wife who had me castrated.) Kronos (My evil son who chopped off my manhood.) |
Relationships
| Relationship status | Single (Haven't had a lot of takers since Kronos castrated me...) |
| Interested in | I've kind of lost the motivation. |
Favorites
| Quotations | "Too low they build who build below the skies." – Edward Young "The bluebird carries the sky on his back." – Henry David Thoreau "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" – William Shakespeare, King Lear "I'm at a payphone trying to call home All of my change I spent on you. Where have the times gone, baby it's all wrong, where are the plans we made for two?" – Maroon 5 "I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly To fly" – Nicki Minaj |
| Books | The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (One day I'm making my comeback too.) Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (The kid in this book is about as psycho as Kronos.) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Paradiso by Dante Alighieri Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (It's a very serious game.) Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (Sometimes I dream of kicking all these usurpers off my throne. You know, set everything right like Joan did back in France.) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (I get a kick out of sci-fi because I live so close to space.) "I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils)" by William Wordsworth |
| Music | Set Fire to the Rain by Adele (This song reminds of my relationship with Gaia...) Up Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum Payphone by Maroon 5 Fly by Nicki Minaj ft. Rihanna Look Into the Air by Explosions in the Sky I've Been in the Storm too Long by The Mighty Clouds of Joy |
| Movies | Up The Avengers (These guys ought to come avenge me.) Wrath of the Titans (I like it when my traitorous kids get beat down at the end of this movie.) The Boy Who Could Fly Howl's Moving Castle The Dictator (Kronos was a lot like this guy once he took over.) Top Gun So I Married an Axe Murderer (Yep, I definitely identify with this one.) |
| TV Shows | Game of Thrones Wings The Care Bears (I respect any creature who chooses to live in the clouds.) |
Activities & Interests
| Likes | Skydiving Hang gliding Airplanes Seeing shapes in clouds Kites Stargazing |
| Dislikes | Getting kicked off of my throne Being brutally assaulted by my own family Being the sky (It's a lot more work than it sounds like.) |
| Interests | Meteorology Climatology Astronomy Aeronomy |
| Groups | Primordial Gods The O.G.s (Original Gods) Deposed Kings Support Group The Society for Eunuch Rights |