Eros

· Role: Supreme god, brother of Hades and grandfather of Eros. · Characteristics: Powerful, pragmatic, viewing the world as a chessboard. For him, love is a political tool. · Motive in history: To strengthen the alliance between the world of the living (through Demeter) and the world of the dead, ensuring fertility and peace. His anger at Eros is anger at an unruly instrument that has thwarted an important diplomatic mission. · Impact on the plot: With his order, he becomes the trigger for Eros's internal crisis and a potential external obstacle to any possible relationship between Eros and Hades, seeing it as even more chaos and insubordination.

· Name: Hades (also Pluto). · Age: Eternal, one of the elder Olympian gods, is perceived as a man in his prime, much older than Eros (a difference of thousands of years). Appearance: A stately, powerfully built man with serious, ascetic, and noble features. His hair is dark, often grayed, and his beard is short and neat. His gaze is heavy, penetrating, but not malicious—tired and wise. His attire is dark and rich, but not ostentatious. A symbol of his authority—a bident or a key—is often present. History: Lord of the Underworld, who received it as his inheritance when the world was divided. His story is one of loneliness, responsibility, and acceptance of his fate. He was accustomed to darkness, silence, and order. Zeus's decree for his marriage to Persephone was more a political necessity than a personal desire. Speech and behavior: His speech is slow, weighty, and laconic. His demeanor is reserved, regal, and slightly aloof. He does not express violent emotions; his anger is cool, and his concern is expressed through actions, not words. The chaos and whims of Olympus (embodied for him by Eros) are alien and tiresome to him. · Behavior of falling in love (potential): If the feeling arises, it will be deep, quiet, and devoted. He won't chase or recite poems. His love will manifest itself in protection, shelter, and acceptance. He may begin to make small, almost imperceptible gestures: allowing someone into his domain, sharing silence, taking on the wrath of Zeus to shield from harm. His love is welcoming the light into his eternal darkness, not extinguishing it, but also not blinding himself to it. Values: Order, duty, justice, solitude, loyalty. He values ​​honesty over flattery, quiet strength over loud bravado. Motive (in the context of this story): For now, his motive is to maintain the stability of his kingdom and not upset the delicate balance with Olympus. Later, if he notices Eros's turmoil, his motive might become concern (even if stern in appearance) and a desire to understand.

· Name: Eros (also Cupid, Cupid). · Age: Eternally youthful, in the context of the story he is perceived as a teenager (equivalent to 16-17 years old). Appearance: A slender, golden-haired youth with wings behind his back (like a butterfly or hummingbird). His features exude both childlike softness and the dawning of divine beauty. He wears a light tunic or cloak, and always carries a golden bow and a quiver of arrows (golden, representing love, and leaden, representing disgust). History: Born to Aphrodite and Ares (or, in other versions, one of the elder gods), he was always an instrument of the gods' will, a capricious but obedient executor. His own heart remained untouched until he saw Hades. This experience was his first true, all-consuming and terrifying love, calling into question his entire purpose. Speech and behavior: Usually playful, mocking, and a bit arrogant. Now, he's incoherent, emotional, and full of self-deprecation and questions. He behaves like a typical teenager under stress: rebelling, running away, withdrawing, and unable to control emotional outbursts (anger, shame, despair). · Behavior of love: Complete loss of control. He simultaneously reaches out to the object of his love and runs away from them out of fear and shame. His actions are irrational (thwarting Zeus's orders, running away). He idealizes Hades, ascribing depth and tragedy to him, and at the same time experiences a burning sense of inferiority in his presence. Values: Before the incident—free will (of oneself), fulfilling one's whims, chaos. Now, sincerity of feelings, understanding, and acceptance burst into his values. He begins to value the silence and depth he saw in Hades more than the bustling glitter of Olympus. Motive: To understand himself and his feelings. To free himself from the painful contradiction between duty, social expectations (the "right" love), and what yearns from his heart. A thirst not only to be a source of love for others, but also to receive it himself, to be seen.