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Here he is!! My baby!! This bio is going to kill me because there's so much to him and I always need to write down everything. Also not everything is set solidly down in stone either, like his age amongst other things. I need to write out a lot more bios and stuff on the culture he's from before a lot of this makes sense though, so I'll put all that does in my todo list.

Name: Apollo
Age: Probably early to mid thirties (idrk where in his story I'm setting him down in for this)
Height: 6ft
Gender: trans man
Species: half-elf
Family relations: Artemis (twin sister) Unnamed dad, Eliza (first child) Armin (spouse) Frin (possibly another spouse) Silvyr (captain, motherly-figure and possible mother-in-law) Liz (other possible mother-in-law), two unnamed children, in-laws from Armin's side

Likes: Learning by doing, sailing, piracy, his family, holding hands, being physically affectionate, winning, his (maybe) mother-in-law who is (was?) also his captain, The Sovereign, the sea, merfolk
Dislikes: One of his (maybe) Mothers-in-law, not making progress in his current project, the fact that he's foreign everywhere, his chronic pain, bumping into things because he doesn't turn his head enough, his daughter having her enchanted toy taken away from her, the story behind the adoption of his first daughter

Personality: Apollo isn't a static man, the idea of being static bores him, and nearly becomes a different person in different situations. One thing that is mostly universal is his hot-headed nature and his tendency to shred arguments and ideas to pieces, sometimes constructively, sometimes viciously. He constantly needs to expand his knowledge in relevant fields and can't stand people who believe they know "enough" about a subject, but can't fault them for growing bored of the subject. Apollo nearly always has something to prove and being ruled more by his emotions than he'd care to admit, he will do anything to get where he wants and needs to be, and just about everything he does is for his family. Apollo is happiest when just around his SOs and children where he turns into a great big softie, and it's only around his family that he really reigns in his hot-headedness, preferring to be tender and affectionate.

History: Apollo doesn't know where he and Artemis originated from, nor does he care. All anyone knows is the two were found in a barrel on Silvyr's ship sometime after they had learned to walk, to everyone's distress. The two were adopted by one of Silvyr's fences, a man who immigrated to Rhul which made Apollo and Artemis legally foreign too, even though it is believed the two were born in Rhul. Apollo grew up fascinated by the sea and often lamented over the fact that he was half elven instead of a merfolk and that he was too young to join Silvyr's crew as a kraken hunter and a pirate. Instead, he resigned his childhood helping his dad out in the shop with Artemis and holding weekly meetings with the other children in the building for various money making schemes.

When he was finally twelve, he was finally allowed to join Silvyr's crew, and despite being told for years that he would be helping the cook instead of sailing, he was still surprised and massively disappointed that he was stuck helping the cook instead of sailing. By the time he was fourteen he had wormed his way into working on the deck and shadowing the crew actually sailing the ship.

On his fifteenth birthday, he was presented with a potion of water breathing and a wreck to explore with the ship's merman to keep him safe. While he was disturbing fish, he ended up helping save a tiny merfolk from a vague, yet menacing, threat and ended up with a merfolk that clung desperately to him. The merfolk spent a lot of time on the ship, refusing to go back home, and growing up with Apollo, the two fell in love in their twenties. Apollo had also fallen in love with an elf named Armin, and coming from a polygamous culture, hoped the two would get along and that there would be a functional relationship. It took a while, but it worked out well enough. He eventually married Armin (and maybe Frin) and shortly afterwards adopted his first child, Eliza.

Some time after that, followed an affair with a man named Nicolai, which ended up in Apollo being impaled with an enchanted sword, being blinded in one eye and then dumped in the jungle to die by Nicolai's dad. He was saved by his sister who conveniently was hunting at the time, and left cursed with chronic pain where he was impaled. He's spent a lot of money trying to undo the curse, but no one can make head nor tails of the curse and he refuses to tell anyone who impaled and subsequently cursed him. The chronic pain forced him to retire from the sea, so he worked a few years with his dad in the shop until they had the money to open a second shop which Apollo now runs with his dad's help. After setting up this shop, he adopted two more children.

hhhhh that's a long bio I tried really hard to condense things down and I didn't even touch on the major social construct that influenced so much either

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