• Born 15/06/1986, Athens, Greece.
• Originaly born with the name Irina Ariti.
• Only Child.
• Born as Irina Ariti, Aphrodite’s life began in Greece, where she lived a few brief moments in the warmth of her biological family before being taken to an orphanage just one year after her birth.
• At the age of four, she was adopted by a group of scientists who were intent on using the children they adopted for something far more sinister.
• These scientists were part of a covert project known as Project Pantheon, a radical initiative that sought to fuse modern science with ancient mythology.
• The goal was to create living representations of the gods from Greek mythology, using the children as vessels for the deities' powers.
• The children were stripped of their birth names and identities upon arrival, replacing them with the names and attributes of the gods they were to embody.
• Irina became Aphrodite—the goddess of love, beauty, and desire. But in the process of molding her to be like the goddess, the scientists didn’t just alter her body.
• They also warped her emotional capacity. As the experiments progressed, Aphrodite’s ability to experience love itself was methodically erased.
• Until the age of eleven, Aphrodite would have small crushes on her peers, fleeting and innocent, but after that, everything changed.
• The deeper the experiments went, the more she became disconnected from the emotions of love. By the time she was eleven, Aphrodite could no longer feel any romantic or affectionate emotions. Her heart had been hollowed out, and no amount of time or intervention could restore what was lost. She was left with a deep void where love once thrived.
• The experiments, however, didn’t stop there. Aphrodite was given the godly ability to manipulate the desires of others. She could create perfect illusions—mirages of people’s deepest, most secret desires. She could bend the will of others through these illusions, weaving them into a contract.
• If her will to love was stronger than the person’s love for someone else, they would fall deeply, uncontrollably in love with her. The obsession would become so intense that they would lose their grip on reality, sometimes spiraling into self-destructive tendencies, up to the point of their death.
• She was trained in close combat as well, should her manipulation not work. Her body was honed as a weapon, ready for defense if the contracts failed.
• These cruel changes and the coldness in her heart made her a living embodiment of Aphrodite, but she was no longer capable of the tenderness and warmth the goddess once inspired.
• When she turned 17, a disaster struck. A malfunction in the laboratory led to an explosion that destroyed the facility, and Aphrodite saw it as her chance to escape.
• She fled, leaving behind the only life she knew, unsure of where she would go or how she would survive.
• On her journey to find some semblance of purpose, Aphrodite found herself in an unfamiliar territory, where news of a new organization called The Vanguard was being broadcast. She saw it as an opportunity—an escape from her past, a way to make her own future.
• With little money to her name and no real connections, Aphrodite wrote a letter to the Vanguard, explaining her abilities and offering her help in exchange for transportation. Intrigued by her potential, the Vanguard quickly responded.