Because, really, what’s the point in Heracles if you can’t indulge in a little gratuitous shirtlessness?
Anyway, yes, this is Erin with her second character, Heracles! In this life, he is Sean, the oldest Hart sibling, following his brothers to their school. He’s 24, a freshman business major who has spent the past 6 years of his life travelling places and seeing stuff and becoming a better person and junk. He spent most of his life as a fairly douche-y Golden Boy athlete, but his travels have broadened him some and taught him the value of other people’s experiences and all that jazz. Also, he realized he was Heracles while holding a baby lion in Africa. So, realizing he had once been the Protector of Man caused him to grow up to a certain extent as well.
He’s still a major athlete (he’ll be playing varsity basketball, doing jr varsity track and MMA), and can still be insanely impulsive, loud and speak before thinking, so I’m sure all sorts of people will become familiar with him quickly! Also, if your car breaks down, he can drag it back to your dorm for you because his powers are as follows...
Strength: Come on. He’s Heracles. It would be absurd if this wasn’t one of his strengths. Granted, Sean probably isn’t capable of literally holding the world on his shoulders these days, but he’s been known to hunker down and lift an Escalade up on two wheels so one of his buddies can check out what’s going on underneath. Now, this is a semi-controlled power – Sean has to be trying to achieve a great feat of strength, he’s not going to accidentally crush someone’s hand while shaking it or anything like that.
Valour: Strictly speaking, “valour” translates to “courage, especially in military battle”. In Sean’s case, he is physically not able to nor does he have the desire to back down from a fight. Or a challenge. Or needing to make the final basket in the last ten seconds of the basketball game. Or, really, anything that could later be deemed as “epic” while telling the story.
Sex Appeal: Whether or not this is an actual power or simply a combination of Sean’s ability to lift a car onto two wheels along with something he made up in his head… that is something that is up for debate. Maybe it’s just that confidence is sexy. But Heracles attracted men and women left, right and centre everywhere he went and Sean tends to do the same. He’s a little dismayed about the “men” part of that statement.
He needs everything - friends, flirtations, people he met during his world travels, worshippers, people who wish he could walk without sounding like a herd of elephants, etc etc... THROW IT AT ME!