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}}'''Aphrodite''' was the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She was also known as '''Venus'''.

 

 

 

In the [[Prime Universe]], Aphrodite was once a major goddess alongside the other [[Olympian]]s. She knew [[Pythagoras]] in his lifetime, but did not like him. After the rise of Christianity, Aphrodite spent a few centuries trying to pose as a [[demon]] or [[sorceress]], but eventually gave up on fighting the tide and, like the other Gods of Olympus, officially decided to retire around the 7th century. Still feeling a need to watch over people's romantic entanglement, she eventually took to spending her days watching soap operas, using what power she had left to make her TV run forever without any technical issues. An ongoing frustration to her in the modern world was the widespread reproduction of the damaged ''[[Venus de Milo]]'' of which she constantly caught glimpses due to Gods' ability to know when their sacred image was being invoked; she was all the more upset for the fact that she claimed to never have even ''been'' to [[Milos]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'')

In the 1960s, [[the Creator]] of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] decided to place her [[Clockwork Cherub]] creations under the patronage of the “Great Goddess” Aphrodite as well as the god [[Cupid#In the Prime Universe|Cupid]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') her son, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') as she intended for them to harness “the [[Power of Love]]” to spread peace throughout [[the Multiverse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')  

Subsequently, she was officially worshipped by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, although [[Pythagoras-858]] did not put much fervour into this practice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') The Crew's Terms of Service, Section A113-B noted that in case of blasphemy against Aphrodite, “prosecution may be undertaken” through the [[Misuse Office]] in the [[Underworld]]. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (video story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') The [[Order of Aphrodite]] was one of the highest honours that could be internally bestowed on members of the Crew. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'') Cupids sometimes swore “by Aphrodite”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Labors of Juliet (short story)|The Labors of Juliet]]'')

After [[Mandragora-257|#257]] lost the Creator's formula for the Cupid [[Love Potion]], Aphrodite began supplying the Crew with a purely supernatural substitute. The interchangeability of the Creator's biochemical formula and Aphrodite's creation was a subsequent subject of puzzlement for the [[Department of Theology]], the [[Department of Wizardry]] and the [[Department of Philosophy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') [[Pythagoras-858]] met Aphrodite on at least one occasion before the 2019 “rabbits” incident; she didn't particularly like him, but acknowledged him as a reasonable man, who could be talked to, and also knew to act respectful in the presence of a deity, whatever his personal convictions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'')

 

When the [[faceless magician (Magic Trick)|faceless magician]]'s [[The Hat|Hat]] flooded the [[Cupid Homeworld]] with illusory white rabbits for three days, the [[Department of Problem-Solving]] eventually admitted they had no other recourse but to follow [[Valerius-1497]]'s suggestion of summoning Aphrodite to enact a literal ''Deus Ex Machina''. Aphrodite, who had been watching a particularly engrossing piece of TV involving characters called [[Anthony (X)|Anthony]], [[Alice (X)|Alice]], [[Aunt Eileen]], [[Vanessa (X)|Vanessa]] and [[James (X)|James]], was upset at being summoned by a common demon-summoning ritual, without a chance to compose herself, and, even though she'd promised herself that she'd give up on the practice of turning impudent mortals into animals, she zapped [[Valerius-1497]] into a parakeet, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'', ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') something which the Crew had not found a way to reverse by December 2021. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') However, she then agreed to fix the problem, clapping her hands thrice and making the rabbits and Hat vanish before returning whence she came. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'')