Age: 4,172 years old
Backstage Pass: Is a muse.
Calliope is short and tiny. She has big brown eyes, and she would have long curly black hair, except that she cropped her hair and dyed it blue. Why? Because. She has a penchant for Gothic Lolita dresses because it makes her look cool, and because people are going to assume she's an evil little girl anyway. She has a tattoo of a fox on her upper arm, which she usually hides because otherwise people will try to make drug deals and/or arrest her.
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Calliope
Muse of Epic Poetry: "This poem would be better with aliens."
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Purgatory.
a character in “Purgatory Remix”, as played by LovelyLisey
Description
Personality
Calliope is, actually, pretty normal. She tends to be on the quiet side, as she prefers to let other people dominate the conversation. However, she is not unfriendly, as it's hard to go over four thousand years without developing some social skills. She will go to any extreme to protect people that she cares about. Calliope is pretty nice, and she's even kind of wise. But she has a weakness.
Some people are addicted to drinking. Some people are addicted to gambling.
Calliope is addicted to adventure.
If given a choice, she will follow the path of most resistance. She will always follow the rabbit down the hole. If something exciting is happening in Purgatory, Calliope wants to be at the center of it. Fortunately, Calliope's definition of 'exciting' has gotten lax over the years, as alien invasions are a dime a dozen and there's always some bandit stealing pretty maidens away. However, if anything does capture Calliope's attention, she tends to become quite unlike herself. She will risk everything, just to see the adventure through.
History
Calliope is the muse of epic poetry, which means that her hobby is to go into the human world and inspire people to write poetry that is really freaking epic.
Most of the time, she runs Calliope's Tavern in Grand City.
If you want to know her full backstory, just go read up on Greek Mythology. It was pretty much like that. Except probably weirder. Because the truth is always weirder.
Recently, Calliope's adventures have consisted of her brief alliance with The Fox. When the angels abandoned Grand City for Heaven, Calliope hung out with The Fox because he seemed to be the only person trying to do something, although she was not sure what. Then she realized that he was, like, evil and stuff, so she turned tail and joined the Bureau instead. Of course, she soon became bored with the Bureau, and she went back to her tavern. The Bureau still sometimes calls on her for detective work, although she hasn't been very helpful recently. However, the new 'soul murders' have piqued her interest...
Calliope has heightened reflexes and strength as the result of being an immortal creature. She also can fight pretty well with a sword. People often critique her for being cliche for using a sword, but her defense has always been, "Hey! Beowulf taught me!"
So begins...
Calliope's Story
"A name worthy of a princess. So, tell me, Olivia Azuel-Marina. How did you end up in Purgatory and why are people trying to kill you?"
"Hm. So you don't know. Interesting." Calliope had been excited at first, but now she was beginning to feel bored again due to her ridiculously short attention span. "Where are you living, Olivia? Purgatory is a dangerous place." If Calliope kept Olivia close by, then perhaps anyone who came after Olivia would have to come to the tavern first. That might be exciting. She might also be able to protect Olivia that way, although to be completely honest that was a secondary concern.
"I've always wanted to see an old temple of Atlantis. I used to live in an old temple, with my sisters, but they were what you might call...uhm, I believe the term is 'bitches'." Calliope paused. "If you don't mind, you can stay with me for now." I have a habit of taking in strays, recently. "You might even be able to see your old temple again, sort of," said Calliope, smiling.
Calliope stood from the table. "Then follow me," she said, leaving Olivia very little time to actually follow her. She walked quickly, opening a door here, a door there. They walked past a pool, a room full of balloons, another room with an infinite amount of monkeys typing on infinite typewriters. "Include the name 'Hamlet'," she said to the monkeys, glancing backwards to check that Olivia was still following her. Finally, they entered a door that was completely blank. It looked sort of like an asylum room depicted in the movies, with everything white and padded. "This room will do. Olivia, try to imagine one of your temples. The room should shift to your imagination, at least a little bit. If you're strong-willed, a lot."
Calliope stared in fascination as the padded walls became marble walls speckled with sunlight from a sun that was not there. A gigantic statue of Poseiden emerged from the middle of the floor. And, suddenly, the room flooded completely with water. Calliope began to drown.
Calliope gasped for air as her head broke above the water. "Very beautiful," she said to Olivia, so calmly that there was no indication that she had been drowning only a few minutes before. "I truly should visit Atlantis, sometime. Other dimensions are just so tricky to get to. In any case, Olivia, will these accommodations do for now?"
"Doing things on your own, in Purgatory," said Calliope, "is a good way to get yourself killed." She said this relatively impassively, per usual, although an astute observer might have noticed a slight edge to her voice.
"I agree with you, though. All heroes should have agency. But it's not bad to let other people help you once in a while, either." I can't force her to stay...
"How about you think about it? This room will always be open to you. No one else needs it right now." Calliope swam down to the door, opening the room to the room full of monkeys on typewriters. Inexplicably, the water from the Atlantis room did not spill into the monkey room. Calliope stepped out of the wall of water, shaking her hair like a dog.
Calliope stood with the door open, watching Olivia swim around. Haven't seen a mermaid in a while, she mused to herself. With any luck, her assassins will come after her here and I can give them a good beating. And then maybe JJJ will have the inspiration to write something that isn't so darn depressing.
((Oh my God. Little kids on my street selling lemonade. CUTEST thing ever. Had no idea that children running lemonade stands was a thing that actually happened in places that were not the movies.))
((Nope, not with anyone else right now. Let's definitely continue! I think our scene actually had a nice wrapped-up ending, but we can start a new scene. :D ))