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My username just happens to be Stride c:
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Parthenios
(par-the-ni-ohs)
Parthenios was a river god in Theo mythology. The name also represents an actual river, which flows gentle and slowly through green hills in modern day Turkey.
He would prefer if you'd call him Par, though.
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Par is a male.
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On the edge of a huge forest, (nicknamed The Witch's Woods), there was a small, but peaceful kingdom. The King ruled the kingdom with an iron fist, yet kept an air of sophistication. The Queen was beautiful and fair. But one day, the kingdom was thrown into an unforeseen surprise. The Queen gave birth to the new prince, named Parthenios. The kingdom was overjoyed, and quickly, a celebration was planned out to celebrate the new heir's life. Everyone was happy, and everything was well.
A few years later, and elaborate party was held on the son's birthday, even more flamboyant than the one celebrating his birth.The night after the party, though, was stormy and rainy, and people took shelter wherever they could. At the castle, a small knock was heard on the door, which echoed throughout the large entryway. When the door was pulled open, a wrinkled old women looked pitiably up at the King, while soaking wet. "Oh, dear king, please let me in. It is cold out here, and I need a place to sleep." The King refused to give her shelter, as he did not trust the old women. "Please, fair king. Don't make me sleep out here with the dogs." Again, the king refused her shelter. Grimacing, the old woman turned away from the king, and in a flash of light, turned into a young and beautiful woman. Haughtily, the now-revealed witch turned toward the startled king. "You refused me shelter on the night of your son's birthday, and now I will refuse you mercy from my spell. Your son will bequeath himself to the dirt beneath my bootsoles, and will perish before ever seeing the light on dawn."
Horrified, the king fell to his knees, and begged the witch to spare his son's life. The witch took pity on the king, seeing him beg at her feet to keep his beloved son, the prince, alive. She agreed to spare the prince's life, but he would become a monster, a pariah, until he could repent for his father's mistake by playing "The Song of the Forest". Until he could do so, he would be immortal and young, never growing until he broke the spell she cast.
The son, who was asleep when the ordeal went on, awoke at dawn to find himself turned into his worst fear. His eyes turned yellow and elongated, his fur was dappled and foreign, and he was mute. Instead of a long, sticky tongue like a frog might have had, his tongue had been removed. The only sound he could make was a low groan, more of a croak than anything. The prince, seeing himself become this monster, ran away into the forest that surrounded his kingdom. He made a silent promise to himself, that he would never return to his kingdom, until he had returned himself to normal.
Parthenios soon learned that time passed weirdly in the forest. Hours felt like days, and minutes passed as quickly as seconds. At first, he tried to keep track of the days, but very soon he just felt weird and disoriented. After a while, he realized he was not growing. Anyone his age would have grown somewhat rapidly, but he remained the same height for however long he'd been in that godforsaken forest. His eternal youth frightened him. He did not know why being eternally young was such a glorified idea. You don't just curse someone into a dead-end existence where they has no chance to surpass their set limitations. That would be sick.
On the same side of the forest, was a large log cabin. Inside the cabin lived a little girl and her mother. Her mother was a traveling merchant, and kept the log cabin as a sort of a 'home base' for the little girl to grow up in. Her mother was always busy, so the little girl did not know how to read, and that frustrated her to no end. The little girl loved fairy tales, and wanted to be able to read her book by herself, yet her overprotective mother never let her leave the cabin to find someone to teach her. Instead of learning how to read, she dressed up like her favorite character from her fairytale (which happened to be the princess), and paraded around in her home-made costume.
Rules be darned, the princess wandered into the forest with her storybook in one hand, and a flute in the other. The princess was skilled at the flute, and could play a song better than she could read a book. That aggravated her. Skipping through lines of trees, she sat down on a stump and began to play, while the storybook was open in front of her. As she played her tune, the words in the storybook danced around the page, the shapes meaningless and useless to her. Throwing down her flute, she gave a loud huff, and closed the storybook. When she dusted the dirt off her dress, and turned around to pick up her flute, she was surprised to see a frog-like person looking up at her, with her flute in hand. Covering her mouth with her hand in shock, she backed up slightly, before reaching out to take the flute from the outstretched arm.
"Who are you?" The girl asked. The frog just pointed to his mouth, then made a croaking noise to demonstrate his muteness. He walked over to the storybook, opened it up, and scanned the page. He looked up at the girl and made a questioning croak noise. Well, as questioning as a croak could possibly sound. "What? I don't know what you're saying." She explained, sitting down next to him. The frog pointed to a picture of the princess in the book, and then back to the girl. "Oh, no. I'm not a real princess. I wish, but my crown's just cardboard. See?" She plucked the crown off her head, and showed the frog. He sighed, and looked away, clearly downtrodden.
"Hey, what's wrong?" The girl asked. The frog just turned the page of the book, and pointed to a picture of a prince kneeling by a stream. "Wha- Oh! Okay, I get it now!" She squeaked excitedly. "My mom, she works in the kingdom to the east, and she used to tell me stories about how the king's son got turned into a frog! I didn't know it was you!" She spoke quickly, and all in one breath. "Your name- what was was it...? Par-Parthenios! That's it!" At the mention of his name, Par perked up and nodded, a smile growing on his face.
"You're the missing prince! Okay, so, you're dad made an old witch really angry, so she cursed you to play the 'Song of the Forest', right?-" She sped through her sentence, as Par nodded his head. "Well, I know how to play the flute! But, I don't know how to read. If you could teach me how to, though, I could teach you to play my instrument, so you can go back to being the prince!" She finished in a huff. Par was bewildered. He didn't know how long he'd been in this forest, but getting all this dropped onto him in less than half an hour? It surprised him. But, nodding his head, he agreed to the terms the girl set.
Over the next few months, the little girl came back to the forest every day, after her mother left for work. The prince, (through a series of simple charades gestures), taught her each letter and syllable of her storybook, until she could read each word with ease. The girl was overjoyed with finally being able to read her storybook without the help of her mother. The next day, she brought her music sheets along, and tried to teach the frog prince how to play her flute. Seeing as his tongue was cut out, it was a bit harder for him to hit certain notes, but the little girl pushed him to learn, and do, his best.
Finally, after many weeks of practice, Parthenios went out to his lake, decided that he would make a flute of his own. Selecting a reed, he painstakingly carved holes, and made sure that the wind blew through them perfectly. Taking another piece of reed, he made the mouthpiece, that fit snugly into one side of the flute. Throughout all of his preparations, the little girl sat, and watched in awe. Finally, he turned around, and sat down next to the girl. Bringing the flute up to his lips, he inhaled and...
Nothing.
Parthenios stopped. Bringing the flute away from his lips, he slowly exhaled, and softly put it on the ground next to him. "Par..? What are you doing? Don't you want to be turned back into a prince?" The princess looked at him like he as if he had gone completely mad. Smiling, he slowly shook his head, and making a heart shape with his hands, he pointed towards himself. "Oh.. Par. I like you exactly as you are, too." She said, embracing Par in a bear hug. Parthenios, although still cursed to remain in a frog-like state, was taking the first step towards the light of the future.
And he couldn't be prouder.

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-Timid-
After being alone in a forest for so long, Parthenios is a fairly timid kiamara. Since he is on the smaller side, everyone hulks above him, which does nothing to help the nervous look in his eyes. Par tends to hesitate before doing any action, which can be seen as thoughtful by some, and annoyingly precise to others.
-Self Conscious-
Due to his transformation, Par lost any confidence in himself that he might have had beforehand. Before doing anything that involves social interactions, he grooms himself carefully, and goes over a course of action for the night. His close friends do not tease him, because they know that if they do so, he will have horrible anxiety and embarrassment for the rest of the day.
-Aloof-
The prince tends to be uninvolved and uninterested in things that do not hold urgency or great importance to him. He tends to just sit back and watch things unfold in front of him, and he doesn't like to cause conflict. Parthenios is a shadow in the shade when it comes to making decisions, and is usually so unsure of which option to choose that people just end up choosing for him.
-Humble-
Since he was turned into a frog, Parthenios believes that he is humbler than he might of been if he had been raised in the castle his entire life. After running away to the forest, he realized how hard people had to work to survive. He watched animals hunt for their food in the deep of winter, and that helped him accept that self-pity would do nothing for him unless he did something about his situation as the frog prince.
-Honest-
Since Par is mute, there are not many times that this moral has been put to the test. He does believe that honesty is the best policy, and has no qualms about being blunt in some circumstances. Some may take this behavior of his as cold and rude, but he believe that the sting of the truth is less than that of a lie.
-Patient-
Patience is a virtue, for people who occasionally have to reteach others an entire language. Par is completely fluent in sign language (so he can communicate with others), and sometimes when people learn that he's mute, they ask him to teach them everything he knows. Of course, after a while they tire of learning, but Parthenios is always happy to show them that mute people can communicate just as well as speaking people.
-Possessive-
Since Par was secluded in a forest as a child, he was not very well adjusted to the idea of 'sharing' with other people. This is a more childish trait of his, and he is more than a little embarrassed by it. He keeps this trait of his under control though, as he knows how annoying it can get if he won't share anything of his.
-Forgetful-
Parthenios can have many thoughts rolling through his head at one time, so he forgets many things. He tends to leave post-it notes around his home so he can remember important events, which leaves his house somewhat cluttered when guests come by. His forgetfulness has also lead to the habit of not being punctual to events, so his friends give him a 15+ minute wiggle room to when he should arrive to said event.
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•He keeps his room neat and tidy
•He has really bad handwriting
•He chews pencils/pens
•Drags his feet wherever he goes
•Draws random doodles on any piece of paper in front of him and always carries a pen or pencil to facilitate this habit.
•Walks in the middle of any aisle, sidewalk, or other shared walkway causing people to have to move around him
•Gets physically angry when people mispronounce a certain word (e.g Illinois, precedent as president, especially as expecially)
•Can't stand the smell of peanut butter
•Cannot sleep without some sort of noise in the background
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(songs may contain vulgar language and mature themes)=Turn Off the Lights - Panic! at the Disco=Our consciences,
are always so much heavier than our egos.
I set my expectations high,
So nothing ever comes out right.=Amsterdam - Imagine Dragons=Kinda thought it was a mystery,
then i thought it wasn't meant to be.
You said yourself, fantastically,
"Congratulations, you are all alone."=The Mighty Fall - Fall Out Boy=It's getting clear
You're never coming clean
So I'll lock you up inside
And swallow, swallow the key=Houdini - Foster the People=Got shackles on, my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise
Fasten up now, time to hide
Sometimes I wanna disappear=Wine Red - The Hush Sounds=This chaos, this calamity,
this garden once was perfect.
Give your immortality to me;
I'll set you up against the stars x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
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( i also have a song lyric/art combo thing in the works, but I haven't finished it yet ;u; ) x