Calliope Onasis
As she literally is a muse, a type of fae who can inspire those around them, she has picked up the nickname of Animated Muse. She thinks it is adorable, and loves the cute little animations some of her workers make about her. She has a cartoon picture of herself with a wand in her office from one of her previous jobs she keeps framed.
Physical Description
A little taller than most other Muse, she has their traditional look, pure white skin, with pure white hair. Except for her vivid blue eyes, someone might mistake her for an albino, but this is just how her species looks. She has slightly pointed ears, and a pair of antennae on her head that end in little orbs. She doesn’t like these touched, and will swat anyone trying to. Her hair is kept up, forming two little buns on the back side of her hair, looking like masses of curls. She is very slim, almost looking a little underweight, but still has generous curves.
Because she looks almost ghostly with her white skin and hair, she likes to add some style to her look with make up. She keeps her long nails painted a dark red, and her lips with a matching colour. She never adds blush, as she would rather people know when she’s blushing for real, but has elaborate eye shadow, giving her eye lid a pitch black look, and adding sweeping black and white lines upwards, drawing attention to her very bright eyes.
Physical Quirks
As she is very light, she tends to be almost silent when she walks, even when wearing heels. Some people even guess that she may be floating above the ground slightly, but no one has been able to prove either way. She also is prone to coming up behind her employees and just starting to give them a shoulder massage as they work. This actually tends to make them work harder, as it is how she inspires them.
Clothing Style
She is a casual lady, even when at work. Wearing a dark red crop top, and dark red biker shorts, she is very simply dressed. The only real change you can see between when she’s working or relaxing is her shoes. At work, she wears a pair of dark red and black pumps, and when she’s not working, it’s a pair of similar colored sandals. She wears a pair of silver chain bracelets, and has a pair of earrings which are just two silver rings hanging one from the other. Her main ornament is a pendant, with a silver chain with large links holding it. The pendant itself is a rectangle with stylized orbs surrounding it surrounding a large red gem. The entire thing is made from silver.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Born to a very old family of muses, she was always expected to join the family tradition of helping politicians and guiding them, but she didn’t want anything to do with that. She was not happy with the direction politics was taking, or how dull and uninteresting the world was becoming, so she decided she wanted to do something entertaining. First trying her had inspiring authors, she ended up finding she couldn’t seem to get the hang of how writers needed inspiration. She tried a little while with movie directors in Hollywood, but found them to be too angry for her to deal with. She also found there were too many really sick people in that town.
She moved out of the area, and found found some animators at a small school. She really loved the work they were doing, so she joined with them. She found that she had a natural gift of understanding the animation workflow, and helped the group go one to make several major motion pictures in animation. When the company was bought by a larger one, which didn’t have the same vision or passion as the small one, she moved on to computer animation.
Education
Only having a year in college for managerial expertise, she quickly found her way into the job market. Her natural talents and understanding of people’s nature carried her the rest of the way. Luckily, muses don’t need much schooling in the field they wish to inspire, just a way to get in.
Employment
Working for a publishing house as a talent recruiter, she tried with writers but had no luck for a year. Three years as a project manager in Hollywood was far too long for her, but her 15 years at Fixar Animation Studio was great, up until MouseCorp bought them, and their work became soulless. That’s when she joined White Wing Games.
Morality & Philosophy
She feels that people need to have fun and have that tension release, as well as feel needed, which is why she always makes sure all her employees are appreciated. She acts as a confidant as much as a manager, letting them confide in her when they are distracted, and helps them work through problems. She knows a happy employee is a productive one, and so is always looking to keep them happy.
Personality
Motivation
For her, it’s not just about making things happen on time and in budget, she also wants something those who made it feel proud of, something that they put all their passion into and will always enjoy themselves. She also wants it to be something that the audiences will enjoy and be able to find engaging. While she loved working with the animation studio, she finds the interactivity of video games to be awe inspiring.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves pin up style art, and actually has a lot of it on her walls in her office and home from various artists and photographers. She says that the female form is something to be admired and should never be hidden. When she does relax to listen to music, it’s generally classical, especially Beethoven. She also loves anime, finding all the different art styles and stories to be compelling, and wishes Western animation was as willing to experiment. She is a huge fan of gyros, and will always find the best one in town, no matter where she is. She really dislikes people who claim video games or animation is for kids, thinking that they are only proving they never grew up emotionally. She also hates how some people are trying to get rid of sexy women in media, calling it petty jealousies.
Virtues
As a muse, she is one of the most supportive and inspiring people most people will ever meet. Her very touch seems to bring out creativity in people, and she isn’t shy about spreading that. She is also very charming and an excellent manager, able to ensure that everyone can do their job in an appropriate amount of time, and usually with multiple backups and redundancies in case of emergency.
Vices
She does have a tendency to get so caught up with what people are doing that she can sometimes forget herself, and has been known to forget a meal or two. Her employees try and look out for her, as they know she does this, and is starting to look a little too thin. She tends to feel very guilty when she does this and they look out for her, but they don’t mind giving back.
Quirks
She is very excitable, and when someone shows her what they are working on, she can get very caught up in it and loose track of time. She also will often be found asleep in her chair at work, having worked so long during the day she just collapsed. The closing staff make sure to check on her, and will put her on her couch in her office and give her a blanket to sleep.
Values
Creatives are the ones she find the most interesting and valuable. She is a huge proponent of all art forms, and so will try and encourage any artist. She enjoys those artists who celebrate the female form, and will show them extra attention and appreciation, wanting to see more of their work.
Sexual Style
She is very subtle and modest in her flirting, being more of a romantic. While she does have a decent sex drive, she isn’t one to seek it out constantly. She loves to get close and have sex, but she wants an emotional connection to the person, and usually wants to inspire them in the process. She has engaged in it with some of her employees who needed some extra inspiration, or were needing the affection to get out of the slumps, but she tends to look for artists in traditional media for this. She isn’t really adventurous herself, but she does tend to inspire it in her lovers. She is always open to whatever they want to try, but she does have a special love for deep throating, while staring into her lover’s eyes.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Since her rebellion from what her parents wanted, they haven’t spoken at all. They are still quite angry she didn’t follow in their path, and don’t seem to realize that has affected their own work. The collapse of the Greek economy was in part due to bad inspirations, but they are too proud to realize how wrong they were. For her part, she’s seen how it’s tainted them, and is sad they let it get to them like this, but knows she can’t let them get her down, this is her life. She still has a few friends in the animation world, but has found herself a new family at White Wing Games. She loves all the people she works with, and is loved back. She is good friends with the boss, [Lucy] and the two will sometimes go out for drinks.
Social Aptitude
A friendly and thoughtful woman, she is much better in one on one settings, as she is able to inspire people better. She is able to work in larger groups, but when things get too many people, she feels a little overwhelmed. She tends to avoid anything larger than a company meeting, except for conventions, where she feels like a kid in a candy shop, and will run around from creative to creative.
Religious Views
She is a Greek Orthodox Catholic, but she isn’t as strict as most, nor is she as faithful. To her, it’s more of a comfort of the ritual, something that reminds her of home. As such, she doesn’t really talk much of it, or think anything about other religions, it’s just something she does for herself.
Mannerisms
Almost hyperactive when she’s working, she practically buzzes around the office from employee to employee, seeing how their work is coming and checking on their well being. When she is particularly excited, her antennae twitch, and she begins to clap with glee. She also ins very supportive and encouraging, and most employees feel like she is their biggest fan. In many ways, she really is.
Hobbies & Pets
A workaholic, she doesn’t have as much time for hobbies as she should, and she knows that she needs to cut back. She does make time to play the video games that her team works on, as well as others in their genre, so she can get ideas to pass along to her team. Other then that, she doesn’t really take too much time for herself. She hasn’t even got time to properly take care of a pet, something which she actually feels guilty about.
Speech Style
She tends to very supportive and give little pep talks, as well as talking very excitedly. She does speak with authority, but also a lot like a kid seeing things for the first time. She sounds a lot like Wonder Woman from the movie, even having a similar accent.
Political Affiliation & Activism
As politics are something her parents were more focused on, and something she wants to avoid, she doesn’t even think about them. In fact, she avoids even looking at anything about politics, and discourages people from bringing it up. She doesn’t even like to talk about activism, as she feels many activists are ruining things for creatives.