Editing Phrixi Euterpos (section)

== Backstory==


Sirens, relatives-in-spirit of the Harpies, get a bad rap. Yes, the most famous story from is Odysseus, but those three were serial killers exiled from Anthemossa and none of their people realized they could outright make their songs hypnotic instead of informative of hidden desires. They didn't think to mute them, too, until the great journeyman told everyone what they were doing with the rocks. Mostly they seek to sing and dance, an inheritance from their their collective ancestor of Princess Sterope, herself a granddaughter of Dionysus, and to travel far, which comes from the god Achelous, who fathered the first of them upon her (and was as shocked as everyone else when she laid an egg - many suspect the paternal great-granddad took a dare during a blackout). But they are, indeed, mostly female - 70% women to men, at least on a chromosome level. Compounding matters is that Sirens can and do have children with humans, and some quirk of biology means that chicks with a mortal parent are 90% women as well, whether the Siren be mother or father.

Phrixi is of that rare 10% of male humanborn, born of a sailor who thought of himself as a poet and perhaps the one woman who agreed with him, or at least found his floundering cute - and that woman happened to have wings. As with most male humanborn, it was taken as an auspicious sign - and given the date he was born, the local Dionysian Mysteries took it as a sign he was a chosen emissary of the Joybringer. As he grew, and turned out to be one of the best singers in an already musical race, they became sure of it, and all but whisked him away for training as a religious celebrity musician, and way to improve Siren reputation.

While he is mostly fine with the idea, Phrixi does know his life was mostly charted out from the moment he was born. He likes and respects Thalia, but mostly because she is only a terror when prepping for a show, she mostly treats him as a friend at work otherwise. On some level, he resents the idea that he was put on this planet mostly to sing and look pretty is something he finds utterly vexing - not the least because he's schooled well enough in academia too, even if his grades are thoroughly average. He especially doesn't like that he's marketed to teen girls, which as a mid-20s man comes off as a bit creepy - especially when they send him their "plays" involving him and a few of their friends. Mostly, he wants to prove his music can make the world better - not just be marketed.