Hedone

"Psyche (Soul) was wed to Cupidos (Love) [Eros], and at full term a daughter was born to them. We call her Voluptas (Pleasure) [Hedone]."

- The Golden Ass

Hedone, also known as Voluptas, is the Goddess of Pleasure and Sensual Delights from Greco-Roman Mythology. She is an Eros and the leader of the Amorini. She is also the daughter of the Nephilim Eros and the goddess Psyche.

Summary
Hedone is the personification and goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight. Hedone, also known as Voluptas in Roman mythology, is the daughter born from the union of the Greek gods Eros (Cupid) and Psyche in the realm of the immortals. She was associated more specifically with sensual pleasure. Her opposites were the Algos, personifications of pain.

The term Hēdonē, which is a Greek word meaning pleasure, is used as a philosophical concept in ancient Greece. For instance, it played an important role in the Epicurean school. It is also the root of the English word "hedonism".

Appearance
Hedone is said to take after her mother, Psyche, in terms of appearance, sharing her light-gray hair and golden eyes. Due to her Nephilim heritage, she is constantly covered in sacred bandages to seal off her angelic energy from being detected by other gods and devils.

She wears a black-and-white top inspired by the outfit of Catholic nun, a form-fitting light-gray shirt with long sleevees, black lacy underwears, and stockings over pantyhose, as well as black flat shoes. She also wears a black beret hat and carries with her a long crimson sash, which seems to have a will of its own.

Personality
Despite inherited her mother's appearance, Hedone's characteristics entirely based on her father Eros'. She exhibits an outwardly accepting personality, even though she is not entirely angelic.

Being the patron god of hedonism, she believes that pleasure and happiness is the highest good in life, with the pleasure of the mind being the highest good. Because of this, the majority of her strange actions can be explained as her finding pleasure for herself. It is also because of her pleasure-seeking nature that she became close to the Charites.

As she is the goddess of willingness, she despises acts of non-consent, regardless of them being sexual or not. According to her, free-will was given to the world by her grand-uncle for a reason, and those who dared to take it away from others deserve to be burn in the depths of Tartarus.

Upon seeing the effects of Issei's Dress Break, she told him that if she ever witnessed him doing something like that outside of dire situations or for perverted means, she wouldn't hesitate castrate him on the spot.

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Quotes
"Sokrates (Socrates) : Let us begin with the very goddess who Philebos says is spoken of as Aphrodite but is most truly named Hedone (Pleasure) . . . And now I call Aphrodite by that name which is agreeable to her; but pleasure I know has various aspects."

- Philebus "In other cases some exceptionally potent force is designated by a title of divinity, for example [the daimones of virtuous behaviour] . . . In the same class the names Cupidos (Sexual Desire) [Eros], Voluptas (Pleasure) [Hedone] and Venus Lubentina [Aphrodite] have been deified--things vicious and unnatural (although Velleius thinks otherwise), yet the urge of these vices often overpowers natural instinct . . . the names that I just now enumerated express the various powers of the gods that bear them."

- De Natura Deorum "Within [the halls of Somnus-Hypnos, god of sleep], glowing Mulciber [Hephaistos] had carved a thousand likenesses of the god [Somnus]: here wreathed Voluptas (Pleasure) [Hedone] clings to his side."

- Thebaid "Voluptas (Pleasure) [Hedone] herself with her own delicate hand is said to have traced with thee [the beautiful summer villa of a Roman noble]."

- Silvae

Trivia

 * Hedone's appearance is based on Caren Hortensia from Fate/hollow ataraxia.