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Description
Pisces Aphrodite is the Gold Saint of Pisces who guards the twelfth and final temple of the Sanctuary, the Temple of Pisces. He is a tall young man of about twenty-two years, standing roughly 183 centimeters and weighing around 72 kilograms, with O-type blood and a mid-March birthday. He originally comes from Sweden and completed his training in Greenland. Among Athena's Saints he is renowned above all for his extraordinary beauty, with long soft blue hair, pale skin, and delicate features that often cause others to mistake him for a woman. Gemini Saga once remarked that Aphrodite possessed the greatest beauty among all the Saints of Athena. His name is drawn from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, which connects to the myth associated with the Pisces constellation.
In personality, Aphrodite is calm, composed, reserved, and dignified, and although he is fully aware of his own beauty, he does not boast about it the way some other Saints do. He carries himself with quiet confidence and a detached, elegant manner. Beneath that grace, however, he is known for being cruel, ironic, and sarcastic, and Saga considered him the most feared of all eighty-eight Saints because of both his vicious nature and his fighting power. He is often compared to Cancer Deathmask in terms of cruelty, though he is described as less sadistic than his fellow Gold Saint.
Aphrodite's central belief is that power alone is justice. He holds that the strong are entitled to rule over the weak and that only overwhelming force can preserve order and protect the Earth from evil. This philosophy is what led him to serve the false Pope, Gemini Saga, even after learning that Saga was a usurper. Aphrodite did not support Saga out of loyalty to the deception itself but because he genuinely believed that a powerful ruler was the only effective shield against chaos and destruction. In this view, victory is the greatest beauty, and defeat is the greatest ugliness, which shapes both his morality and his method of fighting.
In the original Sanctuary conflict, Aphrodite acts as the final obstacle before the Pope's chambers. Earlier, on orders from the Pope, he is responsible for the death of Cepheus Daedalus, the master of Andromeda Shun, which gives Shun a personal reason to face him. When the Bronze Saints reach the Temple of Pisces, Aphrodite battles Shun and initially overwhelms him with his poisonous roses. Shun manages to free himself by awakening the Seventh Sense and unleashes his Nebula Storm technique, and Aphrodite is defeated in what is essentially a mutual fall. Even at the moment of death, he does not abandon his convictions; he acknowledges Shun's strength and remarks that he will be sent off by a funeral of roses, falling among the flowers he had used as weapons.
Aphrodite's most notable relationship is with Cancer Deathmask. The two are frequently shown together, and in several portrayals they act as a pair, fighting alongside each other, being revived together, and remaining close even in later stories. His relationship with Shun is also significant, as their duel is both a clash of opposing philosophies and a final exchange of respect. During the Hades arc, Aphrodite is revived by the power of Hades along with other Gold Saints and fights Aries Mu, only to be defeated. He later joins all twelve Gold Saints in destroying the Wailing Wall, burning his own life force to allow Athena to reach Hades, which serves as his ultimate act of atonement as a Saint.
Aphrodite's character receives further development in later works. In the animated Soul of Gold story, he is portrayed not as a villain but as a sharp-minded hero whose insight is crucial to the victory of the Gold Saints. He is the first to recognize the true nature of Yggdrasil and its barrier, uses his ability to sense the pulse of plants to locate the hidden laboratory of the God Warrior Fafnir, and extracts information from him. He later reveals that he survived by hiding within Yggdrasil itself, protected by his natural resistance to plant poison, while placing the other arriving Gold Saints in a suspended state. In other side stories such as Episode G and Saintia Sho, his philosophy of beauty and power is explored further, and in Episode Zero he wounds Aiolos as the latter flees with the infant Athena, acting on the orders of the false Pope.
Aphrodite fights using roses created through his cosmo, and he can sense the pulse and life of plants, which he uses both in combat and for gathering information. His three signature techniques are the Royal Demon Rose, the Piranha Rose, and the Bloody Rose. The Royal Demon Rose involves black roses that carry a deadly poison, devastating enemies at range. The Piranha Rose unleashes a swarm of red roses that can tear through and devour whatever stands in their path. The Bloody Rose is his most lethal attack, a white rose that pierces the opponent's chest and embeds itself in the heart, and the victim dies once the flower has fully bloomed; only the stopping of the victim's heart can end its effect. His style combines long-range pressure, poison, and elegant yet ruthless finishing moves, making him a versatile and dangerous opponent despite his refined appearance.
In personality, Aphrodite is calm, composed, reserved, and dignified, and although he is fully aware of his own beauty, he does not boast about it the way some other Saints do. He carries himself with quiet confidence and a detached, elegant manner. Beneath that grace, however, he is known for being cruel, ironic, and sarcastic, and Saga considered him the most feared of all eighty-eight Saints because of both his vicious nature and his fighting power. He is often compared to Cancer Deathmask in terms of cruelty, though he is described as less sadistic than his fellow Gold Saint.
Aphrodite's central belief is that power alone is justice. He holds that the strong are entitled to rule over the weak and that only overwhelming force can preserve order and protect the Earth from evil. This philosophy is what led him to serve the false Pope, Gemini Saga, even after learning that Saga was a usurper. Aphrodite did not support Saga out of loyalty to the deception itself but because he genuinely believed that a powerful ruler was the only effective shield against chaos and destruction. In this view, victory is the greatest beauty, and defeat is the greatest ugliness, which shapes both his morality and his method of fighting.
In the original Sanctuary conflict, Aphrodite acts as the final obstacle before the Pope's chambers. Earlier, on orders from the Pope, he is responsible for the death of Cepheus Daedalus, the master of Andromeda Shun, which gives Shun a personal reason to face him. When the Bronze Saints reach the Temple of Pisces, Aphrodite battles Shun and initially overwhelms him with his poisonous roses. Shun manages to free himself by awakening the Seventh Sense and unleashes his Nebula Storm technique, and Aphrodite is defeated in what is essentially a mutual fall. Even at the moment of death, he does not abandon his convictions; he acknowledges Shun's strength and remarks that he will be sent off by a funeral of roses, falling among the flowers he had used as weapons.
Aphrodite's most notable relationship is with Cancer Deathmask. The two are frequently shown together, and in several portrayals they act as a pair, fighting alongside each other, being revived together, and remaining close even in later stories. His relationship with Shun is also significant, as their duel is both a clash of opposing philosophies and a final exchange of respect. During the Hades arc, Aphrodite is revived by the power of Hades along with other Gold Saints and fights Aries Mu, only to be defeated. He later joins all twelve Gold Saints in destroying the Wailing Wall, burning his own life force to allow Athena to reach Hades, which serves as his ultimate act of atonement as a Saint.
Aphrodite's character receives further development in later works. In the animated Soul of Gold story, he is portrayed not as a villain but as a sharp-minded hero whose insight is crucial to the victory of the Gold Saints. He is the first to recognize the true nature of Yggdrasil and its barrier, uses his ability to sense the pulse of plants to locate the hidden laboratory of the God Warrior Fafnir, and extracts information from him. He later reveals that he survived by hiding within Yggdrasil itself, protected by his natural resistance to plant poison, while placing the other arriving Gold Saints in a suspended state. In other side stories such as Episode G and Saintia Sho, his philosophy of beauty and power is explored further, and in Episode Zero he wounds Aiolos as the latter flees with the infant Athena, acting on the orders of the false Pope.
Aphrodite fights using roses created through his cosmo, and he can sense the pulse and life of plants, which he uses both in combat and for gathering information. His three signature techniques are the Royal Demon Rose, the Piranha Rose, and the Bloody Rose. The Royal Demon Rose involves black roses that carry a deadly poison, devastating enemies at range. The Piranha Rose unleashes a swarm of red roses that can tear through and devour whatever stands in their path. The Bloody Rose is his most lethal attack, a white rose that pierces the opponent's chest and embeds itself in the heart, and the victim dies once the flower has fully bloomed; only the stopping of the victim's heart can end its effect. His style combines long-range pressure, poison, and elegant yet ruthless finishing moves, making him a versatile and dangerous opponent despite his refined appearance.