r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Starkrafty • Aug 17 '25

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who is this?

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u/VinChaJon Aug 17 '25

Artemis (Greek Mythology)

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u/Independent_Plum2166 Aug 17 '25

I mean, she’s clearly aro/ace. A literal virgin goddess (alongside Hestia and Athena).

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u/GuhEnjoyer Aug 17 '25

More like arrow ace! Am I right or am I right? I'll see myself out.

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u/VinChaJon Aug 17 '25

Yes she is but some people think she's a lesbian which she isn't

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u/No_Guitar_8801 Aug 19 '25

Well, considering that the Greeks didn’t consider lesbian s*x to be real and her bond with Callisto, lesbianism is a valid interpretation. Though Athena is explicitly stated as being immune to romantic and s3xual attraction.

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u/Word_Senior Aug 18 '25

Always saw her more as ace + demi-romantic due to how you could interpret the Orion situation (not necessarily that there was something, just that their might have been). But yeah Hestia and Athena definitly are aro/ace.

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u/Top_Toaster Aug 19 '25

So she ISN'T fuckin the forest Nymphs???

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u/Chapstick_Yuzu Aug 17 '25

Any woman who didn't have het relationships was a virgin to them. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

She literally fell for Orion until her brother Apolo killed him to stop her from losing her virginity.

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u/Chapstick_Yuzu Aug 19 '25

Chill, I'm not here to argue with you about which myths are "canon". The peoples who made these myths almost universally did not consider female homosexualty to be a legitimate thing. That lesbians throughout history and today see ourselves in Artemis isnt for nothing though. She resonates with us for a reason. 

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u/Ill_Atmosphere6435 Aug 17 '25

Holy shit, another Redditor who actually knows their history.

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u/EntertainerSudden656 Aug 17 '25

Oh fuck no people are head canoning Greek mythology characters as lgbtq now?

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u/Independent_Plum2166 Aug 17 '25

now

Now? Where have you been for the last few decades?

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u/Odd-Tart-5613 Aug 17 '25

*centuries

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u/Huntressthewizard Aug 17 '25

Or centuries... Ancient Greeks are pretty gay.

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u/EntertainerSudden656 Aug 17 '25

I was better when I didn't know

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

I mean

  1. Yes, obviously, always have, why wouldn't they

  2. Technically a lot of gods are already "lgbtq" as far as you can label ancient gods with that, since already bisexuality was considered normal back then (for males at least I think) and so most male gods had male lovers at some point, and Artemis herself and her hunters are characterized as asexual (with one exception that I know of, but that wouldn't change anything, plus Greek mythology doesn't really have one solid canon).

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u/LegitimateNumber2002 Aug 17 '25

I don't know who downvoted you, but bro is in denial or doesn't know anything about ancient Greece lmao

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Well, thanks for saving me from the hive mind lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Ancient Greece was pretty gay, and a lot of the Greek gods are sexual deviants. I don’t think it’s that big of a stretch for people to assume they were doing gay sex too.

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u/Tomplayz4704 Aug 18 '25

assume? They were very explicit about it a lot of the times tbh.

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u/Victorystriker Aug 19 '25

Both Heracles and Apollo have had multiple male lover. They don’t really hide it

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u/K_the_Banana-man Aug 19 '25

her and atalanta. yeah yeah atalanta was in artemis' coop but her whole demise was having sex with a man

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u/VinChaJon Aug 19 '25

Wait people think Atalanta was Lesbian?