- Archetype: Rebel (or Nerdy Warrior). Love Interest #1.
- Age: 46
- Physical Traits: Multi-racial. Muscular. Bookish.
- Personality: Gentle, sincere, down-to-earth, masculine.
Background:
A Failure with women. Crippled with self-doubt, Hephaistos even had an illness: He had a hunched back.
1. One woman seemed to look past his hunchback: Amara.
Heph first met Amara at Hooters, Hawaii. He was working on his philosophy dissertation (he went to University of Hawaii at Manoa). None of the Girls wanted to wait on him. He looked too grotesque.
Amara waited on him.
She even took an interest in him because of his philosophy dissertation. He fell in love with her. They made a connection. They even hung out once outside of Hooters.
But then she competed in Miss Hooters, and won. She transferred to NYC to become a model and to dance. He thought he’d never see her again. She inspired him to write a novel about her.
2. He met Amara a second time at a NYC strip club (where she danced).
Amara became an exotic dancer in NYC. And NYC was where Heph ran into her the second time.
She was now a suicidal stripper at The Galatea. She had just been dumped, and hated where her life was.
Interestingly, Heph had just broken up with his fiance. (His high school sweetheart fiance drew him to NYC.) After they broke up, Heph went to The Galatea to drink his sorrows away.
Heph and Amara commiserated. They deepened their connection. She shared her idea of a strip club for men and women. A place for beauty, not just lust and money.
By the end of the night she got fired. Humiliated, she didn’t say bye to him.
Heph feared he might lose her to suicide. His fear came true when he read in the papers that Amara’s corpse was found on a mountaintop.
Amara was “the one” for Heph. He gave up finding a wife. He wanted to lose his hunchback. He wanted success with women and wealth.
That’s what happened.
3. Heph became a millionaire (teaching how to succeed with women).
Heph became wildly successful with women. He healed his hunchback while learning how to become successful with women.
His first business helped men become successful with women. He also bought real estate too with money his father gave to him when he passed. Heph became wealthy.
4. Heph built a cabin and met an Indigenous culture (changed his life).
But then Heph heard about the government taking away the land of an Indigenous people (called the Macrobi) on the very mountaintop Amara’s body had been found.
The government wanted this land because there was a valuable resource (lithium deposits) capitalists wanted to profit from.
Because the land had a deep sentimental value (the place where Amara had committed suicide where his healing began), Heph bought the land. This saved the Macrobi from getting kicked off.
Heph decided to build a cabin on his new land. To “retire” and finish his dissertation. At first, the Macrobi were wary of him. But one girl from the village made friends with him: Matoaka.
The Macrobi changed Heph’s life. They reminded Heph of a higher value than money and success. They reminded him of who he was.
5. Inspired, Heph opens The Minoan Cafe and produces “The Minotaur.”
Inspired by the Macrobi and by Amara’s idea of a new kind of strip club…
…Heph opened up The Minoan Cafe. He used a different business model than the usual capitalist model. In this business, the workers owned the business with him.
He also built a dinner-theater in the Cafe. He produced a show about what he learned from the Macrobi. He called it “The Minotaur,” and based the story on the old Greek myth “Eros & Psyche.”
This is the show Amara auditions for as her last hurrah to dance. There’s a reason she’s still alive. When Heph learns how Amara is still alive, he’s blown away.
How Amara and Heph met the third time: Her audition for his show. His love for her has not changed. Although she has changed a bit…
- Goal: To find the right replacement for Matoaka in “The Minotaur” (to protect the show’s integrity from Belissa).
- Requirements of actor: Nudity. Intimate scenes. In shape, muscular. Think Eros in the “Eros & Psyche” myth.
Eros & Amara Sol 