Icarus and the Suns

Five years ago you and your father were imprisoned in a tower for a crime he committed against the crown. But, on the eve of your long-awaited escape, an unexpected visitor arrives – your goddess mother, a figure who you've never met before. A shocking request falls from her lips, and suddenly you're travelling across a steampunk world based loosely on ancient Greece, with the help of two and a half sun gods who want to find your missing cousin. And, as if that isn't enough, you're being haunted by an unknown deity that hails you as their chosen hero.

Demo Updated: 30/08/25

Creator Tumblr: Cerulean Square

Just for fun: Which Icarus character are you

Features

• Customise your version of Icarus, including their name, appearance, and stats
• Choose between five different goddesses to be your character’s mother, altering what abilities they have
• Build relationships with each of the characters, deciding how you feel about them and their pasts
• Rescue your cousin and prevent (or aid) a brewing rebellion against the Olympian gods.
• Learn the truth about the deity haunting your dreams...

Characters

Icarus [name and gender selectable]

It's you - the protagonist. You're the demigod child of a relatively unknown goddess and (maybe?) the champion of a long forgotten deity. Customise your character from their looks to who their mother is, and determine whether they obey or defy their prophesied fate.

Daedalus Ergane [he/him]

A genius inventor, artist and keeper of secrets, Daedalus is many things but if you were to ask him, the first and most important thing he'd call himself is your father. Yet, in defiance of his paternal role, you know very little about his past.  You only discovered the worst of his crimes after meeting your mother, and it was against his will. Do you forgive him for it or push him away? The choice is yours.

Your mother [she/her]

Represented by either Peitho, Metis, Asteria, Bia or Nike, your mother is a minor goddess whom you've never met. On the day before your prison escape, she appears, not to finally introduce herself but to give you a job... Maybe one day you'll make a proper mother out of her. Or at the very least, you hope to understand what your mission has to do with her greater ambitions.

Helios Panoptes [RO, he/they]

Helios is the golden eyed titan god who legends label as the strongest among immortals. The violence he wrought in history's greatest wars was so extreme that some people regard him as a kind of battle god. Yet in recent years they've been quiet. In fact, no news of him has met a mortal ear in the decade since his youngest daughter was born. The worst rumours claim that he's planning a coup against the Olympian gods whom he once aided. Others choose to be optimistic and believe he's disappeared so he can focus on parenthood. Regardless of what the truth is, the fact remains that there isn't a soul alive who isn't just a little bit afraid of them.

Circe [she/her]

Circe is Helios' youngest child, a strange and enigmatic ten-year-old girl. Despite her diminutive age, she has wisdom, talent and ambition that outshines that of most adults. In particular, she's a brilliant magic-user, better than her father, maybe even as good as the likes of Hekate and Asteria. Rumour has it that she can even talk to the arcane energy that she commands but you're not sure if you're quite ready to believe something that extreme.

Apollo/ Apolline Agraeus [RO, selectable: he/him or she/her]

As talented as they are promiscuous, Apollo/line is a controversial figure. It's hard to say what's more well known: their famous well of skills or their infamous series of failed romances. It seems almost contradictory that someone so talented and clever would become such a heartbreaker, especially so publicly, but it seems this god relishes in the attention. At the very least, they wear their fame with shamelessness and pride — not afraid of the rumours that circulate. Yet you can't help but wonder if it bothers them at all beneath their cheerful exterior. More than that, you wonder how much of it is even true.

Phaethon Eridanos [RO, he/him]

Your best friend of five years, who you first met after he broke into your tower prison. He's playful, teasing and way too inclined towards trouble making, all while managing to be more mysterious than even your father. Between his grey skin, glowing eyes and flaming hair, there's no question that he isn't human - though he claims he used to be. Try as you might, you can't get him to admit more than that. Yet, for all his secrets, there is no other person that you trust as much as him. 

???? [RO, any/all]

Ever since you were first locked up you've seen them in your dreams. This stranger - this god, for what else could he be - they haunt you like a summer heat. You don't even know her name.