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Created on 2006-09-10 07:08:12 (#11111407), last updated 2008-04-28

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Name:	{ Callisto } Warrior Queen.
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{ The (Very Long) History of Callisto }

Callisto's first two episodes set up the themes of hatred, revenge and guilt, and pose the ethical dilemma of how Xena can ever put right the damage of her evil past. If she lets Callisto live, she will wreak havoc, kill and maim people. But if she kills Callisto, is she merely finishing the job which she started when she wrecked that little girl's life? In her first episode (Callisto), we see that Callisto has recruited a small army and spends her days training hard with them until she is 'as good as Xena' (in her words). She begins her campaign of revenge by raiding and burning villages and savagely slaughtering people in Xena's name. She hopes to revive Xena's reputation as a villain; and plans to kill Xena after destroying her reputation. Xena has no choice but to engage with her, and in a close fight Xena beats her, but can't kill her. She hands her over to the authorities, who throw her in jail. In The Return of Callisto she escapes, crippling and killing the guards. She finds Xena, but is still unable to defeat her, and instead makes her suffer by plunging her sword though the heart of Gabrielle's recently-wedded husband, Perdicas. Xena catches her again, and is wracked with guilt as Callisto taunts her about her past. A fight ensues, and Xena and Callisto fall into quicksand. Xena's inventive wit allows her to struggle free, and she watches doubtfully as Callisto is sucked under. But the ethical dilemma still hangs in the balance: Xena has killed the monster that she created, but still carries the guilt that it was all her fault.

In Intimate Stranger, Callisto works with Ares god of war to invade Xena's dreams and switch bodies with Xena, so that she is free and Xena is trapped in Tartarus. But Xena persuades Hades to let her return to earth (in Callisto's body), where she defeats Callisto and sends her back to Tartarus. However, Xena remains trapped in Callisto's body for one episode before Ares restores them to their normal selves.

Callisto again escapes from Tartarus on the companion show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in the episode Surprise, by making a deal with Hera, Queen of the Gods. Hera allows her back to Earth for one day to kill Hercules, and promises her immortality if she succeeds. But Callisto plans on getting immortality regardless. She poisons Hercules' family, then tricks him into accompanying her to the Tree of Life (where one bite of a golden apple cures all ills, and a whole apple makes a person immortal). Hercules relucantly agrees, but Callisto traps him, uses him to reveal the tree and eats a golden apple, becoming immortal and regaining her sanity. Hercules escapes and fights Callisto, inadvertantly scarring her in the process, and breaking her sanity once again, and then traps her in the Labryinth; and once again she is trapped, frustrated and seething with anger.

But although she is trapped in a labyrinth, being immortal means being in demand. In A Necessary Evil, when the Amazon Velasca eats Ambrosia and becomes a goddess hellbent on killing Gabrielle, Xena makes a risky deal with Callisto. She offers Callisto a chance at the Ambrosia in exchange for her help. Xena tricks her into fighting Velasca for the Ambrosia on a rope bridge over a river of lava, where she gets it and eats it; and in her moment of glorious godhood, Xena cuts the ropes and they plunge into the lava.

In Maternal Instincts Callisto (now a god) is freed from the lava by Gabrielle's evil daughter Hope, who calls her "the monster lady". In a ploy of mythical proportions, she causes Hope to kill Xena's son Solan, and laughs manically as Xena and Gabrielle's friendship is torn apart. She then appears to Xena and Gabrielle as a manifestation of their own guilt in the musical episode The Bitter Suite, where they make up again.

But by this time, Callisto has had enough of the pain inside her. In the Sacrifice story arc, Hope spins a cocoon around herself for her transformation from child into adult; and Callisto agrees to protect her until she hatches, in exchange for permanent oblivion. When Gabrielle sacrifices herself to destroy Hope, Callisto changes her mind and gleefully exclaims that she has a reason for living again. However, it proves to be a moot point as seconds later, Xena in her furious torment mutters "no more living for you" and slays Callisto with the Hind's Blood Dagger (one of only a few things capable of killing a god).

Stripped of her powers as a goddess, Callisto is condemned to eternal torment as a demon of Hell. But in The Ides of March, she is given the opportunity to return to the living if she can corrupt Xena and install Julius Caesar as emperor of Rome. She was required to do this without hurting Xena physically, but as a result of her blind rage for Xena she fails at both. She defeats Xena for the first and only time, by breaking her spine with Xena's own chakram. Callisto is returned to Hell, but her actions set into motion the events leading to Caesar's, Xena's and Gabrielle's deaths. Xena lies critically injured in the snow and Gabrielle tries to defend her, but they are captured by the Roman guards. On the Ides of March, as Caesar declares himself emperor and is murdered by his peers, Xena and Gabrielle are also crucified at Caesar's command.

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NOTE: Callisto is immortal, and fresh from Hell. Thanks.

{ Disclaimer}

Callisto is from Xena: Warrior Princess, and is the property of USA Television Distribution LLC and Robert Tapert. She is used for the purpose of ficlet writing and/or Roleplaying; no profit made in the use of this character.

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