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"I enjoy tearing down the proud and powerful, and there are none who deserve tearing down like Gaea and her giants. Still, I must warn you that I will not suffer undeserved success. Good luck is a sham. The wheel of fortune is a Ponzi scheme. True success requires sacrifice. ”
–Nemesis to Leo and Hazel, in The Mark of Athena

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I am the Greek goddess of balance, justice, retribution, and vengeance. My Roman counterpart is also called Nemesis for revenge does not change from Greek to Roman myths, as revenge is universal, though I may also be equated with Invidia

MY HISTORY

I am the daughter of Nyx and Erebus, however in some myths I am known as the daughter of Nyx alone. There were also some myths considering me to be a daughter of Dike, Zeus, or Oceanus and Tethys. I appears chiefly as the avenger of crime and the punisher of hubris, being mainly the goddess of revenge and justice (which I am). I am the mother of Ethan Nakamura.

In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Ethan tells Percy Jackson that I was his mother was right before swearing allegiance to Kronos and supplying the last piece to revive him. He tells Percy that he lost his eye shortly after learning who his mother was, saying that he found out what the meaning of the proverb, "An eye for an eye" the hard way. Later, Dionysus mentions that several of the minor gods are joining the Titans during the Second Olympian War, including me, Nemesis.

In The Last Olympian

While Ethan joins Prometheus in a peaceful talk with Percy Jackson, he claims that him and I are not respected. Percy calls me the goddess of revenge and wonders why I deserves respect, but Ethan tells him that I am also the goddess of balance as I cause the downfall of people with too much good luck. He also tells Percy that I took his eye as payment for he would one day bring respect to the minor gods. While Ethan saw an eye as a small price to pay, Percy does not see me as a loving mother for taking my child's eye.

Later, as Kronos starts to destroy the thrones of the gods in Olympus, Percy reminds Ethan that I was the goddess of balance and that total destruction is not balance. This convinces Ethan to turn away from Kronos, but he is eventually killed when Kronos tosses him off Olympus. However, just like I promised, Ethan was able to bring respect to the minor gods by giving Percy the inspiration to ask for this change instead. I am one of the gods to receive a cabin, but it is unknown if I have any more demigod children. (which I do)

“Nemesis always pays her debts, good or evil. ”

–Ethan, to Percy

I am seen as a cold and even cruel goddess whose ruthlessness is not exempt from even my own children as shown when I took my own son's eye as part of their deal. However, I do have a strong sense of honor as exemplified when I swore to my son that he would gain recognition from this same agreement. Overall, I am both fair and intense.

One of my forms has short, curly black hair. Wears a red jacket, black jeans, black boots, and carries a whip as well as owning a motorcycle. Much like Aphrodite, who appears as someone the viewer loves, I will appear as someone you want to take your revenge on. This means that I will always look different to different people. Even if the observer sees this person, I always change my appearance to match my mood and my power.

My Abilities:

*I have the standard powers of a goddess.

*As the goddess of balance, I will provide bad luck to anyone with too much good luck.

*I also provide good luck to anyone with too much bad luck.

*I can tell someone their destiny as long as I receives adequate payment in return, as I told Ethan he would bring the minor gods respect in exchange for his eye.

*I punish those with too much arrogance, such as punishing Narcissus to fall in love with himself.

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*The word "nemesis" is now often used as a term to describe one's worst enemy, normally someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar.

*Nemesis is also called the goddess of balance, I makes sure no man has too much good in his life to prevent hubris.

*Nemesis is sisters with the Roman form of Tyche, Fortuna.

*It is odd that Ethan's burial shroud had scales under crossed swords when Nemesis is sometimes pictured with a whip in one hand and scales in the other.

*The woman depicted on the New York state flag, holding the scales and sword, is believed to be based on Nemesis. However it is Dike the goddess of Moral Justice, or in some cases Dike's mother Themis.

*A statue of Nemesis or Dike's mother, Themis, is sometimes seen in courts of law to represent balance of justice.

*Despite Invidia being Nemesis' Roman form, she herself states that she is called Nemesis in both Rome and Greece as revenge is universal.

*Her Roman name, Invidia, is Latin for Envy, one of the deadly sins.

In Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of divine justice and vengeance. Her anger is directed toward human transgression of the natural, right order of things and of the arrogance causing it. Nemesis pursues the insolent and the wicked with inflexible vengeance. Her cult probably originated from Smyrna. She is regarded as the daughter of Oceanus or Zeus, but according to Hesiod she is a child of Erebus and Nyx.
She is portrayed as serious looking woman with in her left hand a whip, a rein, a sword, or a pair of scales. In the Hellenistic period she was portrayed with a steering wheel. Also called Rhamnusia, from a temple and statue of her in Rhamnus, a village in the northern part of Attica. The epithet Adrasteia "she whom none can escape", properly of the those of the Phrygian Cybele, was later applied to her.

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