Fanon:Kallisto Syrakosia

Kallisto Syrakousia (alias Callisto of Syracuse) was formerly a member of the Beauty 4 and a former member of the Scholars' Alliance, and a founding member of the Union of the Insane following the feud between Hypatia and Demetria involving the Scholars' Alliance's official position on Christopher Steel. Kallisto mastered Handiness, Logic, Mixology, Nectar Making, Painting, Cooking (The Sims 3), Fishing, Gardening, Inventing, Sculpting, and Athletic skill, having in addition to that 8 points in Writing and 1 point in Guitar. Not surprisingly, Kallisto belongs to the superelite segment of society, although her volatility and unpredictableness causes some stir in the neighborhood. Kallisto is old friends with Hyperia and Stratonike, and quite close with the remaining members of the Union of the Insane, and Kallisto is the mastermind behind the imperialist agendas of the Union of the Insane. Kallisto is still a member of the Union of the Insane even after the secession of 3 members, two core and one peripheral member, and is the only one out of the current and former core member to not be engaged in a romantic relationship. In fact, Kallisto can be viewed as the main character ever since the Beauty 4 arc, even when Hypatia usurped that role temporarily in the late times of the first time warp.

Kallisto can also refer to any of her "true" clones, truly identical in traits, looks, and has nearly similar skillsets. Clones in the fanon however will be named Kallisto-# (e.g. Kallisto-1) to differentiate from the true Kallisto.

Kallisto is also an imperialist, unlike the feudal expansionist Lysistrata, federalist Stratonike, apathetic Eurydike and ecclesiarchist Hypatia. Kallisto is also a self-employed Inventor at level 8, although Kallisto also made significant amount of money as a sculptor. Kallisto's imperialism is more of the civil kind: usage of subversion, goods, and influence to turn the unsubjugated population towards their will: Kallisto essentially wanted world domination without the violence.

The Genesis of the Beauty 4
"Those poor in wealth or fame may still learn skills. No, the poor are blessed that way: they are not trapped by the draw of luxury."

Kallisto, having the loner trait, initially disapproved of the Beauty 4's general direction of becoming virtual superstars, responding to the general affinity for parties and socialization by staying put upstairs, complete with tools to carry out the needed activities. As her social interactions with housemates were limited, Kallisto barely maintained friendships with the housemates, while successfully mastering the invention skills (and handiness skills) necessary to build a Simbot. However, the new problem involved the acquisition of a Pink Diamond, to which Kallisto responded by mastering the Martial Arts alongside Thessalonike. Having obtained the necessary materials, Kallisto proceeded with the processes required to make a Simbot, successfully creating Briseis. Kallisto carried on with the process, creating Eurylochos and Selene, completing her lifetime wish (making Hieron after that). Kallisto, who had an unorthodox way of thinking, deemed the Simbots in need of a union to represent them, and sent them along with the necessary funds for them to purchase a house and to pursue an independent living under the name Simbot Union, which would deem fatal to the Simbots in the second time warp. Meanwhile, Kallisto would also trip to France alongside the others, each with different agendas: Demetria for the tomb raiding in France, Achaia for the art, Thessalonike for the good air away from the exercizing room back in home, and Kallisto for the Nectar Making skill.

Under Hyperia
"Fear not the skilled, for one may lead the untrained to enlightenment."

Hypatia's even more meteoric rise and her establishment of the position as the most skilled Sim in the story has successfully led Hyperia to subjugate the Beauty 4. The "upstart" caused no immediate disorder among the Beauty 4: on the contrary, Kallisto, who would have been the least comfortable, finds herself quite fond of Hyperia, with whom she shares the Genius and Computer Whiz trait, which is furthered by Hypatia's mastery of Gardening that would supply Kallisto with the grapes that Kallisto loved to consume (and convert into nectar) for fun. By then Hypatia has renamed the group the Scholars' Alliance, which ended up being somewhat of a misnomer as Demetria and Thessalonike's field of mastery weren't viewed traditionally as scholarly, although even that is negated by their grasp of logic, level 7 and 5 respectively. Under this jolly alliance further enhanced by the transfer of Stratonike from the Attalids, Kallisto traveled through time to acquire Lilian as an ancestor-turned-daughter. At the apex of peace between the newcomers and the veterans, the sudden time warp changes everything...

The Second Time Warp
"It is better to live by yourself and get skills than to live for yourself Woohooing others." However, the initial peace and prosperity that was in the Scholars' Alliance, now at its apex, began to crumble with the Second Time Warp: The Alkmaionids once again reestablish their position in the neighborhood at the exact same spot that they were once on (In the first Time Warp, they perished to age), taking Lysistrata of Amphipolis into their custody who developed as a fine logician and medical practitioner. Eventually, the time warp places the Scholars' Alliance, complete with Lilian and Salina (Thessalonike's Ancestor-turned-daughter) into the neighborhood, once again becoming the elites of the neighborhood. Nick Alto, who paid a visit to the Scholars' Alliance and realizing the potential for ruination should he get on the wrong side of these elites, decided that the best thing to do to prepare for a potential hostilities with demagogues (Nick, who was an vampire then, discovered Thessalonike's position as a Legend of Sports) is to end his hostilities (suggested by Vita) with the Landgraabs. Nick also encouraged his daughter Holly Alto to make an positive first impression on them just in case, and Holly ended up becoming Kallisto's friend, creating a potential issue with Bebe as some speculate that it was Kallisto's influence that led to Holly's insanity later on. However, while this was happening, a schism occurred when Christopher Steel became the potential epicenter of a disaster by becoming Achaia's girlfriend while capturing the attention of Hypatia alongside that of Jamie Jolina and Ayesha Ansari, leading to a feud between Hyperia and Demetria, latter supporting Achaia's claim to Christopher Steel even when Christopher was in a better position with Hypatia. Although the neighborhood was largely apathetic or oblivious to the clash between the stars, Kallisto caused a stir alongside Stratonike by seceding from the Scholars' Alliance, forming the Union of the Insane, inviting Eurydike and Lysistrata, both also insane. However, it only took days before Kallisto asked Hypatia to move in, which separated Hypatia from Demetria, while keeping Hypatia occupied to lead to any more development with Christopher Steel, although Hypatia also was in another relationship with Gobias Koffi due to their careers.

From there however Kallisto started to buy up real estate, and drawn by the additional revenue generated by the said estates, grew addicted to the territorial control, and eventually became imperialistic. It was from there Kallisto planned to expand their control beyond Sunset Valley.

Invasion of Bridgeport
"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of worlds, we have not yet conquered one?" Megas Alexandros

"Know the heretic. Know his ways. Make him repent, one way or another."

"Faith without deed is no faith."

Having made a name for herself at Sunset Valley and now having taken control of most of the real estates, Kallisto soon set eyes on the rich lively city of Bridgeport. However, since Kallisto, alongside her fellow Union of the Insane members had to keep watch over Sunset Valley to control hostile factors such as Christopher Steel, Kallisto takes her insanity a step further, creating 3 identical clones (Kallisto-1, Kallisto-2, and Kallisto-3 respectively) and dispatched them to Bridgeport to establish a forward base of operations for future domination of Bridgeport. As clones, the clones received all the celebrity perks that Kallisto enjoyed, and soon started by infiltrating the working class, slipping in the Culinary branch, the Law Enforcement branch and the Science branch. The established celebrities of Bridgeport however did not take notice, since they were either too decadent in their partying life or had enemies of their own to deal with.

Romance Heresy
"Heresy grows from Romance."

However, the nearly monastic life of the Union of the Insane starts to take a toll on its constituents even when considering their general tendency to avoid social interaction and in many cases, less so towards romance. However, the flurry of romances that would come soon would shock Kallisto to no end: When Kallistrata moved in right next door, things started to unravel: Kallistrata observed Stratonike and Eurydike engaging in not-so-friendly conversation that ended their friendship, while Kallisto herself broke the monotony by arguing with Stephanophoros, leaving a negative relationship. Kallisto was horrified when Hyperia became Sam Sekemoto's date, especially since it was romance that smashed the unity of the Union of the Insane. Kallisto was shocked even more, when the others followed suit, Antigone getting Malcolm Landgraab, Stratonike getting Artie Page, and Lysistrata Leighton Sekemoto. Soon, this chain of romance was soon followed by what appears to be rivalry and perhaps some trash talking, leading to a scarred household that culminates with the secession of Lysistrata and Stratonike. Curiously, Kallisto was able to get Kallistrata to join the household, despite the fact that Kallistrata was a lot closer to Kleisthenes and Lysistrata (although Lysistrata was probably loyal to Kallisto)

Kallisto would later establish the codex, adding the article explicitly stating "Heresy grows from romances: a moment of laxity towards romance will generate chaos, and a lifetime of turmoil."

The codex, although it was good and it specifically made it possible for more devoted members to restrain the lesser members by enacting a meritocratic system, where decisions could be made if you had a coalition of allies with a set of skills large enough to have the majority. Obviously, it gave Hypatia, Kallisto and Kallistrata a great deal of clout, seeing as they were the 120ers, or those who had 120+ points in skills. What Hyperia didn't see was that Kallisto's intent was to use that to smash down Hypatia should Hyperia want to see Sam Sekemoto for romantic reasons, which would be easy since Kallistrata worked pretty much the same way as Kallisto did. Kallisto's objective was to destroy romance: Kallisto genuinely believed romance caused only grief, strife, and division, and with Kallistrata, planned to launch an inquisition, dragging Hypatia's simbot Epaphroditos, who wanted to be a super spy, to it by bribing him with training, as Epaphroditos was only a disciple according to the accepted definition of a core member in the codex established by the council.

Second Academic Reformation
"A moment of laxity towards romance will spawn a lifetime of heresy."

After the enactment of the codex, Kallisto went on with the reformation of the household, starting with the structure itself. Kallisto tore down the old building, erecting a new one to better adhere to the ideals set by the codex. With the reformation of the structure came the reformation in organization: Kallisto took the role of the Chaplain, preaching the word to the members starting every sunday. Kallisto on the inside lamented that the reformation is somewhat too late, since Kallisto already mastered so many skills that only things left are to master the Writing, and tackle Charisma and music instruments.

The barrack-life was pleasing to most: they have not lost luxury of having high-quality food, yet they were focused on mastering skills above all other, since learning skills and mastering them were the ways of worshipping the personalized deity as written in the codex. Kallisto was also pushing towards reuniting the former members, particularly Stratonike, since the former members were quite above the sim average, especially Stratonike who was the most skilled sim outside the Union influence, and pushed for Hypatia to aggressively move on beyond Detente and actually reestablishing friendship, and thus Kallistrata hosted toe party, inviting the individual who disgusts and is disgusted by Hyperia the most: Christopher Steel, and despite the negativity, Hyperia and Christopher Steel started to thaw some more, and Stratonike took a neutral view of Hyperia, while starting to take a slightly positive attitude towards Kallistrata. Demetria also linked up with the children, and Kallisto deemed this as a potential for reunion and of course, converts.

Even Kallisto had to accept the fact that the Meris Sophiston would need to use parties (of course, the concept of party in the Meris Sophiston were more in alignment with the games of Classical societies than to contemporary parties), not because of any glory in parties but because of the pragmatic reasons to clean up after scandals, even if all of these were caused by wrongly directed accusations, to the point where even Kallisto took the effort to stabilize the slipping popularity of the Union of the Insane by hosting parties on her own discretion, which was quite contrary to her nature as a Loner.

On Sunday at 10 o'clock, Kallisto hosted the first service of the day, chanting the catechisms in advancement of learning and of course, demonizing things like Woohoo, and also admonishments to stay vigilant even when one is required to host a party for pragmatic reasons (i.e. popular dissatisfaction). "What are the ways to glorify our deity?" "To learn skills and apply them for practical use for the greater good of Simkind!" "What is the greatest blasphemy of them all?" "Uncontrolled materialism and Woohoo! The key component of the cult of Mammon!" "What shall we do with heresy!" "ATTACK WITH FIRE! Show them the light of academia!" "Who shall you honor?" "THE GOD-EMPEROR! Glory to him and his imperfect incarnations! Praise Alexandros! Praise Hannibal! Praise Turrene! And of course, Praise the Emperor!"

Spreading the faith
"Faith is purest when it is tested in the fire and flames of a heretical world."

With effort controlling her loner tendencies, Kallisto eventually overcame most of the negative opinions, leaving only Salina Thalamaia and more so Agnes Crumplebottom to be the dissidents. Having succeeded in subduing negative opinions, Kallisto prepared for the next step, to spread the faith. Kallisto's first choice was Kallistrata's former retinue, the Mathetai consisting of Immanuel Ames, Tiffany Dennis, Liam Awlaki and Shirley Anley. However, Kallisto was not too close to most of them, and thus Kallisto switched to the next potential target, her close friend Philetairos. This made sense since Philetairos was the head of the Attalid family, which the former member of the Union of the Insane, Stratonike, belongs to originally and currently.

Additionally, the Union of the Insane was quite familiar with Tiberium, and it was only a matter of time before they were able to develop seed tiberium, allowing them indefinite supply of tiberium to be processed for massive profit, not that they needed that since they already pretty much established total control of the businesses in the region. With the extra income, Kallisto decides to go with the idea of transmutations, and successfully experiments with two sets of gems, getting a huge Soulpeace and a huge Shining gem, although the latter was a financial loss, Kallisto was still satisfied with the sheer brilliance of the gem.

Kallisto had no intention of letting a powerful sim out of the influence of the Meris Sophiston, and immediately sought to reenlist Stratonike, even though Kallisto was bitter about the whole romance nonsense, especially because they left the Scholars' Alliance because of it plaguing household order. Stratonike offered to reenlist if the hardline approach to romance was reconsidered: Kallisto gives an counteroffer: Kallisto will consider amendment should Stratonike join, and Stratonike would be offered the authority to hold a meeting regarding the issue at her choosing within 2 weeks of reenlistment. Kallisto in truth had no intention of allowing romance: Kallisto does not want to risk another collapse, and this thought was shared by Kallistrata, as Kallisto didn't care about Stratonike's romance: in fact, Kallisto believed Stratonike would be happier without it. In fact, Kallisto's goal was to destroy the very thing that tore the Scholars' Union apart: Christopher Steel's womanizing, and to destroy that, Kallisto would take down the remaining vestige of it: Kallisto would tear Christopher and Achaia apart, because Kallisto believed that would make Achaia happy, as well as her belief that it would avenge the fall of Scholars' Alliance, as well as Demetria, even though Demetria and Kallisto only met with all that party (or as Kallisto would say, public entertainment) as a part of the Detente.

Long story short, Kallisto essentially created a religion hellbent on destroying romance by glorifying learning (as a distraction) just to avenge the disunities in the households that she was a part of. Kallistrata, who was insane as well, didn't see anything wrong with it. Hyperia just didn't care about the cause or effect, since Hyperia was promised power. Stratonike, despite her insanity, saw the implication, but not the cause. Kallisto was one step closer to taking the path of no return, which potentially would lead to an entire new order of things. Kallisto sums up her resolve in the codex, the 8th book consisting entirely of Kallisto's observation.

Codicil VIII-III-ii to v: "The dark voice keeps calling for the victims: when it clutches one: the victim feels euphoric, only to find that it was meaningless, only to see the ruins of the household left by the madness of romance. iii ) I am no stranger to deaths of households: Scholars' Alliance was my home: but when the foul corruption of romance had a grip on that forsaken house, I did not hesistate to establish a new household in time of need: by my hand my beloved household declined. iv): Scholars' Alliance's secrets lie solely within me, and so shall it dissipate with me: whether I am victorious in my crusade to destroy romance or fall trying, there will be no end to the crusade of penance. v) Such is the testimony of Kallisto Syrakousia, Chaplain of the 1st Chapter of Meris Sophiston, Defender of households, Champion of chastity, bane of illusory pleasures, and the disciple to Megas Alexandros."

The new Amphitheatron
Kallisto deemed that house parties were not enough to generate publicity needed to make public entertainment (as Kallisto viewed parties to be) effective, and proceeded to build a public place of entertainment: Kallisto started by purchasing an real estate by one of the fishing spots, and built on there an Amphitheatron: It was to be a place of entertainment, and it drew mixologists even though Kallisto originally hadn't planned on inviting mixologists. Kallisto intended to use the Amphitheatron to host games, such as sparring matches between Martial Artists (Kallisto herself was an experienced martial artist, alongside many in the household) and if conditions will it, musical performances by some foreigner, or Epaphroditos who mastered the Guitar skill.

Kallisto decided to run a test party on the very day it was built, and it was a success: not only was it a success in itself, but also a diplomatic success, allowing Kallistrata and Hypatia some more contact with Stratonike and Lysistrata. It was also a success in public opinion itself: Kallisto was hounded on by paparazzi and was accused falsely (most of them based on the rumors that Kallisto was a psyker, a rumor starting from Holly Alto's madness, as some speculating that her friendship with Kallisto had something to do with it) a few times in quick succession, as well as a self-inflicted scandal where Kallisto dug up trash for scraps, but due to the effectiveness of the public entertainment at the Amphitheatron, negative opinions were checked and largely absent, asides from the remaining dissidents Agnes Crumplebottom and Salina Thalamaia.

Soon, Kallisto established the Initiate division to house the initiates to shelter them from the potential heresy of partying, since Kallisto was compelled to do it by the forces of public opinion: a scandal, even if by false accusations, swerves public opinion against the household, and Kallisto fears that misunderstanding might lead the initiates to party all weekends because of examples set by the core members, even though the core members were doing it to provide public entertainment and check public discontent, or so Kallisto says. Hypatia was sure that Kallisto was using that as an excuse to make room for Lysistrata and Stratonike, and Hypatia could do little to stop Kallisto, since neither Eurydike nor Antigone gave any concern about this. Having regained Stratonike and Lysistrata, Kallisto decided that it was time for them to give up romance, before Kallisto could deal a final strike against the heresy of romance, striking at the core of all the problems (or so Kallisto thought), Christopher Steel's romance.

Eventually, Kallisto gives a public declaration:

"Residents of Sunset Valley, take heed: For the grievious tragedies of destruction of untold number of households and the shattering of so many friendships, causing feuds among even one-time closest friends, and stealing the sanity and productive output of many, I declare romance an enemy of the Sunset Valley, and declare it heresy: All those who are engaged romantically are to be deemed heretics, and lack of response to call for repentence shall be deemed blasphemy. All faithful are to rise up and fight the evil of romance: it has absconded away from the righteous fury of many with the souls of lovers and currently plague the neighborhood.

Knowledge is power, innocence beacon to the lost. Guard both well."

Success Of Mercantilism: The March of 500k
With the inclusion of Stratonike and Lysistrata, the Union of the Insane suddenly saw a huge explosion in revenue: Tiberium experiments were actually a loss: the experiment involving Tiberium Transfiguration was a fiasco, cutting return on investment by 1/8th. However, they had a sudden surge in income due to several factors: Lysistrata was back as the World Renowned Surgeon, although that wasn't nearly enough: it was mercantilism: Kallistrata started by investing in more nectar making devices: essentially seeking to quadruple output, while the addition of Stratonike sent the sculpting section at full run most of the time. combining all sales, salaries, tiberium, and others, the Union of the Insane suddenly saw a total profit of 500k in just 6 days, allowing them to surpass the wealth level of the Scholars' Alliance in such haste. This mercantilistic success was attributed to the Union policy, and Kallisto ensured that Stratonike and Lysistrata would be taught to fill in the gap that they had. With outstanding products, they suddenly saw themselves as uberrich. The sudden increase in nectar output also attracted the attention of the Attalids, particularly Parthenope, who was eager to establish trade agreements with Kallistrata to get her hands on the rich nectar produced by the Union of the Insane, now deemed far superior to most French products.

Kallisto, of course, had plans with that sudden influx of money: Kallisto planned to build an empire, for the Amphitheatron was just the beginning of Kallisto's grand scheme. Kallisto planned to turn the entire town upside down with new public projects, and thus mark the Golden Age of Sunset Valley by the Greeks, of the Greeks, and of course, for the Greeks (and allies).

Trivia

 * Kallisto is the transliteration of the original Greek name Καλλιστώ. Callisto is the anglicized form of the name.
 * Kallisto uses glasses in her regular wear, the labcoat, but does not wear glasses in any other settings.
 * Despite her lack of affinity for socialization, her ties with the other Beauty 4 who gained stardom led to her stardom. Ironically, Kallisto is the only one of the Beauty 4 to be a Superstar (5-star celebrity), due to her ties with other stars that form the Union of the Insane, including another superstar Stratonike.
 * Kallisto is the only major member in the Union of the Insane household to have not reached level 10 in the career.
 * Kallisto likes the Orks and Warhammer 40k.
 * Kallisto is in the lighter scale in terms of skin color, but when compared to Stratonike or Hyperia, Kallisto has darker skin.
 * Kallisto has minimal chest size ever since Generations came in, and sims who lost chest size due to Generations are Stratonike and Eurydike, both created before Late Night. Lysistrata started out with flat chest, since Lysistrata was introduced after Late Night was installed.
 * Kallisto's personality design was partly inspired by Archimedes and Dionysios I, eventually leading to the current "Mad Scientist" archetype.
 * Kallisto is the first to have acquired the Age Freeze Potion.
 * Kallisto has the most number of children (8, including simbots) and simbots (6), all acquired by asexual means. Kallisto has Lilian (acquired by time traveling), Briseis (Simbot, lost in first time warp), Hieron (Simbot, lost in first time warp), Eurylochos (Simbot, lost in first time warp), Selene (Simbot, lost in first time warp), Antigone (Third-party clone via clone voucher), Stephanophoros (Simbot) and Chester (Simbot, released to the wilds due to full family size and made after the construction of the Amphitheatron: Like Lilian, Chester is an autogenerated name, hence the English name rather than the Hellenic one: Stephanophoros however is not a real Hellenic name, but simply an name compounding two words to mean Crown-bearer.)
 * Kallisto, alongside Stratonike, is the only one to have made a simbot, despite the fact that Hyperia and Parthenope also has mastered the Invention skill. Hyperia later joined as of October with the simbot Epaphroditos, and Kallistrata, by the virtue of being a hard Kallisto clone also have the ability to make a simbot.
 * Kallisto was the only human sim in the Union of the Insane before the collapse not to have a romantic interest. FOREVER ALONE.