Aphrodite, goddess of love
Amokinesis is the ability to control the emotion of love or desire. Aphrodite and her children (most prominently Cupid) can use this ability. Only the three Greek Virgin Goddesses are immune to this power.
Uses of Amokinesis
The Aphrodite cabin members can use this power as they are the offspring of the goddess of love. Also, characters like Medea and Circe have this power as they are powerful sorceresses. This power is intensified if the user has charmspeak because it also uses the power of the voice to make anybody do what they want.
This is one of the most powerful abilities despite not having the destructive force of Hydrokinesis or Pyrokinesis, as love can even bring even the gods to their knees. Percy himself once said that Aphrodite's power scares him even more than Ares.
The Heroes of Olympus
The House of Hades
Piper McLean,daughter of Aphrodite,and a user of Amokinesis
When Jason talks about where the group will meet Reyna, he gets distracted by Piper's multicolored eyes. They apparently 'made it hard for him to think straight'. When Piper asked him what the town was called, he noticed that Piper smelled really good- like blooming honeysuckle' and Jason wondered if Piper was working some type of 'Aphrodite magic' on him- like every time he mentioned Reyna's name, she would befuddle him so much that he couldn't think of anything but Piper. This might be some kind of love magic.
Known users
- Freya
- Balder
- Hathor
- Aphrodite
- Cupid - via his golden arrows of romance
- Ganymede - only limited to same-sex romance
- Hymenaios - only limited to marriage ceremonies
- Aphrodite's Cabin members
- Medea - via various spells
- Circe - via various spells
- Hecate's Cabin members - via various spells