In the dialogues Symposium and Republic, Bk IX, Plato offers various explanations of erotic love, from portraying it as a wisdom-loving spirit that works perfectly alongside the rational part of soul, to a deranged drone in a tyrannical one. However, across these seemingly incompatible descriptions, Eros holds several common characteristics. In this paper, I will argue three commonalities. First, that Eros is not capable of reason, and thus cannot give an account-of-why for its aims. Second, that Eros is unidirectional, something that is unable to switch gears from its original course of action. And third, that Eros is unfit to rule a soul, but should always be ruled by reason. All these common characteristics, in turn, points to a general picture of Eros that is essentially something blind and must be led by reason.