Heyo, hope you don't mind me popping in with a CS... this sounds fun. If anything needs to be changed, just let me know. [center][b][u]Personal Information[/u][/b][/center][center][b]Name[/b]: Nikolas Giannoppoulos [/center][center][b]Alias/ Nickname[/b]: Nick, Wheels, "Cripple" or "Legolas" if one is feeling especially cruel[/center][center][b]Age[/b]: 17[/center][center][b]Gender[/b]: Male[/center][center][b]Cabin[/b]: Counselor of Cabin Nine[/center][center][b]Appearance[/b]: [/center][hider=nick][img]http://31.media.tumblr.com/9da2444edc55b90b15495cc17217ad18/tumblr_mgahoy5rhK1qg22hlo1_1280.jpg[/img][/hider][hider=he's a dork][img]http://malecelebbio.com/gallery/2012/10/Alex-Libby-25.jpg[/img][/hider] [center][b][u]Family[/b][/u][/center][center][b]Godly Parent[/b]: Ἡφαιστος - Hephaestus; God of fire, metalworking, stonemasonry & the art of sculpture.[/center][center][b]Human Parent[/b]: Filippa Giannoppoulos, Small Business Owner. Runs a hole-in-the-wall Greek bakery in Metropolitan New York. [/center][center][b]Legacy[/b]: Descendant of Ὀρφεύς - Orpheus; son of Apollo and "Father of Songs".[/center] [center][b][u]General Information[/b][/u][/center][center][b]Personality[/b]: Nick is a very light-hearted and goofy individual, and seems to almost constantly high on life. He is rarely seen without a smile on his face. He loves innovation and discovery more than everything else and sees each day as a gift to witness or create something new. Optimistic and humorous, he can often be found doing tricks on his wheelchair and telling terrible jokes to his many friends and acquaintances. Trusting to a fault and fiercely loyal to his friends and loved ones. A famous proverb can sum him up quite nicely: "The loneliest people are the kindest, the saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."[/center][center][b]Likes[/b]: Building, tinkering, music, sports, jokes, any and all foods.[/center][center][b]Dislikes[/b]: Watching and not doing, sitting on the sidelines, bullies.[/center][center][b]Talents[/b]: Wheelchair tricks and wheelies, inventing, building, tinkering, archery, mixing music.[/center] [center][b][u]Biography[/b][/u]:[/center][center] Nikolas was born as a happy, healthy child to a single mother in a Greek-American neighborhood in Queens. He grew up helping out around his mothers Greek bakery, whose only real customers were neighbors and friends of the family. They struggled to make ends meet but they lived a relatively happy life, with Nikolas excelling in little league baseball and beginning his first year at a local public school and his loving and adoring mother cheering him on all the way. He grew to become a state baseball champion in middle school and became quite popular among his peers. However, around his fifteenth Christmas he woke up one night unable to move his legs. He was brought to the hospital where he was diagnosed with [url=http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/detail_gbs.htm]Guillain-Barré syndrome[/url], and quickly took a turn for the worse. For days he was unable to breathe or eat on his own and had to be put in the ICU where he almost died. During this desperate time, he had the strangest dream that celestial beings had spoken to him, and curiously called him the son of the God of Fire.[/center][center]When Nick finally recovered, he had little to no use of his legs, and was forced to enter extensive therapy in order to re-learn how to walk. However, he never fully recovered use of his legs, and was forced to wear painful leg calipers in order to walk. He grew to hate these leg braces and the constant fatigue from walking, and opted instead to use a wheelchair to get around, as his upper body had fully recovered its strength and vitality. He slowly returned to his former life, though it had been changed forever by his sudden disability. No longer star athlete and now permanently crippled, it was a severe blow to his popularity and many of his friends slowly drifted away. Soon he became an outcast, despite his efforts to return to the person he had been before being struck with GBS. Even after becoming a social pariah and freak of the school he never once stopped smiling, as he was happy just to be alive. [/center][center]However, he was unable to bear the loneliness and difficulty of his situation, he soon dropped out of high school and threw himself into helping out his mother with the bakery, and took to tinkering with his wheelchair and other machines around the bakery. His mother disapproved of his decision, but couldn't help but feel it was her fault. A year after he dropped out she sat him down and explained to him that he was truly the son of Hephaestus, god of the forge, and was likely the cause of his condition. Not for a moment did Nick believe her story, however, and thought it was some cruel, sick joke and misguided attempt at making him feel better. Hurt and confused by his mother's bizarre words, he left home but didn't get far, as he was mugged on the streets just outside of his neighborhood. Too weak and injured to crawl back to his wheelchair, he laid bruised and broken on the ground of a dark alleyway until his distraught mother finally found him and brought him back home. Soon after this incident she sent him to Camp Half-Blood for his own safety, and to be among other demigods like himself.[/center][center]After a year at Camp Half-Blood, he has somewhat come to terms with who he is -- though he thinks it's still nothing short of insane -- and has found a true home in Cabin Nine. He has become quite skilled at modifying weapons and building new and different machines and contraptions, and he has found friends among the other half-bloods.[/center] [center][b]Theme Song[/b]:[/center] [hider=All This Time][youtube]VnmnGTC8muA[/youtube][/hider] [center][b][u]Weapon Information[/b][/u][/center][center][b]Weapon Name[/b]: πυρκαϊά, Blazing Fire | πίστη, Loyalty[/center][center][b]Weapon Type[/b]: Great Warhammer | Crossbow[/center][center][b]Weapon Appearance[/b]:[/center] [hider=πυρκαϊά][img]http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/2f/9b/5b/2f9b5b610ce587bd9dd295738c2902c6.jpg[/img][/hider][hider=πίστη][img]http://lazyreviewzzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ACR_SP_Crossbow_Capacity_Upgrade.jpg[/img][/hider][center][b]Attributes[/b]: Made of Stygian Iron, used to utterly destroy monsters and mortals alike in a blaze of fire. The souls and power absorbed from this hammer are used to forge extraordinary and unparalleled weapons and armor. It is a huge, hulking weapon and is difficult if not impossible to wield. | A handmade crossbow made of wood and normal iron. It uses five rough bolts made from Celestial Bronze that are enchanted to return to the handler upon their target's death and/or destruction. Though it is slow to reload, it is quite powerful.[/center][center][b]Other:[/b] As Nick is limited to a wheelchair, a warhammer is beyond useless to him, and so he created his own weapon he can use even from his wheelchair, a crossbow he calls "Loyalty".[/center]