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.................................................... __________________________________________ S O N . O F . H E S T I A ________________________________________________________ 22 | male | heterosexual __________________________________________ ▹ hair color | Brunette ▹ eye color | Amber-brown ▹ height | 6'4 ▹ build | Broad / Athletic  "People always say I'm like an older brother to them. It kind of makes me wish that I grew up with siblings.  "They say it is always better to be around family and I do agree though it is sometimes just as good to be alone when chaos is afoot!"  "Through the years, I learned that family isn't who you are born to but who you chose along the way." | . A B I L I T I E S Minor Pyrokinesis - gives Elysium the passive ability to influence people to feel like they are standing near a cozy fire since he gives off a warm and protective aura. This influence might cause some to enjoy standing around him or being close because he resembles a natural feeling of “home”. This same ability allows him to ignite holy flames around his body in a precise and controlled way. These sacred flames only work against people with harmful intent — the flames cannot burn the innocent or individuals with non-harmful intent. Consecration magic - is the ability where Elysium can take mundane items and turn them into sacred vessels such as lighting a candle to reveal truth, turning a wooden spoon into a protective charm to ward off evil spirits, or simply focusing an item to give it a purpose. This can be a very ritualistic ability that might require a flame and he could create something to test truth, reveal deception, or curse oathbreakers. In a deeper ritualistic practice, Elysium could throw an ore bracelet into a hearth and infuse it with the will of truth. Giving that bracelet to someone and watching it turn a certain color to reveal the lie they tell and them not being able to take that bracelet off by ordinary means. Serenity Inducement - allows Elysium to sense people’s emotional state or the emotional tension between people. With this ability, he can focus and speak from his soul, which allows his words to influence only by commandful/demandable statements. This allows him to soothe anger, calm fear, or reignite fading bonds. It is an ability that influences himself to take a more counselor-like role or be a peacekeeper in groups. However, he has to be careful with his words. Commands/demands tend to influence people while questions/suggestive ways of speaking allow him not to influence. “Listen to me.” vs. “Can you listen to me?” This ability is a double edged sword because he can feel mental anguish and become violently sick upon breaking his own promises/oaths or disrespecting traditions. Hearthcreation - is the ability that Elysium can use wherever he rests — a tent, a house, even a campfire ring — he is able to consecrate it into a place of sanctuary. This ability allows his consecration magic to be more potent. However, in this area, one might find the lack of nightmares, evil spirits, or the occurrence of enhanced healing. In this area (the longer it stands and the longer he stays in it, the more potent his abilities) and with the combination of consecration magic, hostile forces cannot cross the threshold without a spiritual fight (and once they are in their hostility could lessen or disappear completely Cibumkinesis - is where Elysium can focus his consecration magic into edible items. This ability alone allows him to cook meals that can physically, mentally, or emotionally influence someone or heal them by the will/intent he infuses into the item. For example, he could brew tea that soothes trauma and brings tranquility. S T R E N G T H S Empathetic Presence - Elysium has a strong sense and understanding of emotions. His charming smile and contagious laughter might play a part in people being able to trust him easier or open up quicker though he has an uncanny sense for emotional undercurrents and an even more uncanny knack for gracefully mediating conflicts. Resilient Spirit - Elysium might not be the fastest or strongest but he is mentally and emotionally durable. He will endure what lies ahead with a supernatural stoicism even in the face of chaos, manipulation, and fear. Homebody - Literally, Elysium's strength is being a homebody. Sanctuaries (homes/areas he blesses into sanctuaries) are where his abilities are the strongest. Places that have stood with traditions for long periods of times such as Camp Athens or religious temples are places of strength for him. W E A K N E S S E S Conflict-averse - Elysium tends to be reluctant to engage in violence and is prone to trying to “fix” situations with peace even when war is already at the door. This has led to him hesitating instead of taking action when it is needed. Emotionally overburdened - Elysium knows he can help people though he is still figuring out that not everyone wants to be helped. This causes him to feel responsible for everyone’s emotional state even if they reject his advances to help them. However, when he does help people, Elysium tends to forget to help himself and he can become fatigued by compassion. Power tied to space - Being a child of Hestia means his abilities are stronger in places that he can anchor and bless — a camp, home, temple, etc… This means when he is constantly on the move and not able to ground himself, his abilities are less potent or non-existent. Self-worth - his abilities are subtle to a fault. Being in a world and amongst others that value flashy powers or bold heroism, Elysium’s quiet strength is often underestimated and not considered. This causes him to feel invisible at times. Oaths and traditions - Elysium is not able to break oaths or disrespect traditions without mental, emotional, or physical consequences which can be minor to severe in effect. __________________________________________________________________________________ P E R S O N A L I T Y Compassionate/loving.... | .... Balanced/grounded.... | .... Outgoing/playful.... | .... Stoic/Assertive H I S T O R Y Elysium grew up in the Middle East with his paternal family. From the age of when he could remember to roughly thirteen years old, he was in Oman, and supported by a large family. His paternal side was made up of grandparents, his father, plenty of aunts and uncles, and truck loads of cousins. This was where his strong sense of connection started and possibly where he began to read people’s emotions so easily. However, he never thought it was a spiritual ability or an ungodly sense even if his grandmother joked about it. Throughout the years, he found himself feeling forgotten and lonely, and it might not have helped that he was his father’s only child while his cousins had a handful or two of siblings. Elysium found himself jealous to an extent though he kept it to himself because he didn’t want to upset anyone in his family especially his father. Around the age of 10, Elysium’s father met a woman, and they courted for about two or three years. She seemed nice at first and he enjoyed her company but the more she was around… the more her true colors appeared. The woman made it very clear after her engagement with his father that Elysium needed to “grow up” and go somewhere else. This was when the talks about boarding school and other places began. It was a few months before his father’s marriage to the woman that Elysium was sent away to a boarding school in the U.K. which is where he began life alone. At least he felt very alone. Being ripped from his family and placed somewhere strange and foreign was almost crushing to his soul. Everything was different. It was hard to adjust and it took him months to even consider the part of the shared room to be his. However, he kept in contact with his grandmother throughout the years, and he would hate to admit that she was the only one that seemed to keep him in her mind and heart. Over his teenage years, Elysium’s relationship with his father strained, and became almost nonexistent. Sadly, he hasn’t had contact with any of his paternal family since his grandmother died his first year of university. This was the same year that Elysium discovered he had powers. How did he figure out he had abilities? It was his first year and first semester of university and he was in a shared apartment-style dorm. Someone kept stealing his leftovers. One day, over the gas lit flame of the stove, and Elysium muttering to himself — those leftovers became a ticking time bomb. He was wishing that whoever stole his prepped meals and leftovers for the week would get grotesquely sick. Wishing that they would vomit it all out, wouldn’t be able to lie to his face, and that they would never do it again. Funnily enough… both of his roommates ended up getting violently sick for the whole week and when he asked one of them. They confessed that he and the other roommate were eating his prepped meals and leftovers without asking or caring how it affected him. At first, he didn’t think it was odd until other incidents started happening. Then he began to purposefully experiment with this for the rest of the year. All of this was fun and games until the third year of university when he realized that his words might influence the actions or agreeability of others especially when they were in his room. Little things began to become more apparent to him and he realized that his girlfriend of almost two might have been more influenced to stay with him than actually wanting to stay with him. It hurt, it hurt a lot, but he knew it was the right thing to do and he broke off the relationship. That relationship wasn’t perfect by any means but it wasn’t horrible either. The casual, back and forth, unknowing, and talking about staying together or not because their degrees might take them wildly different places. He felt guilty every time he asked her to stay, reconsider, etc… because he figured out that she might have never done those things if he kept quiet. Continuing the rest of his college career without romantic relationships but strong friendships, Elysium graduated with a bachelors in history and a minor in religious and traditional studies. Then he got approached by a woman that claimed to be his mother when he was going to an interview and everything seemed to spiral from there for about two weeks before he somehow ended up in a camp for Demigods. __________________________________________________________________________________ hexcode . | . #5a6a85 ........ faceclaim . | . FREIZO_ ........ creator . | . The Savant |
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.................................................... __________________________________________ D A U G H T E R . O F . H E R A ________________________________________________________ 21 | female | heterosexual __________________________________________ ▹ hair colour | Burned Copper ▹ eye colour | Hazel/ cracked silver ▹ height | 5' 4” ▹ build | short and light ▹ nicknames | Fe or Iron (insult)  "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."  "There are better things in the world than alcohol, but it does sort of compensate for not getting them."  "Through the years, I learned that family isn't who you are born to but who you chose along the way." | . A B I L I T I E S Destiny - From an early age Fiona was able to catch glimpses of events in the future, sometimes they happened the way she saw them other times they didn’t. Whenever she touched someone she caught fragments of a path they might take, eventually she could work out what parts might change and what was fixed in place. Try as she might she could never see her own. Infulence Others - At first, she was only aware of others being gently nudged towards what she wanted them to do, little moments of victory where she shouldn’t have been successful. But as she became more influential, she was able to manipulate almost everyone she encountered one way or another. She’s fallen foul of this gift a few times when her emotions have run rampant with dire consequences, or when her mother has sought to test her resolve. Temporary Possession - While manipulating another has certainly been of use to her she’s still uncomfortable with the act, not least of all because of how vulnerable it leaves her body when she does it; so it usually extra planning beforehand. Fiona is scared of lingering too long inside another’s body as she struggles to remember who she is, since it feels like she’s merging with them. Afterwards she is usually exhausted and a few emotions or thoughts linger for a while when she leaves their body but she can barely remember any of them after an hour or two. Shadow Walker - Fiona is capable of stepping into the shadows to re-appear almost anywhere from the darkness. This does have its limits of how far apart the two points are that she can manage so it’s mostly short distance. Though due to the space between the shadows in which she travels she’s learned how to squirrel away small items for when she needs them, such as a handful of knives for example so she’s never unarmed for long. Shadow Walker - They say that poison is a woman’s weapon, thinking us too feeble to use more direct means. But they underestimate the suffering that can be inflicted, with a single touch or the slice of a tainted blade. S T R E N G T H S Dexterity - What Fiona lacks in strength she more than makes up with her agility, often moving quicker than her opponents in a fight she does her best to leverage their own power against them. Or at the very least dodge their blows till they’re tired enough for her to strike. Guileful - Fiona was brought up to be honest and true to her family but to cheat and lie to everyone else. Her earliest days were spent running through the throngs of folk attending the carnival to steal the wallets of those who could afford it, and as she grew older, she became one of the criers to lure more in. Weapon Familiarity - Fiona has always carried at least one knife for as long as she can remember, with her uncle saying that even if she’s small she can certainly sting. So, she’s made sure to become proficient with it both with and without coating the blade in poison. She also excelled at archery, almost always hitting her mark despite her impediment. However, she does struggle a little beyond 50m as her vision blurs with rapidly moving targets causing her accuracy to drop at that range. Though she’s usually able to hit them when they get closer. W E A K N E S S E S Empathy - Her mother was very disdainful of Fiona’s love for her family and most of all for her fairly selfless nature. She wants her daughter to be cold and terrible to behold, a weapon she can put to good use. Not a brittle little child. Which Fiona clings onto by her fingertips. Physical Prowess - Even though she wasn’t one to shy away from a fight, she could never win on equal footing due to her size so she avoids a fair fight where possible. Partial Blindness - When Fiona was about 5, while her family were travelling England their campsite was set ablaze during the night. She sustained minor burns but fragments of metal caught her in the face, leaving her blind in left eye. Though it did earn her the nickname of Iron by people to wind her up. F E A R Uncertain Fate - Despite being able to view the future of others, the fact her own remains a mystery both terrifies and exhilarates her. Since she can’t see it, she’s never sure if what she does is of her own free will or simply a pre-determined path she cannot change. She’s also fearful of the future she sees for others that are fixed and filled with pain. Fire - Given that one of her earliest memories is waking up screaming while her home burned around her it’s no wonder why she’s often wary of it at the best of times. Hera - Whatever her mother’s motives are for bringing Fiona to camp, the uncertainty gnaws at her and has settled deep in her stomach. She’s waiting for the other shoe to drop and send her life spiralling even more into chaos. She has more than enough blood on her hands thanks to Hera already. __________________________________________________________________________________ P E R S O N A L I T Y Impulsive.... | ....Snarky.... | ....Empathetic.... | ....Wily __________________________________________________________________________________ T H E M E Monster – Beth Crowley.... | .... Nothing to Forgive – Falconshield.... | ....Become The Beast – Karliene Sinners and Saints – Andrea Wasse.... | ....Become The Beast – Karliene __________________________________________________________________________________ H I S T O R Y The way her grandfather told it her family had been fighting against the oppressive rule of the English their entire lives. But he did so with a twinkle in his eyes since he’d always encouraged her and her siblings to spirit away a little extra coin when pickpocketing from any Bodach. Her father, Declán and his younger brother Tristan had spent much of their early years round the edges of modern society with the rest of their family. The Reynolds clan were responsible for one of the largest traveling carnivals across the British Isles though it was often advertised as the gateway into Tír na nÓg itself. Their show was famous for its wide range of entertainment as well as it’s hidden activities; such as smuggling and underground fighting. Hera’s interactions with the two brothers resulted in Declán piquing her interest as she watched him manipulate many of those he dealt with for the gain of himself and his family. She believed he could help raise a worthy child of her lineage, but she was also curious to see how he’d play off the child when she was dropped into his lap. When Fiona was handed over to him she was his first-born child, though only by a month or so as in the intervening time he’d settled down with a woman he was deeply infatuated with who now carried his son. Fiona’s stepmother never fully accepted her, and even though she would go on to provide Declán with another four children he always treated Fiona as his favourite much to her chagrin. So, while Fiona was doted on and kept close with him, she was effectively used as free childcare for her siblings from the age of eight. She didn’t mind this for the most part since her siblings were her family, and even when she didn’t love them they were still hers. Her stepmother, however was neither as far as she was concerned. While it wasn’t entirely an intentional act, when she was thirteen during a rather rebellious stage and following a series of drawn out arguments the woman made a dramatic exit. Sadly, the fallout from this event caused a great deal of friction within the already struggling carnival as well as extinguishing the warmth in her father’s eyes. Prior to this her life had been full of joy and laughter as the carnival travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles and occasionally across the seas to the continent itself. She indulged in all manner of activities from those she should to those she shouldn’t, with her father and uncle often going back and forth over what she was allowed to do. And if one forbade her then the other would sneak her away to indulge her curiosity; which helped to hone her skills with a knife, her thirst for blood in the fighting rings or the thrill of a con or pickpocket. After a year or two of awkward silences and strained relationships, she packed her belongings and vanished into the night. Her powers enabled her to navigate the wider world far easier than she ought to have been able to do, and she swapped from one identity to the other over several years and worked a dozen jobs and more to get buy; or if pressed she simply lured someone much more well off to foot the bill for her survival. One day she was waiting tables in a secluded bar in the middle of San Francisco when before she even realised it she was sitting down across from an elegant woman. Their mouth was curved into a amused grin that reminded Fiona of the Cheshire cat, toying with Alice, but it was the woman’s eyes she recognised. Her mother informed her that it was time for her to attend camp, and to weigh her against her sibling. Times were a-changin'. __________________________________________________________________________________ 024b30 . | . #024B30 ........ faceclaim . | . Annalise Basso ........ creator . | . Fabricator |
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