Lord Phoenix's Training Grounds

[Phoenix]

Welcome!

This is where soldiers are trained by the best to enter the ranks of the Duke's elite group, the Knights of the Phoenix! Once they pass initiation, they immediately move up. In fact, we have one ready to take the test now. And here he is!

[Phoenix]

Name: Axel Carson
       
Age/birthday: 15/September 5th
       
Godly Parent: Thanatos
       
Chosen Perk: Attack
       
Gender: Male
     
Sexual orientation: Heterosexual
       
Weapon: Spear
       
Mortal Parent: Abigail Carson, Mother, 34 years of age.

Hometown: Brunswick, Maine
       
Talents: Axel is an exceptional climber and free-runner, having practiced both since the age of 10. He also has a natural gift for combat, as many other demigod's do.
       
Flaws: Axel has social and anger management problems which has led to him not wanting to be around others so that he won't offend them which he thinks would lead to him being hated.
       
Powers: When Axel was thirteen and at Camp Half-Blood, he discovered he has the ability to kill small plants or insects the moment his flesh touches them. Another thing he has noticed is that if he covers a plant and touches it then, the plant will be fine. Axel also asked someone to volunteer to let him touch their hand, just for a second. When their flesh touched, the skin on the other person where they touched turned black and the skin peeled off. Axel has not yet learned how to control this, so he wears black leather gloves to make sure he doesn't harm anyone or anything.
((If it’s alright, I do want to have this power develop over time if he grows stronger. ))
       
Biography: The best place to start with the history of Axel would be before he was born. His mother was an ordinary woman, as most mortal parents are, and had met Thanatos when she was nineteen years old. She immediately fell head over heels for him, not realizing who he was. A year later, Axel was born into the world and Thanatos left his mother. She was heartbroken at the time, and even admitted to Axel she had suicidal thoughts, but couldn’t go through with it because she knew she had to raise her child. When Axel was five years old, Thanatos came back to reveal to his mother who he was and who Axel was. He tried to get her to send Axel to Camp Half-Blood, but it was no use. She wouldn’t listen to reason for the selfish cause of keeping her child closer. The god of death had no patience for this, and left once more. Axel’s mother hid the truth from him for as long as she could, but by the time Axel was nine he had started noticing strange things. The first attack came a year later, the monster that had attacked being a Cyclops. Luckily, it was at school and another demigod had been sent to the same school once a Satyr had reported the presence of a demigod. Once Axel was rescued, he was taken directly to Camp Half-Blood to be kept safe, his mother being notified shortly after. Of course, she tried looking for the Camp to bring her son back home but wasn’t able to. Eventually she gave up the search and went back to her home in Maine where Axel would visit her once more at the age of twelve. However, he doesn’t go back home for the school year and instead stays at Camp as a year-rounder.
       
Appearance: Axel stands at a height of 5’9 and has a bit of a lanky build, yet still has a bit of muscle from training with weapons. He has jet black hair, pale skin and chocolate brown eyes. Axel’s attire usually consists of a black leather jacket with a dark colored shirt underneath, black jeans, black leather gloves, black combat boots and sometimes wears a beanie that’s, you guessed it: Black. Another thing most people notice about him is that he usually wears a grim look which people put off due to his godly parent.      

Personality: As stated before, Axel has social problems which leads to him being quite shy. He also gets angry at many minor things and once he gets going, it’s a bit hard to stop him. However, if someone can get past his flaws they can find that he has a good heart and also a strangely good sense of humor. Of course, if he’s finds himself in a group he’ll try to be funny to feel like he fits in, but will take the first chance he can to get out of the crowd unless someone he knows and is friends with is there.
       
Other: He likes pie. A lot. Oh, and his FC is Max Schneider
       
Password: PiperMclean

[Lupperdoodle]

Alrighty Nix, we really like this power ya got picked out here, and I don't see any problems with Axel, so he is accepted.
However, because the whole death-by-touch thing can get very OP, we appreciate that he keeps his skin covered and such, and it may be possible to expand on said power a bit, but we'd like to suggest that his powers don't insta-kill large creatures, including humans, but perhaps make them ill or something along those lines. Or just plain don't affect them at all. Just a precaution, of course, but we'll be keeping a close eye on it. Don't go all supreme death lord on us now

[Phoenix]

Name: Quentin Woods

Age/birthday: 15/October 15th

Godly Parent: Athena

Chosen Perk: Attack

Gender: Male

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual

Weapon: Quentin wields a sword and shield

Mortal Parent: Arthur Woods, 38 years of age, Quentin’s father who lives in New Haven, Connecticut being a Professor at Yale. Arthur also has Achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism

Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut

Talents: Quentin is quite smart and despite his disabilities, does decently in school thanks to his Father. Also, being at Camp Half-Blood for six years, he has become an above average swordsman.

Flaws: Quentin has a habit to freak out over the slightest things. He won’t necessarily get angry, but it’ll distract him and worry him to the point where he’ll make it a number one priority to fix the problem.

Powers: As far as he knows, he does not have any powers.

Biography: Quentin had never realized anything was wrong, due to his father always protecting him from the truth. His father had known for as long as his son was alive that Quentin was a demigod and that his mother was the Goddess Athena. Arthur had found out that when demigods become aware of what they are, that their lives become more dangerous which is why he protected Quentin. However, Quentin had begun asking questions at the age of eight, always being inquisitive. Most of them were about his mother, but from time to time he would tell his father that he saw something strange and would ask him what it was. Quentin’s father would always tell him it was just his imagination. Eventually, this would lead to Quentin almost being killed.

It only one year after he started asking questions, when he was nine years old. He was out during recess when he thought he saw a lady with wings. He blinked and rubbed his eyes before looking back, only to see the normal third grade teacher. He immediately dismissed it as his imagination, since that’s what it always was…at least, what he thought it always was. But not ten minutes later, Quentin was attacked by the creature he had seen, utterly terrified, but managed to get away from the monster which he later found out was a harpy. How he did it, he had no idea. Now, the first place he ran to was to where his father worked. Yale University. He had been visited the college from time to time, so he knew where he father’s classroom was. When Quentin told his father what happened, he immediately dropped everything he was doing (which included the class he was teaching) and drove Quentin all the way to Long Island. He did stop for light food and caffeine, but other than that, he didn’t want to risk it. On their way to the Camp, Quentin’s father explained everything to him about his heritage and what the monster was. When they got to the spot near Half-Blood Hill, he got out of his car with Quentin and opened the trunk. He took out a sword, handing it to his son with care and told him it was a gift from his mother that he was told to give to Quentin when he went to Camp Half-Blood. It didn’t have any magical powers, and it seemed a little heavy at the time, but now it serves as his main weapon, feeling perfectly balanced in his hand. Arthur told his son that he wish Quentin didn’t have to find out the way he would, and sent him off to the Camp.

Quentin wasn’t sure what to think about camp at first, but once he had been there for a few months he had gotten into a routine. Of course, by that time he had been claimed. In fact, he was claimed the day after he arrived. His siblings made him feel welcome, knowing what it feels like to be plopped into the demigod lifestyle. Quentin never really participated in any of the fighting events until he was eleven, quite enjoying it. By the time he was fourteen, he had become a slightly renowned fighter in the Camp, capturing the flag five times, two of which he did almost single handedly. Since the day his father dropped him off at Camp Half-Blood, Quentin has never seen him, but instead would send him letters. Of course he misses the guy, but he never wanted to worry his father again the way he did.

Appearance: Quentin has the looks of a regular child of Athena, although his hair isn’t all that curly. However, it is the same golden blonde color that his siblings’ hair has and he has the stormy gray eyes. Now, even though his eyes can be intimidating they also have a hint of humor in them at almost all times. Quentin now stands at a height of a 5’9.

Personality: Quentin is a very outgoing and joyful kind of guy. He’s always ready to crack a joke, being very witty. He loves to have the last word in any argument and will always end that argument with some sort of joke, mainly to lighten the mood. However, this is a side that he hides which is the part of him that greatly misses his old life as a regular kid. Of course, if he was a ‘regular’ kid, he never would’ve met such an awesome family.

Other: Face-claim is Jack Gleeson and his father's face-claim is Peter Dinklage

Password: Piper Mclean

[Lupperdoodle]

Quentin is accepted

[Phoenix]

Name: Daniel Walker

Age/birthday: 16/March 3rd

Godly Parent: Hermes

Chosen Perk: Evade

Gender: Male

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual

Weapon: Dual daggers with blades that are a foot long each.

Mortal Parent: Alexis Walker (Taken away by the police, status unknown)

Hometown: Detroit, Michigain

Talents: Daniel is a natural pickpocket, dexterous, and an excellent conman.

Flaws: Although Daniel comes off as an absolute ass, whenever he sees someone in trouble, he’ll do whatever he
can to save or help them, even if it puts himself in the most dangerous of positions.

Powers: Daniel doesn’t necessarily have powers, but he does have a way with making people risk their money, which he then proceeds to take.

Biography: Daniel had a rough time as a child. When Hermes left his mother, she had blamed it entirely on him, even though he was barely a toddler. It didn’t affect him much until he was seven, and his mom verbally and physically abused him on a daily basis. Alexis also drank heavily after Hermes had left. Luckily for Daniel, his neighbors had noticed him walking out of his home with a black eye. Now, Daniel lived in a bad city of course, but no one would really jump a seven year old, as they almost never have anything worth stealing. Now, when they noticed Daniel with the black eye they called the police to investigate, just in case. When they found the apartment littered with beer bottles, they didn’t hesitate at all before taking Daniel’s mother away and shipping Daniel off to a Foster Home. Of course he hated it there, but he tolerated it for a couple years, slowly building a sarcastic sense of humor to deal with everyone who made fun of him at school because of his ADHD and Dyslexia. Oh, and that Foster Home thing.

Daniel had wanted to run away from the moment he set foot in the Foster Home. However, he knew there was no way in hell he could make it. So, he bid his time, waiting for the right time to leave. When he was thirteen, he mustered up the courage, lying awake until two in the morning and then gathered food and drinks. He was about to leave when he noticed a pair of daggers mounted above a fireplace with a strange coloring to them. Regardless of that, he pulled them off and put them in his bag. Maybe he could sell them off…or even defend himself, if he had enough time to open the bag. Realizing now that he needed a discreet weapon, he looked through the things of the other kids until he found a switch blade and put it in his pocket. Then he was ready to leave.

He ended up staying the rest of the night in an alleyway a couple miles away from the Foster House. Luckily he wasn’t found and was apparently only being looked for a day after he had left. He wore a black hoodie and mugged people on the streets when no one else could see, picked the pockets of random people passing by, and gambled with other homeless kids who were a little shady, but when Daniel stabbed a kid in the hand they knew better than to mess with him. He turned out to be a natural when it came to stealing other people’s money, which he wasn’t sure what to think of. All he knew was that it paid for food.

A few months after Daniel ran away, he had found another target. A rich looking old woman who wore really weird clothing, that made her look pompous. In other words, to the average Detroit mugger, she was a gold mine. So naturally, Daniel pulled the old ‘my daddy is in trouble’ act which caused the woman to follow. Daniel then pulled out his switchblade and put it up against the woman’s neck, with his other hand covering her mouth and demanded money. However, she just grabbed at him with hands that now had talons, so he thrust the knife in her neck…but no blood came out. The woman just cackled and took the knife away, throwing it. Daniel’s eyes widened and turned, running for his life. He didn’t turn, but he heard a screech and then the flapping of wings. Daniel climbed up on a dumpster and then onto a building. He then sensed a weight on his back…and then remembered the daggers. He immediately jerked the backpack off, unzipping it and took out the two weapons. He let the bag fall, and looked towards where he had come from…but he didn’t see the woman. He let out a sigh of relief and turned around…only to see a weird bird woman thing in front of him slicing at him with a talon. He lifted one of his daggers to block the attack, which led to a fight filled with slices and dodges from both sides. Daniel finally managed to get a good slice on the bird lady, managing to cut her in half…or would’ve, only instead she turned to ash which flew off, leaving behind only a feather. The boy grabbed it and put it in his pocket looking around, wondering what in the hell just happened. However, before he had a chance to catch his breath, yet another strange thing happened. He saw, running through the streets, a human goat thing with a club and a twelve year old kid running after him…being pursued by a two headed goat lion with a tail that was a snake. Daniel instinctively ran after them, picking up the empty backpack on the way and slid it over his shoulder. He jumped from rooftop to rooftop, until he was positioned over the creature and jumped, landing by stabbing his daggers into the creature’s back. It roared in pain and the snake tail grabbed Daniel by the leg with its fangs and threw him into a wall, knocking him unconscious. When he woke up, he looked around, no sign of the monster but there was the goat guy...kneeling over the body of the other boy who held Daniel’s daggers in hands. The goat boy noticed Daniel had woken up and rummaged through his bag, handing him some sort of weird food thing that tasted to him like it was blessed by a divine force. And he wasn’t far off by thinking that. The goat boy explained what the monster was and that he was a Satyr by the name of Ralph. Daniel grabbed his daggers, following the satyr, a little scared to be alone now.

It took them a couple days, but they managed to make it to Camp Half-Blood without another encounter. The satyr reported that he had lost one of the demigods, but had found another. Daniel was told to leave, so he didn’t know what happened after that. But now that he was at the camp…he was ready to accept what he was. In fact, only two days after arriving, his father Hermes claimed him and he was assigned to his new cabin with new siblings. He quickly made friends with humor, rather than trying to scare them off with violence, knowing that wouldn’t work very well. After Daniel made a group of friends, made up mostly of siblings, he turned his humor into more of a sarcastic kind and would usually use humor to poke fun at other people. For training, Daniel focused more on agility and used the two daggers that had pretty much saved his life on that fateful day…although, he’s still not sure where he got them…

Appearance: Daniel usually wears a white hoodie over his orange Camp Half-Blood teacher along with slightly dark blue jeans. Daniel stands at a height of 6’ and has the same mischievous look his siblings have. He has deep brown eyes, always with a slight glint and dirty blonde hair. An accessory Daniel loves to always have with him are sunglasses that make him come off as a bit of an asshole, but it doesn’t really bother him.

Personality: Daniel, like many other children of Hermes, is very mischievous. He loves to play pranks on people and especially likes one that are large and complicated, even though those usually go wrong…yet they still end up being hysterical. Despite being so joyful when it comes to pranks, Daniel is also sarcastic. He enjoys making jokes at the expense of another person, yet knows his own limits and where not to go. However, despite mainly being a huge prankster and sarcastic asshole, he can be serious when the time comes and slightly responsible…although, maybe one or two jokes could always be helpful to lighten up a situation.

Other: Face Claim is Bo Burnham

Password: Piper Mclean

[Lupperdoodle]

mmmmm Daniel is Accepted

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