The Heroes of Olympus

An independent RP verse based off of the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus books by Rick Riordan. Original characters as well as existing characters will be able to apply.

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Character Name: Stiles Stilinski Faceclaim: Dylan O'Brien Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Athena Magical items/powers: None Group ties/relationships: Camp Half Blood Bio: Athena does not reproduce the same way other gods do - so he can have a child together with a woman as well. Even though Stiles knows that Camp Half Blood most likely wouldn’t have a problem with that - after all, they are Greeks. Most of their parents had same-sex relationships in the past. It would be nothing new that Stiles has two moms, actually. Had. Before Claudia passed away. So most people think that Athena had a child with a small town sheriff - so everyone is really confused, because Athena prefers inventors, and people like that.

Stiles is trying hard, really hard. He somewhat feels out of place, and sometimes he feels like even though he is smart, he isn’t smart enough, compared to his half-siblings. He is seriously impulsive, even by demigod-standards, but his dyslexia is not as bad at least. He’s desperate to prove he has a place here, but he has a small bag packed under his bag in his Cabin. In case he feels like he has to leave because he really has no place here.

You wouldn’t tell this just by looking at him though. He masks his insecurity with his sarcasm and scatching, often rude humour. He’s horribly loyal though.

URL: stilesstarkweather

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Character Name: Illyana Rasputina Faceclaim: Claire Holt Character Age: 17 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable):  Hecate Magical items/powers: Sorcery, astral projection, clairvoyance Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood, Dating Kitty Pryde Bio: Illyana grew up with the people she believed were her parents, along with two older brothers. She was always the odd one out in the family in some way or another and as hard as her parents and brothers tried, she never felt like she was part of the family aside from her relationship with Piotr. She always gravitated towards him and because they lived in a secluded part of Russia and because she was never a really social person most of the time, he was her only friend. She didn’t learn the truth about her parentage until she was fifteen years old when she got up in the middle of the night to find her family whispering in the main room. She hid out of sight and listened to everything they said, discovering then that her real mother was Hecate and that there was a place for her kind. She left the very next morning—without her parents’ knowledge—to go to America to find Camp Half-Blood, with the only part of her left behind was a letter to Piotr about where she went if he ever wanted to come find her.

URL: dasvidaniyabitches

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Character Name: Billy Kaplan Faceclaim: Quentin Merabet Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Dionysus Magical items/powers: Chlorokinesis, Billy can simply wish for plants to appear or grow and they will, normally vines if the plant is unspecified. Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: The son of a Psychologist studying madness and alcohol’s effects on the brain, who met Dionysus at a party and the two become involved. His mother was unaware of her pregnancy until later, after she married her husband and believed Billy to be their completely biological son. As kid Billy showed an early talent for acting and a liking for musicals that surprised many at his young age. As he grew up, it began to show how much of an affinity he had for theatre, though also a green thumb both of which he seemed to inherit from Dionysus, though he did not know this, when wishing for bullies to stop harassing him lead to them being bound by vines during an attempt. This caused the camp to become aware of him and for his mother to have to explain his brothers were only half-brothers and that his true father was in fact, a Greek God once she pieced everything together. Given the events of the incident, Billy chose to go to Camp Half-Blood, where a repeat of the vines would not put as many people in danger, effectively giving up his dreams of theatre.

URL: wiccxnkaplan

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Character Name: Leeland & Locke Williams Faceclaim: Jamie Campbell-Bower Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? : Greek Godly parent : Hermes Magical items/powers: Teleportation, electronic manipulation. Group ties/relationships: Camp Half Blood, A twin brother (Locke) who doesn’t speak. Bio: Neither Leeland nor his twin brother knew who their parents were, apart from a vague recollection of a very young woman who they’re pretty sure was their mother. Leeland was born deaf and Locke was dubbed non communicative and mute; Lee does all talking but they speak to each other through sign language.

They bounced from foster home to foster home, never staying longer than a few months. They liked to take things that didn’t belong to them and became very young and prolific thieves. Neither of them seemed to mind not having parents or belonging anywhere, as long as they got to be together.

At 13 they learnt about Camp Half-Blood but neither of them will say how. Despite being claimed by Hermes, neither of them seem overly fussed… URL: Thebabelfishboy

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Character Name: Thomas Kaplan (born Shepherd) Faceclaim: Young Tom Felton Character Age: 13 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Roman Godly parent (if applicable): Mercury Magical items/powers: A bracelet Mary recieved from Mercury which allows him to move at super speeds. Group ties/relationships: Adoptive brother Billy Kaplan, Camp Jupiter

Bio: [tw: child abuse] Tommy ran away from home at a young age out of fear after his mother left her husband Frank, who tended to beat both of them when he was drunk. Another small boy, Billy found him and the Kaplans took him home after hearing of his plight. Tommy took to Billy as an ‘older’ brother and is quite protective of him, getting in many many fights with Billy’s childhood bullies. He is decidedly not happy about the fact that they are in different camps and often travels to Camp Half-Blood to visit.

URL: nottheteamsociopath

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Character Name: Doug Ramsey Faceclaim: Luke Newberry Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Athena Magical items/powers: With an aptitude for language, he can intuit and speak any language in the Indo-European family, not just Greek and Latin. Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: Doug grew up as the only child of an affluent family. Always striving for his father’s attention, he soaked in knowledge like a sponge and pushed himself to excel in all he did. He especially loved the storybooks his mother would read to him, but his father taught him that such things were to be put aside in favor of The Real World.

Then he watched his mother take down a hellhound with a chainsaw, and all his father’s lessons went out the door. When Doug found out that Mr. Ramsey wasn’t even his real dad -- that he was the literal brainchild of his mother and Athena -- all those teenage frustrations boiled over. His mom drove him to Camp Half-Blood and in the three years since, he’s never looked back.

URL: d-cyphered

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Character Name: Warlock Faceclaim: Warlock Character Age: It is mystery Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Neither, monster/magical machine Godly parent (if applicable): N/A Magical items/powers: Fire resistance, small-scale electricity generation, and the ability to shift into small tools. Group ties/relationships: Forges of Hephaestus, Camp Half-Blood

Bio: Hephaestus’ workshops are full of all sorts of helpers, from monsters to automatons to mysterious mixes of the two. Some of these are known as Technarchs, helpers with specialized skills who are trusted with the most complex technical tasks. Though Warlock’s year-mates have all advanced to these lauded ranks, he has been left in the dust -- too small, too clumsy, too scatterbrained. The forges have no use of him, but they’re the only world he’s ever known...

URL: technarchology

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Character Name: Katherine Anne “Kitty” Pryde Faceclaim: Ellen Page Character Age: 17 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Athena Magical items/powers: Incredible agility and reflexes that let Kitty dodge most physical attacks, coupled with excellent sword-fighting skills. Group ties/relationships: Dating Illyana Rasputin Bio: Intelligent, inquisitive, and bold from a young age, Kitty grew up with her biological father and his wife. The way she understood it, her father had divorced her mother when she was very young, and her mother wanted to but was unable to visit her. In school, Kitty took many extracurricular activities, and found she excelled in fencing. After that, she was enrolled in samurai classes outside of school, and much to everyone’s astonishment, never returned with as much as a bruise. After much arguing between her father and step-mother, Kitty was told the truth about her mother and chose to go to Camp Half-Blood to be with others of her kind. URL: totallycalmtotallycool

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Character Name: Hermes/Mercury Faceclaim: Max Emerson Character Age: Very, very old Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Both Godly parent (if applicable): Zeus and Maia Magical items/powers: All the godly powers associated with being the god of travel, invention, trade, wealth, luck, tricksters, and thieves Group ties/relationships: Olympians, his kids, etc. Bio: Hermes is one of the major deities of the Olympian pantheon. He’s the messenger of the gods, as well as the patron deity of trade, wealth, travel, athletics, invention, thieves, and tricksters. The god spends most of his time making deliveries for the other gods of the Greek/Roman pantheon. When he’s not running errands, he’s exploring or playing pranks on both gods and hapless mortals.

URL: wingedankles

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Character Name: Rusty Collins Faceclaim: Eddie Redmayne Character Age: 17 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Hephaestus Magical items/powers: Control over heat and fire, impervious backpack from his father Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: Rusty’s mother was a brilliant engineering student, at school on a full-ride scholarship because it was the only way she could afford to go to college. During her junior year, she and Hephaestus began seeing each other, and by the end of her first semester she was pregnant with Rusty. Hephaestus didn’t know--he had left already by the time she found out. Because she didn’t have the money to support herself and a child, she had to drop out of college and went to live with her brother at his hardware store. She died when Rusty was a child, leaving him to be raised by his uncle. Recently, he was taken to Camp Half-Blood. He’s now trying to deal with the fact that he doesn’t have the same mechanical and engineering skills that the other Hephaestus children have, and the low self-esteem that comes from that fact.

URL: fireinmyfists

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Character Name: Sally Blevins Faceclaim: Lulu Antariksa Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Aphrodite Magical items/powers: A pearl necklace from her mother that creates an impenetrable forcefield Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: Unlike many half-bloods, Sally has had contact with her mother for her whole life. Aphrodite wasn’t exactly a brilliant mother, but she did try to spend time with Sally and give her attention. When she found out that Sally’s father was abusive, she pulled her from the home and brought her to Camp Half-Blood, where she has been since. When she dropped her off, she left her with a pearl necklace that creates a shield around her so that no one would be able to hurt her like her father had again. She hasn’t seen her mother much since she went to the camp, and she’s a little shocked by how much she misses her. 

URL: skiddingagent

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Character Name: Tabitha Smith Faceclaim: Eliza Taylor Character Age: 15 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Hephaestus Magical items/powers: Homemade bombs made in the camp forge Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: Tabby grew up in a trailer park with her father after her mother left them when Tabby was a small child. She was a very skilled mechanic from the time that she was a child, and did a lot of her father’s mechanic work for him. When she was 13, she learned about Camp Half-Blood, and that it was where she belonged. That night, she ran away from home and made her way from Virginia to New York to join the camp. She hasn’t left since she got there, and now considers Camp Half-Blood to be her home more than where she grew up. She’s honestly thrilled that the man she grew up with turned out to not be her real father. 

Her favorite passtime is putting homemade bombs in the beds of people who say she’s not smart enough to be a child of Hephaestus.

URL: doctormadamemcsplode

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Character Name: Kevin Ford Faceclaim: Thomas Dekker Character Age: 18 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Thanatos Magical items/powers: Poppies, more a symbol but he always has one of the flowers growing or pressed on his person. Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood

Bio: A gifted artist with an affinity for darker subject matter, often associated to death. A trait somewhat explained by his parentage. Followed by death throughout his life, his mother died during child birth and the man he thought to be his father died when people came for him having learnt about his ties and his history, wanting to use him to bring Thanatos to work for them. Since that, he has become rather insular and abrasive, not wanting people to get close for risk of them meeting a similar fate. He believes himself to have a curse upon him, when in fact it is often just helicopter parenting

URL: witheredtouch

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Character Name: Kyle Rayner Faceclaim: Ghilherme Lobo Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Apollo Magical items/powers: A ring from his father that absorbs solar energy and can release it as energy beams; also standard Apollo kid powers Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood Bio: Kyle was an art prodigy from the get go. His mother, Maura, was an accomplished painter and her skill attracted the notice of Apollo, god of the arts. God and mortal had a romance that resulted in Kyle’s birth. Apollo left, but Kyle grew up listening to his mother’s fond memories of his father. The boy possessed his mother’s talent augmented by the divine inspiration flowing through him. He had a remarkable talent for painting and drawing at a young age and was already being watched by several art schools for when he was old enough to attend. Kyle’s mother died two years ago. Apollo personally visited his son and took him to Camp Half-Blood. Unlike most of Apollo’s children, he doesn’t show much fondness for singing. However, his artistic skill more than makes up it.

URL: kissmyringbuddy

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Character Name: Will Carpenter Faceclaim: Sam B. Jackson) Character Age: 16 Greek, Roman, or neither? (If neither, specify): Greek Godly parent (if applicable): Hecate Magical items/powers: Magic, herbology, acute Mist manipulation, and can speak with dogs. Group ties/relationships: Camp Half-Blood, his pup Keyring Bio: Will feels like he’s unwanted. When he was 10, his father and stepmother packed up and left while he was at school. No warning, no good-byes. They simply disappeared. If not for the timely intervention of a local satyr, Will might have been lost. But the satyr brought him to Camp Half-Blood. Soon after Will arrived, Hecate claimed him and the young man moved into Cabin 20. She hasn’t said much to him directly, but she’s provided him with what he needs to understand his abilities as her son.

Will is a surly young man with a chip on his shoulder. He wants friends, but he has a hard time making lasting connections. In his mind, it’s easier to push people away than let them in. His mother’s nature as a goddess of edges and the fringe contributes to his distance. Will is more likely seen on the edges of Camp society rather than in the thick of things.

URL: testytattooedteen

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After some consideration, we have decided that we will accept applications for gods in this verse. However, the gods will need to be flexible, and should understand that they will need to work very closely with anyone who may be playing one of their children in this verse. There will be characters who are going to depend on your character as part of their backstory and current plot, so you would be giving up some of your control as a mun to them. 

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Character Name: Jonothon “Jono” Starsmore Faceclaim: Steven Strait Character age: 16 Greek or Roman: Roman Godly Parent: Vulcan Magical items/powers: Pyrokinesis, the control over heat and flame. Tends to manifest as overwhelming explosions

Bio: (tw abuse implication, tw alcohol mention) Far as Jono knew, his father was the drunken bastard that was rarely around, and when he was, was the meanest, most violent git in London. That changed when his mum landed a trip to Italy to visit “distant cousins”. While there they did the usual touristy thing, and visited the ruins of Pompeii. That was when everythign changed. Heat built up in his chest as he walked the streets, and after leaving, the world exploded. Jono woke up several day slater, with burns scars covering his chest, neck and face, and unable to utter a sound beyond gasps.

Staff from Camp Jupiter invaded his hospital room to tell him that he was the son of Vulcan and that he was to be taken away to a camp for his own safety. The only good thing that Jono has found so far is that his mom was able to send him his guitar, which he plays constantly since it keeps anyone from bothering him. He is also reluctantly learning british and american sign language, and is not quite proficient with either, leading Jono to often settle for universal rude hand gestures or typing out something on a phone.

url: englishsensibilities