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[human-to-the-stars]

the demigods, their godly parents, and their camp half-blood/camp jupiter backstory

wren: ares, god of war

- she is the literal embodiment of the fighting spirit

- clark and wren arrived together in chb after wren’s parents got killed by a hydra

- fights with a rope dart

clark: athena, goddess of wisdom

- probably the most awkward of all the “tortured geniuses” that are the athena kids

- knew wren because their families are friends, didn’t know he was a demigod because his mortal “mother” kept in contact with him more than his father

- doesn’t fight, but works with the hermes cabin to lay traps

eileen: demeter, goddess of the harvest

- one of the less “conventional” demeter children, eileen can’t grow plants but she can speak to them

- joined camp half-blood around the same time apollo became a mortal

- fights with her powers by convincing the nature around her to entrap her opponents

layla: thanatos, god of death

- the only demigod that has the balls and talent to murder, layla is her father’s daughter (though she’s usually a peacemaker)

- grew up unclaimed in the hermes cabin and joined luke’s side because she hated her father

- is one of the three campers that fights with a gun

archan: dionysus, god of wine

- archie is a performer, and loves the theatre. and alcohol

- stayed in the hermes cabin for a total of one (1) day before dionysus pointed at him and went that one’s mine

- can hold his own reasonably well, but mostly helps with healing behind the frontlines

aster: iris, goddess of the rainbow

- thanks to their mum they can use reflective metal surfaces to scry for secrets

- got lost while with a mortal tourist group one day and stumbled into chb

- acts as a scout during battles, doesn’t fight

mio: hecate, goddess of magic

- considering she’s part siren, nobody really knows how her parentage works

- grew up in new rome with her mother (GAYS!), and joined the third cohort when she was 13

- the specific songs she sings/the runes she casts and illusions she creates are mostly to encourage other in her cohort/give them strength (similar to reyna), mio can only fight hand-to-hand and also not very well

sam: aphrodite, goddess of beauty

- sam is gorgeous and he knows it

- grew up in camp jupiter with his parents and siblings, was never officially claimed but everybody kind of figured out he was a child of aphrodite

- surprisingly good at fighting, he uses a spatha

liam: mercury, god of travel

- it’s ironic that the god of speed has a son that has a missing leg. at least liam can teleport

- was found by luke and recruited to kronos’ side, where he then became friends with layla and returned to chb (he was claimed post chb-cj war)

- found a silver rapier in the weapons shed and stole it

molly: hermes, god of travel

- molly’s like the depressed, angry version of the mischievous hermes kids

- was moved from chb to cj after the war, where she then channeled all her hatred into fighting drills and moved up to praetor of the first pretty quickly

- works alongside reyna and mio on the battlefield to encourage troops

morgan: hephaestus, god of the forge

- thanks to her dad, morgan’s immune to the technological dangers that most demigods face

- grew up in camp jupiter where she would help with the limited technology they had

- loves bombs. can basically turn anything into a bomb

callum: nemesis, goddess of revenge

- was unclaimed alongside ethan before he flipped sides and betrayed luke

- stayed in chb for awhile, recovering from all the hate that was deeply rooted in him. moved to cj with molly (they’re like siblings)

- fights with an actual sword similar to jasons, but it doesn’t turn into a coin or a spear

yours truly: apollo, god of the sun

- call me overpowered (i am), but i’m the only apollo kid with heliokenisis

- i arrived to chb around the time percy did and went on his quests as a healer

- i have a sword and a gun. i’m the third demigod that uses a gun (me, layla, and will who uses a sniper)

[human-to-the-stars]

magic taking its toll on the demigods

sam: shapeshifting + charm-speak

(note: sam uses they/he pronouns)

sam looks like everyone you’ve ever loved and everyone who’ll never love you. sometimes, when they look in the mirror, he doesn’t register that their face is his. sam never tells anyone about this; he doesn’t really remember what they look like anyways. he wouldn’t recognize the voice they use if it didn’t come out of his mouth. you can catch sam pressing their fingers to his throat as they talk, in order to make sure that he’s still who they thinks he is.

clark: creature-speak

clark forgets that gio (his dog) isn’t human sometimes, and that the other demigods aren’t animals. he gets distracted by the chirping of birds outside his window and the chittering of bugs in the cracks of the floorboards. everything gets too loud and overwhelming and he can’t separate the animals whispering others’ secrets to him from the shit he hears from the others.

liam: teleportation

liam feels like his heart is about to claw its way out of his throat whenever he teleports. his head spins for a few minutes after, and he needs to sit down in order to make sure all his atoms are aligned and that he hasn’t accidentally ended up in the afterlife. every time he teleports, liam feels an ache where his leg used to be, the pain sometimes near searing, making him scream at levels almost as close as when he lost it in the first place.

wren: needlework + prophetic dreams

wren wakes up shaking from her nightmares. she can’t tell what is a figment of her imagination and what’s an omen of the future. she sews her visions into her embroidery, staying up to ungodly hours so that all she can see is the needle moving in and out of the fabric and infusing with as much magic as she can pull from her fears. wren’s scared of sleeping; she’s scared that she’ll see things she’s not ready to handle. that nobody’s ready to handle.

layla monet: accuracy

layla’s memorized all your weak spots- mental, physical, and emotional- before you say a word to her. she knows the way you tilt your head is the perfect angle to shoot you at. she knows the exact words to say to her fellow demigods to hurt them, to ruin them, to make them feel things that they never wanted to relive. she lives every day with the words heavy on her tongue and the bullets fully loaded in her gun, knowing that she’ll one day slip up and there will be someone elses’ blood on her hands.

eileen mcallen: plant-whispering

eileen spends more time in nature than she does with others. she doesn’t know how to control the volume of her voice, sometimes speaking as quiet as the dandelions and other times as loud as the old redwood trees. when she walks the grass pulls at her feet and whispers to her to return to the nature, to her roots and to become the roots. the more time she spends in the woods the less she understands the other demigods and their outdated mortal languages.

morgan: binary code

morgan couldn’t touch anyone for the first few years of her life, for fear of ruining the code of her loved ones. she prefers machines to humans, because their binary is at least decodable and not constantly changing (it hurts her head every time liam teleports to her. it looks like his code is reloading, every number of his life being downloaded all at once). there’s a constant ringing in her ears from one too many explosions.

molly: emotional projection

molly can never truly know what others feel towards her, or if it’s her powers making them feel that way. she can’t help but feel worse when she sees the toll her feelings has on those around her, even though her family’s brought her up to know that it’s not her fault and that she shouldn’t blame herself. molly feels responsible for every tear her friends shed, believing that it’s because of all the hatred in her heart that she holds against herself and her supposed “power”.

callum: reading secrets

callum refuses to interact with anyone. he’s never believed in second chances, because he sees the things they’ve tried to hide from him and the world marked across their faces in bleeding black. callum sees the mistakes he’s made and all the memories he’s tried to bury every time he looks himself in the mirror. he holds every secret he reads in his hands, thumbing through them as he people-watches for more.

mio: illusions

(note: mio uses she/he pronouns)

mio’s eyes hurt from trying to see through her own castings. he wears thick glasses riddled with charms to slow the after effects of her magic that feel too heavy on his nose. every second sentence that comes out of her mouth is an illusion to cover up a lie that he told. mio’s hands hurt from tracing runes over and over along her skin to upkeep his façade that she does belong among the demigods.

archan: thievery

archan has boxes full of trinkets that aren’t his. he can never go into a room without leaving it missing a few items. archan forces himself not to look people in the eye, for fear that he’ll steal their free will. sometimes he’ll stay awake to review what he’s taken, from necklaces to pens to hearts of some poor sap that made a double take at him. he’s tried to return items he’s taken, but he can never bring himself to part with his stolen treasures.

aster: bone-mending, scrying

aster feels part of their body give out whenever they fix someone elses’ bones. they share the splintering pain of the injury for a split second, the force of the fresh wound occasionally distracting them and making them restart the process. aster’s fingers burn whenever they scry for too long, the metal bowls leaving blisters on their palms and scars on their forearms. occasionally the elixir they uses for scrying falls into their eyes, letting them temporarily see from the perspective of whoever they was spying on; at least, before the elixir starts to erode their skull.