Post by charlie on Jul 26, 2011 22:41:37 GMT -5
CHARLES HAYES
Name:: Charles Hayes
Nickname:: Charlie
Age:: 12
Gender:: male
Species:: Demi-God
Olympian Parent:: Hecate
Years at Camp:: 1
Claimed:: yes
Celebrity Claim: Asa Butterfield
Looks::
Charles has deep brown, soft hair that he keeps cut neatly whenever possible, though understandably the training and general demands of Camp life can make it challenging at times. His very young facial features and smooth, pale skin, combined with his fairly short stature, give him the appearance of being fragile. These features he inherited from his mother, Hecate, but his cottony-blue eyes he got from his father. Clothing-wise, Charlie isn’t horribly particular. It usually depends on his mood, which means that it changes quite a bit. Some days he will dress more formally, others very loose and comfortable, and other days, a simple Camp t-shirt, shorts, and his favorite pair of Nike tennis shoes do just well.
Personality::
Charlie’s personality is extremely complex. While he has the same issues with ADHD and dyslexia as most other demigods, he has the added layer of struggling with a severe case of bipolar disorder. His mood will change at the drop of a hat and he can be set off by seemingly tiny, insignificant things. Much like his mother is the goddess of crossroads, where several roads meet at one place, he often seems to be the place where several entirely different people come to meet in one mind. It’s for this reason he can sometimes be known as utterly crazy or something of a Jekyll-and-Hyde. It takes a special type of person to put up with him long enough to call him friend.
In the manic stage, he can sweet and nice, but very hyper and talkative. He is not very dependable and his ADHD seems to be on hyperdrive. Luckily, these phases never seem to last much longer than an hour as he quickly wears himself out. In a depressive stage, he is, understandably, very sulky and doesn’t like to talk to other people or be around crowds at all. There are times when this can even give way to utter fury with little to no reason. When this happens, his anger is cold and dangerous; he’s not one for yelling, but more for standing aside silently and plotting. During any of these uncontrolled high-emotional times, what magical abilities he has are usually similarly uncontrolled. It is not uncommon for things to go slightly haywire around him with he is in a rage or pouting or all but bouncing off the walls.
There are times when he is as close to ‘normal’ as he will get, that is to say not furious or manic or depressed. This is, thankfully, the majority of his time, but by no means the most memorable. During these times, he is perfectly dependable and kind, if a little shy. He tends to hold company with his Russian Blue cat, Bruno, more than people and spends a lot of time practicing his magic or simply exercising his green thumb (what he considers his final gift from his late father). He only speaks when spoken to, as he knows what others think of his mental state and is slightly ashamed of it. But for those who do manage to befriend him, he grows warm and happy as one would hope any boy of mere twelve would be, seeing the world through innocent - if slightly tainted by his history and simply being a demigod - eyes.
Family::
Hecate - mother
Jonathan Hayes - father (demigod, deceased)
Demeter - paternal grandmother
Esther Hayes - Step-mother
Helen Hayes - Step-sister
History::
Jonathan Hayes was one of the lucky ones, a demigod who lived to adulthood and managed to get fairly far into the outside world once he left Camp. He was a son of Demeter, so understandably, he followed his calling into horticulture and owned a small business for landscape design. He was a genuinely nice, peaceful young man of only about 26 when Hecate crossed the threshold of his office. Knowing he already knew full well about the Greek gods, she didn’t bother to hide her identity from him and for a while, the conversation was tense, but civil enough. Then things got out of hand and Jonathan felt she had crossed one boundary too many. In a snap uncharacteristic of him, he pulled out every insult he could and threw it right in her face. Absolutely furious, she cursed him to a deep sleep and something that many parents of demigods before and after that time had considered the worst curse of all: the responsibility of a child. And not just any child, but a problem child. She would force him to learn humility by forcing upon him a child that completely and utterly depended on him in more ways than even most children.
Born of magic, Charles Hayes was left on Jonathan’s doorstep less than a month later explaining the reason for the ‘package’. Jonathan was terror-stricken for nearly a year, but he found he could not get rid of the child; unknown to him, it was part of Hecate’s full curse. So it wasn’t until just shy of Charles’ first birthday that his father finally accepted him, realizing the spot he was putting his son - for he finally accepted the boy as his son now - in. He, too, was a demigod, so he knew what it was like to live in a broken household and be different from everyone else and he vowed to shelter Charles as much as he could. So Charles was treated like gold. Remembering the difficulties of his own schooling, his father chose to home-school him instead, but two demigods in the same household still made it difficult to stay away from the monsters that finally started to show up when Charles was eight.
His first encounter with a monster was a horrible day indeed. Since he was seven, his mood disorder had started to rear its ugly head full-force, but it wasn’t until he was eight that it finally caused some real trouble besides the usual fits. He was depressed about a friend he had been supposed to meet in the park - one of his few friends - that had never showed up. And low and behold, it eventually turned into anger, and before he knew it, enormous cracks had started to form in the walls of his bedroom. Alerted by the noise, his father came running and managed to calm him down before his developing magical abilities fully destroyed part of their home. Once his abilities started to show, so did the monsters, forcing him and his father to move.
It was a horrible life for Charles, barely having and friends and scared to leave home, despite that his father had explained to him what everything was early on. However, at the age of nine, he was forced to re-grow accustomed to a little cottage seemingly in the middle of nowhere, as Charles thought of it. Still home-schooled, he really had little to no chance to socialize, so it was something indeed when his father met a divorced woman with a daughter just two years younger than him. In Helen, he found an immediate friend. To his horror at first, in the woman, Esther, his father found an immediate girlfriend. Only talking with Helen pulled him out of his dread at losing the camaraderie he had had with his father all these years. One year later, Esther and Jonathan were married.
Esther was surprisingly kind to Charlie, given that he wasn’t he child, and he soon found that he rather liked her. Not to mention, it was nice having a mother-figure. Jonathan even trusted her enough before long to explain to her, though not to young Helen, about Charlie’s heritage, as well as his own. Though skeptical at first, she finally managed to accept the idea and life seemed a good deal better for a while. Jonathan had his business back up and running, and Charlie had both a mother and a little sister. But it was only a year before tragedy struck.
It was on a common work errand for a customer that Jonathan went to the wrong place for merchandise. The shop had been newly re-opened within the year, so he figured it was worth investigating. Unfortunately, he didn’t come home. His statue still stands in the exact position he held when he met the shop’s Gorgon owner. As soon as news got out, a satyr was sent to the home of Charles and his step-mom and step-sister to alert them, as well as to take the eleven-year-old Charles Hayes to Camp Half-Blood. The loss of his father still fresh on his mind, Charles had a difficult time coping at Camp and now, even after a year, doesn’t have many friends. His closest friend is a cat named Bruno that he found in the forest that seemed to take a liking to him after he started feeling it regularly. With his over-active ADHD and bipolar disorder, though, he knows he’s not the best person to hang around, and is both accepting and ashamed of it.
Name/Nickname:: Annabeth
Roleplaying Experience:: lost count. 8 +
Sample RP:: see Annabeth Chase, Aria Hale, and Agatha Ellyse/Apate
