icaria musings

WHO ARE YOU BRINGING TO THE ISLE?

FACECLAIM: Sara Waisglass

NAME: Yona Onasis

AGE: 21

BIRTHDAY: October 17, 1999

OCCUPATION: Part-time university student, worker at the Onasis’ farm, “Weeds” Salesperson (not actually drugs…)

HOMETOWN: Icaria, Greece (originally Nyack, New York)

PETS: A nice mutt of a dog named Fleck

POWERS:

tw: death

Yona has a variation of psychometry. If she touches an object that was in the possession of someone deceased, she can relive their memories in first-person surrounding the object. The more recently the person passed away, the more vivid and the memories are. She experiences these visions more quickly than the events themselves occur, but she does freeze in place for a moment while reliving them.

BIOGRAPHY:

tw: death, drugs, alcohol, implied underage sex

Yona struggled to remember much of her life before she came to Icaria. She could recall activities, friends, and time with her mom (mostly in the hospital). However, she struggled to connect any of her own memories to what led to her arrival in Icaria. Asking her adoptive parents for details prompted a slightly different story every time, and it was never told with the utmost confidence in the details. The best that Yona could piece together, she was born into a nice Jewish family in Nyack, New York but her uncle Joey’s wife Genevieve was really into worship of the Greek gods. Somehow, Genevieve ended up putting Yona’s mother Arielle in touch with some mysterious guy with whom she spent a pretty wild night. This resulted in Arielle becoming pregnant and giving birth to a daughter. Arielle died when Yona was around six (it was never made clear to Yona how or why), and her uncle and aunt took her in.

Joey and Genevieve weren’t exactly great at childrearing, and having a curious little brat tagging along was really cramping their style. They’d been the fun aunt and uncle, but now they had to be the fun parents, and that wasn’t really working. After some mumbling back and forth between Aunt Genevieve’s connections for over a year, they managed to somehow get in touch with the Onasis family in Icaria.

One of the adopted sons of George and Agape Onasis and his wife had thought that they were taking in a child of the rustic god Silenus. Instead, they wound up with Yona, whose father Charon was decidedly not particularly associated with the harvest. It seemed weird to send back a precocious child over something so trivial, and they were nice people, so they fostered the girl for a while until adopting her. Everything ended up working out okay, and sometimes Uncle Joey and Aunt Gen sent postcards and gifts wildly inappropriate for a small child during their travels. She even met Charon a few times, although Yona told him to his face that even though he was pretty cool, the god was less cool than her new dad.

Deception of her parentage aside, Yona took surprisingly well to her new family’s lifestyle in a house close to her grandparents big family farm. She enjoyed tagging along behind her parents, uncles, aunts, and grandparents in the fields and doing her best to help. There was something satisfying about being part of a team, and it didn’t hurt that the team helped make delicious food. She fondly remembered begging her kindhearted Uncle Baz to let her sit on his shoulders so she could be tall too and see the farm from up high.

As she grew older, Yona started to fall into some bad habits and a thrill-seeking crowd. She started hanging around with the ‘bad kids,’ including the Richards twins who were in the school year below her. They were fun, and she liked to have fun. There was a chance that Yona might have pulled back on the bad decision-making and not gotten so addicted to pulling elaborate pranks and wreaking mild mayhem without getting caught if not for this friendship. It got really bad around when she hit high school. Most of the time, she wasn’t doing anything too out of hand, and took care to appear like she was partying as hard as everyone else when she drank moderately was only doing pot when explicitly urged to participate. Her parents’ only real complaints were her complete disregard for curfew.  When she was 16, she tried having sex a couple of times with one of the boys in her year and decided that it wasn’t for her. It took her about a year to figure out that she just wasn’t interested in boys, but she talked up a good game to her friends about her supposed adventurous sex life for a while. It didn’t help that Yona had fallen hard for Rye along the way. She did not want to ruin their friendship, and it would probably be awkward to suddenly reveal this sort of thing- especially when the twins ended up dropping out of high school. Her own grades were pretty untouched, so she tried to keep the guilt from consuming her. Yona came out more quietly than she did most things, but didn’t really know what to do about her crush, so she did a terrible job of hiding it.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Regé-Jean Page

NAME: Will  Alexander Thompson

AGE: Twenty-Eight

BIRTHDAY: March 20, 1992

OCCUPATION: Owner of Spin-O-Rama Speakeasy

HOMETOWN: Minneapolis, Minnesota

PETS: None yet.

POWERS

- Virtuakinesis - Create illusions/hallucinations

- Turning invisible by bending visible light around the user.

BIOGRAPHY

Everyone knows the stories of the Thompson clan. Whether you know of the tales of Lilith Thompson and her clan of demigod children who raised themselves or Morgana Cromwell (nee Thompson) and her overbearing ways, not many were told of the tales of Judas ‘Jake’ Thompson. JT was the eldest of the Thompson Three, having caught the attention of Tyche earlier than the girls were even on the radar. That was what started JT’s neverending batch of kids showing up in Minnesota. They only seemed to stop after Will, just Will, Thompson was dropped off on his father’s doorstep by the goddess of dawn herself.

Growing up with his brothers, Will was always the one that stayed out of trouble. It was hard when you had so many siblings constantly fawning over the baby of the family. That didn’t mean that Will didn’t love his brothers. Leo and Mike were some of his favorite people walking the planet. It wasn’t until Will went off to college that things started setting in. At first, Will adored living on campus at the University of Chicago was a dream come true. Soon enough he was falling into the wrong crowd, being pressured by living so far away from his family and his roommate realizing how impressionable he happened to be.

This took over his life and quickly he was rising through the ranks of the gang he unknowingly joined. His powers seemed to work really well in a gang environment, the ability to make himself invisible and then give people hallucinations as to what was going on. That was where he met Gwen Vern and Levi Ryder. Will and Gwen became inseparable, finding solace in each other more times than not, while Levi became the little brother Will had always wanted. He fell into a loving role with the younger man, willing to die in order to protect either of the two that he loved.

That was where things went downhill for him. When Levi and his mother suddenly were missing without a trace, Will feared the worst had happened. Things had been tense with the leader of the gang, the man who had raised Levi as his own, who seemed not to want any mention of the younger man around him. This raised more questions than Will was able to handle. Going to the police, Will made a deal with them to give all the information he could on the whole operation and in return he was put into witness protection. His only regret was not knowing how they were going to handle his disappearance and not being able to say goodbye to his loved ones.

For the last few years, Will had been stationed as Phillip Jones in the state of Washington. He ended up buying a tattoo shop and trying to live a life as unassumingly as he could. This was a second chance to get himself back on track and he knew not to squander it. Two months ago, Will was told that they had finally managed to convict and dismantle his previous gang and he was free to return to his old life. The first thing the man did was contact JT Thompson, having a loving reunion with his father before heading for Icaria to be with his brother once more. Before he arrived he used his life savings to redo the local laundry mat, building a speakeasy into the back of it designed to his tastes and an apartment made above the shop for him to stay in. He’s only just arrived on the beautiful island of Icaria but Will has no idea how much he’s about to shake up with his arrival.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Ryan Potter

NAME: Atlas Yamamoto-Sinclair 

AGE: 25

BIRTHDAY: 2-13-1996 

OCCUPATION: Lighting engineer at Deadpan theater 

HOMETOWN: Newbury, England 

PETS: N/A

POWERS

Desire Manipulation: User can sense and manipulate the desires of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling desire, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level. These desires can include love, attraction, adoration, addictions, hopes and plans for the future, or even for basic necessities.

BIOGRAPHY

Yuki Yamamoto was never a man to step out of line. He did everything his father asked of him before he was even asked. He was the second son in his family. All he wanted to do was prove to them that he was worth something. He would never be more than a shadow to his elder brother. He went to college like a good son would. While at college he fell in love with the theater and plays. During his last year Yuki was allowed to spend a semester in London. It was the first time he had experienced a new culture and it was eye opening. During his travels he decided he wasn’t going to be the proper son that he had been always forced to be just for one night. In that one night he met a beautiful woman who completely enchanted him. They spent the entire night together where they talked about everything and did well…everything. After that night Yuki went home back to Japan with the memories of the beautiful woman and amazing adventure he had. 9 months later he was coming home from his office job when he stopped dead in his tracks. There was the woman he had met in London standing in front of his house. He couldn’t remember if he had told her where he lived but he was so excited to see her that he didn’t care. It wasn’t until he was right in front of her that he realized she was holding a baby in her arms. Yuki was confused even more so when she placed the baby in his arms and told him that he was going to be an amazing father. Before she went away she warned Yuki to not spend his life doing things he hated and encouraged him to return to the place that he was the happiest.

With some careful thought Yuki decided it was the best thing for him to take his newborn son and move to London to use his degree and help run theater companies. His family didn’t care of his choice but Yuki lied and told them that the mother of his son lived there and he wanted to make their family work. So Ichiro took his son and traveled to London. It was there that he started his life over again. It was hard for the first year, trying to be a producer and raising a newborn. He found friendship and companionship in one of the actresses he met Melissa Sinclair. She was young, beautiful and best of all in love with his son. Their relationship started quickly and moved even quicker. They barely knew each other a year before they were married. Melissa adopted Atlas and he was raised as if she was his mother. Yuki and Melissa were married for 7 years before Yuki received word that his eldest brother had died in a tragic accident. His parents were old and needed taken care of but they did not want to come to England to live with Yuki and his family. Yuki and Melissa made the choice that Ichiro would go back to Japan and take care of his family. Melissa would stay with Atlas in England until he could come home. They planned to spend their summers in Japan when Atlas was out of school. When summer came around Melissa and Atlas came to the Yamamato family home. Immediately they were discarded. The family refused to let either of them see Yuki. Melissa was so confused but took Atlas to a hotel anyway just to see if she could figure out what was going on. She finally got a hold of Yuki who told her that his father had fallen ill and his mother blamed him and his leaving for everything. He apologized for what had happened but never made the choice to make it right.

Melissa took Atlas home to England when it became clear that Yuki was not going to force his family to make amends. Instead of going back to London Melissa went to her hometown of Newbury. She had never changed her last name since she wanted to be an actress and wanted her stage name and real name to be the same. Though she was glad that had decided when she adopted Atlas to add her last name to his name. As he got older Atlas was also thankful for what his mother did. Through the years Atlas never heard from his father except for the occasional birthday card and call once every few years. It felt like his father didn’t even care about him. Atlas spent most of his life trying to figure out who his father was and what attracted him to the theater so much. He would often hear his mother talk about all the adventures and plays his father had put on while they lived in London. He had only been a baby for most of them so he never could remember. It was that connection to a father he barely could remember that caused Atlas to want to do theater. Melissa being a now has been actress encouraged Atlas to explore the theater as well. Atlas knew he wasn’t meant to be on stage. No no. That would be too much for him.

Atlas always seemed to know what others wanted. He knew what they wanted for their birthday, what they wanted to eat for lunch, who they wanted to kiss behind a tree. He always seemed to know what someone desired and he never really could explain it. Most of his life he just pushed it off as if he was good at guessing. He wasn’t entirely a people person. He liked the silence and being alone since most of the time it was the only quiet his mind seemed to get. Yet whenever he was around people he somehow felt energized. It wasn’t until he was in high school that he realized something wasn’t right. His best friend was telling him how he just wanted to ask some girl out. It was of course a girl that was not going to be interested in some geek like them but Atlas just told his friend to go do it. He encouraged him to act upon what he desired to do and his friend did it. Of course the whole ordeal ended in a giant disaster and neither of them understood why he even bothered in the first place. Soon after that Atlas met a woman. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen and what was funny was she talked to him like she knew him. It was then she told him all about where he came from and who she was. How Atlas was a Demi-God and he was going to have to learn to control his powers or he was going to cause more trouble them some hurt feelings. At first Atlas didn’t want to believe her but after trying it out he soon realized everything she said was true. He went home to his mother and asked if she was his real mother. Melissa confirmed what Aphrodite had said, about Atlas’s true parentage. Though she did not name the goddess she simply said his father had met a woman while traveling in London. He decided it was better for his mom…for Melissa if he didn’t tell her about the true nature of his mother.

Even though his father pretty much abandoned him and his mom it was something his mother loved. He couldn’t count how many times they’d travel out to London and see a show. He never wanted to be on stage. It wasn’t his wheelhouse like it was his mother’s. He much preferred the comfort of the backstage. While in high school he was introduced to lighting and stage work. He felt in love with the switchboard and the intricacies that went along with it. He felt like he was apart of the show but didn’t have to actually be on the stage. After he graduated school he decided to go to Uni in London. He graduated and got a job working in the West End. He loved his life and enjoyed his job. He was so happy to be able to just do the things he loved even though there was one unopened chapter of his life that he would go back to every time he went home to visit his mother. It was on a trip home that he learned one of the people he had went to high school with, someone who he had done shows with had moved to an island in the Mediterranean. It was then he realized any hope of a destined connection was over. Atlas went back to London and continued with his every day work. Until of course his mother…his birth mother showed up. She explained to him things were happening and she wanted him to be safe. So she convinced him to move to this small island near Greece. Of course his mother was devastated to be losing Atlas. They were all they really had left. It broke his heart to leave her but he promised he would visit as often as he could. He now had been living on the island for just about 2 years. When he arrived he was so glad to see that they had a theater on the island. He quickly applied to work as a crew member there specifically the Board Op. He also helped out teaching the kids at the high school how to use the light board and would help the university with their shows when he could. Atlas was enjoying his life on the island until it seemed like the Gods were going mad. It was one particular God but still. Atlas wasn’t sure if the danger was still there and if he should still stay on the island. He missed his mother so much but hoped now that the kidnappings were over she would get to visit. He wasn’t sure why but something inside of him was telling him to stay.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Troian Bellisario

NAME: Aurora Hart

AGE: 28

BIRTHDAY: 1993

OCCUPATION: FBI agent on assignment.

HOMETOWN: Portland, Oregon

PETS: N/A

POWERS:

Can either bless or curse someone with with either success or failure in whatever they’re working on or competing in.

BIOGRAPHY:

TW: Child abuse, self harm, homophobia

Aurora was born to a family of politicians and scientists; If one wanted to know when the last time a direct relation to her WASN’T one of those two, you’d have to go back four generations… That is if you don’t count her biological mother… Nike, Goddess of Victory. Nike had been watching over the Hart family for generations. Aurora’s great, great, great, great grandmother was a worshiper of the goddess and asked to be blessed; the goddess obliged and had for the past 100 years watched over and blessed each child with a bit of victorious spirit and achievement in whatever they pursued. That was until her father, Richard Hart, was 25 years old. He found and married a congresswoman, Kenna Cooper, who at first appeared to be perfect. But perfection was an illusion and the perfect wife and mayor image shattered ten years after little Aurora was born. Rewinding a bit, Aurora was conceived when her father and mother had gotten into a bit of a tiff and he left her. They were “broken up” or “Separated” as her mother likes to say, for about a week when Richard met Nike. A one-night stand turned into a child delivered to their doorstep 9 months later on the eve of an election. She explained who she was, told Richard stories of his great-great-grandmother who worshiped her and how she had made a promise to look after the family. That this child would come to do great things considering she was a demi-god blessed with Nike’s victory. That she would only return when they told Aurora about her. She wasn’t about to get in the middle of whatever the family wanted to do to raise Aurora.

Needless to say, Kenna was pissed at first to realize that this woman had slept with her husband and that she suddenly was being thrust with a child when she had ambitions and goals to reach. And how was she going to explain the sudden appearance of a newborn when she clearly had not been pregnant? So a plan was made and they said they had used a surrogate mother and wanted to keep the pregnancy hidden and the baby protected. The next day proved just how powerful demi-god DNA was as Kenna won her election by a landslide – only a day before they had assumed it would be close but most likely not a victory. So Kenna started to dote on the child.

For the first ten years of her life, it was picturesque, she had a loving doting father who worked in aerospace, a mother on the rise within politics, aunts, uncles, and grandparents who were in all realms of science and politics who happily would teach her anything and everything… She was brought up to be a perfectionist. At 4 she was already starting to write full sentences, not in great handwriting but still! By 8 she was reading at a 7th-grade level. And by the age of 11, she was a certified genius. She was deemed a child prodigy when it came to academics, specifically those within the realm of politics and aerospace science having picked up those two the most from her parents despite their infrequent times at home.

Her father traveled to and from Florida for NASA for months at a time. While her mother had stepped up to the role of congresswoman and traveled to and from DC on a basically bi-weekly basis. A live-in-nanny was hired to be home with Aurora whenever the parents couldn’t be. Why hadn’t they just moved her? Aurora had no idea. She assumed it had to do with her mother’s role as a congresswoman, she still had to have a house in Portland so why not keep your child there and away from you when you’re that busy? At least – that’s the reasoning Aurora came up with. Aurora had loved it when her father came home. He was so caring, so playful, and fun; his presence kept her mother at bay. Kept the house calm…. But those times only lasted for so long before he had to go back to Kennedy Space Center.

TW: homophobia, abuse, death threats

Her mother though? That was the opposite. Kenna being home meant life would be a bit of a hellscape; it meant screaming, yelling, and insults. It meant crying until no more tears could be produced, it meant pressure and guilt and hatred tossed in her direction if she so much as dared to disagree with the congresswoman. It meant being gaslit and lied to and disassociating… it meant self harm which lead to her mother screaming at her for hurting herself and the image it put out in the world if anyone were to see the cuts. Which lead to even more anger from her mother and the cycle continued. If her father wasn’t there to distract her mom then the only other reprieve was sleepovers with friends. Her mother always put on the face of the perfect loving mom if people were over. It was Aurora’s sanctuary because not even the nanny could stop Kenna’s rage.

The person who she spent the most time with, that helped relieve the hellscape that was her mom was Kassandra. The two grew up next to one another, a tree between their houses branches stretching out and brushing each of their windows. It became a treehouse as the girls got older, a way for them to sneak between houses to hang out together. The two were thick as thieves doing everything together, experiencing everything together. It started innocently enough, their first day of school, their first tests, one another first best friends, but as they got older their firsts became more mature, first crushes – on one another, first kiss… They were surprisingly not one another’s first relationships that honor went to Brandon, a boy in their grade who was surprisingly decent. The two ended based on the fact that Brandon – wanted to have sex… which Aurora was not ready for. She was still a virgin at the time. So the two ended… though they stayed friends. Not long after Kass and Aurora started to date in secret. Neither were ready to come out to their parents; so they kept it between themselves, using the tree to sneak into one another’s room and one thing led to another and they became one another’s first time as well.

Things had been going surprisingly well in young Aurora’s life if you could ignore the abuse that Kenna lobbed at her on a bi-weekly basis. She was starting to think she could make it out of the house alive and without hating everything … when the worst happened. Kass told her mother about her being gay and she was promptly kicked out; Kass’ mother came next door once the other was gone and demanded to talk to Kenna knowing that Richard was out of town. There was a hushed conversation that Aurora tried to listen in on, but nothing could easily be made out. Though, when the other woman left all hell broke loose in the house – She screamed and screamed about how Aurora could NOT have a gay best friend, that she could NOT hang out with that “degenerate” anymore. That she, well really, both of them, were pieces of shit, that she was going to hell. Aurora tried to stand up to her, to tell her that Kass was a wonderful person, that she loved her best friend, and that her mother had no right to say any of that. This was when for the first time, Kenna slapped Aurora telling her that if she was anything like that f-word that she would not see the next day because no daughter of hers could be gay and that it would ruin her reputation as a congresswoman.

It was the blood she touched on her cheek that finally shut down Aurora’s brain and let her just zone out as her mother continued to yell and scream. Kenna’s wedding ring had created a long cut along her cheek and despite seeing her daughter bleeding by her own hand Kenna didn’t stop yelling. It was three hours later before Kenna finally stopped and Aurora could take care of her cheek,  by the blood had run down her face and scabbed over and a bruise had started to form. She took the next couple of days off school and avoided everyone. Or tired too, but she ended up getting yelled at each day by her mother, each time there was the threat that lingered over her head that something horrible would happen.

So when Kass asked to meet her at the park one day Aurora knew she would have to do the hardest thing and break up with her. She couldn’t keep this up or she might end up dead. Putting on makeup and trying to hide the bruise and cut she made her way to the park — only to lie her ass off and break both their hearts in the process. Aurora cried for three days afterwards which only caused her mother to rage more. Luckily for Aurora, her mother was called back to DC and she got a reprieve.

It wasn’t until six months before graduation that her father finally learned the truth about what Kenna had been doing when he came home the day after his wife left to see Aurora covering up a bruise on her shoulder. He demanded to know what happened – and she broke down. She told him everything, told him that if he didn’t believe her to call her old nanny that she would corroborate the story. That Kenna threatened her too and to not get mad at the nanny. She had done what she could to protect Aurora. Two months later her father filed for divorce and custody of the almost 18-year-old Aurora – but the allegations of abuse had been shoved under the rug, avoided, and hidden away. Her mother was too powerful and had too many friends in high places.

After four months of living with her dad and she was off to college. Aurora could not be anymore more excited to get away from her family and be on her own. She gained herself a roommate, her own space and started school. For the first three years of college, Aurora had never felt freer and more herself. She had escaped her mother’s clutches but even despite that, she couldn’t let go of the political aspect – she wanted now, more than anything, to get into politics so she could make it easier for kids to escape abusive households and harder for abusive parents to skirt the system. She rose to the top of her classes, stood out, and earned summa cum laude with her bachelor’s. As she returned back to college to get her master’s she met Juliette. Juliette – the most beautiful woman on campus, the smartest, the kindest – and needless to say – Aurora fell hard and fast.

It became clear though that the feelings were reciprocated and the two fell so quickly and so hard it would be impossible to deny that the two seemed rather perfect for one another. Their friends joked that they were waiting for a wedding invite after four months of them dating. The two laughed it off and just continued on. They moved in together a year later. Jules graduated and started working in a firm while Aurora started to work for the local government. As Jules moved up quickly and Aurora couldn’t have been more proud of her girlfriend. They celebrated one another whenever they got a chance and told one another everything.

Aurora did end up telling Jules about the abuse she experienced and confided in her about all of her hopes and fears. This was the first time she ever told anyone about the abuse she experienced, save for her father. This, in Aurora’s mind, cemented the next-level – engagement. They had been talking about it on and off for a year already, so it seemed inevitable. Aurora went out, found a gorgeous ring, and waited for the right moment – but the moment never came. Because at 24 Jules left her and went to rejoin the Huntresses.

Heartbroken and alone Aurora tossed herself into her work, her sudden silence worried her father knowing his daughter had had such a rough go of things. So he came out to check on her. In doing so he asked if she cursed herself, if she had for some reason thought she deserved the pain. Insulted and upset she asked him what the hell he meant – and that’s when the truth came out. She was the daughter of Nike, goddess of Victory — and at the mention of her bio mother the goddess appeared. She scolded Richard for keeping her a secret for so long and not getting Aurora out of the horrible situation she had been in. Nike spent the next week training Aurora in her powers, teaching her about the Greek Gods and just – getting to know one another.

When the week was up Aurora knew her purpose, she would help politicians in fighting to protect those that couldn’t protect themselves and she would work with the government in actually physically saving those that were not in a good place. She got recruited to the FBI at 25 and dedicated her life to helping others; she used her ability to grant victory to her coworkers and slowly started to make big changes within the community. By 27 she had risen in the ranks and was slowly starting to choose her own assignments and partners. This is how she ended up on a case that kept her up at night. A human trafficking ring – that seemed to have something a bit odd going on, or odder than just the trafficking. Every fiber of her being screamed that it was demi-god related and she couldn’t let it go. She couldn’t sleep, couldn’t focus on anything other than these missing people. Was it related to the kidnappings of demi-gods around the world? She really didn’t know but she was damn determined to find out.

It took almost a full year to get it all together but they finally busted in on multiple clients of the ring. Each had at least one demi-god trapped and being used for personal gain. She kept close tabs on each person rescued, making sure therapy was set up and things were in place to take care of them…. When one just vanished. The fact that one of her charges vanished without a trace pissed off Aurora. She wanted Jane to get the best help and now – now she couldn’t. So, with a bit of research and time, she found Jane Doe on Icaria taken there by her demi-god father. Arrangements were made and Aurora was on her way to Icaria to find Jane and make sure she was okay.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Nico Tortorella

NAME: Cole Elijah Daniels

AGE: 32

BIRTHDAY:  11/19/1988

OCCUPATION:  Director of the children’s wing and children program at Icaria’s Recreational Center.

HOMETOWN:  Darien, GA

PETS:  A German Shepard named Shadow.

POWERS

The power of fertility. He can make people or plants fertile or infertile.

BIOGRAPHY

If someone were to ask Cole about his childhood, a smile would appear on his face as he thought back to it. It was unusual for sure, but happy nonetheless. Technically, he was adopted, but he didn’t like to think of it that way since he was taken in by family. The truth of it all had been rather crazy to wrap his head around when he was thirteen. Seriously, who hears that their dad was a drunk who knocked up a Greek Goddess? If it wasn’t for Persephone appearing before him, he wouldn’t have believed it. Hell, even after it he thought he’d gotten a few screws loose from playing football. Eventually though, he took it as he did most things. With an easy smile and a shrug. It didn’t change much after all. He still loved his ma and his pops.

Life was easy going growing up. They lived on a large peach and apple farm in Georgia. Cole and his two brothers loved working the grounds with their dad. They would all spend all day out in the sun until their ma hollered for them to go into the house for dinner. Like rambunctious country boys, they’d run through the large porch into the living room covered in dirt and sweat. All Greta Daniels could do was shake her head. Raising three young men was enough to drive her to drink most days, but at the very least her life was never boring.

High school was a great time in Cole’s life. He was the star quarterback, didn’t suck at school, and had loads of friends. His easy going demeanor, willingness to have fun, and smile made it easy for him to get along with most. Still, the boy didn’t know what he wanted out of life when graduation came. So, instead of leaving the farm to go to some fancy college, Cole stayed nearby. He enlisted in community college and volunteered at different spots. He pursued anything he thought he’d find interesting to see if something stuck.

His weekends were spent working at his family’s business. They had a farmer’s market of sorts open to the public and would allow people to pick from their fields when the fruits were in season. Cole was doing just that with his brothers when he met her. Harper Barrow. From the moment she’d walked into their farm he couldn’t take his eyes off her. His brothers teased him mercilessly until he finally got the courage to approach her. A compliment, easy smile, and tour later he’d secured a date. The first of many it turned out.

They did everything together from festivals, to carnivals, to simple picnics in open fields. For the first time, Cole thought he understood what love could be about. Every second he could spare to make the drive to Savannah, he’d pack up his pick up truck and head north. Everything was going great, until he met her parents. From the moment they saw him he knew he wouldn’t be enough. If their disapproving gazes weren’t enough, the comments they made were. They thought they’d go over the simple farmer boy’s head, but Cole regularly said he was pretty, but not dumb. He understood even though he wished he could be ignorant. 

Cole should have known then that things would eventually end, but he was hopeful. Harper was his first love, so he kept trying in spite of his girlfriend’s parents wishes. In his mind, they didn’t matter. It would be them against the world if it had to be. All he cared about was making her happy and becoming a good man. His efforts to find his passion were stronger than ever, and one day he did. Taking a summer job at the local Frank Callen Boys and Girls club showed him that he wanted to work with kids. Becoming a teacher didn’t inspire anything in him, but creating a place where kids could go after school to stay out of trouble and get help with school did.

With his life seeming to come together, Cole decided he was ready for the next step. He bought a ring. It wasn’t a lot, but he knew the meaning behind it meant more than a size of a stone ever could. He’d planned it perfectly. A nice dinner before a trip to their favorite lake where he got down on one knee. She’d said yes, and he felt like he was higher than even the moon. Yet, barely twenty four hours later, and he was crashing back down to Earth. The joy that lit Harper’s eyes were replaced with tears as she ended their engagement and relationship. Cole didn’t understand. He tried to get her to stay, to just figure it out with him, but nothing worked. In the end she left him standing on his family’s porch with the ring he’d given her in his palm.

It took time, but eventually Cole moved past getting his heart broken. Wanting a change of scenery, he transferred to a college in Houston and majored in business. After graduating, Cole and a friend moved back to his hometown in Georgia to start a summer camp. They had a blast working with counselors and kids of all ages. His parents were proud of him, and things seemed to be settling down pretty well. The idea of settling down and finding a nice girl even crossed his mind before he heard of Icaria. The idea that he had brothers or sisters he hadn’t even met bothered him, so he booked a flight. Fortunately a new recreational center was being built that needed a director for their children’s department, and he was accepted. He promised his ma that her youngest boy would settle down afterwards. He just had to learn more about the other world he was supposed to be a part of.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Jake Johnson

NAME: Mike Chadley Thompson

AGE: 39

BIRTHDAY: April 21, 1981

OCCUPATION: Employee at Dew Drops

HOMETOWN: Minneapolis, MN

PETS: He has some fish! Is one of them named Finn? Maybe so.

POWERS:

Lucid Dreaming - this is more power-adjacent since it’s something humans can learn, but he always knows when he’s dreaming and can generally change the dream to suit his will and remember it when he wakes.

Dream Manipulation - he can enter other people’s dreams, interact with them while asleep, and alter the dream. Only works with people he knows, one at a time and only within a limited radius.

BIOGRAPHY:

(TW: death mention)

To say that Mike came as a surprise to his father would be an understatement. It wasn’t that Judas Jake Thompson was new to trysts with gods, but he hadn’t expected a dream fling with Hypnos to result in a baby being delivered the very next day. Luckily, Mike was an easy enough baby to raise - he was a mellow little guy, started sleeping through the night at a surprisingly early age, and was always happy to take a nap. Despite winding up with quite the crowd of demigod children, Jake never quite learned how to parent. He loved all of his children and genuinely enjoyed spending time with them, but had a tendency to give them a little too much independence - independence that Mike generally used to sleep in, skip homework in favor of video games, and start up a garage band in middle school that never learned to do much beyond make noise.

As the second oldest sibling growing up Mike tended take a backseat when it came to ‘older sibling’ responsibilities, leaving things more or less up to Leo. He was always down to hang out with his brothers though, either awake or in their dreams. The amount of energy it took him to visit dreams and change them around was enough to make him need to sleep even more, but it was well worth it to him - in the dreamscape (as he called it), they could do all kinds of crazy things that just wouldn’t be possible while awake. Dinosaur racing? Sure. Flying? Why not? Video games? Well - they could probably do that awake, but sometimes it was more fun playing in a place where the characters could pop out of the TV.

Around the time he got to high school, Mike realized that his ability to find the dreams of people other than his immediate family in the dreamscape - and, not really knowing any better, started using his powers to visit friends in their dreams, too. It went well enough at first, until one day he let slip to one of them that it really had been him in their dream - and that he’d been the one pulling the strings. Horrified at how upset they’d gotten and devastated at losing a friend, Mike decided to stop visiting dreams -  the only exceptions he’s made since were to stop nightmares for his siblings, or the occasional visit specifically requested. Dreaming got lonelier after that, but it felt safer to keep to himself outside of waking hours.

With no particular goals in mind, Mike stuck close to home after high school. He always liked the idea of living somewhere with warmer weather, but was close enough with his family that he couldn’t imagine anything would ever be worth moving away from them over. Then one day, the unimaginable happened. After hearing about what had happened to his youngest brother, Will, suddenly Minnesota became unbearable. It wasn’t as though Will had even been nearby when he died, but that didn’t stop Mike from being reminded of him everywhere he went. Deciding a change in pace would be a good idea after all Mike moved down to Florida, staying there for a couple years until Hypnos appeared to him in a dream, telling him to move to Icaria. Eager for another change in scenery Mike packed up and went, inviting his siblings along with him.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Willa Fitzgerald

NAME: Jane Doe

AGE: 25 (maybe)

BIRTHDAY: February 1st, 1996 (the day she was rescued and the estimated year she was born)

OCCUPATION: None yet

HOMETOWN: Washington, DC

PETS: None

POWERS

 Healing capabilities

BIOGRAPHY

TW: Human trafficking, captivity, implied abuse and sexual assault, forced labor

Someone always slips through the cracks. And that’s what happened to Jane. She didn’t know who her birth parent was, just that she was a demigod of Ascelpius. She was sold on the black market to the highest bidder and that was what her life became.

Her earliest memory was the dark, windowless room she called home for over 20 years. Jane guessed it was part of a basement but she never knew for sure. The walls and floor were cement and the only things in there besides Jane, were a toilet and a threadbare quilt. Once there might have been a window near the ceiling but it had been bricked over long ago. To the room was a single door, metal and locked tight. A slat was near the bottom to slide in her meals.. The ceiling was thin and from above she could hear people talking and moving. She spent her time daydreaming and making up stories about them. She was fed twice a day, given the bare minimum to keep her alive. Her captors never gave her a name, never called her anything but insults and derogatory nicknames. She didn’t know their names either. The man she called Sir and the woman she called Ma'am.

There were only 3 occasions the door ever opened. One, her job. She healed whoever her captors brought to her, given code words on how she was meant to heal them. Sometimes she was meant to fully heal them and sometimes she was meant to only heal them temporarily. It was confusing and sometimes she got it wrong. Which led to occasion 2, she was being punished. Either Sir or Ma'am would come in to make her well aware she had screwed up and cost them money. She got pretty good at checking out when they punished her. Occasion 3 only ever occurred when Ma'am was gone and Sir came down on his own. She was very good at checking out then as well. That was also the only time she ever got bathed. Sir would chuck a bucket of cold water over her head and throw a sliver of soap at her to clean herself with. Then he would dump another bucket of cold water over her head.

All her time was spent thinking about what might be outside her room. Her knowledge was limited but she imagined it was warm and bright with lots of food. Since her only clothing was a threadbare dress, she liked to imagine herself wearing the clothes she saw on the people she healed.

Her entire world was those four walls.

Then one day the door flew open and everything changed. A man in a weird outfit carried her out and she had to close her eyes against how bright everything was. She didn’t open them again until she was in a moving box with two people in different weird outfits asking her questions she didn’t understand.

It turned out the first man had been a police officer and the other two paramedics. The doctors at the hospital referred to her as Jane Doe and she thought that was a good enough thing to be called. One day a man showed up, smiling gently. He told her his name was Ascelpius and he was her father. He told her she would be safe now.

He dropped her off in Icaria at the Temple of Hera and then left, leaving Jane to figure out this strange new world.

CHARACTER BASICS:

FACECLAIM: Chrissy Costanza

NAME: Macaria “Maci” Russo

AGE: 24

BIRTHDAY: August 23, 1996

OCCUPATION: Zookeeper at Artemis Zoo and Aquarium

HOMETOWN: Vernazza, Italy

PETS: Goldendoodle named Bellatrix

POWERS:

Maci possesses a very natural and very beautiful singing voice ( singing intuition ), has the ability to remember just about anything that has ever happened to her in her life ( enhanced memory ), and is able to detect if someone is telling the truth or not ( truth detection ).

BIOGRAPHY:

Macaria “Maci” Jane Russo was conceived one fateful night when Apollo, the god of music and poetry, decided to fall into bed with an ordinary old veterinarian from Italy named Francesca Russo. Wanting her daughter to have a ‘traditional Italian upbringing’, Francesca chose not to disclose to her daughter who her father truly was and instead raised Maci to believe that her husband Marco was her biological father.

Just as her mother had wanted, Maci grew up as a relatively ‘normal’ girl, that is, until she was thirteen and her powers began to kick in. While having what she thought was just a normal conversation with her parents, Francesca mentioned something about Maci getting something from her father, and for whatever reason, Maci automatically knew that her mother was lying. She wasn’t sure how she had known that her mother wasn’t telling the truth; she just had. It was only after Macaria confronted her mother about this suspicion that Francesca chose to come clean about her daughter’s ancestry, thus revealing who her father truly was.

Despite learning about Apollo, Maci decided to still look up to Marco as a father figure, which was only fitting given that he had raised her for the past thirteen years of her life. It wasn’t until after finding out who her biological father was that Macaria pieced together the fact that her ability to know that her mother had been lying had in fact been on of the powers that she’d inherited from Apollo. This was only the beginning though, because the older she got, the more powers she began to realize that she had.

At the age of fifteen, Maci found herself beginning to recall tiny and minute details about her life that no ‘typical’ human would ever remember; like what she ate for breakfast on her third birthday, the name of her kindergarten best friend that she no longer spoke to, and some random science fact that she’d learned in the sixth grade. Thinking it was weird that she was suddenly remembering such random things, Maci turned to her father for help, and it was in this moment that he informed her that it was yet another abilities she had gotten from his genetics.

Maci’s final power wasn’t one that surfaced overnight, but more so one that gradually grew stronger over the years. She’d always been blessed with the ability to sing, but as she became a teenager, this ability only seemed to get stronger and stronger. By the time she was seventeen, Macaria had one of the most intriguing and beautiful singing voices that anyone she knew had ever heard. However, she refuses to believe that this is something that was given to her by her father, and more so that it is something she has earned through her hard work and practice over the years.

At the age of eighteen, after having a very lengthy discussion with both of her parents, Macaria decided to pack up her things and move to Icaria all on her own. She was nervous to be away from home, but she knew that she needed to branch out from her tight knit Italian roots and discover this new side of herself. Growing up with her mother as a vet, Maci had developed her own passion for animals, and it was this love for animals that led her to begin working as a zookeeper at Artemis Zoo and Aquarium, where she still passionately works to this day. Maci has also chosen to channel her musical talents and writes songs, films videos, and performs regularly with a band she formed upon moving to the island

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Lana Condor

NAME: Matilda ‘Mattie’ Kimberly Hayes

AGE: Twenty-Four

BIRTHDAY: December 31, 1970 (there is an explanation)

OCCUPATION: Geologist/Employee at Aidoneus Jewels

HOMETOWN: Spring Valley, Nevada

PETS: None yet.

POWERS

Time Travel - She is able to send herself through time to any point that she wants. Usually doesn’t last for longer than a small period of time. That’s why she has no idea how she got herself stuck in the future. Can only transport herself.

BIOGRAPHY

TW: Knives

Matilda Kimberly Hayes was born to Winnie Hayes and the Greek God of time, Chronos, on New Years Eve, 1970. Winnie had always wanted a baby but what she didn’t expect was that this baby would disappear at different points from her crib and come back dressed in the most peculiar frocks. Chronos, knowing that his daughter had been blessed with the ability to travel through time, had to sit down and explain to Winnie that she had been traveling to the past and not to worry as her powers would always send her to a time where she would be safe and would not allow her to return until after it was safe. Knowing that her daughter was going to be just fine, Winnie raised Mattie the best that she could. It was difficult when the girl could travel to see dinosaurs when she was throwing a temper tantrum. The amount of extinct animals the girl had brought back with her was astounding.

As she got older, Mattie got a better handle on her powers. They only manifested against her will if she were in danger and it was always backwards in time. She had never gone back for very long and always came back when she wanted to. Every time period had a different feeling but one thing that always seemed to bring her to attention were rocks. Yes, rocks. She loved finding ones that were beautiful in their own right and bringing them home to study under her microscope. No matter how far she traveled, she always managed to find some interesting specimens to bring back.

When the idea of college came up, the only thing that had interested the woman was geology. Learning about different types of formations and the historical preservation that came with them was something that she enjoyed so much it would be a dream to do it as a career. Living in the desert, near Las Vegas, it was a field she could make a decent amount of money while doing so. So she threw herself into her studies and before she knew it she was on a plane on a trip to Greece for her internship. After graduation she was hired on full time and found herself immersed in the world that also happened to be part of her genetic makeup.

Life in Greece was phenomenal and Mattie never planned on leaving the country that she felt so connected to. It wasn’t until New Years Eve in the year 1994 that something happened to change her life. She had been walking home from a party, well in the early mornings of New Year’s Day, when someone had crept up to her from behind. She had felt the knife on her back, the cool metal clipping into her bare back. Before she could move herself, to give in to the idea of this being her death, Mattie was transported through time and wound up on the streets of Athens, though she did not know when she was. Things felt off to her, however, considering no one was watching where they were going. Their faces glued to screens in their hands. That was when Chronos appeared and explained what happened to her. Her powers had kicked in to preserve her life and brought her to the year 2021. Completely dazed, her father decided to bring her to the island of Icaria. It was the safest place for a demigod at this time. He didn’t have time to help her settle in as it seemed the Greek world was currently at each other’s throats and a war was brewing. All he told her to do was take her time learning to trust the people around her.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Sophie Turner

NAME: Robin Walden

AGE: 24

BIRTHDAY: March 15, 1996

OCCUPATION: Grifter

HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts

PETS: N/A

POWERS:

Has the ability to pull someone nearby into a state of grief, anxiety and depression when targeting them with malicious intent.

BIOGRAPHY:

Enjoying the misery of others is not something someone would wish upon another being, and yet ever since day one it has been Robin Walden’s greatest enjoyment. From the moment she was born it was never ending troubles for her father, and Oizys was no help with discouraging the behavior. The goddess was involved in her daughters life in a strange way, mostly one showing up on the occasion to remind Robin of who she was which accidentally led to a overly fed ego. Once she grew out of non stop crying as a baby, it turned into more intentional distress of bullying and fighting. Even when her poor father tried to start a new mortal family Robin made sure her step mother and siblings were in constant torment of her as long as they were under the same roof. Why try being apart of some nuclear mortal family when you’re the child of a god? One could say the root of the problem was because deep down Robin was constantly in her own turmoil of depressive emotions, and putting down others for her enjoyment was a chance to let it all out. If asked about it though the blonde would deviously smile and chuckle out a, “Wouldn’t you like to know.”

The constant need to belittle and destroy people didn’t help with her social life and day to day ventures either. Robin was always being pulled into the principals office because she made some kid cry or caused a fight amongst peers. No authority figures could ever set her on the right path due to the difficulty and being outright scared of her, which was great for her hobby of committing petty crimes for the hell of it. She didn’t do the crimes for any gain other than causing a more toxic environment for the people around her, and once that habit was piled onto her many issues it was the last straw that kicked her out of the house as a teenager.  

It took a year of Oizys watching her daughter cause problems amongst the streets to finally step in. The red flags were too much for her to even bare, so she picked her up, and offered her the idea of joining Artemis huntresses in an attempt to find her a place where she belonged. With nothing left to loose Robin took her up on the suggestion, thinking that it would be a walk in the park.

In the beginning Robin went about her usual antics of being a terror in the group, until one especially bad misstep  had her immediately put in her place by Artemis. That day she gained respect for the goddess, and while she was still known as the problem child amongst the group she became obsessed with earning her spot as a huntress so she could be close to her. Every day she pushed herself to be better than the other hunters, and possibly caused some emotional distress in the process of climbing to the top. No fantasy of love would get in her way since she would rather hit it and quit it than betray the goddess, and any member that dropped because of such a stupid reason was considered dirt under her boot.

A recent falling out with one of the members who decided to run from the huntresses has led her to Icaria, and while she notified Artemis that she was purely going to the island to help mediate the current fight amongst the demigods, her true intentions always fall back on causing as much grief as possible.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Zendaya Coleman

NAME: Mackenzie “Mac” Stevenson

AGE: 21

BIRTHDAY: November 7, 1999

OCCUPATION: DJ at Nightshade/Employee at Phryne

HOMETOWN: Beverly Hills, California

PETS: N/A

POWERS

Has the power of intoxication/mood change which can give the rush of ecstasy and mania onto a person. The larger of a crowd completely letting loose the more of a high she feels herself and can give out.

An immunity to substances. As much as she tries, she cannot become intoxicated by physical consumption of beverages or edibles. This is why she  relies on her powers to get the effect.

BIOGRAPHY

TW: Mentions of Drug and alcohol use

Mac was born into the world having no knowledge of who her father or mother was. She was unwanted by a young woman who panicked about the responsibilities that would come with a demigod for a child, and Dionysus wasn’t one to stick around after what was a supposed one night stand at a random wild party. So baby Mackenzie was thrown around the California foster system from house to house, not staying long especially in houses that held large amounts of other kids due to “complications”. Despite her unfortunate circumstances Mac has never held any ill will towards her non existent parents, actually she was a little too okay with the situation. The complications that caused so much of the moving never could really be physically traced back to Mac, but every time the girl was moved to another home it was like all hell broke loose. Couples would get into more crazed fights with each other, other foster kids would cause party riots and completely trash their homes, and some people who would never think of turning to drugs and alcohol would feel a sudden impulse to try them for the hell of it. Rumors spread around the system fast that somehow Mac was just some strangely cursed child, and she thrived off of the mania of it all.

Of course, as she got older she tried to use substances herself, but none of them worked. She found out that the only way she felt any sort of high or state of ecstasy was when she pushed others to get to that state of release, to completely let go of themselves whether through drugs, drinks or partying. The bigger the crowd ridding a high the more she felt it all herself, and so much more alive. She didn’t know it at the time but it was her power of influenced mania and ecstasy that was causing it all, and using it lead to the success she has today. Think of her power as that little devil on your shoulder telling you to do that dangerous but exciting thing, just very loud and pushy.

After a while of floating around, Mac found that  the EDM scene was where she thrived the most. The sense of community, all of the festivals, the lights and music was perfect. She never had a family until she fell into this crowd and naturally picked up some tips and tricks to become her own artist. Once she was eighteen Mac quickly started to play at small venues, mainly focusing on the bumping electro and dubstep part of the art but also dipping into other genres. Because of her power it was easy to hype up a crowd, and she quickly climbed the ranks until big name festivals were calling her up to preform. Her first big gig was when she finally met Dionysus, and everything started to add up. He was impressed with how far she had come and was trying to convince her that with fame came dangers, so it was best that she quit now and leave for Icaria. She waved him off and said she would go to the island after she made it big, since the thrill of the large crowds was just too good to pass up. Her newfound bloodline gave Mac an idea though, and almost like a tribute to her father used his name as her own stage name. It didn’t take long for Mac to fulfill her wishes, soon she was the frontrunner for huge venues and festivals around the world and the satisfying rush of the crowds going nuts to her music with it.

The feeling of danger was starting to somehow creep up on Mac though, so she finally did one last huge gig in Greece before going in search for Icaria. The island is a bit… underwhelming to her and she feels sapped of her high, but with a little whisper here and there she feels like she can get her party going once again.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Caitlin Stasey

NAME: Kelly Cromwell

AGE: 25

BIRTHDAY: November 19, 1995 

OCCUPATION: Kelly is the isle’s wedding planner and works with Chloe! 

HOMETOWN: St. Paul, Minnesota 

PETS: None

POWERS

Madness Inducement. Kelly does not like her power and finds it quite manipulative. She worked hard all of her teen years and young adulthood to have control over it.

BIOGRAPHY

Being the daughter of Morgana Cromwell was not easy no matter how hard the woman attempted to keep up appearances. Kelly’s childhood started off fine. While Millie was the much quieter of the two siblings, Kelly was a very exuberant child. She had a lot of energy and loved being the life of any party. The young girl didn’t know that this had everything to do with her father being Dionysus, but Morgana encouraged it all the same. When young, there weren’t too many visible problems with her mother. Sure, the woman could be overbearing, but that could just be chalked up to wanting the best for her children.

It wasn’t until the truth came out that things got screwed up. Neither she, Millicent, or Isobel were children of Henry. In fact, none of them shared a father at all. Her father was the Greek God Dionysus she eventually found out, but even though all of her daughters were products of infidelity, the only child that got the brunt of the blame was Millie. Kelly hated how their mother would treat their older sister who turned out to be more of a mother than Morgana ever could be. It was Millie who would check on them and help with homework, while their mother couldn’t be bothered unless it was to try and get them to do something that benefited her.

High school was when Kelly learned the extent of her powers. When she’d gotten angry at one of her friends in school for saying something about her older sister, her anger seemed to boil over in a way that made the girl act strangely. She became paranoid, hallucinated, and started yelling obscenities. It wasn’t until Kelly calmed down due to the shock of the situation that the young girl stopped. Curious about the connection, she googled what was known of her father’s abilities and discovered madness inducement. Of all the powers she could possess, she had to be gifted one that was utterly horrible. With fierce determination she worked towards controlling her emotions to ensure she never used it on anyone. Kelly couldn’t imagine anything worse than someone not being in control of their own mind.

Junior year of high school was easily the worst for Kelly. Isobel was shipped off to boarding school due to their mother’s raging paranoia, and Millicent left right at the end of her senior year. While Kelly understood Morgana wasn’t giving her oldest sister much of a choice, she still had tears streaming down her face as she hugged her sister goodbye. She made Millie promise to go off and figure herself out without having to live under their mother’s constant abuse anymore. All she wanted was for them all to have a chance of happiness instead of being constantly stifled.

That very summer, Kelly convinced her mother to let her get a job at Saks Fifth Avenue in the mall by dangling the family discount in front of her mother’s face. Every check she got, she’d pay the small fee to have it cashed as a Western Union, and then stash the money. At school she’d constantly try to email both of her sisters. Since she used her school email account, and Morgana couldn’t care less about her education, their mother had no idea about how close her daughters remained despite her attempts to keep them apart.

Morgana refused to let Kelly leave for college, so she went to the local university. Throughout the years, she kept her job and continued to save whatever she could for the day she and Bel could use it to escape. Patience was something Kelly had limitless amounts of, so she didn’t mind waiting out the perfect opportunity. She continued exchanging emails with Millie and enjoying learning about the woman she was finally able to turn into. Kelly focused on her classes and decided to major in hospitality management. Planning parties or being the life of them came naturally to Kelly. It only made sense for her to make money off of those skills, and the event that made the most money in any country was a wedding.

Life dragged by. Kelly graduated college, worked with an event planning company planning weddings, and tried to make sure she and Isobel were as happy as possible once her younger sibling moved back in the house. Although, Kelly’s heart stopped the moment Millicent stopped sending emails. No matter how crazy her older sister’s life got, she never went more than a day without replying, and when Kelly heard that Isobel hadn’t received their journal back either, panic set in. The news from Wyatt only confirmed that something terrible had happened.

Both she and Isobel had pleaded with Morgana to let them go. Kelly had been tempted for the first time in her life to use her powers because she couldn’t believe she was related to such a cold person. Her own daughter was missing and possible hurt, but she didn’t give a damn. All Morgana cared about was still blaming her child for her own adult mistakes. When news arrived that Millicent had returned, Kelly worked with Isobel to escape. Luckily Bel’s father was willing to help, and together they had more than enough money to make it in Icaria. Kelly left St. Paul in her review mirror, and she was all too happy to never look back

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Elizabeth Olsen

NAME: Juliette Lucille Parker

AGE: 29

BIRTHDAY: 9th of June 1990

OCCUPATION: Lawyer at the Courthouse

HOMETOWN: Los Angeles, California

PETS: An Alsatian called Alan - he’s one of the stupidest dogs she’s ever met.

POWERS

Probability Manipulation - Juliette has the ability to change the luck of those around her. Not by much, but enough to affect the outcome of what they’re doing, in either a good or a bad way, depending on how she feels.

BIOGRAPHY

Born the first child of Tyche and Michael Parker, one of the goddess’ favoured lovers, Juliette was fortunate enough to be born into a family of love, and money. With her father being a famous musician, the child never went without for her first four years of living, and was the apple of her father’s eye. That only changed slightly when Warren came along - at first, the girl didn’t want to lose all of her father’s attention, and yet she softened to the small bundle over the first few months of him being in their life. The girl became very protective of her brother as the two grew up, realising that she had been blessed with the good fortune that her mother could dole out, and her brother was unfortunately given the cursed side. She would follow Warren around to make sure he wouldn’t fall over, or harm himself whilst he was young, although that diminished as the two grew. It became rather funny, when she would run into the garden of their home and hop straight over the small allotment that their dad had planted with them with ease, only to have Warren follow and fall and crush the budding plants moments after.

As a child, nothing excited Juliette more than the idea of becoming a Huntress of Artemis. She heard stories of the goddess, and as much as she loved her mother, found the woman of the night sky to be even more fascinating. She read book after book, and story after story about the Huntresses and how she could join their elite ranks, but Michael always said no. He didn’t want his daughter away from the family, she was still only a baby after all. However, the years and years of her begging to let her join the Huntresses wore Michael down over the years, and when she was thirteen, he gave in and allowed the girl to come with him on his European Tour, which had a stop off in Athens. Of course, Juliette was going to miss her little brother - but this was her chance!

Tyche promised Michael that she wouldn’t let anything happen to their eldest child, and he finally left the girl in the country on her own in summer that year, to fulfil what she had always believed to be her duty. However, it became very quickly obvious to her that the Huntress life wasn’t all that she seemed. She was only a young teenager, and whilst she did her best to keep up with the physical demands of the role, the emotional ones became too much. She missed her brother, and her father - and the final straw came when one of her closest friends in the Huntresses, Dylan, was kicked out for falling in love. She had never known someone to be so loyal to the cause, and it hurt the young girl that the goddess that she admired so much could be so cruel. Begging to go home, Artemis allowed her to contact her father, and Michael turned up in Greece the next day, almost a year to the day since he had left her alone.

Juliette tried to put the Huntresses to the back of her mind once she returned home to California, and tried to focus on the things that she had - her brother, her friends, her school - the girl really did try and get on with her life. She stayed in contact with Dylan as much as she could, knowing that the poor girl was going through so much and she couldn’t be there to help hurt her deeply, but that too was something else that she had to put aside.

Nothing else of much matter happened over the next ten years. Juliette fell in love, fell out of it again, went to college and got her degree in law and graduated as a lawyer, got her own apartment and moved up the ranks in her office until she was almost a partner in the firm. But it never felt.. right, for her. It wasn’t what she was supposed to do in life. The woman was supposed to be a Huntress of Artemis, she knew that deep down in her heart and four year ago she made the decision to quit her job, leave her family, her partner and friends behind once more and go back. Perhaps it was better now, that time had passed. Perhaps Artemis had grown softer, accepted people more for who they were and their allegiance to her, not some old rules - but this wasn’t the case.

At first, it all seemed to be fine. She easily fit back into her role in the Huntresses, Artemis welcoming her back with open arms, and she once again found where she belonged. But once again, it didn’t last. Juliette could see it all happening again - she could see poor girls being thrown out for small misdemeanours, being left without anything in the middle of nowhere, not given the same courtesy that she did with being able to contact her father. It made her feel sick, that she had been duped so much once again by the goddess that she admired so much, but this time it was harder to leave. Artemis stopped her each time that she tried to escape, and it was only when she called upon her mother for help a year after deciding that she needed to get out, did Juliette finally escape that clutches of the cult that is the Huntresses of Artemis.

Her mother has told her that Warren is on this island now, Icaria - a safe haven for demigods that she had visited a few times before, and she has come to look for him and apologise for leaving him behind.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Barbie Ferreira

NAME: Isobel “Bel” Cromwell

AGE: 22

BIRTHDAY: February 19th, 1998

OCCUPATION: Employee at Dew Drops

HOMETOWN: St. Paul, Minnesota

PETS: None

POWERS

Flight: can float above the ground without hardly any effort, but if they want to go higher, it takes a lot more energy. Can only hold it up for about 10 minutes, at the most, and can’t really take anyone with them because people are heavy.

Communication with the dead: Can speak with someone who has passed and is living in the underworld, but only if they didn’t know them personally, and only for thirty seconds.

BIOGRAPHY

TW: Emotional Abuse

Isobel is the baby sister of Millicent and Kelly Anne Cromwell, born to Morgana Cromwell and the god Thanatos: the god--or sometimes angel--of peaceful death. Bel was much closer to their sisters than their mother. Millie was kind, more of a mother than her actual mother, and Kelly was the one she could always go to for mischief and things their mother wouldn’t approve of. Morgana on the other hand, was awful to Bel, either constantly making fun of them and treating them like garbage, or ignoring them completely in favor of Millie and Kelly. In short, thanks to Isobel’s size and her rebellious nature, she was a lost cause from the get-go. They’d spent the majority of their life coming to Millie to talk about everything, and Morgana was basically a stranger who paid their living expenses. Millie and Kelly were their best friends. One evening when Bel was nine, Morgana and Bel had a huge fight, and because they went to talk to their sisters afterwards, Morgana interfered, saying them and their sisters were ‘plotting against her’ and took matters into her own hands to separate them. Bel was sent to a boarding school, and didn’t get to see her sisters as often anymore. They made it their mission to call them as often as they could, and write letters and emails. Eventually, they made a system where Bel and Millie would share a journal, mailing it back and forth and writing in it when it was their turn. When Millie graduated high school she left immediately for Icaria, and then there was no need for Isobel to be in that expensive school any more, and no real need to separate them any more. Morgana would not hear of letting another one of her daughters out of her sight, and Isobel was forced home at 14 and stayed under their mother’s wing instead of going on to college in another town. She graduated from the community college with an Associates in Visual Arts, as sketching and sculpting were her favorite things to do.

Isobel didn’t necessarily have another place to go, and Morgana wasn’t going to let them move to Icaria as well, but their mother didn’t know about the talents they’d learned while at school. While there, they’d contacted their father, who didn’t explain much, but did help locate their powers and gave them a random key before leaving forever. They already knew they had some ability to communicate with spirits. But now they also knew they could fly, but the how was going to be more difficult. It took a lot of nights racing out to the forests before security could see to practice, and then eventually it became jumping off of buildings in the dead of night. Isobel still had limits, but this they could live with. Now they had something their mother couldn’t take away.

Bel bided their time at home, constantly sneaking out and still sending the journal back and forth with Millie. When they received word from their cousin Wyatt that Millie was taken, the one thing that was a safe bet that would never happen on Icaria, Isobel was distraught. Isobel pleaded with their mother to let them go to Icaria to be with their cousins but their mother still refused. One sticky and hot night in August, they were on the roof of their home, when they discovered a letter in their pocket. They didn’t need the black stationery to know it was from their father, and enclosed was an address. The address was to a storage locker, Isobel soon found, and the key belonged to one of them. 

Inside the locker, they found nothing except two plane tickets….and a motorcycle. They’d spent a couple months quietly packing their things with Kelly, what savings they and their sister could scrounge up (Kelly, ever the more responsible one had saved up a lot more than her) and taking a motorcycle class, all without their mother finding out. Then finally, what they were waiting for happened. News that Millie was back. Isobel didn’t stop to ask permission, only paid for their things to be shipped to Icaria and made preparations. Bidding goodbye to Minnesota, Isobel and Kelly left Morgana without so much as a goodbye.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Alycia Debnam-Carey

NAME: Kassandra West

AGE: 28

BIRTHDAY: May 18th, 1992

OCCUPATION: Bouncer at Nightshade

HOMETOWN: Portland, Oregon

PETS: Recently found a puppy outside of the Nightshade and took it in. Named it Nugget.

POWERS

Premonitions and strength. The premonitions she can’t control and they come when she’s least expecting them. As for the strength, it only really is ever used when she gets into a rage. And she rarely lets that side of her slip.

BIOGRAPHY:

Kratos, better known to most as Zeus’ lapdog, had gotten into many tough situations. But this specific one just had to be the worst of all. He knew better to not make deals with Witches but his thirst for power got the better of him. In exchange for increasing his strength, he would allow his first born to be given a curse. They told him that the child would be cursed with foresight, something that Kratos didn’t see a single problem with. It didn’t affect him in any way, in fact, it could benefit him if he really thought about it. So he gave away his child without a second thought.

Cut to Portland, Oregon 1992 where Kassandra West was born and raised by a single mother. Her mother supported Kass until the young girl started saying she could know stuff sometimes before it happened. That and there was the matter of her being stronger than your average girl. To the mother’s credit, it’s not like she had any clue as to who a drunken one night stand had landed in her bed. The problem with Kassandra’s “gift” was that she couldn’t control whatever it was and definitely didn’t understand half of the things she saw. When she was sixteen years old, she saw her mother kicking her out of the house in a vision but wouldn’t know the reason as to why until nearly a month later. Who knew that coming out as gay would be the last straw that broke the proverbial problem child’s back?

What’s worse is that her mother never did tell her who the mysterious man was that Kassandra  kept seeing in her dreams, the one that she kept meeting but hadn’t met yet. The day she was kicked out was the day she’d been dreaming about since she was six years old; it was the day that she found out that Kratos, an actual fucking Greek God, was her father. Ever since finding out who she really was, she chose to spend less time around mortals and more around people that wouldn’t be ashamed of what she saw. Kratos spoke often of Zeus and promised that in time, she would get to meet him despite that not being his promise to make. She offered her “gift” to her father as a sign of good fortune if only it meant that one day he would keep his word. What he didn’t know was that 90% of the time, the flashes of imagery that she saw never truly made sense enough for her to decipher.

Anything she’s learned of the other Gods and Goddesses has been manipulated and warped by Kratos’ point of view. Someone talked shit? She’d find out why. Someone was planning a coup? Snuff it out. She didn’t really need foreknowledge to learn how to be conniving, to wear a mask, to appear more put together than she was, to manipulate. Kassandra was truly just another weapon at her father’s disposal. Not that she knew that, of course. When everything went down with Nyx she wanted to check out the island for herself, wanted to gather intel and bring it back, anything to potentially help Zeus. Kratos eventually let her go with empty promises of things that Kassandra didn’t know would never come. She’d stop this uprising in the bud, all for her father and all for the God he swore allegiance to. After all, anyone who disobeyed Zeus was a traitor. Right?

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Chloe Bennett

NAME: November Li

AGE: 26

BIRTHDAY: January 29th, 1994

OCCUPATION: Criminal

HOMETOWN: Chicago, Illinois

PETS: None

POWERS:

Thunder/Vibration manipulation:

 BIOGRAPHY:

TW: Gang violence, violence, crime

 November’s mother, Wei, was a Chinese immigrant who moved to the United States for a better chance at life. What she found was not a better life at all. Chicago was overrun with gangs and crime of all kinds. She struggled to make a living in an unforgiving city. Eventually, she was able to move into a tiny apartment and get a job at a local Asian cuisine restaurant. It was through this restaurant that she met Zeus, though at the time she didn’t know who he was. He was charming and persuasive, leading to a passionate night. After which he took off and left Wei to deal with the fallout.

 When November was born, her mother had a gut feeling about what her name should be. Some feeling told her that her new daughter’s name had to start with No and so she chose November, the month she had moved to the U.S.

 Truthfully the streets raised November more than her mother did. It wasn’t that Wei didn’t love her daughter, she just spent most of her time working to keep a roof over their head and food in their bellies. In the beginning, she stayed with a neighbor but as she got older, she started spending all of her time with the other kids who lived in the area. These kids mostly happened to be the children of gang members and eventually gang members themselves. This meant that to keep her head above water November joined the gang just like almost every other kid in her neighborhood.

 It was like being part of a big family and she enjoyed the thrill of breaking the law and trying not to get caught. She made a great pickpocket and was charming enough to con people. She also helped run drugs whenever she was asked. Unfortunately, this meant November was in and out of juvie. Her mother didn’t approve at all and the two would have screaming matches over it. There were also the darker aspects of being apart of a gang. She watched her best friend die when she was 13, she was jumped by a rival gang member at 14, and at 15 nearly got shot walking home from school.

 When she was 17, the girl she was dating was murdered, and she decided she was done. She left Chicago and never looked back. She stuck with a life of crime because that was all she knew how to do and she still enjoyed the adrenaline rush. At some point, after turning 18 she met Lina and the two became partners in crime. They worked well together and were a well-oiled machine. Around the time she met Lina she also got into hacking and added that to her skills in crime.

 The two moved to Icaria together and that’s how November found out her father was Zeus. She didn’t even know she had powers, they’d never shown up before. It was in Icaria that she started working with them and learning how to use them.

CHARACTER BASICS

FACECLAIM: Kelsey Chow

NAME: Xylina ‘Lina’ Campbell

AGE: Twenty-Seven

BIRTHDAY: June 30, 1993

OCCUPATION: Employee at Phyrne

HOMETOWN: Charleston, South Carolina

PETS: An arctic fox named Lumi, who is less of a pet and more of a familiar of sorts. She is connected to the fox but does not really own her.

POWERS

Lina can turn herself into anyone who she has seen with her own eyes, whether it be in person or a photograph. It long lasts a few hours without being reapply though the longer she puts it up for the more draining it is.

She also has the ability to speak telepathically to foxes, much like her pet fox Lumi.

BIOGRAPHY

TW: Mentions of Death and Drug Overdose

Emily Campbell was the typical student that never strayed from her path. She had her mind set at a young age that she was going to save the world. Rather, she was going to try to find cures for some of the most deadly of diseases. Her entire life dedicated to scientific study. Throughout college, Emily spent most nights in studying and avoiding socialization. Her roommate, Xylina, did not have the same temperament. That was what made them work so well together. Emily often would force her to study while Xylina tried hard to get her friend to open up to the world.

This continued through Emily’s mid-twenties, her roommate following her from college to her first lab career. Though reckless, Emily thought that Xylina would eventually grow up. That never happened as one day when Emily had come home from work, she found her dear friend dead in her bedroom from drug overdose. Unable to grieve in a proper manner as she felt responsible, Emily went through a period of time where she wanted an escape. Six months after the death of her best friend, Emily ended up in bed with a man who claimed to be a well known physician. This turned into a torrid affair that would last for another three months before the truth came out. Dolos had tricked her into sleeping with him and when they parted ways Emily realized she was pregnant.

Knowing she needed to get her act together, Emily picked up and moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Getting a simple job as a lab technician in a hospital, Emily aimed for a more modest life for herself and her daughter, who she named after her best friend. It wasn’t easy as from a young age, Lina seemed to have habits that weren’t explained with science. Specifically, she would see a cartoon character on the television and would morph herself into taking on the facial characteristics of the person.

Around the time that Lina was three years old, Emily met Donovan Holt, one of the doctor’s that she worked with. After one date, Emily knew that this man was it for her and soon enough they were married. Lina didn’t adjust well to adding more people to the family, especially when her mother ended up giving birth to a son as well. She did, however, always like her step-sister, Vivienne. In fact, for a long period of time Lina idolized her sister. She seemed so put together, even as a child. What Lina didn’t fully grasp was how much pressure Donovan put on his own daughter.

As Lina got older, the easier it became to deceive mortals. She learned to shapeshift for longer periods of time, using it to get out of class when she couldn’t be bothered to be there. It was around the time that she was eleven years old she found that she could also speak to foxes. That was an interesting zoo trip she couldn’t help but tell Viv all about when she got back.

The moment that Lina turned eighteen, she booked it from the house. It wasn’t that she had a bad time growing up. Donovan and Emily seemed to give up on keeping her out of trouble. She wasn’t going to be tamed so there was no reason to waste time they simply didn’t have. Lina often questioned if that added more pressure on Vivienne or their little brother.

The first time that Lina figured out that she could deceive people out of money was at nineteen years old. Her landlord was a scoundrel but had taken an interest in the woman. It didn’t take much but some sweet talking and a few trips to the bank and Lina made off like a bandit. That began her life of conning people out of money. She eventually went for bigger fish, going for companies that were doing more harm than good. A couple of lawsuits under false names, working at places for months just to make a quick buck, and she was set for life. It only got easier when she met November, a woman who seemed to have similar goals in life.

Then Lina found out about Icaria. A mayor who seemed corrupt in a plethora of ways seemed like too easy. However, after working on it for a couple of years, Lina ran into Larkspur Fox. It was almost fitting, considering her pet of choice and the women bonded quickly over having horrible first names and a hatred for corruption. It didn’t take long for Lina to fall head over heels for the woman. Nothing ever lasts forever and soon they were fighting over Lark’s jealousy issues constantly. Eventually they broke up and haven’t spoken fully conversations since.