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3 Word Story

into some lava

Ban the User Above You

Banned for making me read all that.

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and I fell

Word association Game!

Hunter

Google Picture War!

We all remember it, right? Using an image (non-animated) to declare war on the person above us.

I have fond memories from it, so I'm bringing it back!

I'll start!

3 Word Story

Time to run it back

You know the rules

three words per post for a continuous story

I'll start!

I was walking

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Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 Kyle Vass

<sub>Kyle]

(( FC: Booboo Stewart // Color Code: #7fffd4/Aquamarine))</sub>
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming” — Dory, Finding Nemo
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name:

Skylar Aolani Vass

Age:

17, February 16th - Aquarius (Sun), Aquarius (Moon), Taurus (Rising)

Gender:

Male.

Sexuality:

Sexually bisexual || Platonically Pansexual || Romantically Demiromantic
_{Kyle is oddly complex with his orientation. His paltonic loves are all over the spectrum, he is sexually a boy that likes both men and women (though leans towards female), and his approach to romance falls in line with Demiromantic.}

Relationships:

Current

Currently Dating

• TBD - Single

Friends

- 🤙 indicates members of the Long Beach Rocket Bunch

• Christian Barker
• 🤙 Shiloh Blake
• Nikki Vega - Been friends since (enter year here)
• 🤙 Jason Cole
• 🤙 Riley Revels

Enemies

None cause Kyle is an angel

Crushes

• Kassandra Arvanitis - Slight crush for a couple years

Past

Flings

Crushes

Relationships

• Nikki Vega - Dated in Junior year (1st semester) || Split mutually - stayed good friends

Occupation:

Ameteur Surfer and Social Media Content Creator
_{Due to his surfing and acrobatic stunts and how-to videos on Youtube, Kyle makes anywhere from 1k to 7.5k dollars per month due to the consistent sponsorships he gets from companies such as Raid: Shadow Legends and SquareSpace.}

Social Media Handle(s):

Kyle started his youtube account when he was 13 (with the supervision of his parents and branched out to Tik Tok and IG when he was 16. They are monitored by his parents, though they give him the freedom to do what he wants with his content...including the pranks and stunts on his Youtube channel.

Total follower count - 149.5K | Average view per video: 35000(YT), 15000(IG), 25000(TT)
KyleDoesThings - 9.5k subscribers
@TotallyKyle - 45k followers
@TotallyKyle - 95k followers

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”Everyday is a new beginning
Everyday is a gift to hold up high
Everyone has a weight to carry
Everyone has a soul so let it shine” - Gimme That Sunshine, Animal Island
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Label:

Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 That Surfer Dude 🤙 Aquaman

Grade:

Senior 🤙 Grade XII

GPA:

2-2-2.6 - Fluctuates within the C average depending on the time of year an dhow stressed out he is from homework. He gives a lot of credit to Kassandra Arvanitis to being not just patient with him because Kyle knows how much of a difficult pupil he can be. She’s managed to get results though and he hasn’t had to repeat any grade, so it’s working.

Favorite Class(es):

🤙 PE
🤙 Yoga
🤙 Does lunch count?
🤙 Acrobatics, if that's a thing.

Extracurriculars:

🤙 Captain of the Oceanus High Wave Riders Surfing team
🤙 #69 for the Oceanus High Wave Riders Football team (runningback)
🤙 Unofficial/self-assigned leader of the Long Beach Rockets, a group of extreme sports enthusiasts.

Plans After Graduation:

As if it wasn't obvious, Kyle wants to go pro. As in be like his father was at his age and go pro in Surfing. It's his biggest passion and, even though he might be the captain of OA's surfing team, it's not enough. At the end of the school year -- spring season, to be specific -- he won't be the captain anymore. So Kyle hopes this last year will open doors for him. He hopes that he'll make it big and really get off to the right foot.

If not, then there's always being like Mr. Beast and becoming the biggest stunt Youtuber the site has ever seen. That'd be fun, right?

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Appearance Details
▸ HEIGHT : | 5'10"
▸ WEIGHT : | 165lbs/75kg
▸ ETHNICITY : | Father's side: Native Hawaiian, English, Irish || Mother's side: Japanese, Chinese
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Dark brown || Mid-back length || Silky to the touch - Kyle tends to wear is as nature intended it, but he sometimes ties it in a loose ponytail or in a manbun.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Earnest chocolate kisses
▸ BODY TYPE: | Lean and fit || Has a textbook surfer/swimmer body
▸ MODIFICATIONS: | Earlobes are the only modification he has in any sense.
▸ FASHION SENSE: | Usually, you might say that Kyle is someone who prefers “comfort over style”, but to him his comfort is his style. Long sleeve shirts, baggy shorts, jeans, tanks for those hot days, and a collection of baseball caps + a handful of hair bands because of his long hair, this is his style. He doesn’t know what the hell to call it, but it’s his! He also favors Nike shoes exclusively. He might be a materialistic person, but top of the line Nike shoes is his one indulgence -- well, when it comes to apparel. Food on the other hand is another matter altogether.

Personality:

Adventurous → confident → energetic → hyptastic → super friendly → optimistic →motivated to win → creative → tenacious → stubborn → oblivious → foolhardy → thick-headed

Family:

Akoni Kahale "Koha" Vass || 55 || Father || Retired Surfer/Owner of VassWear, a successful surfing apparel and equipment brand || FC: Keanu Reeves
Mitsuki "Suki" Vass (nee. Watanabe) || 54 || Mother || Retired Skater; now a consultant for skating games such as Skate and Skater XL || FC: Tomita Tamlyn
Malina Leilani "Malu Vass || 16 || Younger Sister || Junior at Oceanus High; ametuer skater || FC: Fivel Stewart

History:

There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport.

Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form in the music often associated with them. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style.

And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different.

That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude.

And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years.

Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in.

And this one was no different.

While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up.

It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately.

And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee.

“We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!”

And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with.
And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness.

But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. For Kyle, he has always saw it as inspiration. The hope that you might not always succeed, but never giving up has stuck with Kyle all his life. Not only does he take after his father in the passion he followed, but many who have seen them together have said that they are alike in so many ways: their thrill for adventure, love for Hawaiian classics like dry seaweed and loco moco, and the completely approachable personality.

But the biggest thing that they are often compared to each other for is their ability to piss off the women in their lives. Kyle is young, so he doesn’t know better, but Akoni is almost fifty, so you’d think he wouldn’t be a literal manchild, yet he constantly proves this whenever he and his boy decide to go on one of their spending spree at whatever toy store they can find.

But you can’t say that they don’t make things interesting for whoever is waiting on the other end of one of their wild adventures.

Misc. Information

Favorite Places

🤙 Really any beach, but he has a preference for Hunnington Beach
🤙 Abalone Cove Shoreline Park (for cliff jumping)
🤙 Driving along the SoCal coastline during sunset and sunrises
🤙 Finding any hidden dives to chow down at after a hard day of surfing

Pets

∞ Rocky (4 years old male) - Male Black Lab || Lola (4 and a half years old ) - Female White Lab
∞ Hawk (3 years old) - Male Saint Bernard

Fun Facts about Kyle

🤙 Kyle drives a dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
🤙 Kyle has a solid presence on social media where he and his friends perform various stunts
🤙 Kyle is technically diagnosed with ADHD, but neither of his parents got him treated for it due to neither of them believing in the label, so instead, Kyle channels his energy into his various hobbies and his parents allow him the freedom that comes with it
🤙 Kyle has a severe addiction to energy drinks but with a strong affiliation towards Bang Energy!
🤙 Because of his presence on not only the surfer scene, but social media, Kyle is sponsored by Vans, Bang Energy, and Raid: Shadow Legends

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Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 Kyle Vass

<sub>Kyle]

(( FC: Booboo Stewart // Color Code: #7fffd4/Aquamarine))</sub>
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming” — Dory, Finding Nemo
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name:

Skylar Aolani Vass

Age:

17, February 16th - Aquarius (Sun), Aquarius (Moon), Taurus (Rising)

Gender:

Male.

Sexuality:

Sexually bisexual || Platonically Pansexual || Romantically Demiromantic
_{Kyle is oddly complex with his orientation. His paltonic loves are all over the spectrum, he is sexually a boy that likes both men and women (though leans towards female), and his approach to romance falls in line with Demiromantic.}

Relationships:

Current

Currently Dating

• TBD - Single

Friends

- 🤙 indicates members of the Long Beach Rocket Bunch

• Christian Barker
• 🤙 Shiloh Blake
• Nikki Vega - Been friends since (enter year here)
• 🤙 Jason Cole
• 🤙 Riley Revels

Enemies

None cause Kyle is an angel

Crushes

• Kassandra Arvanitis - Slight crush for a couple years

Past

Flings

Crushes

Relationships

• Nikki Vega - Dated in Junior year (1st semester) || Split mutually - stayed good friends

Occupation:

Ameteur Surfer and Social Media Content Creator
_{Due to his surfing and acrobatic stunts and how-to videos on Youtube, Kyle makes anywhere from 1k to 7.5k dollars per month due to the consistent sponsorships he gets from companies such as Raid: Shadow Legends and SquareSpace.}

Social Media Handle(s):

Kyle started his youtube account when he was 13 (with the supervision of his parents and branched out to Tik Tok and IG when he was 16. They are monitored by his parents, though they give him the freedom to do what he wants with his content...including the pranks and stunts on his Youtube channel.

Total follower count - 149.5K | Average view per video: 35000(YT), 15000(IG), 25000(TT)
KyleDoesThings - 9.5k subscribers
@TotallyKyle - 45k followers
@TotallyKyle - 95k followers

____________________________________________________________________________________________________


”Everyday is a new beginning
Everyday is a gift to hold up high
Everyone has a weight to carry
Everyone has a soul so let it shine” - Gimme That Sunshine, Animal Island
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Label:

Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 That Surfer Dude 🤙 Aquaman

Grade:

Senior 🤙 Grade XII

GPA:

2-2-2.6 - Fluctuates within the C average depending on the time of year an dhow stressed out he is from homework. He gives a lot of credit to Kassandra Arvanitis to being not just patient with him because Kyle knows how much of a difficult pupil he can be. She’s managed to get results though and he hasn’t had to repeat any grade, so it’s working.

Favorite Class(es):

🤙 PE
🤙 Yoga
🤙 Does lunch count?
🤙 Acrobatics, if that's a thing.

Extracurriculars:

🤙 Captain of the Oceanus High Wave Riders Surfing team
🤙 #69 for the Oceanus High Wave Riders Football team (runningback)
🤙 Unofficial/self-assigned leader of the Long Beach Rockets, a group of extreme sports enthusiasts.

Plans After Graduation:

As if it wasn't obvious, Kyle wants to go pro. As in be like his father was at his age and go pro in Surfing. It's his biggest passion and, even though he might be the captain of OA's surfing team, it's not enough. At the end of the school year -- spring season, to be specific -- he won't be the captain anymore. So Kyle hopes this last year will open doors for him. He hopes that he'll make it big and really get off to the right foot.

If not, then there's always being like Mr. Beast and becoming the biggest stunt Youtuber the site has ever seen. That'd be fun, right?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Appearance Details
▸ HEIGHT : | 5'10"
▸ WEIGHT : | 165lbs/75kg
▸ ETHNICITY : | Father's side: Native Hawaiian, English, Irish || Mother's side: Japanese, Chinese
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Dark brown || Mid-back length || Silky to the touch - Kyle tends to wear is as nature intended it, but he sometimes ties it in a loose ponytail or in a manbun.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Earnest chocolate kisses
▸ BODY TYPE: | Lean and fit || Has a textbook surfer/swimmer body
▸ MODIFICATIONS: | Earlobes are the only modification he has in any sense.
▸ FASHION SENSE: | Usually, you might say that Kyle is someone who prefers “comfort over style”, but to him his comfort is his style. Long sleeve shirts, baggy shorts, jeans, tanks for those hot days, and a collection of baseball caps + a handful of hair bands because of his long hair, this is his style. He doesn’t know what the hell to call it, but it’s his! He also favors Nike shoes exclusively. He might be a materialistic person, but top of the line Nike shoes is his one indulgence -- well, when it comes to apparel. Food on the other hand is another matter altogether.

Personality:

Adventurous → confident → energetic → hyptastic → super friendly → optimistic →motivated to win → creative → tenacious → stubborn → oblivious → foolhardy → thick-headed

Family:

Akoni Kahale "Koha" Vass || 55 || Father || Retired Surfer/Owner of VassWear, a successful surfing apparel and equipment brand || FC: Keanu Reeves
Mitsuki "Suki" Vass (nee. Watanabe) || 54 || Mother || Retired Skater; now a consultant for skating games such as Skate and Skater XL || FC: Tomita Tamlyn
Malina Leilani "Malu Vass || 16 || Younger Sister || Junior at Oceanus High; ametuer skater || FC: Fivel Stewart

History:

There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport.

Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form in the music often associated with them. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style.

And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different.

That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude.

And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years.

Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in.

And this one was no different.

While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up.

It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately.

And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee.

“We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!”

And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with.
And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness.

But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. For Kyle, he has always saw it as inspiration. The hope that you might not always succeed, but never giving up has stuck with Kyle all his life. Not only does he take after his father in the passion he followed, but many who have seen them together have said that they are alike in so many ways: their thrill for adventure, love for Hawaiian classics like dry seaweed and loco moco, and the completely approachable personality.

But the biggest thing that they are often compared to each other for is their ability to piss off the women in their lives. Kyle is young, so he doesn’t know better, but Akoni is almost fifty, so you’d think he wouldn’t be a literal manchild, yet he constantly proves this whenever he and his boy decide to go on one of their spending spree at whatever toy store they can find.

But you can’t say that they don’t make things interesting for whoever is waiting on the other end of one of their wild adventures.

Misc. Information

Favorite Places

🤙 Really any beach, but he has a preference for Hunnington Beach
🤙 Abalone Cove Shoreline Park (for cliff jumping)
🤙 Driving along the SoCal coastline during sunset and sunrises
🤙 Finding any hidden dives to chow down at after a hard day of surfing

Pets

∞ Rocky (4 years old male) - Male Black Lab || Lola (4 and a half years old ) - Female White Lab
∞ Hawk (3 years old) - Male Saint Bernard

Fun Facts about Kyle

🤙 Kyle drives a dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
🤙 Kyle has a solid presence on social media where he and his friends perform various stunts
🤙 Kyle is technically diagnosed with ADHD, but neither of his parents got him treated for it due to neither of them believing in the label, so instead, Kyle channels his energy into his various hobbies and his parents allow him the freedom that comes with it
🤙 Kyle has a severe addiction to energy drinks but with a strong affiliation towards Bang Energy!
🤙 Because of his presence on not only the surfer scene, but social media, Kyle is sponsored by Vans, Bang Energy, and Raid: Shadow Legends

♆ Divine Bloodlines: Immortal Bonds of Olympus ♆

_{LOCATION — Forest → Cherry Blossom Groves
TIME — 4:30am - Before the Training Grounds Incident
FEATURING — Beavis and Butthead of the Hermes Cabin @HaleyTheRandom @AlteredTundra}

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Jules had woken up that morning with her crackhead energy working over time. By the grace of the gods, she had managed to get a decent night's rest in between the sounds of her siblings giggling and sneaking out of the cabin. As soon as her feet hit the floor, Jules began shouting.

”First day of camp losers! Let’s go!” She had walked throughout the cabin banging on walls and bed posts, doing her best to make sure that the whole Hermes clan was wide awake. The young girl stuck her tongue out as her siblings threw insults her way, giving them the stink eye while dodging various items being thrown towards her head. Jules managed to fight her way into the bathroom while there was still enough hot water for a shower. No matter how fast she moved, it didn’t seem as if Jules’s morning routine took any less time. She was on a mission to gather her brothers (Ty, Jackson and Oliver) for their annual tradition of first day camp breakfast - and none of them were in their beds.

Oliver was probably getting all primped up by the Aphrodite girls, Ty was probably still asleep in Erin’s bed, and as for Jackson…

Dressed and ready for the day, Jules practically ran out of the cabin on her way towards the woods. Something in the back of her mind was nearly guaranteeing Jackson’s whereabouts for her. She waved to familiar faces and threw out some wicked one line responses, but nothing was keeping her from finding Jackson this morning.

As soon as her bare feet hit the boundary line of the forest, Jules began to run. Like so many other campers, she practically knew these woods like the back of her hand - and she knew the path to Jackson’s cherry grove even better. Coming up on her destination quickly, Jules slowed her pace and began to look for ‘her tree’. Whenever Jules wanted to keep Jackson company at the cherry grove, she had the habit of climbing the nearest and tallest tree that wasn’t a cherry tree - and this morning was no different.

Spotting the back of Jackson's misshapen head, Jules began to climb the tree and quickly and as quietly as she could. Stopping about half way up, she crawled out to the middle of a branch and flipped herself upside down, hanging from her knees.

”Good morning, Obi-Wan!” she shouted, probably scaring the shit out of him.

Jackson had been in the middle of his morning ritual of praying and meditating in front of the cherry blossom tree that he had helped plant and by help, Jackson approached a rather odd future friend by the name of Kepano Ka’aukai. He remembered he didn’t have to bribe or forcibly persuade the green-haired son of Demeter. All he had to do was ask, mention the kind of tree, and Kep would help. Jackson remembered thinking how impressive it was he was able to accelerate the growth of the three so it would be as he remembered back at Kenji’s home. Thirty feet high and thirty feet wide, bearing the most beautiful pink cherry blossoms in spring.

Though, now, the trees were as bare as Jackson’s mind was whenever he had to figure out any calculations. Jackson really didn’t excel at math…or science…or anything involving numbers. Just as well, he wasn’t a brainiac like that Haluk was. Or Brynn. He was smart in other ways. Like he could tell you how much twist you needed to put in your body to accurately throw a shuriken into a tree without damaging the sharp edges of the throwing star. Or how precise a slice with your katana or wakizashi needed to be to cut through five things of bamboo without damaging the blade. Or just how troubling it is to effectively execute the thousand years of death jutsu that Kakashi used on Naruto.

Like how he was a magnet for his younger sister, always bothering him when he was trying to get in touch with his roots in front of the tree that held a deep, personal meaning for the Son of Hermes.

Looking up at Jules, displaying an unique fusion of an expression of annoyed and amused on his face, Jackson asked as polite as he could muster, “What’s up, Spider-monkey?”

With her entrance not getting the proper attention that she wanted, Jules pulled herself up and re-adjusted so that she was sitting on the tree branch. ”Couldn’t find Ty or Oli, so naturally I decided to come an’ bug you,” she quipped. ”You didn’t all just think you could skip breakfast on me, huh?”

The Japanese boy squinted his eyes at Jules. Half because of where she was and the early rays of the not-yet-fully-risen sun obscuring his vision and the other half at the annoyance creeping up inside him. ”Correction,” he started, clearing his thoat dramatically, ”I didn’t skip breakfast. I had Omurice before I came out here. I skipped breakfast with you,” Jackson elaborated. The dance between eldest brother and youngest sister was one he did well. One might even say that Jackson thrived off of seeing her make faces at him. “Anyways, I came out here to be alone. Camp has yet to fully awaken, so I thought I would take advantage of it.” There was a somber, almost melancholy tone in his voice and a reflection of sadness in his earthy brown eyes. He hid it well but he knew Jules and knew she could see it, though he was hoping she’d read the room and not press him about it too much.

”Because you’re a stinky buttface,” the daughter of Hermes grumbled, listening as Jackson trailed on. It seemed as if they had vastly different plans this morning - a fact that both disappointed and intrigued her. Jules was a nosey little brat, and felt as if her brother's business was her own. Pushing his plans to the side so that she could drag him along for five seconds of fun was a common occurrence. Something in Jacksons tone was enough to let her know that wouldn’t be happening this morning.

Crossing her arms, she asked ”What’s eatin’ at’chya, Gilbert?”

“You’re really not gonna let this go, are you?”

It was rare that Jackson wasn’t able to ward off the nosey nature of the baby of the Hermes Cabin. It was rare that he could fake it enough to get her off his scent, but just as Jackson woke up today feeling out of it, Jules here woke up feeling especially consistent with her desire to not take no for an answer. On any other day, he wouldn’t be so hesitant to just talk to her. On normal days, he could muster enough energy to fake it.

Not today, though. Not when he couldn’t even hide it in how he spoke.

Jackson let out a long, exaggerated sigh. “As you know, when it’s spring time, this tree here is in full bloom. Cherry Blossoms falling from the branches slowly. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Coming here always clears my head when it gets too noisy,” Jackson admitted, looking at the bare branches. There wasn’t even a hint of the seeds coming in yet. “You know about why I wanted this and the others nearby to be built, right?” He asked, looking at his nosey baby sister.

”Nope,” Jules quipped proudly in response to his first question. Hopping down from the branch she was perched on, the blonde stood with her arms crossed, leaned up against the tree as she waited for her brother to speak again. The somberness that had fallen over them reinforced her previous decision to not be a giant pain in the ass.

”Something having to do with your mom, right?” she questioned, unable to remember the exact reasoning behind the purpose of the groves.

Jackson nodded, gazing up at the blossom-less trees. It was unfortunate they weren’t in bloom yet. He knew he could easily ask a child of Demeter to make the tree grow the cherry blossoms, but that felt disrespectful to nature. “We had a whole section of cherry blossom trees at the compound I was raised in. There wasn’t a lot to like about that place, but every April, Kenji would always pause my training to celebrate nature and the beauty of the Sakuras. Mom loved them especially. She always loved flowers. And losing her was worse than when Firefly was cancelled, so planting these and getting the help from the others was a passion of mine.”

Jackson thought to the last spring before his mother was taken away from him in this world, Jackson…Ryusuke…remembered the last happy memory of the last day when the blossoms were in full bloom, how they fell from the trees with a slow grace, it was like he was watching something out of a beautifully-animated Samurai anime. The way time stood still and everyone - even his bastard of an adopted father - stared with wonder, that was the memory Jackson thought about when he came here. It’s the reason he was here now.

To honor Sayuri. Haha ni keiiwohyōsuru tame ni

“Even if they’re just naked groves, it’s relaxing and blocks out the bad.” He inhaled deeply as to swallow down the overwhelming emotion begging to surface, Jackson turned to his sister. “Do you have a place like that? Somewhere that you like to go to escape and allow yourself to feel? Maybe with a certain blonde…” Jackson had mastered the ability to switch topics when he saw fit and this was a perfect fit for it. Plus he’s not as ignorant to his siblings’ lives that he wasn’t aware of something happening with the baby of the Hermes cabin and that sunshiney blonde from Cali.

Listening as Jackson’s words tugged at her heart strings, Jules wished that there was something she could say to ease her brother's pain. She remembered how much it hurt when she lost her own mother, and could only imagine what Jackson was going through. Jules had never been the closest with her mother - but it still hurt. The thought only made her wonder what Jackson was truly going through even more. She wasn’t quite sure how to respond to him, other than offer a sympathetic smile. Fishing for words, she was grateful that Jackson decided to change the subject - even if the heat rose to her face as he did so.

”Oh, you mean my future wife?” Jules half-joked, a mischievous smile on her face. She held Vivian near and dear in her heart, but marriage was a long way off no matter how much she joked about it. ”I like the ocean,” she continued, hoping to not give her brother another chance to poke fun at her if she spoke fast enough. ”There’s something about the smell of the salt - the sound of the waves. It calms me. Something about the water just… makes it all go away, ya know?”

Listening to Jules talk about the ocean and how the ambience of it all from the waves crashing ashore to the smell of the salty air soothed her, he could tell it came from a genuine place. He nodded in that understanding. Two children of Hermes that had a thing for nature. Jackson was a stubborn root that found solace in the flowers of his homeland and the mischievous crackhead found her equilibrium by the sea. If she was the sea and he was the land, maybe that made Tyler the sky - three parts of a trinity that completed each other.

Jackson’s deep brown eyes looked at the tree, feeling something in the air tugging at him. The bare branches were moving just gently due to the sudden pick up of wind. Then, his gaze ventured off in the direction of the sea. He was lost in a daze as if he was imagining being right there at the shore, hearing the waves collide with the beach, hearing it splash against land. Then he looked up at the sky. Even if he was wrong about what Tyler represented to them, he liked to think he was like the sky. Maybe a gust of wind that fits the missing piece between the oldest Hermes kid and the youngest. The perfect balance of the two. But it was also about him, Atlas, and Sol. About him at the center of the grief he still experienced and felt for his mother, the lily that was taken from his life much too soon and moving on until the next bloom.

Everything had a three-way dance. The beginning, the uncertain middle, and the end where solace could be found.

Closing his eyes, Jackson just let the words come out before he could even check if it was proper, “Three parts, trinity. United, complete cycle. Peace of mind is clear.”

She watched as her brother drifted away again in to the safety of his mind. Not quite sure what to do or how to respond, she went with her gut.

”Want me to sit with you a while? I promise not to be too big of a pain in the ass.”

Jackson half smiled and looked up. “You not being a pain in the ass? Sounds like an impossible challenge,” he said and then looked at her, “But we’re two people who always meet the impossible and kick it in its hairy balls.” His head gestured to the seat next to him and Jackson just basked in the company of his kid sister who sometimes, only in moments when she wasn’t in full crackhead mode, reminded him of the firm softness his mother had. As weird as that might be, it was that he found comfort in.

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Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 Kyle Vass

<sub>Kyle]

(( FC: Booboo Stewart // Color Code: #7fffd4/Aquamarine))</sub>
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming” — Dory, Finding Nemo
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Name:

Skylar Aolani Vass

Age:

17, February 16th - Aquarius (Sun), Aquarius (Moon), Taurus (Rising)

Gender:

Male.

Sexuality:

Sexually bisexual || Platonically Pansexual || Romantically Demiromantic
_{Kyle is oddly complex with his orientation. His paltonic loves are all over the spectrum, he is sexually a boy that likes both men and women (though leans towards female), and his approach to romance falls in line with Demiromantic.}

Relationships:

Current

Currently Dating

• TBD - Single

Friends

- 🤙 indicates members of the Long Beach Rocket Bunch

• Christian Barker
• 🤙 Shiloh Blake
• Nikki Vega - Been friends since (enter year here)
• 🤙 Jason Cole
• 🤙 Riley Revels

Enemies

None cause Kyle is an angel

Crushes

• Kassandra Arvanitis - Slight crush for a couple years

Past

Flings

Crushes

Relationships

• Nikki Vega - Dated in Junior year (1st semester) || Split mutually - stayed good friends

Occupation:

Ameteur Surfer and Social Media Content Creator
_{Due to his surfing and acrobatic stunts and how-to videos on Youtube, Kyle makes anywhere from 1k to 7.5k dollars per month due to the consistent sponsorships he gets from companies such as Raid: Shadow Legends and SquareSpace.}

Social Media Handle(s):

Kyle started his youtube account when he was 13 (with the supervision of his parents and branched out to Tik Tok and IG when he was 16. They are monitored by his parents, though they give him the freedom to do what he wants with his content...including the pranks and stunts on his Youtube channel.

Total follower count - 149.5K | Average view per video: 35000(YT), 15000(IG), 25000(TT)
KyleDoesThings - 9.5k subscribers
@TotallyKyle - 45k followers
@TotallyKyle - 95k followers

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”Everyday is a new beginning
Everyday is a gift to hold up high
Everyone has a weight to carry
Everyone has a soul so let it shine” - Gimme That Sunshine, Animal Island
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Label:

Oceanic Golden Retriever 🤙 That Surfer Dude 🤙 Aquaman

Grade:

Senior 🤙 Grade XII

GPA:

2-2-2.6 - Fluctuates within the C average depending on the time of year an dhow stressed out he is from homework. He gives a lot of credit to Kassandra Arvanitis to being not just patient with him because Kyle knows how much of a difficult pupil he can be. She’s managed to get results though and he hasn’t had to repeat any grade, so it’s working.

Favorite Class(es):

🤙 PE
🤙 Yoga
🤙 Does lunch count?
🤙 Acrobatics, if that's a thing.

Extracurriculars:

🤙 Captain of the Oceanus High Wave Riders Surfing team
🤙 #69 for the Oceanus High Wave Riders Football team (runningback)
🤙 Unofficial/self-assigned leader of the Long Beach Rockets, a group of extreme sports enthusiasts.

Plans After Graduation:

As if it wasn't obvious, Kyle wants to go pro. As in be like his father was at his age and go pro in Surfing. It's his biggest passion and, even though he might be the captain of OA's surfing team, it's not enough. At the end of the school year -- spring season, to be specific -- he won't be the captain anymore. So Kyle hopes this last year will open doors for him. He hopes that he'll make it big and really get off to the right foot.

If not, then there's always being like Mr. Beast and becoming the biggest stunt Youtuber the site has ever seen. That'd be fun, right?

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Appearance Details
▸ HEIGHT : | 5'10"
▸ WEIGHT : | 165lbs/75kg
▸ ETHNICITY : | Father's side: Native Hawaiian, English, Irish || Mother's side: Japanese, Chinese
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Dark brown || Mid-back length || Silky to the touch - Kyle tends to wear is as nature intended it, but he sometimes ties it in a loose ponytail or in a manbun.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Earnest chocolate kisses
▸ BODY TYPE: | Lean and fit || Has a textbook surfer/swimmer body
▸ MODIFICATIONS: | Earlobes are the only modification he has in any sense.
▸ FASHION SENSE: | Usually, you might say that Kyle is someone who prefers “comfort over style”, but to him his comfort is his style. Long sleeve shirts, baggy shorts, jeans, tanks for those hot days, and a collection of baseball caps + a handful of hair bands because of his long hair, this is his style. He doesn’t know what the hell to call it, but it’s his! He also favors Nike shoes exclusively. He might be a materialistic person, but top of the line Nike shoes is his one indulgence -- well, when it comes to apparel. Food on the other hand is another matter altogether.

Personality:

Adventurous → confident → energetic → hyptastic → super friendly → optimistic →motivated to win → creative → tenacious → stubborn → oblivious → foolhardy → thick-headed

Family:

Akoni Kahale "Koha" Vass || 55 || Father || Retired Surfer/Owner of VassWear, a successful surfing apparel and equipment brand || FC: Keanu Reeves
Mitsuki "Suki" Vass (nee. Watanabe) || 54 || Mother || Retired Skater; now a consultant for skating games such as Skate and Skater XL || FC: Tomita Tamlyn
Malina Leilani "Malu Vass || 16 || Younger Sister || Junior at Oceanus High; ametuer skater || FC: Fivel Stewart

History:

There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport.

Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form in the music often associated with them. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style.

And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different.

That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude.

And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years.

Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in.

And this one was no different.

While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up.

It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately.

And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee.

“We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!”

And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with.
And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness.

But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. For Kyle, he has always saw it as inspiration. The hope that you might not always succeed, but never giving up has stuck with Kyle all his life. Not only does he take after his father in the passion he followed, but many who have seen them together have said that they are alike in so many ways: their thrill for adventure, love for Hawaiian classics like dry seaweed and loco moco, and the completely approachable personality.

But the biggest thing that they are often compared to each other for is their ability to piss off the women in their lives. Kyle is young, so he doesn’t know better, but Akoni is almost fifty, so you’d think he wouldn’t be a literal manchild, yet he constantly proves this whenever he and his boy decide to go on one of their spending spree at whatever toy store they can find.

But you can’t say that they don’t make things interesting for whoever is waiting on the other end of one of their wild adventures.

Misc. Information

Favorite Places

🤙 Really any beach, but he has a preference for Hunnington Beach
🤙 Abalone Cove Shoreline Park (for cliff jumping)
🤙 Driving along the SoCal coastline during sunset and sunrises
🤙 Finding any hidden dives to chow down at after a hard day of surfing

Pets

∞ Rocky (4 years old male) - Male Black Lab || Lola (4 and a half years old ) - Female White Lab
∞ Hawk (3 years old) - Male Saint Bernard

Fun Facts about Kyle

🤙 Kyle drives a dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
🤙 Kyle has a solid presence on social media where he and his friends perform various stunts
🤙 Kyle is technically diagnosed with ADHD, but neither of his parents got him treated for it due to neither of them believing in the label, so instead, Kyle channels his energy into his various hobbies and his parents allow him the freedom that comes with it
🤙 Kyle has a severe addiction to energy drinks but with a strong affiliation towards Bang Energy!
🤙 Because of his presence on not only the surfer scene, but social media, Kyle is sponsored by Vans, Bang Energy, and Raid: Shadow Legends