"The real hero is always a hero by mistake." -Umberto Eco
𝒢𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Name:
Jacob Leonidas Garret: Most demigods are supposed to have more grandiose names but Jacob just seemed to suit the young. His mother never said why she chose Leonidas as a middle name.
Nick-Names:
Jake: The young man seems to prefer his nickname. It doesn’t have the same ring as a name like Heracles.
Gender:
Male
Age:
16
Birthday:
June 21st
Nationality:
American
Place of Origin:
Born in New York City but lived his entire in Buxton, North Carolina on Hatteras Island.
Distinguishing Features:
This might sound odd but his most distinguishing feature is his accent. Unless he said otherwise, Jake’s accent makes him sound like he is from England or Australia instead of coastal North Carolina. Jake has a light but noticeable Outer Banks brogue.
𝑅𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Relationship Status:
Single for now.
Sexuality:
Pansexual leaning towards men.
Partner:
None as of this moment.
Ex-Partner:
He dated a boy from the Island but that was a year ago.
Father:
Zeus: Apparently, Zeus is his birth father. However, Jake sees Dick Garret, his adopted grandfather as his father. The fisherman taught Jake more than his supposed godly father.
Mother:
Diane Samuels: Jake’s mother chose to flee her relatively luxurious life to keep her son away from her own father. She chose to live her life in Buxton using her financial background to help the islanders with their businesses.
Siblings:
Jason and Thalia Grace (Older siblings): Maybe? Jake is still not sure about how the whole Greek/Roman thing works.
Legacy:
Mars,Roman god of war. He had an ancestor (his great grandfather) who was a son of Mars.
Pets:
None yet
Other:
𝒟𝑒𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝑅𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Relationships Between Friends:
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in-depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
۞ Name of friend here ۞ "𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒."
۵ A little more in-depth relationship. This will change as the roleplay goes on. People can become closer, farther apart. Even romance can blossom. It's all up to you.
Some people say that a son of Zeus would need to be dignified and noble in his actions. Those people had never met Jake. Thus, Jake is a bit of a free spirit. Despite the dire circumstances, there is usually a smile gracing his lips. Jake is loyal to a point and this loyalty gets him in trouble most of the time. His faith in humanity almost blinds him from seeing who a person truly is but that is to be expected from someone raised on an island. Jake is the cheerful big guy kind of person. He’s the type of guy to get into a fight and be laughing afterward. People seem almost drawn to his cheerful attitude and Jake might make a halfway decent leader if only he could learn how to use it.
However, this cheerfulness seems to be a facade of sorts. On the inside, Jake is terrified about what it means to be a half-blood. He’s scared that he won’t live up to everyone’s expectations for a person like him. He shares a parent with some of the greatest heroes of classical mythology. How can an island boy from North Carolina compare to someone like Heracles? .
Likes:
✔ Thunderstorms: He always felt connected to the storms that hit the Outer Banks. He learned that such storms are required for life and the very island he lived on. ✔ The Ocean: He grew on an Island. So he has to like the ocean. ✔ Boxing: He grew up learning how to fight since there was not much else to do on the island. ✔ Fishing: His adopted grandfather was a fisherman and Jake would have been too if not for all of this. ✔ Playing Guitar: Jake brought his guitar from home. ✔ Swimming: There are no rules that say a Zeus kid can’t swim. ✔ Reading: He might not be the smartest guy but he still likes to read. ✔American Football: He’s always enjoyed the sport and keeps a football with him.
Dislikes:
✘ City People: He grew up with a simple life. He doesn’t get people who enjoy city life. He doesn’t hate them in any way. ✘ Bullies ✘ Being Underground ✘ Sour Foods
Biography:
”I sing of arms and of the man”. Or in this case, the demigod and his parents are the ones to be sung about. Like most stories of this nature, the story begins with the hero’s parents. Diane Samuels was born as close to royalty as you possibly could in New York high society. Her family had been Knickerbockers for generations and her father, Archibald Samuels, always liked to rule this fact over others like a king.He would lord his wealth and power over others with cruel malice. Everyone knee Archibald was a cruel man and none knew this fact better than his own daughter. She was expected to be perfect in all things and act in a perfect manner.
Her father controlled her entire life and yet the man never cared for her. He had always wanted a son to carry on the family name but all he had was his daughter. For that reason, he hated his daughter and kept her locked up away from the world. She was sent to the finest schools in New York but her father still kept her under control. One day, after she graduated from Columbia University, Diane met a strange man. The man was handsome, strong, and treated Diane like an equal for one of the few times in her life. The man smelled of ozone and rain but there was something off about him that she could never place. Their meeting became more and the two spent time together.
Soon after, Diane became pregnant with the man’s child. It was at this point that he explained who exactly he was. He was the god Zeus and her child would most likely be like him. The child would be different from others and that would cause problems for him. He could not be in the child’s life but he would do his best to watch him from afar.
Nine months later, Jacob Samuels was born at Lenox Hill Hospital in the Upper East Side. Diane was ecstatic at the healthy baby boy but that joy soon faded as soon as her father showed up. She could see the almost hungry greedy look in Archibald’s eyes. The King of high society finally had the son he had always wanted whether or not the boy’s mother cared. That look and the idea of her son being raised by his grandfather horrified Diane and so she came up with a plan to escape.
Using what money she could get without alerting her father, Diane bought a rusted old used car and bundled her son inside the metal box. She then fled the city in whichever direction took her as far away from New York City. Something told her to head south and so, she did. Diane did not seem to care where she was going as long as it got her son away from his grandfather. She drove south towards anywhere she might be safe.
Her path took her deep into North Carolina backwoods towards the Outer Banks. Late at night in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm, suddenly the old car sputtered and died in the middle of nowhere. Unable to get the car started, Diane began to cry. As she wept, as if sent by divine intervention, a pickup truck pulled up next to her car and a pair of elderly people got out of the cab. They introduced themselves as Richard (Dick) and Claire Garret, asked why she was in “an old rusted box like that”, and why she had a young baby in the back. Diane explained she had fled her home to escape her father and had taken her son with her. The childless couple nodded sympathetically and took them both back home to Buxton, North Carolina.
From then on, they took Diane and Jake in as part of their family. Local customs frowned on leaving strangers at the door and they had never had children of their own. So, Diane and Jake became like their own. Jake grew up in and around Hatteras Island and the Outer Banks became his home. It was the only home he had ever known. His mother rarely spoke about her life in New York but she took to island life. Her expensive education was used to set up a tax office on the island and soon the pair were accepted as members of the community. The Garrets helped to get a fake birth certificate made for Jake claiming he was a long-lost relative.
Jake, as had been predicted by his father, was never a normal kid. Dick would make sure that the boy had some stability in his life by teaching the boy how to fish as he was a fisherman. He taught Jake how to fight like “a proper country boy” should and gave the boy a love for the ocean. There was always a feeling that he shouldn’t but Jake always was connected to it. It was hard to ignore it living on a barrier island in the middle of the Atlantic. Jake never cared to ask about his father since his mother always seemed to avoid the question whenever possible.
However, Jake was always slightly different. No matter what, Jake always knew exactly when the storms would hit. He was stronger than the other children and always seemed to have trouble focusing on school work and such things. People seemed to be drawn to him as a leader without Jake really trying. His fighting skills seemed to be almost too good but that was usually attributed to his training. From the time he was twelve, he would spend most of his time on Dick’s fishing boat learning how to fish and helping the old man. It was not a flashy life but it suited the young man.
Jake most likely would have stayed in Buxton for his entire life except for a whispering on the wind. He began to hear a voice on the sea winds telling him he had to leave or else something would come for him. Despite the fact that he had never really left the Outer Banks, Jake chose to listen to the voice and left home. He got his mother’s blessing and hopped on a bus to somewhere in Long Island. Apparently, this Camp Half-Blood place was where he needed to go.
𝒟𝑒𝓂𝒾𝑔𝑜𝒹 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Cabin:
Cabin 1: Zeus: Jake found a space to sleep in away from the eyes of the Zeus statue.
Responsibilities:
None yet but he might want to be Head Counselor someday
Status:
Full-time Camper/ Unclaimed (at the start): Jake chose to stay at camp to keep any monsters from attacking his hometown. He might eventually go home to check up on his family.
Abilities:
Despite Jake’s reluctance to accept it, he’s still a son of Zeus with everything that entails. He inherited Atmokinesis, Electrokinesis, and Enhanced Leadership Skills from his father. However, a distant relative of his (his great grandfather) was a son of Mars. Jake inherited his Enhanced Physical Prowess from this ancestor.
Form:
Emotions are the most important factor for his powers. His moods tend to affect his powers.
Weapon/s:
Jake was walking through Grand Central Station when a woman suddenly pushed a leather transport tube into his hands. All she said was “Your father thought you might need this” and ran off back into the crowd. It seems that Jake is the only one who could open the tube and remove the sword.
He is not sure what else the sword can do other than being a “cool weapon”. It occasionally crackles with electricity.
Jake would probably need to commission armor and perhaps a shield but for now, all he has is his sword.
𝒟𝑒𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒜𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Abilities - In-Depth Look:
۞ Atmokinesis ۞
۵Jake has always known how to spot storms but that power got stronger as he got older. He can manipulate storms to attack his enemies should he need to. He cannot call on the powers of a hurricane yet but his storm winds can buffet his enemies and the rain can help with tactics. He cannot manipulate the winds to allow himself to fly but he can call on the winds to move things on occasion.
۞ Electrokinesis ۞
۵ Jake has yet to figure out how exactly this power works. He knows he can manipulate electricity to some extent and eventually call lightning from the sky. He is still working on getting this power to do more than give himself a shock. He can still use it though.
۞ Enhanced Leadership Skills ۞
۵ People just tend to look to him for guidance. He originally thought it was because of his own charisma but now he knows that its because of his father’s godly powers. Jake is an excellent leader if he could just get his mind to work towards it. He most likely would need to work on this power more.
۞ Enhanced Physical Prowess ۞
۵ Jake considers this power to be one of his most useful and the least temperamental of his powers. Due to his legacy involving Mars, Jake is an excellent fighter even by demigod standards. He is a natural fighter and athlete which he used before he came to camp. He is capable of matching people older than he is in terms of physical prowess. He is not sure how his being a Greek demigod might interact with his Roman legacy.
𝒪𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
— ۵۞۵ —
Weaknesses:
To avoid a bad pun but Jake is a fish out of water. He doesn’t know what a Harpy is except it sounds like a harp. His simplicity can sometimes be an issue.
His fatal flaw could be considered his loyalty to others even those he just met.
@Vicier Alright! So just stay with the wiki? I was thinking about what a fisherman’s son (not really his son but the bio explains it better) would have for powers. Like I doubt he would be flying around throwing lightning all over. I’m trying to think up his main power so to speak. If strength is a no, I’m thinking storms within reason.
