Archived:Timothy Zhou

Personality
He is standoffish to most people and looks perpetually bored most of the time, He emotes mostly internally, which attributes to this. Though he does not look it, he is mischievous and enjoys playing pranks, His tendency to steal absentmindedly has often gotten him in trouble, but he is quite proud of his sly fingers despite that. He is not one for physical contact.

History
Hanna Zhou was a kind, firm third-grade teacher with an interest in traveling and sightseeing. So, during the summer break, she decided to go on a road trip across the USA. While in a coffee shop, taking a pit stop after driving for three hours, she took a seat at the counter near the cash register. In the next seat over was a man who looked a bit world-weary and in need of company. Glancing over at the man, Hanna ordered two coffees, one for herself, and one for the tired guy. Then, she started up a conversation about the weather, just a friendly, meandering conversation. By the time the two looked up, the diner was closing. She offered split the cost of a room for the nearest hotel, and the man agreed. This was the start of a romance between mortal and god. The two decided to travel together for the remainder of the summer, and eventually fell in love. Towards the end of their journey together, the man revealed he lived very close to where she did (not that the god lived anywhere). This let them continue their committed relationship, close together. However, when Hanna had to take a pregnancy leave from school, her husband, though they never officially married, disappeared suddenly on a 'business trip'. He left behind a considerable amount of money and a promise to visit when he could. Nine months later, into the world, sounded the shrieks of a freshly born baby. Timothy Zhou had a moderately good early childhood if at times odd. Though his mother seemed distantly sad often, she did her best as a mother. She took a leave of absence for about a year and a half, using the money her husband had given her, to care for Tim and herself. After that, she returned to her place of work to continue teaching. However, because Hanna was always busy with teaching, Tim had many babysitters from ages 2-7. His babysitters were standard, they cared for him in the allotted time they were paid and performed all the necessary babysitter duties. None of them lasted long because of Tim's wondering fingers often resulted in a smorgasbord missing property. The resigning was usually also due to the fact Timothy was a fussy baby and toddler, who fussed even louder when touched. Later, he began to get a hang of pranking people causing all of his babysitters to be with water when opening an ajar door or perhaps be shocked when shaking Tim's hand at one point or another. They also learned not to drink anything with a straw around him, for fear of swallowing some packeted condiment. By age 8, he had had more than 23 babysitters, and his latest caretaker had quit. So, it was at this time, his mom, exasperated, decided he was smart enough to stay home alone. Timothy and his mom had a good relationship though sometimes she hugged him too hard, and his wit was a bit too sharp. It was also at the age of 8 that Timothy had his first monster encounter. While walking home one day, an unusually large dog started sniffing on the sidewalk opposite to the one he was walking on. For some reason, the dog made time feel like it was slowing down, and spikes of adrenaline prickled his nerves. Fear gripped his heart, and he made his presence as small as possible and slinked in the shadows of fences as quiet as possible. The dog stopped sniffing after a while, but just in case, Tim stuck to the safety of the shadows. At school, Tim had had one friend since about age 10, a year after the dog incident. Previously, he hadn't had any friends period. Sure, he knew the names of most of his classmates and people laughed at his pranks. However, his pranks also made him disliked, in addition to his habit of taking small things like pencils and erasers, his seeming inattention to everything, and his prickly demeanor. It was a wonder he hadn't been kicked out of his school several times over, but his mom was very persuasive, and so she managed to convince them to let him stay. It also helped that she was had some pull in the school district. His singular friend was one Amanda Terran, a girl with an odd job to her walk and a bleating quality to her laugh. One day she had just arrived at school and sat with him at lunch. It was enjoyable to have a friend though she seemed to wince at his pranks and sarcasm, so Tim tried to tone those traits of his around her. She had a stable, reliable quality to her, which was pleasant. After school, while they were in 5th grade, they decided to hang out in a and talked. After chatting for a time, Tim got the acute feeling that they were being watched by the small lady with feathery hair and a shawl sitting on a nearby brick wall. He told Amanda as much, and her eyes grew wide as she looked over at the woman. She had gripped his wrist and said feverishly that they had to go now. Her hand was hot and sweaty. Tim stood up with her and walked with her. However, it was then that the lady decided to whip out some crazy wolverine claws and lunged at them. Her shawl billowed behind her like a pair of wings. The two kids started running, but the lady was fast. As in 'her feet didn't look like they're even touching the ground' fast. They ran for what seemed like hours until they lost her. Then they had to call Hanna because they got lost running from the weird wolverine-bird woman. This event was his first monster attack. The second attack came about a year later. Later, at his eleventh birthday, just as he was about to blow out the candles on his cake with his mom and Amanda singing happy birthday, when a bulldozer had rammed itself through the wall opposite of the table. The cake, of course, was utterly ruined by plaster and other debris. Amanda and Hanna had pushed Tim to the side, smothering him. The bulldozer's image flickered into a giant scorpion. This caused Timothy to shout something along the lines of 'we are being attacked by a giant chitinous creature' to which Amanda nodded,and his mom paid no mind to because she was busy phoning 911 like a responsible parent. Amanda then gave Timothy a stick of foil covered gum to which Timothy replied 'this is not the time for gum!'. However, when Tim just unwrapped the gum because hey maybe something to chew his intense panic on would be nice, it suddenly turned into a bronze sword. It was also at this point the scorpion decided that 'ooh that sack of bones seems like a perfect snack' and skittered for him. This action galvanized Tim, who stabbed the scorpion in between the chitin on its chest. After that, there was a lot of screeching, red, bleating, and mom panicking. Timothy moved purely instinctively in a frenzy of survival, dodging and stabbing. Immediately after the scorpion disappeared into a golden, sulfurous dust, Timothy collapsed, last thought being 'who brought the goat?'. Timothy regained consciousness to the sound of his mom and some police officers talking about things like a rogue bulldozer and insurance and other confusing things. Another thing he noticed was that he was a bed and not his own. Finally, he opened his eyes to a painfully white hospital room with Amanda sat next to his bed. Amanda explained that he was a demigod and other essential survival information that comes with being a demigod, like how friendly scorpion visits were likely not going to be a one time occurence. Amanda also stated that she told his mom already all this and that he was going to a summer camp for 'demigods'. It became apparent that he was on painkillers when he looked down on his right arm to see a giant, blood spotted bandage and the dizziness that came with them. Under the bandage was a deep 'shrapnel cut', aka a scratch from aforementioned friendly scorpion, which was going to scar, according to the doctor. After these events, Tim was finished school at home and packed a suitcase. Hanna drove Tim and Amanda down to camp (despite Amanda's protests that a camp van could pick up) and he stayed for the summer only. However, the year after, the number of monster attacks and happenstances of nearly dying spiked significantly. So, on advice of his mom and Amanda, he is now trying out being a full-time camper.

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