Claiming:Camp/Timothy Zhou

Name: Timothy Zhou

Gender: Male

God Parent: Hermes, Hades, or Limos

Species: Demi-god

Mortal Parent: Hanna Zhou

Age:13

Appearance:



Personality: standoffish, tends to look perpetually bored, emotes mostly internally, mischevious, smart alec, likes to play pranks, has a tendency to steal absentmindedly, not one for physical contact

History: Hanna Zhou was a kind, firm third grade teacher with an interest in traveling and sight seeing. So, during the summer break, she decided to go on a cross country road trip. 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, hey do you like dogs, did you know cows have four stomaches, etc. Just a friendly, meandering conversation. By the time the two looked up, the diner was closing. She offered drive over to the nearest hotel and split the cost of a room 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 really lived anywhere). This let them continue their deeply committed relationship, close together. However, when Hanna had to take a pregnancy leave from school, her husband, though they never offically married, left suddenly on a 'business trip', leaving behind a large amount of money and a promise to visit when he could. Nine months later, into the world, came the shrieks of a freshly born baby.

Timothy Zhou had fairly 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 (his dad) had left them, to care for him. After that she returned to school, because Hanna was busy with teaching, Tim had many babysitters from ages 2-7. His babysitters were normal, they cared for him in the alotted time they were paid, however Tim's wondering fingers often resulted in missing property. Timothy was a rather fussy baby, who fussed even louder when touched. Later, he began to get a hang of pranking people causing many babysitters to be doused with water when opening an ajar door or perhaps be shocked when shaking Tim's hand. They also learned not to drink anything with a straw around him, for fear of drinking some packeted condiment. By age 8, he had had more than 17 babysitters, and his latest babysitter had quitted. And so, it was at this time, his mom, rather 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 a bit too sharp. While walking home one day, a particularly 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 adreniline 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 shadows.

At school, Tim 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 rather disliked, as well as his habit of taking small things like pencils and erasers, his seeming inattention to everything, and his generally 'open' demeanor. It was a wonder he hadn't been kicked out several times over, but his mom was very persuasive and she had some pull in the school district. His singular friend was one Amanda Terran, a girl with a odd jot 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 nice 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 nice. While sitting at the park together one day, Tim had the acute feeling that they were being watched. He told Amanda as much and her eyes grew wide. She had gripped his wrist and said feverishly that that had to go now. Her hand was hot and sweaty. Tim stood up with her and walked with her. The whole experience felt rather familiar.

Later, at his 11th birthday, just as he was about to blow out the candles of his cake with his mom and Amanda singing happy birthday, a helicopter 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 helicopter's image flickered into a giant eagle. This caused Timothy to shout something along the lines of 'we are being attacked by a giant eagle' 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 gum is gum, it suddenly turned into a sword, which was metal and rather heavy. It was also at this point the eagle decided that 'hey that lady with the phone looks tasty' and dove for his mom. This action galvanized Tim, who ran forward and stabbed the  eagle in the eye hard. After that, there was a lot of screeching, red, bleating, and mom panicking. Timothy was lost in the panic of survival. Immediately after the eagle disappeared into a golden, sulfurous dust, Timothy collapsed, last thought being 'who brought the goat?'.,

When Timothy came to the sound of his mom and some police officers talking about things like rogue helicopter 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 what not, that the monster that attacked them was mostly like the the Caucasian Eagle, the eagle which Zeus, who is apparently real, set on Prometheus's liver. Amanda also stated that she told his mom already all of 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 also the wooziness that came with them. Under the bandage was a deep 'shrapnel cut', aka talon slash, which was definitely 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 them up),and so Tim's been at camp for about 1 years and 3 months. The first year of knowing he was a demigod, he only stayed at camp for the summer (3 months), then a full year when monster attacks became too frequent on advice of his mother.

Weapons: sword disguised as a gumstick