Claiming:Camp/James Tanner

Name: James Tanner

God parent: Athena, Apollo, Ares

Age: 15

Mortal parent: Andrew Tanner

Appearance: James is a tall athletic looking kid. 6'5" with short brown hair and peircing blue eyes.

Personality: James is extremely friendly and sociable. Although he makes friends almost instantly James is incredibly competitive and will fight tooth and nail in even the most trivial competitions. Being a son of Athena, James is incredibly smart a natural strategist from his mom and a voracious reader as well as student of history from his dad.

History: Andrew Tanner was an Army officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. During his second tour of Iraq Andrew's Humvee was hit by an IED, while he wasn't killed his injuries left him physically unable to return to combat. However Andrew is a genius when it comes to history especially history's most important battles. So the Army offered him a teaching position at West Point on those very subjects.

He became very popular among his students and fellow teachers. One day an incrediblely beautiful teacher, Athena, came up to him and asked him out to lunch. On their date they discussed everything history literature politics and even battle strategy.

They would continue to meet and talk like this regularly and they would do it for hours and hours until one day she just disappeared without a word. Andrew was heart broken because he had fallen in love with her. A few months later he heard a knock on his door when he answered he saw a baby on his porch with a note that explained who and what the baby was. He didn't know if he believed the note but he took the baby I and named him James.

James grew up as happy and healthy as any little boy could. It was just him and his dad, he never married anyone after all who could compare to a goddess? Growing up James was just like an other kid playing sports and making friends but there where times when he would feel different he was always so much smarter and more thoughtful than the kids his age not to mention his ADD and dyslexia.

One day when he was about to turn 14 he was walking home from school with his best friend Thomas when this huge man walked up to the two of them. He completely ignored Thomas and focused on James he sniffed the air around James and said "Half blood" in a low rumbling voice. Before James could even really comprehend what he said the man lunged at him but James was faster and was able to dive out of his way. But the guy just kept coming after him. The next time he has able to grab a hold of James's shirt he lifted him off the ground. Just as the man was about to kill him he burst he cloud of dust and standing behind where the man was Thomas and he was holding a bronze dagger. He helped James off the ground and they started running off towards James home, on the way Thomas started to explain what happened that James was a demigod and that Thomas was a saytr and that the guy was a giant. When they got to the safety of the house Andrew sat down and explained his whole story to his son and told him that there was a camp that could teach him to survive against the monsters out there. So the next morning they packed a bag and drove upstate to camp half blood. A few days after arriving at camp Athena claimed him as her son.

James spent the next year learning everything he could about fighting battle strategy and the history of the gods. In particular he learned he was extremely talented with a bow and arrow as well as an adept swordsman.

Weapon/possessions: James has his own bow and quiver of arrows and a celestial bronze sword. Mcmasher (talk) 22:05, December 30, 2014 (UTC)