Claiming:Camp/Myles Cook

Name: Myles Cook

Gender: Male

God Parent: Notus

Current Age: 16

Mortal Parent: Lydia Cook

Appearance: Standing at a height of 5'9 Myles has an average build. He has brown eyes and a thick mess of dark black hair.

Personality: Myles is generally positive and friendly, if a bit awkward. He isn't the type of person to abandon his friends but he isn't as brave as other demigods and would rather run away than fight a powerful monster. His lack of courage may also lead to him freezing in some situations.

History: If you asked Lydia Cook how she met Notus, Greek god of the south wind, she would tell you a fantastic story of a beautiful young woman caught in a terrible storm only to be rescued by a winged hero descending from the sky. The true story is far less interesting. It began on a summers night when Lydia was in her early twenties. She was staying in her parents beach house, watching a fireworks display from her deck when she noticed a young man leaning against the fence eyes pointed upward, enjoying the spectacle. Feeling lonesome Lydia went out to meet him and they soon struck up a conversation. The two spent the rest of the week together and became very close. After that Lydia went back to New York and the two lost contact. Then Lydia found out she was pregnant.

Nine months later Myles was born and Notus finally made an appearance. At the hospital he appeared seemingly out of thin air and spoke to Lydia. He gave her the truth about gods, smiled sadly then vanished, like he'd never been there to begin with. Lydia moved in with her parents, believing her encounter with Notus at the hospital to be no more than dream. Lydia did her best to raise Myles, after two years she moved out her parents house and into a small flat of her own. She got a job working at a cafe and ten years later she was running a cafe of her own. All was going well, but still as Myles grew up she couldn't help feeling as if someone was watching them.

Myles had a happy childhood, his mother was busy a lot but she did make time for him. The feeling of being watched hadn't been confined to Lydia, Myles felt it too but for the most part he was able to ignore it. Ignoring this feeling and his complete ignorance of the gods help prevent monsters from noticing him. The only real incident was when he was pursed by a lagistrian giant, back in middle school. At the time he hadn't even been able to see past the mist, but when a massive bald thug runs at you its only common sense to run the opposite way, as fast as you can. But Myles' ignorance couldn't last forever. Things changed just after his sixteenth birthday. The paranoid feeling he'd been suppressing for so long resurfaced a thousand times stronger than before and he began to see things, impossible things, like giant dogs with burning eyes and serpents with five heads, but the disappeared in a blink and he was left looking at the "real" world again. After school he worked at his mother's cafe for a couple of hours. He got on well with the other staff, particularly Henry Elem, a scrawny NUI student. Henry was strange to say the least, he was a vegetarian but would eat anything else(even aluminum cans) and seemed to bray instead of laugh, but he was good friend and seemed to be looking out for Myles.

He was closing up at the cafe with Henry when the "incident" occurred. He was locking the front door when suddenly said door was knocked off its hinges and sent Myles flying across the room. He remembered coming to and red spots dancing across his eyes. Henry was shouting something and before Myles knew it he was slung over Henry's shoulder as his friend raced through the ruined doorway. As things came back into focus he noticed two things, Henry had abandoned his jeans to reveal the hindquarters of a donkey and they were being chased by a massive armored man with one giant eye. Myles calmly noted these things calmly then passed out again. When he woke up he was in the back of his mothers car. Henry and his Lydia sat in the front in the front. Lydia kept saying over and over again to herself hysterically "its not real" When he saw Myles move Henry turned back and told him everything while a shaken Lydia drove towards camp half blood. Possessions/Weapons: I was just going to give him the standard celestial bronze sword, spear and shield when he got to camp.

Imaginary sword (talk) 16:52, March 9, 2013 (UTC)