Claiming:Camp/Alva Eoh

Name: Alva Eoh

Gender: Male

God Parent: Aeolus

Mortal Parent: Vienna Eoh

Appearance:

Personality: Alva is a generally kind and warmhearted person with a optimistic view on most things in life. He loves spending time with the people he's closest too but can be pretty socially awkward/awkward talking to (i.e; he doesn't know what to say, stands there, etc.) and cowardice. Most of the time, he spends his time alone reading comic books since he's grown to love them throughout his childhood. Alva likes making his friends smile and joking around.

The main thing that he hates the most is when people want to become his friend just for his looks and not personality. Often times, he doesn't know how to express his feelings and makes a habit of bottling it up. If something upsets Alva greatly, he'll have a bad reaction and start yelling and showing great displeasure. Alva also hates it when people want to befriend his friends just to become close to him since it's happened more than once in his life.

Growing up with his stepfather, Alva was ridiculed for liking female superheroes or liking comic books in general, even being teased in school about it, so he'd never admit openly of his interest and would hide them. His stress reliever is flying. It helps him relax and a feeling of freedom wash over him.

Alva can be rather shy and bashful. He likes singing, just never in front of someone else. He's been complimented on his voice before but he doesn't like the way his voice sounds. Growing up, Alva has taken in interest in different kinds of music and had his stepsister help teach him play the piano and drums.

Throughout high school, Alva only had one friend - two if you count his stepsister - and drove a wedge between one of them. Due to this, Alva has a fear of losing friendships and can be rather protective. Overall, Alva's a kind person who has a hard time expression emotions, rather cowardice and has trouble making friends, but he loves to read and sing - just not publicly and has a strong hatred of people who like him for his looks instead of his personality.

History: Vienna Eoh didn’t mean to become pregnant. It was a Friday night, she, along with a few of her friends, were throwing a celebration party - Vienna’s friend was turning another year older - down in Miami Beach and it was her friends who decided to hook her up. She didn’t even know the man but he was rather attractive. Introducing themselves, their friends shooed them off into a bedroom, the only instruction was to “have fun”. Vienna wanted to actually know him before they tried anything. The man - who’s named Marcelo - agreed. The two talked for what seemed to be hours. Vienna didn’t want to have sex with a total stranger, so Vienna gave Marcelo her phone number and requested they meet again to talk and have a proper date. Marcelo smiled and agreed, thus parting ways.

A week passed as the two became closer, getting to know each other more - Marcelo was a senior in college visiting Florida when he happened to meet Vienna and told him what he was majoring in and gave her the basics. Marcelo stated he was 23 years of age while Vienna was 25 years of age - and Marcelo called, requesting they had a date. Vienna said they could watch a movie at her apartment. A few minutes later, Marcelo arrived at her doorstep carrying a bottle of champagne. Vienna found it rather amusing and laughed, stating she never had a sip of alcohol in her life. Thus, Marcelo poured himself and Vienna a glass while Vienna set up the movie. It wasn’t before long they got intimate due to drunken shenanigans. It was Marcelo’s idea to experiment and Vienna agreed. Even though she only knew Marcelo for a week or so, she loved him. But the next day, he was gone. A note on her bedside table read,

"Dear Vienna,

My apologies I couldn’t spend enough time with you, but I’m also sorry it had to be this way. As a lovely young woman, it’s my best interest that you find another man who will cherish you more. But this isn’t all I have to say. My name is Aeolus, god of the winds and you are pregnant with a demigod. I request that you seek that he gets to New York safely. The reason being is; there is a camp specifically for demigods for their safety. Once again, I’m sorry it had to be this way.

Yours Truly, Marcelo"

At first, Vienna thought it was a joke, but a few weeks later and one hospital visit, the letter was true. Vienna asked her closest friend, Maria Kim, to help raise her child. As a good friend, Maria agreed. Once Vienna’s child was born, she and Maria moved from their apartment and into a house perfect for the 3 of them. Vienna’s child was a baby boy named Alva Silas Eoh. Vienna had a rough time finding a job as racial stereotypes were put on her, but found a job to be a librarian while Maria cared for Alva during the day since her job was a nighttime job. When Alva was three, Vienna had to take Alva to work with her since Maria was called in to work a day shift. Vienna’s co-worker and love interest, Nolan Constantine, had to babysit Alva. Alva’s eyes found something that caught his interest and asked if Nolan could get it for him. It was a comic book about Wonder Woman in the Comic Books section in the library. Though Alva couldn’t read just yet, he looked at the pictures and decided he really liked comic books.

At age six, Alva’s mother said they would be moving in with Nolan. Despite Nolan having a daughter, Jemma, who was 2 years older than Alva, Alva didn’t like Nolan since he said that “female superheroes are too girly for him” and tried to steer him to a better superhero. Nolan gave up trying after Alva said “no” for the 10th time, but he didn’t like him because the females are just as good as the males. In due time, the two were successfully moved in. Nolan was kind enough to give Alva his own room and even had a bookshelf to keep all his comic books. Jemma also became good friends with Alva since they both got along with their shared love of comic books. During school, kids picked on Alva for liking comic books and for being of Asian descent. Upset, Jemma kept Alva secluded from the other kids. Alva didn’t mind. He was too young to understand and he was too engrossed in his fantasy land to take notice.

Around the age of nine, Vienna and Nolan became married after 7 years of dating. Alva had conflicted feelings about this. He didn’t like Nolan due to him being rather stringent with Alva but he loved Jemma since the two were close. Instead, he didn’t talk to anyone about it and kept it to himself even though it bothered him so much. Jemma saw the change in Alva, even though he was rather a quiet child, and asked if something was wrong. Alva smiled and responded with a “no”.

For Alva things weren’t getting better. His mother found a new job and was barely home, his stepfather liked to chastise Alva of his love of female superheroes and female role models and the teasing and bullying were becoming more severe. On the bright side, Jemma was always with Alva, cheering him up and teaching him Spanish alond with the piano and drums since Alva liked seeing Jemma play. She said that his love of female superheroes, comics etc. were perfectly normal and if he liked it, he shouldn’t be ashamed of it. Alva told all his problems to Jemma and she always listened.

At the age of 13, as Alva was walking home from the bookstore across the street, when he heard rustling in the bushes. Startled, he jumped. He waved it off and began walking until the rustling became louder which caused him to turn around. He was now faced with a large and angry dog. His breath caught in his throat, but he went with his instinct and ran as the dog was still on his tail. The dog managed to knock him to the floor. Alva shielded himself, but before he could possibly be killed, he heard something being unsheathed and a whimper. Alva refused to look, too scared. But when he did, the dog was gone, there was gold dust on the sidewalk. Still scared, he bolted home.

Arriving home, Nolan said to Alva he recieved a present. Retrieving a retangular box from his stepfather, the boy went to his room to open it. There was a label that read: “To Alva, from Dad.” Confused and curious, he opened the box to reveal two bronze-like skeleton hand bracelets. Taking the accessories, he put on the bracelets and took note of a small button on the wrists. Alva pressed both buttons and they turned into claws. Frightened, he pressed the button again, took off the bracelets and stuffed them back in the box. But, Alva did think they were cool. So, he hid the box under his bed. Unfortunately, he completely forgot all about them.

In high school, Alva was generally picked on for being the “nerd” of the school. He wore round glasses, was pretty scrawny and liked to read comic books. Everyone teased him about it especially a kid around Alva’s age, Gabriel Necchi, who liked to make fun of his ethnicity and how he liked comic books. Alva had enough when Gabriel prodded at his family, stating that his dad should’ve taught him to be more of man and his little group of friends agreed. Alva jumped to his feet and shouted; “I never knew my dad, my mom always works and my step-dad hates me!” throwing his comic book to the ground at Gabriel’s feet and bolted off, clearly upset. It shocked Gabriel to a point where he was baffled. Gabriel didn't have a father either, his mother said his father left him before he was even born.

Picking up the comic book, he followed Alva, much to his friend’s surprise, and decided to read a portion of it. Once finding Alva - the boy was curled up on a park bench, glasses sitting beside him - he carefully moved his glasses and sat down beside him. Poking the boy, Alva looked up to see Gabriel handing him his glasses. Putting them on, Gabriel began apologizing and that it was wrong of him for picking on someone. Alva told him that it was okay with a reassuring smile. Jemma came to pick up Alva and when Gabriel went to give Alva his comic book back, the boy said Gabriel could keep it. Ever since then, the two became close.

But each year, Alva was hunted down by the monsters that attacked him when he was 13. He managed to escape, but he was tired of running. So, during the summer, when Alva was 16 and narrowly escaped another monster attack, he decided he was tired of running and wanted to be better looking to his image. And when his junior year started, everyone noticed the change in Alva. He got rid of the glasses, his hair was dyed platinum blonde, he was a hell of a lot more muscular - not just skin and bone - and he looked overall attractive. He gained a lot of friends that day just for his image which seemed to displease Alva greatly. Gabriel merely watched, thinking his best friend changed too much, but was relieved to find the blonde haired boy secluded from the rest of the kids at lunch, his round glasses perched on his face and comic book in hand.

Gabriel sat with Alva during lunch but during class time, Alva was the center of attention. When one of the teachers went to take a call, a few classmates began going to Alva and complementing on his new image and how he changed. Everyone began crowding around him and Alva was starting to find it hard to breathe. Since Gabriel had a few classes with Alva, he noticed this and made everyone leave Alva alone. Alva hated large crowds, finding it hard to breathe. On the bright side, Alva had Gabriel to take care of that.

But one day, there was a rumor going around that Gabriel was a homosexual. Now the people at Alva’s school weren’t exactly understanding as Alva and Jemma, Jemma being a lesbian herself and Alva being curious, but unlabeled, this made Alva upset. During lunch, a bunch of kids began bullying Gabriel about the rumor, and Alva had to watch, a few students wanting the blonde haired boy to sit with them since they didn’t like seeing their “favorite boy” sitting all alone. It got to a point where a male student pushed Gabriel into a wall and Alva had enough. Alva first asked kindly to stop since Gabriel was his friend. The student laughed and shoved Alva into the wall as well, much to his and Gabriel’s horror. Alva didn’t like fighting. He never has. As the male student began to punch Alva, Gabriel stepped in the way and took the blow for him. Before the male student could pursue, a teacher stepped in and broke up the fight. The bell rang, meaning school was over for the summer. Alva went to help Gabriel treat his black eye when the latter said to leave him alone and that being his friend was the biggest mistake of his life, that it was his fault he was being picked on. It hurt Alva a lot and he didn't understand.

When Jemma heard about what happened, she rushed to Alva’s side, checking to make sure if he was okay. Alva told Jemma what happened and that he didn’t know what to do. Jemma decided to take matters into her own hands and went to catch up with Gabriel, Alva following right behind. Jemma confronted Gabriel about the issue and he said he was jealous how Alva was well built and athletic, how people adored him, and overall jealous how he looked. Some classmate of his even started a rumor because of how much he spent time with Alva. Jemma started laughing while Alva was confused.

Jemma said that Gabriel had a crush on Alva, but Gabriel denied. Ironically, it was true. Gabriel had a crush on Alva, but he had no idea how to express it. Alva was confused beyond compare, but he didn’t say anything. He didn’t say he didn’t feel the same - not that he knew of - and nor did he say anything about his love interest because he didn't have one.

But during Alva’s 17th birthday, Alva had a fight with his step-dad, Nolan, about how he wanted Gabriel over and wanted to go down to the beach. Nolan rebutted by saying that he didn’t want Alva getting his “disease” which made Alva pissed, causing him to explode with rage. He went on about how he wanted to spend time with his only friend and didn't understand why Nolan hated him so much just because of his interests, but as he rambled on, great winds began picking up inside the house, causing Nolan to freeze in terror and confusion. The angrier Alva became, the greater the winds became, Alva not even realizing it. At the anger that was trapped inside of him for so long spilled out and when Alva was done, he was breathing heavily and felt drained. Jemma and her girlfriend, Gwen, along with Vienna, saw what happened, leaving them shocked as all hell. Alva realized people were watching and ran, Jemma and Gwen chasing after him. Alva ran straight into a hellhound and fell.

The hellhound went to attack the boy, but luckily, Gwen was a demigod herself and was able to kill the hellhound with ease. Gwen said she was so stupid not to realize it sooner, confusing both Jemma and a panicked Alva. Gwen explained Alva was a demigod and by the looks of it, he was a son of a wind god and there was a special camp for kids like him. Gwen wasn’t there now because she wasn’t year round, but she was heading back for the summer. Alva  remembered the box under his bed and asked Gwen about his skeleton bracelets that he got 4 years ago, still hidden under his bed and how they were able to turn into claws. Gwen replied that they were most likely weapons for him to use to protect himself.

Gwen said she and Alva needed to leave immediately. Jemma helped Alva pack while Gwen explained what happened and that he needed to get to camp. Vienna completely forgot about the note Aeolus gave her since she was too occupied with work and her kids until she was reminded of it. She gave it to Gwen while Gwen read over it. Alva and Jemma shared a goodbye hug, Jemma telling him to, “be safe” and smiled, handing her brother his box that contained the bracelets. Alva and Gwen called for a cab to the train station when Gabriel decided to show. Gabriel asked where Alva was going and he replied that he was going to New York for a while. Gabriel nodded but did something unexpected. Kissing Alva, he told him that he would see him soon and left, leaving Alva surprised and Gwen giggling. Alva realized he had the box holding his weapons in hand. The blonde opened it and put them on, telling Gwen it was “just in case” they ran into any monsters.

Gwen and Alva arrived to New York without any problems. Alva was startstruck at the city but had no time to gaze since Gwen explained there were a plethora of monsters in New York. Alva nodded and the two quickly went to camp, meeting another group of demigods with a couple of saytrs and nymphs along the way. The decided to go together, Alva the most excited of the group since he couldn’t wait, but was also anxious. A nymph explained to Alva that there was nothing to worry about and that he’d be safe in this camp. Upon entering camp, he was claimed by Aeolus, but Alva already knew that since he read his father’s note plenty of times on the train.

Weapons: Celestial Bronze Claws