Claiming:Camp/Alex Carless

Name: Alex Carless

Gender: Male

God Parent: Aristaeus, Apollo, Aphrodite

Mortal Parent: Elizabeth Carless

Appearance:

Personality:  Alex is a bright and bubbly guy who will talk to anyone. He is easily impressed and, when he falls for a girl, he falls hard. Alex is a natural leader and will often be the one to start a conversation or break the ice with someone he doesn’t know. He’s always around when you need him, but is never clingy. In battle, Alex is strong and quiet, tending to be the defensive type.

History:  Elizabeth Carless was born in Australia and moved to New Zealand at five years of age. Her family began a farm predominantly grazing cows and sheep, and kept (where u keep bees) for themselves. As Elizabeth grew, beekeeping became her passion. Her friends would urge her to come out and socialize and meet guys, but she always turned them down, saying she had work to do. When Elizabeth turned 20, she went out for a night on the town with her friends. As they were walking down the main drag, Elizabeth turned around and crashed straight in to a guy behind her. The man smiled at her kindly and helped her up from the ground. He introduced himself as Aaron Crewe.  Elizabeth and Aaron fell in love and Aaron moved to Elizabeth’s family farm. He was impressed at the level of dedication Elizabeth had to her beekeeping and enjoyed shepherding the sheep and cows. Before their relationship progressed too far, Aaron sat Elizabeth down and explained to her that he was really the ancient Greek God, Aristaeus. He explained that if they had a child together, the child would be special, and he wouldn’t be able to interact in any direct way with the child. He also told Elizabeth that there was a place where Alex could go if he was ever in danger. Elizabeth was devastated, but still loved Aristaeus and made him swear that, if they had a child, he would always indirectly look out and protect them. Aristaeus swore on the River Styx.

 One day, Aristaeus left unexpectedly, and Elizabeth knew she must have been pregnant. She continued working around on the farm, and her parents moved out of retirement to support her in her pregnancy. When she gave birth to a beautiful boy, Elizabeth noticed a birthmark on the small of his back that looked suspiciously like bee wings. Elizabeth named her child Alex, and he grew up on the farm, learning to look after the cows and sheep and collect the bees’ honey.

 When Alex began going to school, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, but this didn’t stop him from making plenty of friends. On the way home from school one day, a stray dog began following him around. Alex tried to shake the dog off, but it followed him all the way home. That day, Elizabeth received a note saying that the dog’s name was Bluey and he would look after Alex. There is also someone at Alex’s school looking after him, the note said.

 When he was ten, Alex and his friend Joseph, were searching in the woods around the farm for a lost sheep with Bluey when a hellhound burst out from the scrub. Alex screamed and when the hellhound swiped at him, he ducked. Alex side stepped the hellhound and held out his hand in anger, shooting bee stinger from it. Alex stared at his hand in awe, surprised at what had happened. Joseph told him to run and then defeated the hellhound. Bluey ran to the farm’s border with Alex, where the lost sheep was grazing calmly. Joseph appeared and urged Alex to tell his mother, but Alex wanted to wait longer to tell her.

 Alex asked Joseph to train him in case something like that happened again. Joseph agreed, and for the next six years they trained every day, defeating various monsters with Alex growing into his powers more. Alex took absolute charge of the cows and sheep for his mother as he worked with them better. When he turned 16, Joseph persuaded him to go to Camp Half Blood, a safe place for people like him. The day before he left, a bronze shepherd’s crook appeared in his room with a note;

“Son,

I am proud to call you mine.

Use the crook wisely

It will transform in battle at your touch.

Your loving Father,

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin">Aristaeus”

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"> Alex travelled to New York with Joseph and (…) and they reached Camp Half Blood safely. Within five minutes of being at camp, Alex was claimed by his father and he joined his few siblings in the Aristaeus Cabin.

Weapons: His shepherd's crook that turns into a 3 foot sword in battle.



07:09, May 5, 2013 (UTC)