Claiming:Camp/Lucian Tryon

Desired god parent: Pandia, Nyx, Hecate

Mortal parent: Nathan Tryon

Age: 17

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Personality: Lucian has a sort of high and mighty mentality. Not only is he quite well read and considered a sort of prodigy by some, he is also a member of a minor aristocratic family. Due to this, he thinks very highly of himself and by way of that he also thinks very lowly of others that are not a part of his social class. Although he appears very calm and confidant on the outside, he is actual quite an angry person. He holds a large amount of hatred for his father and sees him as someone who gave up on a life that had so much worth. He has vowed to exceed his father in every way he can.

History: The moon is a mysterious thing or so my father, Nathan Tryon, once thought. He spent days in his youth staring off at the moon, day dreaming about his future. When he was younger, we wanted to be an astronaut and one day visit the moon. This obsession was not really approved by his family. He and his family were a part of the English aristocracy. With the disapproval of his family, he grew to the knowledge that this goal was not likely and gave up on it, but he still used the moon as his focus when he day dreamed. Reaching around the age of sixteen, he decided that if he couldn’t be an astronaut, he came to an interest in astronomy and more specifically astrophysics. He had a desire to understand the celestial bodies of the universe and how they functioned and interacted. After eventually graduating high school, he was able to move to America attend the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) for studies in the field of astrophysics. As he attended Caltech year by year, he grew known around the community of astrophysics. After finishing his undergraduate he chose to continue to attend Caltech for his graduate and eventually receives a PhD in the field of astrophysics.

Thus becoming Dr. Tryon, he was quickly offered a job at Caltech to be a part of the physics department. He unhesitantly accepted the job offer and became a part of the faculty at Caltech purposed with research. He was able to become quickly accustomed to his work settings as he had been there before as a student. He was also offered a teaching role, which he declined, as he much rather wanted to research. For many years passed starting his career at Caltech, he conducted research in the field of astrophysics and even won many awards for his discoveries and ideas. However, through all of the studies of these far off celestial bodies, he remained with an interest in something much closer to home, comparatively speaking. Although no one else really had much interest in studying the moon, he was still that day dreaming kid he once was.

Around the age of thirty, he came to the realization of how hard it was to find others that had the same interest as him among his colleagues. Because of this, he began to become depressed from his lot in life. He was this successful astrophysicist, made a large amount of money, lived in a beautiful house, and yet he found no true joy in life. He came to the conclusion that he was lonely. He could not find any colleagues to relate to nor did he have anyone special in his life. He was alone. He was even as desperate as to try online dating. For a while, most of the dates set up were completely awkward and made him feel worse. However, eventually, he came upon the profile of a woman that caught his interest or at least her name did. Her name was Luna Soljay. Even though he had all but given up on both online dating and a love life entirely, he decided to give it one last try.

After setting up the date, he nervously awaited her at a table at the restaurant they had decided on. While he waited, he thought back to when he had first read about her. Though his original interest was peaked by her name, he actually found even more interest in her as he viewed the rest of her online profile. She was a graduate from Princeton University, having a PhD in chemistry and had just moved to California to work at a small research firm. On top of all of that, he found her quite beautiful. Though nothing but her beauty was actually real, it’s not all that important. While still pondering her and nervously waiting, she arrived at the table. She tilted her head as she looked down to him while he was sitting and said, “Nathan?” He quickly jolted up, completely flustered by seeing her, and introduced himself. The date went quite well and they began seeing each other.

After about a year had passed, they had began living together and he finally was happy with his life. However, he began to become suspicious of her and her work. He had never really thought about it before, but he realized he had not seen any of her research or any findings at all. He decided to ask around at his work and found no one that had even heard of her or this firm she was supposed to work at. He got home early one day and awaited for her to return home. When she arrived, he confronted her. He went on and on about how stupid he was for not realizing she was a fraud. Just before he was about to say he wanted to break things off she stopped him. She, reluctantly, explained that she didn’t want to hide things from him and that it was just easier to do so.

She revealed that she was actual a goddess, Pandia daughter of Selene. She told him she orchestrated their date because she had watched him and grew found of him due to his fascination with the moon. In pure and utter disbelieve he became irate and began to shout at her to leave. It was at this time she told him she was pregnant. In shock, he fell back onto a near by couch and sat there for a few moments. He eventually began to question her on what she had said about being a goddess. By simply summoning a beam of moonlight, she proved herself to him. Further in shock due to this revelation he began to tense up and hyperventilate. She quickly rushed to his side and calmed him.

After a few days he was finally able to cope with all of what she had told him and he decided to stay with her, but not only because of the child. However, she explained, once their child was born, she had to leave. While he did not like it, he accepted it. As the months passed he grew further away from his work and closer to her. Once their child, me, was born, I was left with him and she vanished. My first memory is my father in a drunken stupor. He did not take her leaving well. He fell mostly away from the academic community, however, he continued to receive pay due to having received tenure from Caltech. My early life was not very good. My father drank quite a lot and was absent most of the time. As far as I know he was never happy again.

At the age of thirteen, my father drank himself to death by succumbing to alcohol poisoning. It was hard to deal with it, but it was harder to deal with the strange powers I had began to develop. I moved back to England after being taken in my aunt and continued to live with her until I was sixteen, at which point I got legally emancipated and moved out. I had received my GED and got a simple sales job at a local mattress store. It was enough to pay for food, rent and some other amenities and I got by. My goal was to what I thought my father couldn’t. You see, I didn’t know anything about my mother or what I could do. I had blocked out the existence of my powers and I decided I wanted to prove I was better than my father.

I went on for almost a year at that job until I finally got an acceptance letter to Caltech. My dream was finally about to begin. I bought myself a one way ticket to California and found my self on my way to my dream. However, upon reaching the campus, I was attacked. I saw a group of female upperclassmen and didn’t pay them much mind until suddenly they turned into some crazy pale monsters with fire for hair. I instantly just began running and didn’t look back. I ran around the corner to the back of an old building and stopped to catch my breath. It seemed they had stopped chasing me. I relaxed a bit until some guy wearing what looked like armor came around the corner while holding a sword. I backed away but hit a dead end. I was certain I was dead but he sheathed his sword and introduced himself.

He told me he was a child of Ares and he had been sent to kill the monsters that were chasing me. Of course I thought he was crazy at first but when he told me that I had to be a demigod as I could see the monsters and that I must have some sort of powers like he did, I began to remember all the memories I has suppressed. As it all came flooding back I accidentally shot off a beam of moonlight. At once, he knew and told me I was a child of Pandia. I just couldn’t believe it and I ran off. All the things he had told me, demigods, monsters, some camp; it was crazy.

I ended up calling my aunt to ask if she knew anything about my mother. She said something about a box my father had given her to give to me if I ever asked such a thing. After getting the box from her, I took it home an opened it. It had a picture of my mother and a long letter detailing my father career, his meeting of my mother, and all the things she had told him before she left. I finally understood it all. There was also mentionings of a camp in New York. At that point, I recalled what the child of Ares had said and I decided to head to this camp in order to find out more about it.

My name is Lucian Tryon, and I am a son of Pandia.