Claiming:Camp/Elias Culver

Name: Elias Culver

Gender: Male

God Parent: Morpheus, Hypnos, Deimos

Mortal Parent: Gianna Culver

Appearance: Elias is about five foot six or so. His strict vegetarian diet makes it easy to maintain a healthy body weight, but he is by no means physically imposing. He has brown hair that he keeps short and tidy. His eyes are small and dark. They often stare off into space or focus in on small details of objects whenever Elias gets the least bit bored. Elias's nose is large enough to be evidence of his mother's Italian heritage. Elias has thin lips that he keeps straight almost always. He isn't nearly as somber as he looks, but years of living in the governor's mansion and dealing with people at political events have trained the lad to stonewall everyone. For a teenager, the guy is a very dapper dresser. He always wears at least a khakis and a button up, but vests, ties, and suit jackets are all common additions to his daily attire.

Personality: Elias's most significant character trait is his protectiveness. He is a natural caregiver and he is more than happy to help anyone whom he determines to need his assistance. He took care of his mother for months before coming to camp. Despite being the first to offer aid to others, Elias is rather frail for a demigod in his own right. He cannot stand loud noises or rapid movements. Situations with lots of these stimuli often send Elias into an almost catatonic state and less overwhelming situations still cause him a great deal of stress. Because of this major inconvenience, Elias's training at camp focuses on fine tuning his superpowers and studying Greek myths. Elias has learned from his stepfather to be an effective diplomat. He is an expert in persuasion and verbal deception. He can keep his calm in social situations and can normally get others to come to his way of thinking.

History: Gianna and Edward Culver were high school sweethearts who got married soon after graduation. Gianna got a job as a concierge at a hotel to help put Edward though law school. Upon graduating, Edward got a job working for the Louisville district attorney. He quickly proved himself to be an excellent lawyer and he moved his way up in the ranks until he was noticed by the governor and made attorney genre rail of the great state of Kentucky. By the time he was forty, Edward Culver managed to barely win a gubernatorial bid. The Culvers were very happy, but they were never able to have a child. They prayed that God would give them a child, but they didn't realize what god they were praying to. The lonely couple caught the attention of Morpheus who decided to answer their prayers in his own way. He put Gianna into a dreamlike state and conceived a child with her. During this process, she did not know what was happening and she could not remember it afterward.

They were overjoyed to have their son, Elias. Edward had no idea he wasn't the baby's father and he took care of Eli as his son. Elias grew up in the governors mansion, attending black tie fund raisers and learning about politics from his stepfather. Edward's plan was to prune Elias to be a successful politician in the future. Elias was well adapted to the public life of being Kentucky's only first child and by the time he was ten, he was already working with several charities around the state and speaking with interviewers about things in the Capitol. But when Elias was twelve, his life took a startling turn.

Eli was in the car with his mother when Lamia, a child eating demon, approached the vehicle at a stop sign. Lamia had disguised herself as a panhandler asking for money. When Gianna rolled down the window, lamia revealed her monstrous identity and commandeered the car. She then drove it to her lair where she began to prepare to cook and eat Elias. Back in the Capitol, Edward assumed that his wife and son had been abducted for political reasons and treated the kidnapping as a hostage situation by sending a swat team to the car using its gps location. There, a Camp Half Blood dream nymph secretly joined the swat team and used celestial bronze to kill Lamia amidst the chaos of the swat team try ping to rescue the Culvers.

Fortunately, the nymph and swat team acted quickly enough to prevent any serious damage from being done to either captive. On the downside, Gianna was so shaken up that she wasn't even capable of stringing together a coherent sentence. The nymph told Elias about camp and encouraged him to go right away, but Elias put off the nymph because he wanted to help Edward take care of Gianna. The nymph was furious, but eventually realized that Eli was too stubborn to go to camp until his mother's condition improved. The nymph decided to go back to camp, but she made Elias dream about Camp Half Blood very often and give him a celestial bronze dagger just in case more monsters attacked.

During the next six months, Gianna's condition improved very little. Elias stayed by his mother while she babbled and giggled at nothing and seemed to be completely off her rocker. Edward attempted to keep his wife's condition a secret to protect her privacy, even with Elias's help, Kentucky's crazed First Lady was soon on the cover of every newspaper in the state. Edward decided after four terms, not to seek reelection to stay home with his wife. All the while, minor monsters continued to come after Elias with increasing frequency. Eventually Eli decided that his presence was putting his family in danger and guided by the nymph's dreams, had his father take him to camp. Elias is now twelve years old and suffers what is probably PTSD from the monsters and seeing his mother go crazy. Edward has retired from his life of public service and takes care of Gianna full time. Her condition has not noticeably improved since her kidnapping.

Weapons: Elias carries a celestial bronze dagger.

Horchata (talk) 13:11, December 14, 2013 (UTC)