Archived:Marcus Smith

Personality
Serious, scatterbrained, goofy (only to close friends), logical, sort of like that guy at the back of the class furiously trying to learn as much as possible but at recess can be seen joking around and having a laugh with his friends.

History
His mom was a car mechanic in Canada when she met Hephaestus. He brought in an old pontiac that he said he wanted fixed, but he also wanted to help on the car as well. It was a long project that took most of a week, but during this project they fell deeply in love. After the project they saw each other every single day, and when Hephaestus thought the timing was right, they decided to have a son, and well she was pregnant, Hephaestus revealed to her that he was a god, and that the child born would be a demigod. He told her to prepare to take him to a magical sanctuary for demigods. He then dissapeard, and never returned.

During Marcus's childhood, he did not posess the knowledge of his powers, and fearful of his powers developing at any moment, his mom kept him inside as much as possible. When Marcus got older, it became harder to keep him inside, so at the age of 7 his mom took him to tai chi in order to keep his powers in check, as they came out when he was stressed, sad, or angered.

At the age of ten, Marcus began to suspect that his mysterious nack for setting stuff on fire that he possesed scince age 9 was not just bad luck, so with the tai chi he was learning, he started to get a better grip on his powers, but he was still not good enough to control it for long.

One day however, at the age of 12 Marcus was found in the middle of his room surrounded by an inferno,but the fire was not burning him. Knowing that he would soon be sought after by monsters, his mother sent word to a Camp Half-Blood satyr living in the area named Ben. Ben had been a protector for many years and he had contocted Marcus's mom as soon as he sensed that Marcus was a demigod.

After Marcus's mother said her last goodbyes Ben gifted Marcus with a celestial bronze kopis and a silver knife to defend himself with. Ben took Marcus by train to america and then by foot to Half-Blood Hill, but near the Camp's border they ran into a flock of stymphalian birds, Ben played a sharp noise from his reed pipes which disoriented the birds long enough for Marcus and Ben to run into camp. He got there safely at age 13.

Powers

 * Can control fire
 * excellent blacksmith
 * Talented engineer