Archived:Taylor Bayle

Personality
Taylor's struggle with people bullying the dyslexic intersex Goth has left the young teenager pretty bitter. Taylor tends to be pretty silent but is a master of body language and is very perceptive. Taylor also enjoys manipulating others and is willing to go to dark places to do the world a greater service.

History
Taylor's father Daniel was a powerful illusionist in New York City with a witty personality. He drew the attention of the goddess Apate who came to him in the guise of an young woman and seduced him, before leaving him for about four months.

During those months Daniel was keeping up his job as an illusionist until one day Apate came back to him in the form of the woman and handed him an intersexed child. Apate revealed herself to Daniel and warned Daniel not to try to change the child and that when they where no longer safe to go to Camp Halfblood and told him where to go to find it before leaving once more.

The child, whom Daniel named Taylor, was raised as neither male or female but rather androgynously. At school however Taylor would be bullied and picked on by other students both for being androgynous and for being dyslexic. Due to this Daniel spent much of his money to get Taylor an exceptional martial arts instructor, eventually learning Mizongyi (a martial art focused on deception and mobility) from a Sifu. Due to Taylor's natural talent at deception Taylor learned Mizongyi fairly quickly becoming adept in it by the Taylor entered middle school.

In middle school while Taylor knew self defense, there was still a lot of verbal and emotional bullying, partly because puberty accented Taylor's androgynous looks, and partly because Taylor became a Goth. When out in public Taylor would often dress as one gender or the other in order to hide the teen's true nature, Taylor found this very easy as Taylor had strong genetics for trickery. During Taylor's 14th birthday Apate gave Daniel what appeared to be a silver earing telling him to give it to Taylor as a gift and Daniel complied.

When Taylor was 14 the teen was spending some time in Commentswoods when a giant scorpion attacked and knocked Taylor to the ground, holding a hand on the side of the Goth's bleeding head the earing was activated and turned into a Dao (a Chinese saber), knowing how to use it from the Mizongyi lessons and used it to defeat the scorpion with no major injuries.

Exhausted and confused Taylor told Daniel about the encounter who revealed to him about his mother and her message, after hearing this Daniel decided to try to go to Camp Halfblood but Taylor did not want to because of anger towards the teen's mother for neglecting Taylor.

At age 15 Taylor was attacked by a harpy and Taylor killed it but sustained a pretty deep cut on the arm. A couple of days past Taylor's 16th birthday Taylor decided that despite the resentment felt towards Apate that Camp Halfblood would still be ideal and decided to let Daniel take him there.

On the way Taylor was attacked by a hellhound and Daniel tried to hit what looks like a rabid dog attacking his child with a stick causing the hellhound to mortally wound him, afterwards Taylor managed to kill it. Daniel then died from his wounds in Taylor's arms.

From there Taylor continued into the camp where the demi-god was claimed by Apate upon entering.

Powers
Children of Apate are cunning, sly and uneasily fooled.
 * Children of Apate have the minor ability to create illusions of attacks so realistic that they are most likely to catch an enemy off guard; however, if they miss they are left vulnerable to counter attack.
 * Children of Apate are able to command a weapon to go against it's master's will. However, they cannot command a weapon bigger than them. Also, the master of the weapon can resist the will of the weapon. Once the effect has wore off, the weapon is immune to further effects of it.
 * Children of Apate are able to make the objects in a small area shift appearance or location, confusing those who will see it. While the skill is in effect, it continuously drains the user.
 * Children of Apate are able to trick charging enemies to face the opposite directions and charge at those directions instead. The more enemies and the longer the distance, the more it drains the demigods. After the effects have wore off, enemies will be immune to further effects of it for the battle.
 * Children of Apate are innately able to see through lies, illusions or any form of deceit, as they are innately so well skilled with deceit themselves.
 * Children of Apate have the innate ability to confuse, mislead or deceive others for a short time, the longer they try and keep up with the lies/deceptions, the more energy it drains.
 * Children of Apate are able to make a fake copy of an object not bigger than them, but they must clearly imagine the object in their minds for it to completely imitate the original object. Also, if the original object possess magical properties or whatsoever, the imitation will not copy those properties.
 * Children of Apate can use their powers to lure someone into lying or coming into agreement with them when they truly don't want to without the person influenced even noticing. The bigger the lie, the more power drained. A person with a strong will can fight this, and most will remember being deceived shortly after.
 * Children of Apate are able to mimic sounds or the voice of a person or creature they already heard speaking or making noise. The quality of the mimicry depends on the focus and skill level of the user.
 * Children of Apate tend to be treacherous, fond of treachery or amused by it.
 * Children of Apate are very good lairs and make good alibis.
 * Children of Apate are good at forging signatures and hacking systems.
 * Children of Apate have deceit "intuitions", meaning they may have a hunch if someone will try to deceive them. However, their predictions may not be accurate every time.