Archived:Sterling Goodwin

Appearance
Sterling has light brown hair, and blue eyes. He is six foot four, and incredibly fit due to his athletics. He dresses stylishly and is usually up to date on the trends, but his favorite outfit is still t-shirt and jeans.

Personality
Sterling is an interesting person to say the least. His moods range from pensive to wild, but most of the time the only thing he is remotely interested in is himself. This is not to say though that he is not sociable. On the contrary Sterling loves people, for the self-serving reason that people love him back. He is very kind upon first meeting a person, that is of course until it becomes clear to him that they are of what he deems little importance. Following this epiphany he becomes polite but distant. While not willing to make an emotional connection with anyone, Sterling flirts with anything that's got a pulse, and has been known to take anyone willing to bed.

History
For all his supposed sophistication and charm, Sterling came from incredibly mundane beginnings. Sterling's mother Arlene Piznarski was a liquor store clerk with a prodigal skill for wine tasting. Unfortunately for her Mobile, Alabama was not the place to cultivate such a talent. She did however attract the attention of Dionysus, and soon enough after one too many merlots, Buck Piznarski was conceived. He grew up in a run down house with his mother and her string of boyfriends, waiting for his chance to escape. Arlene was never that great of a parent, and though she certainly wasn't abusive she was distant and mildly neglectful. While waiting Buck decided to learn all he could about the one percent lives. Reading incessantly and becoming cultured, he kept this all inside as to not upset anyone in Mobile. When he was thirteen he finally saw his chance, it was the day his father came to town.

For the three months prior to his father's visit, Buck had been experimenting with alcohol and found out he had an amazing tolerance to the stuff. Then one day his father was waiting for him once he got inside his house. His mom and her boyfriend were unconscious under a pile of vines. His father explained who he was and why he was here, apparently even the god of wine doesn't want his child drinking at thirteen and asked him to stop. Dionysus said that he would give Buck anything in his power to give if he promised not to drink for three more years. Buck thought about it deeply and asked his father for a new life. Buck asked for a new name, a new house, a new guardian, and most importantly: class. His father responded positively and that very second they appeared in a house in the Hamptons. His father introduced him to his new guardian one of his nymphs, Calliope. Calliope took the name Christiana Goodwin and Buck became Sterling Goodwin.

Everything about Buck changed when he moved, in fact Buck died and Sterling arose from the ashes like a grape soaked phoenix. Sterling didn't have Buck's accent (although this might come out in times of great stress), Sterling dressed in all the newest fashions (due to a unlimited platinum credit card thanks to dear old dad), hell Sterling was even smarter than Buck was. Buck started to play lacrosse, and that Summer shot up like a weed (or vine) and ended up being the attractive, six foot four, lacrosse star that he was.

During his years in the Hamptons, though he wintered in New York where he attended a somewhat elite Boarding school, Calliope proceeded to train him in both the use of his burgeoning powers and the chakram. When he was sixteen, he was returning from a rather raucous party when he was approached by a lone woman. Now Sterling was not one to ever say no to a beautiful woman, but something about her seemed off so he slowly began to retreat. This is when he slowly began to see through the fog, and saw her for what she really was, a siren. What was once beautiful and seductive turned hideous and frightening; thinking quickly Sterling used his powers on himself, becoming so drunk and belligerant that when the siren started to sing he couldn't even hear her. He tore off his necklace in two, and they soon transformed into his two trusty poisoned charkram. He wildly through both the chakram at her, and somewhat miraculously as he was screaming and slurring his words to an incredible amount, one hit dead on with the operative word being dead.

Running (stumbling, but whatever) away from the heavily injured siren, he barely heard her scream cries of revenge from both her and her sisters. After managing to fumble and trip his way home Sterling slept his drunkeness off and consulted Calliope about what to do next. Calliope suggested Camp Half-Blood, and Sterling agreed. He was soon on his way, arriving at Camp Half-Blood shortly.

Weapons
Sterling has two poisoned chakram which usually rest on his chest in the form of two necklaces. The poison is non fatal, but is a powerful paralytic.

Offensive

 * 1) Children of Dionysus have the ability to force a state of mild drunkenness on another person for a short time.
 * 2) Children of Dionysus have the ability to cause a group of people to become irrational and fight amongst themselves for no reason for a short time.

Defensive

 * 1) Children of Dionysus can null the pain of any wound for a short time.
 * 2) Children of Dionysus have the ability to go into a drunken state where they become unpredictable and are near impossible to hit with an attack.

Passive

 * 1) Children of Dionysus have an innate partial resistance to the effects of alcohol.

Supplementary

 * 1) Children of Dionysus have the ability to create ropes of grape vines which can be used for a multitude of purposes.
 * 2) Children of Dionysus have the ability to slightly calm the minds of everyone near them, no matter what side they are on.

Traits

 * 1) Children of Dionysus generally have a taste for wine and partying.