User:Affectos/My Sandbox

Grahm Chloris
Age: 15

Prefered Godly Parent: Cybele, Demeter, Prometheus

Parent's Name: Helias or Rosa Chloris

Species: Demigod

Appearence:

Personality: Curious by nature, Grahm enjoys new things. He's very out going and charismatic, as he wants to make friends. When it comes to doing tasks, he always sees at as a way to 'prove' himself to others and to himself that he can achieve his goals.

Preferred weapon: a five foot long naginata/glaive hybrid (pole is 4 feet, blade is an extra foot).

History
Parents Meeting: Helias Chloris was an employee at Biosphere2 where he worked as one of the caretakers in the tropical rainforest ecosystem where he took records on how the plantlife was doing and interacting with each other. He met the goddess Cybele when she came to see how the mortals were doing with their model of the first biosphere, Earth. Helias came across her on his rounds, but instead of ushering her back to the main path, the two of them began to converse and continued on Helias's rounds, discovering what they had in common. Cybele became a regular visitor to the Biosphere where she and Helias began to grow closer and she revealed her true nature as a goddess to him. After several weeks, they began seeing each other outside of work...and after that you can assume what occured for Grahm to be born.

Early Childhood: After Grahm was born, Helias attempted to carry on his normal job by bringing Grahm to the Bioshpere. The infant enjoyed the fertile plantlife and it was almost as if he was perfectly at home in the rainforest. Helias continued this until Grahm was about five. Things changed though when he and Grahm were assaulted by Harpies (in the guise of large kingfishers) that were living inside the Biosphere. Remembering that his son was the child of a goddess, he left his job and moved away, using his money to build a 'compound' in the Arizona desert that he thought would protect his son. As Grahm grew older, Helias began raising him as a 'Doomsday Prepper', afraid that if he actually knew why they lived in a compound, that his son would think him crazy.

Realization: While on a rare supply run when Grahm was 13, he and Helias went to Wal-Mart where they split up to gather more items. As Tyler cruised past the pet section, he wound up doing a double-take to see a large goldfish with a trident threatening a young girl. Not wanting to leave her, Grahm rammeded his cart into the over-grown goldfish, sending it skittering across the floor and knocking the trident out of his hand. Ditching the cart, Grahm snatched up the trident and stabbed the goldfish causing it to vaporize into a pile of dust. Helping the girl up, she introduced herself as a cacti nymph. Before Grahm could ask what that meant, Helias rounded the corner to see the mess that his son had made. Grahm attempted to explain what had happened, but Helias cut him off pulled him and the cacti nymph out of the store, not buying anything. He explained to Grahm that his mother was a greek Goddess. As he did, the nymph let out a small gasp and alerted them that Grahm had just been claimed by Cybele, goddess of earth and nature. The nymph told his father about a camp in New York where Grahm would be safe, but his father refused the offer, keeping his son close to him.

Campwards Bound: After leaving the cacti nymph in the dust, Grahm was ticked off at his father's choice. While Grahm slowly learned his abilites in the safety of his compound home, he made his dad's life hard by constantly asking to go to the camp. At nights, he'd sneak out in hopes of meeting the cacti nymph again, but to no avail. Finally, after three years, he managed to convince his father to let him try the camp. Going back to the Wal-mart, they were able to find the nymph again (as it turned out, she lived in the cacti by the parking lot). The nymph was able to give the father and son the location of the camp. Thus began Grahm's road-trip to Camp Half-Blood.