Archived:Damian Pietrzak

Personality
(this is a wip) Damian is very interested in what other people think about him and anything in general and enjoys seeing a variety of reactions to something. He seems to be shy, only confident around his sister. Despite saying this, he's sweet and somewhat over caring at times.

History
Anastasia Pietrzak was a desperate, yet beautiful, woman in Warsaw, Poland in the early 1990s. Having suffered the loss of both parents which led to her eventual life on the streets, she had nothing to lose and wanted a purpose in life. Her life never strayed from staying outside of various shops in hopes of getting essentials - in which she did from time to time. However, one night fear totally came to her. A few teenagers, too drunk to realise their actions, threatened her with various weapons and Anastasia prayed for someone to help her. Seeing how scared she was and was enticed by her beauty, Deimos decided to help her, shrouding her in some sort of terrifying aura which scared the teenagers off. He appeared to her and in return for saving her life, he asked her to have children with him. Having demigod history within her, Anastasia sensed something different about the man, however as she owed him her life, she complied and the two began sexual intercourse later that night. Afterwards, Deimos left, leaving Anastasia with enough money to find herself a comfortable farm home and told her to pray to Demeter in order to have good harvests.

After being born with Cecylia as twins, the two children grew up rather normally, being nourished by their mother, and wondering who their dad was. At age 4 they both went into kindergarten, making the school year more fun and interesting. The pair stayed together until the 3rd grade where Cecylia was sent to a prep school a distance away. Originally, his mother believed that the lack of Cecylia’s influence would cause Damian to become this angel in class, however, the exact opposite proved to be true. After losing his sister Damian began to act up and become the school’s worst troublemaker, getting yelled at almost every hour. Eventually, Anastasia had enough and contacted a distant relative in England to arrange plans for Damian to go to a prestigious boarding school in hopes of improving his attitude.

They stayed in the same classes up until 3rd grade (9 years of age), where Cecylia complained of being nauseous when she was sent to a prep school some 20+ miles away from Damian. While she felt that way, her mother thought she was finally “becoming a woman” only to realize that such a distance between to children of fear caused them to feel pain and a tremendous amount of fear. Anastasia had learned that them being separated put them in an odd place, as a child in a new place without it's sibling would be terrified of being alone. She helped ease them into school gradually, feeling relieved when they stopped fretting over being alone. She had noticed a slight change in how they walked, as if they didn't fear anything, then remembering Deimos and how he was the god of terror. They've already been to hell and back before being born, they don't fear anything. She thought to herself.

By 5th (11 years of age) grade they were soon adapting to their surroundings, but noticed people behaved strangely around them, people seemed to cringe or look away in fear while near them, as if they were the most horrible creature on the earth. Damian found this interesting and continued to make his presence known in whatever room he was in to see the mixed reactions

However, during one night coming home, one 6th grade (the day before his birthday) night, he heard a small voice in her head, You've used your powers wrong, and you act as if everyone is subservient to you. You will have repeated nightmares about the past and future to come, each one making your life seem a happy place in comparison to what you will see. He kept hearing the voice in his head, thinking it was a song to a band he couldn't remember, until he fell asleep. Now it begins.

During the dreams, he experienced an array of terrible of events, from wars to medical scenes and to massacres that he was forced to overlook.

As planned, Damian’s behaviour improved and soon, after refusing before, Anastasia had him home for holidays and such, however, at first she was careful to limit Damian and Cecylia’s contact with each other, but soon they were reunited at holidays and continued to enjoy creating trouble. It was also during this time that Anastasia prayed to Deimos to lift the curse he had laid upon the twins when they were born so that they wouldn’t feel immense fear when apart. Agreeing, on the terms that they didn’t cause havoc in the future in which they would regain the curse or face an even worse punishment, the god lifted the curse.

After many years had passed, Damian and Cecylia had settled into set personalities and both looked forward to their time with their mother. Along the way, the twins made many friends, including two strange people who went by the names of Alexander and Ania.

Despite this normality in their lives, the twins always found themselves feeling different from a regular child their age of society, and on their 12th birthday, those feelings would prove to become true. After spending the day with their mother and having a party that was composed of their friends (all of which had left, excluding Alexander and Ania), the twins were attacked by 2 Hellhounds and 3 Harpies.

Whilst the hellhounds charged at the young demigods, the harpies targeted the satyr and satyress. Not knowing how to react, Damian tried to stomp and kick the monster away, resulting in a good amount of solid hits on it, however a scar was returned on his lower left leg. After managing to stomp the hellhound to the point of it being knocked out, Damian was thrown the only remaining weapon Alexander had; a celestial bronze machete. Although he saw his sister get into the fight with the harpy she was dealing with, Damian was held back by Alexander, who tried to teach some sort of technique as he fought it off. When Alexander was disarmed, Damian panicked and threw the machete at the monster, hitting across the neck and he watched as it turned to a fine, golden dust.

After the attack, the satyr and satyress decided to show the kids their demigod side, by bringing them to CHB. Along the way, the kids were attacked by several Harpies, Hellhounds and Scythean Dracanae. While they fended for themselves, the Satyrs taught them to defend themselves, Cecylia using a pair of Celestial Bronze daggers, and Damian using his weapon.

Soon enough, they made it to Camp Half Blood, where they were claimed by Deimos. After being claimed, they promptly left to England, to spend the next 4 years in relative peace, aside from the monster attacks. On their 18th birthday, they felt a strange sensation, to make people feel sheer terror. They used their powers in the wrong way, bringing back the curse. As they were cursed before, so they are now, being haunted by the same terror that lurks in every man’s dreams.

Although he’d never tell Cecylia if she asked, Damian often experienced nightmares each night, another curse Deimos had placed on him, stating that he should’ve been stronger than what he was. The nightmares were no ordinary ones, however. They were a mixture of Damian reliving some of history’s worst moments and the negative dreams only caused by illegal drugs.

They then returned to Camp Half Blood, still cursed, but feeling relatively normal, surrounded by the other campers.

Powers
Note: 3/6/9 powers have NOT been unlocked.