Claiming:Camp/Max Morningstar

Name: Alec Morningstar

Gender: Male

God Parent: Nike, Tyche, Athena

Mortal Parent: Harold Charriot

Appearance: Blong hair, blue-green eyes, 5'11''

Personality: One of the rare demigods to have known about their parentage from a very young age, he grew up with the ultimate challenge of humility, having to keep the largest secret a kid could ever imagine, while being a competitive athlete. Blessed with far above average athleticism and a natural urge to want to win, Max is a perfectionist and is very enthusiastic about all types of sports. He has a strong bond with and would sacrifice anything for his father. Max is very social and makes friends very easily. He has a laid back personality. At his old school, Max was the most popular kid in school. Max acts like a flirt, but is not the kind of kid who would actually hook up with someone, and would prefer a sincere relationship. However, Max knows that if it wasn’t for his body, athleticism, and demigod blood, life would have been very different for him. He hates it when people complement him, and lives by the rule that “if one is truly talented at something, they won’t be insecure enough to feel they have to show it off in order to get approval from others.”

History: Max’s father Harold Charriot was a professional boxer is the Summer Olympic games. Harold only won the gold medal once. That year, after he won, he went to a bar with a few boxing friends of his. There, he met a woman in a golden dress. She knew who he was right away, as if she knew he would be there. They started talking about his boxing match and sports in general. The woman seemed really into them, even more than he was. After a couple drinks, Harold took her up to his hotel room. Harold would wake up the next morning, to find her gone. She returned nine months later, with a one day old baby boy, at one of his boxing matches. He saw he with a child in the crowd and became extremely distracted. His opponent hit him with an uppercut to the jaw, however this somehow caused his opponent to lose balance and fall over. Max returned to his locker room victorious. There, he would find a basket with a baby boy in it, as well as a note from Nike, explaining who she was, and how she made him win the boxing match when he became distracted by her in the crowd. The third item in the basket besides Max and the note was a small black box, containing a celestial bronze men’s ring, with a picture of a pair of wings and the words άκρη της νίκης (edge of victory) engraved on them. The note would also explain that when worn by a child of Nike, the ring would turn into a rare and useful weapon when the wearer makes a fist with their hand. Harold stopped boxing in order to raise Max as a single parent. He also researched everything he could about Greek mythology, especially Nike, wanting to know as much about his son’s mother as possible. When Harold discovered that monsters can “smell” demigods and will come after them and attack them, Harold decided to raise Max so that Max was aware of what he was, so he could defend himself from the inevitable. Max grew up extremely athletic and was always one of the most popular kids in his grade, but always felt like a part of him was missing by having a Greek goddess as a mother that he couldn’t tell his friends about. Max wore the ring his mother had gotten him constantly, as it was his only connection to her, but was always too afraid to see what would happen if he made a fist while wearing it.

Max’s father was always protective of Max, but knowing that Max was more powerful than he would ever be, figured that the best way to protect him would be to train with him. Starting in second grade, Harold taught his son boxing and hand to hand combat every day before school, took him to daily fencing lessons after school, and when those were done they would go to the archery range together. Max and his dad formed an extremely close bond, training together all of the time.

Max’s first encounter with a monster came when he was twelve. He was in the locker room having just finished a basketball game. Max knew about his protector, another boy on his basketball team and a friend, however he and the rest of the team had already left. Being the captain, Max decided to stay after the game to practice for the playoffs, which were coming up in a week. Max was attacked by two harpies, who would jump him. Instinctively, having trained for this moment his whole life, Max elbowed the harpy who had attacked him from behind, put her in a headlock, and with strength he didn’t even know he had, threw her against the lockers, denting them. He pinned the other harpy up against the wall and made a fist with his the hand wearing the ring from his mother. The ring would transform into an imperial gold sword. Even though he was surprised and shocked by what had just happened, Max kept focused on the fight. He decapitated the harpy and it turned to dust. The second harpy had recovered from being thrown and it charged at Max. Max swung his sword, which the harpy dodged by flying backwards. She flew up to the ceiling, and the dove down at Max, claws stretched out. Max dove to the side, recovered from his dive, and stabbed the harpy in the back.

Even though Max knew what he was, his father had told him this was going to happen to him eventually, and he was ready, Max was scared out of his mind. He didn’t know what to do, and knew that if his dad or his protector (his friend and basketball teammate) found out about the attack, he would be forced to go to Camp Half-blood and separated from his father. Max decided not to tell anybody about the attack and went on with his life, pretending it never happened. He went home from the game that day as if all was normal.

Max’s next encounter with monsters was six months later, the day after his thirteenth birthday, when he was at a professional basketball game with his dad and his friend Brian (his protector). His father, unable to see through the mist, had learned everything he possibly could about it in order to keep his son safe. He had learned that Hellhounds tend to look like poodles through the mist. Seeing three dogs, running down the aisles towards them, he quickly pointed them out to Brian, who confirmed they were Hellhounds.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">“They’re too close; we’ll have to fight.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Brian took out a dagger (which he sneaked into the arena somehow) and Max made a fist, and his ring transformed into its sword form. Max’s father tackled one of the Hellhounds, wrestling with it, struggling to dodge its bite. Meanwhile, Max was struggling to keep the other two Hellhounds away from him. Max heard Brian yell something at him, while he was fighting off another Hellhound on the other side of their seats. Max’s father broke the leg of the hellhound he was fighting, and it winced in pain. He gave him an uppercut to the mouth and ran over to his son. Together, Brian and Max killed the two Hellhounds. Max’s father and Brian wanted to take Max to Camp Half Blood then. As much as Max protested, saying he wanted to live a normal life for a little while longer, he was in no shape to argue. He was exhausted. He reached camp that evening.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Now at camp (age fourteen), Max has decided to make the best of it.

Weapons: Celestial bronze sword, disguised as a ring