Over time, Ethan has built a personality containing many layers and walls in order to protect himself. Instead of generalising it, let's go into detail on each layer and his mannerisms.
The outer layer. This is the personality that everyone who meets Ethan is greeted with. In this layer, Ethan acts very distant and uninterested and it's obvious he's shy. His answers are short and are styled as a yes/no as best he can. Alongside this, Ethan also seems to get hurt extremely easily and at times replicates that of being a selective mute. Ethan's incredibly cautious and weary in this layer and it's rare to see a smile or hear some laughter from him which gives most the impression that he has an inability to joke around. It's also in this layer that he bottles anger up which is why when people progress through the layers, they say that he has an explosive personality when really it's from the pent up anger inside of him.
The second layer is the transition layer. It has elements of both his true personality and the one he assumes in order to isolate himself form other people. Saying that, this second layer is very much like the first, however elements such as more smiling and joking is in cooperated with confidence growing significantly - however, not to that of his final layer. Ethan loses his cautiousness and weariness in this layer as, if the person has made it this far, he deems them safe enough to be comfortable around them. In this layer, anger outbursts are more common, although they come in the form of him ranting about things that annoy him, rather than the thing that angered him itself.
The final layer is Ethan's true personality. Here, smiles and laughter is more common and the element of weariness is completely eradicated. His anger is straight to the point, being directed mostly at what he hates, however he does have the reputation of an explosive personality because many innocent people are struck by his anger. Ethan, in this state, doesn't hide the fact he has depression, nor does he cover up his anorexia or suicidal thoughts as people who see this Ethan are those most close to him. As of right now, nobody is at this level.
For his mannerisms and mental states, Ethan suffers from multiple things. His primary state is depression, a thing he was diagnosed with at just 13 years old and has yet to overcome. This is the thing that most controls his life and he blames it on his parents rather than himself, although recently he's began to think that maybe it is his fault and he doesn't deserve the sympathy. Paired with this, Ethan is also suicidal and has attempted once in the past to take his own life; failing due to his ex-boyfriend catching him. Although this doesn't occupy his mind as often as his depression does, Ethan's suicidal thoughts are extremely dark to which he believes that, the depression doesn't help, his ex-boyfriend's mental abuse contributed greatly to his disgust and unwillingness to live. Another thing linked with the mental abuse of his boyfriend is Ethan's anorexia and minor fear of food and eating. Finally, up until recently, Ethan used to self-harm regularly which has resulted in many scars across his arms and body, however he switched after some advice to a permanent marker and drawing all over his arms. He finds this is surprisingly calming and does have the same effect of releasing his anger - his personal favourite things to draw are tribal patterns or flowing patterns.
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Living in Pyongyang, North Korea, infant Hong Ji-Soo and his family longed for a life of freedom and choice with a better standard of living. Ever since he could remember, there'd been talk of defecting to the south - moving to Seoul, Busan or Incheon - anywhere that wasn't the North's capital. They'd heard the stories, they knew the consequences; who didn't? Ji-Soo's parents had planned to defect when they met at the tender age of 17. Now both in their early thirties with an infant son, they knew for certain that they didn't want him to go through the strict lives they did. As a result of the extensive preparation of his parents, the family had a route mapped out. Like most defectors, they'd travel to China to which they'd go through in order to reach the Mongolian border. There, the Mongol government would - as they have done to defectors - offer an aeroplane ride to Seoul. When Ji-Soo was the age of 7, his family initiated it. They did well, up until the Mongolian border - Chinese officials had caught them and Ji-Soo's father sacrificed himself in order to let his wife and son make it over. The last the latter two heard about him, he'd been sent to a camp in Pyongyang and had died shortly after admittance.
Now in Seoul, Ji-Soo led a much better life and continued to uphold peace as the most important thing and it was at a rally for this that he met Harmonia. By looks alone, Ji-Soo wouldn't have been paid a second glance, however his charisma when talking was what attracted Harmonia the most - the strength and confidence behind his words and how he perfectly captivated his audiences' attention to deliver his message. The goddess accompanied him to a speech in Busan where twins between the two were conceived. Two weeks from Ji-Soo's talk, on 4th July 1998, Harmonia returned to the man and presented the two sons. With them, a note was enclosed that detailed all Ji-Soo would need to know. Half seeing as he had no choice, half because he could already tell he'd love them, Ji-Soo took in his sons and named them Kyu-Han and Kyu-Jae.
For the first few years of the twins' life, they travelled with their father from major cities throughout South Korea as he continued to preach about peace. It was on these journeys that he met his future wife, Seo-Yeon who - unlike him - was able to see through the mist; a trait that ran through her family. Eventually, when his children were 3, Ji-Soo settled in centre Seoul with Seo-Yeon who he married a year prior. There, Ji-Soo became a prominent member in the government's foreign affairs which enabled him to give his family a life of luxury.
Very early on in their relationship did Ji-Soo and Seo-Yeon discuss the twins' heritage and Seo-Yeon's ability to see through the mist. Mutually, they agreed that the latter would stay at home with the twins at all times as Ji-Soo could never be too protective of his boys - never wanting either of them to disappear. For most of their early childhood, the twins were protected and safe, until their 7th birthday. Kyu-Han and Kyu-Jae were very independent, even at their age and as such Ji-Soo let them (under some form of supervision) do near enough whatever they wanted. In a cliché sort of way, this trust was broken when Kyu-Han left to go to the park with some friends. Seeing as it was the local park near their home and that he was in a group of people, neither Ji-Soo nor Seo-Yeon thought anything of Kyu-Han going out. However, as the night darkened and no sign of Kyu-Han arose, prompting Ji-Soo and Seo-Yeon to contact the local police department. For the next week or so there were various investigations led by various detectives into Kyu-Han's location until it was eventually cited that he was kidnapped and taken to another country.
At first, Ji-Soo and Seo-Yeon were unsure on what to do - mostly because no details to which country had been given yet. With a gut feeling, however, Ji-Soo believed that Kyu-Han was in America somewhere and following a promotion, he relocated the family to Los Angeles, California and prompted each of them to change their names. He himself became Jonathan, Seo-Yeon became Lilly and their remaining son Kyu-Jae became Ethan. For the first few years, life was difficult for Ethan. Although he was never told upfront on why they left Seoul, he always knew it had something to do with his twin's disappearance and soon out of curiosity he began to wonder why his parents never told him. On top of this, he was enrolled in an elementary school with limited knowledge of the English language, causing him to be picked on by the other children which led him to isolating himself at the present and in the future.
However, when he was turning 10, Ethan found that his grip on the English language had tightened and he had more friends than he did previously. This surface happiness, however, was above the belief that his twin's disappearance was his fault. Obviously, as we know, there was little he could do about it but to Ethan, he thought that if he went with him that he'd still be there. These dwelling thoughts would be the first things that would eventually manifest into depression later on in Ethan's life. For the next three years, this thought would occupy Ethan's mind and would lead him to be more distant to his parents - leading them to focus more on finding Kyu-Han until Ethan became, essentially, an annoyance to them. This was why, when Ethan had his attack at 13, he was in a worse situation than if Lilly had helped him.
The incident itself happened on a lazy Sunday. Los Angeles life treated Ethan good and very often to escape the harshness of his mind he'd go to the beach and explore or go in the sea. On this particular day, Ethan walked along the coastline, scrambling rocks to high points and sitting on them. It was a routine for him and he was a self-proclaimed rock climber, however that day he felt like one of the rocks was watching him and his every movement. There was a tense atmosphere for a few minutes, Ethan perched just below it ready to leave if needed, before it pounced. Being an adolescent hellhound, it wasn't at it's full size, though it was big enough to send Ethan flying down a few rocks and hurting him severely. Hitting his head on a rock, Ethan fell into a concussion and would've been mauled by the hellhound if a rogue demigod hadn't been doing a round of the beach themselves.
A week or so later, Ethan awoke in the local hospital with his parents overlooking him - his father reciting the letter Harmonia had given him thirteen years prior. His father told him exactly what he was, exactly what his heritage was in an attempt to make him more aware and to protect him. For a short while, Ethan felt loved by his parents and felt like they were genuinely interested him. Alas, this came crashing down upon the family of three when it was revealed that Ethan suffered from depression. From that moment on, despite his parents offering him lessons with a demigod friend, Ethan continued to isolate himself from his family. They even made sure the demigod was with him around and on the year anniversary of his attack, hoping that if he was attacked, which he was, he'd be protected by the demigod, again, which he was.
A year before he came to Camp, Ethan's personality took another blow. Coming to terms with his sexuality, he dated a guy a year or so older than him who, at first, was loving and caring but over the course of the year, he turned to be abusive verbally and mentally. He often told Ethan he liked skinnier males which, paired with the depression, led Ethan to starve himself little by little until he was eventually diagnosed with anorexia. It was in this time that Ethan found that he enjoyed to draw on his arms - it'd started with self-harming but after the advice to change to something less destructive, he found that drawing in permanent marker released the feelings just as good. Mere days before his parents sent him to camp (sending him later than they should've as they saw no need with the demigod protector), Ethan was broken up with by his boyfriend for someone who was cited as being "the perfect boy" - only destroying Ethan's mentality further.
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Offensive
- Children of Harmonia can persuade a pact with a single person at a time, making it so that each of them receives a lesser effect from every wound; however, any wound that one of them receives, the other receives as well, to the same lesser degree. This is not forced however, combined with passive 2, it can be very effective.
Defensive
- Children of Harmonia have the ability to charm a single weapon into being unable to be used for any sort of offense for a short time.
- Children of Harmonia can force a state of reasoning to talk to, and understand anyone who has intentions to harm them. User will be able to understand the language/verbiage best comprehended by their aggressor, and in turn speak said language/verbiage. This includes monsters and animals. There is no guarantee they will persuade them out of harming them.
- Children of Harmonia can teleport away an enemy to a nearby area of peace. This can only happen upon their initial strike attempt. If the enemy catches up to the user, the user cannot teleport them away again.
Passive
- Children of Harmonia have an innately faster rate of healing than other people.
- Children of Harmonia have an aura of ease that can cause people to form friendships more easily, or reach agreements more easily around them. This aura can be turned off.
- Children of Harmonia are stronger and have more stamina when among friends. Making a new friend can boost their strength even more.
- Children of Harmonia can sense where there are areas of peace, and by process of elimination, guess where there are areas of unrest.
Supplementary
- Children of Harmonia have the ability to slightly calm the minds of everyone near them, no matter what side they are on.
- Children of Harmonia have the ability to charm a weapon for a brief period of time so that it heals wounds, rather than causing them.
- Children of Harmonia can make it so any defenseless person/creature around them becomes intangible so that attacks go through them, if being attacked without provocation. This state can only last as long as they concentrate.
- Children of Harmonia can teleport away allies to places of peace and harmony. The more people this is used on at once, the less distance is covered.
3 Month After Character is Made
- Children of Harmonia have the ability to greatly amplify the abilities and powers of a group of people near them. The more people they amplify, the more drained they become.
6 Months After Character is Made
- Children of Harmonia have the power to make an opponent’s semi-living construct and/or animal ally THEIR ally instead, by inducing a powerful desire for harmony. The construct/ally will instead turn to their original owners and do everything they can to stop them from fighting, attempting to not injure in the process. The more allies and constructs the user usurps control from, the more energy is drained.
9 Months After Character is Made
- Children of Harmonia can create a zone of safety where no harm can pass, and that speeds up recovery of all injured within the zone. People may attempt to fight, but ultimately, no damage can be done. No one may incapacitate them, however, the longer they sustain the zone, the more likely they are to faint. No one is immune to this zone.
Traits
- Children of Harmonia tend to have well balanced and harmonious personalities.
- Children of Harmonia are good at overseeing treaties between people.
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