Darren West - Son of Aeolus

[Darren West]

West, Darren
DEMIGOD

Sixth Year at Camp
Age:16
Son/Daughter of Aeolus
Alliance: Rebel at times, but mostly neutral

Appearance: Darren has dark brown skater-boy hair that hangs in his bright eyes, tan skin, and he's fairly tall.

Eye(s): Bright blue
Hair:Dark brown that hangs in his eyes
Height: 5'9
Build Type: muscular, but mostly he shows off his arms.

Brief Description: Darren is a brave kid, he loves being the hero. He'll rush into just about everything and anything, most of the times he's just not thinking straight, he hates being the weak link and won't let himself be that link. Darren can't stand to see someone close to him get hurt, if he had a girlfriend and if they had to fight together against lots of monsters, he would most likely make it so his girlfriend had nothing to do. Darren is athletic, and he loves people to know it, he shows off in almost every way possible, most of the times it's by accident, but he loves the attention it gets him. Sometimes Darren will take things too far, because he loves playing jokes on people, he'll go way too far if you don't stop him. He just doesn't know where to stop. Darren had grown up with four older brothers so he was used to going all out on them.


Background:

Mortal Parent(s): His mom, Diana West. His stepdad, Simon West. (at least one)
Other Family: His oldest brother Will (21), Second oldest brother James (19), and his older twin brothers Caleb and Nico (18)
Pets: He has a pet hawk that was a gift from his brother James who found him and gave the poor hawk to Darren as a birthday present... the hawks name is Phoenix, because Darren used to pretend that he was a phoenix so the name stuck.
Brief History: Darren grew up in a large family, and a successful one too, his mother was a famous artist. Darren would always look at his brothers and think, "I have to be as good as them!" Even if he was years younger than them, he tried to be noticed in the family. It was what he wanted so he tried to achieve that. And in time he did, he was able to challenge his brothers to little spars and win.

All of Darren's brothers had the same father, then his mother had an affair with Aeolus and had him, but his brothers father never knew about it... when Darren was nine his 'father' had died suddenly. It had completely killed him and his brothers, his mother was just kind of torn in two, guilty for never telling him about the affair, and depressed from the sudden and random death.

After awhile things around the house (or mansion) quieted down. His mother started to date again, brining home a man named Simon frequently. But Darren and his brothers still were close, sure they were only half brothers but that never changed anything. Soon after Darren's mom and Simon had gotten married, Simon changing his last name to West to keep the kids from having to learn a new name to spell and write out on things like homework.

Darren loved his step dad, they were close and he was nice to them. He wanted to be apart of their family, and he had five other boys to deal with in the house, it was challenging, because the twins would start fights at school, Will had gotten his girlfriend pregnant, and James had thrown a party that ended with their cars getting thrown into the pool. So life wasn't too easy for them... all of them were going all rebel. Trying to make things go back to normal again. They hated having to call some other man dad but if they had too they would. Not happily, but they would.

At first, Darren kept his head down while his brothers didn't, then after a while of dating his first girlfriend - if you could call two nine year olds going out dating - the school 'jock' tried to take his girlfriend from him... at first it was small teasing, then it turned into him tormenting Darren and his girlfriend Nekoda. After awhile Darren had enough, they'd planned on fighting after school, making a huge public spectical for everyone to see. To the nine year olds, fighting was as good as ever, blood thirsty little demons. Fists were thrown and punches hit their marks, Darren ended up accidentally using his powers of wind against the jock and won the fight by blasting him into a wall.

That was when his mother told him about him being a demigod. She told the whole family, his brothers were completely amazed, and they took most of their fights more seriously after that, but Simon was just shocked... his trust level for his mom had gone down because she'd had an affair. Darren tried to do anything to get the two of them to stay together.

Darren became a summer camper at Camp Half-blood, sometimes he would stay the year because he didn't want to endure the school year that faced him head on. Sometimes he just didn't want to see his family, but most of the times, he misses his brothers. Always up for the competion that came with the brother bondage.


Personality:Darren is a brave kid, he loves being the hero. He'll rush into just about everything and anything, most of the times he's just not thinking straight, he hates being the weak link and won't let himself be that link. Darren can't stand to see someone close to him get hurt, if he had a girlfriend and if they had to fight together against lots of monsters, he would most likely make it so his girlfriend had nothing to do. Darren is athletic, and he loves people to know it, he shows off in almost every way possible, most of the times it's by accident, but he loves the attention it gets him. Sometimes Darren will take things too far, because he loves playing jokes on people, he'll go way too far if you don't stop him. He just doesn't know where to stop. Darren had grown up with four older brothers so he was used to going all out on them.

Likes:

• Showing Off
  
• Being brave
  
• His hawk Phoenix
  
• Wind
  
• Girls
  

Dislikes:

• Liars
  
• Fighters
  
• People who think that their all that because they play sports
  
• Archery
  
• 
  

Skills:

• Wrestling
  
• Hand-to-hand combat
  
• Using wind to his advantage
  
• Sports
  
• Flirting
  

Weaknesses:

• Cute girls
  
• Trying to be the hero all the time
  
• Rushing into things
  
• Showing off
  
• Taking things too far
  

Passions:

• Excelling at everything sporty
  
• Sparring
  

Fears:

• Of losing one of his brothers
  
• Doing something so stupid, there's no way to fix it.
  

Hobbies:

• Sports
  
• Sword Fighting
  

Fighting Specialty: Hand-to-hand combat, that can turn into wrestling. (one please)

Describe the extent of your powers/abilities: He's able to control the wind, send it flying at people, use it for just about anything. Even though it takes a lot of energy from him, the bigger the trick, the more likely he is to pass out. The smaller the trick like just blowing the wind in a mini little area, he will just be drained a fraction of his energy.

Fatal Flaw: He's too cocky and hero-like.

Please describe why you think you can stabilize a powerful character. Minimum of two well-developed paragraphs **Big Three Only**:

Please give a brief background on your minor god**Minor Gods Only**: Aeolus [1] (Greek: Αἴολος Aiolos [ájjolos], Modern Greek: [ˈe.olos] ( listen)) was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three (although it is clear he also became muddled), and his opinion is followed here.[2] Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind. All three men named Aeolus appear to be connected genealogically, although the precise relationship, especially regarding the second and third Aeolus, is often ambiguous.

Theme Song: Rise Against: Re-Education Through Labor
Lyrics: To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away
To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines
We toss and turn but don't sleep
Each breath we take makes us thieves
Like causes without rebels
Just talk but promise nothing else

We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true
We wait to reap what we are due

To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away
And the blare of the sirens combing the streets
Chased down like dogs we run from
Your grasp until the sun comes up

We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
[ From: www.elyrics.net/read/r/rise-against-lyrics/re,,Education-(Through-labor)-lyrics.html]
'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true
Look now at what they've done to you

White needle's buried in the red
The engine roars and then it gives
But never dies
'Cause we don't live
We just survive
On the scraps that you throw away

I won't crawl on my knees for you
I won't believe the lies that hide the truth
I won't sweat one more drop for you
'Cause we are the rust upon your gears
We are the insect in your ears
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you

We sow the seeds to see us through
Our days are precious and so few
We all reap what we are due
Under this sky no longer blue
We bring the dawn long overdue
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you

The Puppeteer: Darren
Name/ Alias: Darren
Age: (Optional)
How long have you been role playing?: A while
Rate Your RPing 1-5 Stars according to our Star Rule (1 = beginner. 5= most advanced): No idea, don't rank myself that often.
How did you find us?: Friends... lot's of them.

Role Playing Sample:

Emmalyn laughed as she rolled like a spy across an opening for a corridor, "Why am I at Randa's castle again?" She asked herself, pondering the question. There was really no reason. Maybe it was just the fact that she wanted to meet the famous Katsa, the Kings niece and maybe fight with her. But other than that, she just wanted the challenge of trying to sneak through the castle without being seen. Not the smartest idea, but it was what she had thought of for the moment.

She had her back pressed to the wall as she slid down the corridor, her red and green eyes narrowed into slits. Emma was always careful when she was sneaking around, she new what would end up happening if she was caught... normally it would be her getting tortured into telling who she worked for - even though she only worked for herself - then it would be her spilling out all the information that she'd learned - which wouldn't be that big of a deal... normally just stuff like gossip instead of real fact.

But truth be told... getting caught was not good. Sure she'd been caught.. maybe ten... twenty times, but to her... that was an accomplishment that needed to be celebrated.

Emma felt the vibrations of her own feet on the ground, to her, the world was spinning in movement, she could hardly stay on her feet. Only if she concentrated real hard, then she would be able to stand without getting completely dizzy. She could feel the wind as it was throwing leaves in different directions, crashing against the windows just outside. She couldn't feel much of a connection with fire or water.. but only because her water source was cut off and she didn't have fire near her, since it was mid day, and the sun was shinning brightly in the sky.

She continued to sneak around, planning on gaining some gossip to spread to other nations when she finally made it out, but the castle seemed secure. Yet... quiet. Emma hadn't seen a single maid or guard running around in the halls... that seemed quite different to her, seeing that lunch was over and there was nothing to do but clean the endless castle till it gleamed.

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[Levi Faollan]

It looks good to me, but please your powers have to have some limits. Once you can find some limits to your powers I will happily accept your app.

[Darren West]

Okay, I modified... hope that's better.

[Levi Faollan]

accepted and welcome to CHB! The only reason you need limits is because if you get too vague, you can do anything with them and other campers might get jealous. That's not something we want lol.

[Darren West]

Yeah I see, thanks I know that it would be stupid to do that... my person does have limits though i just forgot to include them at first... hehe xD