Post by Jeremiah Avery on Sept 11, 2010 6:54:25 GMT -7
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others."
The Basics
Name: Jeremiah Avery
Nicknames/Aliases: Jerry, Jerem
Age: 17
Grade: 12th (Senior)
Occupation: Student/Theif/Con man
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Olympian Parent: Hermes
Mortal Relatives: Samantha Avery (Mother, deceased) Thomas and Abby Avery (grandparents, estranged)
Physical Statistics
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 145 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Lets Get More Personal
Likes:
- Money
- Deals that go his way
- Getting free stuff
- Picking pockets
- Playing pranks
- Having a good time
- Food
- Jellybeans (but not the red ones)
Dislikes:
- Deals that don’t go his way
- Loosing a bet
- People who are very careful with their cash but that’s only because he won’t be able to con them out of it
- Wet blankets
- Going hungry
- Red jellybeans.
Personality: Nobody really knows Jeremiah but Jeremiah. Those who think they do have only stumbled onto the some form of concocted personality that he leaves around for people to find. To the majority, Jeremiah is just like any other boy. He is careless and unkempt, sporty and rough around the edges. Somehow though, he comes off as trustworthy. A good friend to have at your back, if you discount all the pranks that he’ll play on you. He’s always ready for a laugh and a good time and it always seems that Jeremiah is ready to show the world his sunny smile.
In truth, he has discovered long ago that the laughing fool often laughs himself to the bank…pockets full to the brim with other people’s money. To put things plainly, Jeremiah Avery is a con artist. He is not trustworthy in the least, he just acts that way and knows how to play the part to a T. Has for having your back in a tight spot? Jeremiah is most likely to stab you in the back to save his own skin, and no hard feelings please…it’s just business, thank you very much. In the end it all boils down to transactions and of course Jeremiah wants all the profit. He is a very opportunistic boy, has something of a sliver tongue to help him make all the deals.
However, Jeremiah is not as perfect as he thinks he is. He is only seventeen and still has a long way to go in fine tuning the art of the con. He has natural talent of course, but humans aren’t the only people that he’s going to be dealing with now. He has a tendency to be greedy and yeah sure, he can talk circles around someone but if he’s not careful he’ll get tangled up in his own lies.
History: Samantha Avery was a hardcore businesswoman. She was one of the very best in her field and was well aware of that fact. Cut throat and entrepreneurial, there weren‘t many that dared to trifle with her and her climb upwards in the pharmaceutical company that she worked in was rather fast and easy. Too easy perhaps, since natural talent could only take one so far, what Samantha did not know was that Hermes had his eye on her. She was a frequent traveler, jet setting all over the world on some business trip or another and frequent flyer miles were not all that she raked up during these trips. The more he watched her, the more Hermes was impressed by her strength of character and one day he arranged to bump into Samantha at an airport.
He appeared to her as another business person, someone who was young and successful and not unlike herself in many aspects. It happened that their flight was delayed and an innocent over coffee turned into something wholly torrid. To put it in the nicest of terms it wasn’t even a one night stand but it was enough to leave Samantha with child.
This was not a happy discovery for her. A baby would mean maternity leave and other such things that would stop her from going to the office, but Samantha refused to have an abortion. The baby would pose problems and she saw those as challenges that she would beat. And so, nine months later Jeremiah was born. His early life was very comfortable, though he was raised by a slew of nannies and did not see his workaholic mother very often. He did get most of the things that he asked for though, since Samantha had made quite a good life for herself. The only times that Jeremiah would come into contact with his mother would be when he was in trouble. Like any demigod he was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD and Samantha was not pleased. She got him medication for his ADHD and a slew of tutors to help him ’get over’ his dyslexia.
When he turned twelve, Hermes came back to claim him and with the cat out of the bag, things just grew unpleasant. Samantha would defy Hermes‘s suggestion to send Jeremiah to Camp Half Blood. She did not want him in that life and thought that Jeremiah was going to be used as some kind of pawn. She wanted her son in the real world and not somewhere where myths and legends belonged. And so she kept him back, stepping up his medication and hiring more tutors to help him with his grades, anything to suppress that side of him. When odd things started to happen, she just tried to ignore them the best she could. Unfortunately for Samantha those things did not ignore her and Jeremiah right back.
Jeremiah was thirteen when he lost his mother. They were walking home from dinner at a nice restaurant when the hellhound attacked. Samantha was dragged off and Jeremiah who was terrified could not do anything to stop what was happening. He ran away, though by the morning he found that things had only gotten worse for him. Samantha‘s mangled body was found five blocks from where the attack had happened and the police were looking for him. Misunderstanding everything and thinking that he was in trouble, Jeremiah stayed on the back streets of New York. He had a very bad time of it, and it was only due to his budding skills as a thief that kept him from starving.
But it did not keep him from flying below the radar of one James Rockwell. Stealing apples from the front of a grocery store one day, Jeremiah was stopped by James. Thinking that he was finally caught, the boy began to plead and beg to not be turned to the care of the police. James however had other ideas for Jeremiah. He was a rather shady character himself and saw that Jeremiah had a lot of potential in him. James was already an aging thief and needed a partner in crime. For the better part of the next two years, he would groom Jeremiah to be just that. James also had such a human stink on him that he kept the monsters at bay.
Nevertheless, as fate would have it, Jeremiah’s heritage caught up with him again. One day he tried to mug a satyr disguised as a human, one which immediately recognized what he was. Telling Jeremiah that no good would come out of his staying with James, the satyr managed to convince him to come to camp half blood. Packing up what little belongings that he had, Jeremiah undertook the journey and once he set foot in camp he discovered that his father had sent word to the camp director that he was to be placed in the Hermes cabin. Jeremiah has been at Camp Half Blood for two years give or take and is still trying to adjust to life there. Seeing his background, he is a year rounder.
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OOC Information
Web Name: William
Contact: PM or email saturatedend@gmail.com
Play by: Kevin Zegers
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