Post by Brandon Gale on Feb 28, 2012 10:59:38 GMT -5
Brandon Aeron Gale
Out of Character
Alias: Serenity
Age: 14
Gender: Female
RP Experience: Approximately three years
Activity Level: …not too high? I’ll probably post at least once a month, though! x)
Other Characters: Winter Joy O’Hara (Apollo), Heather Jane Landon (Nemesis, Unclaimed), Carter Finn McCain (Dionysus)
Keyword in Rules: Verified by Ana
RP Sample:Would it be possible for me to be exempt from doing this, or is it mandatory even after my first three characters?
General Information
Full Name: Brandon Aeron Gale
Gender: Boy
Birthday: 8/6/1996
Age: 15
Camp Experience: None yet, I’ll post about his arrival later
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Claim Status: Unclaimed, but will be soon
Divine Parent: Harpy, Moor wind (Demi-Harpy)
Looks
Hair: Slightly wavy, dark brown, medium-length
Eyes: Blue, almond-shaped
Height: 5’10’’
Weight: 147 lbs.
Picture: Click
Playby: Zac Efron
Dressing Style: Between his normal life as the grandson of a hard-working moor farmer and the erratic, fly-away-at-any-moment life with his harpy mother, Brandon had never considered clothes and dressing at the top of his things to do list. Most of the time he just wears a pair of clean but ragged jeans and an equally clean but ragged t-shirt. It’s not that he doesn’t care about his appearance, because he will appear nice and neat when looks are of absolute importance, Brandon just doesn’t regard his dressing style as one that needs improvement. Still, he has a way of carrying himself with wild pride and patient, pent-up energy that lends an unique trait to his ‘style.’
General Appearance:
With first impressions, this son of a harpy is at an extreme disadvantage. Practically radiating different-ness and unfriendly-ness and bad-tempered-ness, Brandon is definitely not the most sociable fellow. Most of this is because he just doesn’t want to take the chance of loosing his temper and blowing up at someone, but part of it is also because he’s just used to being alone and is uncomfortable in any other situations. Despite that, however, he always feels a bit lonely, isolated from the rest of the normal mortal and half-blood world because of his odd parentage, neither demi-god nor mortal. Perhaps that odd quality of pushing people away yet yearning for some company is one of the things that makes the world notice him.
That, of course, is along with his ruggedly handsome appearance. For only fifteen, Brandon is pretty tall and definitely well-built. Erratic and forced training methods by his ‘aunts’ the harpies as well as the fly-away traveling, turn-into-a-wind-for-a-couple-hours-and-black-out-afterwards technique of his mom both played a part in the lean, strong figure he has. However, the affectionate but rough gestures on each side left him with innumerable small scars that are barely noticeable unless looked for. He is always self-conscious of these, but hates wearing long-sleeved shirts and so never covers them up.
What Makes Them Them
Personality Description:
-Unsociable so he doesn’t get mad
-Hot temper held under firm control
-More courteous to women and elders
-Taught the raw essence of goodness
-Very kind
-Feels like he’s cursed
-Gruff, brusque, blunt
-Doesn’t loose his temper easily
-Very patient
-Looses control if he calls his winds up
-Dark and scowls a lot
-Doesn’t care for pranks or being startled
-Loner
-Can be trusted with anything
-Hasn’t learned to trust yet
-Not bitter
-Fiercely loyal
-Constantly changing his tactics
-Unpredictable in battle
-Develops keen instinct
-Doesn’t care to think too much
-Fascination with the ocean
-Wanders a lot
-Wary and stubborn
-Good sport
-Respect for fighters and winners of battles
-Sincere and hates deception
-Steady
-Fighter through and through
Likes:
-Being alone
-Watching the ocean
-Working in the forge
-Fighting
-Roaming the North Woods
-Climbing the rock wall
Dislikes:
-Being pranked
-Storms
-Being morally obliged to talk
-Bullies
-Children of Zeus
-People telling him to go use his talents
Fears:
-Getting kicked out of camp
-Loosing his temper and hurting someone
-That his granda will find him and bring him back to the moor
-That the people he likes will see him for what he is and hate him for it
Secrets:
-His powers; he avoids any questions about them or brusquely ignores it
-His parentage; he’s afraid someone will put two and two together though Mr. D and Chiron already know
-His existing relatives; he’s afraid that someone will use them against him and make him go back to where he came from
-Manipulators; he’s seen what they can do and is deathly scared of them
Ambitions:
-To make the camp his home for life
-To go on a quest to find his Da
-To make/get a proper weapon
-To find a friend
Powers:
-Can call up rough winds, but not control them (They wreak disaster wherever they go and the only one who isn’t harmed is children of harpies and children of Zeus)
-Can change into a rough wind for up to 48 hours at a time but the longer he stays in that abstract shape the more drained he is at the end
-Greater strength/senses
[Two new powers approved by Ana]
Family and History
Personal History:
Aeron Gale was born to a poor farmer’s family who farmed one of many isolated Scottish marshes and knew nothing but their own hard-working life. The boy was a dreamer, though, and did not fit at all in that environment. When his parents discovered that he wanted to leave the place and become a poet, they were deathly afraid of loosing the boy, whom they had become fond of in spite of themselves. As a result, they harshly banned him from leaving the farm at any time.
Feeling misused, the teenage boy ran off into the marsh. There he wandered around for a while until he heard voices seeming to come from the winds. Aeron had accidentally intruded into a haven for the moor wind harpies, and they were not pleased at his coming. Changing into their solid form, they pecked his eyes out and held him prisoner in a cave for a long time, barely noticing him at all except to thrust some food and water at him once in a while.
It was five years that the now young-man stayed captive, nearly going crazy once or twice. Later, though, a new harpy came to stay with the group and felt a sort of rough attraction to him, which gradually turned into fierce love. He could not see the creature, but was grateful for any affection shown to him. Soon Brandon was born to the odd pair… and all of the harpy’s affection changed to the small boy who thankfully looked like his once-handsome father.
The rest of the harpies, who had long tired of keeping the man captive and had only taken care of the mortal for their companion’s sake, drove Aeron out to fend for himself. Brandon was taken care of by all of them, in a sort of wild but harsh disciplinary way that at one moment was affectionate and the other, furiously angry. While he got was definitely physically scarred by their occasional ‘love pats,’ his emotional health did not suffer any serious difficulties, as it was only what he had grown used to over the years. Nor did he question the fact that he and his mother looked nothing alike. However, sometimes it did occur to him that it was a little odd that he was the only one of ‘his’ type (male and mortal). Even so, he didn’t question that much either since he had never been allowed far from the harpies’ company and certainly had never met another mortal.
That was the environment that the child grew up until the harpy grew tired of playing mother and dumped the kid on his father’s parents. Those two, made paranoid about their first son, kept Brandon under strict conditions also, forbidding him any sort of freedom for several years until his. That, too, did not surprise him, since through his short life Brandon had experienced many and various kinds of change. It irritated him very much, though, that he wasn’t allowed to wander around of his free will and was forced to work the soil. This resulted in several destructive storms occurring around the area, and in turn informed Brandon of his powers, which he secretly began developing with a hope of being able to get away some day.
However, all attempt at escaping ended when a huge, destructive storm blown up by his practice nearly killed his grandparents and the townspeople living around them. From that day, when Brandon saw the fear of him in their eyes, he, too, feared the power his abilities had and no longer wanted to use them.
Because his grandparents didn’t want him to get any ‘notions,’ Brandon did not get any sort of schooling except the rough kind of how to bear a long day in the sun, how to fix things quickly before a storm blew in, how to seal a house so the howling moor winds wouldn’t get in; mostly rough, practical handiwork.
A few years after he had first come to stay with the Gales, his mother stole him away again, because she had heard about the camp for half-bloods and wanted her son to be among the society of the children of the gods, thinking that she would gain some sort of status in the godly world.
It took a while for them to travel to America, as Brandon was still only thirteen and couldn’t turn into a wind for too long, but eventually they made it there after long nights and wild days. Once there, though, Ceilile, the harpy, once more abandoned her child.
Rebellious against all kinds of authority, totally bereft of all worldly knowledge, and not even a real demi-god, Brandon definitely did not ‘fit in.’ As a child of the every-changing rough wind however, Brandon was naturally very adaptable and soon learned to partially ignore the hostile stares given to him daily, learned to control his powers for the most part, and learned to fit in until he no longer became noticeable.
Mortal Parent: Aeron William Gale (Missing)
Other Family:
-Aiden Gale (Grandfather)
-Judith Gale (Grandmother)
And Finally...
I, Serenity, have made this entirely up. I did not rip somebody else’s application from any site, and have followed the rules accordingly.
And…? Yes!
NOTES: I have PMed Rev to see if I can have the 50 points credited to my account after I send a thread to the archived board, because I have counted some of my posts and determined that there are enough for me to make a new character, on my honor (XD). So for now I'll just wait on this.
