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Player Name: Kara
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IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Will Solace
Canon: Percy Jackson
Canon Point: Post the Sun and the Star
Age: 16
Background: riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Will_Solace
Arrival Scenario: Free Cities
Suitability:
He will not be happy about being dragged into someone else's mess yet again. But Will feels the need to help out, or at least find a way to lessen the damage. He might even enlist, with the understanding that he's a medic and a medic only. Whatever happens within the game, Will would make his decisions based on what would cause the least amount of harm. Will has been through multiple wars, he's seen more than his fair share of death and destruction, and as a child of Apollo he feels it a bit more. He won't be able to stand idly by and watch as decisions are made and consequences are had, without at least trying to mitigate things somehow. He's also a natural meddler and he cares what happens to people. He'll probably do his best to be in everyone's business, whether they want it or not.
As head counselor for the Apollo cabin, he knows how to both give and take orders and generally rolls with the punches. He's easy to get along with, as long as everyone plays nice. Being a demigod is a political game as much as a physical one, it's just one that often involves fetching magical dirty socks for gods who accidentally misplaced them, with a side order of possible maiming and death. He'll probably see the situations in game as pretty similar. Just, with less dirty socks. The stakes are the same, war, death, general badness. All things he would most definitely like to avoid! While he is a healer and a natural caretaker, he has been shown to have a ruthless side. He'll do whatever he needs to do, especially if it involves helping people in need.
He'll most likely be interested in finding out about the gods of this world, old and new. It's only polite to check out the local pantheon so you don't end up a potted plant. As a whole he will most likely be interested in all things medical, and trying to find neutral ways to stop the conflict he's found himself in. Will is super interested in Fomalhaut and Heartwood Syndrome and is probably going to badger NPC's until they either threaten to throw him in prison or give him more info so he can try to help. He's not really the type to give up easily. He will harass people. Everyone, he will harass everyone.
Powers:
Dyslexia: Like most demigods, Will's brain is hardwired for Ancient Greek. Mortal languages take longer for him to understand, and the words seem to float off the page and change on him, screwing him up. Ancient Greek on the other hand? No problem.
ADHD: Like the dyslexia, this is also from his demigod status. His body is hardwired for battle. This extra sensory attention manifests as enhanced reflexes and the ability to see where the enemy will strike, judging body language. Annabeth Chase once describes it as the ability to see too much, not to little. Both the ADHD and the dyslexia are considered strengths in his world. But, outside in the world of mortals, they are weaknesses and cause demigods to usually exist at odds with their human counterparts.
Hardier: Due to their ancestry, demigods are naturally sturdier, stronger, and have faster reflexes than normal humans. Children of Apollo tend to heal quicker than other demigods as well. This will turn into a weakness in places removed from sunlight, such as Nocwich.
Archery/Athleticism: Will is naturally talented at archery, although not as good as most of his other siblings. It's not his specialty, although Apollo kids are naturally good with missile weapons. You still probably don't want to play basketball with him. Will is naturally athletic, Apollo's kids are very good shots. He's also a great runner and is quite fast.
Vitakinesis: Healing is Will's specialty. Vitakinesis allows him to sense what is wrong with a person, just by touching them. He has a tendency to touch their head, but any body part will do. Will is able to speed up healing, although depending on the injury it will drain him physically and he will become extremely tired. Like any demigod, there's also a limit as to how much he can do. He's not a god, and even then, Apollo and Asklepius have their limitations as well. Will can only heal within the limits of the body, so if someone is injured past the point of recovery or has lost too much blood, he can't fix that. Will cannot do something like magically transfuse blood or generate a limb or organ where there wasn't one, but he can boost the body to make new red blood cells faster or increase a healing or immune response. This ability will also drain Will cumulatively. If he uses it too much, it will take him a while to recover.
Nosokinesis: Will has inherited Apollo's power over disease and illness. When he channels his own negative emotions (fear, anger, etc), he can use this to infect others. In The Sun and the Star he is actually powerful enough to use against Nyx and infect her with allergies. Even if he didn't take her down, he infected a primordial deity that doesn't have a respiratory system. Obviously, this will be nerfed. Will is also still getting used to this ability, as well as being naturally cautious about infecting anyone with anything, especially something contagious. He distinctly remembers Apollo using it and having to clean up the mess after it infected most of Camp. This ability also drains Will quite easily. Without ambrosia to help him, he'll be super careful. Will is also still getting used to being at ease with his own negativity and darkness, which means he will not be using this as easily until he is.
Audiokinesis: Will can make a sharp, ultrasonic whistling sound that incapacitates people for a few moments, disorienting them and hurting their ears. It's especially bad for dogs. He's also a musician, although not as good as his siblings. Apollo did not give him very many musical skills. Again, it's not his specialty. He does have some as he's seen leading the camp in the nightly sing-a-long and making a bonfire. Apollo children also seem to have a certain resistance to different musical frequencies or abilities. When Apollo, as a mortal, plays a song and accidentally sets the class into a depressed almost suicidal fit, everyone crying and screaming, only a son of Apollo was unaffected.
Photokinesis: Will is a glow in the dark nightlight. No, seriously. He can glow in the dark like a small lamp, or bright enough as the sun itself. He can also project the light out of himself. Like Nosokinesis, he actually helped take down a demon and a primordial goddess with this. Without ambrosia to help him recover, he is super unlikely to go a it full force. It drains Will quite easily and Will is a giant worry wort. The more intense, violent photokinesis, however, is provoked by fear or rage. This means that while he has somewhat more control over being a gentle night light, he doesn't have a good handle on how to control the full force of it, especially when he gets scared or angry. He could accidentally use it while getting charged by a rampaging monster. This ability also means he can't get sunburned. It's also a weakness. Will has been shown to get very weak and ill when he is away from sunlight, whether it's in the winter months or in a place of darkness, like the Underworld or, presumably Nocwich.
Season Alteration: Will's made yellow flowers bloom while singing.
Monster Bait: Will smells absolutely delicious to monsters. Totally cool with either keeping or nerfing this!
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
This has to easily be the Battle of Manhattan, when Kronos leads his Titan and monster army against the Olympian Gods and their demigod children. All mortals fall asleep, which is both good and bad considering they were now in harms way and weren't awake to avoid getting killed in the crossfire. The demigod teenagers, along with some Party Pony centaur factions, defend the city, which now looks like it's in the middle of a war zone.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
Will believes in staying calm, helping out, and not being a jerk.
Lesson 1: Don't be like our parents. No really. Will both looks up to and admires Apollo, while recognizing that there are some serious faults in his behavior, like all of the Greek Gods. He also understands that a lot of their behavior can be inherited into their children. Have basic human decency, pay attention to people once in a while and say please and thank you and he'll absolutely love you. Be a jackass, and there will be problems. Will is the nicest damn character in the series. As a demigod, he's also learned real fast to be super careful about what you say to or about the gods. While not exactly a moral code, it's definitely a set of standards to live by. Don't live by them and you risk being a giant pile of glitter or turned into a potted plant. We don't call Zeus crazy, Athena is the best at everything, and if your divine parent forgets you exist? Try not to take it too personally. Gods have a different idea of time than mortals do and sometimes get distracted easily. Granted, it's easy for him to say this compared to other demigods. He has a mortal parent who wants and cares for him, and Apollo actually pays attention to him, talks to him. Cares. It's a pretty far cry from the situation other demigods find themselves in. But all in all, Will is pretty good at letting bygones be bygones. Unless you do something to really piss him off, in which case he will totally hunt you to the ends of the earth. Will cares, and that caring can come off as borderline obsessive when he doesn't get his way about something he really cares about.
Lesson 2: Don't Get Killed, and Always Help. Demigods spend their lives training and learning how to survive because monsters find them extremely tasty. He's a kid who doesn't like to fight, specializes in running away and trying to help others, while trying to avoid getting eaten. He's literally trained while dodging exploding flying chainsaw frisbees and climbing walls of lava with boulders tumbling down. He's fast. If you're not fast, you get killed. So, Will is someone who always keeps it in his mind to stay focused. Stay calm. Keep the situation under control and help keep everyone else also focused and calm. Despite what's happening around you. Will knows how to handle himself in a combat situation and is excellent at assessing and triaging wounded. We've seen him multiple times knee deep in casualties, but like an experienced combat medic, he knows how to keep his emotions in check and deal with them later. His patients need him now. If he's unfamiliar with a situation, like his first time delivering a baby, he's going to be nervous, and probably freak out after and need a distraction to help him work through it. But he never lets it interfere with his actual work. This carries over into his job as head Apollo counselor. Within the Apollo cabin, Will has a bookshelf full of books on Apollo, for any new camper to look over, and get to know Dad. Since he's probably not going to show up for a chat with his children. Prepared is a good word for Will, whether it's a medical emergency or a sibling one. He cares and always, always wants to help.
Lesson 4: Stop and pause. This is the kid who walks into Tartarus in flip flops, cargo shorts, a medkit, kitkats and a goddamn smile. And absolutely no weapons. He walks into super hell as himself with absolutely no defenses. He doesn't like violence, and at the same time, knows that it's not his strong suit. Will is obviously not a fighter. He's not good at fighting, and he doesn't like doing it. His own skills and strategies reflect this, and his own moral code. Instead of fighting, at multiple instances Will has been shown using his ultrasonic whistle, stunning enemies and giving everyone a chance to pause. Even when he learns he can give infect someone with illness, he chooses allergies. He chooses to make someone sneeze. He chooses distraction and pause, so that, maybe, just maybe, everyone can find another way that doesn't end in violence and pain.
The demigods also literally fought a war over child support so, don't pay attention to your children, and there will be problems. At least wear condoms, he's begging you.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Honesty, integrity, kindness, hard work, generally just be a nice person (you don't even have to be a person, be a nice gelatinous cube and he'll still like you). He appreciates anyone who will stand up for someone else. He's protective and appreciates those qualities in others.
He admires courage while being tempered by realism, selflessness and dedication to hard work. For example, he gets extremely protective around Nico when he tries to Shadow Travel, knowing how much it's literally killing him. He knows that Nico is courageous and has an extremely strong work ethic, but he also knows that he has problems knowing his own limits. Will, while admiring this, gets in his face in order to get Nico to listen. To live. While he may not appreciate Nico's initial annoyance at it and, at first, he completely respects his willingness to understand and work within his own boundaries. He likes being pushed and having others believe in themselves. He'll just push back harder. He also utterly falls for Nico during a week he's helping out in the infirmary. He's totally smitten by Nico trying to help and having utterly no idea what he's doing, but trying anyway.
Having grown up over at Camp Half Blood, he also quite admires the ability to keep calm under pressure. It's something he himself displays, and admires it in those around him. He snaps at his father, Apollo, when dumped into a mortal body. Apollo gets caught up in his own anxiety and can't keep calm while tending wounded. Will has to sharply remind him of the current priorities. Care for the wounded. Keep everyone here right now alive. Worry about everyone else later.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Will is just starting to accept the darkness within him, and understand that negative emotions are just as necessary as positive ones. Up until the last part of The Sun and the Star, Will views the Underworld, death, trauma, negativity, fear, etc, all as things that need to be fixed, and turned into positivity, without understanding their inherent value. When he starts to let himself accept and feel his own darkness, and negative emotions, he realizes Apollo has gifted him with nosokinesis, Apollo's powers over spreading disease and illness. He's still working on accepting and controlling it, as a healer Will tends to view those things as something to be fixed, to have power over, to be cured. Not to meddle with. But there can't be light without darkness, and healing without illness. He tends to view life, as well as his own gifts from Apollo, as very one sided; very nurturing and grounded in life. Not the plague arrows of death. He has trouble understanding why Nico, as a son of Hades, is so comfortable with death, sadness, darkness and the Underworld, all things he himself is viewing as bad. Will has a very black and white view of the world that is only just starting to change as he accepts his own shades of grey. He's realizing now that the darkness can be just as beautiful as the light, and that they are two sides of the same coin.
Will can also be arrogant. He hates this about himself, knows that it's a weakness, especially in children of Apollo. In Tartarus, he let that place get to him, let it lure him away with his own arrogance, and it nearly got himself and Nico killed.
Will tends to vastly underestimate his own abilities and has self esteem issues. Being surrounded by top level demigods with super aggressive, obvious powers, well, it can kind of bruise his ego. He's been shown wishing he could help with battle, but admitting, that, he really was just a healer. He even laments this, while saying he never wanted to even be a fighter. Will is just insecure. He's still working on getting to know himself, and accepting himself as he is, and that he isn't as inconsequential and powerless as he thinks and feels. Will just wants to help out. He tends to sell himself short, while not only are his healing abilities very necessary, but he is more than just a healer, if he'd accept himself as a whole.
What is their sign, and why? The Empress.
It was honestly a toss up between the Empress and the Sun, but ultimately, The Empress is what embodies Will a bit more. Will is the ultimate care giver, his entire personality and powers revolve around helping others and taking care of them. His boyfriend has also started referring to him as a care bear. Will is always focused on helping others, even in the depths of Tartarus, a place that is literally killing him as he's dying without sunlight. He keeps going, reminding Nico of everything that matters; love, happiness, life. He's been compared to a dent resistant car, which just pops back into his original shape no matter how bad the damage.
He's also able to bring a lightness and warmth to Nico, who, after 10 books of downright trauma, finally smiles with Will. Will's support gets him to open up. Will is downright magical. Some of Will's warmth and calmness is a shell however, something he's developed as a result of the trauma of being a demigod and head counselor of the Apollo cabin. If you freak out, everyone else freaks out. Keep on smiling, dude. Still, Will exudes warmth and calmness. He's someone who is always willing to help and support, even when you don't know you need it. Especially when you don't know you need it. That's when Will becomes ferocious. Like a demigod care bear.
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Player Name: Kara
Are you over 18?: yes
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Other Characters in Game: Kelson Haldane
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Will Solace
Canon: Percy Jackson
Canon Point: Post the Sun and the Star
Age: 16
Background: riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Will_Solace
Arrival Scenario: Free Cities
Suitability:
He will not be happy about being dragged into someone else's mess yet again. But Will feels the need to help out, or at least find a way to lessen the damage. He might even enlist, with the understanding that he's a medic and a medic only. Whatever happens within the game, Will would make his decisions based on what would cause the least amount of harm. Will has been through multiple wars, he's seen more than his fair share of death and destruction, and as a child of Apollo he feels it a bit more. He won't be able to stand idly by and watch as decisions are made and consequences are had, without at least trying to mitigate things somehow. He's also a natural meddler and he cares what happens to people. He'll probably do his best to be in everyone's business, whether they want it or not.
As head counselor for the Apollo cabin, he knows how to both give and take orders and generally rolls with the punches. He's easy to get along with, as long as everyone plays nice. Being a demigod is a political game as much as a physical one, it's just one that often involves fetching magical dirty socks for gods who accidentally misplaced them, with a side order of possible maiming and death. He'll probably see the situations in game as pretty similar. Just, with less dirty socks. The stakes are the same, war, death, general badness. All things he would most definitely like to avoid! While he is a healer and a natural caretaker, he has been shown to have a ruthless side. He'll do whatever he needs to do, especially if it involves helping people in need.
He'll most likely be interested in finding out about the gods of this world, old and new. It's only polite to check out the local pantheon so you don't end up a potted plant. As a whole he will most likely be interested in all things medical, and trying to find neutral ways to stop the conflict he's found himself in. Will is super interested in Fomalhaut and Heartwood Syndrome and is probably going to badger NPC's until they either threaten to throw him in prison or give him more info so he can try to help. He's not really the type to give up easily. He will harass people. Everyone, he will harass everyone.
Powers:
Dyslexia: Like most demigods, Will's brain is hardwired for Ancient Greek. Mortal languages take longer for him to understand, and the words seem to float off the page and change on him, screwing him up. Ancient Greek on the other hand? No problem.
ADHD: Like the dyslexia, this is also from his demigod status. His body is hardwired for battle. This extra sensory attention manifests as enhanced reflexes and the ability to see where the enemy will strike, judging body language. Annabeth Chase once describes it as the ability to see too much, not to little. Both the ADHD and the dyslexia are considered strengths in his world. But, outside in the world of mortals, they are weaknesses and cause demigods to usually exist at odds with their human counterparts.
Hardier: Due to their ancestry, demigods are naturally sturdier, stronger, and have faster reflexes than normal humans. Children of Apollo tend to heal quicker than other demigods as well. This will turn into a weakness in places removed from sunlight, such as Nocwich.
Archery/Athleticism: Will is naturally talented at archery, although not as good as most of his other siblings. It's not his specialty, although Apollo kids are naturally good with missile weapons. You still probably don't want to play basketball with him. Will is naturally athletic, Apollo's kids are very good shots. He's also a great runner and is quite fast.
Vitakinesis: Healing is Will's specialty. Vitakinesis allows him to sense what is wrong with a person, just by touching them. He has a tendency to touch their head, but any body part will do. Will is able to speed up healing, although depending on the injury it will drain him physically and he will become extremely tired. Like any demigod, there's also a limit as to how much he can do. He's not a god, and even then, Apollo and Asklepius have their limitations as well. Will can only heal within the limits of the body, so if someone is injured past the point of recovery or has lost too much blood, he can't fix that. Will cannot do something like magically transfuse blood or generate a limb or organ where there wasn't one, but he can boost the body to make new red blood cells faster or increase a healing or immune response. This ability will also drain Will cumulatively. If he uses it too much, it will take him a while to recover.
Medicine: Healing is Will's primary gift, like the vitakinesis, it's a part of him, down to his blood and DNA. Like any demigod, their gifts are baked into their very selves. He's naturally talented, even using mortal medical and surgical methods. Being related to both Apollo and Asklepius has some perks, they are both responsible for many techniques, medications and skills, which Will has at his disposal. He probably knows how to use some of them, even without schooling, just like how Percy can talk to horses without knowing how. Will is also shown learning the basics of being a combat medic at Camp Half Blood when he is younger. Practice makes perfect. Will has been shown performing complicated surgical procedures such as reattaching limbs in the middle of a field, or setting a broken bone and is described as the Camp's best combat medic.
Nosokinesis: Will has inherited Apollo's power over disease and illness. When he channels his own negative emotions (fear, anger, etc), he can use this to infect others. In The Sun and the Star he is actually powerful enough to use against Nyx and infect her with allergies. Even if he didn't take her down, he infected a primordial deity that doesn't have a respiratory system. Obviously, this will be nerfed. Will is also still getting used to this ability, as well as being naturally cautious about infecting anyone with anything, especially something contagious. He distinctly remembers Apollo using it and having to clean up the mess after it infected most of Camp. This ability also drains Will quite easily. Without ambrosia to help him, he'll be super careful. Will is also still getting used to being at ease with his own negativity and darkness, which means he will not be using this as easily until he is.
Audiokinesis: Will can make a sharp, ultrasonic whistling sound that incapacitates people for a few moments, disorienting them and hurting their ears. It's especially bad for dogs. He's also a musician, although not as good as his siblings. Apollo did not give him very many musical skills. Again, it's not his specialty. He does have some as he's seen leading the camp in the nightly sing-a-long and making a bonfire. Apollo children also seem to have a certain resistance to different musical frequencies or abilities. When Apollo, as a mortal, plays a song and accidentally sets the class into a depressed almost suicidal fit, everyone crying and screaming, only a son of Apollo was unaffected.
Photokinesis: Will is a glow in the dark nightlight. No, seriously. He can glow in the dark like a small lamp, or bright enough as the sun itself. He can also project the light out of himself. Like Nosokinesis, he actually helped take down a demon and a primordial goddess with this. Without ambrosia to help him recover, he is super unlikely to go a it full force. It drains Will quite easily and Will is a giant worry wort. The more intense, violent photokinesis, however, is provoked by fear or rage. This means that while he has somewhat more control over being a gentle night light, he doesn't have a good handle on how to control the full force of it, especially when he gets scared or angry. He could accidentally use it while getting charged by a rampaging monster. This ability also means he can't get sunburned. It's also a weakness. Will has been shown to get very weak and ill when he is away from sunlight, whether it's in the winter months or in a place of darkness, like the Underworld or, presumably Nocwich.
Season Alteration: Will's made yellow flowers bloom while singing.
Monster Bait: Will smells absolutely delicious to monsters. Totally cool with either keeping or nerfing this!
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
This has to easily be the Battle of Manhattan, when Kronos leads his Titan and monster army against the Olympian Gods and their demigod children. All mortals fall asleep, which is both good and bad considering they were now in harms way and weren't awake to avoid getting killed in the crossfire. The demigod teenagers, along with some Party Pony centaur factions, defend the city, which now looks like it's in the middle of a war zone.
Will is with the rest of the Apollo Cabin, defending the Williamsburg Bridge when the Titans raged against Olympus. He is also the one who stitched Annabeth Chase up after she gets stabbed saving Percy Jackson from a fatal blow. Will is with the rest of his Cabin, setting up impromptu hospitals for the injured throughout the battle. When his brother, Michael Yew, goes MIA in the middle of battle and is assumed dead, he takes up the lead as the Head Counselor of Apollo Cabin, but not until all hope has been lost for Michael's safe return. In fact, Apollo Cabin has the most dead counselors of any of the other cabins. But lucky for Will, he's survived the odds. So far.
He survives, moving the field hospital to Mount Olympus as the battle rages below. He tends wounded campers, satyrs, nature spirits and minor gods. The battle ends when Luke Castellan, who has been the willing host to Kronos, kills himself in order to prevent Kronos from taking over and winning. Will, along with the rest of the Camp, return home with their injured and dead. The camp bead they get that year, marking another year of survival for the demigods, is marked in ancient greek with the names of those demigods who did not survive.
Keep in mind Will is a whole thirteen years old at this point. Now he's seen not only his own siblings die, but friends, Mount Olympus is in ruins. He's becomes head counselor of the Apollo Cabin, as everyone older or more experienced than him is dead. Imagine being almost singularly responsible for keeping your friends and family alive, while the death count steady rises. Imagine being responsible for this while the battle rages on for days, sleep is hard to come by, supplies are nonexistent. Morale is shattered, and you have to keep going. Will knows this. He does his best to keep everything together because, if he falls apart, so does everyone else.
This all leaves Will desperate to help out, not only because he views himself as a healer but because he views himself as 'just' a healer. As far as he's concerned, everyone around him pulls their weight and he has to mop up the floor after. He's convinced he'll be exposed as a fraud or extra baggage. He feels like he can't contribute because his abilities aren't offensive, not realizing this is also what is keeping him alive. Every other head counselor of Apollo has died horribly. So he tries to make up for it, by trying to do what he can to keep everyone alive. He builds up this happy facade, projecting to everyone that, everything is fine and completely not crumbling around him. That camper with their insides on the outside? It's fine, he can fix it. His siblings are dead? Everything is going to be fine, he can totally handle this. The Gods are getting their butts smacked and Olympus is crumbling? It's fine. Just stay focused on what you can fix. And later, in the Trials of Apollo, when Apollo himself shows up mortal and beat up? Everything's fine! Will totally didn't accidentally almost kill him and isn't completely freaking out. His dad is totally not going to die and everything will be. FINE. He's got a bit of a savior and inferiority complex that he's just starting to work on. Death is a part of life. Pain and suffering, anger and fear are not intrinsically dark.
Keep in mind Will is a whole thirteen years old at this point. Now he's seen not only his own siblings die, but friends, Mount Olympus is in ruins. He's becomes head counselor of the Apollo Cabin, as everyone older or more experienced than him is dead. Imagine being almost singularly responsible for keeping your friends and family alive, while the death count steady rises. Imagine being responsible for this while the battle rages on for days, sleep is hard to come by, supplies are nonexistent. Morale is shattered, and you have to keep going. Will knows this. He does his best to keep everything together because, if he falls apart, so does everyone else.
This all leaves Will desperate to help out, not only because he views himself as a healer but because he views himself as 'just' a healer. As far as he's concerned, everyone around him pulls their weight and he has to mop up the floor after. He's convinced he'll be exposed as a fraud or extra baggage. He feels like he can't contribute because his abilities aren't offensive, not realizing this is also what is keeping him alive. Every other head counselor of Apollo has died horribly. So he tries to make up for it, by trying to do what he can to keep everyone alive. He builds up this happy facade, projecting to everyone that, everything is fine and completely not crumbling around him. That camper with their insides on the outside? It's fine, he can fix it. His siblings are dead? Everything is going to be fine, he can totally handle this. The Gods are getting their butts smacked and Olympus is crumbling? It's fine. Just stay focused on what you can fix. And later, in the Trials of Apollo, when Apollo himself shows up mortal and beat up? Everything's fine! Will totally didn't accidentally almost kill him and isn't completely freaking out. His dad is totally not going to die and everything will be. FINE. He's got a bit of a savior and inferiority complex that he's just starting to work on. Death is a part of life. Pain and suffering, anger and fear are not intrinsically dark.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
Will believes in staying calm, helping out, and not being a jerk.
Lesson 1: Don't be like our parents. No really. Will both looks up to and admires Apollo, while recognizing that there are some serious faults in his behavior, like all of the Greek Gods. He also understands that a lot of their behavior can be inherited into their children. Have basic human decency, pay attention to people once in a while and say please and thank you and he'll absolutely love you. Be a jackass, and there will be problems. Will is the nicest damn character in the series. As a demigod, he's also learned real fast to be super careful about what you say to or about the gods. While not exactly a moral code, it's definitely a set of standards to live by. Don't live by them and you risk being a giant pile of glitter or turned into a potted plant. We don't call Zeus crazy, Athena is the best at everything, and if your divine parent forgets you exist? Try not to take it too personally. Gods have a different idea of time than mortals do and sometimes get distracted easily. Granted, it's easy for him to say this compared to other demigods. He has a mortal parent who wants and cares for him, and Apollo actually pays attention to him, talks to him. Cares. It's a pretty far cry from the situation other demigods find themselves in. But all in all, Will is pretty good at letting bygones be bygones. Unless you do something to really piss him off, in which case he will totally hunt you to the ends of the earth. Will cares, and that caring can come off as borderline obsessive when he doesn't get his way about something he really cares about.
Lesson 2: Don't Get Killed, and Always Help. Demigods spend their lives training and learning how to survive because monsters find them extremely tasty. He's a kid who doesn't like to fight, specializes in running away and trying to help others, while trying to avoid getting eaten. He's literally trained while dodging exploding flying chainsaw frisbees and climbing walls of lava with boulders tumbling down. He's fast. If you're not fast, you get killed. So, Will is someone who always keeps it in his mind to stay focused. Stay calm. Keep the situation under control and help keep everyone else also focused and calm. Despite what's happening around you. Will knows how to handle himself in a combat situation and is excellent at assessing and triaging wounded. We've seen him multiple times knee deep in casualties, but like an experienced combat medic, he knows how to keep his emotions in check and deal with them later. His patients need him now. If he's unfamiliar with a situation, like his first time delivering a baby, he's going to be nervous, and probably freak out after and need a distraction to help him work through it. But he never lets it interfere with his actual work. This carries over into his job as head Apollo counselor. Within the Apollo cabin, Will has a bookshelf full of books on Apollo, for any new camper to look over, and get to know Dad. Since he's probably not going to show up for a chat with his children. Prepared is a good word for Will, whether it's a medical emergency or a sibling one. He cares and always, always wants to help.
Lesson 3: Stay calm and in control. Everything is fine. Will is confident when he's tending the wounded. As head counselor of the Apollo cabin and head medic at Camp Half Blood, Will is used to giving orders when the going gets tough. Usually, the situation is bad and there aren't enough medics to go around. Campers are injured, usually more than anyone should be able to handle alone, some of them with serious injuries. He's able to separate his own feelings and concerns about the situation and focus on what comes first. The injured. This is true both in the Titan War when Kronos is raging and Will has no choice but to do his best on the wounded in his care, and when he's reattaching Paolo's limbs after the death race. In both instances, he's worried about his friends and siblings, but is able to compartmentalize.
The demigods also literally fought a war over child support so, don't pay attention to your children, and there will be problems. At least wear condoms, he's begging you.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Honesty, integrity, kindness, hard work, generally just be a nice person (you don't even have to be a person, be a nice gelatinous cube and he'll still like you). He appreciates anyone who will stand up for someone else. He's protective and appreciates those qualities in others.
He admires courage while being tempered by realism, selflessness and dedication to hard work. For example, he gets extremely protective around Nico when he tries to Shadow Travel, knowing how much it's literally killing him. He knows that Nico is courageous and has an extremely strong work ethic, but he also knows that he has problems knowing his own limits. Will, while admiring this, gets in his face in order to get Nico to listen. To live. While he may not appreciate Nico's initial annoyance at it and, at first, he completely respects his willingness to understand and work within his own boundaries. He likes being pushed and having others believe in themselves. He'll just push back harder. He also utterly falls for Nico during a week he's helping out in the infirmary. He's totally smitten by Nico trying to help and having utterly no idea what he's doing, but trying anyway.
Having grown up over at Camp Half Blood, he also quite admires the ability to keep calm under pressure. It's something he himself displays, and admires it in those around him. He snaps at his father, Apollo, when dumped into a mortal body. Apollo gets caught up in his own anxiety and can't keep calm while tending wounded. Will has to sharply remind him of the current priorities. Care for the wounded. Keep everyone here right now alive. Worry about everyone else later.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Will is just starting to accept the darkness within him, and understand that negative emotions are just as necessary as positive ones. Up until the last part of The Sun and the Star, Will views the Underworld, death, trauma, negativity, fear, etc, all as things that need to be fixed, and turned into positivity, without understanding their inherent value. When he starts to let himself accept and feel his own darkness, and negative emotions, he realizes Apollo has gifted him with nosokinesis, Apollo's powers over spreading disease and illness. He's still working on accepting and controlling it, as a healer Will tends to view those things as something to be fixed, to have power over, to be cured. Not to meddle with. But there can't be light without darkness, and healing without illness. He tends to view life, as well as his own gifts from Apollo, as very one sided; very nurturing and grounded in life. Not the plague arrows of death. He has trouble understanding why Nico, as a son of Hades, is so comfortable with death, sadness, darkness and the Underworld, all things he himself is viewing as bad. Will has a very black and white view of the world that is only just starting to change as he accepts his own shades of grey. He's realizing now that the darkness can be just as beautiful as the light, and that they are two sides of the same coin.
Will can also be arrogant. He hates this about himself, knows that it's a weakness, especially in children of Apollo. In Tartarus, he let that place get to him, let it lure him away with his own arrogance, and it nearly got himself and Nico killed.
Will tends to vastly underestimate his own abilities and has self esteem issues. Being surrounded by top level demigods with super aggressive, obvious powers, well, it can kind of bruise his ego. He's been shown wishing he could help with battle, but admitting, that, he really was just a healer. He even laments this, while saying he never wanted to even be a fighter. Will is just insecure. He's still working on getting to know himself, and accepting himself as he is, and that he isn't as inconsequential and powerless as he thinks and feels. Will just wants to help out. He tends to sell himself short, while not only are his healing abilities very necessary, but he is more than just a healer, if he'd accept himself as a whole.
What is their sign, and why? The Empress.
It was honestly a toss up between the Empress and the Sun, but ultimately, The Empress is what embodies Will a bit more. Will is the ultimate care giver, his entire personality and powers revolve around helping others and taking care of them. His boyfriend has also started referring to him as a care bear. Will is always focused on helping others, even in the depths of Tartarus, a place that is literally killing him as he's dying without sunlight. He keeps going, reminding Nico of everything that matters; love, happiness, life. He's been compared to a dent resistant car, which just pops back into his original shape no matter how bad the damage.
He's also able to bring a lightness and warmth to Nico, who, after 10 books of downright trauma, finally smiles with Will. Will's support gets him to open up. Will is downright magical. Some of Will's warmth and calmness is a shell however, something he's developed as a result of the trauma of being a demigod and head counselor of the Apollo cabin. If you freak out, everyone else freaks out. Keep on smiling, dude. Still, Will exudes warmth and calmness. He's someone who is always willing to help and support, even when you don't know you need it. Especially when you don't know you need it. That's when Will becomes ferocious. Like a demigod care bear.
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