Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 17:46:54 GMT -5
* - - Michael. Peter. Varus. - - *
Name ;; Michael Peter Varus
Nickname(s) ;; call him a nickname and he’ll probably attempt to kill you
Age ;; 17
Birthday ;; May 17, 1969
Gender ;; male
Species ;; mania (corrupted Lar, see history)
Immortal Parent ;; Janus
Years at Camp ;; 6
Celebrity Claim ;; Harry Lloyd
Appearance ;;
Michael has dark hair combed to one side that he wears in a more classic trimmed and tended style. He has a sharp chin and facial features and thin lips that are most often found in a cruel smirk. His skin is sickeningly pale due to his death conditions. His eyebrows are also dark and thin and expressive. He stands about six feet even and is surprisingly thin for a Roman, though he is strong. The most startling thing about him though, regular physical feature wise, is his eyes. They are an eerie very light green with a hint of brown and seem to glow. In fact, most of him seems to glow considering he is a ghost.
Clothing wise, like any other lar, Michael is dressed in what he was wearing when he died. That is to say, camp uniform: purple shirt, jeans, boots, and armor. However, his armor is caked with ice from his death (see history). He wears the pin and cloak of a praetor and a tattoo on his arm of his father’s dual-faced head, “SPQR”, and six bars. His gladius, also caked with ice, is sheathed at his side, since it too was with him in death.
Personality ;;
He’s a mania. That about sums it up. But let’s start with his younger, living days.
Michael was nothing if not ambitious. He wanted power. He figured his father, Janus, should be more respected, seeing as he used to hold high position in ancient Rome, so he figured he ought to have the same power. He wanted to be in first cohort, but unfortunately, was placed in fifth, which at the time did not have the stigma is has now. More on that later. Though he hated not being in first, he eventually made his way up to centurion rank after just two years in the legion. He was a good fighter, even though his ambition and his bipolar disorder tried to get in the way. It was a mere three more years before he came to the rank of praetor. He was a ruthless praetor, but he followed the rules to a tee, so there were some who liked him, and some who wanted his head. He never dabbled in the world of love (except power), and argued that Cupid was wise to leave him alone. He had bigger fish to fry, so they say. And fry them he did. His ambition led him on his disastrous trip that ended in his death (more in history).
Today, Michael has escaped the Underworld through the Doors of Death in Tartarus. He travelled a long hard road to get out of there to seek revenge. Unfortunately, after going through Tartarus and considering his life from before, what did make it out of there was not pretty: a mania. According to Wikipedia (because AB is bad at explanations herself), a mania is “a spirit or group of spirits personifying insanity, madness and crazed frenzy.” Michael became nothing more than his insane desire for power and notoriety. Those who stood in his way, he cut down. And now he’s back at Camp Jupiter…
Powers ;;
Figuring out the Options – Michael, thanks to his father, has a knack for seeing all sides of the problem. This can be good and bad. It can cause confusion when he insists on taking each view for its own, for one. However, when he was a leader (centurion or praetor), it came in handy because he could make educated decisions (most of the time).
Bipolar Disorder and Split Personality Disorder – Okay, not powers, but they did come from his dad. He was on medication for them before camp, then learned to control them at camp, then let them take over as a mania.
Insanity – This come from his current form. He is able to bring out the worst in people just by being around them for as little as 30 minutes (though no sooner). He also has a knack for getting on people’s last nerve, but this is unrelated to actual powers.
Family ;;
Allison Varus - mother
Janus - father
Marie Winters - half-sister
History ;;
Janus found Allison when she was living on the streets in a small Colorado town, homeless. He helped her make the right decisions to make herself wealthy and find a job and a home. He visited her frequently, and eventually, she fell in love with him. One thing led to another, and soon she was pregnant. She never saw the man again. A month after her son was born, she got a letter explaining who the man was and that he unfortunately could no longer be a part of her and the boy’s lives. The letter also explained Camp Jupiter, holding in it the brochure for the place. She was fearful at first, but eventually warmed up to the idea that her son could live a bigger life.
When he was merely six, he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Split Personality Disorder and started on his medications to control them. In school, he was ambitious and a tad rebellious at times. He wanted to be the top in his class, and luckily, he had the charm and good study habits to get there. Monsters never showed up until he was nine, when a young hellhound attacked him on his walk home from school. When his mother heard about it, after he had managed to beat its head in with a broken mailbox and gotten in trouble for destroying property and “beating someone’s dog”, she knew just what to do. She packed his bags for him and the two took a plane to California. After a long trek, she dropped him off at the Wolf House.
He loved it there. Lupa became his hero. A big mean leader who knew what she wanted and would eat you if you did otherwise. It wasn’t long before the boy proved himself there and moved on to Camp Jupiter. Camp, however, did not understand him as well as the She-Wolf seemed to have. They had the nerve to put him in fifth cohort when he felt he deserved first. He made the best of it though. After just two years, he became centurion, one of the younger centurions there. He was a great leader, and an even better fighter, though he was not well known for his love for his cohort. He treated them more like objects rather than people and pushed them hard in training. However, in the eyes of the camp leadership, he had the promise of a good leader. He made fifth cohort nearly as good a first. So hardly three years later, at the tender age of fourteen, he was made praetor when an old one retired.
(((SPOILER ALERT FOR SON OF NEPTUNE (and kind of Blood of Olympus) BELOW)))
Some information altered to fit the site.
For two years, he led the Legion with a strong fist, until he heard about the Prophecy of Seven. Immediately, he wanted it, he wanted the glory of this ancient prophecy. So he consulted the augur, who advised him that it was not his. He didn’t listen. He gathered the entire fifth cohort, along with much of the Legion’s Imperial Gold weaponry to outfit them, and the eagle standard of the Legion, and set off for Alaska. Now, Alaska is out of the reach of the gods, so monsters run free there, and he ran into many of them. Finally, he ran into the greatest of them all, the ancient giant Alcyoneus, the giant created by Gaia to destroy his opposite, Pluto. Michael believed he could fight the giant, and instead, his entire cohort perished with him, the eagle standard lost, as well as the Imperial Gold. Since then, the fifth cohort has been seen as being cursed.
Michael was condemned to the Fields of Punishement by the Judges, but he made his way out, only to stumble into the abyss that was Tartarus. He made his way through the forsaken land and to the Doors of Death at the far end. The doors were partially open as a horde of monsters were trying to get through, so he slipped out. Unfortunately, the trek through the horrible land of Tartarus left him insane (more than usual) and he returned to the land of the living as a mania, a spirit of insanity. He roamed the earth for years before he made his way back to Camp Jupiter, and now seeks revenge on the camp that he sees as having betrayed him.
Site Alias ;; AB
Reading;; All PJO and HoO
Roleplaying Experience ;; probably about 10 years
Sample RP ;; please see Remus Stone, Clare Fontaine, Prometheus... well, just look at the side bar, lol
