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Son of the Norse God of War

War does not determine who is right--only who is left.

— Betrand Russell

Darius Tyson is a regular teenager who recently moved to Beacon Hills. He is commonly considered friendly, outgoing and the sort of kid one can trust to keep a secret. Not much is known about him, yet, but the general outlook is good. Apparently he recently moved to town from Minnesota, where he was a decent student. His mother recently got a new job for the parks service, and moved her son along.

Personality

It might seem counter-intuitive given his history, and his bizarre summers spent training with creatures of all sorts in the art of war, or the fact that he hasn't even really been a full human. But Darius is a pretty normal teenager. He likes playing video games, feeling up girls, and making friends. He isn't that strange. Things only get strange when he needs to fight. He has a certain bloodlust he can't resist, and once he has seen blood, or even scented it, it tends to make him want to see more. He also has a hard time turning down a fight.

Even if that fight is stupid, he tends to be a bit, 'Oh cool, a fight!"

Then there's the whole love for mead, which he hasn't discovered yet, but he's eventually going to discover that he loves getting drunk on mead.

SKILLS

ACADEMICS

Novice

Darius is a high school student, he can tell you basics about the states, history, arithmetic and English. He even has a basic understanding of French!

ATHLETICS

Competent

Darius is a great natural athlete, deprived of his heritage he'd still be quite capable of most any track and field event, and likely a few others aside.

COMBAT

Expert

Trained since he was old enough to walk, Darius has spent nearly every summer with his father's greatest warriors and sometimes even his father himself. Trained since a young age by a God of War, he makes most trained fighters look like uncoordinated idiots.

LORE

Novice

Darius has the 'lore basics' from his father's more wizened warriors, and their education has let him get a basic gist of the world around him. In particular: weaknesses and how to fight things.

MUSICIAN

Competent

Darius is a skilled guitarist, the only instrument he can play, but he plays it well.

POWERS

AGILITY

Enhanced

Darius has agility several times that of a mortal, allowing him to catch arrows with moderate effort or dodge bullets with a bit of luck. This also allows for visibly enhanced running speed and reflexes, dozens of times that of a human.

STRENGTH

Supernatural

Darius has the strength of a young god. "Physical strength sufficient to bend and twist metal girders, smash through armored doors or stone walls, and break through a bank vault with sustained moderate effort." His strength is superlative, and his chief asset.

TOUGHNESS

Supernatural

Darius has the resilience and regenerative abilities of a god. He is utterly immune to anything short of the heaviest of weaponry, as weapons are the Domain of War, and regenerates even that damage very swiftly. As befitting his domain however, he also keeps every scar, as scars are a testimonial to his battles, and there is no reason he should ever hide them. They do tend to look rather stylish however, and even ugly burns will tend to somehow look flattering.

TRAVEL

Basic

In a straightaway, when he pushes himself, Darius can run fast enough to rival even very fast motor-vehicles. He isn't built for it, like some creatures, it's more or less relying on main-force brute power to do it, so he corners like a semi-truck.

WEAPONS

Enhanced

Darius hitting like a bus isn't always enough, his body is strong enough and hardened enough that he can punch holes in a person with the tips of fingers about as easily as a gun can.

WEAPON SENSE

Basic

Thanks to his father's war domain. Short range, but acute. Darius can sense weapons, their model, their potency, and any sort of adjustments that have been made to them flawlessly. "The guy behind you has a .45 with silver tipped ammo and a suppressor, by the way." This power only works within about thirty feet, unless the weapon is pointed at him. If a sniper points a rifle at him from across town, his Spidey-Sense will tingle.

ADVANTAGES

FAMILY

He rarely sees the guy anymore, but his father's side of the family is out there. His dad can beat up your dad.

SHITTY CAR

A shitty car is better than no car when you're a senior in high school.

WEAPONS

Tyr doesn't send his son a new iPod for his birthday, he sends him claymore mines and a gurkha knife! Thanks dad. This translates to a small armory that has accrued in Darius' closet over the years. He doesn't make it look all cool, because he can't afford it, he just has piles of melee weapons, guns and boxes of ammunition. He'd sell it all, but he knows his father would know instantly. (He half suspects that his father's 'higher god version' of Darius' weapon sense lets his father monitor him through this cache.)

WEAKNESSES

BLOODLUST

The touch of his father and the Norse gods, when Darius sees blood he tends to want to see more of it. It's a bit psycho. He isn't quite on the level of berserking at just the sight of it, but he tends to want to roll around in it and generally acts a bit aroused around it. Catnip for war-gods?

HONOR CODE

His father has a whole code of honor that stems from a time when Vikings ruled their little part of the world, Darius has none of that, but he does have a code of his own. He doesn't kick someone when they're down, he doesn't stab an enemy in the back, and he never leaves a wounded friend behind. (Not that he has had many incidents of the latter in his young life.)

MOUNTAIN ASH

He has an aversion to it. It can't stop him, but it makes him feel all itchy, and he tends to want to avoid it for the simple unpleasant sensations it provokes.

PERSONAL KRYPTONITE

A stake carved from a yew tree, dipped in the blood of a lamb, will completely penetrate any personal resilience that Darius has, and kill him faster than you can say, 'Holy shit, that worked fast!' The same recipe can also kill his father, and a few other war gods, or so they say.

WOLF BITES

Inherited from his father, Tyr; Fenris inflicted that one major wound on his father, so bites tend to bypass his resilience. That being said, unless something is bitten entirely off, he will regenerate it, albeit at a slower rate.

Born in Minneapolis Minnesota, Darius is the son of Amelia Crane, an orthodontist, and Tyr Odinsson, the Norse god of war. His mother is, and always has been, a fantastically beautiful woman, and so it has never really confused the young boy as to why his mother was chosen, but he has also never asked either. She also happens to be a bit of a badass in her own way, but in that fiery mom clich way, not in the same, 'I bathed in the blood of a hundred felled giants last night,' sort of way.

Growing up, life alternated between normal and the surreal. The school years were normal kid stuff. He was an average student, an exceptional athlete, even before his power fully started to awaken, and he never wanted for anything. His mother made enough money to support them both, and she never pursued other men.

He never asked his mother about the pursuit of men, either, but he strongly suspects it's because it'd be hard to beat the last guy. He doesn't like to think about that though, because 'Ew.'

But he also suspects that she's sort of lonely. Anyway, the school years were normal. His summers however were utter hell, but the best kind of hell. Every summer a group of nigh immortal soldiers would show up at his door, without any pomp or circumstance, just roll up a few weeks after school had ended and away they'd go. Always to someplace different. Some new environment would always be a part of the training. He was never taught to survive on mushrooms or to track an enemy. It was entirely about fighting. Fighting monsters, fighting people, fighting wizards, fighting inclement weather. As long as he was fighting something, and surviving, his father's nebulous aims were achieved. The men who surrounded him, the nigh immortal, they said very little, just trained, and he was there for their training.

Before his awakening, he'd already discovered a bit of a genetic knack for battle, but when his power fully blossomed, he realized that every instinct was just a prelude. It was all part of some much bigger package that only really started to open on his twelfth birthday. Over time, his strength grew, he grew more resilient, and his natural agility became more acute. Once his powers had awakened, his father stopped leaving it to the subordinates to train him, and he started joining in the training. Sparring with his father was always worse than the worse he would deal with the entire rest of the summer, even if it was only for a few minutes. It was like fighting a hurricane with an umbrella.

Needless to say, when he came back from these summers in hell, he would have to try to be normal again. That was hard. Last year, nobody showed up, nor this year. He isn't sure why, but according to some basic research, he thinks its because he is now technically a man in the Norse tradition. His father has prepared him and sent him out into the world.

A few months ago, his mom got a new job, and is opening a new practice in Beacon Hills, and though Darius is in his senior year, and he's old enough to live on his own, he didn't want to have to hold down a job just so he could finish school in Minneapolis. He had friends enough, but his strange summer disappearances and strong attempts at avoiding any sort of conflict had always set him apart.

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