[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]PERSONALITY

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he's a bit whiny, and really that's a rather defining part of his personality. look, isaak knows when he's not wanted around, but that doesn't mean he won't whine about it. he knows any smart person knows there's plenty to complain about the world. he just happens to also have an a+ in it.[break][break]

isaak is also fairly cunning and creative, which he puts down as his 'street smarts'. he's not afraid to create new words if he likes the sound of it, and he's very expressive in mocking people, explaining his thoughts, and just in his life in general. for the most part he knows what words he wants to use, and when he feels the word isn't quite enough to describe the true extent of something, he'll make something up to express it.[break][break]

although he would consider himself fairly loyal, he would probably put himself first in most situations. (he proudly considers himself a slytherpuff - like it's not breaking harry potter canon to be part of two houses.) also unlike other demigods, he likes to reference a lot of pop culture in his conversations, dress, and lifestyle as he spent all of his childhood and most of his teen years amongst mortals, meaning he watched a lot of tv and read mortal books.[break][break]

this makes him a little less serious about the legion, as he's only been with the romans for just over a year. but really, that's isaak in most areas in his life: he's just not very serious. he can be, he supposes, but for the most part he prefers to just take life easy. he doesn't do commitment because he just can't take girls seriously enough, and he can't take his centurions and praetors seriously enough either which always lands him in trouble.[break][break]

that's how it has always been for isaak though, especially through his high school years. the number of times he'd found himself in a fight or in the principal's office or in the sick bay due to him being unable to resist a joke or a girl or something else. this boy is a son of mercury through and through, and even the legion would be unable to break that streak of troublemaker out of him.[break]

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]BIOGRAPHY

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MOTHER : Ella Nielsen, school nurse[break]
FATHER : Mercury, god of travel and commerce[break]
SIBLINGS : N/A[break][break]

CLAIMED : Yes[break]
YEARS AT CAMP : One year[break][break]

1. ella nielsen had just graduated nursing school when she met and fell in love with a deliciously handsome boy who she didn't know was actually the roman god mercury. they met at the airport when she was flying off to europe for a month to celebrate her graduation, he happened to be travelling to the same city as she was. throwing all caution to the wind in celebration of living her life, ella and mercury had a whirlwind fling. when she came back home, her first trip was to the convenience store where she bought a pregnancy test - and that was how she found out she was pregnant.[break][break]

2. despite her pregnancy, ella continued on to obtain her license as a registered nurse. she had to take time off in the last weeks of her pregnancy - her baby boy was definitely very active, kicking often and never really letting his mother have a moment of peace. the early arrival of her baby, and his fussiness and difficulty in general with his life outside the womb caused ella to push her studies further back. she was finally about to obtain her state license when isaak was a few months old.[break][break]

3. since the beginning, odd things happened around her boy, but ella tried her best to ignore it and made up explanations for everything. it helped somewhat - the more she made the incidents mortal, the less frequent they became. despite his godly parent (who ella did not know was a god), isaak spent most of his childhood relatively unharmed. he grew up a very lively and definitely naughty boy, always sticking his fingers in things and getting caught for all his troubles. none of the life lessons ever stuck to him, though, and ella had to get a job at his school just to keep an eye on him. and it was easier to be called to the principal's office when she was just around the corner from there, which happened entirely too often. but there wasn't anything she could do, and when he was expelled from a few of the schools, ella would just sigh, shake her head, and follow him into the next school.[break][break]

4. isaak made plenty of his friends in the various schools he attended due to his madcap ways and humour. he considered them all fairly equally, except for one person: william reynolds, a sarcastic and slightly closed off boy he met on his first day in high school. he'd made a joke about someone else, william didn't laugh, isaak thought that was the end of that. and then at recess isaak got caught in a fist fight (totally not his fault, no matter what anyone else said), and william was the only one who stepped forward. ever since then, the two of them have been best friends. william long-sufferingly puts up with isaak's troublemaking and whiny ways, and isaak would accidentally get william in trouble with him plenty of times, but they were happy with how they were.[break][break]

5. unfortunately his contact with william was abruptly cut off when he graduated high school, and that was entirely not his fault - for real this time. he'd been kidnapped by some very pretty girls at an afterparty, and at first he went along with them gladly. then he got worried because he thought they might be undercover cops (there was alcohol at the party and he'd definitely had some, in fact he was pretty drunk and that was why he didn't protest their removal of him from the party). but in actuality, they were much worse: they turned into monsters and started calling him a demigod and what the heck was that about? he only barely survived because someone had followed them from the party, and that someone ended up being a boy with a sword - yeah, a real one.[break][break]

6. that boy turned out to be a roman legionnaire who had been in the area with a few others while out on what they called a quest. upon finding isaak, they brought him along with them and they took a detour to bring him to the wolfhouse. when he'd told his mother where she was, she'd dropped the phone in shock, but isaak was all cool with it. by that time he was riding on a bit of adrenaline that he'd survived the monsters (with no help on his part whatsoever), so he'd just laughed off her concerns and told her he was fine.[break][break]

7. he was not fine. lupa was merciless and he had no idea what he was doing. for the longest time (really only about three minutes before she lunged at him), he couldn't even believe he was fighting a mythical being right there in front of him. the wolfhouse was the first time he'd taken something seriously, and that was really only because the danged wolf was not forgiving and seriously did attack him and drew blood, and he couldn't imagine living with a scarred version of himself. and so he grit his teeth and he trained as hard as he could.[break][break]

8. that whole attitude changed when he arrived at camp jupiter. back amongst other people - even if they were sword-wielding and did military drills - isaak once again returned to his laidback lifestyle. he didn't really do a lot of pranks, because no one in camp jupiter found them funny, which was just such an insult to all the time and effort he'd put into his jokes. but he still did get into a fair few spots of trouble, and unfortunately without william he got beat up a lot more. he had to deal with how his life was now, but no one in camp jupiter ever measured up to his old best friend.[break][break]

9. despite the year he has been at camp, isaak has never met his father. it doesn't really bother him, isaak is very easy-going and whether or not he meets mercury doesn't really bother him. he doesn't carry the same parental or abandonment issues as a lot of other campers - in fact, isaak considers himself to not really have a lot of issues. except, you know, arachnophobia and various other small minor fears. not that he'd ever let anyone know, because he doesn't really want to look weak. look sharon that spider was threatening him with a knife, don't judge him.[break][break]

10. isaak nielsen is the best ever, that's what's up.[break]

[attr="class","hopelovetitle"]POWERS, SKILLS & WEAPONS

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[ SWORDSMANSHIP ] -[break]
surprisingly, isaak is great with a sword, partly because his training with lupa is the first time he's ever taken something seriously, and surprise surprise taking things seriously actually makes him good at them. isaak is a naturally talented guy, really, but his laziness is always what pulls him back. due to having to train in combat, he's actually really good at it. for the most part though, he doesn't bother in combat training, which makes most people think he's weak. if you put some really good incentives for him to really put on his best moves, he can catch you off guard.[break][break]

[ ENHANCED SPEED & ATHLETIC ABILITY ] -[break]
again, something isaak doesn't use because he's just too lazy: speed and prowess. throw a clingy girl at him and he'll show you just how fast he can run. athletics also gets very few effort points from him, but if someone made him attend or train, isaak would do passably well.[break][break]

[ CLAUDITISKINESIS ] -[break]
as a son of mercury, knowing how locks work is practically as easy as breathing. isaak never really used it except as part of pranks, and he likes to think it's because 'he's just so awesome, locks open up at his touch'. upon finding out his parentage, though, isaak practices more and more, if only to be able to say he can do it just as well as any of his siblings. he doesn't want to be shamed and not live up to his father's reputation by being unable to open a few measly locks.[break][break]

[ POWER OF PERSUASION ] -[break]
isaak has minor persuasion powers, but it's not something he realises he's using. it's also not anywhere near as powerful as charmspeak. really he just puts it down to him being a likeable person, and that if you whine or complain enough you eventually get your way. he also thinks it's got something to do with his street smarts - whether it does or not is anyone's guess.[break]

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PLAYED BY ARK

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TOMMERAAS, herman as isaak nielsen