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

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[ FLIRT ] - the first thing anyone will tell you about mateo is that he's a flirt. he has a smirk that could charm the pants off girls, and coupled with the fact that he's a bit moody, it makes him a bit of an enigma that attracts girls who think they want a try at cracking him and figuring out his mystery. mateo is enough of a flirt that he encourages and invites them to do so, but would never actually let them in past his defenses. he is also unable to stick to one girl due to commitment issues, so he has been caught in a few teenage dramas since his younger years. he's never bothered by it, and it's just part of who he is and what he does.
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[ BROODY ] - and moody, mateo has his good days and his more turbulent days. it's not because of anything in his history or his thoughts or anything - it's just part of his personality. he's hot and cold to everyone, including his best friends and his various flavours of the month. he's the kind of guy who would text you into the night one day, then completely ignore your messages the next. he's the kind of guy your girl friends would tell you to stay away from, but the kind of girls he attracts are the ones who tell their friends 'no, maybe he's worth it' or 'maybe i can fix him'. (note: you can't, but that's not stopped the girls before.)
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[ SILVERTONGUE ] - this boy lies as easily as he breathes. he doesn't even need to think about it half the time, the words just tumble out of his mouth as though it were his truth. he does work best with white lies, or stretching the truth, and he tries his best not to tell really extravagant lies, because he doesn't ever want to be caught out. he can't stand the feeling of being caught lying about important things - and girls aren't one of those things. he doesn't create lies to make himself better, really, he just lies a lot about other things.
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[ STICKY HANDS ] - he's better than any mercury camper at stealing things, and a lot of the time he steals things just because he can. sometimes it's like he can't help himself, putting things that aren't things in his pockets without even meaning to. he tries not to think that he has an addiction to the feeling of stealing, because it's not like he gets a feeling of a rush or a release for stealing little things like what his brother tells him is a sign of kleptomania.

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

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MOTHER : Laverna, goddess of thieves, cheats, and the underworld[break]
FATHER : Žak Kerčić (mortal)[break]
SIBLINGS : Oskar Kerčić, fourth cohort, thirty (new rome)[break]
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CLAIMED : Yes[break]
YEARS AT CAMP : Six years[break]
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Žak used to be a professional athlete, which had caught the attention of a goddess earlier in his life, an event that gave him his first son Oskar. The father and son duo weren't particularly close, what with Žak's career booming, he didn't need his son tagging along to every event. Oskar grew up with his grandmother and aunt, and continued to do so even when Žak's career took a nose-dive when he damaged his knee beyond the point of rehabilitation. Žak would never be able to play his sport ever again.
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The depression of failure at the peak of his career had Žak turning to drugs and alcohol to cope, leaving his young son to the care of his mother and sister full time. Which was just as well, because the environment at Žak's house was not ideal for the growing boy. By the time Oskar was nine, he had only seen his father about ten times in his life after he had been dropped off at his grandmother's to live with her full time when he was three. Needless to say, Žak and Oskar had never developed any sort of father-son bond.
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Ten years after Oskar was born, Žak's life was a complete 180. No longer was he the professional athlete that had caught Oskar's mother's eye. No longer was he at the peak of health and wealth, with his posters smiling down at the lesser people from the billboards advertising his successes. No longer was he the man envied and admired by many. Žak was a washed up, heavy-lidded man with a bit of a paunch, the re-tailored Italian suits and ostentatious gold rings the only remainder of his previous life.
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At that stage of his life, Žak had moved his career to the underbelly of society, doing a few nefarious and definitely illegal things to support his lifestyle. He definitely didn't know what it was about the beautiful woman eyeing him from the shadows of a bar he had ventured into, but it was practically like she was calling him to her. This time, he kept the son he was presented by yet another goddess. Mateo was raised by his father in his own home, and his childhood was vastly different from that of his older brother's.
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Žak had company often at their house, so Mateo was exposed to his father's co-conspirators early in his childhood. Like any other child, he was easily impressed by his father and his father's work, so Mateo aspired to be just like his father when he grew up. For his part, Žak admired his younger boy and raved about him often, showing anyone who visited just how well Mateo could lift things out of their pockets without them knowing.
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When Oskar was fourteen and Mateo was four, Žak was called by his mother that Oskar was headed for the Wolf-House after being attacked by a monster at school. Žak could hardly care less about his older son, but he resolved to keep an eye on Mateo in case anything decided to attack him. But Žak didn't have to worry about anything, because nothing attacked Mateo ever. In fact, he had to be brought to to the Wolf-House by his father when he was fourteen because Žak was getting worried that something worse was going to happen if he let Mateo be.
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Mateo did passably well at the Wolf-House, although Lupa had sneered at him that his brother had been much better at combat at the same age than Mateo was. Not that it bothered Mateo; he hardly knew his older brother and hardly ever saw him throughout his childhood. By the time he entered Camp Jupiter, Oskar was already out in New Rome, so it wasn't like they could bond even if they wanted to. And Mateo didn't particularly want to, so it didn't even matter.
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His life at camp was filled with combat training and Latin classes, and flirting with girls and hanging out with his best friend during their breaks. The last two things often extended into the night, and Mateo was fine with how everything fit in his days and nights. His flirty ways, his cheating and lying, and his thieving filled his life with endless drama in between surviving combat training and marching drills. But that was just the way he liked his life.

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

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[ CHARMING ] - mateo would consider charm a strength of his. with his slick words and easy smirk, mateo can get into places where he probably shouldn't be allowed in, or get away with things that he probably shouldn't be able to get away with. it's a skill he definitely uses to his advantage wherever he can, but he can realise when charm won't be useful, and then he won't bother trying.
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[ THIEF ] - both a strength and a weakness, mateo can lift just about anything without anyone noticing, but it can be a weakness when he fixates on something that isn't his. it doesn't happen often, because he refuses to think that he's got kleptomania, and there's nothing or no one specific when it comes to his targets - he just takes what he can from whoever he can.
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[ CHEAT ] - like the previous ability, cheating is both a strength and a weakness for mateo. he's good at it, hence it's a strength, but because he can't always help himself from cheating, even in scenarios where he probably doesn't need to, it's also a weakness. like lying, mateo doesn't want to be caught doing it, so he cheats in ways he can get away with.
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[ MINOR UMBRAKINESIS ] - as the son of a goddess of the underworld, who deals with the underbelly of society, mateo also has minor umbrakinesis. for the most part, it helps hide him better when there is already a fair amount of darkness and all he has to do is pull it over him to hide his activities. he is completely unable to do anything on a bright sunny day, and his powers work best at night.

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PLAYED BY ARK

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CALVERT, ALEXANDER as mateo kerčić