Nico Hawthorne (Demigod)

Let’s just say Rose Hawthorne was… messy. Loud, brash, and beautiful, she always had the heads turning. And her beauty and upfront attitude was exactly how she caught the eye of Apollo. Which landed her with a daughter, and when she realized Apollo was just going to be a deadbeat dad, Ruby got mad. She kept writing letters and shouting at the sun, calling Apollo many, many colorful names, to the point that Hermes finally showed up, begging her not to upset Apollo. That's when the idea of getting revenge came to Ruby and she began to act pretty sweet to Hermes. Well her plan landed her with another kid, this one she named Nico. And about 3 years later, when Apollo found out Ruby slept with Hermes, he showed up at Ruby’s house furious. The shouting between them shook the walls, and Ruby more than once alluded that Hermes was better in bed to make Apollo jealous. 9 months later, there was another baby girl.

Now Ruby was stuck with 3 kids. She was not a great mother and she often left her kids at home by themselves, expecting her eldest daughter at the age of 7 to watch over 4 year old Nico and the newborn. She wanted to party, drink, take drugs, etc. and was not going to let some kids stop her fun. The kids grew close to eachother as they dealt with this rough life, and even dealt with their mom’s string of terrible boyfriends. It was one such boyfriend that ended up sticking around that made their lives hell.

Jeremy was a shitty person through and through, and left Nico feeling like his skin was crawling. But Jeremy was not a regular human, but secretly a lycan and he could smell that these three kids were demigods. He initially was thinking of devouring them, but the youngest showed healing powers, so he decided to stick around and use it for his benefit. From there, life was terrible.

The worst was during the summer when the eldest child was off to camp at camp for the entire summer. Nico finally unable to stand his mom and her boyfriend, and scared for the upcoming summer, ran away at 12 years old. Guilt ate at him for leaving behind his sisters, but he couldn’t take it anymore. For almost a year he was homeless and constantly on the move, following a gut feeling that told him he would eventually make it to a safe place. As he stumbled into the camp grounds, shocked to see campers and satyrs and other creatures, the symbol of Hermes appeared above his head. Hermes claimed his traveling son, who had finally found a place to rest. Nico couldn’t believe at first what he was told, but slowly began to adjust to demigod life.

Camp Half-Blood

Nico stayed at camp full time for about 4 years. He made friends, began practicing stick and poke tattoos (terribly though), and practicing his fighting skills. He always thought about his sisters, but never once thought that they were demigods because he knew he had a different father from him. It wasn’t until the close to the end of summer when he was 17 did his youngest sister arrive. She was 13 years old now, he hadn’t seen her in almost 5 but he recognized her immediately. Instead of confronting his family, Nico left.

After Camp

After camp, Nico was back to being homeless for a time, and found himself getting into unhealthy habits. 2 years were a blur until a tattoo artist recognized a fellow demigod and offered Nico a path towards redemption. Nico accepted and the demigod took Nico in as an apprentice. Nico was working towards staying clean but 1 year later, he stole from the demigod and got back into drug use. Eventually he came crawling back to his mentor who gave him a second chance. Nico stayed sober the entire time and continued to work on his skill and make it up to his mentor.

Nico was doing better by now, having a strong clientele interested in his work. Until his older sister came into the shop. It turned out, she had been gifted by Apollo’s musical ability and was in a rock band. The group had come in as one had made an appointment to get a tattoo from Nico’s mentor. Nico decided to run away from his family again, unable to still face the guilt he had. His mentor came in, catching Nico packing his bags. His mentor pressed a coin into Nico’s hand and told the young demigod to go to Little Olympia. Nico thanked his mentor before leaving for Little Olympia.

Quests

At age 15, Nico went on a quest with Kasey, a son of Apollo, and Kylo, a son of Hecate. The trio were tasked by Aphrodite to find and retrieve Eros’s arrows, who embarrassingly misplaced them. Concerned that the arrows which could stuff up feelings of Lust or Loathing would fall into the wrong hands, Aphrodite had to do something about the situation. Nico helped guide the trio to the arrows with his innate sense of direction, and the group was successful with their quest.