Danny Claim

**Name:**

* Daniel Ri-An Ki

**Age:**

* 21 y/o — 07 February 2000

**God/Titan Parent:**

* Anteros
	+ Legacy of Pothos & Ganymede

**Mortal Parent:**

* Florentia Ki†

**Appearance (optional):**

* Seo Chang-Bin of Stray Kids

**Personality (at least a sentence or two):**

Majority of Daniel's personality is the fruit of his mother Florentia's conditioning. His drive and and motivations have been slowly carved into him by his mother's words and actions and Daniel has convinced himself that what he's pursuing right now is what he wants. He wants to pursue his goals because those were his mother's last words and he loves his mother. He also still blames himself for being the reason why his mother was dead and he continues to walk the path his mother prepared him for as a way to repent.

Daniel craves love and affection, especially from people he has grown to love and care for. However, his understanding of love and having it be reciprocated has been screwed over by his mother. Daniel believes that the only way he can properly show and accept love is when he is hurting in the name of it. He shows his affection and care by purposefully provoking them into hurting him in some way, which can be seen by others as Daniel being unnecessarily rude or \*sshole-y.

He has yet to understand that how his mother raised him was definitely not how children should be raised. Daniel firmly believes that everything his mother said and taught him were right, and the uncomfortable feelings he got from her was just him being a bad son.

**History (at least two paragraphs):**

***TW : Mentions and hints of gaslighting , emotional , physical , and psychological child abuse***

— Edel Ki met Ganymede and had Cerulean Ki. Cerulean Ki met Pothos and had Florentia Ki. Both Edel and Cerulean went to Camp, but Florentia had defected to the Broken Covenant. After a quest goes horribly wrong, she had to witness the death of her father in the most gruesome way possible. At 14 years old, she left Camp broken, and perhaps a little bit insane.

— She was picked up by a demigod who belonged to the Broken Covenant, specifically Civitas Popularis. The young, vulnerable and impressionable Florentia was quickly converted to the demigod's ideologies and she agreed to go with them to the BC.

— Florentia stayed with the BC for 5 years, nursing the wounds left in the wake of her father's death and developing a very deep-set loyalty to the BC almost to the point of obsession. Halfway through her 6th year at BC, Florentia suddenly changed her mind and left the BC without a word, leaving hide nor hair.

— It's really because Florentia met a disguised Anteros at some point and shared a night with him. When Florentia discovered that she was pregnant and with a \*god\*'s child no less, she was wholly disgusted and left the BC for she felt she committed a serious sin.

— Florentia kept her child when she realised she could raise them to make up for her mistake, settling down in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

— Daniel Ki, son of Anteros and legacy of Pothos and Ganymede, grew up knowing what he was. He descended from gods, yes, but Florentia made sure that he carried the same ideals and motivations that she has. Her son was going to take her place in Civitas and she'll be damned if she leaves the mortal plane before that happens.

— All children want to receive love and affection from their parents and for Daniel, as the son of the god of requited love, this want is magnified a hundredfold. He learned early on that to get any love from his mother, he had to to exactly what he was told.

— Florentia actually noticed how Daniel was willing to give it all just to have crumbs of her perceived love. In truth, Florentia held no love for Daniel. She only needed him to fulfill her dreams that shattered the moment she met Anteros. *Call it poetic justice*, she'd reason. Playing along with Daniel's need for requited love became Florentia's greatest weapon and she wielded it with relish.

— It was easy for the first few years. He just had to parrot back whatever she says to him and take it to heart, and Florentia would smile beautifully at him, pat his head and call him a very good boy.

— When Daniel turned 11, Florentia began to intentionally lead the both of them to nearby monsters. A promise of a picnic with his mother soon turned into Daniel's first monster attack. Instead of a picnic blanket, what waited for Florentia and Daniel was a pit scorpion. Daniel still feels skittish about picnics in forests and scorpions to this day.

*"Mommy, why did you lie?"

"**Oh, Danny, sweetheart, mommy is only doing this because she loves you.**"*

— Florentia trained Daniel by purposefully seeking out the monsters most demigods would avoid and make him fight alongside her. Of course Florentia always made sure Daniel didn't retain too many injuries, she needed him alive after all. Whenever Florentia treats Daniel's wounds, she always made sure to remind Daniel that she's only doing this out of her love for him. Daniel ate that right up.

— When Daniel turned 16, Florentia packed up and made the both of them roam around the country. Florentia passed down to Daniel all that she learned during her time in the BC and that includes the knowledge of certain locations that would become helpful for Daniel should he be chosen to go out on missions.

— Four years later, Florentia is killed on a rainy day at a beach while she and Daniel were in pursuit of a couple of monsters. In her dying moments, she tells Daniel of how he failed her, how she wouldn't be dying like this if he had only done better. Then she proceeded to make him promise her to carry on her legacy, to go to the Sanctuary and join Civitas, to finish what she had started.

*"**Live for mommy and all that I have taught you okay, sweetheart? That's how you'll say sorry to me.**"*

— After Daniel has properly buried Florentia, he packed up his things and headed to the BC, his mother's last words still ringing clearly in his ears.

**Weapon(s) (optional):**

* A pair of Celestial Bronze daggers — hidden as a pair of earrings
	+ Inherited from his mother
* Bow with Celestial Bronze-tipped arrows — hidden as an ear cuff
	+ Left to him by his father

**Why they want to join the BC:**

* Daniel was raised by his mother on her ideals and has long been told that his purpose in life is to carry on her legacy. Joining the BC, the place where his mother took solace in during her darkest hours that had given her purpose in life, is only the beginning of the path his mother prepared him for since he was a baby.

**What faction you desire to be a part of**

* Civitas Popularis

**Why should you belong to that faction, what are your core beliefs, why does their ideology suit your personality/beliefs?**

* As Florentia was a former Civitas member, Daniel's core beliefs and ideology aligns with those of Civitas. He knows the world is the way it is, deteriorating and chaotic, because the gods who were supposed to care for the world have become quite complacent and neglectful. Even their own children have been left to fend for themselves despite being children of the literal rulers of the known universe.