Philip Priam

Philip Priam is the seventeen year old (really a thousand) Greek Demigod Son of Eris and Paris. He came to camp at seventeen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Alias

Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep, Peps, Son of Paris, Discord, Golden Child, Prince of Troy

### Residence

* Camp Olympia (Currently)
* Olympus (Formerly)
* Troy, Greece (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Eris (Mother)
* Paris (Father)
* Corythus, Bunomus, Aganus, Idaeus (Paternal half-siblings)
* Dysnomia, Ponos, Atë, Lethe, Limos, Algos, Hysminai, Makhai, Phonoi, Androktasiai, Neikea, Amphilogiai, Horkos, Pseudea, Logoi Equi, and Diana Silver (Maternal half-siblings)
* Angelos, Ares, Eileithyia, Enyo, Hebe, Hephaestus (Maternal aunts and uncles)
* Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Cassandra, plus a lot more (Paternal Uncles and Aunts)
* Andromeda, Theodosius, Cressida (Paternal cousins)
* Miles, Leo, and Katlyn Guzman, Quiara, Marko, Evelyn, Cassandra and Sadie, Anatole, Gabriel, Ryan and Violet Anderson, Esperanza and Oscar (Maternal Cousins)

## Appearance

### Outfit

ON OLYMPUS/AT TROY* Greek Chiton
* Greek sandals

AT CAMP

* White shirt
* Black sweater
* Black pants
* Gold and black sneakers
* Gold accessories

## History

### Early Life

Philip Priam was born to Eris, goddess strife, spite, discord, and chaos and Paris, Prince of Troy in Troy, Greece, just five years before the events of the Trojan War. Eris saw just how handsome Paris was and like his chaotic back story (see link) and as most gods do, went to see him. Paris was surprised to see the goddess of chaos speaking to him of all people, and seeing her chaotic divine beauty began to flirt with her (Because this is Paris we're talking about), which Eris responded with her own flirts. That night, the two ended up in bed with each other, but in the morning, Eris was gone. Paris had thought that it was just a simple one night stand, but a few months later, Eris came to the place on the place walls where she had met Paris and handed him a bundle of blankets with a child in side. Eris explained that this was their son, and that Paris would have to raise him. Paris said he would try and Eris gave him a smile and left back to Olympus. Paris' son, who he named Philip, was raised along side Hector's twin children, Andromeda and Theodosius, until he was five years old

### Childhood

When Philip was five, his father had been one of two people to start the biggest war during that time (The other was his own mother, who was the one to throw the golden apple at Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena). Eris, fearing her son would be endanger, took Philip from Troy, telling Paris she would keep their son safe until the war was over and flashed back to Olympus. Philip was kept hidden from the other gods as Eris feared that the gods would've killed her son if they found out about him. Eris tried to raise her son as best as she could, teaching the joys of causing chaos and mischief. He grew under his mother's care for many years. When he was around fifteen years old, his father was killed by Philoctetes, something that upset his mother. When the war was over, his mother began to slowly let her son out of Eris' chambers, but still Eris had to watch over him. By the time Philip was seventeen, his mother made him immortal, still fearing the gods would kill Philip if they ever found out that he was also Paris' son.

### Getting to Earth

One day, in the good year of the year 1900s, Eris decided to let her son live in the mortal world, wanting him to be close with his human half. Philip was very excited to see the mortal world, but Eris told him to not do anything drastic and to stay in the shadows, saying that causing chaos was her job. Philip would follow his mother's orders, but did often play small pranks on innocent people, nothing to harmful, but some to cause a notable reaction. Philip had a great time causing a little chaos, though sometimes he would get caught and would get in trouble, causing the local adults to scold him. On many instances, Eris had to come down to earth, disguised as a mortal, to get him out of trouble, though Eris did admire her son's love of causing trouble and would sometimes encourage him to continue on with this. A few years later, Eris told Philip about his father and why Eris kept Philip hidden, which caused Philip to develop some... conflicting feelings towards his father.

### Coming to Camp

One day, while traveling around America, he met a group of demigods (Who also happened to be children of characters from the Iliad) and went to travel with them, though it was a little awkward since his parents were the reasons their parents went through so much war and fighting, though they learned to look past it They would go around each state, having fun and killing any monster that would try to hurt them. Finally, in the early 2000s, they came across a camp for demigods in Big Bear, California. Philip was claimed as the son of Eris, but had to stay in the Hermes cabin, since the Eris Cabin wasn't built yet.

## Personality

As the goddess of Chaos, Eris is nothing if not cosmopolitan. With her aura almost everywhere it’s to be expected that her children would be equally as magnificent. Unfortunately, Philip has... approximately none of this appeal. Don’t get him wrong, he’s definitely got the popular and fashionable aspects down pat. Being one of the Hero Club his name comes up in conversation quite often, and the guy dresses with purpose and presents himself with a remarkable level of care. But in a camp full of the “fairest of them alls”, even that doesn’t guarantee one’s perceived level of dignity. Similarly, with young heroes everywhere forced to prove their intelligence and resolve, Philip fails to defy an entirely different stereotype altogether: the airheaded demigod. The demigod version of a dumb jock, his usefulness tends to amount to being the muscle for his more successful classmates, and even then, it’s not really a constant. On some days, he’s the guy taking the nerd’s lunch money, and on others, he’s the bodyguard hired by the same nerd. But in any situation, he’s distinctly not the smartest person in the room. It’s a Greek tragedy that he’s perceived this way, because on some level, he truly is a critical thinker who’s become comfortable and even prone to dissecting a problem. By necessity, he’s had to be, considering the eternal question in his life has been about what his body lacks. But to be fair, a big reason others don’t notice this about him is because he doesn’t want them to. It’s bad enough everyone knows he can’t fly: to know it bothers him as much as it does would not be a dream, but a waking nightmare. As a result Philip puts on this careless facade around his peers. After all, if Eris is destined to cause a ten year war piled onto him, wouldn’t the “cool” thing be to honor precisely none of them? This flawed external logic guides his everyday actions, and despite the fact that he knows all the rules of both godliness and dream keeping, he’ll break each and every one of them if it means he can distract from his inherent insecurities. Ironically, for such a promiscuous guy, Philip is a truly, truly awful flirt. If you’ve had the audacity to be attractive in his vicinity, then you’ve definitely heard “Did it hurt when you fell from Olympus?” or “You must be Cinderella, because I see that dress disappearing by midnight...” on rotation (legend has it he has a 60 percent success rate with getting dates). Honestly, it’s a good thing he’s only destined to relay other people’s messages, because he certainly isn’t such a wordsmith himself. Overall, like a true demigod Philip is finicky, ill-tempered, and full of dichotomies. The biggest would have to be that, despite his celestiality, he is so deeply, incredibly human - and not in the most pleasing of ways. But senior year isn’t over yet, and perhaps like the flawed humans, he’ll soon learn to reach for the skies: even if not literally.

### Fatal flaw

Philip's fatal flaw is his Hubris, or deadly pride. He often boasts about a lot of things, which often gets him in trouble.

## Appearance

Philip is described as “chaotically handsome”. Philip has messy brown hair, light skin, and hazel eyes that seem to have a chaotic glint to them. Philip, while living in Troy, were traditional ancient Greek clothing, but now at camp, he wears a black sweater, a white shirt, black pants, and golden and black sneakers, along with many golden accessories such as rings or a necklace

## Powers and Abilities

### Eris Kid Powers

* He can create a "strife storm", which causes anything in it to change, break, or warp.
* He can make anyone fight with each other.
* He can create a golden apple, which can cause fights over it.
* He is able to make a room darker due to Nyx being Eris' mother in some myths and has the ability of Umbrakinesis.
* He can manipulate people's emotions, varying to anger or envy.
* He can shadow travel due to the fact that Eris' mother is Nyx in some myths.
* He can create chaos from small to large degrees. Example, fuelling hatred between opposing groups until they murder each other. Another example, lighting a small fire on the ground causes a large forest fire.
* He can induce disasters and calamities.
* He can cause a chaotic chain reaction from many different causes to many different effects or for short, the Butterfly Effect (Chaos Theory).
* He can sense any chaotic event happening and travel instantly to that place through Shadow Travel, depending how chaotic it is.
* He can manifest fully avian wings but only for a short time. They are made out of darkness just like Eris' wings.
* He has divine control over snakes and some nocturne creatures.
* He can influence and induce emotions of war and destruction, such as hatred, fear, anger, grief, guilt, etc.
* He can manipulate chaotic winds and storms but it is less powerful than Zeus's offsprings or Boreas's offsprings. Though, he can increase this ability if there's too much chaos.
* He has Curse Inducement.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: He possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent.
* Dyslexia: His brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Greek instead of mortal languages.
* Greek: Philip speaks Fluent Greek, being born in Ancient Greece
* Archery: Philip is a skilled archer, since his father was the one to kill Achilles using a bow
* Fighting skills: He is a skilled fighter, and thrives off of the chaos in war
* Immortality: When Philip was seventeen, he gained immortality, which stops him from aging and dying, though he can still get hurt
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Philip is stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Philip is more is more agile than the average mortal
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Philip is more durable than the average mortal
* Superhuman reflexes: Being a demigod, Philip reflexes are faster than an average mortal

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Theodosius Trojan

Theodosius and Philip are close as friends and as cousins. They love to game together and share the expense of being teased by their cousin/sister. They are very close, almost like brothers

### Family

#### Eris (Mother)

Philip looks up to his mother and respects her as a goddess. He goes to her when he needs help and prays to her in honor of her name. Eris may not show it to him, but she is happy with whatever decision her son will make and is proud to have him as her son. Philip is also pretty disturbed that his mother was technically the one to start the Trojan war, so he sorta holds that secret guilt

#### Paris (Father)

Philip loved his father when he was much younger, but when Eris told him of his role in the Trojan war, that let him to becoming a conflicted, since Paris was a good father to him, but he started a whole war. Philip does sometimes his his father however

## Etymology

The name Philip is boy's name of Greek origin meaning **"lover of horses"**

Priam was the name of his paternal grandfather and possibly means **"redeemed"**

## Trivia

1. Philip's middle name is Draco, or Dragon
2. He is asexual
3. He often carries around a golden apple which causes fights
4. He is related to Cressida and The Trojan Twins through his father, but is also related to Anatole through his mother
5. He loves to wear things like gold necklaces and rings since he likes the shiny nature to them
6. He is a very skilled archer, next to Athanasia, Holly, Ophelia, and Andromeda
7. He is known to be a flirt, but hates the idea of dating
8. If he were born in modern times he would have been born November 4, Scorpio, The Passionate Kind