March Aspen

The truest gamer

## **General Information**

### **Personality**

> **March is what you would call a hardcore gamer, in more ways than one, it’s almost as if video games are so hardwired into his personality that it’s almost offputting. He is someone who will in conversation using gaming terms that people don’t use outside of text, things like “Noob” and “Level up,”. He would normally say things like this because his perception is that the whole world is like a video game, so he can come across as somewhat arrogant or condescending because he doesn’t see people as real people, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t respect the people around him, actually, he sees NPCs are vital people in any video game and even more important party members on his quest. Along these lines, due to his mother’s influence, he sees himself as a princess who needs a Prince Charming, and along those lines he’s also angry, at least for the moment. He has traits of a scorned lover after he got rejected by the person who he thought was his Prince Charming, and so he’s dubbed himself as an anti-hero rather than a bonafide good protagonist so occasionally he acts like a really cliche and corny Disney villain. March is portrayed as someone who wants to find a way to bring his brother back to life, to find his metaphorical happy ending, a way to honor his mother's dying memory, and to make sense of everything that happened in his life. Currently, it's easier to process it as the world being a video game and that's why bad things keep happening to him, because he's a hero with a tragic past, but as he develops and grows, he'll learn to be his own person, someone who is his mother's son but his own hero**
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### **Strengths And Weaknesses**

* **Strengths**
	+ **Observational Skills:** Due to his consistent playing of video games, especially fighting, detective, and adventure games, he’s becoming really good at observing things, noticing things that others wouldn’t.
	+ **Intelligence:** Due to playing a wide variety of games both realistic and unrealistic he’s picked up on facts that others might not know due to their obscured.
	+ **Confidence**: March is confident, and whether his confidence comes from his delusional video game beliefs, but he’s confident

* **Weaknesses**
	+ **Reckless:** Due to his derealization disorder, March doesn’t act rationally in situations and because of this he acts way too reckless and takes challenges others wouldn’t.
	+ **Delusional:** March is obviously delusional, seeing the world as a video game, but he’s delusional thinking he’s the best gamer, the best fighters, and the best everything because he’s the main character.
	+ **Vindictive**: March is someone who strongly believes in an eye for an eye so he would go out of way to get even with someone who has wronged him in any way possible.

## Before Camp

### **Level 1**

> **It all started with a convention, a very, very stupid convention. However, before one can understand the events that transpired at the convention, we must go back to the beginning, way before March was even born. It all started with a woman, a woman by the name of Naomi Lowell. You see, Naomi always had a dream, her dream was to work in the video game industry. She, herself, was an intense gamer. From a very young age she very much preferred the company of elves, magic, and NPCs than actual people. It could be said that she had an addiction to video games, but she would never admit it herself. She was someone who just appreciated the beauty of video games and wanted to, one day, design her own video game series based on stories that she wrote. However, when she was a child there were very few girls in the video game industry, but that didn’t stop the fire that she had in her belly. She began studying in high school video games, graphic design, and programming. She never really thought about relationships or love because she was so enveloped in her video games. She was the bookish girl in the class with her oversized sweatshirt and big round glasses, she never thought she would find love. It seemed pointless and stupid to her, not something that she was interested in the slightest.**
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> **However, upon her senior year, she met a boy named Owen Aspen, he was the captain of the Baseball team. He was one of the most popular boys in school and for some reason he took a liking to Naomi, thinking her passion for video games was pretty good. Naomi was initially skeptical of Owen because she didn’t trust any guy liking her, but he assured her that his feelings for her were real and not a joke. Despite having feelings of paranoia, Naomi proceeded to go on dates with Owen, and he was the one who persuaded Naomi to go to college for Video Games. She fell in love with Owen, something that she never thought could happen to her and convinced him to go to the same university as her because he had remarkable grades like her. The two, upon graduation, kissed each other for what seemed like the first time and swore to stay together for the rest of their life. This was more of a commitment rather than an actual proposal and with that they spent a summer of romantic bliss where they went to Europe and then came home to go to university together.**
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> **At University, Naomi rose to the top of her class in video game design and graphic design as she became somewhat of a prodigy in the video game world, having ideas and aspirations that made people around her very impressed with her work. Her long-term boyfriend Owen decided that he wanted to be a business major because he wanted to help his girlfriend with their idea of making a video game company. With Naomi being the head designer and Owen taking over the business aspect of the business. The two worked hard at University and ended up graduating pretty high on the class ranking. Then after they graduated University, they stayed in a really shitty apartment, but then Owen begged his parents for money and they agreed giving them the start up money to create their first business, Aspen Gaming. Naomi was beyond happy, because she could create her first RPG, taking inspiration on RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and other turn-based RPGs, because that’s the kind of games she wanted to make.**
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> **Owen was so happy for his girlfriend that he took care of the business aspect, helping her developing business relationships, helping her find more and more sponsors and donors. With all the help, Aspen Gaming, after years of work and publicity, developed their very first game called Soul Keepers, a rpg about a boy with the soul of a mighty warrior. Despite it being their first game and they were a small corporation, they were picked up by a very important influencer and the game blew up. In the trail of their newfound success Owen and Naomi decided to declare their love for each other by getting married later and then six months later they were married and in love. Their company soon became in the forefront of the news and publicity being ranked one of the newest and best up and coming video game companies, but they would soon find that there would be more problems in their life which would cause the downfall of their company and their family.**
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### **Level 2**

> **A year after the release of Soul Keepers, Owen and Naomi decided that they wanted to move out of the city and their crappy apartment to move somewhere that they could have a family. They found themselves settling on a nice affluent suburb just twenty minutes out of the city because they wanted to keep themselves close to the company. At this point Owen and Naomi had become somewhat relevant as the creators of a very famous and very successful RPG. So they wanted to make sure that their children grow up not only humble but with a good education. So, they decided to try and have a baby, and that’s when March’s older brother came to be. His birth was very easy for the family, as is to say, his mother had no complications during pregnancy, except for the fact of her gross need for pickles and peanut butter. It was one of the pregnancy foods that no one could explain.**
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> **Joey was born on Saint Patrick’s Day and he was considered their Lucky baby because he was born early so they feared that there would be something wrong with him. However, to their happiness and surprise, Joey was born to be perfectly healthy and he was the first child to become the object of their obsession. From a very young age, Naomi got Joey into video games, teaching him that video games were one of the most important things in the world and of course Joey being an impressionable two-year-old believed these lessons and grew up for the next two years constantly playing children video games.  Their family was a happy one, as Naomi and Owen raised their first son and they thought that they wouldn’t have any other children because they only needed one. Naomi was in the process of making a sequel to her first game when she got invited to a gaming convention to broadcast their new plans and this turned out to be the worst decision of her life because the decision to go to the convention then ruined their lives forever.**
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> **Of course, neither Naomi nor Owen could’ve known what was about to transpire at the convention, if they did, they wouldn’t have gone. At the convention, they found themselves faced with wall to wall gaming booths, panels, and lots and lots of cosplayers. To their surprise, they saw a lot of people in cosplays of characters of their video games which filled them with happiness and optimism. They did a panel where they announced the creation of Soul Keepers 2 and the crowd went wild. After the panel, Naomi was talking to fans and answering questions at their booth when she met a beautiful, handsome man named Alexandre. He was an American native, supposedly born of two French people. He told Naomi that he saw magic in what she was doing, and he wanted to talk to her more about opportunities. Naomi, of course, thought this was simply a business meeting, so she wanted to look her best and she forgot to tell her husband about the meeting and went alone. They met at a fancy restaurant and they had a really nice, deep and meaningful conversations where they talked about video games, business, philosophy, and the beauty of the word. Naomi had never had such a deep, passionate conversation with someone before and it filled her with a strange sensation in her abdomen.**
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> **Before she knew it, she was in his hotel room and she made the biggest mistake of her life by sleeping with a complete stranger. She couldn’t believe she cheated on her husband like that, but for some reason she couldn’t stop herself.  When she woke up, she was alone in the hotel room and Alexandre was gone, the realization of her actions filled her as she quickly left in shame. She didn’t tell her husband what happened at first because she didn’t want to ruin the weekend, but she couldn’t hide it forever, especially how a couple months later she began to show. Owen knew that there was no way he could be the father, because they didn’t have unprotected sex recently. Naomi broke down crying as she admitted that she cheated on him at the convention. This filled Owen with such anger because he couldn’t believe that his beloved wife would cheat on him. This caused a huge argument which was picked up by tons of newspapers and publications and drama began surrounding the family. And the company suffered a bit because of this, people questioned the integrity of the family company.**
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> **Owen left for a bit because he couldn’t bear to look at Naomi, but he realized that the business was more important than their drama because he put all of his money into it. So he continued working for the company, but Owen and Naomi were separated all through while Naomi was pregnant. Then, when March was born, Owen came to see his son in the hospital and Naomi hoped they would finally get back together, but to her chagrin, Owen said he wasn’t ready to move back home yet, and that was perfectly fine with Naomi because she was the reason that their family was ruined.**
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### **Level 3**

> **March’s childhood was anything but normal, and it wasn’t because his father, step-father wasn’t in the picture, it was because of his mother’s unusual parenting techniques. Being the Co-CEO of a popular Gaming Company, she believes that video games should be the most important thing in someone’s life. March, being the baby of the two children she babied him beyond imagination. She showed him all sorts of different video games while growing up. When he was four years old, Naomi showed March a bunch of children’s games and he become so enveloped in the games that he started to see how cool video game worlds were. He liked the idea of being able to play someone else and enter a world where he could do whatever he wanted. He began to realize, at a very young age that when he was angry or sad video games would be there to make him feel better, that video games were amazing. His mother would begin to tell him video game stories instead of traditional fairy tales. He began to realize what made a video game, a video game. That was when he began to fade away from the world for the first time. His mother used to say he was a princess, and that princesses were always saved by Prince Charmings. She was projecting her marriage problems onto her because she always saw herself as a princess and Owen was a Prince Charming.**
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> **Growing up, March was very close to his older Joey because for a long time, he didn’t have a father in his life and so he looked up to his brother to show him how to do things in life. One of the most favorite things he loved to do was watch his brother play video games. His brother was way better at fighting games than he was, and so watching him was the only way he felt he could get better. Even at a young age, Joey was really good at fighting games and he was totally jealous. March was good at other games, RPGs, Platformer, Action, and Rhythm games. He wanted to emulate his older brother, he wanted to be just like him, good at fighting games. So as the two of them grew up, he would always try to challenge his older brother at fighting games and lose, but he didn’t give up, he respected and loved his brother more than anything else in the world. Naomi was so happy that March became so invested in video games that she kept pushing him into different games, having him test new games, having him help her come up with ideas, that he started to believe that the worlds that were created were his worlds and that there was a possibility that life around him was another video game he helped create, but immediately thought the idea was silly because there was no way he could be a fake person. Yet, it lingered in the back of his mind. As the continuous reinforcement that he was like a princess and he needed to be saved by a prince charming. His words began to influence him in more ways then he realized.**
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> **At the age of eight, March watched his brother, who was fourteen, pick up the first Super Smash Brothers game, Super Smash Brothers Brawl and began playing it. March watched that his older brother become obsessed with this game and by emulation, so was March. March went with Joey to his first tournament ever and he came in fourth place at FOURTEEN and March was so happy for his brother and Joey told him that his new dream was to become a professional Super Smash player and this made their mother really happy and then to become just like his brother, March said he wanted to. His mother was overjoyed by the fact and then the two began to train together.**
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> **Over the next two years, the two trained, but it was fairly obvious that Joey had much more skill at fighting games than March, whether it was because March was too young or the fact that Joey was too good, he was able to win some local tournaments at the age of sixteen. However, everything changed when March was ten. He watched how his father and mother got into a fight over their sons’ obsession with video games and how Owen wanted them to have other hobbies and focus on the real world and he was worried that March wasn’t making enough friends in the real world. March just wanted everything to stop, he saw his mother began to cry and he wished that his mother would never cry again. Naomi took March and began to drive home. Naomi was filled with such sadness that she couldn’t even focus on the road and before either of them knew it, the cart crashed and luckily March survived with little to no injury, but his mother...was not so lucky. This, this was the first time he found himself slipping from reality as he began to realize that he caused, he wanted his mom to stop crying and now she could never cry again. Was this his world?**
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> **Afterward, their father kept Aspen Gaming and luckily for them, Naomi had a protege who took over the game design. At their mother’s funeral, March couldn’t bring himself to cry, almost as if he didn’t believe that the thing was real, she was just a character. Their father, wanting to honor their mother’s wishes, allowed the two to continue to be enveloped into their games. March became even closer to Joey as he got better and better at video games and he became better and better at the video games that he liked to play. For the next five years, March watched Joey get better and better at Super Smash Brothers under the gamer name uwuDaddy, and then five years later, in the year of 2018, Joey’s continuous wins, lead him to become a member of the popular Esports team, Panda Global and March, as well as Joey, were overjoyed. And March thought it was finally time that he could be a queen and find his prince. He desperately wanted this.**
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### **Level 4**

> **The night that Joey was announced as the newest member of Panda Global, that was the night there was a huge party at Jacob, also known as Alpharad’s house. The party was something new for March because he wasn’t the type to go to parties, but he was so happy for Joey. He was also excited to meet tons of real gamers like his brother, but the most important person he met at the party was a male who was only a couple years older than him, his name was Tyler Martin, but he went by the name of Marss. His main was Zero Suit Samus, and out of everyone at the party, he had to be the coolest person that he met. While Joey was around meeting his new teammates, but March spent the night on the patio drinking soda and talking video games with Marss. Marss was quite impressed that his mother was a famous game designer and March told Tyler that his goal in life was to be a famous professional gamer like his brother who got accepted into the team. Tyler laughed and told him that if he played like his brother, then he definitely would have a chance at being on the team.**
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> **The next day Marss tagged March on Instagram and March thought it was so funny. He ended up following Marss and the two began to DM and become friends. March didn’t really mind that Tyler was older than him, he was just really happy to have a friend he could speak video games with Joey was really cool about the whole thing too. He took March whenever they had practiced together and he spent the time playing video games and/or watching them train together. March really wanted to become part of Panda Global because it seemed really cool to be friends with everyone and spend all day playing fighting games together. Joey was really good and March found that he usually won most of the practice matches. However, March began to slip away from reality as he began hanging out with all the members of Panda Global and he realized that these people weren’t just his friends, they were potentially his party members and he found himself beginning to find that reality around him was just a video game, however, when he slipped away he would find himself being dragged back by his brother or someone else. However, his mind was slowly slipping away from him as he hung out with Panda Global.**
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> **Later on, that month, Joey, March, Tyler, Jacob, and a couple of their friends went on a vacation which was more like a summit to train their skills. They went to a cabin in the woods which was so peaceful, but he didn’t really care about that, he was just so happy he was able to spend time with someone he really cared about. He couldn’t understand how he was feeling. It was like he was in love, but he knew that Marss loved him back, he could see it in the way he looked at March. He could tell in the way Marss looked at him. March’s mental state began to wave more and more as he realized he was slipping away from reality once more as he began to realize that Marss was his Prince Charming and March was his Princes.**
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> **A month later, when Super Smash Brothers, Ultimate came out, March was pretty much an honorary member of Panda Global. At this point, March was much more fixated on Marss than he was his own brother. Marss made a joke about it on Instagram with a photo with the caption, “Yo uwuGod why is your brother so clingy?? But it’s chill,” because Marss didn’t really mind or care because he thought March was just generally kind and clingy and looked up to him as a mentor, little did the boy know that March was completely obsessed with him. He watched as Marss win more locals and then become another Zero Suit Samus player and it only fueled March’s erotomania towards Marss and his delusion that he was in a video game and Marss was his prince charming that he needed.. He was completely in his own little world and he didn’t even mind it. He was just happy that he got to spend all the time in the world with the perfect male known as Tyler, at least in his eyes anyway.**
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> **March found himself depressed and confused because he couldn’t explain how he felt towards Marss and he was having trouble differing truth from fiction. What was real and what was fiction. He just was happy he had people to hang out with. He stopped caring about school, he stopped caring about obligations, his time and energy went straight to focusing his mental energy into video games. He became so enveloped in his video games that everything seemed like fiction to him. He began reading stories in video games and associate the themes and storylines into his “real” life as he started to believe that there was a possibility that his life was really fake. His brother grew a little concerned that he was focusing so much time with Marss and spending video games that his brother tried to get him to focus on something else, but he assured that he was perfectly fine and that there was nothing that was nothing to worry about. Joey was still worried about everything but he was still happy that March was socializing.**
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> **Over the next seven months, the trio: March, Joey, and Marss began to post Instagram photos about things going on in their life which created somewhat of a storyline of what happened.**
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> **First it was a New Years Party where he asked Marss for this resolution. At the party, Marss said something completely innocuous and innocent but it fueled March’s believe that he was a Prince Charming and he was the one his mother kept talking about. The purpose of a video game story, he was perfect and his resolution was to be with him. However, Marss replied bashfully saying he didn’t know, which angered March because he didn’t respond how he wanted, but it didn’t matter, he knew that love stories could belong.**
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> **Then it was Valentine’s Day where Marss and March hung out. Marss saw it as a complete friend thing to do because March had no one, but Marss had to leave their plans early, because he had other plans, but he got March some Chocolates, which was completely innocent, but March thought of this as a romantic gesture.**
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> **Then it was Saint Patrick’s Day, Joey’s birthday party where he beat Marss. The party was nothing more than a kickback for Joey and the members of PG and it was also a charity stream. Marss let March win because he was being nice. But March saw this as Marss being gentlemanly and letting his princess win and then finally to June where they went swimming together, which wasn’t just him and Marss but a whole lot of people, but March misunderstood it as Marss coming over to swim with just him and he saw this as a romantic gesture because he thought he wanted his Princess to see how strong his Prince was.and then the next month where they went Paintballing, which was another group event, but March misunderstood because Marss agreed to team up with March, not because of romantic things because no one else wanted to, but March took this as his Prince wanting to protect him. His delusions and psychosis of living in a video game world were only growing stronger.**
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### **Level 5**

> **However, everything changed when EVO 2019 came around. It was March’s plan to finally tell Marss how he was thinking and feeling after EVO 2019 regardless of how he did. He also wanted to go and support his brother because that was important to him. Up until that point March was good, he was nice, and he did everything in his head, he thought it was all for Marss. EVO 2019 was the time when everything changed. He had brought all his gaming systems, the handheld ones at least and a bunch of clothes. He went with his Brother and the other members of Panda Global and he was super excited to tell Marss that he loved him, so the two of them could finally date and be in love forever. His head was filled with Erotomaniac delusions, but he didn’t even know the fact that his “love” had a girlfriend and didn’t like boys, but nothing like that mattered because he was so sure that Marss was in love with him, because this was HIS video game and this whole world was surrounding him` because he was the main hero or villain and he had plot armor. He would alwas get his prince.**
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> **EVO 2019 was wild and he watched all the battles coming to be, but in the end Marss nor his Brother won, but rather the winner was MkLeo. March was somewhat upset that his beloved didn’t win, but he saw this as an opportunity to tell him how he felt. So at an after party in the hotel, he approached Tyler, asking if he could talk to him alone. Of course he followed, by the pool, March finally confessed his feelings to Tyler and as you might expect, Tyler said he was flattered by ultimately rejected him. Why? The age difference. Despite March being fifteen, Tyler was twenty and he was just too old for March, not only that, but he called out for his girlfriend, as he mentioned he had a girlfriend and didn’t like boys. March could find his world cracking as he began to doubt the world was a video game because where was his happy ending? He was a princess, his mind told him so, he spent his whole life believing he was a princess and Marss was his Prince Charming He couldn’t believe that Marss would lie to his face, why was he lying?! He wasn’t even real!  His body began shaking as he looked right at Marss and whispered.**
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> **March then confessed his love to Marss. Marss seemed surprised because he explained how he only thought of March as a little brother. He began crying because he realized that Marss wasn’t his prince charming but the kidnapper who was manipulated by that temptress and March was taken advantage of, manipulated to believe the lies.. The water in the pool began to swirl as the ground began to shake. He was filled with such anger. Joey ended up coming and asking what was wrong. Marss told him that Joey just confessed his feelings. Exasperatedly, Joey dragged him away and took him back to his room to collect his stuff, telling him that March was going back home. As they were walking through the lobby of the hotel, March’s use of his powers made him attract monsters and a bunch of harpies attacked the hotel. March was terrified, but it also validated the feeling that his life was a video game, in their efforts to get away, Joey was caught by one of the harpies and killed right before March’s eyes. He then ran, ending up to bumping into one of the gamers from the tournament. The man didn’t have much time, but told March that he was special, which translated in his head that he was the protagonist, and that the man could take him somewhere safe. So the two took his stuff and ran off to Camp Half Blood which took a couple weeks because they had to walk from Nevada and they were able to luckily avoid anymore monster. However, March was happy because it was just a video game and he could revive his brother. He had all his gaming systems, meaning that he could find a NPC town and revive his brother. And he also decided that if he couldn’t be the queen, he’d be the leader of the dark and the mean.**
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> **No one has seen March since, but this was his last post on Instagram**
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## During Camp

To be updated.

(Has not played enough)

## Powers

### **Universal**

* **Underwater Breathing**
	+ Poseidon children have the ability to breathe underwater and touching someone else while underwater forms an air bubble for them. Until popped, they can breathe underwater as well.
* **Poseidon's Authority**
	+ Children of the Big Three have a particularly strong scent to monsters. While the threat of their godly parent may repel weaker monsters, it only attracts strong monsters who love to take a bite out of such a powerful demigod. Poseidon kids can summon sea creatures to serve them for a limited time, as well as communicate with monsters in Poseidon’s domain; horses and pegasus are included (As always anything that isn’t a player character will be controlled by a GM unless otherwise stated) Children of Poseidon can also talk to horses/pegasi (ask a GM to play a horse)
* **Hydrokinesis**
	+ The ability to form, and manipulate water! It takes 2 emotes to generate a gallon of seawater from the skin of the user (this will feel like an intense workout, and needs great focus), and 2 emotes to manipulate the water/seawater. (If there is already water/seawater present, the first two emotes don’t apply)

### **Specific**

* **Geokinesis**
	+ The ability to cause small, localized earthquakes! You can affect up to a 15m\*15m (225m^2) area. The strength of your earthquake increases based on how long you charge it, with a minimum of two emotes. At two emotes charge, the earth begins to shake, and all those in the affected area must make a D20 roll against the user to determine if they remain standing or if they fall over. For every two additional emotes of charge, the targets get a stacking -3 modifier on their roll, up to eight emotes of total charge (-9 modifier). After 6 emotes of charging, the user risks the power backfiring and damaging them as well. This and all structural damage will be up to GM discretion. You also have full, freeform control to manipulate sand! (One emote to control a one-foot diameter of sand about an inch and a half deep. Charging more increases the pool by the foot.)
* **Atmokinesis**
	+ The most draining and powerful power a spawn of Poseidon can have; the ability to create and manipulate miniature hurricanes and whirlpools localized around the demigod. It takes three emotes to create a storm (5m\*5m=25m² centered around the demigod). This is extremely taxing, however, meaning that if you create a storm in just three emotes, you pass out after it is created. The more emotes you use the safer it is. (If it is greater than 3 emotes you get a +1 roll modifier on a d20, if it lands higher than 5 you don’t pass out) (After it’s created, you can enlarge it. 1 emote = 5 meters per side) Atmokinetic users can halt the creation of storms, roll a d20 against the GM, or the other Atmokinetic user, creating the storm