Eustace Mizéria

Eustace Mizéria is the seventeen year old (really a thousand) Greek Demigod Son of Oizys and Eurylochus. He came to camp at seventeen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Alias

Mizéria, Misery, Eus, Oizys, Son of Eurylochus, Son of Misery, Pearl,

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Curretly)Mansion of Oizys (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Oizys (Mother)
* Eurylochus (Father)
* Moros, Keres, Thanatos, Hypnos, Koalemos, Oneiroi, Momus, Hesperides, The Fates, Nemesis, Apate, Philotes, Geras, Styx, Dolos, Ponos, Euphrosyne, Epiphron, Continentia, Petulantia, Misericordia, Pertinacia (Aunts and Uncles)
* Juniper, George, Hayley, Clara, Lilly, Amy, Natalie, Isa, Agatha (Cousins)

## Items

### Weapons

Obsidian daggerDual gauntlets made of shadows

## Appearance

### Outfit

WITH OIZYS* Dark Blue/Gray Greek Chiton
* Greek sandals

AT CAMP

* Gray/blue shirt
* Black pants
* Blue sneakers
* Visor Sunglasses

**TW: Mentions of abuse and other dark themes (PS! This part of the story follows Epic: The Musicals' timeline)**

## History

### Early Life

Eustace Mizéria was born to Oizys, Goddess of Misery, Grief, Anxiety, and Depression and Eurylochus, a member of Odysseus’ crew. It was a few days after the Cyclopes attack (Basically after Remember Them and My Goodbye) and Eurylochus was out keeping watch for any other threats. Eurylochus was mad and grief stricken. His captain had just shouted his name to the very monster he had tricked and argued with a goddess, *to her face* and one of his best friends was now dead. Everything just felt so... unreal at that point. Eurylochus was busy trying to grieve the death of Polites, but little did he know, his grief would attract an outside force. Oizys felt just how much anger and grief Eurylochus was feeling and she *adored* it. Oizys was fulled by the worlds misery, it's grief and stuff like that, so feeling how much misery *one* person was feeling was amazing to her in some twisted way. Oizys came down to the ship and began to talk with Eurylochus, him to give into his grief and become rather mutinous. Eurylochus, who was pretty much done with the worlds' BS, was very much willing to listen to Oizys' encouragement. With Eurylochus' aura of grief and anger, combined with Oizys' godly aura and power, this encounter would create a being together, one of which Eurylochus' would *never* get to met.

### Childhood

Oizys was surprised to see a child created from shadows sitting on her lap, but she gained a sadistic idea. She knew that her power combined with Eurylochus' aura created this child, but she decided to keep this child to herself, not telling Eurylochus. Oziys' named her son Eustace and for the first ten years of his life, he was raised as a fairly "normal" child, but his mother did seem to get angry any time he would cry, like any normal child would. For almost all his life, he would be raised in a mansion owned by Oziys outside of Olympus, where she would take miserable souls to torture and feed off their misery. As Eustace grew up, he was brainwashed into thinking that this was normal, and would watch as his mother would do this. When Eustace was a little older, around eleven, his mother began to treat him like a servant, ordering him around (he was honestly treated like a pearl from Steven Universe). If he failed to do his tasks, he would be met which harsh beatings.

As Eustace began to grow older, he became much more quite, always doing what his mother asked of him, always following orders. His mother had successfully made her son into her own personal toy, one which she can break and rebuild however she wanted. Oizys spoke a lot about the earth and about the "worthless mortals" who lived there, which lead to Eustace imagining what life would be on earth. One day, he would finally be able to live these dreams, when his mother took him on a trip to the mortal world

### A trip to earth

When Eustace was around fifteen years old, his mother took him on a trip to earth, to show her son how she fed on the mortals' misery and grief. After a while of watching his mother, Eustace left her side, wanting to explore the world he had been longing to see. Eustace explored the town, seeing just how colorful and new this world was. He looked around with so much awe and curiosity. While walking, he bumped into a boy who asked to play. Though Eustace was confused, he agreed to play with the boy. The pair spent time running around time and exploring the town. However, at the end of the day, Oizys found her son, and was angry. Before Eustace left, the boy asked him if Eustace would come back tomorrow, which Eustace couldn't answer with 100% guarantee, but promised to try. Oizys dragged her son back to the mansion and gave him a harsh beating, yelling at him for leaving her sight. When Oizys was done, she looked her son in a cell within the mansion, leaving him alone to cry

For the next two years, Eustace wouldn't go back to being the quiet and obedient kid he was, but instead started to rebel against his mother. Eustace' trip on earth made him see that what his mother was doing was wrong, he didn't want to hurt any mortals. Since then, Oizys would punish her son in harsh ways. At one point, when Eustace was around sixteen years old, he tried to run away, but was caught by his mother. For the next year, he would face harsh treatment from his mother, with no hope in sight. When he was seventeen years old, his mother granted him immortality, since Oizys wanted to continue to abuse her son him dying. For the next thousands of years, Oizys would continue to treat her son as a slave rather than her very one child.

### Coming to Earth

After about a thousand years had passed and Eustace had no hope in sight. Soon, Eustace had enough of his mother abuse and decided to run away. While his mother was out in the underworld, Eustace ran out the mansion, and found his way on to the beautiful Olympus. While exploring, he came across a withered up garden, which according to some of the nymphs, used to belong to the goddess Eirene, but it hadn't been cared for in thousands' of years. Eustace visited the withered garden, and was surprised to see a boy around his age standing there alone. What was strange, was that vines had seemed to grow around the boy's legs, suggesting that he had probably been standing there for a long time. Eustace came up to the boy and introduced himself. The boy responded by saying his name was Phoebus. Eustace began to ask Phoebus some questions about why he was there, and Phoebus answered that he was waiting for his mother to return, and had been standing there in that spot for years. That concerned Eustance and said that Eirene might have left Phoebus there on purpose. Phoebus got angry, saying that his mother wouldn't do that to him, and Eustace tried to comfort him, but Phoebus was still angry, and for the first time in *years* moved from his spot. Phoebus angrily ran from his spot and looked down from Olympus, seeing how much the world had changed while he was left alone. Phoebus' whole life was turned upside down, and all he could really do was cry bitterly. Eustace sat next to him and did his very best to comfort his grief, saying that his own mother, Oizys, was also a bad mother. The two grew to be friends with each other and Eustace led Phoebus out of the garden, wanting to take him to earth.

### Getting to Camp

Phoebus and Eustace wandered the earth together, though at one point, Eustace did realize that Phoebus' eye sight was a little off, so he offered to get him some glasses, which helped a lot. After a while, the two boys became aware that most mortals had a last name, so they choose last names for themselves. Phoebus became Phoebus Pax while Eustace became Eustace Mizéria. In the year 1910, the two boys bumped into a girl around their age (17). The boys introduced themselves and the girl introduced herself as Athanasia Ithaca. The three quickly became close with each other and began to travel around American with each other, meeting other demigods (Who also happened to be children of characters from the Iliad) and created a group together. 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. Eustace was claimed as the son of Oizys, but had to stay in the Hermes cabin, since the Cabin Mythos wasn't built yet

## Personality

On the surface, Eustace can be characterized by his iron-willed and industrious work ethic, as well as his voracious taste for knowledge. He is remarked by his peers and teachers alike to be a stellar student, both academically and socially, which there is no doubt about it – after all, there is seldom a single day in which Eustace does not arrive to his classes fully-equipped with in-depth knowledge of the material and an eagerness to learn more, nor does he make his presence known without humoring his fellow classmates and teachers with his dry yet clever wit. However, due to grim developments pertaining to the disappearance of his closest friend, it is clear that Eustace is cracking beneath his aforementioned surface. On the outside, Eustace puts on a cold persona, showing no care for most people, but is truly soft on the inside, caring for his friends and new found family. But his constant connection to death causes a feeling of uneasiness and anxiety, a product of his secret fear for the morbid and his love for beauty. This is the primary reason he usually refrains from any sort of violence. His days are rounded by a  palpable calmness. In the empty spaces where his time could have been consumed  by some sort of teenage life crisis, he reads literature instead. He will read anything, from his beloved classics to nursery rhymes - which must be a side effect of his greed for knowledge, the fear of dying oblivious. Eustace often has difficulty sleeping. If he is in a state of mind of stress or paranoia, whether if it's actually during chaos, work load, disorganization or simply, the constant fear for his life, where he's generally attentive and tense, his thoughts are much louder than the silence that surrounds him making it difficult to even sleep for a few hours. It's not just physical, it's mental as well, because in a state of paranoia he's more prone to nightmares and occasionally violent night terrors. It's one of the reasons he won't stay with anyone at night, trying not to startle them with the sudden acting out of his not exactly pleasant dreams. He also has a tendency to do what anyone tells him to do, as that’s how he was raised by his mother. Like a servant, only needed to help spread her misery to the mortal world. Eustace does not talk much and is prone to remaining silent, a habit he has formed from his early years as a teenage runaway. When on the run, it's essential that you're as closeted as possible, because in reality, it's not the world that's cruel, it's the people in it. He is afraid that if he opens his mouth, a word vomit regarding everything he is afraid everything will intensify. He chooses to refrain from any sort of affectionate relationship outside his clique of greek myth loving misfits, simply because he does not have the capacity to feel any sort of guilt when he dies; he is extremely intimidated by the idea of people missing him when he's gone but again, he can not wholly detach himself in danger of remorse; he is a lovable creature, someone in constant need of exclamations of love and affection. He does crave physical touch, as he has forgotten what it's like to not be touched in a harmful manner; it makes him feel a lot more comfortable and is guaranteed to stop a panic attack. A hand in his hair is sometimes a lot more useful than a few comforting words. Now, if the hand is accompanied by a kiss, the uneasiness will disappear with it. He's in love with not exactly love, but with the actions that declare it; it's quite convenient if you think about it - casual relationships do help him avoid attachment but manage to satisfy his dependance on affection. People who have similar interests as him often provide suitable company for him as she doesn’t feel the pressure to fill the space between them with words and fragments of his past and future. He does not essentially prefer silence but he can much more easily palate the company of someone he does not feel comfortable with if they sit in silence. Eustace really finds it interesting how people are essentially immortalized after death. He's particularly interested in the family dynamics / juxtaposition of it all – how a man’s grief over his friend and the goddess of said grief can create a child, how a hunter’s sister can age two years after the death of her sister, but the first sister will forever be stuck in the same age, perpetually stuck in people’s memory as an age years younger than she would actually be had she not been killed. It’s a testimony to the fact that life continues on outside of death and that the world doesn’t stop for anyone. He typically is a reserved individual who speaks the bare minimum with company. He is keen to keep a low profile and be unnoticeable if not unknowable. However, if provoked or mocked, Eustace can reveal thin patience and snappy remarks. All of his friends have suggested at least once that he attends some sort of anger management club, which unfortunately for them only managed to fuel his wrath. When angry he is totally opposed to everything he is asked to do and does his best to intensify the situation. His anger is most notable through his mouth, which seems to have a mind of its own, ( refusing to consider any aspects where it would get him in trouble ). He is purposefully difficult. Understanding him takes wits, when he soughts to dry your patience and leave you with an arid chest. The only factors that could witness the softer side of him are the ones who he lets look past his jumble of lies and meaningless murmurs, which he has to admit is a very rare occurrence. Nothing is acted out before planned in advance, while simultaneously remaining unpredictable. Everything he performs comes with layers of intent, moments where expected patterns or blows dissolve into something else. Eustace also has an appreciation for other people’s cultures and pantheons as shown as he helped make mooncakes with Crescent Huang, daughter of Chang’e. At times, Eustace is brave, loyal and laid back with his friends and even a bit rebellious, as he went against his mothers orders many times. Overall, Eustace is truly a complex person

### Fatal flaw(s)

Eustace has two fatal flaws, Lack of trust and blindly following orders. He is very slow to trust new people, wanting to make sure the people he meets won't hurt him, but he also has a hard time saying no to authority figures.

## Appearance

Eustace is a tough and stoic looking seventeen year old with a “permanent deadpan expression”. Eustace is described as having short dark brown hair, dark skin, and brown eyes. While under his mother’s control, Eustace wore clothes of black and purple, the colors of misery. Once he left, and got to camp, he wore a gray/blue shirt, black pants, and blue sneakers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Oizys Kid Powers

* He can temporarily induce feelings or thoughts of misery, grief, worry, despair, and other negative emotions upon others (verbally or nonverbally), as well as cause cognitive distortions.
* He is able to temporarily take away the negative emotions and thoughts of others by placing them upon himself (therefore suffering from what others have been feeling).
* He is able to temporarily take away the negative emotions and thoughts of others by being immune to the effects of the Cocytus river, Cocytus' powers, and his children's powers.
* He can engulf a large area with his aura, causing any being (Mortal, God, Demigod, Nymph, satyr, etc) within its reach to be overwhelmed with intense feelings of sadness and cry uncontrollably. Eustace seems to activate this ability involuntary whenever he is shedding tears in an emotional state (e.g. joy or nostalgia). He can turn this aura off or have it not affect people whenever he wants
* He has the ability of umbrakinesis, or the ability to control shadows and darkness. He can make weapons out of these shadows
* He can shadow travel

### 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: Eustace speaks Fluent Greek, being born in Ancient Greece
* Will Power: Eustace has a great amount of mental and physical will power
* Swordsmanship: He is a skilled sword user
* Hand to hand combat: Eustace is a very skilled person when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. In fact, this is his preferred way of combat
* Immortality: When Eustace was seventeen, he gained immortality, which stops him from aging and dying, though he can still get hurt
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Eustace is stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Eustace is more is more agile than the average mortal
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Eustace is more durable than the average mortal
* Superhuman reflexes: Being a demigod, Eustace reflexes are faster than an average mortal
* Gauntlet proficiency: With is power of shadow manipulation, Eustace can summon a pair of gauntlets. Eustace is highly proficient when using his gauntlets and is extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat. He can deal massive strikes that can deal a heavy amount of damage and deliver swift blows with lightning speed.
* Spanish: Eustace taught himself how to speak Spanish and is fluent in the lanuage

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Phoebus Pax

Eustace met Phoebus shortly after escaping his mother, in the Garden of Eirene. Eustace was very confused on *why* Phoebus was just... standing there and asked some questions. Eustace then came to realization that Phoebus' mother may have left him there on purpose, which caused Phoebus to lash out, saying his mother would never do such a thing. When Phoebus soon realized this for himself, he began to cry bitterly, and Eustace sat next to him, doing his best to comfort him. Since then the two have been friends with each other

#### Athanasia Ithaca

Eustace and Phoebus while walking in the mortal world sometime in the year 1910. The two boys were already friends with each other, and the two could tell that Athanasia was very new to making friends, so they did their best to help her feel welcomed. As time went on, the three became close friends with each other, with Athanasia acting as almost a leader figure of the trio.

### Family

#### Oizys (Mother)

Eustace has a very negative relationship with his mother since she would abuse him and treat him like a servant for many years. When Eustace was claimed, he stared at his mother's symbol with resentment and bitterness, feeling nothing but hatred towards her. They don't talk to each other anymore, but Eustace is rather close to the rest of his immortal family

#### Eurylochus (Father)

Eustace has never met his father, since Oizys made the decision to not even *tell* Eurlyochus that they had a son. Eustace hates that his mother fulled his father's mutiny, and is very much aware that he was born from their misery. Eustace feels that in another lifetime, he would have had a good relationship with his father

## Etymology

The name Eustace is boy's name of Greek origin meaning **"stable"**.

Mizéria is the Greek word for **"Misery"**

## Trivia

1. He is somewhat based on both Garnet and Pearl from Steven Universe
2. His theme song is Stronger Than You, along with True Kinda Love
3. He likes to make mooncakes and claims they're his favorite food to make
4. He is demisexual
5. His middle name, Devland, means **"fierce courage"**
6. He loves to make friends with the demigods of other pantheons, loving to learn about new cultures
7. Eustace taught himself how to speak Spanish when he came to earth with Phoebus, and he often mixes both Spanish and English in his sentences
8. If he were born in modern times he would have been born September 2, Virgo, The Observant Kind