Hayden Sterling

Hayden Sterling is a 2022-introduced and all-around character. They are the child of Loki, deity of Mischief, Artifice, Magic, Fire, Lies, Serpents and Stories, from Norse Mythology, and currently attends Ever After High through the Mythology Program. In the destiny conflict, they are on the Royal Side, due to their love of causing chaos, and likes the idea of the divine prankster

## Character

### **Personality**

Hayden Sterling was extremely aggressive and volatile when they first came to school and threatened to kill people. They lashed out at everyone in the school, including Madeline, and didn’t trust her or the others. However, deep down, Hayden was severely traumatized from everything that happened to them in the past and was angry at their parents for sending them to school. They eventually learned to trust Madeline and their friends. Unlike most of the demigods, Hayden is obsessed with change and is proud of their shape-shifting powers because they can change. Hayden has a tattoo of a snake on their neck, which symbolizes change. Hayden tends to act differently from one moment to the next with no particular motivation, especially toward Madeline. Going from a normal teasing friend to very flirty. Hayden also wears a lot of outfits. Their feelings towards someone can change very quickly, like Juniper, when they went from hating her to valuing her as a friend. Hayden likes to tease people, especially Damian for being the shortest in the group, and Madeline. Hayden teases Maddy a lot and cuts her hair with a garrotté wire many times.

However, Hayden shows empathy sometimes, truly cares about their friends and takes great risks for them. Hayden can also be very angry and tends to throw things at people when mad. Hayden tends to hide their feelings from other people and does not talk about their past readily. They didn’t want Melody to heal them after they cut themself because they didn’t want her to see what they had been through. After Melody saw their painful memories, she was nearly reduced to tears. They also never told her about their nightmares of Loki. Hayden and Melody talk about their pasts and soon become very good friends. Hayden likes fashion and pottery. They like stealing things and playing pranks on their friends'. Hayden loves being themself, and hates when people don’t accept them for being gender fluid, after all of the bullying and abuse they were subjected to because of that. They hate when people don’t respect their pronouns or call her an *argr*, and has lectured people about that term. Hayden views themself as the same as everyone else, as they told their father in their last conversation, but likes to flaunt their weirdness. Their Abuelo also taught them to be proud of their Mexican heritage.

### **Appearance**

Hayden is a seventeen-year-old of Mexican-American descent. They are petite, with sharp and beautiful facial features and the same sly grin as the god of lies. They have heterochromia, with one dark brown and one pale green eye, and their hair is dark at the roots but dyed green. Hayden dresses rather flashily and flamboyantly, primarily in purple and green. They wear a purple-and-green argyle sweater vest over a white tee, skinny lime green jeans, and battered lilac high-tops. Tied around their waist like a kilt is a cashmere sweater, which conceals a garrote wire and a hunting knife tucked behind a belt

### **Hobbies and Interests**

#### Pottery

Hayden is known to be skilled with pottery. They making things out of clay for their friends and their creations are scattered along their room. Hayden also loves to give pottery to their friends

## Myths

### **How does Hayden fit into it?**

Hayden, as the child of Loki, is destined to be apart of any myth her immortal parents

### **Viewpoint on Destiny**

Hayden likes the idea of the being the Norse divine trickster and is a royal

## Powers/Abilities

### Loki Kid Powers

* They are able to change their gender at will along with being able to fully shape-shift
* They can read body language.
* They able to out think their opponents in combat and are always a few moves ahead.
* They can shape shift into any animal they choose.
* They can talk to snakes and other reptiles.
* As their father is the God of Lies, Hayden instinctively knows when someone is lying or is about to tell a lie
* They are immune to all poisons, venom and toxins.
* They have enhanced strength.
* They can Lucid dream and can control the dream.
* They can talk to horses and charm speak.
* They have magical abilities, equal to that of children of Hecate
* They have manipulation and control of fire
* They can sense when monsters are around.
* They can talk themselves out of any nearly any situation as they are considered silver tongued

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, they possess inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that they use to analyze the fighting style of their opponent.
* Dyslexia: Hayden's brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Norse Runes instead of mortal languages.
* Pottery: In their room, Hayden has a pottery wheel, which they use to make clay vases. Each of their creations has symbols related to their friends or their immortal parent
* Camping skills: Hayden had spent many weekends with the kids at their pottery studio as a kid, camping in the woods as a way of getting away. These skills are often displayed during quests
* Fighting skills: Hayden is known to be a very good fighter
* Swordsmanship: Hayden is really good with a sword
* Superhuman durability: As a demigod, Hayden is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Hayden is much stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman Reflexes: As a demigod, Hayden reflexes are greater than the average mortal
* Superhuman Agility: As a demigod, Hayden is more agile than the average mortal

## Relationships

### **Family**

#### Loki (Immortal parent)

Loki, the God of Mischief, is Hayden's immortal parent. He had an affair with Hayden's father and told their family about the Nine Worlds. He has had contact with Hayden through their life and taught them how to make a weapon out of anything. When he recognized Hayden while wandering through Boston, he tried to kill them by causing a monster to come an attack them, this attempt failed and Hayden escaped. Loki warns his child to stay away from the family and tries to kill Hayden during their claiming ceremony. However, Hayden managed to resist him. Hayden doesn't like their immortal parent at all, and admitted that they didn't like him very much when they were finally claimed and continues to resent him

#### Samuel (Father)

Hayden was born out of an affair between their father and Loki. After Loki opened their eyes to the nine worlds they were never the same again. Hayden was abused by their father throughout their childhood for being a demigod , and no one did anything to stop it. Samuel also hated that his father accepted them. Samuel abused them emotionally (and implied physically) so badly that Hayden would have to escape to their Abuelo’s house. The two look alike, with Hayden having their father's petite build. He also resented Hayden for not wanting to take over the family business, and calling their pottery trash. When Hayden was taken in by Zoe at thirteen, they continued to have nightmare to nightmares about him.

### **Friends**

#### Maddy Mendoza (Daughter of Frey)

Maddy and Hayden are known to be good friends. They both share the fact they Norse Demigods and Maddy likes watching Hayden make pottery. They both like talking about famous people drama and hang out a lot

### **Pet**

Hayden doesn't have any pets, but often talks to Python, the pet snake that Melody owns and claims he is "good company"

### **Romance**

Hayden identifies as Asexual and is currently single

## Class Schedule

**1st Period:** Mythology

**2nd Period:** Ancient Arts

**3rd Period:** Ragnarok Sparring

**4th Period:** Scythes and Swords

**5th Period:** Mythos Magic

**6th Period:** Olympian Olympics

## Quotes

"That’s the irony. I can ‘look’ like whatever or whoever I want. But my actual gender? No. I can’t change it. It’s truly fluid, in the sense that I don’t control it. Most of the time, I identify as 'neither' but some times I can have very 'female' days or very 'male' days"-Hayden explaining their gender

"I know what a prism is! It's where you put bad people."

"Don’t weep for the stupid. You’ll be crying all day."

"I do two things and two things only. I devastate sorry motherfuckers, and get shit done as an awesome hero."

"I didn’t even realize how sarcastic I was being. It’s starting to become a problem, I think."

"Seriously, I have no idea what to do. Oh, wait! Yahoo! Answers."

"I have one foot in the grave but in a kind of fun flirty way, the way one might slip on a fishnet stocking"

## Outfits

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## Trivia

* Hayden identifies as Gender-fluid and Asexual
* Hayden is 5'5
* Hayden's favorite food is pizza
* Hayden is based on Alex Fierro from The Magnus Chase series
* Hayden is able to create stories on the spot with only a few words given to them
* Hayden doesn't mind it when people use he/him or she/her pronouns for them, but prefers they/them for simplicity