Neal Lars

### Family

Thanatos (father), Marilynn Lars (mother), Jannah Bleu (paternal half-sister), Dainë Brewer (paternal half-sister)

## Other Information

### Residence

Kentucky (formerly), Elysium (formerly), Camp Trinity.

### Cause of Death

Burned Alive-Asher Gard

Neal Lars is a Greek demigod, the son of Thanatos and the demigod Marilynn Lars who was the daughter of Eros. He attended Camp Trinity prior to his death, then spent time in Elysium for a few years before being resurrected.

**Series**

Neal is featured in the following series:

* Hellbound (POVs)
* Defenders of the Duat
* Demigod Quest
* Camp Trinity Guidebook

**Early Life**

Neal grew up in Kentucky with a sickly mother who worked in pharmaceuticals. They had a house of their own and he was in first grade, almost seven, when his mother began having seizures and signed a DNR, which resulted in her death. Neal never knew his father or that his mother was a demigod daughter of Eros until she died and her ex-boyfriend Zacharias Morris showed up.

**Hellbound**

N/A

**Defenders of the Duat**

N/A

**Demigod Quest**

N/A

**Camp Trinity Guidebook**

The Cabins: Neal wrote the sections on the cabins and briefly discusses how many cabins Camp Trinity has and for which gods.

**Personality**

Neal is a cheerful, excitable person and after a slight burst of depression following the death of his mother, he went back to his happy, outgoing ways and immediately wanted to learn how to be a demigod to bring him closer to his mother. When he was eight he cut each of his wrists once after the bullying from Asher Gard became too much to handle, but he decided he didn't want to die and saved his own life, never telling anyone about his suicide attempt. He likes to make people life and is curious about science and technology, and he is always happy to meet new people. After his death, he is still childish, fun-loving and immature, but starts to become a bit more realistic and dark, sometimes taking his emotions out on other people.

**Appearance**

Neal is around 4'11 at 11 years old, tall for his age, and was scrawny with thin scars on each of his wrists. He had messy light blond hair that would stick out in all directions and bright, cobalt blue eyes.

**Powers**

**Godly Parent**

* Darkness
* Death
* Hearts
* Invisibility
* Life Force
* Shadows
* Souls
* Teleportation

**Grandmother Eros**

* Love Sense
* Emotional Understanding

**Nymph Powers**

* Dream Walking

**Magical Items**

* Hephaestus's Labrys axe that shifts into a chain to avoid detection.

**Magical Pets or Companions**

* Garnet--a Pegasus (until his death)

**Love Interests**

* Cassidy Page--one-sided crush that Cassidy did not reciprocate.
* Kimberly Charleston--one-sided crush that Neal did not reciprocate until after their deaths.

**Friends and Enemies**

* Hal James (best friend)
* Kit Thomas, Taka Kanuta (friends)
* Asher Gard, Ra, Ra's Darkness, Tartarus, Thanatos, Fates, Janus (enemies)

**Dream Cast**

\*as of 9/13/2020

* UNKNOWN

\*former casting ideas

* Ty Simpkins

**Trivia**

* Neal didn't know who his father was until after his death.
	+ He did not use his death powers until after his resurrection.
* Neal was bisexual.
* He was thought to potentially be a Norse demigod by Bilius Crowe at first because he chose to use axes.
* He was originally meant to be the Navigator, not Ray, but he died unexpectedly.
* He was Garnet's owner prior to Autumn Stone.
* He frequently appears in books following his death as a ghost, memory or hallucination.
* He had a crush on Cassidy when he was eight because she would make her boyfriend, Asher, stop harassing him and Hal.
* He stopped Hal from committing suicide several times as a child.
* He didn't like Kimberly until after his death when they spent time together in Elysium, and he began to have an innocent, childish relationship with her.
* He was created as the explanation for Garnet's previous owner having died in battle. Jo created a short story about Neal and had Hal be included for a little more backstory on his character, but this short story inspired a 5 book series, Hellbound, and introduced Japanese and African demigods.
* Neal slit his wrists once after seeing Hal do it, leaving small scars, but he never thought about killing himself again after that.