...After his company went public. I had to include that in the title. Maybe now he won't be such a cheap bastard with his GMs. I had no idea Gilbert was now the second richest owner in the league.
Which made me wonder what other owners are worth (the title of this post was almost "why is Tilman Fertitta such a cheap bastard while Joe Lacob spends money like he thinks the shit's gonna rot?").
Which brings us to this handy Forbes list from March:
1. Steve Ballmer (Los Angeles Clippers): $51.4 billion
Ballmer scored a huge win this week for his dream of building a new arena. He bought the Forum for $400 million from the Madison Square Garden Company, which tried to block a new Clippers arena near the Forum in Inglewood, California.
2. Philip Anschutz (Los Angeles Lakers): $11.2 billion
Anschutz owns one-third of the Lakers, plus the arena in which they play, the Staples Center, in addition to the NHL’s Kings. \For those wondering, it's hard to find a reliable source on Jeanie's net worth but according to unreliable sources it's in the ballpark of $500 million*
3. Stanley Kroenke (Denver Nuggets): $10 billion
The real estate and sports mogul owns teams in the NBA, the NHL, the NFL, MLS and the Premier League.
4. Joseph Tsai (Brooklyn Nets): $9.9 billion
The cofounder of Alibaba Group completed his purchase of the Nets last year for $2.3 billion and bought the Barclays Center for an additional $1 billion.
5. Robert Pera (Memphis Grizzlies): $7.1 billion
Pera owns nearly three-quarters of wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks. He was the lead investor in the Grizzlies purchase in 2012.
6. Daniel Gilbert (Cleveland Cavaliers): $6.2 billion
Gilbert made his first fortune from Quicken Loans, the largest online mortgage lender, which he cofounded in 1985 at 22 years old.*List is from March, before the IPO
7. Tom Gores (Detroit Pistons): $5.7 billion
Gores and his brother Alec are both private equity billionaires. The Pistons opened a new $90 million headquarters and training facility in September.
8. Micky Arison (Miami Heat): $5.3 billion
Arison’s net worth plummeted 33% over the past six weeks with the collapse in the stock price of Carnival Corp. The world’s largest cruise ship operator was founded by Arison’s father in 1972.
9. Tilman Fertitta (Houston Rockets): $4.4 billion
Fertitta furloughed roughly 40,000 employees at his casino and restaurant empire to curb the economic impact caused by coronavirus-induced shutdowns. His fortune is derived from his ownership of the Golden Nugget Casinos and Landry’s, a Texas-based restaurant and entertainment company.
10. Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks): $4.3 billion
Cuban was one of the first sports team owners to commit to paying hourly arena workers for games missed during the coronavirus crisis. He’s invested more than $20 million as a “shark” on ABC’s popular Shark Tank show.
11. Joshua Harris (Philadelphia 76ers): $3.7 billion
Harris cofounded private equity powerhouse Apollo Global Management in 1990 with fellow billionaires Leon Black and Marc Rowan. He remains a managing director there.
12. Gayle Benson (New Orleans Pelicans): $3.2 billion
Benson inherited the Pelicans and the NFL’s Saints when her husband, Tom, died in 2018.
13. Glen Taylor (Minnesota Timberwolves): $2.8 billion
His printing firm, Taylor Corp., generates more than $2 billion in revenue annually. Taylor also owns stakes in Minnesota’s MLS and WNBA teams.
14. Herb Simon (Indiana Pacers): $2.6 billion
The real estate mogul bought the Pacers with his since-deceased brother, Melvin, in 1983, for $10.5 million. Simon Property Group is one of the world’s largest real estate investment trusts, with 206 properties in the U.S.
15. Antony Ressler (Atlanta Hawks): $2.4 billion
Ressler cofounded private equity firm Ares Management in 1997. He owns a small piece of the Milwaukee Brewers, in addition to his controlling stake in the Hawks.
16. Michael Jordan (Charlotte Hornets): $2.1 billion
The NBA’s GOAT sold a minority stake in the Hornets in September in a deal that valued the team at $1.5 billion. Nike pays Jordan more than $100 million annuallybased on growing sales for the company’s Jordan Brand.
17. Marc Lasry (Milwaukee Bucks): $1.8 billion
Lasry, a hedge fund titan, joined Wes Edens to buy the Bucks in 2014 for $550 million. He was born in Morocco and moved to the U.S. at age 7 with his family.
18. Gail Miller (Utah Jazz): $1.7 billion
Miller transferred ownership of the Jazz in 2017 to a family legacy trust to deter her heirs from selling or moving the team. Gail and her since-deceased husband, Larry, bought the team for $22 million in 1986.
19. Jerry Reinsdorf (Chicago Bulls): $1.5 billion
Reinsdorf led a group of investors who bought a controlling stake in the Bulls for $9.2 million in 1985. Good timing. It was one year after the team drafted Michael Jordan, who led the Bulls to six NBA titles. The team is now worth $3.2 billion.
20. Theodore Leonsis (Washington Wizards): $1.4 billion
Leonsis initially built his fortune as a senior executive at AOL, before investing in sports teams like the Wizards and the NHL’s Capitals.
*Not included on the list but googled for your edification:
DeVos Family (Magic): $5.4 billion
James Dolan (Knicks): $2 billion
Joe Lacob (Warriors): $1.2 billion
Vivek Randive (Kings): $700 million
Robert Sarver (Suns): $400 million
Jody Allen (Trail Blazers): The sister of Microsoft cofounder, Paul G. Allen, took control of the team after his death. At the time her brother was worth $20 billion though he intended to give most of his fortune away...
Boston Basketball Partners LLC (Celtics): An American local private investment group formed to purchase the Boston Celtics
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (Raptors): The Raptors are a subsidiary of MLSE
The Professional Basketball Club, LLC (Thunder): A group of OKC businessmen "who represent a wide variety of local and national business interests" owns the Thunder
Spurs Sports & Entertainment LLC (Spurs): An American sports & entertainment organization, based in San Antonio, Texas owns the San Antonio Spurs

Welcome to Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on political and legal news that often gets buried in distractions and theater… or a global health crisis.
Title refers to: The Trump admin is blocking IGs from getting info on over $1 trillion in relief spending, including corporation bailouts. The admin is also withholding PPP info from Congress, meaning we don't know if Trump or his family took taxpayer money. Additionally, we learned that at least 4 members of Congress have benefited from PPP money, but aren't required to disclose it.
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Coronavirus

Inspectors general warned Congress last week that the Trump administration is blocking scrutiny of more than $1 trillion in spending related to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the previously undisclosed letter, Department of Treasury attorneys concluded that the administration is not required to provide the watchdogs with information about the beneficiaries of programs like the $500 billion in loans for corporations.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin refused to provide Congress with the names of recipients of the taxpayer-funded coronavirus business loans. After criticism, Mnuchin began to walk back his denial, saying he will talk to lawmakers on a bipartisan basis “to strike the appropriate balance for proper oversight” of PPP loans “and appropriate protection of small business information.”
At least 4 lawmakers have benefited in some way from the Paycheck Protection program they helped create. Politico has been told there are almost certainly more -- but there are zero disclosure rules, even for members of Congress.

• Republicans on the list include Rep. Roger Williams of Texas, a wealthy businessman who owns auto dealerships, body shops and car washes, and Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, whose family owns multiple farms and equipment suppliers across the Midwest. The Democrats count Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada, whose husband is CEO of a regional casino developer, and Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell of Florida, whose husband is a senior executive at a restaurant chain that has since returned the loan.

Mick Mulvaney dumped as much as $550,000 in stocks the same day Trump assured the public the US economy was 'doing fantastically' amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Mulvaney unloaded his holdings in three different mutual funds, each of which is primarily made up of US stocks. The next day, the value of the mutual funds tanked.

Cases rising in many states

Good summary: There was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. finally crested and began descending sharply, never happened. Instead, America spent much of April on a disquieting plateau, with every day bringing about 30,000 new cases and about 2,000 new deaths. This pattern exists because different states have experienced the coronavirus pandemic in very different ways…The U.S. is dealing with a patchwork pandemic.
As of Friday, coronavirus cases were significantly climbing in 16 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Oklahoma is experiencing a massive increase in coronavirus cases just days before Trump’s planned rally in Tulsa. In Tulsa county itself, 1 in roughly 390 people have tested positive. Yet Trump plans on cramming 20,000 people in an event with voluntary face mask policy and no social distancing. Attendees must sign a waiver that absolves the president’s campaign of any liability from virus-related illnesses.

• On Monday, Pence lied saying that Oklahoma has “flattened the curve.” As you can see at any of the resources immediately below, this is not even close to true. Over the past 14 days, the state has seen a 124% increase in cases and reports 65% of ICU beds are in use.
  
• Tulsa World Editorial Board: This is the wrong time and Tulsa is the wrong place for the Trump rally. "We don't know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city...Again, Tulsa will be largely alone in dealing with what happens at a time when the city’s budget resources have already been stretched thin."
  
• Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted that he is a victim of double standards when it comes to perception of his decision to resume campaign rallies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that attempts to “covid shame” his campaign “won’t work!”
  

Resources to track increases: There are many different sites with various methods of visualizing the spread of coronavirus. Here are some that may be particularly useful this summer… Topos COVID-19 compiler homepage and graphs of each state since re-opening. How we reopen Safely has stats on each state’s progress towards meeting benchmarks to reopen safely (hint: almost none have reached all the checkpoints). WaPo has a weekly national map of cases/deaths; the largest regional clusters are in the southeast.
On Monday, Trump twice said that “if we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” (video). Aside from the fact that cases exist even if we don’t test for them, we cannot explain the rising number of cases by increased testing capacity: In at least 14 states, the positive case rate is increasing faster than the increase in the average number of tests.

• Reminder: In March Trump told Fox News that he didn't want infected patients from a cruise ship to disembark because it would increase the number of reported cases in the US. "I like the numbers being where they are," Trump said at the time. "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Fired scientist Rebekah Jones builds coronavirus dashboard to rival Florida’s… Her site shows thousands more people with the coronavirus, and hundreds of thousands fewer who have been tested, than the site run by the Florida Health Department.

Equipment and supplies

More studies prove wearing masks limits transmission and spread of coronavirus… One study from Britain found that routine face mask use by 50% or more of the population reduced COVID-19 spread to an R of less than 1.0. The R value measures the average number of people that one infected person will pass the disease on to. An R value above 1 can lead to exponential growth. The study found that if people wear masks whenever they are in public it is twice as effective at reducing the R value than if masks are only worn after symptoms appear.
Meanwhile, Trump officials refuse to wear masks and Trump supporters copy his behavior… VP Mike Pence, leader of the coronavirus task force, published a tweet showing himself in a room full of Trump staffers, none wearing masks or practicing social distancing. Pence deleted the tweet shortly after criticism. A poll last week showed that 66% of likely-Biden-voters “always wear a mask,” while 83% of likely-Trump-voters “neverarely wear a mask.”

• Trump’s opposition to face masks hasn’t stopped him from selling them to his supporters, though. The online Trump Store is selling $20 cotton American flag-themed face masks.
  
• Yesterday, we learned that South Carolina Republican Rep. Tom Rice and family have tested positive for the coronavirus. Just two weeks ago, Rice was on the House floor and halls of the Capitol without wearing a mask.
  

Internal FEMA data show that the government’s supply of surgical gowns has not meaningfully increased since March… The slides show FEMA’s plan to ramp up supply into June and July hinges on the reusing of N95 masks and surgical gowns, increasing the risk of contamination. Those are supposed to be disposed of after one use.
Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re receiving defective equipment as part of Trump administration supply initiative. Officials say FEMA is sending them gowns that look more like large tarps -- with no holes for hands -- and surgical masks that are paper-thin.
More than 1,300 Chinese medical-device companies that registered to sell PPE in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic used bogus registration data… These companies listed as their American representative a purported Delaware entity that uses a false address and nonworking phone number.
Florida is sitting on more than 980,000 unused doses of hydroxychloroquine, but hospitals don’t want it… Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered a million doses of the drug to show support for Trump, but very few hospitals have requested it.

Native American communities struggle

The CARES Act money for Native American tribes, meant to assist people during the pandemic, came with restrictions that are impeding efforts to limit the transmission of the virus. For instance, the funds can only be used to cover expenses that are "incurred due to the public health emergency." On the Navajo Nation, the public health emergency is inherently related to some basic infrastructure problems. 30% of Navajo don’t have running water to wash their hands, but the money can’t be used to build water lines.
Federal and state health agencies are refusing to give Native American tribes and organizations representing them access to data showing how the coronavirus is spreading around their lands, potentially widening health disparities and frustrating tribal leaders already ill-equipped to contain the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns… Pregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing based on their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While awaiting results, some mothers were separated from their newborns, depriving them of the immediate contact doctors recommend. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that state officials would investigate the allegations.

Personnel & appointees

Former IG Steve Linick told Congress he was conducting five investigations into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the State Department before he was fired. In addition to investigating Pompeo's potential misuse of taxpayer funds and reviewing his decision to expedite an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Linick’s office was conducting an audit of Special Immigrant Visas, a review of the International Women of Courage Award, and another review "involving individuals in the Office of the Protocol."

• Pompeo confidant emerges as enforcer in fight over watchdog’s firing: Linick testified that Undersecretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao, a decades-old friend of Pompeo’s, “tried to bully [him]” out of investigating Pompeo.

Trump has empowered John McEntee, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, to make significant staffing changes inside top federal agencies without the consent — and, in at least one case, without even the knowledge — of the agency head. Many senior officials in Trump's government are sounding alarms about the loss of expertise and institutional knowledge.
Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defense for policy, retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, has a history of making Islamophobic and inflammatory remarks against prominent Democratic politicians, including falsely calling former President Barack Obama a Muslim.
Amid racial justice marches, GOP advances Trump court pick hostile to civil rights. Cory Wilson, up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, has denied that restrictive voting laws lead to voter suppression and called same-sex marriage “a pander to liberal interest groups.”
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has indefinitely extended the terms of the acting directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, sidestepping the typical Senate confirmation process for those posts and violating the Federal Vacancies Reform Act,

Courts and DOJ

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take a closer look at qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that shields law enforcement and government officials from lawsuits over their conduct. Developed in recent decades by the high court, the qualified immunity doctrine, as applied to police, initially asks two questions: Did police use excessive force, and if they did, should they have known that their conduct was illegal because it violated a "clearly established" prior court ruling that barred such conduct? In practice, however, lower courts have most often dismissed police misconduct lawsuits on grounds that there is no prior court decision with nearly identical facts.
The Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-discrimination laws protect gay and transgender employees. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s liberals in the 6 to 3 ruling. They said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination “because of sex,” includes LGBTQ employees.

• Alito, writing more than 100 pages in dissent for himself and Thomas, accused the court's majority of writing legislation, not law. Kavanaugh wrote separately: "We are judges, not members of Congress...Under the Constitution and laws of the United States, this court is the wrong body to change American law in that way."
  
• Just days before the SCOTUS opinion was released, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance. The SCOTUS ruling may make it easier to challenge the changes made by Trump.
  

The Supreme Court also declined to take up California’s “sanctuary” law, denying the Trump administration’s appeal. This means that the lower court opinion upholding one of California's sanctuary laws is valid, limiting cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the Court's conservative members, supported taking up the case.
A federal appeals court appeared unlikely Friday to stop a judge from examining why the Justice Department sought to walk away from its prosecution of Michael Flynn. "I don't see why we don't observe regular order," said Judge Karen Henderson. "Why not hold this in abeyance and see what happens?" Judge Robert Wilkins told Flynn's lawyer that if Sullivan doesn't let the government drop the case, "then you can come back here on appeal."

Other

Good read: Fiona Hill on being mistaken as a secretary by Trump, her efforts to make sure he was not left alone with Putin, and what the US, UK and Russia have in common. “It’s spitting in Merkel’s face,” said Vladimir Frolov, a former Russian diplomat who’s now a foreign-policy analyst. “But it’s in our interests.”

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry welcomed Trump’s plan to withdraw more than a quarter of U.S. troops from Germany.
  
• Op-Ed: Why cutting American forces in Germany will harm this alliance
  

According to a new book, the Secret Service had to seek more funding to cover the cost of protecting Melania Trump while she stayed in NYC to renegotiate her prenup - taxpayers paid tens of millions of dollars to allow her to get better terms. Additionally, NYPD estimated its own costs conservatively at $125,000 a day.
Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation. Long lines, lack of voting machines, and shortages of primary ballots plagued voters. As of Monday night, there were still over 200,000 uncounted votes.
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Fox News Mocked After Mistaking Monty Python Joke for Seattle Protest Infighting
In addition to holding a rally on the day after Juneteenth (originally scheduled the day of), Trump will be accepting the GOP nomination in Jacksonville on the 60th anniversary of “Ax Handle Saturday,” a KKK attack on African Americans.
Environmental news:

• Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.
  
• Trump administration has issued a new rule blocking tribes from protecting their waters from projects like pipelines, dams, and coal terminals.
  
• The EPA published a proposal in the Federal Register that critics described as an assault on minority communities coping with the public health legacy of structural racism. The rule would bar EPA from giving special consideration to individual communities that bear the brunt of environmental risks — frequently populations of color.
  
• The Trump administration is preparing to drill off Florida’s coast, but says it will wait until after the November election to avoid any backlash from Florida state leaders.
  

Immigration news

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection used emergency funding meant for migrant families and children to pay for dirt bikes, canine supplies, computer equipment and other enforcement related-expenditures… The money was meant to be spent on “consumables and medical care” for migrants at the border.
  
• ACLU files lawsuit against stringent border restrictions related to coronavirus that largely bar migrants from entering the United States.
  
• Under Trump’s leadership, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has mismanaged its finances so badly that it has sought an emergency $1.2 billion infusion from taxpayers. When Trump took office, USCIS inherited a budget surplus. A large amount of funding is drained by its deliberate creation of more busy work for immigrants and their lawyers — as well as thousands of USCIS employees. These changes are designed to make it harder for people to apply for, receive or retain lawful immigration status.
  
• Asylum-seeking migrants locked up inside an Arizona ICE detention center with one of the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases say they were forced to clean the facility and are 'begging' for protection from the virus
  
• ICE plans to spend $18 million on thousands of new tasers and the training to use them
  

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Demigod traits

• All of them are superhuman from the ReadRiordan website
• - ADHD gives them instincts, reflexes, and senses better than regular mortals TLT pg.93
• - Average demigod juggling limes sees them in slow-mo. DOA
• -Every demigod shown has showed that perceive things fast enough for time to slow down when they’re in combat situation, from Percy’s first fight with the Minotaur to Reyna seeing arrows move in slow motion it Annabeth seeing a lion pounce in slow-mo TLT ch.8,BOO,TSS
• - Average demigod archer can be compared to an Olympic gold medalist according to Apollo. TTT chapter 21
• - Magic resistance strong enough to not notice a sleep spell by Morpheus that simultaneously knocked out every person and machine in Manhattan. TLO chapter 9-10

Weapon

Anaklusmos/riptide is a 3 ft long sword with a leaf shaped blade. Made of celestial bronze that harms the divine and monstrous beings of the world along with mortals if the mortal is important enough such as Setne and Carter Kane, and it can even cut down ghouls and ghosts. It’s disguised as a pen that always returns to him and durable enough to survive full submersion in lava

• Celestial bronze is a powerful metal in which even just - small cuts can lead to immense pain SOM ch. 18 and- SOS pg.8
• - and has shown similar abilities to Imperial gold whose wounds can touch the soul and eat away a persons’ life force BOO ch.4
• -After being uncapped riptide releases in half a second TLO pg.158
• - Always returns to him at most in a few moments TLT pg. 160
• - Can deflect energy blasts. TLO ch.8

Strength/striking

• - In the first book as a 12 yo rips off the Minotaur horn with his bare hands. TLT pg.60
• - At 13 he beat down the 15 ft. Cyclops Polyphemus using the power of friendship. SOM ch.8 and pg.218-219 .
• Polyphemus was said to be the strongest of the species. - For reference Ma Gasket and her kids could throw trucks and being hit in the face with a 3 ton metal claw only made Ma Gasket mad TLH ch.24, so Percy had some force behind those hits
• -one shot a gorgon who were later shown able to tank getting hit by a truck in the fast lane of a highway SON ch.2
• - Cuts a stone fountain in half BOTL ch. 5
• -hits someone in the chest hard enough to send them flying SOM ch.19
• - Cuts trees big enough to crush human sized monsters and this was after having his heart pierced by an arrow. HOH ch.30
• - Easily cutting a nikette in half,who's a human sized woman made of metal BOO ch.12
• -clashes between Percy and Hyperion caused shockwaves and charged the air with ozone TLO ch.14
• Him and Kronos shake the entire Manhattan bridge with a single clash. TLO ch. 11 https://imgur.com/2nZ0kDD
• - For reference on his strength, Kronos was strong enough to easily rip down doors large enough to steer a cruise ship and smash them, and stomp a hole through a mountain TLO ch. 19
• - Percy and Jason shook the ground with their strikes. MOA ch.10
• - For reference on Jason,he was strong enough to deflect a blow from a giant capable of shaking an entire mountain, Mt. Diablo to be exact. TLH ch.42
• - Hit colossus a 100 ft. tall bronze statue, who was no selling electrical and fire attacks and boulders from a catapult, hard enough to stagger it THO pg. 330
• -easily blocking a minor god’s blows TSC -Impressive because minor gods still have general god powers including varying degrees of divine strength. Nero, the most minor was still strong enough to be three times stronger than someone who threw a car with enough force to crush a cyclops
• - Slammed, not pierced, the ice on the Hubbard Glacier and caused the whole thing to shake SON ch.46.While this feat may seem ridiculous, so is fighting enemies that can stomp holes through mountains, shake mountains, and even lift them. It also could have just been his geokinetic abilities, but either way it’s one of his best feats because the Hubbard Glacier is huge
• - Stopping King Prophyrion’s charge, a giant who was said could lift mountains. BOO ch.43 Not hyperbole because the - twin giants Otis and Ephialtes show that stronger Giants can lift and stack mountain one on top of the other. GG Ares ch. - His anti, Zeus also has a feat of lifting a mountain and slamming it on an enemy’s head. GG Zeus ch.Percy did this when he was still weakened from Tartarus
• - Jumped onto this wall SON ch.11 https://imgur.com/gallery/JYNYJaN
• - While weakened in Tartarus from the acidic air and other features of the place designed to kill non-monsters, Percy was able to grab Annabeth and jump several hundred yards. HOH ch.56 Notice the corpse complexion cause they are literally dying from just breathing

Lifting strength

• - The second time he fought the Minotaur he was 10 ft. tall in full armor and Percy was able to easily grab him and toss him off a bridge TLO ch. 11. If it weighs anything like a real bull, it’s in the same range as a car.
• - Percy catching the weight of a big spider monster and a car that had been falling under a dark gravitational force for a couple minutes MOA ch. 51.
• - He had a hold on a celedon who he said was as strong as the Minotaur. SOA pg.30 That’s impressive because the - Minotaur could throw a car down a road and it skid for half a mile TLT pg.56 https://pastebin.com/mbtl01iPMeand throw a limo 100 ft. into the air TLO ch. 11. Solid strength feat to hold on to someone that strong that’s trying to throw you off for a couple minutes
• - Withstood being pulled in by setne when he kinda made himself the new center of gravity. COP pg.6
• -Percy casually pushing aside the 10 foot long lid of Kronos’ golden sarcophagus with one hand. SOM ch.9, BOTL ch.16 To compare Kronos’ https://i.imgur.com/L3Cg7w5.jpg to real sarcophagus’ and to see why this is a feat at all King tut outermost coffin lid weighed 1.36 tons and was about 7.5 ft long The sarcophagus of Pakal the Great is close to 12 ft long made of stone weighed between 5-7 tons Since Kronos’ was made of gold Percy was easily moving several tons, maybe even in the low teens with ease.
• - He can scale to Thalia who pushed a boulder the size of a compact car up a 500 foot hill the length of a conversation although she did struggle. TSOH and GG Hades ch.

Combat Speed

• - Cut a volley of arrows out the air. SOM pg.133
• - Blocked point blank gunfire, Zoe and Bianca were shooting at that distance so the skeletons should be too, and raised his lion cost as a shield after six skeletons opened fire TTC ch.12 https://imgur.com/gallery/gyjrcUy. While he didn’t necessarily see the bullets, he could still perceive it showing he can perceive supersonic movements * - Kronos is so fast it’s like fighting 100 swordsmen at once and even then his adhd still made him aware of things around him albeit vaguely TLO ch.19
• - Percy and Jason fought so fast their blades blurred MOA ch.10
• - Soon after having his energy drained Percy was able to fight a Giant fast enough to react to cloud-to-ground lightning and Percy was still fast enough to move as a blur, although it was 2 vs.1 that they eventually lost MOA ch.44 and 48
• -Ares swinging down to slice him, but before the swing was completed he was able to jump over him and attempt a slash at his back Note that the water didn’t actually push him into the air because it’s never worked independently to help him in that way.
• - Percy moving fast enough to amaze Annabeth, who fought and tagged a vampire named Kelli who moves at blur speeds and had a fight sequence that lasted half a second HOH ch.7 and 16
• - Along with Frank and Hazel he was fast enough to kill a group of Karpoi who are grain spirits, SON ch.19, that are fast enough to cross several feet steal a box of matches and back before the person could finish blinking THO pg.290
• -Dodging, reacting, and killing Mrs. Dodds who’s fast enough to appear to materialize. TLT pg.10,15 Materialize is used several times to describe speed throughout the series from Percy such as
• -thinking the gods materializing thing is teleporting when they really just move so fast it appears that they teleport. TLO ch.9
• -Arion running so fast he materializes MOA ch.4
• -Keres, battlefield spirits, materializing. Percy took a couple of these spirits down till he was hit from behind TSOH pg.16 There’s some more, but you get the point ](https://textuploader.com/1pgzm)
• -Percy stomping an Amazon. An Amazon named Kinzie was able to move fast enough that Hazel’s eyes almost couldn’t follow. That’s great speed considering Hazel was able to albeit barely see her supersonic horse Arion run away at a speed she called faster than forked lightning. I had that exposition because Hazel described the Amazon that Percy fought moving her spear with lightning speed. The last thing Hazel used lightning in reference to speed was supersonic, and seeing as a fellow Amazon’s speed made Hazel react the same way she did to Arion, I’d say Percy casually stomped a supersonic opponent. SON ch.32
• - Killed six dog demons before they could make a sound. TLO pg.6

Scaling to a son of Athena * -Zane dodging the charge of a leonte that was fast enough to move down a hall as a flash of yellow, and move across an office in a flash DOA pg.25,42 * -Scaling to Annabeth who could dodge Kelli HOH ch.15 * -Who’s one of the fastest characters we’ve seen in the universe. She’s fast enough to blitz Rachel before riptide can even switch to sword form after being uncapped. BOTL ch.14 And from the lightning thief that it only takes half a second for the sword form to release, but Kelli moves faster * -Leo doing a backward somersault to dodge large rocks thrown at him at super speeds. TLH ch.43 * -Piper coming up from below a ridge to move fast enough to to be a blur of turquoise and black TLO ch.42 * -Jason deflecting lightning in a fight with a ventus he was tagged when he wasn’t ready to fight, so thishad nothing to do with being a son of Zeus cause he can be affected by lightning, This one needs context cause you could argue against it * -but venti are storm spirits. In PJO nature spirits obviously make up nature. From trees spirits to river spirits,they have humanoid forms, but are also literally a tree or river or flower. For this venti named Dylan his true form is a literal storm cloud along with the other venti that comes with him. Venti are literal thunderstorms because they are the thunderclouds. It’s not the same as characters like avatar characters that can generate lightning cause in this case the lighting is being generated by the actual cloud. * -Besides that feat he did dodge a charge of a venti who are fast enough to move only a little slower than Arion who’s supersonic BOO ch. 59

Movement speed

Only faster than above average mortals * - Ran 10 yards before Bianca could say anything. TTC ch.6 * - human magician in good shape struggling to keep up SOS pg.9 * - outpaced Sadie while holding a heavy object, COP pg.12 * - Apollo who had been turned mortal couldn’t keep up with Percy and Meg THO pg. 57

Durability/Endurance

• Took two shots from a nikette capable of throwing a metal wreath hard enough to bust a hole through a brick wall and was alright BOO ch.14 https://pastebin.com/jTd5qpcv
• - Kicked 30 ft by Ares TLT pg.341
• - Flung threw the air from a shockwave caused by a metallic warrior the size of a skyscraper TTC ch. 13
• -thrown across an arena by the giant Antaeus. BOTL ch.14 https://imgur.com/gallery/oxDm3j7 with no harm done to himself
• - Hit by a hellhound, who has been shown knocking down giants, but 12 y/o Percy only stumbles back and isn’t in any pain even though he had been badly cut. TLT pg.130
• - Hit by a magic/cannon ball from a laistrygonian giant who is strong enough to use flatten cars as shields and tree trunks as weapons.They’re also strong enough to send a dozen demigods flying like rag dolls with 1 hit. He got hit and was still able to dodge another ball thrown. SOM pg.17 and BOTL ch.18
• - Took some small explosions that left craters and was close to a little bigger one that destroyed a locker room SOM pg.18-19
• -A spell from Setne that made the ground explode, but Percy was able to stay on his feet while the ground was ruptured COP pg.20
• - Took a couple hits from they 15 ft. cyclops Polyphemus, who could hit hard enough to cause trenches SOM pg.218-228
• - Hit by Atlas who could send people flying,hit a superhuman so far that Percy didn’t even see where she landed, and his hits made fissures large enough to be leaped over. TTC ch.17
• - alongside Annabeth, they jumped off a 300 ft. cliff, landed on solid ground and kept running the moment they landed HOH ch.54 and 55 this was while in a weakened state
• - Hit with a blast of lightning from Jason who was possessed to kill him. Jason's best feat at that point was destroying a mansion while his powers were suppressed with one bolt MOA ch.10
• - Because of poison from a daimon(which can only be cured by a god) he could barely stand, was seeing yellow spots, nauseous , almost passed out from just walking, could barely move his body, and he was still able to fight the Titan Iapetus. TSOH pg.16-25
• - Hit by Ephialtes who’s stronger than another giant who can shake a mountain. TLH ch.42 While weaker than he once was, he used to lift mountains GG Ares ch. although Percy was hurt he could still fight. MOA ch.46
• - Backhanded by the Giant King Porphyrion though he was dazed and if attacked again he would have been helpless BOO ch. 43
• - Carter hit him with the Fist of Horus which team rocketed him. He got hit hard enough to fly out of Carter’s sight at “escape velocity” and knocked into “orbit’. He came back to win the fight. SOS pg. 6
• - In Tartarus, killing Arai brought pain and curses from the monsters he’d previously killed and he simultaneously felt the pain of an arrow piercing his heart, stab in the gut, among dozen others and it took gorgon's blood that disintegrates you to put him down, and even then he got up because he felt it would be a lame way to die. HOH ch.29
• - Tanked and breathed in a poison cloud that caused the ground to steam, air to burn, and dissolved his bag. HOH ch.48
• - Was in a cloud of plague mist by plague spirits which was capable of insta ko’ing a mortal THO pg.49
• His best feat is surviving Mt. St. Helen’s eruption from being in the heart of it. For comparison the 1980 explosion released 24 megatons. While he did almost die, that was more because of the energy drain than the explosion itself. He was actually still conscious and cognitive immediately following the explosion. It wasn’t till he was racing back down to Earth like a comet did he pass out. BOTL ch.11 and 12
• - Some explosions to scale. Luke and Thalia were in a building when it exploded. TDOLC pg.21
• - Jason survived an explosion that turned dirt and rock glassy and made a thirty foot deep crater,and he was the one holding the thing that exploded. TLH ch.43
• - Piper,Leo,Jason being knocked out of the sky about airplane height, with Jason trying to slow them down until he couldn’t TLH ch.22 https://imgur.com/gallery/Pu4d6K4 Piper hurt her ankle, but Jason and Leo were fine.
• -Annabeth fighting a lion/wolf/crab hybrid monster who’s aura alone ko’ed a bunch of mortals in the vicinity. She took three red energy wave blasts, with the last one destroying a train and blasting her 50 yards away. She got back up not too long after SOS pg. 10-14

Agility

• - Jumps 7 ft. In the air (Minotaur height) and turns in mid air to land on its neck TLT pg.59
• - Leapt ninja style. SOS pg.6
• - Agile enough for Carter to think he practices gymnastics. SOS pg.14
• - rolling around and somersaulting. SON ch. 12
• - Impressed Apollo with an athletic display.THO pg.330
• - Pushed from the top of Times Tower, during the fall grabs a ledge and flips back on. TSOA
• - Easily jumped from plane to plane in a museum TTC pg.145 the graphic novel omitted that part of scene but this is the museum https://imgur.com/gallery/no1wCIE
• -jumped up a giants body and swung from the chains on the roof to tie him up with the agility of a crazed monkey BOTL ch.14

Mist control

The mist is the uppermost layer of the Duat which is the realm of magic. It’s the reason mortals don’t see anything out of the ordinary when dealing with the magical. Someone who can control it can alter memories, appearances, summon weapons, make creatures to fight for you, hide objects even if they’re directly in-front of you, create illusions, and teleport. Though he’s not very good at it Percy has shown the ability to make small illusions and hide in plain sight

• - Makes a cop see a presidential motorcade. TSOA
• - Hides their descending ship. MOA ch.31

Magic

• - A warding off evil gesture that sent Gabe flying. Demigod also have natural potential to use magic TLT pg.40

Heat resistance

• - Lava setting him on fire felt warm and first but it quickly started hurting. BOTL ch.11
• - Full submersion and not melting BOTL ch.11 catching me up and blasting me downward into the lava.
• - The air turning into a blast furnace cause magic, knocking out mortals, melting pavement, and quickly rising to the point Percy was afraid Midtown would burn down. TSOA
• -possibly tanked a fire blast from the chimera that melted metal TLT ch.13,14 I said possibly because it’s not clear if he dove into the fire or away from it, but it mentions his clothes and whole body being on fire during the scene.

Magic resistance

• - Didn’t notice a spell that slept millions of mortals and technology TLO ch.9 and 10
• - Carter's magic attack didn’t work. SOS pg.6
• - celedon capable of affecting several thousand through song although he had wax here it melted and the rest of the time he was vulnerable to her magic, he was able to resist later on the roof. TSOA
• - Celadon sang a song to make people on Times Square dance but Percy actively resisted it showing that he can force his way through magic if his passive resistance doesn't hold. TSOA
• - Broke the celadon’s spell that was used to make him lose his resolve. TSOA
• - Setne put a fall spell on him meaning he couldn’t get up without falling back down, but he was able to break it to avoid another spell. COP pg. 6
• - Breaks a time spell inflicted by Kronos by using his water powers TLO pg.10

Mental defense

• - Didn’t have his mind torn to shreds by his father though it almost was. TLO ch. 17

Intelligence

• - After being at Camp Jupiter for about 15 minutes, he deduced why the fifth cohort was so hated and how they lost their eagle impressing Hazel SON ch.8
• - Annabeth, daughter of Athena the goddess of wisdom, says he’s smarter than he lets on TDD. pg.71
• - First to figure out Ares stole the bolt and that he had help from Kronos. TLT pg. 334-337
• - Comes up with good plans even if unorthodox TTC pg.146

Combat feats

• - While it’s just a spar against Luke he hit a move that takes others years to learn with his first try. TLT pg.116
• - Untrained Percy fight the Minotaur for the first time a monster trained since birth to kill that even Theseus one of the greatest heroes and co-inventor of pankration(mma) had trouble TLT pg.60

Percy vs Ares * - Although Ares wasn’t taking him seriously it’s still impressive for a week trained 12 y/o especially since Ares seems to have battle precog because he knew where Percy was attacking before he even did it. Also shows how his adhd lets him see how his opponents tense, so he knows where the attack is gonna come from. TLT pg.341-344 * - After a year he’s considered one of the best swordsman in the last hundred years, cabins of super humans don’t work him out and he wishes he could fight the war gods cabins SOM ch.6 * - Curse Percy vs. Minotaur TLO ch.11 * - Against Carter he showed to be quick and strong, and while it was completely one-sided, he still told Carter he did better against him than most others SOS pg.5-6 * -Beating up the 1st and 2nd cohort of Camp Jupiter. Lots of rolling and flipping showing a very active and athletic fighting style SON ch.12 * -Easily beats Magnus,son of Frey, in hand to hand combat TSTD ch.1 While Magnus isn’t much of a fighter, he’s still capable of ripping a 20 ft. long lamppost out the ground and jump 60 ft. vertically. Percy’s trained in unarmed combat at Camp and this is one of the few times he does

Will

• - Held the sky. TTC ch.17
• - resisted Medusa who has charmspeak which is a power that makes people do as their told no matter what it is and food that puts you in a trance and even looking at her through a reflection is tough TLT pg.187-191 and GG ch.1
• resisted lotus casino which is a place that distorts time and makes you never want to leave TLT pg.269-272
• Thalia’s shield aegis has a power that makes everyone freeze up and move away from it, sometimes run, but Percy resisted the feeling

Aegis feats

• - Dr.Thorn, a powerful monster was scared of it. TTC ch.2
• - Aegis scares all the campers during capture the flag. TTC ch.6
• - The Nemean lion, a legendary monster due to its invulnerability was affected. TTC pg.146
• - Luke being afraid of it and even running away. DOLC pg.13-16
• - Thalia making monsters run away. TTC ch. 17
• - Luke scared during a fight with her TTC ch.17
• - Percy resisting aegis' power TTC ch.6

Important to note that- while using his powers does drain him over time, the amount he's drained is pretty overstated. His storm powers are the only ones that drain him, in the way that he'll feel physically tired from it, but being to able to use his water powers at a high level is never affected especially considering his best feat occured after prolonged use of his storm powers.

Hydrokinesis

• - 2nd time ever using his powers and blasts some toilets to send people out a room TLT pg.96-97
• - Says wave and a wave comes to drag a boar into the sea TLT pg.339
• - Unaffected from long falls into water. TLT pg.220-221
• - Can stay dry and dry things TLT pg.221
• - Made a jet stream for himself. SOM ch.13
• - Made an air bubble for Annabeth the breathe underwater, this was his first time doing that and does it with ease later. SOM pg.197
• - Moves fast enough a normal human would pop TLO ch.1
• - Makes giant water hands to grab gorgons who were trying to fly away and he smashed them, then created a whirlpool for each so they couldn’t reform SON ch2. The graphic novel changed the scene, but visuals always help https://imgur.com/gallery/8MU7UBy
• - Makes a water shield to protect himself from a thousand projectiles fired at him by two river gods TLO ch.10
• - Sent water up 3 stories high TLO ch.1
• - Under a time spell he was able to make a cruise ship lurch sideways and use the water in a pool simultaneously TLO ch.1
• - Sunk a ship MOA ch. 31
• - Lifts a ship up Ft. Sumter while making a storm MOA ch.20
• - Blew up a bunch of water cannons. SON ch.12 https://imgur.com/gallery/x1puXmV
• - Detonates cannon balls. SON ch.36
• - Supports several tons easily and used them as a weapon SON ch.50
• - Causally bursts irrigation tank, and pipes while surrounded by plague smoke like the one knocking Lester out, he still busts a pipe. THO pg.57
• -willed a column of water from a pond to put out flames of fire breathing horses TSC
• -Rides a wave SOM ch.16
• -Rides a waterspout and blasts a sea serpent with 10,000 gallons TSC Basically doing this https://tenor.com/view/fire-avatar-korra-gif-9239739
• - Lifts a creek right after being blasted by lightning TTC pg.88-89
• Makes a whirlpool using a 40 foot crocodile’s own sweat to encompass a cul de sac moving pretty fast too SOS pg.16
• - Kept 3 demigods trapped in water and said he’d let them go when they were safe enough distance away MOA ch.19
• - Sensed pipes under an arena and burst them,a d kept a giant in a whirlpool so he couldn’t reform MOA ch.48
• - Pulled water from half a mile away quickly to rush a forest. BOTL ch.18
• - Solidified water to run on. TLO ch.14
• - Solidified water from Long Island to Staten Island. TSC
• - Trapped in an aquarium tank used for containing demigods and not allowing use of their powers, but he was able to over power it and use them anyway MOA ch.16
• Command water from thousands of pipes causally summoning millions of gallons to quickly drown a factory. TSH https://textuploader.com/1gmmo
• - Destroyed several hundred acres of the Hubbard Glacier SON ch.46 and a camp three times this one https://imgur.com/gallery/0rTkc1f
• - Overwhelms a goddess’ control of poison and fumes while weakened in Tartarus HOH ch.48
• - Controls a magical river that’s fighting him while poisoned, even staying dry in it. TSOH pg. 11
• - Controls liquid fire. HOH ch.70
• - Stalemating the goddess of storms who was summoning waves the size of skyscrapers although she said it was only a little of what she could do. BOO ch.25 The giant water hands must have been pretty big to stop waves that size. Also just pushed a massive wave to the side, even more impressive is that he was weakened this whole book
• - Shoots a rock back to his hand BOO ch.10
• -Percy controlling a poison waterfall with his will while fighting a giant. Son ch. 50 Oh and just being in the area around this Giant was weakening him
• - Controls sweat SOS pg.23
• - Pulls water out of a person’s lungs MOA ch.44
• - A goddess crying from poison, so Percy imagines water filling up her nose and throat which it does and chokes her with her own tears HOH ch.48
• - Burst arteries of a primordial, but it’s weird since his blood is magical rivers but it’s still his blood HOH ch.54
• - Popping blood vessels HOH ch.71

Water healing

• - Heals from a huge cut quickly. TLT pg.129
• - Heals from cuts from a hellhound instantly. TLT pg.130
• - Had poison in his veins from the chimera that was quickly killing, but upon contact with water he healed. TLT pg.219-220

Water amp

• - Pouring a water bottle on himself made him stronger TLT pg. 115
• - Stronger after being pushed into a creek to fodderize the Ares cabin who were just beating him up and heals from spear wound TLT pg.126-128
• - Felt amazing after beating Nereus in water TTC ch.15
• - Rejuvenated against setne COP pg.30

Hydrogenesis

• - Because Texas was under water millions of years ago it left ancient sea urchins and shells that he can bring water out of meaning that he could summon water from any place that was underwater and has remnants of the sea. BOTL ch.9
• - Makes a tidal wave inside a volcano and him releasing his (at the time) full power triggers it to erupt BOTL ch.11. The graphic novel of course changed the scene,but I like visuals https://imgur.com/gallery/vot7cBt
• - Makes a geyser. TLO ch.10. Scene of course changed a little bit, but notice the cars sent flying https://imgur.com/gallery/VBFjsVS
• -channeled his power through a magical cornucopia that caused water to blast from it MOA ch.44
• - Makes a geyser that shoots in the sky and it’s important to note that the earth was very powerful there and that even Poseidon would have a hard time summoning water and shows he could blast at a distance BOO ch.43

Strom Generation

• - Covers 20 yards, puts out Hyperion’s fire attacks, knocks javelins and arrows away, becomes stronger to cause rain and lightning, and blew Hyperion across a field.TLO ch.14
• - Holds back a hundred undead Roman demigods, - icy in nature, and destroys these buildings . SON ch.46
• - Covers a cul de sac and moves cars, makes it hard to see for Carter, and makes a 40 foot crocodile that’s as tall as a delivery truck lose its footing and move around in a circle with a whirlpool he made simultaneously. SOS pg.17
• -working with Jason, they kept a storm up for two hours MOA ch.20,21

Geokinesis

• - Causes an earthquake on a bridge that knocks people down, breaks off chunks the size of houses, creates a fifty foot chasm in a few seconds TLO ch.11
• -Shaking the entire Hubbard glacier could have been through geokinesis SON ch.46 Glacier ice is a type of rock, so it’s possible it was through this. Hazel, a fellow Big 3 demigod, was able to sink an island, so I’d say the upper limits of a Big 3 demigod can go pretty high.

Other powers

• - Talks to fish, horses, zebras and Pegasus’ ,TLT pg. 264,280 SOM ch.16 SON ch.25
• - Fish help him beak an illusion. TSC
• - Sees hot and cold currents. TLT pg.280
• - Has infrared vision while in water TTC ch.8
• - Like a human gps in water. SOM ch.10
• - Controls ships with his mind. SOM pg.185 and ch.15 *-Smells gorgons that were in a forest from a hundred yards away.SON pg.1 *-Sees Kronos smile from a quarter mile away TLO ch.11
• -can sense fear, hate,evil, danger, presence of powerful beings and more TLO ch.2/10, TTC ch.1, SOM ch.8/9/18/19, SON ch.1/18 HOh ch.32/45

Wolf stare

A glare he learned from his mama wolf Lupa that scares people. It’s kinda like his bat-glare
● Scares a gang SON ch. 16 ● Makes Leo,a fellow demigod, tremble MOA pg.46 ● Scares Piper BOO ch.19

Animal friends

• - Blackjack a fast Pegasus that can fly from Long Island to Kansas in a few minutes at most MOA ch. 10
• - Cruises at a 100 mph, TTC pg.111
• In The Lost Hero two Pegasus’ carrying a chariot and five people flew form the Grand Canyon to Long Island at super speeds TLH ch.3 https://textuploader.com/1g2o0
• - Mrs. O’Leary a hellhound bigger than a tank BOTL ch.2
• - barks can shake an arena, BOTL ch.2
• - sends a giant into a wall and throws a vampire through the air. BOTL ch.14
• - shakes the ground by flopping down, knocks down trees with her tail. TLO ch.6
• - knocked a 200 foot long drakon the height of a school bus off the side of a building. TLO ch. 16 from the TLO graphic novel https://imgur.com/gallery/FfngbAe
• - easily throws a giant. TLO ch. 15
• - can teleport long distances such as Long Island to Connecticut using shadows TLO ch.6 https://textuploader.com/1g2oz and without shadows THO pg.328,330

Curse of Achilles

user gains invulnerability, increased fighting prowess, but one weak spot that can only be pierced, and even a nick is enough to kill

• - electrocution does not work to kill although it does hurt TLO ch.19
• - Kronos under the curse survived an explosion that destroyed a cruise ship TLO ch.1
• - Percy didn’t feel hundreds of bullets TLO ch.8 from the TLO graphic novel https://imgur.com/gallery/MlyRYmI
• - Percy blasted 300 yards with a force attack that would have broken every bone without the curse TLO ch.14

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Percy merged with the Egyptian vulture goddess Nekhbet granting him a few more abilities

• - Thousands of years worth of memories and knowledge COP pg.24
• - See multiple layers of reality COP pg. 25
• - Enhanced strength COP pg.25
• - Vulture avatar that gave him flight and protection from attacks strong enough to destroy a soccer field COP pg.27-29

Claiming Answers

General Info/Personality

Name: Jacklyn Anderson Blazkowicz
Aliases: Kelly Maxwell, Slayer, Slasher
Birthdate: November 19, 2016
Age: 18
Birthplace: Las Vegas, Nevada
Theme
 
"Violence solves everything, every time." -Jacklyn.
 
Personality: Jacklyn is a very carefree adrenaline junkie. She’s extremely snarky and usually doesn’t care whose feelings she hurts. However, when she has a job to do, she can become extremely focused and almost unstoppable in the face of her goal. Despite her callousness, Jacklyn can be compassionate to people she is close to and will do almost anything for them.
 
Sexuality: Bisexual
 
Relationship Status: Single?
 
Hobbies: Playing games, watching movies, playing/listening to music, fighting/sparring, cooking/baking.

Family

Father - Ares
 
Mother - Nora Anderson
 
Adopted Sister - Maxine Anderson

Appearance

Height: 5’4” (1.63 m)
Weight: ~125 lb (~56.7 kg)
Skin Tone: Pale White
Eye Color: Brown, Electric Purple (Right Eye, Contact Lens), Storm Grey (Left Eye, Contact Lens)
 
Hair: White, swept to the left, messy
 
Description: Jacklyn is fairly skinny and lean, with a smaller bust and somewhat wide hips. She usually has a mildly amused expression on her face.
 
Notable Features: Jacklyn’s ears have been surgically pointed, giving her a slightly more unnatural appearance. She also has tattoos of dragons snaking around her right arm (and the remains of her left arm), with their open maws parallel to the webbing between her thumb and index finger.
 
Notes: Her left forearm/hand is missing from below the elbow down, replaced by a wooden arm that doesn’t move. The hand can be detached and replaced with a blade, which was created after melting down her left gauntlet.

Equipment

Apparel: Jacklyn wears a black and pink motorcycle jacket over a dark grey and white Japanese-style school uniform with an exposed midriff and a white scarf/necktie. She wears a belt over the pleated skirt that has pouches attached to it. She wears black thigh-highs with garters, and black, high, leather, platform motorcycle boots, bringing Jacklyn to 5’7” (1.70 m). Jacklyn also wears a black leather collar around her neck. She has a small black bag slung across her back with a crowbar secured to it. She has a pistol holster (empty) under her jacket’s left underarm and a knife sheath strapped to her right thigh. Around her neck is a chain with a pair of dog tags, as well as a necklace with a pendant in the shape of half of a heart.
 

Weapons:

Hand Blade - A foot-long blade that can be used to replace a prosthetic hand. Available in celestial bronze or tempered steel.
 
Clawed Gauntlet - A celestial bronze gauntlet with sharpened claws designed for tearing through enemies.
 
Knife - A Buck 120 knife. A gift.
 
Crowbar - A piece of black, curved metal.
 
Sledgehammer - A large hammer designed for heavy blows. The head has been dipped in celestial bronze.
 
Collapsible Batons - A pair of high-quality metal collapsible batons.

Powers/Skills

Godly Powers

Passive:
Combat/Weapon Expertise - Jacklyn can easily understand how to use and become proficient with any weapon in a short period of time.
 
Unique:
Ability to Summon a Weapon - Jacklyn can summon a pair of celestial bronze gauntlets that automatically wrap around her hand(s), where the fingertips are sharpened to make it easier to grab an enemy and deal damage.
 
Ability to Disarm Opponents - Jacklyn can loosen her opponent’s grip on their weapon, making an opening for Jacklyn to either knock it out of their hand or snatch it.
 
Physically Enhanced - Jacklyn’s body is built to take and deal punishment, all while having high stamina and flexibility to dodge and weave around any fight.
 

Skills

Punch and Reave - Growing up fighting people on the streets has taught Jacklyn various things about fighting dirty and using nearly anything as a weapon.
 
Urban Evasion - Jacklyn is adept at navigating herself through the air, allowing her to travel somewhat vertically by using her environment, as well as allowing her to mitigate some of the impact when landing.
 
Stealth Girl - Late nights performing reconnaissance on rival gangs has conditioned Jacklyn to be able to sneak around and be nearly undetectable, as well as resist the effects of exhaustion.
 
Quick Fix - Jacklyn’s nimble fingers allow her to dress various wounds in the heat of combat which will help people get back into the fight, but not as a lasting treatment.

Backstory

Jacklyn was born to a single mother in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her mother, Nora Anderson, was an ex-soldier who was working in private security in a casino who met the war god Ares after settling an altercation. They dated for a period of time in which Jacklyn was conceived, and shortly after, Ares revealed who he was to Nora and what Jacklyn was. Ares informed Nora of a camp that Jacklyn was to be sent to once she was old enough, before leaving Nora to care for the then-unborn Jacklyn. Months later, knowing Vegas was no place to raise a child, Nora took Jacklyn and moved to Austin, Texas, where Jacklyn grew up.
 
Jacklyn’s childhood was incredibly average, where she made a few friends and attended public school. Despite her mother’s background, Jacklyn never had much respect for authority. At school, she would always challenge her teachers and any of the other students that dared stand in her way. This led to a slew of detentions, suspensions, and the occasional expulsion, which caused tension between Jacklyn and her mother. When Jacklyn was around ten years old, her mother decided that they were ready to accept another person into their family, someone for Jacklyn to help care for and hopefully become less oppositional because of it. They adopted a seven-year-old girl named Maxine, who Jacklyn immediately felt a bond with.
 
Jacklyn began to behave a little better after this, wanting to be a better example for her new sister. However, this did not necessarily mean she was well-behaved; her delinquency was less frequent but just as intense. Her continued rebelliousness escalated tensions at home, particularly with her mother. Despite this, not all of Jacklyn’s actions were purely selfish or to spite any perceived authority. She would make it a point to threaten anyone that would bully, harass, or otherwise bother her little sister, and she would occasionally follow-up with these threats. Jacklyn’s overprotectiveness helped strengthen the bond with her sister, leading to them becoming very close.
 
Jacklyn shared almost everything she enjoyed with her sister, and this made it considerably more painful when she left. At age fifteen, Jacklyn left home, finding herself dissatisfied with falling grades she didn’t care about, constant reprimands for her behavior, and general lack of action where she lived. Over the course of a month, Jacklyn traveled north, hitchhiking and sneaking onto trains and other large vehicles. She eventually found herself in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she lived on the streets for a few weeks.
 
Life on the streets was difficult, where Jacklyn had to constantly evade the police and find ways to make or steal money. What didn’t help was the constant threat of these various creatures that no-one else seemed to see. During an altercation with one of these creatures, Jacklyn accidentally summoned a pair of clawed celestial bronze gauntlets which she used to kill the creature. As the creature disintegrated, she collected one of the teeth, which could be identified as a hellhound tooth. One night, Jacklyn crossed paths with a young woman only four years older than her named Suzie who could also see the monsters.
 
Suzie was a college freshman with a feeling of restlessness she couldn’t seem to shake. She eventually invited Jacklyn to help form a gang, to give Suzie some form of purpose and to get Jacklyn off of the streets. Jacklyn accepted and met two of Suzie’s friends: Martin and Floyd. Martin had familial connections with a larger criminal syndicate and was desperate to strike out on his own; Floyd was an enigma, only known to be a discharged soldier just looking for an enemy to fight. Jacklyn, Suzie, and Floyd, led by Martin, formed a small gang known as the Saints. Other names were considered, but the name was agreed upon after several discussions and originated from one of Jacklyn’s favorite games.
 
Jacklyn’s first mission as a “Saint” was a simple stick-up at a convenience store where Jacklyn’s gun was loaded with blanks. However, this went south quickly as a few members of a rival gang arrived to collect protection money. Jacklyn barely escaped from the fight, only suffering a single bullet wound in the shoulder and a twisted ankle. Following this incident, Suzie helped Jacklyn recover and Floyd taught her basic medical skills to help treat injuries in the middle of combat. Jacklyn then received combat training to avoid a repeat of this incident.
 
Over the next two years, the Saints’ influence grew, as did its membership. Jacklyn grew more experienced with every new “mission” and got closer personally to the other founding members, Suzie in particular. Being Jacklyn’s first friend in Grand Rapids, Suzie was always different from the others in Jacklyn’s eyes. Jacklyn began to develop feelings towards her and eventually confessed. Luckily, Suzie reciprocated her feelings and the two became official. This closer relationship finally gave Jacklyn someone she felt comfortable being vulnerable around, the first one since her little sister. After a street brawl was interrupted by a manticore targeting Jacklyn, Jacklyn had her left forearm bitten off. Barely killing the monster, Jacklyn refused to see anyone besides Suzie while she recovered.
 
Months later, Jacklyn was ready to go out again and support the Saints. She received a wooden arm as a “welcome back” present, and found herself back on the “front lines”. However, Suzie being the only one Jacklyn ever interacted with caused some tension in their relationship, as well as some mistakes Jacklyn made during missions. Eventually, the tension rose enough for Jacklyn and Suzie to have a huge argument before a mission, which ended with Suzie expressing her desire to end the relationship.
 
The mission itself went decently well until a rival gang ambushed the Saints. During the resulting chaos, a distraught Jacklyn snuck back to the Saints headquarters and packed some of her things. Without leaving a note, she took her car and left. She found herself wandering, but felt something drawing her east. During her travels, she met a kid named Riley who accompanied her until they arrived at Camp Half-Blood.

Now (Co-written with u/Arken-99 and u/hiyakushi)

 
A gunmetal gray Mustang drives down a back road in Long Island.
 
“Kel-ly, I have to go!” a young redhead whines to the driver.
 
The white-haired driver grits her teeth and clenches her hand on the wheel. “For fuck’s sake! Why the hell didn’t you go before we left!?”
 
“Buuut I didn’t have to go then.”
 
“Riley, I swear to fuck-” Jacklyn cuts herself off. “Count to four, inhale,” she mutters to herself, taking a breath.
 
Riley begins inhaling loudly, all the while squirming in their seat.
 
Jacklyn glares at Riley. “Riley, I am going to fucking kick you out of this car so hard that it’ll make Hereditary look like the damn Teletubbies!”
 
“Kale, PLEASE!!!” Riley gives Jacklyn a pleading look. “There are some trees right there.”
 
“Fine!” Jacklyn yells, exasperated. “You’re lucky I don’t want your piss on my seats-” She pauses, looking at something in the distance. “Hey look, there’s someone out there. Maybe they know where a bathroom is.”
 
The car cruises to a stop next to the person. Jacklyn rolls down one of the car’s windows.
 
“Hey!” she says. “You know where a bathroom is? This dipshit needs to take a piss.”
Felix was out on another one of his daily walks around the camp. This time, he decided to venture a little closer to the camp’s gate than usual. With his luck, there were probably going to be more new arrivals that were going to arrive at the camp any second now…
 
His musings were answered rather quickly when he hears someone call out to him from outside the camp gate.
 
“Um, are you talking to me?” he asks, pointing a finger to himself. But he was inside the gate! They shouldn’t have been able to see him! Unless… Felix quickly walks up to one of the camp gate’s posts and leans against it, watching the new arrivals closely.
 
Jacklyn looks around. “Uh, yeah?” she says. “There’s like, no-one else here.”
 
“Well, besides me!” Riley interjects.
 
“Shut the hell up!” Jacklyn snaps. She turns back to Felix. “Sorry about that.”
 
“A-ah, I see,” he stammers out. Well, he might as well help them out since they oh-so-conveniently showed up right in front of him. “Uh, who’s the person that needs to go?” he asks, trying to peer into the car. Well, it’s not like he could see much anyway.
 
“Me!” Riley frantically waves their hand.
 
“Them,” Jacklyn jerks her thumb towards Riley.
 
“Please! I really, really need to go!” Riley stares at Felix trying to project their shear desperation.
 
Felix blinks a little in surprise due to the kid’s, uh, desperation. He opens his mouth to start giving the young red-head some directions, but he stops himself. Well, let’s test out if they really are demi-gods or not. He flashes a brilliant smile at them. “Oh, could you come up here to the top of the hill? It’s a lot easier if I just showed you rather than told you,” he lies smoothly.
 
“Fine. Whatever,” Jacklyn responds. She begins to drive her car up the hill.
 
Felix dashes off to the side when he sees the other girl start to drive up the hill. Shit, I didn’t mean like that! he thinks, slumping a little against one of the gate’s posts. He takes a breath and walks back over to where the car eventually stops.
 
“Okay, so now what?” Jacklyn asks.
 
“No time! Bathroom now!” Riley shouts.
 
“Don’t piss on my seats!” Jacklyn yells.
 
Felix strolls over to the redhead’s window, pointing off to the cabin area. “Okay, you see those cabins over there? The bathrooms are in that building on the path to the lake over there. Did you get that?”
 
“Yup!” Riley shouts as they practically dive out of the car, sprinting off in the direction of the arena.
 
“No!” Felix yells out after him. “The other way!” he says while pointing again. Well, there’s that mystery solved, he sighs internally.
 
“Thank you!!” Riley shouts before changing directions, leaving a dust cloud in their wake.
 
“Fuckin’ finally,” Jacklyn grumbles as she steps out of her car and begins to rummage in the backseat.
 
Felix turns to look at the girl that just stepped out of the car. He couldn’t see her before, due to the car’s tinted windows-- Wait. He quickly covers the sinister grin that was growing on his face with his hand. He couldn’t believe it. It was this girl again.
 
Caught in her thoughts, a white-haired girl collided with Felix. She turned quickly and looked down at the person she had knocked over.
 
“Shit, my bad,” she said as she offered a hand out to the boy. “Sorry ‘bout that.”
 
“It’s no problem, really,” Felix replied, taking her hand. “I just wasn’t paying attention to where I was going.”
 
“Nah,” the girl responded, pulling the boy up. “That was on me.” She quickly checked her watch. “Shit,” she muttered. “I gotta go. I’ll see you around.”
 
Jacklyn pauses, feeling somebody staring at her. She looks up at Felix. “What?” she asks. “What’s so funny?”
 
Felix gives her a warm smile. “Oh, nothing,” he replies as he walks over to her car. It’s her. It’s really her. I have to make her stay! She’ll be so useful again. “I was just admiring your car here,” he says as he drags his fingers delicately over the roof of the car. He then infuses the car with about as much bad luck as he could muster. Sure, he felt a little sorry for the kid that just ran off, but oh well. There were more important things at hand. “It’s pretty nice, where did you get it?” he asks casually, now leaning against the hood.
 
Fuckin’ weirdo, Jacklyn thinks to herself. “Watch the paint. It was a gift from my-” she cuts herself off. “Ex-girlfriend.” She looks wearily at the boy, knitting her eyebrows. “Have we met? You seem familiar.”
 
“No, I don’t think we have,” he lies smoothly. “I think I would have remembered someone as… interesting... as you.” Well, it was a good thing he had some experience at poker tables. He really didn’t want her to find out too quickly. Knowing what was likely going to happen next, he gets up and steps slightly away from the car.
 
“Uh-huh,” Jacklyn says, unimpressed. Suddenly, a loud bang! erupts from the hood of Jacklyn’s car. “Mother fucker!” Jacklyn shouts, dashing to the hood. As she pops open the hood, a pillar of black smoke billows out from the engine of the car.
 
“Son of a bitch!” Jacklyn yells, kicking the bumper of her car. “Stupid fucking piece of shit!”
 
Felix suppresses a giggle as he nonchalantly walks up to see the damage he caused. “Wow, that looks pretty bad,” he remarks. “Yeah, that might take a while to fix, huh? Well, lucky for you, there happens to be a few spare parts you could use for your car here in the camp!”
 
“Camp?” Jacklyn asks. “What camp?”
 
“You know,” he says, casually pointing a finger at the camp sign, which read “Camp Half-Blood”. “The one you just drove into?”
 
“Oh.” Jacklyn stared at the sign. “That camp.”
 
“Mhmm,” he hums in response, nodding his head. He looks off at the direction of the dining pavilion, coming up with an excuse to leave quickly. “Well, sorry to say this, but I promised I’d meet a friend over at the dining hall,” he says as he points and turns away. “Go ahead and ask around for directions if you get lost!” He then walks away, cackling silently to himself. Have fun, okay? he thinks as he glances back quickly. I know I will.
 
What a prick. Jacklyn slams her car’s hood shut. A camp, huh? she thought as she leaned against her car. She reaches into her bag and pulls out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. She lights one and brings it to her lips, taking a drag from it. As she blows out smoke, she surveys the camp before her.
 
“Groovy.”