Zeus McCartney
Faceclaim: Caity Lotz
Species: Half-Blood Nephilim
Age: Looks 27 | Real 30
Status: Warrior; In The Community
Family: None

When Nephilim Joseph McCartney was young, he didn’t have much to his name and although he didn’t care about that when it came to himself, he wished he could offer his future legacy a better life. The woman he had fallen in love with could do just that, she was a Phoenix, a winged being that could manipulate fire by the name of Peggy Jensen. Peggy reigned from Manchester, England and had travelled alone south to Oxford where she first met Joe, running a fresh produce vegetable stall in a farmers market one Sunday afternoon.

Joe was a simple man, a farmer and a poet that was not searching for the thrills in life like many men his age. That was due to the fact that the thrills in life often found him instead and Peggy was no exception. Over many dates of strolls down river banks and picnics in fields, she had told him what she was and the way of her people. That they had recently been at war with the Initia in the last 5 years and were currently in hiding from those that wanted their life.

Peggy also mentioned how the leader of her kind, Gretil Tilbury had mentioned in a letter to her that they were going to take refuge with another Phoenix clan in America in a place called Evermore City. She then explained how she was on her way there so she too could be protected but now, she didn’t want to leave. That she wanted to stay with Joseph.

Fast forward a few years and the pair were married, living in a farmhouse with a child named Zeus, who had black scars along her back. Zeus was an inquisitive child, always shoving things in her mouth and playing in the dirt with the worms and other creepy crawlies. In school, she liked the action figures over the barbies and could hold her own in any fight with the boys. She never quite understood girls and was always nervous around them for that reason.

It was no surprise when she gained the Teiwez Rune when she was eight years old. The warrior rune appeared in a peculiar place, on the underside of her right knee. Warrior, this rune lets you know that life is in a constant state of flux and you have to be prepared for the changes that do occur. Understanding what makes you tick is the message that comes with this rune, you have to look deep within and learn to cut away the thinking that is no longer necessary to you, embrace change, embrace growth. Of course, it also had it’s negative connotations for you to look at your behaviour, are you behaving appropriately or do you have some adapting to do, be honest as you look at yourself. Zeus would struggle with the true meaning of this rune for the remainder of her life.

When it came to academics, Zeus was never quite top of the class but she was always high up grade-wise. She cared more about education then she did exams and in general, wasn’t always a great test taker. Zeus had a lucky charm for those situations, a medallion she kept around her neck at all times. Her mother, of course, had the matching one even though Zeus tended to be closer to her father than her mother. Always helping out around the farm, harvesting crops and herding sheep together the two McCartney’s were rather fond of each other. The crops yield was always higher when her mother wasn’t around to tend to them as she would often manage to somehow set the grain field on fire.

In college, she studied Agricultural Science and History, where she had a keen interest in the art of war. Zeus was also an active participant in student life, where she joined clubs like; Vintage Car Fanatics and Motorcycles 101 where she learned skills in being a mechanic. In order to keep her place in school and to pay off college loans, she worked in areas of Security for a local big-brand mega clothing store.

This was where Zeus started to look after her appearance more, although she was still clueless when it came to the whole make-up thing. She started branching out into other styles of clothes although skirts and dresses would take some time getting used to especially when it came to what way to sit and even then she still thought they were rather uncomfortable.

One day, during training for the college track team, Zeus was approached by one of the cheer squad. A girl named Tiphanie who she later learned was majoring in Photography and Journalism. Tiphanie had asked her if she was free that afternoon to talk and take some athletic pictures. Thinking it was something she was going to ask multiple people on the various sports teams, Zeus agreed. When she turned up to the agreed location, Tiphanie and herself were the only two there.

Tiphanie explained that she wanted to do a think piece on athletic girls modelling. As in the media, a lot of models never seemed to have much muscle mass as Zeus had. Hesitantly being coaxed into it, she agreed to model for Tiphanie. Over the long days and nights of varying photoshoots, the two became close. This was the first girl Zeus had become comfortable around and was the first person she had kissed.

After that, she avoided Tiphanie and never really heard from her again. Trying to busy herself with school work, clubs and boys. She went on the odd date here and there but, none of them ever really stuck. It was on one of these dates in her final year that she got an alarming phone call from her dad. Her mother Peggy had gone missing. She was meant to be back from buying groceries and doing other household chores by now but hadn’t returned. Joseph told Zeus that the medallion around her neck had a tracking device in it that corresponded with her mother's one, in case either of them had ever gone missing. Joseph had placed the trackers inside both of them before gifting them to both women.

She told the boy she was on a date with that she needed to go and left with no explanation while still talking on the phone to her dad. She wouldn’t be surprised if the guy thought she had a friend ring her as a scapegoat from their date because that was how well their date was going; terribly.

Once Zeus finally got the medallion open with a screwdriver from a toolbox in her mechanical clubs, she found a series of numbers. She had no idea what they meant. Her dad told her they were coordinates. When she searched for what they were on her phone and read the answer allowed, her father knew exactly where she was and could only guess at what had happened to her.

Peggy was taken by a local Initia tribe and was more than likely going to be killed. And she was, Peggy faced a gruesome death at the hands of the Initia before Joseph and Zeus could get to her. They held a closed casket funeral when they finally identified the body. When Zeus and Joe were pasted the paralyzing stages of grief, the two started packing up Peggy’s possessions into boxes for the attic. This is when they stumbled across a letter from the recently deceased.

The letter expressed how Zeus’ mother knew she was going to die as her participation in the war was far too extensive for the Initia not to personally come looking for her. It also stated that she had set up refuge with the Nephilim Ambassador, Cornelia Bradford, in Evermore for both Zeus and her dad, if she had suddenly died as she feared that the Intia would come for her family next.

Zeus and her father packed up as much of their lives into boxes as they possibly could before selling the farm and setting off for Evermore in hopes of a safe haven. Zeus trained hard for many months, building up her weaponry skills to protect both her family and her species. She offered Cornelia her fighting skills, if the faction ever needed them, in thanks for helping them when they most needed it.

They had been in Evermore for almost a year when the comet hit. The McCartney’s both sprouted white wings and the scars on their shoulder blades changed from black to white. It was times like these when she didn’t know what was happening or going on that she missed her mother the most. She always knew what to do in times like these. Clutching her medallion she didn’t feel as alone or afraid anymore.

The medallion. They never found her mother's one after her death. Not that they looked, because it had completely slipped their minds. Zeus managed to open her one once more and found that the coordinates were here in Evermore. Her mother's medallion was in Evermore and so was the Initia that took it. Her mother's murderer. Maybe now Zeus could finally get the vengeance her mother disserved.

Personality Traits

Negative: Hot-headed - Insincere - Tries to do everything herself - Reckless
Positive: Tomboy - Inquisitive - Frugal - Kinesthetic learner - Athletic