Harrison Tanner

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Basics

Full name: Harrison Tanner

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Divine Parent: Demeter

Powers: Harrison is a master chef without even trying. If given an assortment of natural ingredients, he can make a masterpiece of food. He also has the ability to control plant growth and to move them in unnatural ways. His powers are always magnified in the fall. Harrison actually has a power that only shows up in the fall: he can change the fertility levels of the soil he is making direct contact with. 

Playby: Jared Padalecki

Personality

General personality:

Harrison is your average book-loving, coffee drinking, and food blogging teenager with only one variation: he was born and raised on a farm in the deep South. His main characteristics include the following:

Awkward: Harrison has always been more of an introvert - he was home schooled all his life - and when the time came for him to make friends, he didn't really know what to do. If he doesn't know someone, he is very likely to be quiet and only say what needs to be said.

Loyal: Even though his friend-making abilities aren't his best quality, the friends that Harrison does have can count on him. He is the sole definition of selfless, but not always in a good way. He will stop at nothing to make sure the people closest to him get the best out of life.

Naive: Once Harrison sees someone as a person he can trust, almost nothing could stop him from blindly doing what they needed. This, however sweet it is, is a major disadvantage for Harrison, as someone could befriend him and use him for all the wrong reasons.

Bad Humor: Nothing gets through to Harrison more than a horrible pun that is worthy of making someone groan. The first book he read was a book of children's jokes, and humor like that has always been what's stuck in his head. His horrible sense of humor is normally what scores him the few friends he actually has, but it has also managed to make him lose some. 

Humble: Harrison does not feel comfortable taking credit for the things he does. He tends to not acknowledge praise from people, but instead comes up with a different compliment to make the other person seem more interesting than him. He rarely even likes the things he does, and he tends to criticize his every action while praising others.

Rebel: There isn't much that makes Harrison angry, but nothing angers him more than people that never have to struggle. His family was never very well off, and he had to always go the extra mile to become the person he was. He had to lie about his age to get a job for part of his life,  and this caused a strong hatred of the privileged folk around him to bud. 

Polite: Harrison was raised in the South, so he is your classic gentleman. In fact, he takes it almost too far sometimes. He addresses everyone as ma'am and sir, even if they aren't older than him. Sometimes he can be brutally polite, holding a door open for someone and refusing to go through it until they go through. Generally people like his manners, but there are a select few that he enjoys annoying with endless waves of courtesy.

Likes: 

-Books
-Bad jokes
-Organic food
-Coffee
-Hunting
-Cooking
-Being alone
-Underdogs like him

Dislikes: 

-Privileged people
-Country music
-Loud places
-Littering
-Ignorant people
-Good jokes

Fatal flaw: Once he trusts someone, he won't question them at all, no matter what they do. He would not be able to disagree with the people he cared about, no matter how abstract or even evil their thoughts were. He would even carry out someone else's idea if they would only ask him.

History

Claimed?: Yes

Camp experience: Five Years

Mortal parent: Jackson Tanner, 42

Other relatives: none

History: 

Harrison was born on a massive farm in Alexander City, Alabama. His father was experiencing financial issues and his crops were suffering before Harrison was brought into the family. When Harrison was born, the farm just automatically seemed to do better, as if it had been blessed. The Tanners began to enjoy some of the more luxurious things in life, including unlimited warm water and a stable internet connection. Harrison was always very grateful for the things he had, which was a very mature ideal for someone of his age. His father bought him his first book when he was four: Kids' Silliest Jokes. Him and his father would sit there for hours reading jokes from it and creating new ones that were ten times worse. 

Harrison began farming as soon as he could pick up a garden hoe, and shortly after, his father began home schooling him every day after they worked. Every month, Harrison's dad would get him a new book that had the topic of either bod jokes or farming tips. His father would normally avoid mathematics and mainly just focus on literature, history, and agricultural sciences. 

When Harrison got older, his father began to bring him a third genre of book: mythology. He started it off with simple little stories of people performing rituals to appease the farming gods so that their harvest would be successful. Over time, he began transitioning to the Greek side of myths, talking about more than just the gods and goddesses of agriculture, and more of the wide variety of the Greek gods. He taught Harrison that none of the gods would be able to survive without each other, and that everything must exist in a great balance. Harrison began applying nature's balance to everything in life, never dismissing anything as unimportant. 

By the time Harrison was twelve, his farm began to fall from its once normal financial state and into a bad one. Harrison had to stop his homeschooling so that he could work on the farm all day and work the night shift of another job on top of that at the town's main diner, which was about an hour from where he lived. He began to get extremely tired, only getting three to four hours of sleep a night. He began to have hallucinations such as seeing creatures with men's torsos' and horses' bodies' and giant scaled birds flying in the sky. When he described his hallucinations to his father, he was surprised by the reaction he received. His father told him that there was a camp for him that would make him better and that he would drive him to it. 

When Harrison turned thirteen, him and his dad proceeded to go on a long road trip in which they stopped in many cities. Harrison was dismayed by all the things that people wasted and didn't take the time to appreciate. He began to get angry when he saw people throwing away things that could be used again, and he even went off on a few people along the way. However, this did not last long, as Harrison and his dad soon arrived at Camp Half Blood. He was sad that he had to leave his father, but as soon as he stepped through the barrier, he knew that was where he belonged. He has been there ever since.