Bryce Lawrence

Bryce Lawrence is a legacy of Orcus, the god of punishment in the Underworld.

History
Bryce was born into a wealthy family with lots of influence over New Rome. Shortly after enlisting, Bryce was banished from Camp Jupiter by Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano for his cruelty, but was able to return under Octavian's leadership.

The Blood of Olympus
Bryce is seen by Nico di Angelo in a dream. Despite being banished from Camp Jupiter by Reyna years ago for having killed his own centurion, Octavian allows him to return, turning a blind eye to his cruelty towards the rest of his fellow cohort when he first joined the legion. He is given his probatio necklace and is assigned to the Fifth Cohort.

In South Carolina, Bryce overhears Reyna's story of killing her father, and tries to capture her and take her to Octavian to charge her with the crime of patricide. He then is turned into a ghost by Nico and forced into the Underworld.

Appearance
Bryce is described as a tall Roman legionnaire in full Imperial Gold armor, and a mop of brown hair over his cruel eyes, which were green like pond scum. According to Nico, Bryce's broken nose makes his smug and twisted smile look even more sinister. After being turned into a ghost, Bryce's body becomes "dark and smoky."

Personality
Like his godly forefather Orcus, Bryce is intensely sadistic with brutal, violent tendencies. According to Reyna, he is "remorseless" and is said to act like a "little psychopath." Indeed, he displays many traits characteristic of a typical psychopath, including a lack of empathy, ruthlessness, and a complete indifference to the suffering of others, if not an outright sadistic enjoyment of it, since he claims that the screams of the Fields of Punishment sound "like music to his ears." He also seems to be bloodthirsty, and claims to like "a good massacre." As well as those traits, Bryce had a tendency to egregiously torture and murder all sorts of helpless animals, such as when he experimented on various ways to kill cats (one of which was setting one on fire), or when he stabbed a horse, inducing it to go on a rampage. His sadism and love of killing also extends to humans, him having admitted shortly before his own death at Nico's hands to having murdered his own centurion for fun, and he proceeds to scar Reyna's face with a javelin. Overall, Bryce is nothing short of a remorseless killer at heart, who delights in committing acts of ruthless violence. While facing a furious Nico, who promptly turns him into a ghost, Bryce shows a great and selfish fear for his own life.

Legacy Abilities
Necromancy: Bryce can summon the souls of those who have broken oaths to his aid. These zombies are immune to the attacks of Nico, since they are under Orcus' sphere of control. However, when Bryce infuriates him, the son of Hades is able to make his zombies disintegrate.

Torture Knowledge: Since he is a legacy of the punishment God, he might have some inborn knowledge about torture methods.

Trivia

 * Like Nico, Bryce appears to have visited the Underworld several times, since he claims to have heard the wails of the Fields of Punishment.
 * Bryce is the only known antagonistic demigod from either series to be utterly evil and irredeemable of his own accord. He is also the only antagonist in either series to possess the power of Necromancy.
 * Bryce is the only known individual to be turned into a ghost by Nico, and thus, is the only known demigod to die directly at the son of Hades' hands.