Claiming:Camp/Clarissa Hall

Name - Clarissa Hall

Age - 19

Personality – Clary is quiet and doesn’t talk anymore after her “father” suicided. She has a deep fear of being near people and could scream or have panic attacks if there are many nearby. She also fears small cars and only gets inside one if she’s drugged or unconscious. She has a love for drawing and music but she’s too afraid to sing. The reason why she doesn’t talk anymore is because she’s too traumatized. Even though she spoke when she was killing the Cyclops, she won’t talk again unless she’s really high on emotion. She dislikes human contact and has a big problem with depression and anxiety which often lead to panic attacks.

Appearance – Clarissa has dark brown hair which can be mistook for black and matching dark eyes that can go from hot chocolate to coffee in less than a minute. She has pale skin, almost transparent since she never goes out in the sun since she was a kid and when she went to school it was always with a hoodie covering all her skin. She could be considered beautiful if she had a bit more of color and tried to comb her hair, but she doesn’t care about her appearance since there is no one to impress.

History – Alice Hall worked in one of the most unstable jobs, a model in California. Even though she had more body than usual and most people didn’t want to book her, she still tried since it was her passion. That fact made her self-conscious about her body and she had bulimia but she never let people notice that, fearing what would happen to her if they did.

When a client said she was too fat for the job, she had a nervous breakdown. She was so depressed she panicked and took too many pills to make her thinner. Her huge fear of being fat was noticed by Phobos. He found her barely alive from all the pills and lack of food and took pity on her. He made her healthy again and when she woke up and found herself normal she started crying again.

The god was still there since her fear was so great that he got interested in her, looking out for her invisible so she wouldn’t get scared, and when he saw her crying he became visible again and asked her what was wrong. Alice jumped out of the bed and when she noticed he was here she just looked at the ground and told him that if he wanted to kill her, he should do it fast. She didn’t want to live fat like this.

Phobos took her in his arms and told her she wasn’t fat, she was beautiful and when she looked at him, he noticed she really was. Alice kept denying it and when she tried getting out of his grip, he didn’t let her. He knew that her fear was growing and that she would try killing herself again.

He ended up taking care of her, giving her food and making sure she ate it all, not letting her take any pills and just keeping her company. She was a lonely girl and didn’t have many friends since she was trying too hard to become a model to socialize with people so there were no visits.

Phobos ended up falling for her and so did she fall for him. When she got better, he still didn’t want to leave, but he had to. Alice was heartbroken but when she found out she was pregnant, she was crazy. Her panic of being fat almost made her kill herself but her sister found out about her baby and took her to the hospital, where she spent her whole pregnancy, crazy and trying to kill herself.

When she finally had her baby, both of them had to be hospitalized, Alice because she wasn’t eating properly during the pregnancy and it had affected the baby and it was too weak. After two months, they were able to go back home and Alice grew to hate her baby. Clarissa, a name her sister had given, was quiet and didn’t really bother her but Alice couldn’t get her old body back and it was frustrating her. When Clarissa’s aunt came to visit she saw the baby crying from hunger and had to take care of her for three days until Alice came back home.

When Amanda confronted her, she said she needed a break from the brat and went to Las Vegas to have some fun for a week. Horrified, Amanda told her sister that she was a horrible mother and that she wouldn’t let her keep Clarissa if she kept being as reckless as that.

Alice didn’t care and was quite glad to see Amanda taking her daughter with her to Seattle. After all, Amanda would be a much better mother than her and she knew that very well. She had been married for some time but she wasn’t able to have kids, a fact that was almost breaking her and her husband up. When Amanda came home with Clarissa, he was delighted and didn’t care that it was his niece and he and Amanda raised her as their own child.

In the end, Clarissa grew up normally. Amanda found it weird how she seemed so fearless and always took the dares kids from her neighborhood were too afraid of.

Clarissa was popular and loved to be around everyone. Talking, playing, trying new sports, spending the whole day away from her house were normal things for her when she was a kid. Bad things happened to her sometimes, like the weird man that looked that only had one eye who stood on the school gates and almost kidnapped when she was five if her aunt hadn’t been there early to pick her up or the canteen lady who tried to give her poison (it was a bad day for the kid who stole her lunch).

Even though all of that happened, she never stopped being herself.

That is, until the huge accident when she was nine.

When Amanda came to pick her up at school on her birthday, she promised to take Clarissa to the cake store to choose the best cake there for the party that they would throw later. Clarissa was really happy and when she got into the car, she noticed that the weird guy who had tried to kidnap her when she was younger was again, looking at her. Only he was hidden by the shadows of a big oak near the school gates. He smirked at her and licked his lips, but Amanda called her attention and she stopped looking at him.

When they got out of the store with a big chocolate cake and a strawberry shortcake for the next day, Clarissa saw the man looking at her again, on the other side of the street. When she tried to look better, he had disappeared. She looked around, but he was nowhere to be seen. She shrugged it off and went to the car.

When she and her mother (Amanda, but Clarissa always thought it was her mother) were going near a cliff on their way home, something hit the car from the side. They overturned and almost fell on the cliff but the thing hit them again from behind. Amanda tried to help Clarissa but they couldn’t move because of the airbags.

Clary had suffered a concussion and she couldn’t see because of the blood on her eyes but when the drivers door was pulled from its hinges and her mother was taken away from her seat, she saw the guy who was stalking her crushing her mother with his huge hands. She screamed and tried to help her but she couldn’t move. She saw the life leaving her mother’s eyes when she told Clary to run away and that’s the last thing she remembers from that day.

She woke up a week later on the hospital with her father sleeping on the couch near her bed. When he noticed she was awake, he crushed her on a bear hug that made her scream and push him away. She was afraid of his touch and didn’t want anyone near her. The doctors had to sedate her to be able to come closer and her father was getting more heartbroken by the minute.

The doctors asked her lots of questions but she couldn’t answer most of them. They said that the trauma had probably made her forget what happened next. Clarissa turned into a broken shell after that and her “father” was getting desperate since she was all he had left after Amanda died. When she woke up a few days after her 10th birthday to find out he had hanged himself on his room, she went crazy.

All her fears got even worse and they had to take her to a Mental Hospital. She wouldn’t talk, she wouldn’t let anyone near her and she wouldn’t do anything apart from looking out to the window and eat.

The Child Protection Agency contacted her birth mother and Alice was really mad. She had lost all her hopes of becoming a model when Clarissa was born and 10 years later she finds out that her sister had died and her husband killed himself. When she came to the hospital and saw Clarissa she was even more furious. She looked just like her father and it was a fresh memory of how he had abandoned her.

She refused to take custody of her and she fought on court against it. The government gave her two options: she could either take Clarissa and make sure she gets the help she needs or she needs to pay the government back and future child support. Since Alice didn’t have the money to pay for it, she was stuck with the first option.

Her anger couldn’t get any larger but she accepted as long as the state helped her pay the hospital bills. Clarissa was taken out of the hospital by force and through lots of screams. She kicked and bit and scratched anyone who tried to touch her until they were able to sedate her.

When she woke up in California instead of Seattle, her real mother explained how she was her mother and that Amanda had only been her aunt and nothing else and how now she would be living with her instead of in the hospital. Clarissa was still weak from the drug but in her heart, she felt horrible.

Over the months, it was clear that Alice hadn’t become a better mother, let alone a better person. She often came home drunk and now was a prostitute since her dreams of being a model had been frustrated. Of course, she never forgot to scream at Clarissa about it, putting the whole blame on her and her father.

Instead of using the money the government gave her to take Clary to a psychiatrist, she used it to herself. She didn’t care about her daughter and made her go to school even though Clary hated it. The kids made fun of her since she didn’t speak anymore and always slept on class.

The bullying only got worse once she was in High School and she passed most of her classes in the bathroom, too afraid to get near all those people. It had already been hard enough on middle school and she had finally gotten used to not screaming near people but now that they were so mean, she had just regressed back to when she was ten.

She started to cut and do drugs without caring about her health. Her mother made her do all the chores and never gave her enough money for groceries. When she came home drunk, she sometimes got mad and hit Clary but fell asleep on the floor full of vomit. Clary had to clean it and get her mother to bed and leave before she woke up in the morning. When her mother brought her clients home, Clary wasn’t allowed to be in the house so she usually slept in the cemetery.

When a transfer student from New York came and tried to befriend Clary, she was scared. The last time someone tried to befriend her it was only to humiliate her in front of the whole school so she avoided the guy the best she could.

When she was sleeping on the cemetery a few months after the guy was transferred, he found her there. When he confronted her about it, she ignored him. She tried pushing him away but when she touched him, a huge roar echoed through the night. She recognized it as the sound of the man who had killed Amanda and screamed for the first time in almost 8 years.

The boy was surprised and when he turned around, he saw the huge Cyclops. He pulled a bronze sword out of somewhere, Clary was too scared to think of where, and tried to attack it. The Cyclops and him started a fierce fight but Drake didn’t stand a chance. The monster was twice his size and weight and he was caught by surprise.

Still, he was able to mortally hurt the monster but was knocked to a tree with a wave of the Cyclops hand. Clary was terrified before but after Drake fell unconscious the flashback of her mother’s death brought a wave of rage to her.

Out of that rage, the Cyclops suddenly trembled in fear. Clary stood up and got the bronze sword of the ground and attacked the monster. She was full of hate and pain and unleashed it all on the monster that made her lose everything. He wasn’t fighting very much, almost frozen in fear, but Clary still had a hard time fighting him. She slashed his crotch and when he bend over she put the sword at his throat and demanded to know what had happened the night Amanda died.

The Cyclops was still scared and told the whole story. He had been paid to kidnap her for the BC by a strange girl with clear hair and his order was to kill anyone who was in the way as long as it was silent. When he had killed Amanda, Phobos had sent Clary a small present in the form of the Cyclops worst fear.

The monster had been so scared he ran away, leaving the girl there to die until a couple came and found her there. Clarissa’s anger only rose and she demanded the woman’s name, but the Cyclops turned into smoke before he could say it.

Dead tired, Clarissa fell on her knees and the boy dragged himself near her. He told her about Camp, a place where she could be safe from that woman and train to kill her. He was a son of Apollo so he healed her wounds but his own were too deep for him to heal. He ended up dying there and Clary decided to run away from home. She hated her mother and had no reason to stay in Los Angeles so she simply took the first plane she found to New York

Weapons – She kept the celestial bronze sword Drake had as a battle spoil and also got some simple Acheronian Silver knives she found in the Armory.

"If you can make a girl laugh,  you can make her do anything." 17:57, May 1, 2012 (UTC)