Claiming:Camp/Indiana Black

History
Dirk and Willow Elliot had always had a troubled marriage. While they had once loved each other passionately, it seemed that they could no longer agree to anything anymore. For example, Dirk had always wanted a child, yet Willow felt like Dirk was not responsible enough to raised a child and refused to do it alone. Along with that, Dirk was constantly on business trips, which fueled Willow's suspicion that her husband might be having an affair.

The fury that had been growing inside her fueled a need to get back at her husband. When he left on business trips, she'd have affairs with various men. Willow would then flaunt it in Dirk's face by leaving evidence of her many flings, but not enough for him to outright confront her. One of the men she had an affair with was one of Dirk's business partners, who had barely given Willow any person information about himself. This man's real identity happened to be Aeolus, keeper of the winds. By pure chance, Willow became pregnant with this man's child and, after confirming the child was not Dirk's, she realized how rash she had been and began respecting her husband.

Dirk, Willow, and their child (whom they named Lilian) lived relatively peacefully, while there was always this tension between the couple. After five years, Dirk began to mildly suspect that the child was not his, as she did not look like him nor Willow. While it was only a fragment of suspicion and he thought himself to be paranoid, he thought that discreetly taking a DNA test would not hurt. When it came back that Lilian was not his child, he became conflicted with staying silent as opposed to outright confronting his wife. After a few months of this debate, he finally confronted his wife and not only threatened to file for divorce, but expose and humiliate her. Horrified and knowing she would not be able to live with the humiliation, she packed whatever she could manage to take, bought plane tickets to the other side of the country, and fled with her daughter.

The mother and daughter settled down in Brooklyn, New York and changed their identities so that Dirk could never find them. For months, they survived with the money Willow (who now referred to herself as Monica Black) had taken and when that ran out, they sold a majority of their quality possessions. Soon, Willow knew that they could not live like this forever so, by the time her daughter (whose name was now Indiana, or Indie as she preferred) was seven, she had finally put her degree to use and found a nice job in an IT office, where she began seeing her boss. However, after a few weeks, she discovered that he was actually married and broke off whatever relationship they had and found a new job in another office.

Indie grew up hearing stories about how the men in her mother's life had treated poorly, which caused her disdain for men (especially her father). This disdain led to constant anger, as she believed the world had wronged her mother. While her mother attempted vengeance was not the reason she was telling these stories to her daughter (instead to protect her daughter from heartbreak and the feeling of worthlessness), Indie would not change her views that yes, men were pigs.

Since her mother was constantly out working, Indie was given the freedom to do whatever she wanted. At first, it was normal things like after school activities and sports. Later, around age eleven, this freedom led her to do small crimes like stealing candy or magazines at local convenience stores. Later, her constant success led her to bigger catches like even a new gaming console. WIP