Contest:Historical Demigod Contest

  Historical Demigod Contest





As another event to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, I am running an historical demigod contest. Pick a famous historical figure from history, and based on their actual history, write in the demigod bits. We already know that Rick Riordan insinuated that certain historical figures were demigods, I would suggest not using the ones he did, or at least changing it up a bit, copying any of the historical figures Rick used verbatim, will disqualify you. 

Rules

 * 1) In order to enter, you must be a level 5, or will be a level 5 by 30 April 2012, when the judging will occur.
 * 2) Only one historical figure per user, and a user may not use one that has already been taken by another user.
 * 3) Judging will be based on creativity, historical accuracy, and realism. So no changing their actual histories so much so that it's not them anymore, or having them do unrealistic feats.
 * 4) Entries must be in by the 29th in order to qualify.

Prizes

 * 1) First prize will receive a shiny new charie spot to be used for either BC or camp, as well as their story being spotlighted on the main page.
 * 2) Runner-Up, will be allowed to adopt a character, although not one of their own, and have it count as a minor character.

User:RubyRose17 - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to Apollo and a mortal mother. Apollo had been intrigued with Elizabeth Arnold, an English born actress who had caught his eye during a performance. Elizabeth was married and already had a son, but this did not matter to him in the slightest. He was set on winning her heart. One night, when Elizabeth was on her way to the theater, she saw a charming man approach her. He was unlike anyone she’d ever met, he positively radiated light. Elizabeth told the man she was going to be late, but the mysterious stranger walked the rest of the way with her. He sat in the front row and watched her performance. When it was over, the man smoothly invited Elizabeth to his house, and they began a fiery affair.

When Elizabeth found out she was pregnant, she was delighted but also scared. Her husband was angry at first, knowing she had not been faithful, but pretended to forgive her for the sake of his reputation. When Edgar was born, Apollo left, so as not to ruin Elizabeth’s life further. She and her husband David raised the child as though he was their own, and for a short while everything seemed fine again. But then after a year or so, David couldn’t stand it any longer and left. Elizabeth was devastated. She had birthed a daughter, and with three young children, was now distraught at the predicament she was in. She had not the strength of will to raise them on her own.

Her worries became too much for her, and she fell sick because of them. She died before 1811, leaving her children and the world. Apollo grieved at her loss, as he never meant for her to suffer. Edgar’s fate was not as bad. He was taken into the home of Mr. John Allan, who acted as a foster father to him. Edgar was always an odd child, and though no monsters attacked him, for he was still too young, the people around him could sense it. He had an unsettling presence, they thought. A dark demeanor about him that was most unlike his mother. Sometimes Edgar thought he was cursed or possessed—he saw things no one else could see, acted differently than everyone else.

To disperse these rumors and start anew, Edgar and his foster family sailed to Britain. He attended a school in Scotland for a time, but strange events kept occurring. Misfortunes seemed to follow Edgar wherever he went, and so he dropped out and returned to London. He was kicked out of a few other schools over the next few years, and then eventually relocated to Virginia. Now eleven, monsters were starting to pick up on his scent, only troubling Edgar all the more. He never seemed to feel welcome in Richmond, having lost a love, given up on university, and missing several chances that would have improved his standing. One of his only friends, Simon, warned Edgar of the danger of his life, but he refused to listen. Edgar wanted to believe he could be normal.

Simon was a satyr sent to bring Edgar to camp. He tried and tried to convince Edgar of the truth, but Edgar was frightened. He refused to acknowledge Simon’s imaginative tales. Simon was persistent, however, so Edgar began to distance himself from him. Unable to support himself, he joined the US Army. He was haunted with visions of monsters, what he perceived to be demons, and began to wonder if Simon had been right all along. During these years, Edgar married and had a life, though he always felt that nagging sensation. He was discharged from the army, and finally settled down, realizing that he was a talented writer. However his tales were not happy, they were haunting. He sometimes regretted not trusting Simon more, not taking that risk. For Edgar felt deep down that he had potential, that he could have been someone else entirely. And though he became famous for his work, Apollo mourned the fact that his son never knew who he truly was.

When Edgar died at the age of 40, he was judged harshly. Though he had lived a fine life, his doubts and depression weighed down on him. Edgar was eventually offered Elysium, but he turned it down for the Fields of Asphodel. He did not feel he deserved such a reward.

WonderfulTwilight~ Thomas Andrews
 Thomas Andrews      Thomas Andrews was born to Hephaestus and Eliza Pirrie on the 7th February 1873 in Comber, County Down, Ireland, his step-father, Thomas Andrews Sr, was a local politician, a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, however he had no idea of his wife’s affair with Hephaestus and so, passed Thomas off as his own child. Growing up Thomas showed great interest in ships, and by the time he was 16, he was given a premium apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff where his uncle part owned. At Harland and Wolff, he began with three months in the joiners' shop, followed by a month in the cabinetmakers' and then a further two months working on the ships. He then spent his last eighteen months of his apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff in the drawing office. 

Monsters hardly ever attacked Thomas, so he grew up thinking that he was just a normal person like everyone else and so never went to camp because of this no one ever really knew he was a demigod until his death. After years of hard work and study, he became well liked at the company and with his emploees. In 1907 he began to write up plans for the RMS Olympic and it’s sister ship the RMS Titanic, which began construction in 1909. He married Helen Reilly Barbour on the 24th June 1908, two years later on the 28th November 1910 they had a daughter, whom they named Elizabeth Law Barber Andrews. It is a common fact that he took Helen to the building of the RMS Titanic just a while before Elizabeth (more commonly know by her initials ELBA) was born.

After the Titanic was finished Thomas and the other workers exclaimed that not even God(s) could sink the ship, however, hearing this, the gods on Olympus got angry, and asked Poseidon to sink the ship when the captain and lookouts were least aware. So on the 14th April 1912, Poseidon asked Boreas to place an ice-berg in the path of the titanic, Boreas was hesitant at first, but after he heard what the workers had said he quickly changed his mind. At 11:40pm the lookouts, Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee, only just spotted the iceberg a mere 39 seconds before it struck the ship’s starboard side. Thomas was in the smoking room writing down things he’d like to change about the titanic when this happened, Captain Edward J. Smith then asked him to take a look at the damage, he was then determined that the first five of the ship's watertight compartments were flooding and that the ship would sink within an hour. As the evacuation of the Titanic began he continued to urge reluctant people into the lifeboats hoping to fill them as fully as possible, but several lifeboats were launched without the max of 65 people on board, while others were over loaded with 70+. Most shockenly was the fact that one lifeboat went with only 11 passangers on board. Thomas was last seen in the first–class smoking room gazing at a painting, "Plymouth Harbour", above the fireplace, his lifejacket lying on a nearby table. Shortly the ship sank, and shockingly only 2 of the 18 launched lifeboats came back to look for survivors.

Thomas went down with the ship and his body was never found nor identified, not even after Dr. Robert Ballard found the wreckage of the ship on the 1st July 1985. SS Nomadic is the sole surviving ship designed by Andrews today. Nomadic is currently preserved in Belfast, the city where the Titanic, also known as the “unsinkable” ship, was created. It is unknown what part of the underworld his soul was sent to, but most demigods suggest he went to the Fields of Elysium.

User:Jrite10 - Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533, to Anne Boleyn and in reality Zeus, while in public view her father was King Henry VIII. Zeus did not have much interaction with Anne, he merely lusted after her and visited her in the guise of her husband. When Elizabeth was two, Anne was beheaded for adultery on the orders of Henry, and Elizabeth was exiled from court never to receive the title of princess or queen in her lifetime. This execution was in part enacted by Hera who was again jealous of Zeus's consorts and wanted the outcome of the union to suffer. Her childhood was difficult, although she received a thorough Protestant education.

Elizabeth had many governesses and tutors throughout her childhood. These tutors and governesses were often demigods, children of minor gods and goddess. Two notable caregivers were Catherine Champernowne, and William Grindal were both children of Mnemosyne, they were responsible for giving Elizabeth her notable linguistic skills in French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish. These caregivers were also responsible for protecting Elizabeth from the childhood dangers of monsters, but even they could not protect this nice and charming girl from the wrath of an enraged goddess.

Hera's wrath continued to play a constant in Elizabeth's life, one of the most notable plots involved Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary. When Mary Queen of Scots came to power in 1553, Hera posed as one of her ladies in waiting, constantly planting seeds of worry in Mary's mind. These seeds quickly ripened into full blown fear, causing Mary to imprison Elizabeth in the Tower of London. In the eyes of the people this seemed to be a preemptive strike to prevent Mary's campaign, to re-establish Catholicism in England, from being stopped. It during this time in the tower that young Elizabeth learned of her true heritage. Each night when she would be served her dinner meal, Elizabeth was visited by a woman not much older than herself. The woman introduced herself as Abigail and she also explained that she was there to teach Elizabeth how to control of oneself, and in the art military prowess. Elizabeth became greatly angered at being accused of not being able to control herself, it was this anger that triggered her powers in the form of a single bolt of electricity being released. It was bolt of electricity that caused Elizabeth's emotions to go from anger to fear in a split second. Elizabeth feared for her life because she knew she would be branded as a witch, but Abigail calmed her down and got her back to her original composure. Over the next three years, Abigail taught Elizabeth how to control her powers, and to fight using a sword. When new came of Elizabeth's release Abigail bid her farewell. When Elizabeth asked about her lessons on military prowess Abigail laughed and kissed Elizabeth on the forehead stating that the kiss was all she would need. Abigail then left Elizabeth and as she turned out of view, her appearance changed to a young woman in a grecian gown, carrying a spear in one hand and a war helm on the other.

After her release in 1558 Elizabeth ascended to rule the throne of England, and restore it to its previous protestant state. But not all was perfect in the reforming of England there was still a large rebellion brewing with in the Catholics who had thrived during Mary's reign as queen. To quench any large flames of vengeance from causing damage to her ruling Elizabeth did upon her sister what had been done upon herself, Elizabeth had locked Mary in the Tower of London but Mary's stay in the ToL hotel was not as comfortable as Elizabeth's. She did not receive any visitors, or advice from strange young women. The imprisonment lasted another twenty years until Elizabeth was finally persuaded by her court to execute Mary. But this was not the only accomplishment achieved by the good queen.

Under Elizabeth, England grew prosperous trade to other countries had spread, the people were getting stronger and healthier. Elizabeth just like her father was a patron of the theater, she encouraged the actors and playwrights of the day to set up permanent residence in theaters like the Globe. Elizabeth was a true fan of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spencer, both young sons of Mnemosyne, who had captured her heart through their almost life-like dramas. Another accomplishment that occurred through Elizabeth's reign was the increase in power of the English Navy. The navy was lead by Sir Thomas Drake, a son of Poseidon, who would have a vast influence in an upcoming battle facing Elizabeth's England, because not all was peaceful on the international front.

During this time, monsters were not the only danger facing demigods. The entire Spanish Inquisition had a minor plot in the destruction of the demigods. Philip II and his ancestors were mortals who had the ability to see through the mist, and sense demigods similar to how monsters and satyrs could. They saw demigods as an abomination in the world of the catholic God. They set out to kill as many demigods they could, and rule the territories they won from any ruling demigods. They set out to conquer England in the name of Catholicism and to get rid of the demigod queen. But they had yet to encounter a demigod as wise and cunning as Elizabeth and her people of England.

When the Spanish Armada's attack on England was looming in the future, Elizabeth calmed the storm of chaos with in her people, and acted as a beacon of light for her people to follow. Even at the day before battle Elizabeth stayed with her troops, and motivated them to fight in honor of their country. Before the battle Elizabeth delivered an amazing speech to her people but one part has remained with her character throughout time thanks to the Muses.

"My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people ... I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm."

Spain's victory seemed close at hand, but they did not plan on a second demigod joining the battle off the coast of England, but Sir Francis Drake, who had recently defeated part of the Spanish army in the Caribbean, returned to his country and his Queen. It was through the combined might of Drake and Elizabeth that the English Navy was able to defeat the Spanish Armada. Drake turned the tides around the Spanish ship while Elizabeth would release bolts of lightening hitting both her own ships and those of the Spaniards, Elizabeth's people used the fires started by the lightning to ram into the Spanish ships while jumping off the ships at last moment. This victory ensured that Elizabeth's authority would never be questioned again, it also ended the Inquisition making the world somewhat safer for demigods.

Elizabeth remained in power until 1603, when she died after falling into a deep depression caused by the deaths of several of her friends. With her death Elizabeth ended the Tudor dynasty and established the Church of England. Elizabeth followed after her godly sisters, Artemis and Athena, in remaining an eternal virgin therefore she did not have any children to name her heir, so her council had established that James VI of Scotland would succeed her after her death.

Elizabeth now resides in the Underworld, in Elysium, spending the ages with her good friend Francis Drake. Even though she is now dead, her brave spirit and wise decisions will never be forgotten.

User:Petite'likkle'elf - Princess Diana of Wales
Princess Diana Frances, née Spencer, was born to the Viscount Althorp and Aphrodite, on 1st July, 1961. The Viscountess had been fooled by the Viscount that Diana was actually her child. Diana had no name for a week as her dad and stepmother was expecting a son. She was named after one of her ancestress and her mother. Her younger brother, Charles, had Elizabeth II as principal godparent. Her brother, John Spencer, was so deformed and sick, that he only survived 10 hours after his birth. She grew up in Park House, which was situated near the Sandringham estate.

Diana’s parents separated when she was seven years old. Her mother had an affair with a man called Peter Shand Kydd. Diana lived with her mother in London, during the separation. Diana’s father refused to let her go with her mother to go back to London. Her father soon took custody of her, with support from his mother-in-law, Ruth Roche.

Diana went to school at Riddlesworth Hall, an all-girls boarding school, near Diss, in Norfolk. People thought that she didn’t shine academically, and that was the reason she moved. But it wasn’t. After a few years of studying there, something went wrong. Her science teacher was supposedly ill and her class had a Substitute teacher instead. Little did she know, that her scent was tracked down by a manticore, who was disguised as Mr Hall, her Substitute science teacher. Near the end of her class, she was attacked by Mr Hall. He turned into the monster he really was and started throwing thorns at Diana. She ran, along with her friend, a satyress in disguise.

Diana was only ten years old when she was attacked. Her friend advised her father that he tell her who and what she really was. When Diana’s father rejected the request, Lily left it. She was only young, after all.

Diana was kicked out of Riddlesworth and was, therefore, moved to a boarding school, The New School at West Heath, in Kent. Even though she was regarded as a poor student, having failed her O-Levels twice, she was safe. Very rarely, was she attacked. But if she ever was, her and the satyress would make it discreet. Diana knew something was weird with her. She didn’t want to ask her father though.

When Diana was 12, her father began a relationship with the Countess of Dartmouth. She received the title of Lady when her father inherited the title or Earl Spencer, when she was 14, turning 15.

Her father and the Countess were married at Caxton Hall nearly 2 weeks after her 16th birthday. Diana never like the Countess and she noted of Diana’s shyness while growing up. However, she did take an interest in both music and dancing.

Before she went to finishing school in Switzerland, her father told her who and what she really was. This didn’t stop her from going, though. She kept her head held high and carried on her life as normal, as if nothing had ever happened. He told her where Camp was, if she ever needed to go there. After she finished, she moved back to London. She started working with children, and eventually became a nursery teacher at the Young England School.

The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was previously under immense pressure to marry Diana’s older sister, Lady Sarah. He’d known Diana for quite a few years, but never took serious interest in her as a potential bride, until she was 19. She was well received by Queen Elizabeth, The Duke of Edinburgh, and by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Prince Charles proposed to her on 6th February 1981, and Diana accepted. Their engagement, however, was kept secret for the next few weeks.

After Charles’ marriage request, Diana forgot everything about her being a demigod daughter of Aphrodite. It never occurred to her until later.

On 24th February 1981, their engagement became official, after Diana selected a large £30 000 ring (£94 000 in today’s terms) consisting of 14 diamonds surrounding a sapphire, similar to her mother’s engagement ring.

Twenty-year-old Diana became the Princess of Wales when she married Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, on 29th July 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral. While at the altar, Diana accidently reversed the order of Charles’s first two names, saying “Philip Charles”.

Diana’s first child, William Arthur Philip Louis, was born on 21st June 1982. Diana decided to take William, though still a baby, on her first major tours of Australia and New Zealand. Diana never intended to take her. Not until it was suggested by the American prime minister, Malcolm Fraster. Diana had her second son, Henry Charles Albert David, two years after William. Diana and Princes Charles were closest during her pregnancy with Harry, as her second child had always been known. She knew her second child was a boy, but didn’t tell anyone, including the Prince of Wales, Charles.

Diana and Charles fell apart, during the early 1990s. Both of them spoke to the press through friends, blaming each other for the death of the marriage. Diana had been having an affair with Major James Hewitt and Charles went back to his former girlfriend, Camilla Shand.

The Queen advised Diana and Charles to divorce, and the divorce was finalised on 28th August 1996. Diana lost her title as Her Royal Highness and was called Diana, Princess of Wales, as she was now no longer married to Prince Charles. Diana, however, still continued to be a British princess. Diana was still a member of the Royal Family, as she was the mother of the second- and third-in-line to the throne.

Diana then started seeing Dodi Fayed, in 1997. Diana considered taking William and Harry that summer, on a hoiday to the Hamptons on Long Island, New York. She finally remembered that she was a demigod, and decided to visit Camp Half-Blood, taking her sons with her. However, the security officials prevented it.Dodi invited her to join his family in the south of France and she accepted. His compound and large security detail would not cause concern to the Royal Protection squad. Mohamed Al-Fayed bought a multi-million pound yacht.

Diana died in a car crash, in which she was fatally injured in. The car crashed in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. The crash also caused the death of the driver, Henri Paul, and supposedly Dodi Fayed, her companion. In reality, Dodi never died. He pretended to be dead, but was never actually. Dodi was actually Ares in disguise. This meant that he didn’t die. Millions of people watched Diana’s funeral.

Some people think that the accident was caused by Henri Paul’s drunken loss of control. Mohamed publically maintained that the crash was planned for, accusing MI6 and The Duke of Edinburgh. Others believe that the crash was caused by the pursuing paparazzi. The paparazzi were actually monsters that picked up Diana’s scent and decided to chase her.

Diana’s funeral took place in Westminster Abbey on 6th September 1997. Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to her in a live television broadcast the day before. Princes William and Harry, her sons, walked in the funeral procession behind her coffin, along with her ex-husband, the Duke of Edinburgh and her brother, Charles Spencer.

User:Ranger lucy- Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc)
Joan was born to Isabelle d’Arc and a man that she thought was her husband but was actually Apollo. Her childhood was spent in the fields around her home tending her father’s herds. When she was around 12 years old she begin hearing voices she interpreted these as the voices of saints however they were actually Aphrodite, Athena and Apollo who had a bet against Zeus that France would win the war.

They told her that it was her mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne. They told her to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up arms.

By 1429 the English with the help of their Burgundian allies occupied Paris and all of France north of the Loire. Henry VI of England was claiming the French throne. Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin (with some help from Aphrodite himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was given troops to command and the rank of captain.

At the battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in other locations along the Loire. Fear of troops under her leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled the battlefield. Fastolfe was later stripped of his Order of the Garter for this act of cowardice. Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he lost the battle and was captured along with a hundred English noblemen and lost 1800 of his soldiers (some of which were monsters in disguise).

In 1430 she was captured by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne near Paris and was sold to the English. The English, in turn, handed her over to the ecclesiastical court at Rouen led by Pierre Cauchon, a pro-English Bishop of Beauvais, to be tried for witchcraft and heresy. Much was made of her insistence on wearing male clothing. She was told that for a woman to wear men's clothing was a crime against God. Her determination to continue wearing it (because the gods hadn't yet told her to change, as well as for protection from sexual abuse by her jailors) was seen as defiance and finally sealed her fate. Joan was convicted after a fourteen-month interrogation and on May 30, 1431 she was burned at the stake in the Rouen marketplace. She was nineteen years old. The god was unable to help as they could not directly interfere with mortal issues. .

User:GirlofDelusion - Count of St. Germain


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User:Queen.Bee - Mata Hari, demigod daughter of Aphrodite


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Blood - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
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User:VintageCamera45 - Catherine the Great(aka Catherine the II) Empress of Russia
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