Claiming:Camp/Charissa Granville

Name: Charissa Anne Granville

Nickname: Risa

Age: 18 (April 28, 1996)

Gender: Female

God Parent: Eros, Boreas, Asteria

Mortal Guardians: Jane Granville (Mother, desceased), Annabelle Granville (Grandmother, Former Guardian), Carrissa Granville (Aunt, Current guardian)

Appearance: Brown hair, Brown eyes, light complection

Personality: Charissa is a bright and optimistic, she is also very social and enjoys meeting others. Her optimism makes her somewhat naive, though she has a strong moral foundation as she is not easily swayed from what she thinks is right. As far as relationships with others, her past interactions with people of the opposite gender have been a bit loose, as Charissa is very flirty around boys. She is very loyal to those she considers friends, and she doesn't forsake them without good reason.

History: In early March of 1995 Jane Granville was living in New York City when she met Eros at a bar one night after a late night of working. He was disguised as the Bar tender moonlighting that night, and when she asked him his name he introduced himself as Mitt Henderson. Though nothing happened that particular night they didn’t get pass an initial conversation, in the brief dialogue Jane found herself very interested in Mitt. Three days later during the weekend Jane went back to the bar only to find Mitt gone, she asked the bartender if he knew when he would be back and the bartender told her “He’s going out of town tomorrow, so he won’t be back for another 3 weeks.” A bit upset Jane asked the man if he knew where he was going to be until then, and after a little bit of pressing on her part the bartender finally told her where Mitt lived and she immediately went to his apartment.

When she finally arrived that evening she started to feel a bit nervous and as she approached the door her anxiousness only grew, and when she finally knocked she almost ran away for fear of being labeled a stalker. After a short wait Mitt answered the door and quickly recognized her, he invited her in and after a very brief talk before her sexual impulses drove her to embrace him. Mitt and Jane spent that evening and the morning after together, afterwards Jane went home and never saw Mitt again. Three weeks later in April of ’95 Jane found that she was pregnant, after that she moved to Holden, Massachusetts to live with her mother Annabelle, and almost a year later after an abnormally long gestation period she finally gave birth to a baby girl and named her Charissa. During Risa’s early childhood she was very smart and loving and from 4 to 8 nothing remarkable happened. When Risa turned 9 she was diagnosed with Dyslexia, though her mother and grandmother tried hard to help her through middle school. To help her stay active and so that she could make friends Jane signed Risa up for Karate classes in a nearby school when she turned 10 years old. By the time that she was 14 Risa had become a black belt and was one of the most talented martial artist in the city. But unfortunately her dyslexia had gotten worse, though she was now able to read Greek without actually speaking the language. She was also diagnosed with ADHD, something that made her grandmother and mother start to worry for her mental health.

About half way through her second semester as a Freshman in high school, Risa was attacked by a Harpy during Gym class. The creature immediately launched at Risa, but she was able to fight it off for a few seconds before the birdlike beast pinned her against the ground with its talons. Just as it was about to pin her down the Gym Teacher ‘’Harvey Dean’’ shot the bird in the back and wings several times with his 9mm. The Harpy turned its attention to the teacher whom had used most of his ammo shooting the bird in the back, just as the creature released Risa to attack the teacher, the young demigod flipped onto her feet and jumped onto the creatures back before grabbing the creature’s wings and causing it to crash to the ground. Risa was able to grab the beast’s right wing and break it against her knee before stomping the Harpy in the head and jumping up high into the air and landing squarely on the bird’s back with both her feet crushing its chest.

Shortly after the battle Risa collapsed from exhaustion and was taken to the hospital by Harvey. When she awoke she found her grandmother crying by her side, she asked her what was wrong she replied saying that a large monster with a bull’s head attacked their home and killed her Jane, Annabelle only having escaped because of her having been a child of Hectate, she was able to use a powerful spell to destroy the beast but not before it fatally wounded Jane which lead to hear death. The death of her mother had a very strong impact on Risa’s psyche and when she went home later that day she spent the whole day in her room, crying and mourning her mother. The next couple of months Charissa’s grades declined further as when she turned 15 her grades to a D. That summer she met ‘’Lex Johnson’’ during the summer who was there to comfort her through her mourning, and she grew to love him as more than just a friend. However in midsummer another Minotaur attacked Risa while she and her grandmother were at home, the two of them quickly dispatched the beast but the battle took a heavy toll on Anna and she collapsed and fell into a coma.

Her grandmother’s coma almost caused her to snap but this time Lex was there and the two of them grew very close, and intimate. Risa was able to contact her estranged aunt Cari who came and became her temporary guardian. But unfortunately by the time school started, Lex and Risa had broken up which caused her to take on a far more promiscuous persona in order to get back at him, and deal with the loss of her mother and grandmother. Steadily her clothes became more revealing and her aunt didn’t seem to care, though strangely she became more independent and her grades began to rise again until she averaged a B-. The next few months through school and the Holidays were mostly quiet and Risa continued to visit her grandmother regularly until Anna finally awoke from what was now almost a year long coma. However Anna would never be quite the same, perhaps it was the guilt suffered from losing the daughter she was closest to, or maybe it was the drain and physical toll that her magic had put on her aging body, the reason was never revealed to Risa and thus no one but Anna would ever know.

Cari stayed to care for Anna which allowed Risa to focus on her school work and social life and her grades continued to rise steadily. During her junior year she met Carlos Martinez and the two quickly became friends, Carlos tutored her and he and she made many other friends in school together. Also during the school year she began advanced training in Archery and staff-combat, she also bought a bow and hunting arrows so that she could protect her family and those she cared about from the monsters that always seemed to pop up. During the holidays and hunting season, Risa used her bow to hunt deer and fend off a couple of Harpies that attacked while she was hunting alone. Being a child of Eros meant that she was innately talented with a bow, that and her physical training allowed her to be a natural in the field of archery; she also got a driving permit.

Throughout junior year she made many friends whom she hung out with during the following summer, when she turned 17 her aunt Cari bought her a car and threw a surprise party for Risa. That summer Risa finally gained her license and spent most of her time away from home in order to protect her aunt and grandmother, and also to enjoy the freedom that came with a car. It was during that summer that she met ‘’David Landers’’ whom she dated, though she had dated many guys in the past and was known for her mannerisms around boys, she was still a virgin when she met David although all this changed late that summer when the two became intimate for the first time. When senior year began, Risa and David shared a very close and intimate relationship, something that was a bit strange because David wasn’t known for his committed relationships; and it was then that Risa began to realize some of her unnatural abilities. She soon found that everyone around her began to like her more, she could say and do almost anything and no one would care as though they were hypnotized but in the strangest ways. Carlos however was one of the few male friends she had that wasn’t sexually interested in her, and this caused the two of them to become even closer friends as he would often be the only outlet he had to actually share the way she felt. Risa never told Carlos or David about the strange things that happened to her throughout her life, but on one day when a Chimera attacked her and friends at school in between periods, Carlos revealed his true nature as a Satyr and fought with Risa against the Chimera until the beast began to tear down the school.

Risa demanded that Carlos keep the other kids safe while she alone with her staff in hand fight off the Chimera. During the fight, the beast’s snake head struck at Risa’s waist but she beheaded it and used the tip of her staff slammed it’s poisoned fangs into the Chimera’s face. The beast roared in pain and shot a torrent of flame out at Risa, the blast was too fast and too large and Risa’s arm was caught in its fury as she fell to the ground. The beast pinned her down with one paw and was ready to strike at her neck, until Carlos grabbed Risa’s staff and struck the beast in the back of the head with it. The creature turned and let out a mighty roar sending another blast of flame out to meet Carlos, but Carlos was able to avoid it and struck again at the beast’s face. This time the Chimera grabbed the staff with its jaws and broke off its tip before charging into Carlos and knocking him into the lockers behind him and causing him to drop the jagged staff which rolled over to where Risa lay. As the beast wrestled it’s powerful jaws towards his neck Risa regained her footing and picked up the staff, and with the sharpened end she stabbed the beast through the neck causing it to spew flames out of the hole that was left, she rolled over to the left and grabbed the superheated staff with her good hand and withdrew it before stabbing the beast through the heart bring death to the creature.

Her hand burned and being extremely exhausted, Risa fell unconscious on the ground and Carlos quickly took her to the hospital. When Risa finally awoke she found herself in a hospital bed with Cari, David and Carlos sitting around her. She stayed in the hospital for three days and when she was questioned about what happened at the school fire caused by the Chimera, she simply replied that it was attacked by something and that’s what burned her. When asked how she survived she replied saying “She had a guardian angel watching over her” in reference to Carlos’ help though she never went into detail as to how or who the guardian angel was. After a few more days she was released from the hospital she stayed home and Carlos stayed with while she recovered, during this time Carlos explained to Cari the nature of her niece and told her how he needed to take her to camp Half-blood. Cari refused and would’ve made Carlos leave if it wasn’t for Risa insisting that she wanted Carlos to stay. During this time Annabelle had become very sick, but she still used some of her magic to hear and monitor the things that were going on in her house.

Carlos told talked to Risa about why she had been attacked in the past, he explained that he was her protector while she lived in the human world and that she was the daughter of Eros, the Greek god of love. It took a little while for Risa to come to terms with what he told her, and during this time she spent her time distracting herself with David who came by to visit often and to drop of her homework. During that holiday season Risa had started attending school again, but her relationship with David had become severely strained as she began to research on her father and she steadily wondered why he never revealed himself to her. For a little while she became very angry at her father for never being there, and for all the pain he caused her. This caused her to push David away, she even started to push Carlos away but the real pain was her relationship with David which was clearly about to end. When things finally did come to a head in early February she and David finally broke up, after a month of accepting who she was and who her father was, she talked to her grandmother whom was no longer sick but was clearly aged due to past events. Anna told her that she should go to Camp Half Blood, saying “All your questions may not be answered, but you’ll certainly find more answers there than anyone here could ever hope to tell you.”

After graduating High School and celebrating her 18 birthday, Risa agreed to let Carlos take her to Camp Half blood, she reconciled with David though she told him that she was going away they decided not to continue dating again as long distance never worked. She said goodbye to her friends and family, and she and Carlos drove to Long-Island, New York.

Weapons: Hand-to-hand, Bow and arrow, Staff, Short-sword

Jacksper (talk) 03:10, October 30, 2013 (UTC)



Comments
You have 7 days to complete this claim :) If you wish for an extension, please ask. Also, you just need to make one history, that is with your 1st favored parent. I see Eros, Boreas, and Asteria's cabins aren't that full; therefore, you can make a character in any of them. It means you get immediately claimed to the cabin you want if your claim's already fixed up. Just saying, so you won't have a hard time. ^w^