Claiming:Camp/ Erin Garcia

Name: Erin Paige Garcia

Gender: Female

God Parent: Astraeus (second choice Poseidon, third choice Hermes)

Mortal Parent: Maria Ellen Garcia

Current Age: 18 years old, with birthday on November 23



Personality: Both upbeat and off the beat, Erin is not afraid to be herself. She will actively defend her individuallity, as well as others', as she views it as one of the most important things you can have in life. However, this take on life makes Erin especially sour towards the idea of teams, political parties, and/or group t-shirts.

Her biggest fear is that one day she might give in to mainstream society, and become one more uniform face in a crowd of uniformity.

Erin loves indie pop, is a lesbian, and has a mild form of claustrophobia.

History: Maria Ellen Garcia was a scientist at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Most days she wasn't even a scientist, but instead a tour guide for all the families that visted the Observatory. She longed a part of NASA, where she would be able to shirk the responsibility of being a tour guide and become an astronomer 24/7. But NASA had rejected her three years prior, and Maria had delusion in her head that they'd change their mind, especially with new applications coming into the esteemed space progream every day. So Maria accepted her mostly-tour guide but sometimes-scientist job with a tight smile, and tried to appreciate the time that she did have to look at the stars.

It was one night that she'd gotten stuck with cleaning duty that everything had changed. A man was found using one of the telescopes after guest hours; Astraeus, the titan of the stars, though Maria hadn't known that. She had thought he was some tourist that hadn't left yet. So she shooed him away. But the next night, he was there again. And the next night, as well. Eventually Maria formed a friendship with the titan that just kept coming back, which eventually bloomed into love. The last time she ever saw Astraeus was a few weeks before Erin was born.

With Astraeus gone, Erin became her mother's sole joy, aside from the stars. Erin had a very close relationship with her mother. In the days of her childhood, Erin and her mom would sit out in front of the Observatory and look out at the stars, talking about how school was going, or about Erin's dad. Maria never mentioned his name, though she often called him an astronaut, telling Erin wild stories about his travels to Jupiter or Mars. Whenever Erin got sad about her father being gone, or unsure if he was even alive, her mom would always tell her that he'd be home as soon as he found the perfect moonrock to bring home as a souvineir.

The moonrock never came.

As Erin grew older, she began to notice something following her. She'd catch glimpses of ghosts or large dark hounds that would be gone as soon as she blinked. Her first monster attack occured when she was 14; a drakon scouted her out as she was leaving school and chased after her. She was able to escape the monster, but not without getting a glob of acid on her left arm. She was able to keep it from eating all the way through her skin, but the incident caused a large patch of whitened skin that's sure to never go away.

The incident unnerved her mother, and Maria chose to move around the country in order to keep monsters from catching Erin's scent. This occured for several years before the two encountered Brian Grey, a legacy of Dionysus that helped to point them in the direction of Camp Halfblood. Erin was able to travel to the camp, but her mother stayed behind in Bridgeport with Brian, since she's not a demigod. Brian and her mother are currently in a relationship.

Weapons: none, atm