Claiming:Camp/Fiona McAlister

Name: Celeste Ludenberg



Gender: Female Age: 16

God Parent: Apate, Nyx, Tyche Mortal Parent: Jace Ludenberg

Appearance: See pics (Model: Celestia Ludenberg)

Personality: Celeste is a shrewd and cunning girl. Growing up in Vegas, she developed an affinity for card games. Her favorite deck is the spades. She's extremely bright and clever and possesses deductive skills of a detective. Celeste is very manipulative and has an unnatural dexterity in controlling others. She won't pick sides, and believes she's better off on her own side. She's calm and collected by nature and lies with a straight face. Celeste thinks she's the worst, so she has a tendency of acting like the best. Celeste rarely makes mistakes, if ever. She goes to long distances to prove that she's always right. She can lose her temper over a very long period of time, and in her furious state she is quite deadly.

History: Jace Ludenberg, gambler extraordinaire. Jace lived in Vegas and traveled from casino to casino. Jace Ludenberg was infamous in every hotel and casino. He basically sat atop a throne of his own success. He was a genius in everything from the machines to the table games. With the money he earned (not to mention a car he won as well) he resided in the penthouse of the Aria hotel. He met Apate at a table game. Apate decided there was no better place than Vegas to find potential partners, so she toured a few of the casinos. In the Aria, Jace caught her eye. On purpose, she joined the same game Jace was playing to see just how experienced he was. Jace ended up winning as always, but was astounded at how well the beautiful woman was able to gamble. Apate was going easy of course, but it's not like Jace needed to know that. To congratulate her for her efforts, they went to the bar to treat themselves to a couple of drinks. A couple of drinks became a blur of repeated shots, and the drunk man and goddess stumbled back into Jace's penthouse. They did the do, and Apate left in the morning.

Jace forgot all about Apate. Dismissing the night as a drunk one night stand, he carried on with his normal life until a swaddle appeared on his doorstep. A baby with jet black hair and crystalline dark red eyes was bundled up in a white blanket with a note attatched to it. On the note, it described that the woman Jace consorted with that night was actually a greek goddess. Scrawled at the bottom of the note was an address. Jace was stunned. Was this a trick? But then, studying the child closer, he noticed she had his jet black hair and pale complexion. She had her mother's ruby colored irises. He realized as he contemplated about the infant longer that he was coming to love her more than his own life. Jace decided to raise the baby, and named her Celeste because she was his beautiful angel. Jace hired a nanny to care for Celeste as he tried to earn more money through gambling. His tactics were a success, and Jace was flourishing more than ever. When Celeste was four, Jace started to teach her the art of card playing. Celeste was a prodigy in card playing. Even Jace was astounded by her ability. Thanks to both Apate and her father, she got the best out of both of her parents. Celeste became obsessed with cards. She ditched the cheesy children shows and instead watched card matches and table games recorded on television to study new methods and techniques. When Celeste turned eight, Jace walked her through the Monte Carlo's casino. Celeste had never been in a casino before, so she marveled at all of the games being played and the machines. Celeste decided that when she grew up, she would follow in her father's footsteps and become the successor of Vegas' best gambler.

By age eleven, Celeste was popular in her private academy. Her peers were amazed at her skills in cards. Celeste even taught some of her friends to play poker. The story of Celeste Ludenberg, the best child gambler, spread across the student body. Unknown to Celeste, her academy was a hotspot for demigods. A satyr soon heard about the story. Curious of Celeste's skills, the satyr approached Celeste one day and befriended her. The satyr, Keller, picked up Celeste's scent and classified her as a demigod. Keller became Celeste's best friend. When Celeste was thirteen, just shy of her fourteenth birthday and the end of the school year, she was attacked by a hellhound. It occured when Keller and Celeste were waiting for a bus back to downtown Vegas. It was isolated and late at night because they'd left the school late. Keller panicked. He got out a celestial bronze dagger and threw it to Celeste. Celeste managed to catch it just before the hellhound pinned her down. When the hellhound pinned her down, she plunged the dagger into it, successfully killing it. Keller went home with her that night to explain everything to Jace. Jace remembered about the address on the bottom of the note attatched to Celeste's swaddle when she appeared on his doorstep. He had surprisingly kept the note. The address was the address of Camp Half-Blood. The next month, in July, Jace sent Celeste there the summer she turned fourteen.

Celeste trained herself to work with butterfly knives there. She also trained to work with using a spear and using her powers as well. The autumn she got back and started school, a harpy swooped in and attacked her when she was walking alone back to the Aria. It attacked her when it was dark and she was cornered in an alley. Celeste used her spear to kill the harpy. She returned to camp that following summer when she turned fifteen. That winter, she came across another hellhound when walking home from a corner store late one night. Unfortunately, she hadn't been prepared enough to fight it well. The only items she had to defend herself were her powers and one butterfly knife. Celeste was able to kill it but not without getting injured. The injuries were so bad, Jace hadn't let her out of the hotel unless it was school matters. Jace decided to send her to Camp to train herself even harder. This time, she would stay year round.

Weapons: CB butterfly knives and spear