Claiming:Camp/Kirsi Eriksson

Name: Kirsikka Eriksson (prefers Kirsi)

Gender: Female

God Parent: Eris, Morpheus, Deimos

Mortal Parent: Leni Eriksson

Appearance:

Personality: Kirsi is a chaotic mess of cold and sad. She despises herself and many of those around her and is extremely stubborn. She is not one to pick a fight with, for she will stare you down and cut you as much as she has cut herself. Kirsi is ruthless when she needs to be, and is constantly angry, though this has been almost entirely engulfed by her depression. Nowadays, to see Kirsi angry is to see a flicker of hope that she mightn’t kill herself, she mightn’t slit her wrists. She doesn’t cry anymore, just looks upon life with a steely determination to be rid of it. At Camp she hopes to either find a cure to her sadness or kill herself and be done with it all.

History: Leni Eriksson met Eris while she was posing as an assistant at his banking firm. Eris had been attracted to the firm when the last assistant had sent the firm into chaos when she lost the term reviews for all the employees. She had been fired, and Eris happily took her place, making more chaos for the firm. Leni eventually caught on to her tricks and had her fired, but not before sleeping with her, having been attracted to her and still being a single man. As a parting gift, Eris righted the chaos she had done, and never spoke to Leni again.

Nine months passed, and a baby girl wrapped in a shimmering blanket was left on the doorstep of Leni’s holiday home in the snow. He had been out skiing at the time, and when he returned the child was half dead. He rushed the infant to the hospital out of concern, and the doctors did all they could to save her, which meant intensive care and multiple surgeries for the first year of Kirsikka’s life. She was released from the hospital when she was one and a half.

When Leni returned to his home with his child, he was absolutely defeated. He had only taken the child to the hospital as it was the right thing to do. DNA tests at the hospital, however, had proven him to be the father of the child, and he didn’t feel responsible enough to raise a child yet. He had considered adoption at first, but spending time at the hospital had left him with an attachment to the little girl. He then thought of handing her off to relatives, but again, his emotional bond with the girl prevented him from that. He decided to raise the girl himself, and named her Kirsikka, after his grand-mama.

Leni never enrolled Kirsi in school, not having enough money to do so. Kirsi was fine with this, as she had all she needed; her father, a home and a little dog to follow her around. Her father told her of life when gods ruled the Earth and magic was common. Everything was perfect and both Leni and Kirsi were happy, that was, until she began growing into a few traits she had inherited from her mother. At ten, she began constantly arguing with Leni, with their fights becoming more and more heated. When she would walk through town to go shopping, people would stare at her in disgust and anger. Boys would fight around her and dogs would bark at her. He own dog stayed faithful to her though, the one living being that didn’t hate her guts it seemed.

The arguing took a huge toll on Leni, feeling as if he had failed as a father. He fell out of a stable job when Kirsi was 11, not telling her for fear of her rejecting him even further than she had been.

It was the same year Leni fell out of a job, the year Kirsi was 11, that she had her first monster attack. As she was returning from the store in the snow, a Cyclops attacked her. She was extremely scared when it happened. She hadn’t grown into her powers and she knew nothing of the demigod world, still not able to see properly through the Mist. The Cyclops looked like a really tall, scary man to her. The monster swung at her, knocking her unconscious into the snow. The Cyclops had smelled a faint demigod scent on her, but her weakness and disability to fight led the Cyclops to believe she had been around a demigod as opposed to being a demigod.

The monster followed her scent back to her house, where Leni was in the kitchen cooking. The aromas from the food caused Leni to smell only of fish, but the Cyclops ambushed Leni and abducted him anyway, presuming he had to be the demigod. When Kirsi awoke, she was freezing to death and couldn’t remember anything of her attack. Confused, she wondered home to find Leni not there. Worried, she called the police and ran out onto the street, asking all her neighbours if they had seen him. They all shook their heads and slammed their doors on Kirsi. She collapsed once again into the snow, this time being found by the police before they checked her house. The police found nothing and gave her to social workers, who delivered her to her aunt’s house in Stockholm.

Kirsi had never before met her aunt, and their relationship got off to a bad start when her aunt blamed her for her father’s disappearance. She called Kirsi a home-wrecker, demon child and a bitch. Kirsi’s mental state declined from there. Her aunt forced her to go to school at the age of twelve, which attracted unwanted attention from school bullies and monsters. She was attacked at the age of twelve and again at the age of fourteen, both times only escaping the monsters by outrunning them and hiding in garbage dumps, which masked her scent. She was bullied at school for her red hair and glasses, and she began hating the world. Kirsi began the slow descent into depression at the age of thirteen, when her home life with her aunt was full of verbal and physical abuse as were her school days. She surrounded herself with a miasma of hatred, anger and sadness, which generally deterred people from her, but only attracted more monsters.

At 16, Kirsi made a single friend at school. His name was Aleksander and he was a satyr, which he openly told Kirsi, and she believed him. She wanted to believe there was somewhere better for her, but most of the time her brain shut her down and she would lapse into periods of extremely severe depression. She always had slit wrists, which Aleksander had seen before on other demigods, but never to the extent of Kirsi’s cutting.

One day at school, only a week after meeting and befriending Aleksander, Kirsi was sitting at her lunch table in the cafeteria when three of the school bullies walked up to her. By this point in time, Kirsi had full well discovered her powers, but hardly used them, as arguments seemed to come naturally to her anyway. This incident, however, was a breaking point. As the bullies began shoving her around she created a storm of strife throughout the cafeteria, running away with Aleksander.

He took them to Camp Half Blood. On the journey they were attacked by three harpies and a hellhound, but they managed to escape both times with minor wounds and scrapes. They reached Camp Half-Blood while Kirsi was still sixteen.

Weapons: Upon arrival at Camp, Kirsi was gifted with an enchanted war hammer, made to feel as if it is half its weight, and a spiked CB shield by some Hephaestus kids.

09:10, November 23, 2013 (UTC)