Claiming:Camp/Kim Unzine

Name: Kimberly Unzine

Nicknames: Kim or Gem

Gender: Female

God Parent: Hades (1st Choice), Persephone (2nd Choice), Melinoe (3rd Choice)

Current Age: 16 DOB: 6/6/96

Mortal Parent: Birth parent is unknown to her and is deceased. He/she was a Korean fisherman/woman who was killed in a storm shortly after Kim's birth. Her adoptive parents are Bob and Dolores Unzine, a farming couple from the American midwest. Appearance: Kim is 5'2" with a slender, athletic build. She has naturally dark hair, but likes to dye it different colors. Her eyes are a warm shade of brown. I plan to use Korean singer Hyuna as the picture model, if there are no objections to that.

Personality: Kim is normally very quiet and shy around people she is not familiar with. She will typically try to just fade into the background, if given the chance. For those that do confront her and get to know her a little better, she will eventually start to open up and show a much more carefree and fun-loving side. She can be a little flirty with the guys at times, but is likely to turn red and go silent again if anyone points this out to her.

She has a passion for collecting shiny rocks. It doesn't matter if they are gems, geodes, or just pretty rocks she found on the side of the road. She also has a tendency to draw doodles on whatever materials she has handy, including her own skin. She will try to stick to washable markers though if drawing on herself or someone else...mostly.

History: Kim's mother (or father, depending on god parent selected) was a medical assistant aboard a deep water fishing vessel based in South Korea. It was a rouch job that involved long weeks at sea in some of the worst weather conditions. There was not one outing where at least one crewmwmber would be lost overboard or severely injured trying to bring in some of the larger and stronger catches. Death was a constant companion.

Perhaps it was the death toll in general or maybe it was the way that Kim's mother calmly accepted the losses that caught the attention of a divine being from the underworld. Whatever the reason, the young medic found herself the target of relentless flirting from a young European man who had recently joined on with the crew. Under normal circumstances, she would have turned away and run, as any modest girl would do. But the confined spaces of the ship kept them in constant contact and eventually her defenses began to wear away.

The flirting escalated to a burning passion and the two young lovers spent every stolen moment they could in each others embrace. Eventually the ship returned to port and the young man informed her that he was being called home. He promised to send for her as soon as he could. The day after he left, she found out she was pregnant.

One year later, she returned to work. Her baby daughter was left with a friend while she returned to her old boat crew to try to earn a living. An explosion below decks just after the ship left port claimed her life. Her lover had sent for her, just as he had promised.

With no living relatives identified, Kim was sent to a local orphanage. She was there less than three months before an American couple adopted her and took her to her new life on the other side of the world.

Growing up, Kim had many foster brothers and sisters come and go, but she was the only child ever fully adopted by her parents. A nasty criminal record possesed by her adopted grandfather and uncle prevented her parents from adopting locally and going overseas for another child was just too expensive to manage.

Her home was in a fairly rural area with almost nothing to do and very few neighbors to go visit. It is no wonder that it took years for any of her powers to start to surface or for any monsters to find her. In fact, she would probably still be on the farm today, if a satyr and another demi-god on his way to camp hadn't run out of gas on the dirt road near her home.

Being hospitable, she offered to guide them to the nearest service station where they might buy some fuel and snacks. Along the way they were attacked by several skeleton like figures. The satyr, disguised fairly well as a normal teen at that point, stayed pretty calm and quickly grabbed a loose board from a fence to use as a makeshift club. The other demigod...well, he just sorta passed out. Kim stood in stunned terror as the satyr put up a valiant fight, but the beasts were too much for him and he was eventually knocked cold by a blow from his relentless opponents.

Kim stood frozen in place as they advanced, ready to finish all three of them off. Then she did what any child scared out of her wits would do. She closed her eyes, stomped her feet, and yelled at the top of her lungs, "GO AWAY! LEAVE US ALONE!" The skeletons stopped, looked at each other, then turned away with a shrug and sort of melted back into the earth. Whatever spell had summoned them in the first place was apparently not strong enough to overrule the authority of a princess of the underworld.

Having unknowingly put a large degree of personal power into the shout and not really having any practice with controlling that power, Kim suddenly felt herself very drained of energy. Her knees buckled and she fell to the ground beside her temporary companions. She blacked out and plunged into dream about a land of ultimate rewards and punishments, where big multi-headed dogs chewed red rubber balls to pieces next to terrified people waiting in line for the admissions tent. She woke some time later in a strange bed. An infirmary bed in the camp that would be her new home.

Possessions/Weapons: Nothing special upon arrival at camp. Just the clothes she was wearing and a few pretty rocks she found before her encounter with the satyr and the skeletons.

 Falling from heaven    is not as painful as surviving the impact    20:50, March 20, 2013 (UTC)