Claiming:Broken Covenant/Blake Monte

Name: Blake Monte

Age: 16

History: Ryan Monte was an English teacher at Eston Middle School. During summer break one day, he was planning out the next year's curriculum at his house when he looked outside at the neighborhood and saw a strangely-clothed woman taking a stroll through the neighborhood. He was unable to look away. He saw all his deepest memories in her, somehow. She looked surprisingly like his late wife, Isabel Monte. He knew it was not her - Isabel's nose was sharper, her eyes bluer - but still wanted to talk to this woman. He thought he had known her all his life, as she was (in his mind) a fellow English teacher, only for seventh grade. They had flirted in the teachers' lounge sometimes, and Ryan just wanted to greet her.

He thought her name was Emily Carter. He greeted her, and "Emily" greeted him back. Blake suddenly felt a surge of love for Emily (actually it was Mnemosyne, making Ryan "remember" he had a crush on "Emily") and, since they were so close to his house, why not rendezvous? So they made their way to the bedroom. It was nighttime, though, and "Emily" crept out of the house, making Ryan forget everything about her. However, she implanted some memories in his brain so that he wouldn't be too surprised when a baby appeared on his doorstep, four months later.

This made perfect sense to Ryan once it happened, even though it shouldn't have. Mnemosyne implanted memories of someone telling him about Camp Half-Blood. Ryan understood, and went on with life as usual, caring for the kid he named Blake and going to his PeeWee games. For a demigod, Blake had a pretty normal childhood. He liked football and baseball, thick books, and his dad. Simple. Sometimes he was teased for liking such big books, like Harry Potter, in first grade. He remembered every hurtful comment, which was pretty sucky for him. He never retaliated, just let the bullies tease him endlessly throughout elementary school and the beginning of middle school.

Just when he thought the bullies were the worst problem in his life, at age thirteen, a whole flock of seemingly metallic birds attacked him outside. Blake hopelessly tried to fend them off, but a satyr came and did it himself by cutting at each one, then finally attempting to scare the rest away by scuffing his shoe into a tree. The hooves clanged, and the birds flew away (they were Stymphalian birds). In the process, the satyr was pecked to death. Camp Half-Blood didn't hear about this incident until later, however. Plenty enough time for Blake to turn fourteen and have a harpy attack him. Fortunately, he had savaged the late satyr's sword. He sliced at the harpy's wing, making it fall to the ground. The harpy scratched a claw/finger across Blake's leg, and he cursed, but made several attempts to pierce the sword in the harpy's heart (as it was heavy for him) before finally managing it, on accident.

Finally, a satyr came for him. Blake stayed safe for another almost two years, right before his sixteenth birthday. Then a hellhound leaped at him from the bushes at school. The Mist made all the mortals think it was a loose poodle, and no one paid attention. The satyr did, though, and slashed at the hellhound's body, dissolving it into dust. He offered to take Blake to camp, and Blake agreed, happy for once to be safe.

When the satyr explained about him being a demigod, however, Blake couldn't help thinking, ''Why didn't my godly parent help me kill the monsters, then? Why didn't they help? Do they even keep in touch with their children? Do they care? ''He shook away those thoughts at first and journeyed the long way to Camp Half-Blood, turning sixteen along the way.

Finally, they reached camp. Blake was introduced and was overwhelmed by the vastness of it, but the satyr, Thomas, told him he needed a weapon. When they arrived at the armory, first Blake looked at the swords. Then he saw a bow and arrow out of the corner of his eye, and picked it up. He decided to take a walk out of camp borders, in the town, just to breathe in some non-demigod fumes for a while. Some demigods, he could swear, should seriously take a shower.

That was when he saw an odd boy, with a sword, walking around the town. Blake was certain he was a demigod because of the sword, but didn't know who he was. He casually asked the boy where he was staying. The boy eyed Blake's bow and arrow, and replied, "The Broken Covenant, of course. Aren't you one of the god's slaves? Don't you know better?" Blake asked him what he meant, and the boy explained about the BC and its factions. The boy was from Veritum Unitum, and rambled about how it was the best faction. Blake realized that his beliefs about the gods matched Veritum Unitum's exactly.

The boy welcomed Blake to the BC, and Blake happily obliged.

Personality: Blake never forgets a single thing anyone tells him. He is immune to amnesia, but sometimes feels like too much memories can be exhausting. He is also fluent in a lot of languages, and can generally learn a language very fast. He's kind to everyone except the gods, even people from Camp Half-Blood because he used to be one of them. If he had to kill one, it's just, "Hey, sorry about this, but I'm on a mission and I'll have to kill you. May you go to Elysium." It's also impossible to get his attention once he has his hands on a book he's never read before.

Weapons: Blake prefers to use a bow and arrow, because you can't really use a sword for surprise attacks unless you're very careful, and surprise attacks, Blake figured out, are the most effective. Oh, and of course, the arrows are Celestial bronze. (CB) He got this bow and arrow from the armory at camp, just from the short one day he stayed there.

Appearance: Blake has straight, close-cropped blond hair. It's short, not shaggy or anything ("Do you have a problem with that?"). He also has dark green eyes, which some people think are a really weird shade of brown until they look closer, which would be awkward.... He could be classified as cute, but he pays no attention to his looks.

Godly Parent: Mnemosyne

Mortal Parent: Ryan Monte

Species: Demigod

Why they want to join the BC: The gods take mortals for granted. They make demigods without care, then move on without even caring about them. The gods have done much wrong in the past, and why should demigods keep on fighting for them if the gods never truly love them, or even notice them, at all?

Faction: Veritum Unitum

Why they should belong to that faction: Blake feels like his mother never contacts him, never even pays attention to him, just keeps on finding mortal men and doing it with them and not even bothering to look at the baby afterwards. The gods never even love mortals for long, even if those mortals love them to the end. This is wrong. Blake remembers every injustice done to him, and while not a son of Themis, he believes injustices should NOT go unnoticed.