Claiming:Camp/Atalanta Karina

Name: Atalanta Karina

Gender: Female

God Parent: Apollo (preferred), Eros, Boreas (already have)

Mortal Parent: Alexandria Karina (raised), Unknown (real)

Appearance:

Personality:

Atalanta is a very perky girl, very outgoing and friendly to the point she can be almost clingy. She will be friends with anyone, except if they scare her (like the Deimos kids do). She is truly an Apollo kid, living the half-full life and seems to be her own little ray of sunshine, being amazingly optimistic. She won't hurt anyone and hates getting into fights, whether verbal or physical, and likes finding herself in the role of peace maker very often. She likes to sing, dance, play instruments and paint...and has a special soft spot for music in her heart. She doesn't seem to be capable of hating someone, and this sensitive soul can be a very good friend.

History:

Mrs. Karina was a perfectly normal woman, in labour with her only daughter. The young baby was premature, so of course, she had to be taken to intensive care until she was stable. The one fear of a mother when her child is taken to intensive care is that you might be given the wrong baby. Unfortunately, that happened to her, without either party realising - and so she went home with Atalanta, daughter of Apollo. But such a simple mistake could change everything.

Atalanta didn't look like her or Ciaran Karina, but both shrugged it off - appearance was never a massive reliable source in the first place. Atalanta settled in well in her home, always a little mischievous bright spark who craved attention from the adults and absolutely loved to be played with - especially when Ciaran would give her a piggyback up and down the nearby hill, or when they went to the play park and he'd push her on the swing, she felt like she was flying.

At an early age she met her best friend, Angelika. Angelika was a young Swede who had moved to Britain with her mother, and they were like twins. Even though they weren't really, they acted like it enough. Angelika was another daughter of Apollo, although neither parent knew of it - the Karinas didn't know Atalanta was, so had the secret been shared, the Karinas would have laughed it off as a corny April Fools joke. Except, not in April.

Her years were spent laughing with Angelika, being as close as best friends could ever be. Bright, happy, smiling, causing chaos for the teachers. They were their families' little angels, but little devils at school. They weren't very academic, except in Art and Music, where it was noted that they were exceptionally good.This didn't go unnoticed by the teacher, a son of Athena himself, and he began to have suspicions.

Primary school came and went without problems, Angelika and Atalanta glued together as much as they ever were. They transferred to secondary school and still struggled with issues like their academia and maturity.

It was in their third year there, at age thirteen, that it happened. Atalanta and Angelika were trusted to go to the nearby park together - to practice their archery. Not with real arrows, of course. They encountered an empousai, and Angelika threw herself in front to save her friend, and perished. Atalanta has never truly forgiven herself for it - and her fear of being utterly alone surfaced from that, she is sure. She is determined to be as great a friend to people as Angelika was to her.

Angelika's death gave her enough time left surviving - a split second, just about, for the satyr behind to behead it. He was wise, and explained what had happened. He explained she was really a demigod, daughter of Apollo. She took a parcel given to her by him - a bow with Celestial Bronze arrows. He then proceeded, after a short but tearful goodbye to the only family she'd ever known, to take her to camp, discovering when she was claimed that the Karinas' true baby died, soon after it was born, and they didn't want an autopsy, that was why there had been no suspicion.

Weapons:

Bow and arrows (Celestial Bronze)

My judgement is clouded like tonight&#39;s sky (talk) 12:20, September 28, 2014 (UTC)