Archived:Belladonna Bianchi

Personal History
Marco Bianchi was a very attractive man, living in the lap of luxury, son of an italian tycoon who had made his money by making friends with some influential Mafia bosses who insured that his business thrived while his competition dwindled down to nothing. When he was 21 he moved to New York, where he lived with the American socialites, throwing parties and becoming known as the common rich playboy. Of course he would attract the attention of Aphrodite, with his flair for opulence and taste for the finer things. She appeared to him at one of his parties and needless to say they hit it off very well. Nine months later Marco was approached again by the beautiful woman from the party, and she gave him a beautiful golden haired baby. Even if he was a playboy, his heart melted at the child that the woman claimed was his; he even named her Belladona, beautiful woman, after the beauty the child possessed and the mysterious woman who had bequeathed her to him. Belladona was raised in the lap of luxury, with maids and employees raising her while her father worked. Even from a young age she seemed to want to control people, making them do what she wanted, or she made her father get rid of them. She would plead to her father that they hit her, or hurt her in some way, all the while smirking as she watched them disappear. Eventually they realized who they really needed to please in this household in order to stay, not the man who paid them, but instead his young daughter.

Marco worried about his daughter being at home alone, with only the maids and countless tutors he had hired. They all never seemed to last long, and he worried about the effect this had on his darling daughter. The tutors maybe the best money could buy, but he figured that she actually needed human interaction with children her age. So he enrolled her in a private middle school. So when Belladona was 11, she was first put into a ‘normal’ schooling environment. Well if paying 10,000 dollars a year for your child to eat all organic food prepared by a four star kitchen staff while learning on an ‘open’ and ‘free’ schedule is what you consider normal.

Belladona understood how the social ladder worked in school, and as a pretty girl with money, she rose that ladder pretty quickly. She had a knack for knowing which people to be friends with, how to get them to do what she wanted, and leading groups of people. By the time she was 13, she had the entire school wrapped around her finger. She was a friend to everyone, and older sister to girls who had lost their way, and a devil to anyone who DARED to disobey her way. Anyone who decided to talk about Bella, or go against her soon found that Bella’s influence was powerful and widespread. They were out of the group in minutes, out of their social lives in less than a day, and out of her school in a week.

She felt that everyone around her was weak, stupid, that she was special, that she had something different about her. But mainly what she wanted was power, she lusted for it. To have control of all those around her, to be their one true leader. When she entered high school, and her powers started to show, her lust to control all whom she met grew. In highschool, she wanted to rule all that she met, so she : slept, lied, and manipulated everyone into thinking that she was what they wanted. She made them love her, then made them her underlings. All the while they lifted her up, bringing her closer to what she wanted to be: all powerful, a ruler!

While in high school, a monster happened to catch a whiff of her, since she had been using her powers for such a long time. One day after school she was called over by the school counselor to discuss her 'behavior issues', and while Bella was meeting with her the counselor revealed her true form, an Echidna. Bella screamed and tried to run away from the Echidna, and her cries caught the attention of a Satyr who had been searching for demigods at this school. He pulled a celestial bronze dagger and killed the Echidna, and then he went to check on Bella, who was cowering behind a group of lockers and staring at him in shock. Upon seeing her he realized she could be nothing but a child of Aphrodite, with how perfect she looked and her power over others. He approached her, told her of her powers and who she was.

He showed her how he was a satyr and that everything in the Greek myths were true. She laughed in his face and had a rumor spread saying that he had tried to rape her. Administration caught wind of the rumor, and upon the tearful interview of Belladona claiming how she was too scared to come forward, scared that he would hurt her, had him expelled. And with a few quick restraining orders from Daddy, she was safe. But in her heart, his words had struck a chord in her heart. She was better than the humans around her! She was a demigod, she was perfect, a magnificent creation. But she wanted more, she needed more. She wanted control over other demigods, she wanted to have them look up to her, to venerate her like the humans had! She just had to find them first... and that satyr would be the perfect way...

Marco saw the changes in his daughter, how she thought that she was better than people around her, but he brushed it off. She often spoke to him about how she was better than those around her, about how her friends were nothing to her, about how she wanted power.

He was worried for her but thought it was a phase, that she was just confused about who she was, that she would stop. But then she started doing that to even him, and he knew she had to be stopped. So one day he confronted Belladona. He waited for her to come home from school, and confronted her in the kitchen. He told her that she was going out of control, that she was doing anything to gain power, and about how she couldn’t do that in this world and have anything. He told her that she wasn’t better than everyone else. That she was just human.

This set Belladona into a rage. She was more than human; she was perfect, the humans that she lived with needed to follow her! She was a demigod, a daughter created from the perfection of Aphrodite, whether or not her father thought he same. He had no right to control her! To make her listen to him, she was perfect, she is the perfect being! Marco had dug into his daughters one weak spot, and threw her into a rage, after which he laid dead on the floor, while Bella stood above him holding the knife.

Bella cleaned up, took the money out of the safe her father kept in the house, took all of the valuables her father had given her. Then she packed some clothes and left the house. She found the satyr that had told her what she was, and convince him, with a little charm speaking to show her where another demigod lived. Once he took her with him to another demigod, who happened to live near a patch of woods in New Hampshire. While the satyr was not paying attention, she snuck up behind him with the knife he had given her, and slit his throat. There was no room for useless creatures like him in her world. She then looked upon the demigod boy, while he walked in his backyard, unaware of her or the death that had occurred. She then came up with her plan.

That night she snuck into his house, charm spoke the parents into staying in their bedroom, by the time the flames had started engulfing the house and the charm-speak wore off, it was too late for them. She found the boy, Leo son of Phegleton, and ‘saved’ him from the inferno. She told him that he was the child of a god, that his father had smited him, and killed his parents, but not to worry, for she would help him, she would protect him, as long as he promised to follow her no matter where she went, and let her be his leader.

Group History
Bella hated the gods, hated everything about them, and she was determined to be one demigod that never went to that stupid Camp Half-Blood. She knew it wold not always be easy, fighting monsters alone, so she kept an eye out, for like-minded demigods like herself, maybe even demigods that were abused, mistreated or abandoned. Over the course of three years, she went out in search of demigods like herself, and convinced them to join her, that they were safer in numbers.

One day, the three years she had spent successfully recruiting began crumbling into nothing within seconds. She went to collect a daughter of Hades, and had already started to set the house on fire. She thought it would be easy, just like when she recruited Leo, but things went horribly wrong. Turns out there were a group o



f Satyr in the area, who had been scouting for demigods. They had tracked down the hades child’s scent, and bust in right as Belladonna was lighting the fire outside the parent’s room. They came at her, trying to catch her, so she swung around the torch she was using to start the fire, hoping to keep them from grabbing her. The swinging of the torch caused it to strike a set of curtains, which then caught up in flame, and Bella watched in horror as the flames spread rapidly around the hallway and through the house. She ran outside, but realized that her plans were ruined. They had seen her, they knew who she was, and they knew what she wanted. She ran away from the burning house as the satyrs scrambled to get the child and parents out. She went back to their townhouse and told her followers that they would not be recruiting any more demigods for a while. That they n

eeded to be careful, that people were on to them, that they were not safe.

One day, one of her satyr informants told her about the BC, about their factions and beliefs. She saw a chance for safety and a chance for her to gain more control in the Opus Superum, who like her and her minions thought that demigods were superior. So that night they set off for the BC, and spent many months in search for it, before finding the Sanctuary.

Not all the demigods with her felt that it was the right move, they were starting to feel differently about all of it, and decided to head for camp instead.

Personality
Belladona is willing to do anything to make people follow her, to make them worship her. She abuses the relationships that people want by trying to be their mother, sister, lover, whatever it takes to have them follow her. No one really sees the true her, since she hasn't met a person that she considers as perfect as her, or worthy of being worshiped and being a leader like she is. She views herself as higher than the rest of the world, and lusts after power. She will lie, manipulate, steal, and kill anyone or anything to get what she wants

Apperance
She is tall and lithe, standing at 5"10. She has golden blonde hair that stops about halfway down her back, which is usually pin-straight. Her eyes are a goldeny-green depending on how the light hits them. As a child of Aphrodite, she is able to change her appearance at will and is generally described as attractive.

Offensive

 * 1) Children of Aphrodite can intoxicate people of the opposite gender with pheromones in order to get them to do their bidding; any attempt to use the person to harm anyone (including their own person) will break their control.
 * 2) Children of Aphrodite can bring upon a state of ecstasy to another person, making them become dazed for a short time

Defensive
m and begins to suffocate anyone else within it
 * 1) Children of Aphrodite can cause people of the opposite gender to lose all desire to attack them for a short time.
 * 2) Children of Aphrodite can create a large plum of dense perfume or makeup which obscures the

Passive

 * 1) Children of Aphrodite cause anyone of the opposite gender to be, at least slightly, attracted to them; they also attract people of the same gender that consider themselves gay or lesbian.
 * 2) Children of Aphrodite have the ability to alter and control clothes and make-up.

Supplementary

 * 1) Children of Aphrodite can alter their appearance for short periods of time, the more they do to alter their appearance, and the longer they maintain the appearance, the more energy it drains.
 * 2) Children of Aphrodite have a minor ability to sway a person’s feelings, causing them to feel a slight amount of love for another person; the final choice to act on the love is, however, out of their control.

Counsellor Only
another into doing their will or revealing a secret to them; the person will remain under the control of the charm-speak for a few minutes or until control is relinquished
 * 1) In rare cases, children of Aphrodite can infuse magic into their words and ‘charm-speak’

Traits

 * 1) The ability to speak French as it is "the language of love"