Claiming:Camp/Kyung-hwa "Marcie" Park

Name : Her Korean name is Park Kyung-hwa, but she Americanized it when she moved to the states, calling herself Marcie Park

Nickname: Marcie Appearance: (Model Yoon Bora)

God parent: Hades

Current Age: 15

Mortal parent: Park Min-young

Personality: Marcie is a very intelligent girl, but is often shy around others. She has a bit of a gloomy personality and is cynical. She enjoys the company of books and cats. She's also quite the tomboy and finds better friends in males then females. She's observative and finds little joy in loud, crowded places.

History: Park Min-young was a busy, overworked law student at a university when she met Hades at a bar during a night out with friends. They had a few drinks and hit it off right away, and one thing led to another and they spent the night together. The next day, Hades was gone and Min-young went on with her school work. It wasn't until a few weeks later after a missed period that Min-young discovered that she was pregnant. As a young, unwed mother, she would have an extremely hard time taking care of a child and working 80 hour weeks, so she made the choice to get rid of the child.

A few days before she was set to rid of the child, Min-young's widower father suddenly collapsed, and Min-young left school to take care of him as he grew sick in his old age. After seeing her father almost die, Min-young never wanted to loose a person close to her, and the child she was with could bring as much joy as it could sadness.

Just before Marcie was born on a cold and snowy December night, Min-young's father passed away, leaving Min-young and her daughter a vast inheritance as Min-young's father ran a stocks company and had no male heir. So, Marcie was born and Min-young could afford a nanny to watch over her while she went back to school/

In her early years, Marcie was raised mostly by a nanny while her mother got a degree and got a job in a corporate law firm. Marcie grew more attached to her American nanny named Sarah, a school teacher from the States who moved to South Korea to teach English and ended up marrying a Korean man. She quit her full time teaching job and took on the nanny job in order to give her something to do, as men were most commonly the breadwinners. Sarah was also descended from a demigod son of Hades. She knew of the Gods but not being a direct descendant as her grandfather was kept her off the monster's radars.

Once she reached school, Marcie found it hard to fit in. She was the daughter of one of the top families in South Korea born out of wedlock, and the bullying was endless in private schools where kids made fun of her for her heritage. Marcie became a social outcast all through her elementary years of school. She complained to Sarah, who advised her on personal matters. Finally, the bullying got so bad Marcie ended up moving to a public school when she was 10. She flourished, since there wasn't a big deal about family status.

Marcie played the violin in the school orchestra, took Spanish lessons, and even joined the school's swim team. She made a few close friends, but stayed out of the spotlight. When she was 11, she walked past a type of cram school on her way to violin lessons and saw an argument between a mother and daughter on the second floor. There was yelling and screaming and crying, and finally the daughter jumped over the balcony, breaking both her legs. It was then and there at Marcie decided to keep her intelligence a secret and stay out of the spotlight, bringing attention would only bring more harm then good. It was also that day (after calling Sarah to pick her up from the scene) that Marcie was attacked by a hell hound.

They had just gotten out of their car when the thing pounced. Marcie freaked, Sarah didn't, having received training from her grandfather. Touching her grandfather's ring, it morphed into a celestial bronze sword. Sarah yelled for Marcie to run, and took down the hellhound in a terrifyingly short time. After the hellhound turned to dust and Marcie was on the verge of tears, Sarah explained gently of the Greek gods and Marcie's proposed lineage. For Marcie, it was scary. She was only 11, and she had no idea what to do. Sarah recommended that she go to the camp that her grandfather talked about, a camp on a strawberry farm in New York.

But Marcie wasn't ready to drop everything and leave, and Sarah understood the problem of convincing Marcie's mother to allow her daughter to attend a camp across the world. Sarah also wondered if even Marcie was a demigod, maybe just a second generation who had been attacked from the luck of the draw. So, they stayed. But Sarah didn't let Marcie be unprepared. Sarah enrolled Marcie in hapkido (a Korean martial art, under the guise of learning to protect herself to Min-young), taught her swordsmanship, which Marcie showed a affinity for, and Krav Maga, training Marcie as her grandfather had once her.

The next attack would be when she was 12, on a school trip to the sea side, where she was attacked by Stymphaian birds. As they swooped down and around, biting the skin off of her classmates and her, Marcie barely remembered that noise drew them away. Desperately, she grabbed a stick off the ground with her right and banged on the side of the bus with it, creating a screeching noise that drew them away. Her left hand was injured badly, bits of her skin missing and some bone showing. She got permanent nerve damage to her left hand, leaving her unable to completely close it or ever play violin again. At the clinic there was a commercial for an American show in which the main character's name was Marcie. Marcie liked it made it her nickname.

When Marcie got back, Sarah suggested that she attend camp, but Marcie needed rehab for her hand and Min-young refused Sarah's suggestion of attending the camp. So, they stayed again. It was then that Sarah gifted Marcie with her grandfather's necklace, in order to protect her. Twice more Marcie was attacked, once at age 13 when she and Sarah were at a park by a couple of hellhounds that they managed to take out with minimal damage and news coverage, and once more at age 14 by a dracaena at a school exhibition, in which Sarah took a hit for Marcie and got severely injured. While in the hospital, Min-young brought Marcie to visit the day before her 15th birthday. Sarah had serve internal bleeding and was in a medically induced coma. Her mother left the hospital to attend a meeting and left Marcie with her wallet to get a cab home. Then and there Marcie suddenly decided that it wasn't okay for her to keep burdening Sarah with a constant worry for her protection. She almost died for Marcie, and what would happen if she did? She was getting to old for a nanny, anyways, Sarah would leave at one point. What was the point of fighting for her life endlessly?

So, in a last minute decision, Marcie wrote a note to her mother and Sarah, took the debit card her mother left her and left the hospital. She arrived at her house, packed a backpack of clothes and photos, called the airline and booked a ticket pretending to be her mother and took a cab to the Seoul airport. She got her ticket to New York and arrived as the sun was rising on her 15th birthday.

She told the cab driver the address of the camp and soon arrived at the hill, where she called her mother and told her that she was okay and at a camp where she could learn. Her mother agreed, slightly relieved to have one less thing to worry about and went back to her 80 hour weeks.

Marcie arrived at camp and explained her situation, and was soon claimed as a child of Hades.

Weapon: A leather necklace that when touched turns into a sword of celestial bronze, a gift from her nanny Sarah.

Solarcat6 (talk) 02:50, December 15, 2015 (UTC)