Claiming:Camp/Anna Leah

Name: Anna Leah ("LEE")

Gender: Female

God Parent: Demeter, Hecate, Morpheus (Preferably Demeter, I'll take any but Demeter allows me to recycle an old character)

Mortal Parent: Jeremy Leah, a postman and avid gardener/naturalist, deceased. (Demeter) Jeremy Leah, a Pennsylvania witchcraft practicer, deceased. (Hecate) Morgan Leah, psychoanalytic psychologist. (Morpheus)

Appearance: Anna is slim with dark brown hair and blue eyes.

Personality: Anna is shy, rarely speaking, but studious and a competitive archer. (All) She also is emotional at times with blood reminding of her deceased father (Demeter and Hecate). If a Demeter Camper she will be one of the rare few lacking any learning disabilities, but worse physically. If she becomes a Hecate camper she will have an aversion towards her heritage and powers and will gain ADHD and dyslexia. If a Morpheus character she will be inattentive and somewhat lazy besides ADHD and dyslexic.

History: Anna Leah was born to to Jeremy Leah, a humble postman and avid gardener, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Her mother appeared to her father as a co-worker who also had an interest in botany, and they had a three year romance. Soon after Anna's birth, however, her mother disappeared. Heartbroken and never truly realizing the nature of his lover, Jeremy took it upon himself to raise to raise child. With no immediate relatives, Jeremy was the only family Anna had, and she was told since a young age that her mother was deceased. Her father would never tell her any more and never did.

As a young girl, Anna took a great interest in the natural world. Her father took her hiking and taught her much about the forest and its ecosystems. He also taught her gardening. Gardening became one of her favorite past times, and living in a backwoods and out-of-the-way area, she rarely had friends over. Plants seemed to blossom under her care and she was recognized at the state fair for a large pumpkin she grew. For many years she lived a happy but solitary life.

This continued for years until she was 14 years old. One fateful day, her father had completed his route and called the house to tell Anna he'd be home soon, and that tonight they were going to the nearby town of Wheeling, WV to eat at an Italian restaurant. He told her he was at the bottom of the hill and she waited for him. Awhile later he still had not returned home. Anna, assuming he got stuck in the ditch at the bottom of the hill again, hiked down the hill, and she saw his car. A bird of great she size and with feathers like knives had been lodged in the windshield and was still twitching. Anna had never seen a bird like it before, buts she had no time to reflect on it. She quickly flung open the car door and saw blood. So much blood... she was sure he was dead. All she did was run home and cry for what seemed like hours before stopping just before the police showed up at her house. When they officially told her he was dead she started crying again. She didn't know what to do and ran into the woods.

In the deepest part of she ran into her friend, Sally Crowe. Sally lived only a few miles away, and like Anna enjoyed the forest. Tearfully, Anna told Sally what she had seen. Sally then told her to follow quickly. When asked why she revealed that she was a guide, a nymph, and that bird was a monstrous Stygian bird of Greek myth. She then told Anna that the bird had meant to come and kill a half-mortal and half-god. Anna, who was in shock, failed to see the connection until another bird appeared. It dived towards the two, but perished when a wall of plant jutted up in front it and it hit it and snapped its neck. She was ever more so thrown into shock when she realized that she had caused the wall of plants to grow. Later she was sleeping in a hollow sycamore tree when Sally and Anna both needed to stop and rest. After a restful night, she woke up and found a longbow made out of a beautiful wood she had never seen before, she had experience with bows before from the archery club, and found it to be a very good bow. Sally then told her it was a gift from her mother, and began to explain more to her. She was told that she was a daughter of Demeter by and they were going to a summer camp where she would be safe. Her mother would likely claim her as soon as she arrived.

Hecate

Anna Leah was born to to Jeremy Leah, a self-proclaimed Warlock outside of Lancaster, PA. Her mother encountered her father at a neo-pagan, Wicca, and Witchcraft art festival and they had a very brief encounter. Months went past and Jeremy was preforming a ceremony alone when a purple smoke filled the house. Jeremy was unsure what occurred next, he may have passed out, but after the smoke cleared a baby sat on the floor wrapped in a black blanket. This was Anna and he raised her as a normal child.

As a young girl, Anna took a great interest in her father's spiritualism. Her father treated her as an assistant, and when she was as young as six, she was involved in rituals. The community of Lancaster, many of them Amish, shunned both her and father, but she cared not and did not associate with any of her peers out of choice though also because she feared not being accepted.

This continued for years until she was 14 years old. One fateful day, she and her father was preforming a ritual when a fury broke through a window and plunged the ritual knife into his chest after he refused to give her Anna. The blood was horrible and Anna screamed only in time for the neighbors' farm dog to attack the horrible creature. Anna heard the dog whine as she escaped out the house, but had no idea where to go.

She eventually decided to go visit an acquaintance, an old women who lived nearby, and had talked extensively with her father before. Telling her that a demon had killed her father, the old woman told her go to local foster home and asked for a man named Fred Wilds. She did as she was told, and Fred, a satyr, revealed himself to her and drove her nonstop to Camp Half-Blood, where he said she would be safe. Along the way he informed her that the monster's appearance and interest in her signified that she was a demigod. He explained that Greek myth was real, and taught her a few things about the world. She has been at CHB for three days and renounced magic for she believed it may have contributed to her father's death.

Morpheus Anna Leah was born to to Morgan Leah, a pyscoanalyst. Her mother encountered her father as a patient. He had been expieriencing lucid dreaming. He asked her about what she thought dreams meant and became something of a favorite patient. It was in a dream that Anna was conceived in and in a dream Anna was given to her. Morgan had a natural daughter already from a deceased lover, thus Anna has a half-sister a year older than she is.

Through her childhood, Anna was a day dreamer. She vivdly recalled dreams, day dreams, and nightmare s, and wouod often sketch them. She was extremely inattentive in school, and always lost in thought. Her favourite past time was ready Lewis Carroll, and she still often quotes his works. Her sister saw her as wierd, but they were close, and her life was rather uneventful.

This continued for years until she was 14 years old. This was the first time she encountered a monster. It was massive hound that nearly killed her before she managed to frighten it away. Returning hom e, her mother told her about her origins. Morpheus had revealed his true nature. She had been told what she must do when her child was attacked. Morgan had a hard time explaining this to Anna's sister, Sarah, but left her with a relative and told her that her sister was going to a boarding school for awhile.

Before arriving at the camp, however, they both were attacked. The Nemian lion pounced on the car, crushing the roof, and nearly killing the ones inside. It was in this moment that her weapon appeared. A wierd curved bent bow appeared in her mind to be in the back of the car and she saw one actually sitting in the back seat, and although she the car was nearly destroyed and her mother seriously injured, she managed to get her hand on the bow... before being saved by a counselor. The had nearly made it to the camp, and were close enough to be noticed and helped.

Weapons:

Longbow "Blossom Bow" (Demeter)

Knife "Teardrop" (Hecate)

Longbow "Nightmare" (Morpheus)