Claiming:Camp/Katherine "Sparrow" Combs

Name: Katherine “Sparrow” Combs

Gender: Female

God Parent: Aeolus, Astoria, Iris

Current Age: 18

Mortal Parent: Aurora Combs (will rewrite if Astoria or Iris)

Appearance: Katherine has brown hair, coppery brown eyes, and a smattering of freckles on her face. She is of Middle Eastern descent, and is fair-skinned.

Personality: Katherine is generally very blunt when it comes to confrontation. In addition, she is cautious and very wary to trust people, and this makes her appear cold to those not close to her. Katherine likes to joke around, but can be very serious when the time arises. She can be seen as a “motherly” figure. Katherine has a very good ability of reading people’s feelings, and often uses it to either manipulate or help others in situations where it is necessary. Katherine can be apologetic at times, sometimes to the point of being irritating, but can also be overly confident of her beliefs. History:

How Her Parents Met (will rewrite if Astoria or Iris)

Aurora Combs was an average woman, an editor and writer for the local newspaper in the city of Greendale. Aurora, however, was also on the search for a new topic for her article, and her boss had told her to go look around and interview people in the outskirt suburban county of Bluffwood. Bluffwood had been experiencing strong winds that were blowing down trees and buildings, and she was sent to ask people what was going on and if they’d seen anything. When she went down to Bluffwood in her small cherry-red Chevy, she found the city abandoned, flattened to the ground. It was as if Bluffwood never existed. As she was walking, she called out, searching for another soul in the lifeless rubble that was the county. A loud voice responded to her, “Ma’am?”

She searched for the source and saw a man: tall, dirty-blonde hair, blue eyes, well built. A short, stubbly beard traced the sides of his jaw, and Aurora couldn’t help but stare as she took him in. Notebook and pen in hand, she stepped closer, “Yes?”

The man said, “Are you alone?”

She ignored his question, and responded, “I’m here from the Greendale City Inquirer. I’m supposed to interview people from Bluffdale. Seeing as you’re the only one here, I suppose I have to interview you.”

The man ignored a majority of her statements, as well. “I think I have information that could be useful for your…interviews.”

“What’s that?” she asked.

“I am Aeolus,” the man said simply.

“Is that a nickname?” Aurora could not stop the chuckle that escaped her. A sense of tension fell into the air when she did so.

“No,” he said, flatly.

Being Born (will rewrite if Astoria or Iris)

Katherine was born April 13, 1996 in Greendale. The only person present at her birth was her own mother. Her father was kept a secret from her and she never knew him.

Early Childhood (will rewrite if Astoria or Iris)

Katherine was a nice girl, and did her best academically. Eventually, she began slipping in her grades and started caring less about what she got on test scores and more about seeing the world and feeding her insatiable wanderlust. Her mother got angry at her, but Katherine just said that she wanted to be free to make her own decisions. After this, her mother let her go, and began nicknaming her “Sparrow.” Now, Katherine prefers that name over her given one.

Finding out They Are a Demigod (will rewrite if Astoria or Iris)

On her fifteenth birthday, Katherine’s mother called her to the dinner table to blow out her candles. She gave Katherine a small box, and inside it was an envelope. In the envelope was a blue-and-white cardstock rectangle, which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be a train ticket. “Why am I getting a train ticket to,” Katherine squinted at the ticket, “Bluffwood? It was obliterated years ago.”

“You need to go there. It’s…your present.”

Katherine left. She went to Bluffdale, and an angry wind blew dust and rubble around on the flat expanse where Bluffdale used to be. A man stood in the middle of the rubble. He said, “You’re fifteen now, aren’t you?”

“Who are you?”

“I’m your father—“ he started.

“Prove it.”

“—Sparrow,” the man finished.

“What’s your name?” Katherine asked, skeptical.

“Aeolus.”

First and any subsequent monster attacks before getting to camp

Katherine’s first encounter of a monster was a Lamia when she was sixteen. The Lamia approached her as she was walking through a park, and asked her if she would like to see more of the world than Greendale. Katherine not-so-politely told the Lamia to ‘get bent.’ This, of course, angered the Lamia, and the Lamia grabbed her by the wrist and turned her around, glaring her dead in the eyes. Katherine found herself face-to-face with a tall woman, a long coat on her body. She would have been beautiful had her eyes not been so dead-looking. The woman spoke again, “Perhaps you misheard me. I believe the world has more to offer you; if you would come with me, I can satisfy your lust for travel.”

Katherine couldn’t keep her mouth shut. “Perhaps you misheard me. I said, ‘get bent.’” The Lamia attacked her. A figure in the shadows slid a longbow and three arrows to her. The Lamia received all three of these arrows into her, and died. Katherine was still unfamiliar on ow to use the longbow, and struggled to use it, only managing under pure adrenaline. Since then, Katherine does not know who the figure in the shadows was, and has accumulated more arrows for her longbow. She hasn’t run into very many creatures, only the occasional Telekhine. These encounters were hardly threatening to her, due to the training Katherine put herself through to occupy the time that she had now that she didn’t go to school anymore.

How they get to camp

Katherine got to camp on an accident. She had been wandering through the woods and stumbled into a clearing. Here, she found a huddle of buildings in a variety of designs and shapes, and was approached by a satyress. The satyress told her that she had reached a wrong turn, until the creature touched her. Then, the satyress knew that she was a demigod. Katherine was welcomed into the camp, and spoke to a variety of the people until they concluded what cabin she was to stay in and the different things important to her registration. Katherine was then told to go back to her home and get anything she would need to move permanently into the camp and to say goodbye to her mortal parent. The satyress, named Sage, accompanied her there and back so she would not get lost.

Weapons: longbow and arrows. Signing Your Claim: