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Name
Raeyn Prudence Esparza

Species
Demigod/Demititan

Gender
♀ Female

Age
14

God Parent
Athena and Mnesomyne (Complicated. See History.), (and since it's mandatory...) Nemesis

Mortal Parent
Elijah Esparza

Appearance
Raeyn is a skinny girl with straight, black hair and equally ebony black eyes. Her hair falls into soft waves in front, though the back part is straight. Unless under serious weather conditions or sick, Raeyn's hair is healthy and smooth. It's soft enough to comb through easily, but has a hard time returning to its original shape if braided and such. Her eyes are round and slightly downturned, and there is almost always a type of look in it that if deciphered, can determine her current mood. Her upper eyelids are creased. There is the slightest hint of brown concealed in her dark eyes, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Raeyn is awfully short, somewhat common for someone of Asian heritage, being roughly around four feet short at age fourteen. Her parents believe she'll grow taller due to the fact her feet are larger than average. (Don't ask me. A superstition or something. Any relatives with big feet always tended to be tall.) As mentioned before, she has a skinny build, encouraging her to emphasize more on speed than strength. You should never underestimate her power-slaps nor her fists, though. Her father was a boxing enthusiast, and she even had a pair of boxing gloves at one point. (What kind of parents get their daughter a pair of boxing gloves for a Christmas present...? Raeyn's.) Her skin is a tannish color, though when the cold blows in, it tends to pale. She doesn't get sunburned easily, having been raised in a tropical country. She also has a strawberry hemangioma on her left cheek, at one point as an infant obscuring her sight and breathing by covering her nostril and eye, but it shrank as she grew older. That cheekbone, though, was always softer than the other. By age 12, it had shrunk considerably, but it was still one of the first things that drew people's attention.

Raeyn has always been a conservative girl. Likely influenced by her mother, she prefers T-shirts and jeans to tube tops and mini-skirts any day. She doesn't like make-up that much, but grudgingly tolerates it. (She also takes the "lipstick gives you cancer" thing very seriously.) Since arriving at camp, she is often spotted wearing casual wear, but always equipped with a weapon cleverly concealed up her sleeve.



Personality
Bring duct tape. You will need it.

Raeyn is sometimes considered to have MPD (Multi-Personality Disorder.) She reacts differently to each and every person and situation depending on her mood. To be frank, it was good her adoptive parents looked out for her most of the time. Her moods range from super depressed/suicidal, cheerful, sarcastic, and just...there, bordering on depressed. And there were those moods in between. Trying to get a good ground on her personality is often difficult for those who are trying to get to know her, but those who she confides in know who the young Asian girl really is.

Raeyn was brought up lovingly by her adoptive parents, coddled and reprimanded as the situations arose. She held the typical attitude of a Mary Sue on the outside, but she was a lot more complicated. Really, you don't want to get on her bad side. Starting off as a kid.

Her parents swore that Raeyn was probably the most considerate kid they'd ever seen. She insisted in getting involved with family worries, including money, since she learned how to speak. When she wanted a toy, she'd ask her parents to read the price tag for her and tell her if it was expensive. When she caught her parents discussing money matters, she offered to sell all her toys. No matter how much her parents tried to spoil the little girl, there was always a part of her worrying about her parents. A kid, worrying about her parents at age three! It was almost ridiculous, and definitely unbelievable. Of course, Raeyn was still selfish at times, but nobody's perfect.

One of the most important things to remember about Raeyn: dang, that girl is the epitome of stubbornness. Once she sets her mind on it, she rarely ever backs down. She'll claim to give up, but in truth, she never really does. Like when her parents tried to get her to eat veggies. Nope! She still doesn't eat them to this day. Her parents eventually gave up, just giving the occasional nudge here and there. Since arriving at camp, though, she's made sure to eat as many varieties of fruits as possible in an attempt to make up for the lack of leafiness in her diet.

Explaining every side of her would take as long as Gaea napped (which, in this case, means forever.) Let's elaborate on the main three sides: cheerful, sarcastic, and depressed. It's never really settled, but yeah.

Cheerful: Raeyn generally acts happy, outgoing, and a little wild. Always served with a sidedish of sarcasm. She tends to be friendly towards complete strangers, and less likely to explode on you.

Sarcastic: Raeyn is blunt, cold, and soaked in a special chemical mixture which we call exploding bon-bons. Actually no. I think that's different. She tends to be very aggressive and quick to anger in this mood, which brings us on a whole new complicated level that I'd rather not elaborate on.

Depressed: Silence. Absolute silence. Just sitting and staring blankly with tears just threatening to spill out but yeah, people don't notice. She tries to hide it, and often she succeeds. She tends to stick to her closest friends when in this mood, and tries to cheer herself up by doing amusing activities (like watching cute puppy videos on YouTube.)

Mathematics + Words = ...Demigod Doppleganger?
Elijah Esparza was a married high school math teacher in Manila, Philippines. He wasn't gifted or anything, but he did have a natural talent in math, more inclined to it that any other subjects. In fact, he had almost become an engineer, but...well, his daughter had been born. Well, daughters. I better explain.

Elina Manansala Esparza was Elijah's wife, but so far they hadn't been able to conceive children. Elina was, sad to say, overweight and apparently wasn't able to have a baby while she remained so. The woman exercised, did sports, and both struggled to have a child. Their efforts, probably seen by Hera, were soon rewarded. Elina became pregnant just a few months before Eli's 30th birthday.

Eli was overjoyed. He worked harder than ever to support them and the future needs of the child, seeing as Elina was on pregnancy leave. One night, he decided to take a break, and met a beautiful foreigner  who introduced herself as Quinn. They chatted for a while, and Quinn was particularly interested in Eli's wife and unborn child. Quinn was apparently a substitute teacher for the elementary school in front of the high school Eli and Ina taught. Ina eventually met the enthusiastic woman, and both of them immediately hit it off. Quinn claimed to have had some children before, and advised the "older" woman. Both were equally interested in Elina's subject: English. Ina was massively pregnant, almost due, when Quinn informed them she would be heading back to America soon. The couple were saddened at the departure of their friend, but they bade her farewell, insisting on even accompanying Quinn to her flight. Quinn didn't allow this, but she did stop by to say goodbye.

Quinn, was in fact, Mnemosyne. She had been interested in Eli at first, having fallen in love with his passion and kindness, but upon finding about his wife and daughter, she was saddened. For Titans, gods, and immortals in general, they usually would have just blasted the wife into dust and taken what they wanted. But Mnemosyne recognized the tight bond the family shared, and she really didn't want to break that. That wasn't the first time Eli attracted an immortal.

So while Mnemosyne was sulking during the last few weeks of Ina's pregnancy, Eli caught Athena's eye. Naturally, she went down there, using a similar alibi to Mnemosyne's: she basically said she was a scout for a school in America, looking for places to build schools. Eli introduced his wife Ina to Mercedes, which was how Athena had introduced herself. Like with Mnemosyne, Ina hit it off with Mercedes, who gave even more advice with babies. Hey, two beautiful women in a row introduced to you by your husband, you'd think something was up. But Ina knew perfectly well that Eli loved her and her child alone, plus she wasn't really the jealous type. Just barely a week before Ina was due, Mercedes claimed to be needed back in America. She left some comforting words to Ina, who made sure to keep it close to her heart.

Ina eventually gave birth to a girl named Raeyn. Meanwhile, Mnemosyne found out that Athena was going to have another brain child - Eli's brain child. She immediately went and met with her granddaughter (Metis was Athena's mother, and Mnemosyne's sister), confiding into the wisdom goddess. Athena felt sorry for her great-aunt, then offered her a chance to have the child with her. I don't know exactly how it worked, but Mnemosyne was the Titaness of memory and Athena was the goddess of wisdom. My guess is, Mnemosyne just poured part of her own memories into Athena's head, and Athena let the child spring from her head.

Mnemosyne personally delivered the baby to Eli's doorstep, but she quickly realized that Ina had given birth as well. She picked up the baby again, heading for the hospital, and found Eli and Ina's daughter Raeyn. In a split-second decision (seeing as she realized Eli couldn't possibly support two kids), she switched the babies, noting that the babies looked like twins, except the demigod/demititan one didn't have a strawberry hemangioma. Hearing someone approach the room, she used her powers to recreate the birthmark on the demigod child. In her haste, she put it on the left cheek, whereas the mortal Raeyn's was on the right cheek (This would be vital later on, when both meet.) Mnemosyne teleported out, bringing Eli's mortal child with her. She decided that in order to make up for her deceit, she would make the mortal Raeyn her priestess when she grew up. With the permission of Athena, Mnemosyne put mortal Raeyn in the care of one of Athena's Barn Owl nymphs, Thyto.

Meanwhile, newly-turned parents Eli and Ina rejoiced at seeing their "child" for the first time.

A Childhood, Sort of?
Raeyn was a bright child. Her "mother" didn't enroll her in a normal school at first. They had her start studying at the age of three going on four, enrolled in a supplementary international school named Kumon. (Please note that Kumon is in fact a real school.)

Raeyn persevered with her parents' help. She rose quickly in the school program, becoming the Philippines' Youngest Reading Program completer at age seven (She held the title for roughly 4 years.) Age 11 going on 12, she finished the math program. She gained quite a couple of medals, and a fair amount of trophies in the awarding ceremonies which happened yearly. Somewhere in between, her parents decided that she should be homeschooled, mostly due to the fact she could read Shakespeare and breeze through calculus, making her more advanced than most kids. They enrolled her in a nearby school that had a homestudy program, and they merely needed to head there once a year to get the materials.

But Raeyn was a loner. All her life, she'd been studying and doing little interaction with kids her age. After she finished the reading program, her dad had internet installed. You'd think "Oh, but technology doesn't mix with demigods/demititans! It sends off a flare scent-signal to monsters!" Um, yeah. About that. Something was different about Raeyn. She didn't give off a demigod/demititan scent physically at the start. Maybe it was something with Mnemosyne and Athena's domains being thoughts and wisdom, but Raeyn was attacked by monsters in her dreams, not in real life.

Dreams and Reality, Which is Which?
Let me get this straight. From ages 7 to 13, Raeyn had a normal, happy life for the most part. She was cyberbullied when she was 11-12, which really made a huge impact on her in the future. She kept quiet about being suicidal and depressed. When she tried to tell her parents, lo behold, '''they didn't believe her. '''You'd think parents would take it seriously if their daughter admitted she believed something was seriously wrong with her. Thing is, Raeyn was always laughing, a happy-go-lucky kid. Anyone who knew her would have an extremely difficult time believing that underneath that happy demeanor, was just another broken girl who wanted someone to listen. Technology didn't send off her scent, because, well, hers was so faint the monsters thought it was just a recently dead demigod.

One more odd thing about her: she wasn't that scared of spiders. She got occasionally bit by one, but that was it. She didn't scream bloody murder or get paralyzed at the sight of a spider. She didn't hate them, but she didn't like them either. Maybe it was the touch of Mnemosyne in her, but spiders never really seemed to take much notice of her.

Abilities and Equipment
General Abilities=
 * Vocabulary and Knowledge: Raeyn has a vast vocabulary and a fair amount of literary knowledge, enabling her to peruse (and abuse) her only Mnemosyne ability to quite an extent. (Do you know how dangerous it is to get bonked over the head with a coconut? Do you know how fatal it is to get a durian suddenly stuffed up YOUR NOSTRIL?)


 * Fighting skills: As a child of Athena, Raeyn is naturally skilled in combat despite not partaking in any combat activities before reaching Camp Half-blood.
 * Swordsmanship: Raeyn proves to be adept at wielding her kalis, able to kill a hellhound singlehandedly without any training in her spider venom-induced coma dreams.
 * Knife Wielding: Though having a slight fear of knives, Raeyn proves to be unusually good at wielding one, very likely being better at wielding a knife than a sword. She managed to subdue a Scythian dracanae with only a CB knife in one of her coma dreams.


 * Empathy: Having suffered through depression, Raeyn is generally empathic, quick to sense other's feelings and if something's wrong. Sometimes she interprets them wrong, but most of the time, she is quite right on her suspicions.


 * -|Demigod Abilities=

Offensive

 * 1) Children of Athena have the ability to see each specific pressure point on another person and are proficient at striking them in order to immobilize or greatly pain another person for a short time.
 * 2) Children of Mnemosyne have the ability to write/read weapons out of pure energy which can be used for combat; however, only one weapon can be conjured at a time and it cannot be bigger than the one who conjured it. They can also write/read other objects that are for non-combative purposes

Defensive

 * 1) Children of Athena are able to generate loose materials or manipulate any loose materials found around them to weave a wall. The wall obstructs the view of anyone facing them, and also blunts attacks. However, it does not stop attacks entirely, it is only capable of slowing the attacks down (possibly say that the wall will cut like a bunch of woven stuff or something ~ spiders and what not).
 * 2) Children of Athena, using their inclinations of battle and strategy, can most of the time, predict the course of action an opponent attacking them will take, and and are able to dodge or parry accordingly. However, if the prediction is wrong this may cost the child of Athena dearly.

Passive

 * 1) Children of Athena have the innate ability of hyper-cognition. They are able to perform more complex mental operations than a normal human could achieve. They are able to process thoughts and learning far quicker than others with little cognitive effort.
 * 2) Children of Athena have innate battle reflexes which allows them to fight and dodge quickly.
 * 3) Children of Athena are able to communicate with and command owls. If the user gives too many commands, the owls will become frustrated and disobey.

Supplementary

 * 1) Children of Athena have the ability to empower strength and intelligence upon nearby allies and instil fear upon nearby enemies with a deafening war cry for a short time.
 * 2) Children of Athena have minor telepathic abilities, making them able to telepathically communicate with their allies and read the current thoughts of an opponent’s mind. But this mind reading does not always work.
 * 3) Children of Athena through telepathy are able to alter the moods of a person or group of people for a short time. They are able to make an ally calmer and more courageous or an opponent panicked or depressed. Once a target has suffered from this power, they become resistant to it for a moderate amount of time.
 * 4) Children of Athena can curse an opponent, temporarily ruining their ability to formulate battle strategies for a short time. With this curse, the target would only think up rather silly and quite awful strategies. This gives the user a chance to attack or flee. Ex: The target would fake a heart attack and fall back on the ground, thinking the user would believe it and give up on the fight.

3 Months After Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Athena, due to the strength of their minds, are gifted with the ability of clairvoyance. They are able gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, for example beyond their normal sensory range or when unable to use their physical senses. Some techniques of clairvoyance are veridical dreaming, scrying and parasight.

6 Months After Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Athena can curse an opponent with severe stupidity and ignorance, temporarily stripping them of their intelligence and knowledge. The curse can cause an opponent to lose their common sense, fighting skill and tactical abilities. The target could even be unsure how to swing a sword or use their powers properly. After a short time, the curse will wear off and the target will regain their intelligence and knowledge. Their minds will be resistant to further use of the curse for a moderate time and the user will be substantially drained.

9 Months After Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Athena can turn into a normal sized owl of whichever species they select for a short period of time, allowing them flight. The user has the option to grow into a giant owl, it can be up to 2 to 3 times bigger than their size as a human. This will make the transformation more draining. As a giant owl, the user would be twice as fast as a normal owl mid-flight, be able to transport allies and possess a very loud scream. After the transformation, they are extremely drained. Unable to move and they could possibility faint.

Traits

 * 1) Children of Athena are normally very intelligent, wise and clever. Able to easily excel in school.
 * 2) Children of Athena tend to be very adept at weaving, pottery and other crafts.
 * 3) Children of Athena typically have the potential to become great soldiers, agents or generals. Able to perform remarkable feats within the Military.
 * 4) Children of Athena can grow up to make great scholars, teachers, professors and scientists.


 * -|Equipment=
 * General Equipment:
 * Enchanted Bookbag: Ever tried getting whomped by a book? Yeah...it's not healthy. This sling bag is enchanted to remain light and contain up to 50 books before the user begins to feel it getting slightly heavier. Can carry a max of 200 books, weighing like a normal school backpack.
 * Enchanted Slate: A lightweight gray slate emblazoned with an owl. It's linked to Raeyn's thoughts, enabling her to scribble down notes on it without even needing a writing utensil. |}