Claiming:Camp/Tamara Blake

Name: Tamara Blake

Age: 18

Gender: Female

God Parent: Palaemon, Poseidon, Apollo

Mortal Parent: Veronica Blake

Appearance: Personality: Tamara has a very strong personality. She is tough, and doesn't give up easily. When she fails, or feels she can't accomplish something, she gets depressed and won't talk for days. Once you get into her "inner-circle" (become her friend) she'll do everything in her power to protect and care for you. Tamara tends to care more about others and not herself. Although she is very tough and strong, underneath she is a huge softy. Most of the time at camp, she wishes she could just be back at her families beach house in Miami.

History: When Tamara's mother, Veronica Blake, met her father, she was very young. Veronica was at a secluded part of the beach at her home in Hawaii. She was a proffesional surfer, and just finished a meet. Veronica was alone and getting ready for her next surf meet next week. Suddenly, while going up to the shore she saw a rather handsome, good looking man sitting by the shore infront of her. The mystery man greeted her and immediately Veronica fell in love. They both talked and splashed eachother with the water playfully until Veronica had to go home. While Veronica was home she couldn't stop thinking about the hot guy that she met. She still, to this day, calls it love at first sight.

Unfortunately, Veronica gave birth to Tamara without Tamara's father present in the Hospital. She had to get her own parents to drive her there. Veronica's birth went very smoothly. Tamara came into the world without trouble and rarely cried while in the Hospital. Veronica's own parents wouldn't stop hugging and kissing the baby. The doctors, nurses, and even Veronica had to pry the poor baby away from them the whole time they were there.

Tamara's early childhood consistied of her mother teaching her how to surf and boogie-board. Tamara's only friend was Gianna at the time. Gianna and Tamara always had sleepover's at her home in Hawaii. When Veronica decided it was better to move somewhere else because of all the volcano eruptions, perferably Florida, Tamara and Gianna got depressed that Tamara would have to leave. Gianna and Tamara hatched a plan to convince her mom to let her come with them. Considering Gianna lived at an adoption center, Veronica brought Gianna with them to Miami, Florida.

Tamara found out that she was a demigod when she was at her families beach house. She was surfing in the ocean alone deep out, far away from the shore. She suddenly wiped out and hit the water hard. Tamara's board string still was wrapped tight around her ankle and it pushed her even lower into the ocean. She felt as if she was going to explode so she quickly let in a breath needing oxygen. Tamara soon realized that she could still actually breath. She swam quickly up to the surface and, again, realized she wasn't wet at all. ''How did I not realize that before? ''she asked herself. Tamara hopped on her board and paddled to the shore seeing her mother in the distance sobbing. Once she got to her, Veronica told her everything about Greek gods and goddesses. She gave Tamara a trident shaped necklace and told her to never ever lose it.

When Tamara was first attacked by a monster, she was only 14 turning 15, also she was at the beach...alone...again. She was sitting near the shore where the water meets the sand cleaning and waxing her board. Suddenly, a weird fish looking thing came bursting out of the water holding a large spear. Quickly Tamara stood up, ready to defend herself from the creature. The creature advanced on her quickly making gurgling noises awkwardly. She picked up her board and slammed it against the creature, praying the board wouldn't break. The fish thing was sent to the floor writhing in pain. Its weapon was pretty far from them, and the creature seemed pretty disoriented, so Tamara quickly grabbed a nearby stick that was pretty bulky. She raised her arms and stabbed the creature in the chest making it wail in pain, resembling a dying cat noise. When her mother found her with the weird dead body, she immediately knew what happened. She told Tamara that the only reason she wasn't attacked sooner was because Veronica did everything in her power to keep her in hiding from the monsters.

Tamara's second attack was when she and Gianna were having a mini camping trip next to the beach house in there "backyard" at the age of 16. They both just got their license, and reseived a new car from Veronica. How she got the money for two very nice cars, they'll never know. While roasting marshmallows over a small fire they made, a large mix of a bird and a woman swoope down over them. Gianna, terrified was throwing random things on the ground at the monster. Tamara started to suddenly get very angry that the creature ruined their nice time. She felt her teeth start to grow furiously and her jaw opened wider then she thought it could go. Once the monster swooped down again, Tamara bit down hard on the creatures wing. She felt the copper taste of blood go into her mouth and she heard the terrible screeching noise the bird woman made. It hurt her ears so bad that she released the bird wing from her mouth. The monster quickly flew away, and it kept almost falling from the fractured wing. Tamara started to feel her jaw go back into place and her teeth start to go back to normal again. Gianna promised to never tell any other person about what happened that night. They both continued their night of fun camping on the sand.

Tamara was taken to camp by her satyr, Gianna, at 18. She apparently disguised herself as a normal human being to watch over Tamara. Tamara and her mom had a sweet conversation about how they love eachother so much and that she would try to send letters to Veronica every week/month. Gianna called in a favor from a friend to bring in a small plane over. Tamara decided to not question how her friend had a plane ready to go. They left and made frequent stops to get to other planes ready for them. Once they were on a stop getting ready to go on the new plane, they were attacked by another harpie. Tamara did the same thing she did before, and bit down on the creature with her new sharp teeth. Once they got to Camp Half-Blood, Gianna said she had to go and help protect and bring other demigods to camp. Tamara and Gianna had a nice hearfelt moment before she left and they vowed that they would see eacother again no matter what.

Weapons: A trident that's able to fold down into a necklace that she got from her "father" (her mother gave her the trident in necklace form when she found out she was a demigod)