Claiming:Camp/Vasilisa Exlander

Name: Vasilisa Ana Exlander

Gender: Female

God Parent: Cybele

Mortal Parent: Ahmet Exlander

Appearance: Model (Anna Drewe) Small 5'0", Slim, Blonde medium length hair, Blue eyes.

Personality: Vasilisa, who likes to be called Lisa, is reserved and isn't very social, she prefers the company of animals and nature rather than humans because she believes humans are complicated, unpredictable and hard to read. When she's around humans that she feels comfortable around she is very confident and fun. She is very funny but as stubborn as a donkey. She is deathly afraid of small places and walking down dark corridors alone.

History:  Ahmet Exlander was a zoologist who lived in western Russia until he moved to Turkey to study the critically endangered Anatolian Leopard in the early 1990's. It was in the Termessos National Park that he saw a figure through the trees. Believing that the figure was the Endangered animal he began to slowly track it. It wasn't until he saw the full figure that he realised instead of a leopard but a woman. The most beautiful woman he had ever seen. she was walking into a cavern within the mountain and he followed inside. Inside he found the woman waiting for him. The deep attraction they both felt for each other was enough to start what would become years of companionship. It was when Cybele discovered that she was pregnant with Ahmet's child that she told him who she really was and what would happen next. Their child who they named Vasilisa Ana, after Ahmet's sister who had died of Polio when she was a child and the Endangered Leopard that brought the two together.

Two months after Lisa was born her Father went out to the town to find food as he had always done but this time he never came home. When Cybele found this out she was devastated and worse Zeus had just proclaimed that she was not to raise her child. Cybele so dearly wanted to raise her daughter but she couldn't disobey the almighty Zeus so instead, she gave her daughter away to a Dryad Nymph who resided in the  Romincka Forest. So Lisa grew up alongside nature and animals, she always felt connected to the animals and they were always there to get her out of trouble. It was one day when she was 9 that she heard a voice. Lisa was confused she had never heard this voice before and she knew all the Nymphs in the forest. Her curiosity quickly quieted her fear and she began to creep up on the figure. Her bare feet must have made a sound because the figure turned to her. Lisa was confused she had never seen anything like it. It looked like her she though astonished. The figure was a boy from the local village who had gone beyond the boundaries to hunt for his family. Lisa had never seen a human apart from herself. She had lived with the Nymphs and animals since she could remember.

The boy saw the girl and was taken aback as she was wearing barely anything despite the autumn breeze. He quickly ran to her and offered his Jacket as she was only wearing a white dress. As he came closer the girl began to back away. He called after her but she kept stumbling backwards, He tried to warn her about the stump that she was about to trip on but it didn't seem like she understand what he was saying. She fell and the Boy heard a crack and raced to the now still girl. Using his strength he picked the unconscious girl up off the ground and flung her over his shoulder as he began to run back to the village

Lisa woke up in what looked like a wooden cave she immediately noticed the lack of weight on her thigh. Her throwing daggers. Lisa flung herself out of the strange contraption but found material blocking her way, struggling seemed to only tangle her limbs more. She didn't care though as she continued to struggle against the restrictive cocoon. Finally when she managed to untangle herself from the material she frantically searched the room for her beloved knives which the nymphs told her were a gift from her mother. After finally finding them placed on a carved wood square she placed them and their holder back onto her thigh. It was that moment when another figure walked into the room, Lisa screamed so loud that all the villages for miles must've heard. The figure began speaking but Lisa couldn't understand.

After calming Lisa down by holding a very non-threatening pose Lisa was given something to eat. Lisa was not allowed out of the room for the next 6 months. After the humans concluded she couldn't speak either Russian or English they began to teach her. Lisa was always anxious and on edge the humans who Lisa learnt she was going to be living with assumed this was because she had been raised in the wild and was afraid of everything but it was really because Lisa knew that she should be being attacked by monsters any day now. As Lisa had grown up around Nymphs she had been told everything. About her Heritage and the consequences of that Heritage.

One day years after Lisa had been taken away from her Forest life, Lisa went back to the forest. She went in search of the Nymphs that had raised her but they were all hiding, They couldn't recognise her. The thought entered her brain and she began to cry. It was then that the animals came out to comfort the girl, She began to thank the animals when she heard them yell "RUN!". Stunned she could do nothing when they began to run, this was until a small hellhound began to sun towards Lisa. Abruptly her previous training kicked in and she unlatched the throwing daggers that she always kept on her thigh under her skirt. When she got the three sharpened celestial bronze knives out from under her skirt she began to throw with deathly precision. All three knives hit their target and effectively paralysed the monster. She made quick work of killing the beast and passed out from exhaustion when she finished. It was then that the nymphs who raised her came out and helped her back to her home in the human village. It was when she woke up and found a wad of cash under her pillow that she knew she needed to go to 'Camp'.

She had 3 more encounters with monsters one with a harpy, and the other two with small hellhounds. When She finally came to the entrance of Camp half-blood the now 15-year-old Lisa couldn't help but cry that she had finally made it after running out of money and having to work in Paris for a year. She walked into the Camp and towards the largest building hoping to find someone that could help her.

Weapons: Celestial Bronze throwing daggers (3) always strapped to Lisa's thigh