Claiming:Camp/Alex Riverdown

Name: Alex Riverdown

Gender: Male

God Parent: Cybele, Demeter.

Mortal Parent: John Riverdown

Age: 14

Appearance: Dirty Blond hair and brown eyes. He stands at around 5'8", fit, and weighs about 124 lbs.

Personality:  Alex is extremly cheerful, laid back, and social. He does not like fighting much, but is extremly protective of those he loves, and animals, and will defend them with his life.

History: Alex’s father John spent his life growing up in the mountains of Tennessee, he went to college for Zoology and while there met and fell in love with a woman, who said her name was Brooke. Luckily, John was in his last year of college when he learned that Brook had become pregnant and he would graduate before the baby was born. Two months after he graduated Alex was born and Brooke left shortly after, devastating John who then moved back to Tennessee and  started working in the national park there studying the animals  to supply for his new child. John noticed a few things about Alex early on in his life, Alex had intense love for animals, taking in sick animals and attempting to nurse them back to health constantly, and was also extremely protective over them even to the point of becoming a vegetarian at the age of 5. Alex was also a natural explorer and loved spending time outside, spending hours exploring the woods around the house. Lastly; Alex was a natural climber, John found this out when he brought Alex to a fair in town that had a climbing wall which he then flew up it extremely quickly, much to John’s surprise. Alex, while having a hard time with school because of his dyslexia, had a relatively uneventful life until middle school, where he met and befriended a boy named Jacob. Jacob and Alex stayed very close all through middle school. One day, when Alex was 13, he and Jacob were hanging out at Alex’s house while his dad was out in the park studying some black bears. They were on the back porch when a fire breathing horse walked out of the trees into the back yard and immediately zoned in on the duo. Jacob immediately flew into action, telling Alex to stay back and to let him handle it, Alex, while panicked, trusted Jacob and watched as Jacob pulled what looked like a dagger from his pocket, which Alex had no idea how he fit it in there, and started to fight the horse. Alex watched Jacob make quick work of the horse, and once it was taken care of hurried Alex into the house explaining that his Mom had been a goddess and that unless he went with him to a safe place on Long Island called Camp Half Blood, he would continue to be attacked and they would keep getting worse. Even though he had just saw with his own two eyes the attack, he was dubious until Jacob pulled off his shoes and pants exposing his furry legs and hooves.Alex immediately went to his room to pack, by the time he was done his dad had returned from work. The next half hour he listened as Jacob went through the whole thing again trying to make John understand. By the end of the hour all the blood had drained from John’s face but he agreed it was probably best for Alex to go to the camp with Jacob. They immediately bought tickets from Nashville to NYC and the three of them left for Nashville the next morning. Before they got in the car Jacob gave Alex a small dagger, when Alex asked him how he would defend himself Jacob just winked and said he had other ways. Right before they arrived in  Nashville they stopped to get gas at a tiny station in the middle of nowhere. John got out to pump the gas when they heard a thump on the roof on the top of the car, Jacob and Alex immediately jumped out of the car to see a Harpie sitting on the roof, staring at Alex. She lunged at Alex who barely avoided her claws by rolling to the side and grabbed his dagger which had fallen out of the car in the rush to get out. Jacob was running around the car trying to get to him, when the harpie lunged again, Alex was just able to point his dagger at it when its momentum drove it into the dagger, and it immediately dissolved into dust. John who had just been staring shocked during the entire incident dissolved into tears apologizing for not helping. Alex, though dazed himself, attempted to comfort him before Jacob mentioned that it was not safe there anymore and they had to get going, that snapped John out of it and he rushed to get everyone back in the car, and back on there way to Nashville. The rest of the journey was uneventful, they arrived in NYC and got a rental car to get Alex and Jacob to Long Island, once they arrived there Alex and his father said their farewells, promising to call, before Jacob hurried Alex into the camp. Weapons: Clestial Bronze hatchet, Celestial Bronze dagger, and a Slingshot with Celestial Bronze balls.