Claiming:Camp/Margo Tesla

Name : Marguerite "Margo" Eileen Tesla

Gender : Female

Age : 14

Godly Parent : Hephaestus

Mortal Parent : Penelope "Penny" Tesla"

Weapons : ''Quail, a very large celestial bronze war hammer. She had forged this hammer herself during her first few weeks at camp, seeing as she didn't really care for any of the weapons the camp stored in the armory.''

Appearance :



Personality : Margo is a very dedicated and prideful person. She is constantly on the move, working on some new projects or helping out a few of her friends and/or her fellow campers. Margo is the "work till you drop" kind of girl and tends to hide away in her area of the cabin as she works away the day. Many consider her loyal to a fault and very easily flustered when it comes to romance and dating. Not many get a chance to fluster her though, before she punches their lights out. Along with all of these traits, Margo is also very intimidating due to her towering height that shadows most of the other campers.

History :

Brief Family History Margo's family line goes all the back to before the First Giant war, where her ancestor, the gigantes Mimas (whom was born to oppose Hephaestus/Vulcan, ironically) conceived an unknown daughter with and unknown woman. It is unknown of what species his child was, but it is known that over the centuries her descendants began to converge with mortals, slowly overpowering Mimas's bloodline into almost nonexistence. One of the only remaining traits left from him is the towering height, which is no longer as grand as the gigantes was.

Parent's Meeting and Conception

Penny Tesla was a very unique, for lack of a better term, woman who worked in the town's junkyard, going through hunks of junk and metal scrap. She would constantly try and find use out of something old and broken by attempting to reuse or repair it. The town (Rogers, Arkansas to be exact) would avoid and whisper about her and her 'hairbrained ideas'.

One day, as Penny was trying to find a way to fix an old car radiator she found at the junkyard, a man approached her. He was covered in oil grease and had a glint to his eyes that had intrigued Penelope's curiosity. The man introduced himself as Hephaestus right off the bat with no made up name or anything. He asked her for her name, which she gave him, of course. Hephaestus spent the afternoon with Penelope, talking and working on that car radiator together.

When the sun begun to set that day, Hephaestus had walked Pennelope home and carried the re-purposed radiator for her. That very same night, after a few drinks on Penny's part, Margo was conceived.

Even when Hephaestus was gone the very next morning before she woke up and when she found out a few weeks later that she was pregnant and had no way to contact the expecting father, Penelope held no resentment for the god as that was not a part of her nature.

Early Childhood

Margo was born prematurely months later and had to stay in the hospital for a month under constant watch by worrying doctors. Penny had a very difficult pregnancy and, when she was able to take Margo home from the hospital, became very protective over her only daughter.

Margo was a curious and adventurous child. She always wanted to see how things worked and would often dismantle many of her mothers electronics in an attempt to see how they worked. Penny only encouraged her daughter's curiosity and creativity as she saw nothing wrong with it.

As Margo grew, Penny was hesitant to let her out of her sight except for things like schooling and when they went to the junkyard together. It was very suffocating for Margo when she got a little older and her mother insisted on going wherever her daughter went.

First Monster Attack and Arrival at Camp Half-Blood

When Margo was just 12, Penelope left her alone for only a few minutes so she could climb a pile of rubble and grab something from the top. During those few minutes, Margo was attacked by a ravenous Hellhound whom she thought was just an very angry dog. It had lunged at her and managed to grab her by the back of her shirt in it's teeth as the terrified girl tried to run, barely avoiding her skin in the process.

Margo had screamed and tried to wrench herself free as the beast begun dragging her backwards. Penny, hearing her daughter's scream, saw what unfolded and picked up a jagged piece of scrap metal. She basically fell down the junk pile she was on in her haste to get to her daughter. Penelope ran towards the Hellhound and slashed at it with the metal, succeeding in cutting it across the eye. This made the Hellhound let go of Margo and dart back, snarling. It lunged at Penny this time and she managed to pierce it through it's torso with the piece of metal, which, unknown to Penny (or anyone for that matter) was actually celestial bronze.

The beast disintegrated in an instant, but Penny was too preoccupied with worrying if her daughter was safe to register what had happened to the hound.

Assured that Margo was not harmed, only shaken up, they two retreated to their home and nearly forgot about the incident in the months that followed.

Margo soon started junior high where she quickly became the obvious favorite of her history teacher, Mrs. Monet. Margo would often stay behind after class to talk with her teacher about anything and everything before she would show up late to lunch.

About halfway into the school year, just after winter break, Margo found herself locked inside an empty classroom after school ended as a cruel prank by some bullies. Despite how she towered over her whole class, it became quickly apparent that Margo was not much of a fighter. As she banged on the door and yelled for someone to open the door and let her out, a harpy sneaked in through the open second story window. It screeched and attacked Margo, slashing at her and trying to claw at her eyes with its vicious talons. Margo, with her size, was a very easy target and she found it hard to dodge the monster in the cramped classroom. Spotting a broom a janitor had left there, Margo dove for it and began swinging it wildly in an attempt at putting some distance between herself and the harpy.

Just as the harpy managed to swat the broom away, an arrow found itself lodged in its skull. The harpy turned to dust and Margo turned towards the doorway where her teacher stood with a bow drawn and loaded with another arrow. Mrs. Monet lowered her bow and grabbed Margo by her arm, pulling her out of the classroom and outside to her car.

Over the next few hours, Margo found herself being driven home and being told she was a demigod, which she was in denial about, and how her teacher was also a demigod (a child of Apollo, no less). When they got to her home and everything was laid out before her mother, Penelope tearfully agreed to the idea Mrs. Monet proposed of taking Margo to a demigod camp in New York.

Mrs. Monet buys both herself and Margo plane tickets and the last thing Margo sees as she boards the plane is her mother waving goodbye and silently crying. When they landed in New York many hours later, Mrs. Monet hailed this safety code violating taxi with three woman who shared only ONE eye. Margo, with everything that had happened in the last twenty four hours was just too emotionally drained to think about it as they were taken to Camp Half-Blood.