Claiming:Camp/Aurora Zatara

Name: Aurora Zatara

Gender: Female

God Parent: Hecate, Apate, or Lyssa

Mortal Parent: Wesley Zatara

Appearance: (Photo)

Personality: Aurora is a type of girl who puts a smile on everyone's face. Most of the time, she comes off as flirtatious and promiscuous but underneath that she's amazingly caring and gentle. She'll help out anyone in need, no matter what the problem is. She's quite willful and doesn't simply take "no" for an answer. She's not the type of girl who's easy to woo over, but hates it when people are really obvious that they like her that way.

History: Wesley Zatara, a charming young man who made everyone around him feel special. He never smoked, he never drunk and he never lost his temper with anyone. He was a student at New York University, majoring in Art, History and Classics. He was one of the top students in his class and made it his goal to put a smile on his teachers' faces. Even after his mother died of leukemia when he was 2 which caused his whole family to fall apart, he never let it him down. Everyone loved him, his friends, his family, his teachers, and soon, the woman of his dreams.

One day, on a late Friday, Wesley let his friends talk him into going to a bar off-campus. However, he promised them that he was not going to drink anything alcoholic, not wanting to break his record of not drinking. He sat with his friends at their table, bored out of his mind. He almost fell asleep when one of his buddies tapped him, saying that someone was eyeing him from across the room. He looked around to find a young woman smiling at him from the bar table. She was beautiful with long, flowing black hair, sparkling eyes, amazing curves tucked in a simple purple dress. Wesley had a hard time believing the woman was looking at him until one of his buddies hit him and hissed in his ear to go talk to her.

And talk to her, he did. As nervous as he was, he walked over to the bar table where the woman sat. She watched him with ever step he took and smiled when he came close of enough. Before he came close to her, he had a panic moment where he couldn't think of what to say to the goddess before him, but he suddenly just relaxed and let his mouth do the talking. And before long, both of them were deep in conversation. The woman even talked Wesley into having a couple of drinks with her. He protested at first, but the woman seemed to charm him into having a few. And before long, they were both very tipsy and decided to leave the bar together. They took his car back to his dorm room, where the woman had slept with him.

The next morning, he wakes up to an empty bed. He groans, wondering what happened last night when he spots a little note on his dresser. It read: "I had a great time with you last night. Someday, I will return the favor." He put his head in his hands, as a great headache rained down upon him, along with the memory of last night. He remembered the woman from the bar that night and how he'd brought her back to his dorm. After that, it was all blank, but he knew they had slept together. He had know idea what she meant by "returning the favor" meant but he wasn't concerned about it at the time. He had to get ready for class in an hour.

A couple months later, Wesley found out how the woman would repay the favor. He was just settling in his new apartment after graduating and getting his diploma. He was laying on the couch, napping when he heard a knock on his door and the cry of a child. Slightly annoyed, he got up to answer it to find a crying baby girl in a small, dark purple basket. The annoyance he felt quickly disappeared, replaced a sense of astonishment. He immediately took the baby inside and closed the door. He picked up the baby and tried to calm her down, but to his surprised, she immediately stopped crying when he held her. As soon as he got her to sleep, he noticed a small scroll tied with a purple ribbon placed neatly on the handle of the basket. He carefully picked it up and untied the ribbon. As he unwrapped the scroll, it read: "I told you I would repay the favor. This is your daughter, Aurora."

Not wanting to turn away his only daughter, Wesley took Aurora in with him. He tried his best to raise her by himself while trying to get a job for himself. At first it seemed okay. He managed to get a job at a small corporation, getting paid enough money to support Aurora. However, it all started to go down hill due to a number of cutbacks and ultimately getting laid off. The stress of having to take care of a child and finding a paying job was starting to get to him, along with the landlord bugging him everyday for the rent. Aurora hadn't known that her father was breaking until it was too late.

When Aurora was only 4, Wesley had committed suicide by hanging himself with an extension cord. She found out when police officers and child services came looking for her at her school. They told her as gently as they could that her father had gone away for a while and that they had to find her a new home. They took her out of her school and drove her back to her apartment. They told her to get as much stuff as she needed from her room. One of the officers walked her up to their part of the apartment, where police were cleaning up their investigation. As Aurora walked by, her eyes caught the sight of a lifeless hand sticking out of a green body bag. She had no idea that the hand belonged to her father at the time but she would find out on her own in time.

Child services had placed her in a small orphanage in Queens, New York. It wasn't rich, but it wasn't poor either. Aurora got settled in and met with the woman in charge, Veronica Troy. She was very nice to her and helped her settle in her room. She introduced her to the other kids, though most weren't very enthusiastic to greet her. Only one of them came up to greet her. It was a boy named Wayne Santos, and he was one of the only children who was even talking to her. Soon enough, they became very close friends and spent all of their time together.

Aurora and Wayne had been living in the orphanage for as long as they can remember. Wayne had always protected her whenever the other kids were messing with her. They had each others back no matter what. As the years went by, kids where getting adopted sooner or later. Only Wayne and Aurora were the ones who parents had just passed by as if they weren't there. Because of this, they spent they spent there whole childhood and early teens at the orphanage. Luckily, the orphanage had experienced teachers hired to teach the kids should they ever stay there past childhood and it seemed that Aurora and Wayne would live their entire lives in that orphanage, so they thought.

When Aurora turned 14, strange things began to happen. It began when she awoken by the ghost of her father. It was 3:00 in the morning and everyone was sound asleep. Everyone except Aurora, that is. She had woken up from a nightmare she was having about her father, Wesley Zatara. In her dream, she was trapped in a coffin with the skeleton of her father. She knew for a long time that he was dead, but the fact still brought tears to her eyes. As she banged on the ceiling of the coffin, she heard a voice whisper her name inside. Which was strange, since she was the only one inside, besides the body of her father. She looked over to his body and found him staring at her. It was then that she woke up, breathing hard. She put her hands to her head to calm herself down. She had been having the same dream for over 2 months now and she was getting tired of it. She wished she knew what these dreams meant and why they were happening to her. Who would have known that someone would answer her. WIP

Weapons: Short-sword, along with a razor-sharp deck of playing cards

DarkMerc (talk) 03:28, January 18, 2014 (UTC)