Claiming:Camp/Alice Montegomery

Name: Alice Montegomery

Gender: Female

God Parent: Hermes

Mortal Parent: Jessica Montegomery

Appearance: Red hair, brown eyes, Caucasian, 5'4", 121 lb

Personality: Alice is generally a very fun-loving and carefree teen with a very biting sense of humor. She loves to play pranks, tell bad jokes, and spend time with her friends. She also enjoys listening to music, traveling, musicals, and 80's movies. She's a very talented liar, and can be very persuasive. Her first resort is usually sarcasm, and she hates being blunt.

History: When Jessica Montegomery was 24, she became determined to hitchhike across as many of the states as possible. So, with nothing more than the money on her credit card ($23.76), $32 in her pocket, a spare change of clothes, and two pieces of bubblegum, Jessica set off. Somewhere inbetween seeing the largest ball of twine in Kansas and seeing the largest ball of stamps in Nebraska, she met Alice's father, Hermes. The pair traveled around the U.S. together for a couple weeks before parting ways at House on the Rock in Wisconsin. A few weeks later, Jessica felt sick and, thinking back to the nights spent with Alice's father, took a pregnancy test. When the test came back positive, she headed to New York to live with her sister for a while. Nine months later, on July 13, Alice was born.

When Alice was young, her mother knew there was something different about her. Locked doors didn't really stop the child, and she had made her babysitters speak in foreign languages a few times. By the time Alice was 6, she had caused several babysitters to quit because they all claimed the child tricked them into buying her expensive "gifts" in the store. When Alice was 8, she was very nearly expelled for stealing the keys to her principal's new car and filling the inside with bubbles. At age 9, she was almost caught shoplifting and arrested. Her mother became worried about her daughter's habits, and signed her up for a school for "troubled" kids. There, she wass diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. Her aunt, Rebecca, recognized the signs of a demi-god, and started paying even closer attention to her niece.

When Alice turned 12, she was picked up from school by her very frantic looking aunt, who wouldn't explain anything to her. After a while, her aunt pulled the car over and explained what she could to Alice. While Alice had been away at school, there'd been an incident at her mother's job, a hold-up. Her mother had been willing to give the man whatever he wanted, but had refused when he had asked about the whereabouts of her daughter. As a result, her mother was fatally injured and left to die while the man went after her aunt. Her aunt, a child of Apollo herself, had heard and rushed to take her niece to safety. Rebecca told Alice about how she had planned to take Alice to Camp Half-Blood when she was 13, where she had spent a great portion of her life when she was younger, but now had to take her at an earlier time. Alice, as stubborn as she was refused to go. Rebecca, unwilling to part with the last piece of her sister and best friend, kept Alice with her.

Rebecca spent the next 5 years on the run with Alice, teaching her what she could along the way. She discovered Alice was highly adept at throwing projectiles, and did her best to teach her how to throw knives. Not convinced that would be enough to protect her niece, Rebecca was determined to teach her other weapons as well. Alice was horrible at archery, so her aunt tried to teach her swordfighting. Unfortunately, Rebecca's knowledge of swords was limited at best, so their lessons didn't get very far. She finally settled on teaching her how to use a dagger, which she was decent at, and leant itself to Alice's natural dexterity. Their lessons came to an abrupt end when Alice was 17 and her aunt wa injured in a monster attack. Rebecca was wounded beyond either of their healing abilities, and instructed Alice to steal a car to take them to Camp.

When Alice arrived at the address her aunt had given her, Rebecca looked like death warmed over. Alice, determined not to lose the last piece of her family, dragged her aunt out of the car and up the large hill, shouting for help the entire way. Campers had emerged to see what the commotion was, and most were surprised to see a teen dragging a heavily bleeding adult over the property, neither accompanied by a satyr. Alice, who was exhausted at this point, collapsed onto the ground, the sky spinning overhead. She pulled her aunt close, and was determined to keep her near her at all costs. The people started to converge around them, trying to take her aunt from her. In a desperate attempt to keep them away, Alice threw her aunt's dagger at the closest person, who very narrowly avoiding being impaled in the arm. Her vision was growing fuzzy, until she finally passed out. When she awoke a day later, her aunt explained that she would be staying at the camp for a while, and gave her her dagger as a goodbye present. She was claimed later that night at dinner.

Weapons: Her aunt's celestial bronze dagger.