Claiming:Camp/Celandine Goold

Name: Celandine Goold

Gender: Female

God Parent: 1st Choice, Themis (Alternate Choices if First choice is full, though to be fair, I checked and it's in the least full section) 2nd, Ariadne 3rd, Pandia

Mortal Parent: Theoden Goold

Appearance:

Model: Denyse Tontz, I checked to see if the model was in use by checking that list thing, I guess she's on here, but it says the user left and when I looked at their user page, they haven't edited in like almost a year, so is that ok? I can find another model if that's an issue.



Personality:

At first glance she can sometimes be perceived as quiet, reserved and even arrogant and condescending to people who don't know her well. She's smart and as all Themis kids can always tell if someone isn't completely honest with her. She has a habit of taking every thing very literally and doesn't always understand the most obvious of jokes or sarcastic comments. She doesn't like people who aren't capable of saying what they mean and meaning what they say, double talk to her is just another way of lying without actually lying. If you can get through her thick and sometimes abrasive exterior, it turns out she can be quite warm and caring to those she loves and cares about. She loves the outdoors but hates the cold. She loves reading but she gets bored easily due to what is probably adhd, though she's never officially been diagnosed. She has had some crushes at her old school, but she's never had a serious boyfriend. She despises labels though and refuses to be marked for anything like sexual orientation. She likes to look beyond labels and sees everyone for who they are on the inside. If she had to be labelled she'd probably be pansexual, maybe even omnisexual. She can be quite the tom boy but she also has a bit of a feminine side that can come out, but that side definitely doesn't involve nail polish, shoes or shopping because she doesn't like that stuff.

History:

(OOC: I'm writing this like it'll be Themis I get cuz it says that cabin is in the least full section, but if I can't have her I can change it)

Theoden grew up as an orphan, and the only life he remembered or cared about was the one that started after going to the Roman demigod camp and being claimed as a son of Vulcan. Years passed and he became really good at forging weapons. In his late teens he was on a mission for his camp when he came across some Greek demigods who were given the same task. They ended up working together, and this is where he met and fell in love with Anwen. She was a beautiful child of Themis, strong, intelligent, caring, it was practically love at first sight. The only problem was they were on opposite sides of the country once the mission was over. They wrote and stayed in touch, and when they were both 22 they decided to leave the safety of their camps and get married.

They were happy for a few years, deliriously so. They were even starting a family, Anwen was pregnant with their first child, but their happiness wouldn't last. When Anwen was 7 months along, she was faced home alone against a couple of giants that had tracked her scent. The stress of trying to fend them off sent her into premature labor, and once that started, she couldn't put up as much of a fight against the monsters. Theoden came home from work that day to the body of his wife and unborn child. He was devastated and sunk into a deep depression. He stopped caring about anything, including his safety. Themis had been keeping an eye on her child, not being able to interfere and having to watch both the unborn child and her own child die at the hands of giants made her sad as well. She felt so bad for Theoden she decided to pose as a new neighbor that worked for a law firm. She thought about just telling him the truth, I mean he was a Roman demigod and knew his wife had been a child of Themis, but something about him made her hesitate and come up with a cover story instead.

For a couple of years, as often as she was able, she visited him, became his friend (though she claimed to travel a lot for her company, in order to explain her frequent absences). At some point she realized she was in love with him her self. She knew she couldn't keep lying to him, but she thought maybe if she could give him something new to love and care for, maybe she could leave and know he'd be OK. So after a steamy weekend, where both Theoden and Themis gave in to their more carnal desires, she hoped above all else that she would be pregnant. A couple of months later (17 October 1998) Celandine Goold was born, and Themis brought her to Theoden. She finally told him the truth, he didn't seem entirely surprised, though he felt a bit awkward considering Themis was the mother of his wife, but something about the baby stirred something inside of him, a paternal instinct that longed for a child of his own to care for.

He took the child without any arguments, thanked Themis for being honest with him and promised her that he would do his best to raise their child. Theoden was paranoid though, the love of his life and unborn child had died because of monsters, so when it came to Celandine he took precaution and safety to insane levels. He decided to move off the grid, which meant Alaska, middle of no where. Living off the land was hard, but there was a code there, what few neighbors people had, no matter how far the trek, they stuck together, and the rail road supplied anything he couldn't grow or hunt himself. Because he was an excellent smith, people came from far off to get things fixed or made. He bartered with a neighbor that was 5 miles by snowmobile to come in once a week and help home school his daughter once she was five years old. Another neighbor that was only a couple of miles away would watch little Celandine when Theoden had to go to Fairbanks for supplies or if he had to stay out hunting for longer than he felt was safe to leave his daughter alone. Really there wasn't anything overly eventful about the first 11 or so years of her life. She lived in what was a small and spread out, but tight and caring community of people living off the land in Alaska. There was limited technologies so it made monster attacks few and far between for Theoden. There weren't any other kids around except the neighbor that would babysit her had two much older teenage sons. She was home-schooled by her father and another neighbor. The only fun and adventures she had were in her books, which her father never denied her anything when it came to books and by the time Celandine was 7 he had to build a special room off their house just to hold all her books she was collecting.

Celandine would read and read anything she could get her hands on, and she dreamed of going out into what she called "the real world" where "things actually happened" so she could have an adventure, but her father always told her to put such nonsense out of her head, adventures were dangerous, she was safe in Alaska, the monsters were fewer, he never wanted her to leave his side. At 10 he realized he'd have to start training her, he started slow at first, basics, but when she turned 11 he knew it was time to see how she would do against a monster. He decided to take her out hunting. It had been awhile since he'd been attacked himself, as it usually happened when he'd been in town recently for supplies. The monsters would pick up his scent in town where all the people were, and follow him home. He'd just been back from town a day earlier, and felt this was the perfect time. Celandine was ecstatic that this day had finally come, as she viewed hunting and a possible monster attack as finally getting an adventure. While out hunting for deer, AGRIUS & OREUS found them, which was a bit more than what Theoden had in mind. Things might have gone better had Celandine not been so over zealous about facing a monster, by the time the fight was over it was clear that Celandine was not prepared for this yet, and they both barely made it out alive.

Theoden continued to hover and smother and shelter Celandine, and train her. He decided to make his own automaton monster that she could train with, but never pushed it past medium level of difficulty. She trained as much as he would allow, and always pestered him to put it on harder settings. Another few years would pass and besides the automaton training monster, the only other monsters she encountered was some hellhounds and what she was pretty sure was a harpy, though her dad came in and killed it before she got a really good look. Finally shortly after she turned 16, her father had to go away in to town for what would end up being an entire day. With him out of her hair for a full day, she set to work trying to figure out how to put the automaton training monster on hard difficulty. It took awhile, as she was never that in to building things like her father was, but she was sure she'd figured out how to do it, and prepared herself for what she dreamed as being a more fun training session. Unfortunately she didn't get the settings exactly right and something malfunctioned while she started fighting it. It was cold and there was already snow outside, she was starting to lose and it cut her off from the house, so she ran into the woods towards the direction her father would be coming. She ran and ran, but the malfunctioning automaton bent on killing her didn't skip a beat. When she could run no more, bleeding from some wounds she received, she lay down and waited to die, her only thought that she had let her father down, that she wasn't good enough.

Her father was coming along around the same time, and heard her screams along with the automaton. He bolted in to action to protect her and to try and take back control of the automaton. Unfortunately seeing his daughter bloodied and laying in the snow distracted him at first, and the automaton got in a good attack before he could counter against it, nearly ripping off his right arm right out of the socket. He cried out in pain, and with every ounce that was left in him he managed to get into the mind of the automaton and shut it down, just before blacking out by his daughter. They'd both probably have died, if it hadn't been Thursday, you see Thursdays were important because that was the day that George, one of their neighbors from about 3 miles away, would come to pick up the horse shoes that Theoden made for him. So he was near when the commotion happened and managed to get on his satellite phone to get a rescue helicopter and get both Theoden and Celandine to the hospital.

They would both live, but Theoden's arm had to be amputated which would mean trying to survive in the wilds of Alaska would be so much harder if not impossible, on top of needing to protect him and his daughter from monsters. Once they had both recovered, Theoden decided it was time for Celandine to go to camp Half-Blood where she could train in safety because of the camp borders. Celandine begged him to move with her, to ask Alexander for a job in the smith, but he didn't want to leave Alaska, and he didn't want her to see how depressed he was about losing his arm. He was half a man. Part of her didn't want to leave him like this, but another, much bigger part, wanted adventure, and the thought of being on her own at camp sounded like the adventure of a life time. She'd finally get to interact every day with kids her age, she'd have real friends, cabin mates, it all sounded too good to be true. So she agreed to go, packed her things, and with a phone call to camp, a satyr was dispatched to accompany her on the plane there to make sure she got there safe. So here she is now, at camp, claimed as a child of Themis, 16 years old, and hoping for adventure.

(ooc, just in case you get picky, I watch discovery channel a lot, so I know everything I wrote about Alaska is true, real people in real life actually really live like that, in the wilderness, miles from no where. Her father was a Roman demigod so she knew her heritage right from the start and was always prepared for monsters eventually and had her father's protection.)

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