Claiming:Camp/Maristela Moon

Name: Maristela Moon (originally Mae Seunghee)

Age: 14

Mortal Parent: Mae Myungsoo

God/Titan: Cybele

Appearance (optional): Jung Eunha

Personality (at least a sentence or two):

Maristela is a chill type of person with an impossible amount of patience and the ability to be unfazed by most situations. She adapted quite quickly to the atmosphere of the camp compared to most people, but this is probably due to the years she spent getting thrown around in various foster homes before being adopted by the Moons and her early wandering years with her father.

She has a natural motherly aura and thus, children flock around her, something that Maristela really enjoys. Years of practically raising Tome gave her the ability to endure and even enjoy the hyperactivity of younger children. This also means that she has the protective drive of a mother bear. Seeing younger kiddos hurt triggers her strongly and it will end up with people getting strangled by vines.

While she's all soft and kind, she doesn't take it lightly if her kindness is taken advantage of. An angry Maristela is a savage Maristela. Every drop of her sweetness turns to destructive acid and trust me, it corrodes swiftly. Trying to test her patience is like asking to be dropped from the peak of the Himalayas. In other words, don’t get testy with her.

History (more than a paragraph):

Born of cold winter air and mountain rain combining…

Khione and Cybele had vastly opposing spheres of power, one has the ability to take away life while the other has the ability to give life. So when Cybele fell for a son of Khione, it was one of those romances that Aphrodite would be very proud of. “Opposites attract after all,” She’d say.

Mae Myungsoo was one of those demigods that were both lucky and unlucky enough to be born to one of the minor deities. Lucky in a sense that they were less likely to die at a young age and unlucky in a sense that they’d never be given a chance to enter Camp because it lacked a cabin for them and thus braving the monster-infested world on their own. However, while others like him were more prone to anti-god attitudes, Myungsoo never once thought of the gods in a positive nor negative way. All he cared about was surviving.

So when monsters started attacking him on his twelfth birthday, Myungsoo packed his bags and escaped his neglectful father’s house. While others may interpret it as a wish to keep his father safe, Myungsoo only had his own safety in mind. Having people around would only hinder him.

He had long since known about his parentage after hearing his father’s raving about a Khione and how bitter he was at being left by her and having an unwanted child dumped on him. Now that he was on his own, he took this chance to experiment with his powers. Myungsoo was fascinated and found that he was innately stronger during the winter.

Despite the threat of monsters and the odd satyr now and then, Myungsoo wasn’t concerned about them. One of the many satyrs who met him down the road supplied him with a celestial bronze sword. “While you may not want to come with me to camp, I can’t let you go alone without a way to effectively defend yourself.” He’d said. Myungsoo became efficient with the sword in no time.

Traveling around brought him to the United States of America, which was where he would eventually meet the mother of his children. Now 21 years old, Myungsoo had several years of experience under him and not to mention puberty has been extra kind to him. His life spent running through various biomes made him develop a soft spot for nature, despite being the child of a deity whose job was to freeze it over.

Fascinated by the cold-hearted demigod’s unexpected love for nature, Cybele decided to give him a visit under the guise of a traveler named Taerin.

At first the two got off a frosty start but they eventually formed a tentative friendship, which turned into a slow-burn romance as they travelled together. Myungsoo figured out Taerin’s true indentity a few months in, but he didn’t mind much. After all, he’d heard that Cybele was one of the less asshole-ish deities.

Eventually they reached a point in their relationship that eventually gave them their first child together, Seungha, followed by Seunghee not a few months after. Cybele knew she was breaking a major rule but it wasn’t every century that she’d find someone like Myungsoo, so she stayed until their children were 1-2 years old. Leaving Myungsoo a note, Cybele took her leave, taking Seungha with her.

When he woke to find his eldest daughter and his lover gone, Myungsoo was disappointed. With the length of time Cybele stayed with him and even bearing him two children, Myungsoo genuinely believed she’d stay with him far longer. One look at his younger daughter Seunghee made him decide to pick himself up and raise Seunghee alone with the knowledge Cybele had left him with. He could deal with this.

And he did. Life certainly did become more difficult with having to defend a small one year old and lonelier with the loss of his lover but Myungsoo pulled through. In the midst of continuous moving around and countless monster attacks, Myungsoo watched his daughter grow with a bittersweet but proud smile. He never got in contact with Cybele again so he never knew what happened to her or Seungha, so Myungsoo did his best to protect the last remnant of his broken family even if it’d cost him his life.

Give it two years and he did. Myungsoo’s last moments with his daughter was spent in a grove filled with hungry hellhounds. Turns out Myungsoo had pissed off a child of Hades long ago and the demigod decided that this was the perfect moment to exact his revenge and left the father and daughter to be hellhound food.

Though he tried his best, it was obvious that he was outnumbered. It didn’t help the fact that Seunghee was crying in despair at seeing her father battered up and bloody. He knew he wasn’t going to last long and he didn’t want to leave Seunghee defenceless. So in his last hours, he prayed. He prayed to both Khione and Cybele. This was the first and only time he called on both his mother and his ex-lover for help, he couldn’t let his daughter die.

Cybele answered his prayers first, arriving at the scene mere minutes before Myungsoo succumbed to his wounds. The two shared one last intimate moment and a few words before Myungsoo's soul left for the Underworld. Turning to her daughter, Cybele scooped the hysterically sobbing child and took her away from the scene, but not before making a tree grow in the place of Myungsoo's body.

As she had done to Seungha some time ago, Cybele dropped Seunghee in an orphanage that she had long since deemed decent in their treatment of children.

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