Victorique was born into a rich business family in Germany where she is still part of what Hitler called "The Perfect Race". Basically, when Hitler was in power he made all the full-blooded Germans with blonde hair and blue eyes as breeders to create this new race of "perfect" beings. Her family always loathed Hitler and was glad to see him die. Oddly enough, her whole family stuck to full-blooded German breeding until her mother came. She is still a being of the "Perfect Race", despite her Greek blood. Sebastian, her father had met her mother while travelling through Greece when he entered the ruins of one of her temples. She had walked right up to him; looking normal and like any tourist that was visiting. They had begun dating and she revealed her "little" secret of being a goddess. He seemed un-phased and they soon bore Victorique into the world. However, the goddess couldn't stay and had left a small gift for Victorique; a small circlet that is to be placed upon your forehead. The power, if there is any, is utterly unknown.
Her family currently consists of her father, and four brothers. Victorique is the youngest, of course and constantly attempts to surpass her brothers in getting her father's attention. Sebastian Schuhmacher is always far too busy to pay much attention to his only daughter, who hadn't even finished school while the rest of her brothers were already getting jobs and even one had a business now. However, the man would always somehow show how much he loved Victorique despite being unable to always be by her side with little gifts and sticky notes on some of her stuff with cute little messages like "Don't forget to brush your teeth, sweetheart!" or "An apple a day keeps the doctor away!"
Reaching the top of her class in school was always a struggle for the tall girl, but she always managed to study until she couldn't stay awake any longer. She had many friends but tended to favor being alone to read or write stories. Crowds were never her thing. But she had a knack for fighting. Since a young age, Victorique had been taking combat training as a present from her elder brother, Joshua. She was the best at archery and had won several awards in events but this part of her life was a shrouded mystery to all her friends. She has encountered maybe three minor gorgons and destroyed one, the other two were accidentally destroyed; one being hit by a bus and the other tossed relentlessly over a cliff while she was on a field trip.
One day in the middle of summer, she had a friend over. Of course, being the cryptic female she was, she always hid her awards, weapons and armor from her friends in a secret room that could only be activated by a book on her shelf. This had cost her father a quite a dent of cash to install, but he had gone along with it. The foolish girl, not a real friend to Victorique had browsed through all her stuff, snooping through every little thing and had pulled the book. Upon seeing all the stuff, she had fled from the house before Victorique could explain. The next day at school was horrid. No longer was she the one loved by all, and developed a kind of anti-social manner to her.
Her father, unsure of what to do when all the kids at her school feared of her bursting through the doors with a gun and taking them all down, shipped her off to a school in New York where she met Karkat Vantas, a child of Demeter. After one incident involving a manticore attacking the two while they were strolling through the park and Karkat had mostly taken him on alone -- while the manticore was screaming that he was going to kill "both" demigods -- Karkat was only left to believe that Victorique was a demigod. He brought her to Camp Half-Blood after a ton of explaining and prompting. She is and was seventeen when she entered Camp Half-Blood. The only reason she is coming to camp now is because she had no clue that it existed and her father had never mentioned her mother because it pained him that she is gone. Furious with this secret, she had contacted him while on a business trip and offered him a piece of her mind. She rejected him for doing such a thing and no matter how many apologies he threw her way, she disowned him each time.
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