Name: Mei Blue
Choice for godly parent: Iris
Species: Demigod
Mortal parents: Dave Arewig and Maya Blue
Current age: Almost 15
Personality: Mei is very cheerful. She is an optimist and likes to turn even the darkest of situations into something good. This can annoy her family and mortal friends at times. She wouldn't be a very good leader because all though she is caring, she does not possess the skills to the wrongs of other people and the dangers of the world. She often becomes distracted and isn't able to focus on a single task for long.
History: Her birth father was in Chengdu, China when he met the goddess Iris. He stood out to her by the fact he studied color, focusing on reflections. Iris appeared to him on a walk home. They continued to meet each other during November and December until Iris became pregnant with Mei. Mei's father refused to take care of the baby when Iris told him, in fear of what others would think of him. A few days after Mei was born on April the seventeenth, Mei was left in an orphanage and her birth father never saw Iris again.
When she was eleven months old, Dave Arewig and Maya Blue, an American couple, adopted her from the orphanage and brought her to their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She never showed any sign of ADHD throughout her life so far. As a child, she enjoyed playing with other children, including her younger sister Selena, adopted from Haiti, and her younger brother Henry, a boy adopted locally. She was especially close friends with a girl named Lizzie and later in life would learn Lizzie was the daughter of the muse of comedy, Thalia.
When she was five, her siblings three and two, her family moved to San Francisco, so her dad could teach English at the middle school while her mother taught at a preschool. She befriended Kelsey and Mary, two Greek demigods the daughters of Eris and Enyo, although she never knew it. It was around the time her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts that Mei began to be plagued by nightmares. She began seeing things she thought were unnatural. She saw serpents and winged beasts. This was when she was nine years old. After living in Cambridge for the start of fourth grade, she began seeking for support to deal with her fears. She met two twins, Caroline and Naomi (two daughters of Galatea, the goddess of calm seas) and a girl, Penelope (a daughter of Harmonia, the goddess of harmony and agreement) who also suffered from similar things.
They befriended each other and during the summer between fourth and fifth grade (Mei was ten), they were attacked by a dracaena.The day had been bright and cheerful. Mei's dad had taken the four girls out to eat bagels. While he went inside the shop to purchase the food, the four girls heard a hissing sound. Confused, they began to make their way to the door, but before Mei could open it, a dracanae slithered out behind them. Mei had never felt so scared in her life. She wanted to scream but was too frightened to make a sound. The demon closed in, knowing the four children were the only ones who noticed. Penelope threw her handbag at the beast, but the monster just swatted it aside. The dracaena was about to lunge at Caroline, when a new sound entered the scene. A music teacher the girls recognized from school came racing at the dracanae, waving a clarinet. When Mei looked closer, she noticed the teacher had horns and fur poked out at the end of his jeans. The teacher began playing a jazzy tune on the clarinet and as he played, the dracaena was slowly covered with branches. Eventually, the branches encased the creature altogether and squeezed it until the demon exploded into dust. The teacher introduced himself as a satyr and told the four children about Camp Halfblood and their origins. He told Mei to tell her dad the four of them had to go and after she followed his instruction, the satyr drove them to the camp. They stayed for a couple of days before heading home. They left because they were uncomfortable being one of the youngest people in camp and didn't want to start at a new school. Her dad came, but he was under the impression they had been accepted into a special academic program. He stayed at at a hotel while they were at the "school". Afterwards, he drives them home. Mei has been attacked by several other demons after her first. She was attacked by harpies after school in May when she was in fifth grade. With the help of Naomi, she survived. Both her and Penelope were attacked by karpoi in sixth grade while apple picking. In the summer between seventh and eighth grade, she was thirteen, she and her friends Kelsey and Mary were attacked by another dracaena at a Californian beach. Only last summer when visiting Lizzie in Ohio, she was attacked by another round of karpoi. For the first time since her encounter with the first dracanae, Mei has been back to camp. Her friends decided to not accompany her because their mortal parents wouldn't approve of letting them go to a camp in the middle of winter while school was in session. She arrived February fourth. She is now in ninth grade and a part-time camper.
2sunlake (talk) 23:13, February 4, 2017 (UTC)2sunlake 6:13 EST
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Hello, I'm Frost, a camp helper and I'm also looking over your claim today~ First things first...
- On this wiki, we don't exactly refer to Romans... Even though they were mentioned in the Heroes of Olympus, so, please change this.
- Cyclopses, according to this page, are a Medium monster. Usually, those are used for Big Three claims, so please change that.
- How long has Mei been at camp? For metagaming purposes, we only allow campers to stay at camp for up to two weeks.
- For your signature, it's four tildes to produce your username combined with a timestamp.
And that's all I've seen so far~ Edit those that I've pointed out, then either myself, or anyone else on the claiming department will come in and look it over again~. If you haveany questions, feel free to ask anyone on the admin team! Template:Frostleaf1615/Admin
Thank you so much for replying so quickly. Will get to fixing soon. Thanks again! :)
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Heyo there I'm your claim checker this fine day/evening/morning.. did I miss anything? either way before we start *passes you some cookies* please dont cry when we tell you stuff about your claim as it doesnt by any mean show that you lack writing skill its just we have a "standard" to avoid OP (just an early heads up) still shall we start?
- Question how long did Mei stay in camp? as we have a 2 weeks rule where a char cant stay on campground for more than 2 weeks (unless you say she was a part time camper and recently decided to change to full time)
- two demigod (despite one being an uber minor goddess) would push the attacking time by a year so 11 or 12 would be a good. Also dreaming about being attacked by a monster do not count.. (smart but yeah doesnt count)
well thats al the problem I have now good luck kiddo :)
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Thank you for the help. I'm a bit confused by what you mean she dreamed the attack because I never said that. I just said she had nightmares, not that she was attacked in her dreams. Her first real encounter was with the dracanae. I'll change the other two. Thanks again!
Oh, yeah, (this is 2sunlake again) I'll change who the godly parent of Penolope, Caroline,and Naomi, so there is more reason for the attack to happen at twelve.
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Hi there, hope you're having an amazing morning, afternoon, or evening!
- Goddesses are quite busy with their duties, so one year is a quite long for Iris to be with a mortal.
- Orphanages are no longer used, it has since been replaced with foster care and adoption.
- Even if it was unintentional, at such a young age, Mei's power wouldn't have developed at all for a rainbow to appear when she is happy.
- I've noticed that Mei's always been friends with and have been around many other demigods all her life. Regardless of their god parents, multiple demigods' scent combined would be strong, so the first attack being at the earliest age possible (10) and more frequent attacks throughout the years should be warranted.
- Note that for whichever monster attack is Mei's first encounter, it will need to be fully explained. Also note that there should also be subsequent attacks (which can simply be stated or summarized) after her first (usually at least one per year).
- For the important events (such as the monster attacks), it'd be very helpful if you could provide the specific age since a grade level can be two possible ages.
That is all for now, good luck!
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|---~Kevin---
Even if you end up as the world's enemy, I'll be your knight.
Thank you! I'll fix the Iris thing to a couple months and have Mei's powers come out later. I'll also change the time she came to Cambridge to earlier and edit the attack. I gave the month she was born at the beginning, so I assumed you would figure out the whole grade level thing, but since you were confused, I will change that.
The one thing I won't change is the orphanage. Sorry, but both my younger sister and I were adopted from orphanages in China. Yes, orphanages have been replaced in the US, but not in some other countries. I'm not saying I approve of institutionalized care, but that this is a reality. I'm sure you didn't mean to offend me or the many other people I know who are intercountry adopted from orphanages, but I'll just let you know orphanages still exist despite how terrible they are.
I know I sound harsh about the orphanage thing, but I take this very seriously and I want you to not mistake orphanages as extinct. Take a look at JK Rowling's Lumos program if you want more information about orphanages. Thanks for your help.
-2sunlake
I have a Chinese background myself (not adopted though), so I'm very much aware of this; I only briefly looked through the first paragraph and the part about Mei being born in China must have slipped out of my memory and I assumed she was born in the United States (based on the rest of the history) later on, sorry for the overlook.
I hate to give conflicting answers, but Mei attending camp as a part-time camper for the past several years is still considered metagaming. A possible solution would be for Mei to have been at camp for two weeks or less when she was ten, leaving camp afterwards for the past three to four years, and have her recently return to camp some time within the past two weeks. Or, to make things simpler, having Mei just arrive at camp within the past two weeks also works. I know this may be slightly inconvenient, but both solutions would require some brief, minor additions to the history to fill in the extra age gap of when she wasn't at camp.
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|---~Kevin---Even if you end up as the world's enemy, I'll be your knight.
Thanks for understanding. I'll take your suggestion about having been at camp for two weeks or less. I also added more information about other attacks. Thanks so much for helping! I really appreciate how quickly and thoroughly you and the other editors have been checking.
-2sunlake
Hi there! I'm another claim checker, and nice to meet you! Pray bear with me through this. :)
- I assume Iris conceived Mei on, probably, July. Goddesses give birth for after maybe 4-5 months, so April would be a little too late.
- Now, why would Iris hide her from her father when she should've given her to him?
- Another why. Why did Mei leave Camp when she first arrived there? Does she prefer school?
- Next, the monsters. I've no problem with the first, but the wind spirits seem to powerful for two little demigods to take. And what serpent, exactly, had once attacked them?
- When Mei came back to Camp, what happened to those of her demigod friends? This might not be part of Mei's life, but still . . . accuracy is better.
So that's all. (I keep thinking about Misaki Mei from Another.) See ya!
Thanks, Summer June. I fixed what you pointed out.
-2sunlake
heyooo this claim is good enough but I have a question "They left because they figured since their parents were very minor goddesses," this doesn't work like that... Satyr would force kids to go to camp unless they refuse or the mortal parent says no. Fix that and I'll claim it
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Awesome, thanks. I fixed it to them not wanting to be one of the youngest campers and not wanting to start at a new school if they continued to stay.
ahhh ok thats acceptable but I have a new question... how far is ohio to new york? google says its 8 hours... and that would give me even more question like why would a minor be going that far unaccompanied by an adult >< sorry for being stingy
Behind those cold hard computer screens.....There’s a human heart beating away its emotions…
From my experience, it's about four and a half hours, but good point. I'll change it to her dad came, but he was under the impression they had been accepted into a special academic program. He stayed at at a hotel while they were at the "school". Also, they're coming from Massachussetts, not Ohio, but I can see why you made that mistake. -2sunlake