Name:
Nina Lovell-Guilloux
Age:
17
God/Titan Parent:
Nike
Mortal Parent:
Constance Lovell-Guilloux
Appearance (optional):
Personality (at least a sentence or two):
Nina is the type to suffer in silence with a joyful smile. Nina knows how to put on a mask and play it out without anyone letting know her inner thoughts. Could you blame? She's been acting for cameras most of her life with little to no break. However, this also means she's not quite sure who she is without the cameras. Nina was never able to build her own self identity and independence. She still feels the pressure to be perfect. However, now that she's been a little bit distanced from that world, she has been trying her best to relax. Nina can be very cheeky and playful and her humour is basically a definition of self deprecation. Nina can also be very loud and hates to be ignored by people.
Nina does her best to keep her hands busy, albeit blame the ADHD for that, but she can often be found fiddling with something. She's also rather competitive, though she doesn't really show this but Nina hates to be left lagging behind. Sure, she can settle with second but she'd much rather come first. Nina's also athletic, more focused on volleyball or baseball, but also runs. But the latter is more to destress rather than actual competitiveness. Nina is a good team player.
History (at least two paragraphs): Edward Lovell was never anything spectacular growing up. Average was the word most people would use to describe him; never on anyone's radar for any reason. He didn't have a plan in life and was happy to let himself be led by whatever forces of the universe there were. Little did he know that these forces had an interest in him. Why? His average-ness. Many a God and Goddess looked down upon him and found him to be interesting. After procreating with the socialites of societies and having kids that were ensured to be great someday, many deities looked for someone normal to have a kid with. Edward was the unlucky subject of four gods; Pheme, Ares, Thalia and Athena. The resulting children - Emily, Buck, Osborne and Constance respectively - each made Edward's life a little more interesting.
With Pheme being his first taste of the Greek world, Edward found himself thrown into a world he knew little about. Although Pheme never disclosed who she was exactly, she dropped enough hints for Edward to figure out for himself - if he had the prowess to do so. In true Edward Lovell fashion, however, he did not possess such prowess. In the end, after spending days trying to figure out who she was, he gave up and labelled her as some famous indie actress that he had to research after their fling was over. That's what he considered their love; a fling. Nothing permanent whatsoever. Needless to say that when Pheme turned up to his door barely three weeks after he last saw her with a child that she proclaimed to be his, he was stunned. Having no heart to abandon the child, Edward took her in and named her Emily. Only when Emily was roughly three did Edward finally make sense of the hints Pheme had dropped. You see, Emily was a dead ringer for Edward and that, for him, expelled any doubts of her paternity and thus his attention turned to the woman. Pheme stuck out in his head and, upon research, he was led to none other than the goddess Pheme. Her mythical and powerful aura made sense for him, explaining there and then the three year question of how Emily got there so quickly.
Knowledge of Pheme and the Greek world through extension had made Edward a little more confident. Whilst he was still very much plain and average to everyone else around him, he had the self-gratifying fact that he bedded a Greek goddess and the one of fame at that. This added boost in confidence had attracted Ares to the man. Ares had been interested in Edward before (though plain-looking, Edward had robust features that Ares had some partial feelings to) but the newfound confidence sealed the deal on delivering a child. Unlike his obliviousness to Pheme, Edward was a lot more receptive to Ares' advances and identity and posed the same question over and over on how the god would give him a child. Of course Ares never relented and Edward had to sit and wait around after their series of hookups to see how such a child would be given to him. Sure enough, some month after he last saw Ares, the god arrived on his door for the final time with a baby boy. Again, stunned, Edward took the child in and named him Buck.
For the next few years Edward turned down a lot of Greek mythical figures. He had learnt from Ares that his life would be rough with two young demigods and, as a consequence, he was more than happy with just Emily and Buck in his life. Having a good paying office job allowed him to enrol them in a multitude of self-defence classes, even going as far as to give them swordsmanship lessons with a medieval fanatic. His reluctance to having more children with magical beings paid off; as Emily and Buck neared the early teens mark and were attacked, he felt safe knowing that they could handle themselves aptly. Sending the two off to boarding school during term time and then Camp Half-Blood during the summer at their own request, however, opened up the possibility for more gods and goddesses to see if they could chance their luck with Edward.
Thalia, the muse of comedy, was the next to conquer Edward. Though she radiated similar aura to both Pheme and Ares, Thalia wooed Edward with her array of comedic knowledge. It wasn't until after the two had hooked up enough times that Edward had realised he made the grave mistake of having a third demi-child. Was he mad? Not really. Did the thought of having a fourth to even things out cross his mind? Most definitely. He was in luck with the second thought as well; Athena had come along at the end of his relationship with Thalia and took an interest in him. She could sense a lot of buried, forgotten potential within him and was eager to bring it out. She held her identity in high regards with him, telling him exactly who she was and that, no, he wouldn't be able to have sex with her. With Athena's help, Edward was able to display skills that propelled him to the top of his career and, just like that, Athena vanished soon after. Not long after did Thalia return to his door, presenting his third demigod child. Naming him Osborne, Edward already began to preemptively look into the same courses that Emily and Buck had been enrolled in years prior. In the midst of hoping for a fourth and final mythical figure to take an interest in him, Edward was greeted by Athena at his home door after coming home from work. There she stood, miraculously, with a child in hand. She gave him no explanation and left him with the girl who she had taken the liberty of naming Constance.
Osborne and Constance definitely had the easier life growing up with their demigod abilities. Though they didn't come home often, Emily and Buck were always willing to teach them the tricks they knew alongside their younger siblings' paid classes. Subsequently, Osborne and Constance became increasingly proficient in a lot of demigod related things before attendance to Camp had really been considered by either of them.
All four children grew up to have incredible careers laid before them, each inspired by their parents. Emily found success as an actress, becoming a high-profile celebrity with a renowned ability to not crack under pressure and having a way with words. Buck became a high-ranking commander within the military, known for his answer for seemingly anything tactical based. Osborne, much like Emily, found success with fame - becoming a renowned comedian. Constance, whilst her siblings moved to accommodate their careers, became CEO of the major company her father had founded after accumulating enough financial success at his old company. Although each would bring their families (all ironically composed of demichildren) back to their father's home for Christmas and could revel in the similarities between them all, each Lovell child became known for being different to one another.
Constance Lovell was proud of being the heiress to her father’s company but she wanted recognition. Not just as the youngest daughter of Edward who stayed home. She craved attention and found herself more and more jealous of her older sister, Emily. To be known around the world for acting whilst giving little attention to Constance who was doing proper work was, quite frankly, astounding. Really, people cared more for a career based on being able to lie perfectly? Idiocy. Still, she kept her head down and kept up her work. In her own eyes, she was the most successful child of them all. She was certainly one of the richest.
Nina was the youngest of the three daughters. Her elder sister's were products of affairs with Hecate and Nyx. Constance was very much intending those two to be her only children. Then she met Nike. The goddess of victory. Constance would be lying if she said her pride didn't take a boost when she attracted the goddess of Victory. She was on a winning streak at the time, making successful business deals, that she was looking for a way to relax. Sure, she could spend time with her two one year olds but she could also go out on a weekend trip with the goddess of Victory. She chose the latter. Leaving her children with her father, Constance went to Hawaii for the weekend. Four months later, she found a baby on her doorstep with a note telling her that she was theirs.
After the birth of Nina, the next six years were relatively normal. They grew up in the luxury that their mother could easily afford. Of course, being a single working mother meant that she had little time to spend with her kids but she did her best. They were, of course, the fruits of her labour. How successful they were would always reflect back on her. They were taken care of by a string of maids and tutors. All of whom touched base with her, gave them reviews on what they did. If any of them slacked, threw a tantrum, their mother knew. Though it wasn’t a perfect childhood, Nina viewed these years as the good years, just because she hated what came next. The idea came to Constance during a dinner party. Everyone was invited, from Hollywood to New York. Including a producer. The producer saw the family interact. The next day, he pitched the idea of a reality TV show to Constance. And that was that.
The TV show put the spotlight onto Constance the way she had always wanted. The cameras were invited to her work and the world ate it up. The business skyrocketed and spread across the world. In their personal life, the three children became child stars. Everyone knew who they were. They commented on how they were brought up, invested in them. Constance relied on the idea of a happy and close family to draw in the viewers. However, things weren’t as they seem. But when are they ever?
The family were never that close. Not as thick as thieves. Before that, they were raised to compete against one another. Who could be the smartest? The best? Who could get their mother’s attention quickest? Nina was never the first-she preferred to play sport than focus on anything academic, much to the annoyance of her mum. However, that all changed. Constance used different tactics to ensure they all behaved in front of the camera. Behaved in the sense that they did whatever the writers wanted. Suddenly, all three girls were playing together, having fake arguments, acting as if cameras weren’t being shoved in their faces.
Considering Constance was a daughter of Athena and had always been aware of her heritage, she knew her children were demigods. They even knew who their parents were from the beginning. They knew they might go to camp halfblood, through their mother never seemed too keen on the idea. Like she’d have any interest in sending them to a place where she can’t control them. Nina's first monster attack was when she was eight years old. She'd heard about her sister's attacks but always thought she'd be protected. However, a hellhound appeared when she was playing basketball by herself in her mum's private court. However, one of the security guards she hired finally appeared and disposed of the monster. Constance had made sure that all security were demigods to combat these events. After this, Constance ensured they were always accompanied by a security team to make sure all monsters were taken care of before they even got near her daughters’. Unfortunately, it meant they had little to no private time and the knoose their mother was wrapping around them grew even tighter.
None of them ever really pushed against Constance. Even when they were starved to ensure they looked their best for the cameras. Nina still remembers how much her nails bled after the amount of manicures her mother put her through. She still can’t eat chocolate without gagging. All three have instances where their mother forced them to empty their stomachs after eating too much stomach. Furthermore, because so much of their relationship was forced on screen, the three girls’ never had much of a relationship outside of the cameras. In fact, Nina often went out of her way to avoid her family whenever she had the opportunity. Nina often spent her time playing sport, though her favourite was track. She also had a fondness for tennis, despite the monster attack. Pushing her body to the limits helped her release tension and stress from her body. Nina was the type to suffer in silence. However, It wasn’t until Sephora and Ambrosia was thirteen did everything shift. Sephora had put her foot down. It was bound to be one of them at this point, surely. Their mother had little care for their actual well being and nothing but the shallowness of appearances. It was just before they began to film a season that Sephora turned around and said: I don’t want to do this anymore. What ensued was...well, Constance was questionably not the daughter of Athena in that moment. But she, and her children, were known for their pride. The argument that erupted certainly did wound it. Nina still remembers how big the bruise was on Sephora’s face that night, how red the surrounding skin was. How the cameras were banned from going near her. The next morning? Sephore was gone.
Nina always suspected she went to camp halfblood. Constance certainly thought so. She told everyone she sent Sephora to a boarding school, to explain why she wasn’t around anymore. No one could know the true reason. The two remaining sister’s were sworn to silence and she tried her best to make sure life went back to normal. But after that? At least for Nina, nothing was. It was as if a bubble had been popped and Nina struggled to look at her life, especially her mother, the same way again. The next four years passed quietly. Constance was a lot more sensitive to the possibility of the situation happening again and relaxed-just a little bit. They were allowed to go to school and the TV show went on a small hiatus for a year or so. When Nina was fifteen and Ambrosia was sixteen, Constance married a man who was, incidentally, the producer of the show. However, their marriage was more of a farce than a real thing. And he couldn’t become a proper step father to the two girl’s. Both teenagers quickly ignored his existence.
However, by the time they came back to film, Nina and Ambrosia were found to be bickering and bickering, not having their middle ground anymore. So whilst their relationship was going downhill over the next three years, they did have steady views focussed on their constant arguing. When Nina was sixteen and Ambrosia seventeen, the building tension over the past few years exploded into a vicious fight. Nina doesn’t remember what it was about but she remembers whacking her sister as hard as she could.
After that, Nina decided to try to find Sephora, realising the stress of a reality TV show was too much and it wasn’t what she wanted to do in life. So she told Ambrosia her own plans to leave. Ambrosia, not wanting to be left alone, agreed to come with her. Having full access to her money as she had recently turned eighteen, Ambrosia bought two tickets for them straight to camp halfblood.
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Creative and impressively well-written. Nice job!
I'm Still Standing ~ Flopfish3
Wow, thank you!!
