Basics[]
Name: Erin Paige Garcia
Gender:Female
God Parent: Astraeus (second choice Poseidon, third choice Hermes)
Mortal Parent: Maria Ellen Garcia
Current Age':' 17 years old, with birthday on November 23
Personality[]
Both upbeat and off the beat, Erin is not afraid to be herself. She will actively defend her individuallity, as well as others', as she views it as one of the most important things you can have in life. However, this take on life makes Erin especially sour towards the idea of teams, political parties, and/or group t-shirts.
Her biggest fear is that one day she might give in to mainstream society, and become one more uniform face in a crowd of uniformity.
Erin loves indie pop, is a lesbian, and has a mild form of claustrophobia.
History[]
Maria Ellen Garcia was a scientist at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Most days she wasn't even a scientist, but instead a tour guide for all the families that visted the Observatory. She longed a part of NASA, where she would be able to shirk the responsibility of being a tour guide and become an astronomer 24/7. But NASA had rejected her three years prior, and Maria had no delusion in her head that they'd change their mind, especially with new applications coming into the esteemed space progream every day. So Maria accepted her mostly-tour guide but sometimes-scientist job with a tight smile, and tried to appreciate the time that she did have to look at the stars.
It was one night that she'd gotten stuck with cleaning duty that everything had changed. A man was found using one of the telescopes after guest hours; Astraeus, the titan of the stars, though Maria hadn't known that. She had thought he was some tourist that hadn't left yet. So she shooed him away. But the next night, he was there again. And the next night, as well. Eventually Maria formed a friendship with the titan that just kept coming back, which eventually bloomed into love. The last time she ever saw Astraeus was a few weeks before Erin was born.
With Astraeus gone, Erin became her mother's sole joy, aside from the stars. Erin had a very close relationship with her mother. In the days of her childhood, Erin and her mom would sit out in front of the Observatory and look out at the stars, talking about how school was going, or about Erin's dad. Maria never mentioned his name, though she often called him an astronaut, telling Erin wild stories about his travels to Jupiter or Mars. Whenever Erin got sad about her father being gone, or unsure if he was even alive, her mom would always tell her that he'd be home as soon as he found the perfect moonrock to bring home as a souvineir.
The moonrock never came.
As Erin grew older, she began to notice something following her. She'd catch glimpses of ghosts or large dark hounds that would be gone as soon as she blinked. Her first monster attack occured when she was 12; a drakon scouted her out as she was leaving school and chased after her. She was able to escape the monster, but not without getting a glob of acid on her left arm. She was able to keep it from eating all the way through her skin, but the incident caused a large patch of blotchy skin on her arm, as well as a sensitivity to brusing in that area.
The incident unnerved her mother, and Maria chose to move around the country in order to keep monsters from catching Erin's scent. First they moved to Seattle, thinking the sheer amount of people there would help to mask Erin's scent. It didn't. If anything, there were just more monsters in the area. They hardly spent 3 months there before Erin was cornered in an alleyway by a gorgon. In a moment of panic, she literally floated the monster off the ground. From there, she ran.
With Seattle off the list, they moved to Minneapolis, thinking that being inland might help things. It helped a little bit; when they first got there Erin was 13, and by the time they had to leave again she was 2 months past her turning 14. Again, it was a Gorgon that had found her. With little to no fighting skills, all Erin could do is run and hope for the best. She got lucky and ran across a road without being hit by a single car; the Gorgon wasn't so lucky.
Erin's mom came up with a new plan; move all the time and hopefully the monsters wouldn't find them. So they began to travel the united states, evading monsters and, to be honest, having a fun time with it. It wasn't so bad being on the run; when not getting into the occasional encounter with a hellhound or some other monster, Erin and her mother got to see what seemed like everywhere, from the Grand Canyon to Niagra Falls. But this was very expensive, and unless they wanted to start stealing, they couldn't keep it up. So eventually, when Erin was 16, they settled down in Bridgeport, Conneticut, and hoped for the best.
They lucked out. Brian Grey, a legacy of Dionysus, befriended Maria after a few weeks of them being in Bridgeport and helped to point them in the direction of Camp Halfblood. He gave Erin a greek xiphos and (attempted) to show her how to use it, so that she could defend herself against monsters. After a few months of procrastinating leaving her mother, the daughter of Astraeus took a bus to New York while her mother remained in Conneticut with Brian. A harpy almost got her while she was getting lunch in New York, but luckily Brian's lessons were enough to help her to defeat the Harpy. A nearby satyr noticed the commotion, and was able to escort her the rest of the way to camp.
Weapons[]
A celestial bronze xiphos, which was a parting gift from Brian to keep her safe on her trek to Camp Half-Blood. The sword has no special properties aside from the normal properties of celestial bronze. It has a brown leather grip and a little wavy line design down the center of the sword. At some point on her way to camp, Erin doodled a star near the bottom of the grip in permanent marker, and it refused to wash off.
Erin's not very good with a sword, though, so she might just pick up a compound bow from walmart if she needs one, maybe steal a few celestial bronze tipped arrows from the weapons shed in camp.
ThetaS (talk) 01:44, December 25, 2014 (UTC)
Notes[]
Very well said. You've written her history very well although there are still som points for improvement:
- She needs a weapon and how she obtained it. You need to add it in the claim so we can see if the weapon is OP or not.
- 14 is considered late for a monster attack but still acceptable although you need to provide a reason as to why it came that late.
- Kindly mention at least one monster attack each year since her first one.
- Provide more details on how she arrived to camp and how old she was at that time.
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Attempted to fix the things you mentioned. Hope this helps! ThetaS (talk) 02:47, December 25, 2014 (UTC)
good job
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