The Hawk's Eye
The Lost Memory
- Name: Nikita Hawkeye
- Gender: Female
- Species: Memory Nymph
- Appearance:
- Weapon:
Ξεχάσει ένα (Forgotten One), Nikita's Bow and Quiver
Her father's ring, which now belongs to Nikita
Derek Hawkeye, a young and youthful son of Psyche, had just graduated high school and had recently moved to a nice apartment in Olsztyn, Poland. One night, he was out with some friends of his, celebrating one of his buddies engagement when he caught the attention of the memory goddess, Mnemosyne. After a while, Mnemosyne offered to buy Derek a drink and he easily agreed. The rest of the night, the couple talked, drank and danced and soon after meeting they began dating.
After the few months of dating, Mnemosyne disappeared without notice, breaking Derek’s heart and after a few more months, Derek found a small basket on his doorstep with a baby wrapped in light pink blankets. At first he was surprised, not knowing what to do with the child or why it was there until he found a small note hidden in the folds of the blankets. They note explained that the child was his and that Mnemosyne hoped for the best for the two. Derek was mostly shocked at the thought that, like his father, he had ended up having a child with a goddess, but the shock disappeared not long after and he named the baby, Nikita.
With the help of his father and step-mother, he raised Nikita, slowly teaching her about the Greek world she was born into. Growing up, Derek wasn’t surprised at Nikita’s skilled memory but, when she started school, her teachers were. Even with her dyslexia and ADHD, she excelled in school although every so often she would get painful headaches or get into fights at school. When Nikita turned eight, her father moved them into a small house, just outside of Olsztyn so he could begin working on Nikita’s monster and demigod fighting skills. Although Nikita had trouble with most hand-to-hand combat weapons, she was skilled in archery and long ranged weapons.
Even though when Derek was younger he had attended camp for several years, he was never a big fan of the gods and goddesses, always feeling like an outcast. So when Nikita turned thirteen, she and Derek’s father began trying to beg Derek into letting her attend camp. At first, Derek was totally opposed to the idea of his daughter going to camp but after a few months, he finally allowed Nikita to attend camp and the next summer she began her camp life.
Three summers later when Nikita returned home for the start of the school year, she began to notice that her father was slowly changing. Little did she know that while she was gone, he had a run in with a group of demigods on a quest, given to them by Lord Dionysus himself, and while trying to help the demigods, he ended up accidently getting the child of Dionysus on the quest killed. Because of that, Derek had gotten cursed by the god causing him to slowly go insane. At first, she barely noticed any changes but slowly has the months went on, he began having mood swings, talking to himself, saying things were there when they weren’t, and forgetting things. After she turned sixteen though, she and her father were forced to move in with Derek’s father and step-mother for the safety of himself and Nikita.
Around a year later, Nikita was at home taking care of her father when three hellhounds attacked their home. Surprisingly her father battled alongside her, even in his almost insane state. After taking on two of the three hellhounds and defeating them, she went to help her father but she was too late. While her back was turned, Derek had let his guard down and the hellhound landed a killing blow on Derek. After finishing off the final hellhound, she returned to her father’s side and his last words to her before he died were, “Don’t trust anyone, Nikita. Treat everyone as your enemy”.
After her father’s death, she returned to camp not being able to stand living in the same house as her father had. Not long after returning to camp, Nikita went on a quest, the leader being a child of Melinoe, and their quest took them into the underworld. The group ended up getting into a battle on one side of the river Lethe. Even after the years of training from camp and her father, she could never get hand-to-hand combat down and ended up getting overwhelmed and stabbed in the stomach. She fell onto the ground next to the river and bled to death quickly.
Just before she died though, Mnemosyne turned Nikita into a memory nymph, allowing her to continue on living. Sadly though, her fellow questors had decided that she was dead and had left her. Before Nikita could wake up though, one of the few surviving monsters accidently pushed Nikita into the river Lethe causing her to wake but loose all of her memories in the process. She pulled herself out of the river and began wandering the underworld with only her instincts to help her. In the end, she ran back into the group. When Mnemosyne learned her daughters memories had been wiped out, she made a deal with Lethe, so that if Nikita found a special item from her past, her memories would return to her.