Alexis (Camp Half-Blood Application)

Name: Alexis Alala

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Godly Parent: Ares

Position: Demigod

Quest count: Two minor quests

Year Count: 4

Weapon: Sword and shield

Personality: (3 sentences for each/3 negative/3 positive):

Negative-

    ·         Hot-headed - “You do that again, you’ll have a sword to the neck before you can beg for forgiveness.”

Alexis is quick to snap, especially if someone questions her authority. She hates snarky comments and intelligent remarks, because she often feels she is being insulted. She doesn’t take jokes well and doesn’t have a sense of humor.

    ·         Competitive to the point of obsession- “If any of you make us lose, I will personally sacrifice you in the name of my father. Got it?”

Alexis cannot back down from a competition. If she believes her honor is at stake, she literally does anything she can to win. It comes in handy for the Ares cabin in Capture the Flag, but it makes her hard to bare in most other situations.

    ·         Overly proud- “I didn’t mix up the times. If I remember correctly, that task was put on you.”

Alexis will not admit to her mistakes. She tries to seem perfect, but that means she often will put the blame on others. Even if she has never done something before, she believes she can do it perfectly.

Positive-

    ·         Determined- “The odds might not be in our favor, but we’re sure as Hades going to change that.”

Alexis always pushes herself to her limits. She always believes that she has to try her best. She also encourages her fellow campers to do their best, but she tends to get angry if they don’t listen.

    ·         Good in battle- “Listen up, numb skulls. If the child of Athena has a plan, we listen up. Our primary objective is winning with everyone ALIVE.”

Unlike a few of her brethren, Alexis doesn’t instantly rush into battle without a plan. Often. She, grudgingly, takes advice from the Athena cabin. She will always charge into a fight, even if it means she would be risking her own life.

    ·         Loyal- “If you tell anyone, I’ll kill you but…. If anything happened to any of you guys, I’d actually be upset. This Camp is my life.”

Even as grouchy and seemingly untouchable as Alexis seems, she is completely loyal to her camp. Her allegiance always is to her father, even if she believes he doesn’t pay attention to her. The few friends she does manage to acquire, she protects with her life.

History: (at least 7 paragraphs)-

            Alexis grew up with her mother, a rather determined and stubborn woman. Her mother, Rebecca, was self-made. She had helped train soldiers in the military and become one of the highest ranking females in the entire business. That was how she had first drawn attention from Ares. She met him several times, which resulted in her carrying his child. That was how Alexis was first brought into existence.

            Her mother had never thought to tell her child that she was a demigod. Her mother’s motto was ‘You can always rise higher’, so she expected her daughter to rise even above her status as a daughter of Ares. She put her in more military style schools that were supposed to each her about discipline and respect, but Alexis wasn’t the best of students.

            As a girl, Alexis was kicked out of numerous schools due to fighting, mysterious accidents involving knifes, or the absolute lack of following orders. To her mother’s disappointment, she had acquired a rather rebellious streak from her father and wanted NO ONE to EVER tell her what to do. Eventually her mother gave up on her and threw her into public school.

            Alexis grew into a bit of a bully, loving the fact that she drew fear from her fellow students. She was stronger than everyone else, and everyone knew it. She ruled the school for a good number of years, her reign of terror only ending when she was forced to go to Camp Half-Blood.

            Her mother had decided that if a mix of both public school teachers and military school style officers couldn’t whip her daughter into shape, then perhaps her Greek side could. She shipped her off with only the warning ‘Don’t you DARE come back until you’re someone I can be proud of.’ With that, Alexis was off to a future she had never dreamed of.

            Although Alexis hadn’t before experienced too many monsters in her life, as a daughter of Ares, her entrance to Camp Half-Blood had been perfectly timed with the entrance of Zach, son of Zeus. He and the satyr who had been sent to save him were struggling with a pair of angry empousai. She was able to leap into battle and help kill one, then helped get the satyr to safety as Zach killed the other.

            Back at camp, they were both welcomed warmly, though Zach (who was claimed almost immediately), get the most of the attention directed at them. Alexis herself was forced to stay at the Hermes cabin and was soon forgotten.

            Alexis was fine for a while, being someone no one remembered. She enjoyed learning about the strange new weapons and playing games, but she was content to be a wall flower. She talked to Zach more and more, and they soon grew to be close friends. One day he was picked to go on a minor quest to fetch some god’s little toy, and he immediately chose her and the satyr to come along.

            The quest was quite easy, up until the way back. They were ambushed by some of Hades’s hellhounds who had by sent by the not-too-pleased god to kill the son of Zeus. Alexis and Zach fought gallantly, both Zach was lost that day.

            Alexis grew apart from her fellow campers after that and began to train harder. She felt responsible for Zach’s death, for she hadn’t been as good as she could have been in battle. If she would have trained harder, she figured, she would have been able to save him.

            She soon grew to be the best of the Hermes cabin, though none still knew her real parent. She was chosen for yet another quest and succeeded without a single scratch, a fact that brought great pride onto her. She was looked on as a hero, and for the first time in her two years at being at camp she was claimed by her father, Ares.

            She was never quite as attached to her siblings, since she had spent the first two years of camp being bullied by them, but she respected them and they respected her. She soon grew to be the head of the Ares cabin, leading them into victory after victory in Capture the Flag. She never told anyone that she was still trying to impress her mother and father, nor that she was trying to make up for the fact that she had been the one to get Zach killed.

            The cold demigod finally managed to make her way to the head of the camp, though everyone knew it was more of a position of Head of Defense. She was the one to lead them into battle, and the one to keep monsters out, but she never filled the shoes of Chiron or Mr. D. She finally pulled into her fourth year at camp, the year she was determined to be the one where everything changed. She would finally try and prove herself worthy of her father’s attention.

Relationships: None (Subject to change)

Skills:

    ·         Good with most weapons (mainly the sword)

    ·         Strong

    ·         Can keep a level head in battle (helps with battle planning, but nowhere near the level of campers of Athena)

    ·         Values strength and tries to push the campers to be the best (strongest) they can be

    ·         Good with motivation

Weaknesses:

    ·         Not good socially (doesn’t know what to say, isn’t good with making new friends)

    ·         Often depends only on her strength, not very good with most things intellectually

    ·         Tries too hard to prove herself as the best demigod, often forgets what is best

    ·         Overly competitive

    ·         Secretly cares too much about her appearance, almost to the point of an Aphrodite girl

    ·         Not overly close to anyone, often distances herself

    ·         Can’t hold her tongue

    ·         Gambles (not in the way of poker)

Pet Peeves:

    ·         Long, boring speeches that have no purpose

    ·         People cracking their knuckles

    ·         Lovers being overly touchy-feely

    ·         When people don’t button all the buttons on a blouse/sweater

Perks:

    ·         Has a sword that Ares gave her after she proved that the spear just wasn’t her weapon

    ·         Carries a shield that none really know where she got it from, but most assume she won it off an unfair bet

    ·         Can boil an egg (and that’s the extent of her cooking skills)

Other:

    ·         Superstitious, always carries a rabbits foot and has the same dark stone from her brother on her necklace

    ·         Believes in curse- The last three people she was close with romantically ended up disappearing on a quest

    ·         Has only been on two minor quests and feels she is a disappointment to her father

Role-play Sample: (most recent)

Aeolus's eyes lit up and he spoke with poorly concealed excitement. Not often was he asked to recount his past life, so he always dragged it into almost a story, "As a demigod I lived with my mother and older sister. Both had.... Well, strong female presences, I should say. They were both stubborn and never took no for an answer. I suppose how that’s my mother met Poseidon. Other woman dreamed of falling for the Gods. My mother sought him out to make it happen. When she had me, I swear she was actually disappointed I wasn’t a girl. Still, she raised me to be a hero, one worthy of the title 'Son of Poseidon'. I wasn’t his favorite son, that title probably belonged to Orion. Still, I proved myself a hero and tried to gain my father’s attention. I do admit," He smiled fondly at the memory, "My mother and sister pushed more than anything else. They were the reason I became a god... But I would never guess my actions would put them in danger," The smile slipped into a wavering frown, "In the end, an enemy of mine killed my mother in front of my eyes, and I never saw my sister again."