Name: Zula Aitken Age: 14 Gender: Female Appearance: [hider=Zula][img=http://static.tumblr.com/e632d9c7304f290e0bda54f619dc9a5f/92m9xig/o16n1sxss/tumblr_static_normal_etc65fl.jpg] While she can change her hair color and eye color on a whim, she prefers to make her hair blonde and her eyes blue. She's an average sized girl, standing at 5' 5" and will always be dressed in clothes that she finds comfortable, which is usually some slacks and a loose shirt. There is a large burn that has mostly healed on her left arm, which she doesn't like to talk about. She keeps her hair long, and tied into a pair of ponytails which trail behind her. She says that someday she'd like to donate her hair to charity, but she isn't sure if the smell of her donated hair will attract monsters, so she has no plans to cut it at this time.[/hider] Godly Parent: Aphrodite Personality: Always with a smile on her face, Zula likes to be friends with almost everyone in camp. She often tries to help the Hermes cabin, building extra beds or small shelters so the people who have no room can sleep outside without getting too cold, she also offers hot chocolate to campers during winter. Looking at Zula, most assume that she's someone who couldn't do math, but in fact Zula is quite talented when it comes to applying math to the real world, like physics and sometimes she thinks about studying calculus. When she gets talking about math or any of her projects, she goes on tangents about various things. Zula knows many jokes, and often tells them when the situation seems desperate or dire. Zula is overly kind, often times overreaching herself to save others at her expense. The flip side of her personality is that she can be extremely spiteful to people who are mean or have been mean to others. She will take them on in a duel using swords and more often than not she will win due to her experience. Zula will then ask if they will apologize to the person they have attacked or been mean to. If they do not, Zula will continue to duel them every day until they relent. Zula will then refuse to speak to the 'mean' person for an indefinite amount of time. History: Zula was nine when she ran away from home. Her father was barely scraping by, and always saying that if he had one less mouth to feed he might be able to fix certain things around the house. So Zula decided to run away, packing only her clothes and a few snacks for the road. Zula's dreams of being on the road were quickly shattered by her first experience with a monster. It had been a cyclops, and if she'd been more quiet she wouldn't have been caught. Zula woke later over a fire, and instead of panicking, immediately started to think her way out of the situation. Since the cyclops liked to talk, she managed to keep it talking for long enough that she could break the stick which it had used to roast her, but her plan had one downside. She had to roll quickly out of the fire and hope that the cyclopes was stupid enough to think that she'd fallen in and died. She was lucky, the cyclope spent precious time searching in the fire for her remains instead of looking for her. She managed to escape, but with a large burn up her arm. Zula recalled the cyclope talking about a place called 'Camp Half-Blood' and decided to try and find it. After a two-year long journey with the help of satyr during most of it, Zula managed to reach Camp Half-Blood, where she decided to remain year round. She trained in swordplay as well as learned math and other basic course from Chiron and the Athena cabin helping her. Powers: -Ability to speak French fluently -Able to distract by talking, though she cannot control others by talking -Minor shapeshifting, like changing her hair or eye color. She can't change her facial structure whatsoever. Skills: -She can use a regular sized blade -Proficient in mathematics -Can cut/style hair -Can build small shelters Likes: Darker, more muted colors; helping people; thinking about funny jokes. Dislikes: Mean people; bullies; neon colors; cyclopes; spiders. Weaknesses: She can't handle seeing cyclopes, if she does, she'll freeze in fear. She also hates spiders. Zula's fatal heroic flaw is that she is too kind, and will do anything for anyone, unquestioningly. Other: "Aphrodite is love, but there are a lot of ways of showing love other than just through kisses and confessing your love."