Name: Ariel Guinevere Holmes Age: 15 Gender: Female Appearance: Ariel has the slender body of a dancer and moves with almost supernatural grace. She stands about five foot six - and still growing - and although thin with slight curves and small bust. Although attractive, she doesn't play it up - almost as if she doesn't realize she is and prefers wearing no makeup, or will wear just enough to accentuate her bright blue eyes (often noted as the same color as the Caribbean Sea) and perfect lips if she must wear make up - and wears sundresses or peasant skirts and peasant/tank tops that help accentuate her femininity. Her black hair cascades in gentle layered waves down to roughly her mid-back. She is just tanned enough to make her creamy complexion show that she does spend time outside, but not enough to give her noticeable tan lines or a dark complexion to contrast with her soft features. She prefers to wear blues, white, and muted purples. Godly Parent: Apollo Personality: She's probably about the sweetest person you could come across, tends to be almost sickeningly upbeat about nearly everything, and can almost always find the good in a situation or person. She doesn't like seeing anyone upset and will go out of her way to make sure everyone around her is happy. She doesn't like being sad, or upset, and usually bounces back quickly from any situation that makes her either. It is extremely difficult to make her angry, and even then she usually bounces back quickly. She's quick to consider someone a friend, and would even go out of her way to help a stranger cheer up just so she could see something good happen for another person. Thanks to a bit of an isolated childhood, she is extremely naive, and makes her easy to manipulate due to her trusting nature - since she would rather assume everyone means well rather than acknowledge that some people just want to hurt others because it's fun. She doesn’t like to lie to others, finding it upsets her health and perpetuates negative atmospheres; lying in general is distressing to her, and she cannot assist by being around someone lying if she knows that’s what someone is doing. Pacifist to a fault, she can’t stand to watch even a sparring match and has continually refused to learn even the most basic of combat training or even hold a weapon. She can often be found dancing and singing (or at least humming) around camp if by herself. Waking up with the sun, she is usually very energetic throughout the day, and only fading in energy with the setting of the sun. Loving to make new friends, she likes to help greet new campers and spends much of her time caring for the injured in the infirmary. History: Her parents always wanted a child, but her mother found out she was infertile, the stress of the knowledge (because she decided not to inform her husband) brought her to start going to bars for one-night stands. Several weeks after one of these one-nighters, she discovered she was pregnant, and nine months of slowly failing health later - Ariel was born. Her father was never the wiser of her mother’s adulterous ways, as the instant Ariel took her first breath, her mother took her last. In the wake of this tragedy, her father swore he’d never let anything happen to Ariel - homeschooling her, continually moving her once Ariel started to branch out and make roots in a town. She never knew there was anything special about her aside from her father’s overprotective ways, until her father grew sick - cancer. He was admitted to the hospital when his weakened immune system welcomed pneumonia, and she refused to leave his side. As his system got weaker, and she became unwilling to let him part from her, her healing touch flourished from dormancy when she prayed for a way to save his life, and it chased away not only the pneumonia but the cancer as well. A week later, after the hospital’s numerous tests to figure out what happened with her father all came back without results or completely normal, a man appeared at the door. He discussed the situation with her father - with Ariel sneaking into earshot - and recommended the camp. She begged and pleaded until her father agreed. Powers: - She has the ability to heal others if she touches them and concentrates; this can be as little as healing a scraped knee, or - in the more extreme - healing someone that is on the brink of death. The more effort she needs to concentrate, the more of her life energy she puts into the healing. - Her own body can heal, though it only rebounds from minor injuries, healing at a slightly accelerated rate from major ones (example: takes several days to recover from a broken bone instead of weeks/months); her accelerated healing requires a lot of sun exposure. - Extremely talented at singing and playing string instruments; naturally capable of playing any stringed instrument she picks up, but her strongest instrument is actually a violin and harp. - Although she has a gift for the written word, she is great at writing poems. Skills: - She’s a gifted artist, particularly with drawing. - Extremely intelligent, most believed she was actually an Athenian until she was claimed by Apollo. - She is fluent in Italian and French. - Skilled at dancing, she is great at ballet. - Although she had limited medical training before camp, she is extremely book smart on the subject and has proven extreme proficiency with treating others. Likes: Singing, dancing, being around people, helping others, making friends, taking care of others, learning/expanding her knowledge, drawing, playing her violin, smiling, and writing poems and stories. Although she loves sunny days the most (and thus being outside somewhere she can be in the sunlight), she likes all kinds of weather. The color blue is her favorite color. Dislikes: Bullies, fighting, people being mean, lies, seeing people upset/sad, negativity Weaknesses: Incapable of lying, she always tells the truth - and her naive side keeps her from seeing the problem in that. Though her more fatal flaw is her utter pacifism. Other: She brought a violin and sketch pad with her to camp. Her mortal father keeps up the pattern they had before she started camp of continually moving around the country - but now more for her protection from monsters than to shelter her like before. She's a vegetarian - and would end up being a vegan if not for the knowledge that chickens lay eggs whether they are fertilized by a rooster or not, and only consumes dairy if she knows the farm doesn't use hormones to keep the cow producing milk.