[Center] [img]https://victorianlowbrow.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/treesroses.gif[/img] [color=87C17C] [h3][i]"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."[/i] ~ Georges Bernanos.[/h3] [h3][i][b]~General Information~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Name:[/b] Carmen Latham [b]Nick-Names:[/b] Flower Girl, Carmie (Only by doting relatives) [b]Sex/ Gender:[/b] Female [b]Age:[/b] Nineteen Years Old [b]Place Of Origin:[/b] Burlington, Vermont [b]Camp Cabin:[/b] Cabin Fourteen [b]Appearance - Nineteen Years Old:[/b] [img]http://img.pandawhale.com/131342-Alina-K-Kovalenko-hot-russian-qAZ1.jpeg[/img] [h3][i][b]~Relationship Information~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Relationship Status:[/b] Single [b]Sexuality:[/b] Heterosexual [b]Partner:[/b] None [b]Godly Parent:[/b] Περσεφόνη - Persephone, Goddess of springtime, flowers, fertility, and young life [b]Human Parent:[/b] Adrian Latham - Agricultural Mircobiologist [b]Siblings:[/b] None [b]Legacy:[/b] None [b]Pet/s:[/b] None [b]Other:[/b] Carmen is new to camp, so she doesn't know anyone. [h3][i][b]~Personal Information~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Personality:[/b] Carmen has a difficult time making friends. She usually ends up in awkward social situations, unsure of what to say or do. She tends to over think what she says before she says them, and by then the topic has already changed. Even when she does speak, her voice is fairly quiet. Many times she gets frustrated with herself for her mistakes, but her frustration quickly turns to plain disappointment. Carmen tends to get embarrassed easily because of other's teasing of her speech. However, these traits diminish after time is spent with a person. She hasn't had this happen many times while she lived with her relatives, but when it does everything comes more naturally for her. With strangers, though, she tends to keep her mouth shut. She has selective mutism, usually never talking to certain types of people, especially people who are mean to her at any point of their social interaction. It's a defense mechanism she adapted from her short time in public school. Carmen is typically selfish because of being spoiled at home and unobservant of anyone else's needs but her own. One must state something plain and simply for her to figure something out. It's difficult for her to read between the lines. However, she does try her best to please others. She values the opinions of others so much, she tends to forget that she has free will. She is also pretty clumsy and forgetful, again due to her upbringing. Carmen tends to bail out of a relationship at any sign of something going wrong. However since it's difficult for her to notice this, it rarely happens, unless someone points it out to her. She relies heavily on others during social interaction to help her get through a conversation without embarrassing herself. [b]Skills:[/b] [u]Chlorokinesis:[/u] Carmen has the ability to control, manipulate, and summon vegetation. She is barely aware of it, simply be living that she is good with plants. She can also talk to plants, but she hasn't figured it out yet. [u]Green-Thumb:[/u] She enjoys working with plants life and is very good at it. She also has a vast knowledge concerning plants due to reading about them in her spare time. She uses this to her advantage, knowing what plants could kill you, poison you, heal you, or what you can eat. Her knowledge even goes down to the molecular level thanks to her father. [b]Biography:[/b] Carmen lived with her grandmother and aunt for most of her life. Her father was a very busy person who frequently traveled from place to place. Her aunt worked a low paying job as a preschool teacher, and had to live Carmen's grandmother. Her grandmother was living off the money left to her by her rich deceased husband. For awhile, Carmen's aunt taught her, but Carmen insisted that she attend public school. So she started public school around sixth grade. At first a few girls were extremely nice to her despite her unfavorable social skills. However, in the end these girls back stabbed her, spreading horrible rumors and insulting her every step of the way. Of course the entire school joined in her mockery. At one point, even the teachers were subconsciously belittling her. At this point, Carmen's grandmother stepped in and pulled her out of the school. It was around seventh grade that she was pulled back into the pleasant atmosphere of homeschooling. Using this experience as a valuable lesson, Carmen was taught that it's best to listen to her superiors. It was also around this time that Carmen's grandmother introduced her to gardening. It had always been a part of Carmen's life, but now her grandmother began giving her full lessons. They had a large greenhouse, where Carmen was eventually given her own space for her own gardening endeavors. By the time she was fifteen years old, word reached Carmen's household that Carmen's father died in a plane crash. Carmen was devastated. Although she didn't see her father much, the time she had spent with him was significant. He use to bring her back presents and teach her interesting fact about plants. Her mourning lasted awhile, but after realizing she needed to accept and move on, she started going back to normal life. Now she is nineteen years old and her aunt and grandmother finally decided to tell Carmen about her mother. After a hard decision and many tearful goodbyes, Carmen left for camp half blood, with all of her things with a weird Knife attached to a chain added to her collection. Her grandmother had ment well, by giving her a weapon, but Carmen had little experience with one. [h3][i][b]~Weaponry Information~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Weapon/s:[/b] An item that was given to her by her Aunt and Grandmother as a parting gift. [b]Weapon/s Name:[/b] Acacia (ακακία) - Means Thorny [b]Weapon/s Type:[/b] Kyoketsu Shoge Knife [b]Attributes:[/b] It's currently made of normal stainless steel, and Carmen currently has no idea how to use it properly. [hider=Weapon Appearance] [b]Weapon/s Appearance:[/b] [img]https://www.karatemart.com/images/products/large/ninja-assassin-kyoketshu-shogei-knife.jpg[/img] [/hider] [h3][i][b]~Other Information~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Other:[/b] Carmen loves reading fiction as well as books about plants. She tends to indulge in romance novels since she's never experienced love from someone that wasn't a relative.Carmen also has yet to meet her Godly parent [h3][i][b]~Theme Song~[/b][/i][/h3] [b]Theme Song:[/b] "[url=http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg]Paradise [/url]" by Coldplay. [/color] [img]http://38.media.tumblr.com/e9aae8be47c0f4081947b4f622776932/tumblr_navp82zvaB1r0rnczo6_r1_250.gif[/img] [/Center]