Post by anya on Aug 21, 2010 12:53:59 GMT -5
ready to fight, a knife held close by your side
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Anastasia "Anya" O'Brien
broken mirror, a million shades of light
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Name::Anastasia
Nickname:: Anya (Most common), Plant girl, Ivy, Snap (Because of her love to take snap shots).
Age:: 18
Gender::Female
we can run to the end of the world
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Species:: Demigod
Olympian Parent:: Demeter
Years at Camp:: 4
Claimed:: Yes
the songs of the season are her only crown
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Celebrity Claim: Emma Watson
Looks:: Anya has long and curly brown hair with chocolate brown eyes. She often has a flower in her hair, or somewhere on her clothes. Her favorite thing to wear around camp are her normal dirty sneakers and torn up shorts or jeans and a t-shirt. She is also never seen without a green woven braclete on her wrist, a friendship bracelete that her friend Ashley who died in the battle for Manhattan made her. Another thing she often has with her is her camera, a actual photographer grade model that her father had bought her for her fourteenth birthday.
Personality::Anya is usually a very caring, and bright person. She is also very much a daddys girl, she is always taking pictures of camp and things to send back to her dad to show him how well it is going (and that she is still alive). She usually doesn't get angry very easily, and if she does she bottles it up. Which can sometimes lead to her blowing up at someone that never did anything to her. She always considers that her fatal flaw, keeping what she really thinks to herself until someone pushes her to her breaking point. She has been like this for years, and since her father never really got her to speak her mind. When she was eight he enrolled her in Karate classes to help her take out some of her pent up aggression. She received her first degree black belt when she was thirteen.
When it comes to love, her personality is pretty much love them and then leave them before they can leave her. Since she actually hadn't seen her mother since she was four, she has some serious abandonment issues. Every guy she has ever been with, no matter how great they where she always ended up asking them to just be friends. She is always scared of getting hurt, which is one reason that those who know her think she is 'to nice' always giving people second, third and forth chances. Though when people she cares about are in danger she doesn't think twice about rushing into battle to help them, or defend them when they are being insulted. So really she is prepared to stand up for those she cares about, but herself? Not so much.
Family:: Greg O'Brien.-Father
Demeter- Mother
Ashley Harrington- Half sister on mothers side
History::It all started a little over eighteen years ago. Demeter was in the country of Ireland, to try and get away from it all. She had always enjoyed Ireland because of its lush green hills as far as the eye could see. It was there she met a young Greg O'Brien, a pub owner. They both fell for each other quickly, and Greg didn't care if Demeter was a goddess. She even blessed him with a beautiful baby girl who he named Anastasia after his mother. Demeter left for months at a time as her daughter grew up, usually stopping in just in time for major Holidays or her birthday. Greg always understood why Demeter had to go, but for young Anya she never really got why her Mom didn't want to be around her and Daddy.
Though when Anya was four, Demeter left and she never came back. Leaving Greg to raise his daughter on his own, and Anya to grow up without a mother. As she grew up, Anya became a big daddies girl. Even though she had allot of friends, her dad was all she had when it came to family sense her mother was gone and her fathers parents died when she was two. When she was six, thinking that she needed a hobby. Greg bought his daughter her first camera and ever since, Anya has loved taking pictures of everything and everyone. Her father even adapted to calling her 'Snap' because of her love to take snapshots. Her life was pretty uneventful, except a boy drama or two. What can you expect? However that all changed when she was thirteen, while she was walking home from school with some friends they where attacked by a centaur. Or at least that was what Anya saw, her friends just saw a very big man running at them for no reason. "Why cant you see it?!" She had yelled at them.
In the end they had been able to loose the thing when it ran into a tree and got stuck, a tree that had randomly grown in the middle of the side walk. She didn't know till a little while after that she had actually made the tree appear, to protect her and her friends. After that incident, Anyas father told her everything he knew. Who her mother was, the mist, and the fact that he had hoped that the fact that they didn't live in the states would of kept her out of danger from monsters but he had been wrong. After he told her, the sign of Demeter shown over the young girls head, like she had been waiting for her to know the truth before claiming her. For the next year, the O'Brien's moved all around both Ireland and Scotland, any time there was a monster attack they would run. Just they didn't know how to avoid it, or that anytime Anya used her cell phone she would stick out like a sore thumb. So they probably never stayed in one place for more then a few weeks.
It was about a week after her fourteenth birthday that there had been a strange knock on their door. It was a Satyr, who was a little grumpy for having to travel so far and asked if they had any tin cans. After about three he explained about camp half blood and how it was a place for demi gods like Anya to learn their abilities and how to fight like warriors safely. She was reluctant at first, mostly because it was all the way in the states, but once the satyr explained that her father would no longer be bothered by monsters anymore and could live in one place she agreed, promising to write her father and send him pictures.
Her first year at camp was pretty easy for her at first, she settled into her cabin and met Ashley Harrington who was her half sister, she actually had siblings! A fact that she had been absolutely ecstatic about. Her and Ashley quickly became like twins separated a birth, they where sisters and best friends. Though as the year went on Anya quickly heard all about the coming war, and how some kid from the Hermes cabin had betrayed them to the enemy. Not to mention that the same kid was planning to use the great Labyrinth to get a army pasted the camps barriers. So Anya trained and trained like her life depended on it, which it probably did. Then they day came, Percy Jackson and his crew had come back from their quest to try and stop Luke, unsuccessful. So Anya fought along side the camp, and her brothers and sisters. She did her best to incase monsters in bark and trip giants with vines. In the end the camp won, and Anya survived.
Over the next year she did her best to help the camp, something bad was coming and they all knew it. When the battle for Manhattan finally came, Anya rode in the strawberry trucks with the rest of the campers. She remembers looking at Ashley beside her and saying "This is it, for the world". During the battle, she covered battery tunnel with the rest of her cabin. However as the monsters closed in, she saw that Ashley was surrounded by Dracne. She quickly rushed to help, but they where still out numbered. One of the monsters stabbed Ashley in the chest, and then went for Anya but she was to quick and only got her in the side (A scar she still has two years later). Stricken with grief for her fallen sister, Anya then called up vines from the ground and squeezed the life out of all the Dracne close to her. After making sure that Ashley's body was in a safe place that no monsters could get to it, the daughter grief stricken daughter of Demeter fought with all she had. After a horrible war it was all over and Anastasia was one of the campers who survived the battle of Manhattan, even though her best friend and sister didn't. To this day Anya still wears the friendship bracelet Ashley made for her when she was fourteen.
Now two years later, It seems like everything had quieted down, however Anastasia doesn't buy it. The air had the same feel to it as it did before the battle of The Labyrinth and Manhattan. It was only proved to her when a camper turned up dead, something was coming and one death was only the start. Just will the camp be ready? Will Anya? Or will she end up like Ashley..?
broken sword and shield and tears that never fall
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Name/Nickname:: Nick, Nicky, Luke. Anya...whichever
Roleplaying Experience:: 5 or 6 years
Sample RP:: See Nick and Luke.
