Post by Penny on Jul 9, 2015 4:44:23 GMT -5
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Full Name: Penelope "Penny" Aurelia Saxton
Age: 16
Description or Playby: Penny is pale, short, and skinny. Standing at only 5'2", she doesn't look very threatening, and is often mistaken to be younger than she is. She has bright jade eyes that, when they aren't full of life, showcase her emotions vividly. She is very aware of this fact, so she will often hide her face if she is upset or feeling shy. She's interesting to look at, because she has pale skin and a tumble of naturally red hair. These things paired with her impossible-to-miss doe eyes make her hard to forget and obvious in a crowd.
Up close, she has a tiny, light smattering of freckles over the bridge of her nose. It's hard to notice, but it's there, a tiny interruption in the expanse of her pale face. More obvious details about her include her affinity for blazers, jeans, combat boots and nerdy little knickknacks.
Playby/face claims: Ebba Zingmark (irl) and Annie Mei by Ctchrysler (drawing).
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Olympian Parent: Aphrodite
Mortal Parent: Nathaniel Gray Saxton
Personality: Penny is a friendly girl who, despite her open-ness and extrovert tendencies, doesn't really fit anywhere. She's a bit off the grid with her interests – she's nerdy, a film geek, loves her comic books and is an avid reader. People try to be nice to her back, like her siblings in the Aphrodite cabin, but since her interests so far at camp haven't been fashion or love or makeup, they haven't exactly clicked.
Her more positive traits include her open minded-ness to just about anything, her persistence and never give up attitude, and how unguarded she is about herself to other people.
Her less positive traits are that she needs to be with other people, is uncomfortable being alone, she gets frustrated easily and impatient with ignorance. She also tends to aimlessly ramble, and can be considered annoying.
She doesn't like pessimists (being a general optimist herself despite how she's been treated), footie pajamas or some of her more...excessive, lovey dovey siblings. She likes to romanticize things too, but there's a point where Penny knows it has gone too far. Like having the cabin be pink.
Her flaws are in abundance, but perhaps her greatest is a curse from her mother: she loves with her whole heart, and if she loses someone she loves, it hurts her for longer than most.
History:
Penny’s story so far isn’t really all that tragic – it’s actually kind of shockingly normal for a demigod. Minus the monsters, goat man and magic powers, that is. Her father made the mistake of leaving a party with the irresistible and gorgeous Aphrodite at the age of twenty two. He was young and stupid and in a drunken stupor – not that he needed to be. He would’ve, much like most men, done anything for her. Nine months and a birthday later, Nathaniel Gray Saxton had a giggling baby girl sat on his doorstep in a golden basket. No note, no nothing. Just an infant with the telltale marks of a person with his genes: wide green eyes and a shock of messy red hair.
He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t want a child, at least not yet. He was in his early twenties and was thinking about being wild in the streets of New York city, and how much he could drink before he was decidedly wasted. Someone with that mind set isn’t ready for a daughter.
Of course, the dad had two choices: to put the baby up for adoption or raise it the best that he could. If he chose the first option, he’d be free. He wouldn’t have to spend his money on diapers and baby formula, or worry about what the baby could choke on in his bachelor pad. If he chose the second, his parents would most likely cut him off, he’d have to get a job and live off of an ever shrinking trust fund. After a stern talking to from his father, being told that “where he comes from, if you’re dumb enough to make mistakes you better damn well own up to them” and “you’d better learn some darn responsibility”, Nathan went with option number two, and named the child after his mother.
As Penny got older, she didn’t get much attention from her dad. He worked in a video store and let her sit in the back and entertain herself with all the movies that were just returned. Wasting his money on a baby sitter was not a possibility if he wanted to continue drinking and having fun on his budget. She practically grew up in that back room, watching movies and viewing adventures, becoming a dreamer as she sat by herself, left to her own devices.
That’s how she grew to be a film geek – she knew anything and everything about most movies from just watching them so often. That’s how she got most of her hobbies, just trying to entertain herself while her father worked.
Around middle school, about sixth grade, Penny began to grow restless of her constant routine. She was maturing into a teen soon. And it made her that much more grumpy with her father. She was constantly ignored and she knew it, the only love she ever really received coming from her Nana and that was on the rare occasion she came to visit.
Penelope started to give up the loner trait she had come to be acquired with. She began to long for friends. She started going by Penny and did her best to get the girls in class to like her – change her hair, talk about boys, just anything. They didn’t want a girl who stayed in the corner reading comic books throughout elementary to be their friend, so they pretty much ignored her as well. The only person who ever really was a buddy of hers was the only kid weirder than her. He had transferred a year prior and had the beginnings of facial hair, always smelled like dirt and hobbled around on crutches.
She and Terron, the weird cripple, became quite a pair. He was her best friend; her only friend, and her constant companion throughout middle school and freshman year. By the time sophomore year rolled around, the two began to drift because Penny started to gravitate back to her old, loner-ish ways.
That is until he saved her life from a really scary looking devil-dog and told her that they needed to run. That more were coming. Penny didn’t have to be told twice – she had always dreamed of some kind of adventure to happen to her, but when it did, it terrified the shit out of her and she wasn’t about to stick around.
He brought her to a camp that he swore was a place of safety for her, and practically shoved her past its borders. Nathaniel received word that Penny was spending the summer away from him, and maybe even for longer, and there was no news that he actually tried looking for her after that.
Penny got used to the gods thing right away – it seemed like a movie plot, and she desperately wanted something fantastic and crazy sounding to be real, and the facts that supported it made her an even firmer believer. She was claimed and placed in the Aphrodite cabin shortly after she arrived, and has been learning from her siblings which powers she does and doesn’t have.
Weapons: Nothing special. A celestial bronze dagger for protection purposes. No magical items.
Abilities:
Charmspeak: Although she possesses the ability, she sucks at charmspeak. She tries her best to improve on it, but the only response she gets is a slight glazing over of her target's eyes. Nothing more. She can't convince people to do her bidding yet, only slightly chip away their free will before they snap right back to reality.
Empathy: Penny can read other people's emotions. It takes some effort and concentration, or it happens by accident, but she can tell almost instantly what someone else is feeling, no matter how good they are at hiding it.
Amokenesis: She isn't only able to read emotions. In short spurts she is able to control them as well. She is best with happiness, love, desire and curiosity. Anger, despair, or anything like the two she struggles with.
Years at camp: This year will be her first at camp.
Year-rounder or summer-only camper?: Year rounder.
Full Name: Penelope "Penny" Aurelia Saxton
Age: 16
Description or Playby: Penny is pale, short, and skinny. Standing at only 5'2", she doesn't look very threatening, and is often mistaken to be younger than she is. She has bright jade eyes that, when they aren't full of life, showcase her emotions vividly. She is very aware of this fact, so she will often hide her face if she is upset or feeling shy. She's interesting to look at, because she has pale skin and a tumble of naturally red hair. These things paired with her impossible-to-miss doe eyes make her hard to forget and obvious in a crowd.
Up close, she has a tiny, light smattering of freckles over the bridge of her nose. It's hard to notice, but it's there, a tiny interruption in the expanse of her pale face. More obvious details about her include her affinity for blazers, jeans, combat boots and nerdy little knickknacks.
Playby/face claims: Ebba Zingmark (irl) and Annie Mei by Ctchrysler (drawing).
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Olympian Parent: Aphrodite
Mortal Parent: Nathaniel Gray Saxton
Personality: Penny is a friendly girl who, despite her open-ness and extrovert tendencies, doesn't really fit anywhere. She's a bit off the grid with her interests – she's nerdy, a film geek, loves her comic books and is an avid reader. People try to be nice to her back, like her siblings in the Aphrodite cabin, but since her interests so far at camp haven't been fashion or love or makeup, they haven't exactly clicked.
Her more positive traits include her open minded-ness to just about anything, her persistence and never give up attitude, and how unguarded she is about herself to other people.
Her less positive traits are that she needs to be with other people, is uncomfortable being alone, she gets frustrated easily and impatient with ignorance. She also tends to aimlessly ramble, and can be considered annoying.
She doesn't like pessimists (being a general optimist herself despite how she's been treated), footie pajamas or some of her more...excessive, lovey dovey siblings. She likes to romanticize things too, but there's a point where Penny knows it has gone too far. Like having the cabin be pink.
Her flaws are in abundance, but perhaps her greatest is a curse from her mother: she loves with her whole heart, and if she loses someone she loves, it hurts her for longer than most.
History:
Penny’s story so far isn’t really all that tragic – it’s actually kind of shockingly normal for a demigod. Minus the monsters, goat man and magic powers, that is. Her father made the mistake of leaving a party with the irresistible and gorgeous Aphrodite at the age of twenty two. He was young and stupid and in a drunken stupor – not that he needed to be. He would’ve, much like most men, done anything for her. Nine months and a birthday later, Nathaniel Gray Saxton had a giggling baby girl sat on his doorstep in a golden basket. No note, no nothing. Just an infant with the telltale marks of a person with his genes: wide green eyes and a shock of messy red hair.
He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t want a child, at least not yet. He was in his early twenties and was thinking about being wild in the streets of New York city, and how much he could drink before he was decidedly wasted. Someone with that mind set isn’t ready for a daughter.
Of course, the dad had two choices: to put the baby up for adoption or raise it the best that he could. If he chose the first option, he’d be free. He wouldn’t have to spend his money on diapers and baby formula, or worry about what the baby could choke on in his bachelor pad. If he chose the second, his parents would most likely cut him off, he’d have to get a job and live off of an ever shrinking trust fund. After a stern talking to from his father, being told that “where he comes from, if you’re dumb enough to make mistakes you better damn well own up to them” and “you’d better learn some darn responsibility”, Nathan went with option number two, and named the child after his mother.
As Penny got older, she didn’t get much attention from her dad. He worked in a video store and let her sit in the back and entertain herself with all the movies that were just returned. Wasting his money on a baby sitter was not a possibility if he wanted to continue drinking and having fun on his budget. She practically grew up in that back room, watching movies and viewing adventures, becoming a dreamer as she sat by herself, left to her own devices.
That’s how she grew to be a film geek – she knew anything and everything about most movies from just watching them so often. That’s how she got most of her hobbies, just trying to entertain herself while her father worked.
Around middle school, about sixth grade, Penny began to grow restless of her constant routine. She was maturing into a teen soon. And it made her that much more grumpy with her father. She was constantly ignored and she knew it, the only love she ever really received coming from her Nana and that was on the rare occasion she came to visit.
Penelope started to give up the loner trait she had come to be acquired with. She began to long for friends. She started going by Penny and did her best to get the girls in class to like her – change her hair, talk about boys, just anything. They didn’t want a girl who stayed in the corner reading comic books throughout elementary to be their friend, so they pretty much ignored her as well. The only person who ever really was a buddy of hers was the only kid weirder than her. He had transferred a year prior and had the beginnings of facial hair, always smelled like dirt and hobbled around on crutches.
She and Terron, the weird cripple, became quite a pair. He was her best friend; her only friend, and her constant companion throughout middle school and freshman year. By the time sophomore year rolled around, the two began to drift because Penny started to gravitate back to her old, loner-ish ways.
That is until he saved her life from a really scary looking devil-dog and told her that they needed to run. That more were coming. Penny didn’t have to be told twice – she had always dreamed of some kind of adventure to happen to her, but when it did, it terrified the shit out of her and she wasn’t about to stick around.
He brought her to a camp that he swore was a place of safety for her, and practically shoved her past its borders. Nathaniel received word that Penny was spending the summer away from him, and maybe even for longer, and there was no news that he actually tried looking for her after that.
Penny got used to the gods thing right away – it seemed like a movie plot, and she desperately wanted something fantastic and crazy sounding to be real, and the facts that supported it made her an even firmer believer. She was claimed and placed in the Aphrodite cabin shortly after she arrived, and has been learning from her siblings which powers she does and doesn’t have.
Weapons: Nothing special. A celestial bronze dagger for protection purposes. No magical items.
Abilities:
Charmspeak: Although she possesses the ability, she sucks at charmspeak. She tries her best to improve on it, but the only response she gets is a slight glazing over of her target's eyes. Nothing more. She can't convince people to do her bidding yet, only slightly chip away their free will before they snap right back to reality.
Empathy: Penny can read other people's emotions. It takes some effort and concentration, or it happens by accident, but she can tell almost instantly what someone else is feeling, no matter how good they are at hiding it.
Amokenesis: She isn't only able to read emotions. In short spurts she is able to control them as well. She is best with happiness, love, desire and curiosity. Anger, despair, or anything like the two she struggles with.
Years at camp: This year will be her first at camp.
Year-rounder or summer-only camper?: Year rounder.
