Nikaia Datura

Full Name: Nikaia Gallae Datura

Age: 20 (in mortal years she is 17 years old)

Playby: Daria Sidorchuk



Sexuality: Heterosexual

Mother: Matelea Gallae (Dryad) [Deceased]

Father: Erosin Datura (Aurai)

Personality: Nikaia is what’s known as a Mailiade (Epimelide). They are nymphs of apple and other fruit trees, highland pastures, and are the protectors of sheep. Nikaia is a shy dryad, watching others from a distance. She has an amazing memory and can recall anything she has heard, read, or seen. She’s a total hippie, and loves animals, which has made her a vegetarian. She also hates violence and refuses to touch or use weapons. Like her mother, she’s a romantic, but she's too shy to ever comfortably hang out with potential love interests. She is socially awkward and has trouble interacting with others. She loves music, and will often sing, though not in front of anyone except for the animals. She is mostly a mystery to satyrs and other nymphs, some don't even know she exists because she lives mostly in the shadows. Though quiet and shy, she is very mature and has a lot of experience tending to animals. She can sometimes get carried away with trying to make things perfect, which is pretty much impossible in a forest, where creatures are running around everywhere all the time. She also doesn’t like big changes, such as moving or losing someone, and her mind has some trouble comprehending those changes and can easily become distressed. If she gets angry or upset, she also has trouble expressing those feelings and finding ways to release that negative energy.

History: On a windy, stormy night, a dryad named Matelea was trying to keep her tree, an apple tree, safe from a big storm that was raging through a forest in Maine, Erosin, an Aurai, spotted the desperate dryad and flew down to her and took his human form, offering to help. Matelea, a passionate romantic, fell instantly in love with him and gladly accepted. After the storm was over, the two bonded and a few years later, they had a child together, a little baby Dryad girl, who they named Nikaia. Sadly, her mother’s tree was killed by a lightning storm a few months after Nikaia was born, and after she died, a grieving Erosin took their daughter and raised her near some farms in upstate New York. He didn’t want to be reminded of Matelea’s death and he didn’t want his daughter to have to suffer from his reactions to that.

Nikaia grew up hanging out with the different animals that grazed in the pastures. She was closest with the sheep, which her family line was known for being the protectors of. She was really close with her dad, and loved listening to stories he told about her mom and what she was like. Since it was only her and her dad in the part of the forest where she grew up, and the occasional few nymphs and farmers, Nikaia grew up socially awkward, not really knowing how to act around beings that weren’t animals.

Her father decided that she needed to develop social skills, so they moved into the forest that surrounded Camp Half-Blood, inside the border of the camp. From the start, Nikaia had trouble fitting in. She was shy, and didn’t like doing much of anything that involved other people, so she spent most of her time taking care of an orphaned lamb that she had brought with her from where she grew up. She preferred hanging out with the animals, and when she did talk to other nymphs, it was always very quietly and usually in animal languages. She often watched the nearby Camp from the trees, observing the campers' lives, while keeping her own life hidden and mysterious to others. She still likes observing of the campers, and exploring the forest, and while she has less trouble socializing, she still prefers to be alone.

Weapons: She is against having weapons, and so she never touches or uses them.

Years at camp: 3 years

Year-rounder or summer-only camper?: Year round