okay I lied I took longer then expected to write this sorry!! also her history gets pretty dark so you might wanna include the TW on the character page just in case, I'd hate for someone to stumble across that without warning)
Theresa Lazuli Brennan
17 • Zeus • Female • She finds joy in the simple things, so her weapon is just a pair of silvery daggers, made of unknown metals that are excellent at conducting electricity. Although she refuses to be even slightly similar to campers with like weapons, so she had curling vines designed specially for the hilts, white gems embedded like fruits and flowers along its length, simply for the fact she doesn’t want to be outdone.
Theresa stands at a height of 5’5, and her build is so slim it’s almost concerning. Her mousy brown hair is layered, falling to just past her shoulders, and stray strands that are mere inches too short to tuck behind her ears often fall into her eyes. Speaking of, her eyes are a strange color; cool steel blue scattered with dark flecks, fading to a light bronze around the pupil, which is highlighted when she looks into light. She has average caucasian skin with faint freckles scattered across the bridge of her nose, and a few resting on her cheeks, and a small scar cuts through her right eyebrow. Her left helix is triple pierced with simple silver hoops, due to a rather rebellious streak during her preteen years. As mentioned earlier, she’s all about simplicity, so a black and white tattoo of a bee decorates her ankle and a small tattoo of a pine tree sits on her collarbone, although they’re both rarely visible. She’s never seen without her grey hoodie, no matter what else she’s wearing or what the temperature is, and if there’s an event she isn’t allowed to wear it to she just won’t go. The reason for this is unknown to other campers.
Theresa isn’t much of a people person, and is very suspicious towards strangers - although she keeps it hidden - and is even stand-offish with those she’s close to. Holding grudges is her specialty, but if you befriend her you’ll have endless love and support (and likely presents she gained by unknown means, she has a habit of "permanently borrowing" things). She has a tendency to tell people to step up, and “fight me” is definitely on her list of most said phrases, despite the fact she could potentially be ground to a pulp, but most of the time she couldn’t care less what others are doing. If you see someone sitting in the corner with a hoodie up and a pair of aviators on, that’s probably Theresa. Due to her chilled out nature, she barely ever refers to people by their actual name, preferring to call them “babe” or some other irrelevant term, and whether or not they get flustered by this isn’t her problem. Being a child of Zeus, she has the tendency to get very cocky and self glorifying, especially when she thinks she’s in the clear, which often times gets her into huge amounts of trouble. Theresa’s most notable trait is her confidence, unafraid to speak her mind (and possibly take a beating for it), although there was a time when she’d rather fight a hellhound with only a toothpick as a weapon then hold a conversation.
[TW: self harm and suicide mentions, I can delete this or it can be put in a spoiler if needed] Despite the fact her life was relatively normal, she’d always had depression; when she was younger she always said she just wanted to sleep forever, and it wasn’t until she was informed by her friends years later that this was the same as suicidal thoughts did she realize there was something severely wrong with her. As she grew and her academic abilities were discovered, her family always pushed her academically, and failure was always punished. This drove her deeper into depression and habitual self harm, each birthday viewed as just another year of potential failure, and family gatherings littered with questions about her grades were avoided completely as she shut herself off from the world. Because she was part of a middle-class family with no disabilities or setbacks, other than being bi in a homophobic household, her mental problems were ignored, and put down to “lack of sleep”, so she was unable to get the help she needed. Eventually she made attempts on her life, and only then was her problem truly acknowledged and something was done about it. She’s stopped now, but under her sleeves - hence the permanent hoodie - there are still the telltale scars.
Because of this she’s tried to keep people from getting close to her, with the fear of the faint thoughts in the back of her mind spreading to them, and so far she’s been able to do this whilst keeping up her easygoing, “devil-may-care” persona.
As mentioned before, she’s refrained from making friends at most points in her life, and is almost terrified of relationships, but once she gets close to someone she’d protect them with her life, and she’d roundhouse kick anyone that tried to hurt them off the face of the earth.
Fun fact: She loves gardening, despite not being a child of Demeter, so she’s often very kind to those who are (mostly just to get help with keeping plants alive, what with wanting to avoid forming bonds).
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