bella pjo!

 **Name:** Bellatrix "Bella" Calhoun
**Godly Parent:** Aphrodite (Greece)
**Age:** 21
**Gender:** Cis F

**Appearance:** She's otherworldly. Kinky brown hair and brown skin. 5'5.5" and a little curvy- Actually sort of pear shaped. Has freckles and chubby cheeks, smirks like she knows just what you're doing wrong. She looks entirely normal at first glance, but upon closer inspection, nearly everything about her appearance stands out. The bright gold of her irises has a few flecks of green in them, her freckles sparkle like they're made of light. Sometimes, she'll have smears of grease or something across her face from a project- but that somehow serves to heighten her appearance anyway. It's almost like it's magic or something! Rather than dress to the nines (though she will turn out if she *really* wants to show off), she rocks that grunge aesthetic, with ripped jeans and loose flannels and oversized sweaters. This is actually stuff that she bought from thrift shops rather than made herself with weird clothes magic! These are clothes that she wears because a) she doesn't care if they get dirty and b) she thinks they're easier to work in. She prefers natural fabrics over synthetic ones- She'll say that she's allergic, but nobody's really sure. She has a tattoo shaped like dragonfly wings across her back and will show it off at any given opportunity.

**Personality:** Bella doesn't play well with others and has little to no impulse control, a smart mouth, moderate experience in martial arts, a wicked sense of adventure, and something to prove to herself more than anything. She is also the vehicle of her own destruction and is generally missing both a voice of reason and a sense of impulse control. This leads to occasional destruction of public property, stealing a cop car for a joy ride when she was seventeen, and more! She's petty, a hot mess, and is grumpy at best. Still, she's not a total dick. She has some compassion deep (pretty deep) down, after all! Her sense of justice is pretty strong, and those that somehow earn her respect have her unwavering (though occasionally questioning) loyalty. Despite her general distaste towards authority, she's got a very strong sense of responsibility and has the makings of a very good leader. She'll take the fall for someone under her, if it can ensure that they'll be okay.

She enjoys tinkering with things, and tends to spend more time with her step siblings (remember, Aphrodite and Hephaestus are married??) than she's sure that others in her cabin would generally. She's very willing to get her hands dirty, and often does favors for both cabins that involve general repairs. Still, don't take this for a "not like other girls" attitude. While her feelings about her mother are her own, Bella loves her siblings! She respects the work that they put in to making themselves look the way that they do, and while sometimes the attitude may exasperate her, she loves them very much.

**History:** So, imagine you're some random guy living your life. You meet this lady and you hit it off really, really quick. You have a great relationship, she gets pregnant, great! Except, right after she has the baby, she tells you that she's actually a goddess and has to jet, but she'll pay you some pretty generous child support. What do you do except raise that baby? Well, this story isn't about him, anyway.

Bella, however, *was* that baby. Her childhood was wracked with the same sorts of issues that many demigods faced- she was a tiny terror. It's not that monsters were attracted to her, per-say, though the nice satyr that sat down with her and her dad when she was fourteen said that this was a possibility. No, the issue was mostly that she couldn't stay still. Her family moved around a lot, eventually settling in New Orleans when Bella was ten. This was an excuse for her to get into as much trouble as physically possible. It was mostly impulsivity, jokes on others- and, in hindsight, she was sure that her father thought they were hilarious, but he was worried about her in a way that all dads were.

So, she went off to camp for a summer. They put a weapon in her hand and told her to go. They let her get up to her elbows in robot guts. She met her mom, once, and that was cool! As it turns out, it's a lot easier to do things when you have an "active outlet for your excess energy." Bella spent chunks of her vacations at camp since she was fourteen. Went out on a quest when she was seventeen. That one was a mess, but they all made it back, so shut up! They only committed like one act of theft, anyway!

And now? She's really come into her own! She's one of the least likely children of Aphrodite, but she owns it. Step right up, campers, let's get you into your new unknown!

**Other notes:**
- She has a little bit of a drawl! It's cute, though. Some words (mostly the swears) sound a little more Scottish, though? It's a funky hybrid accent.
- Her longest standing project is a celestial bronze roomba. She taught it how to love.
- Her powers include charmspeak and changing her features. She *can* mess with love, but she's not really good at it? In another world, she would have been fae.
- May, in fact, be the first demigod from Camp Halfblood to get arrested during a quest.
- Chaotic bi

**Faceclaim:** Ashley Moore