Name: Vale Maria Armstrong
Gender: Female
Godly Parent: Eris, Nemesis, Nyx
Current Age:14
Human Parent: Howard Armstrong-> Foster Parent: Lilia Rudenko
Birthday: November 11
Appearance:
Lightly tanned skin off sets her lavender hair, recently cut and dyed into a pixie cut just after arriving to camp. While not her natural hair color of dark brown, she prefers the purple color. Faint freckles cover her cheeks under her dark brown eyes. She doesn’t often wear makeup, liking not having to deal with cosmetics if she doesn’t have to. At an average height of about 5’6”, she weighs about 135lbs. A birthmark is on her inside right wrist, which she claims looks like the country of Denmark despite no one being able to make anything out of the odd shape.
Personality: Originally viewed as a rude indifference, Vale is actually unsure of new people, not entirely sure how to properly interact with them. This usually leads her to silently standing on the sidelines as she takes in everything being said and such. But after picking up certain hints, or overhearing a specific comment, she instantly swoops in to form a bond over their mutual interest. After that, its almost impossible for her to be introverted around that person. Loud, aggressive, and sometimes foul-mouthed, Vale is a casual rebel always seeking action and entertainment.
History: Howard Armstrong was a street artist in New York with a fondness for arson. While creating masterpieces with chalk on the pavement, he would also blow up whatever he was hired to: cars, buildings, people.
The bombings is what first drew Eris in, yet she stayed when she caught the strange chaos that was this man’s life. He would create beautiful landscapes and destroy lives at the same time in harmony, creating chaos.
It burned her. This harmony of his that was creating such wonderful chaos. She had to correct this.
It was almost laughable how pathetically he fell for her. She used him, breaking his disgusting harmony as she allowed her chaos to slowly consume him, body and soul. His art started turning into dark and sloppy messes, the bombs more frequent and stronger than necessary. It was glorious.
To finish her little project and to properly bid farewell to this pawn, she bestowed upon him a gift a few months after leaving. A baby girl, their child. Children were always such natural chaos bringers....
A few weeks later, the police finally managed to discover that it was Howard who was committing all these crimes. He was arrested, leaving Vale behind in the care of the court. She would be placed in the foster home of Lilia Rudenko, an older Ukrainian woman who had been a foster parent for decades.
Vale grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. As a child of Eris, Vale was even more prone to fights and trouble than most demigod children. She enjoyed chaos. As such, this lead to Vale being quite the hellian when she went to school. She was almost constantly in time out and had detention, that is when she wasn't suspended from school.
Lilia tried her best with her, honestly she did. She had dealt with troublemakers before. But Vale was on a whole other level. It's like she breathed chaos. As a result, the older woman simply could only restrict the amount of freedom the girl had, grounding her. Not that Vale honestly cared.
She viewed the other children as simply play things for her entertainment. She didn't find them worth her time, prefering her books to human interaction. As a result, Vale didn't have many friends, only mutual respect for fellow tricksters.
This all led to an incident when she was thirteen.
Vale chuckled evilly as watched her fellow detention buddy hacked into the city's traffic system. Oh, you could find out how to do anything on the internet. Her friend paused, leaning back in her chair with a large grin. This was going to be fun. With a flourish, she typed through the various warnings that flashed on her screen. Through the open window of her room, both girls heard a thundering crash followed by horrendous squeals. Seems they had quickly found out all the lights on this street were green by now.
.......
Dark brown eyes stared in boredom at the wall as her charges and sentencing was being announced. This was so boring. She was kinda regretting letting her lawyer talking her into being tried separate from her partner in crime. But it did help get her a lesser sentence...
"Miss Armstrong, are you listening?" the judge snapped at her.
"Of course, Your Honor," the dark haired girl answered dully, glancing towards him.
"Then you are prepared to be sent to a juvenile detention center for the next eighteen months?" the elderly judge questioned.
"And then probation until I'm eighteen, yeah yeah," Vale answered. Her charges would have been worse had she chosen a street with a higher speed limit. She would've had murder charges too if she did...
"You're wasting your talents with this unlawful behavior. Hopefully, this time away will help that."
Vale met his eyes with a dark glare.
"Please don't try to be my life coach, Judge."
........
Vale sighed as she leaned her forehead against the glass of the window as the bus took her away. It was raining heavily, making the already treacherous New York streets even harder to navigate. Already in the last half hour, the driver has had to dodge two crazy drivers. This day was going great, huh?
.......
"So you must be Vale," a male voice stated as a man sat at the desk she was in front of. She raised a brow at the college looking guy. "My name is Xavier Woods. I'm your therapist while you're here," he introduced himself with an award winning smile. “I’m excited for us to get to know each other!”
.......
"Wait, let me get this straight, I'm a demigod of some Greek god that in fact do exist, and you are here to take me to some camp for my kind," Vale trailed off as she recanted what she had heard.
It had been about ten months since she had first arrived at the center. There was nothing really remarkable that had happen in this time, just weekly visits with Xavier as was part of her sentencing.
“I’m also a satyr, see check out my horns,” he answered as he took off the baseball cap he usually wore to show off a decent sized set of horns. Vale was silent. “Oh! And remember how terrible your bus ride here was? That was because you were being attacked by monsters! The Mist, which is what hides the supernatural from mortals, made it just seem like they were cars with crazy drivers to normal mortals!” he continued with a large grin. “But don’t worry, I got them for ya!”
"What?"
"Well, propably since you couldn't really see out the windows, you most likely didn't notice that their were monsters attacking. Since you are a demigod, you can see through the Mist. As for me taking care of them, well, I may have exageratted a bit. I can't take monsters on by myself usually, but I managed to lure them away and into a group of demigods that could. They were on a quest see, - They have those at camp where certain campers-"
“Why are you telling me this now?” she whispered in a deathly calm voice, interrupting him.
“Oh, well, I’m for sure now that it’s you that’s the demigod and not one of the other girls.”
“...You’re crazy…”
…………..
Vale sighed heavily as she chilled out by the fence of the basketball court after her session with Xavier. That weirdo had gone completely bananas, but she must admit that he was a really good cosplayer. Those horns almost looked real…
“Yo, Vale, did ya hear? Somehow a stray dog got into the center,” her roommate commented as she went to play a match with a few other girls.
“Woah, really? That’s weird,” Vale responded. She bid a brief farewell to her ‘friend’ of sorts before pushing off the chain link fence. She needed to go on a walk to clear her head.
It was twenty minutes later when she spotted the stray that had gotten in. That was no normal dog. It was more like a grizzly bear. How did something that huge get in!?
It sniffed the air before turning to face her, its glowing red eyes contrasting against its black fur. Vale took a step back as it took a step forward. It let free a piercing howl before it started sprinting at her. The teenager let out a shout of fright as she tried to get away. The melody of a pan flute filled the air. In the next moment, the roots of the trees around them shot up from their earth beds and wrapped around the beast.
Someone helped her up, and the young girl looked up to see Xavier’s smile.
“You believe me now?”
She didn't have time to respond before she was getting pulled along behind him.
"We need to go, now."
………..
"This is weird. It's like they don't know who I am," Vale muttered lowly as she was dragged behind Xavier as they made their way outside the correctional facility. The guards seemed confused and a bit dazed as they caught sight of them.
"Well, the Mist is a powerful thing, you know," Mr. Woods commented over his shoulder with a grin.
"Right," she answered sarcastically as they finally exited the building and entered the parking lot. The satyr therapist directed them to an old yellow camaro, rust and chipped paint the most prominent on the vehicle.
"This is your car?"
"Yep! You ready for a road trip?" Xavier stated with a grin as he quickly unlocked the doors.
"I guess I have to..."
She slipped into the car and wrinkled her nose at the various food and trash scattered around.
"Heh, sorry about that. Wasn't really expecting to be making such a quick getaway!" Xavier laughed awkwardly as he started up his car. And with that, they began the journey to Camp Half-Blood.
........................
"Are you sure that thing won't follow us?" Vale asked as she turned in her seat to peer out of the back window. Xavier shifted nervously as he glanced in the review mirror.
"I never said that," he answered. Vale turned to him with a horrified look.
"You mean that it can still follow us!?" she nearly screamed in panic. The car swerved as he jumped in surprise at her exclaimation.
"YEAH! IT CAN!" he shouted back angrily before catching himself. "You're a demigod, Vale. Monsters, like that hellhound, are always going to come after you. Better get used to it."
"I..." her words trailed off as shrunk back, tears gathering in her eyes. She slumped back into her chair as she buried her face into her hands. "I never wanted this..." she muttered under her soft sobs.
Xavier spared her a quick glance, frowning at her crying form.
"Hey, it's gonna be-Shit, shit,shit."
Vale's head jerked upwards as the car suddenly swerved this way and that. She turned and felt her heart stop at the sight of the large black monster almost directly behind them. She began chanting under her breath on how she didn't want to die. She made prayers and promises and bargains to whatever was listening.
"Don't panic! We're almost to the camp! It'll be fine!" the Guardian cried, nearly avoiding the hellhound behind them. Yet, his driving couldn't outmaneuver this beast.
Screams ripped from both of their throats in panic as the car was slammed into, sending them rolling into the forest the road cut through. Vale blinked the blurriness from her eyes as her head pounded in her head.
"C'mon, Vale, we gotta go. We're almost there!" Xavier's voice was heard above the ringing in her ears. She numbly crawled out of the car and ran through the forest with Xavier. She faded in and out as they went, ignoring the blood coating her forehead and the scratches from the foliage appearing on her skin.
An angry howl echoed around them, resulting in her older companion pushing her to go faster. She could hear the hellhound was steadly closing the distance between them. They forced themselves to go faster, faster, until they were out of the woods and into a clearing like area. Suddenly, Xavier started slowing down.
"W-what are you doing, that thing is-"
"We made it...!" Xavier panted as they came to a stop. Vale sent him an odd, paranoid look. The satyr sighed before turning with a grin.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!" he told her happily.
"Wait, we- we actually made it?" she questioned, a crazy smile coming to her features. She was alive...!
"Just passed the borders! There's no way that hellhound can get you now!" Xavier elaborated. Vale fell to the ground in exhaustion. She flopped onto her back as she laughed in quiet relief.
"Whenever you're ready, let's go meet everyone, alright?"
His only response was silence from the now unconscious girl.
Weapons: Javelin, Xiphos (Greek double edged short sword), and Shield (All made of celestial bronze)
ValeArmstrong57 (talk) 01:07, October 31, 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Vale, entertaining way of presenting your claim, I must say :) However, there are a few points to change, okay okay? ^^
1. You mentioned that she used the internet. Using technology attracts monsters so kindly avoid that.
2. Okay, so she knew she was a demigod via her therapist aka the satyr? Just clarifying since it wasn't directly mentioned in your claim (or perhaps I just missed something even after re-reading all over again >.<)
3. How old was she when she first encountered her first monster attack?
4. How and when was she able to reach camp?
I think that's pretty much it for now :) Good work d(^.^d)
Smile and wave, boys. Now that's the worst disguise ever. ~Alias Kit
- Please detail her childhood before the age of 13.
- Please explain her first monster attack in the history.
- Because Vale is a demigod, she would have been able to see through the mist.
- How did Mr. Woods kill all the monsters that were coming for Vale on the bus?
- Vines would only subdue the hellhound momentarily, eventually it would need to be killed.
- Please detail their journey to camp.
Do you have a lot of sad thoughts? ...Doesn't everyone? ~Ava Ire 
So did she reach camp at the age of 13 right after her first monster attack? If so, you mentioned that she's currently 15 and you need to supply details on what happened during the two year gap
Smile and wave, boys. Now that's the worst disguise ever. ~Alias Kit
Haha i messed up actually. I was going to change her current age to fourteen but forgot, oops? But i figured with the court process and her sentencing she would turn fourteen during that time so yeah...ValeArmstrong57 (talk) 06:01, November 7, 2014 (UTC)
seems ok
Behind those cold hard computer screens.....
There’s a human heart beating away its emotions… 14:21, November 9, 2014 (UTC)
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Do you have a lot of sad thoughts? ...Doesn't everyone? ~Ava Ire
Do you have a lot of sad thoughts? ...Doesn't everyone? ~Ava Ire