Post by Juliet "Juli" Ainsworth on Jun 27, 2013 22:45:42 GMT -5
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[rs=2] | Full name: Juliet "Juli" Ainsworth. Position: Camper. Code word: Verified by Bee. Height: 5'4". Weight: ~95 lbs, underweight. Personality: Juli is a very bright person in the intellectual sense, though don't associate that adjective with her personality otherwise. She is, in no way, talkative or extroverted, preferring instead to observe others for fear that she will mess things up if she becomes involved. The only person she ever became close to was Paige and, though unintentionally, Juli was the reason that Paige was ruined. She refuses to attach herself to anybody else willingly and is terrified of the very idea of love, though she secretly wishes she had somebody to love her. Her heart is a secret garden and one will have to scale extremely high walls should they wish to enter it. But once they do, they will become ensnared in Juli's world and she will refuse to let them go. One word to describe the daughter of Iris could be clingy, simply because once she does establish a relationship with someone (however reluctantly), she doesn't want them to go. She doesn't want to feel even more unloved and isolated as she does now. Immortal parent: Iris. Claimed?: Yes. Mortal parent: Alexander Woodward. Other relatives: Nathan, Alessa, & Corinne Ainsworth. History: When Alexander Woodward and the goddess Iris became acquainted with one another, Alexander was a senior in high school who worked at a bookshop for no reason other than the fact that he needed to earn money. His mother had recently been laid off of work, and so the family would gratefully save any penny that they could find; though Alex himself bore no particular interest in books, literature or anything of the sort, he did his work at the store faithfully and without complaint in hope of an extra few dollars. It was by chance that Iris stumbled upon the tiny shop when Alex was behind the counter; business was slower than it normally was that day, and so the boy, for lack of anything else to do, was skimming a book about William Shakespeare. Something about this struck Iris as interesting, a boy so young interested in such topics. And, of course, Alex was infatuated by the beautiful customer. Long, wavy hair that sometimes covered her lovely face partway; eyes that pierced Alex every time they turned to him. He hoped that she would return after her first visit; that first time, she purchased a book that was also about William Shakespeare. Thinking it would be easier to woo the woman if they shared an interest, Alex continued to read up on Shakespeare. And, over time, he became genuinely interested in it. He read of the playwright's background, and eventually the plays themselves - Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and countless others. Iris, who came back to the bookstore on every Saturday at half past noon like clockwork, grew impressed with the knowledge that Alex possessed for a boy his age. They conversed often, at first mostly keeping to the safe topic of Shakespeare. However, as time progressed, they began to know each other as people. At least, Iris began to know Alex, whilst feeding Alex the necessarily lies to conceal her identity. Despite the fact that she was telling him untruths, she was genuinely fascinated by him for reasons she couldn't quite explain. And Alex, of course, had already fallen for her. They began to arrange meetings in those short times when Alex was not working or helping with his younger siblings in the home; eventually, these meet-ups became dates, and the dates became a night in a motel room from which Iris emerged pregnant. Of course, at this point, Iris knew she needed to disappear, but she had no idea how she would go about it. Slowly, she pulled away from Alex. She stopped the weekly meetings at the bookstore by simply failing to show; finally, Alex had to accept that the girl he had shared several months of casual romance with had lost interest. When, in reality, she had had no choice. Nine months later, Iris had given birth to a healthy baby girl with a tuft of ginger hair whom she christened Juliet after one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Knowing that she could not raise her child herself, she searched for a family or parent who would be willing to take a demigod in. And she found one. The Ainsworth family resided in a city in Georgia; the parents were some of the few demigod couples who had lasted, married, and moved out into the mortal world to restart their lives. Nathan was a child of Demeter and Alessa of Aphrodite, and they had had a daughter named Corinne who was three years older than Juliet. The Ainsworths took her in gladly, gave her the nickname Juli, raised her so that she was casually aware of her godly parentage, and enrolled her in school once she was old enough. Juli's life was uneventful until about first grade, when she met the girl who would make and break her existence - Paige Lucker, an animated girl with curly blonde hair and watery blue eyes who grew to be Juli's very best friend. The first few years of their friendship were standard. And then came middle school, where friendships were broken, remade, thrown away, and put in jeopardy for reasons the girls were unfamiliar with. It was the age of sinister miracles, with first bras and boyfriends. And with that came the self-consciousness that plagues so many. Paige was curvier than Juli, who pronounced herself to be "skinny in the bad way", and Juli was the one who came up with an idea to keep them both motivated and, as they thought then, prettier. Who could lose weight faster? When could one friend detect the difference in the other's figure? They dieted together, they exercised together. And though it was just a way to stay healthier for Juli, it slowly became an obsession for Paige. When the summer approaching freshman year of high school rolled around and the pair donned bikinis, Juli was shocked by the drastic change in her friend's figure. She took a picture of Paige in her bikini and asked if she looked too thin, and Paige slowly nodded. But all the same, when Paige looked in the mirror, what she saw was fat. And Juli watched, powerless, as her closest friend descended painfully into death in front of her very eyes. She tried so much to make Paige happy, but nothing worked. The only ambition Paige had was to hit zero on the scale, and everything else she slowly lost interest in, including Juli. Or so she thought. Paige passed away over the spring break of hers and Juli's sophomore year. Juli was on vacation in Europe when this occurred. When Juli returned to the United States and checked her phone for the first time in a week and a half, she discovered fifteen missed calls, all from the same number, all with the same date. They were dated the night that Paige had committed suicide. And the number was hers. Juli was consumed by the grief of losing her best friend, but this was combined with immeasurable guilt. That she could have stopped her friend's death. That she had not been there for her when she needed her most. And most of all... that she had started the horrible competition that they had both been involved in and that had slowly driven Paige to her untimely death. Juli realized that, though indirectly, she had essentially murdered the girl who had been the rock on her shoreline and there was absolutely no way that she could correct it. Her adoptive parents, troubled by Juli's behavior following her friend's death, decided that she should finally go to camp. That a change of scene would do Juliet some good, at least for awhile. And so she resided at camp, where she was claimed by Iris after a long six months. Juli took to journaling as a way to release her feelings, and is still consumed by the guilt that was just as sharp the night she discovered her friend had taken her own life. |
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