Post by Juliette d'Aubigny on Jun 17, 2013 22:51:16 GMT -5
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[rs=2] | Full name: Juliette Amelie d'Aubigny Position: Camper Code word: Verified by Bee. Height: 5' 6" Weight: 120 Personality: Juliette is five feet and four inches of energy, impulse and passion. She is constantly doing something, she can’t even sit still for five minutes without getting incredibly bored. This energy is a direct result of living almost exclusively within the moment. She rarely thinks of the consequences of her actions past the next five minutes. The one case in which this isn’t true is when she is making a promise. Above all else, Juliette is a woman of her word. She blames this, and many other personality traits, on the time period and culture in which she was born and raised. (Those many other personality traits include her tendency to challenge people who insult her to a duel and her belief of letter writing as an artform that is too often ignored.) An extravert by nature, Juliette doesn’t just love being around others, she absolutely craves it. When she spends too much time by herself she tends to become depressed. She loves talking to people and can spend hours bouncing from subject to subject. A lot of times she will get so distracted by other topics and thought processes that she’ll leave a conversation behind without finishing it in her rush to move on to the next one. Even when it’s important, she has a hard time stayin on track. Luckily, she is the kind of person who tends to be liked whereever she goes. Part of this is the fact that she is a daughter of Aphrodite, but part of it is her desire to get along with everyone and her overly accepting manner. Seriously, there is no end to her understanding. She’s never met a personality trait she couldn’t tolerate at the very least. And she’s met seriel killers. Juliette does not handle negativity well. When directed at her in the form of “you can’t do X” statements, she cannot stop herself from doing everything in her power to prove them wrong. It’s a stubborness she inherited from her father. When these negative thoughts are her own she can quickly become swallowed up by them. In an effort ot combat those thoughts, she frequently explains problems to herself in simple, overarcing statements. These statements rarely get to the actual core of the issue, but it helps her get over it. And as soon as she’s over it, she no longer cares. Part of that whole living in the moment thing. Juliette is and always has been something of a preformer. Not in the sense that she loves being on stage, but in the sense that she loves being the center of attention. When in a group of people she is often the one laughing the loudest and talking the most. If she’s not the center of attention, she at least wants to be on the arm of the one who is. This has served her well over the years, leading her to interact in some way with some of the most influential people in history including the royal families of several nations, Marilyn Monroe, Casanova, Houdini, Virginia Woolf, and Andy Warhol. She’s been on pirate ships and has been painted and sculpted by numerous artists. (There’s actually a small group of people online who have found images of Juliette throughout history and have plenty of theories on who she is, all of them circulating around the fact that she is found in everything from the usual traditional works to the much more progressive works, and yet has never been in a painting by any of the artists that would go on to become masters of their artform. She never did like an artist with an extreme ego, and most of those men had one.) It’s not all fun and games in Juliette’s personality. Well, it is, but that’s the problem. She is so focused on instant gratification and what is going to make her happy right now that she doesn’t usually consider long term responsibilities and how these responsibilities might affect her. She is incredibly spontaneous and over-indulgent. Luckily, she’s usually left town before the long term consequences of her actions come back to haunt her. She isn’t so great at giving advice because of her inability to look forward in time, but she is good at practical, right now care. And she cares very much about people in a way that results in her serving as a peacekeeper quite frequently. She’s good at compromise and sympathy. One of the most common traits among children of Aphrodite is vanity. Juliette is no exception. She may be busy loving life and squeezing every last drop of it, but she’s going to do it while she looks good. This isn’t neccessarily a physical thing. She is constantly showing off and trying to be the best at everything. If you give her a skill to learn she will throw herself into it until she has surpassed the master. This is both good and bad. Bad in that it is incredibly annoying and good in that it’s resulted in her being good at a rather large variety of activites, everything from photography to gymnastics, fencing, archery (and that was before becoming a hunter), martial arts, even ball room dancing. Immortal parent: Aphrodite Claimed?: Yes Mortal parent: Theodore d'Aubigny Other relatives: Pierre d'Aubigny, uncle History: Juliette d’Aubigny was born in France in the late 17th century. She’s not enitrely sure of the year, it was never that important to her. (It was 1669). Her father, Pierre, was an Italian ambassador in France. His life revolved around fitting into every single societal norm. His brother was serving as the Grand Squire. His life revolved around training the King’s Squires and maintaining the royal stable. Pierre was not really her father. It was his brother, Theodore, who had captured Aphrodite’s heart for a time. Theodore was the better lover of the two men but he would have made a terrible father. Aphrodite recognized this and decided to send Juliette to Pierre instead. It didn’t really matter in the end, since Juliette spent all of her free time with Theodore anyway. Pierre had a wife, Elisabet, who died in childbirth only two months before Juliette arrived on Pierre’s doorstep in a golden cradle. His daughter also passed away. He was beyond ecstatic when Juliette appeared on his doorstep. And it certainly looked good to the people around him that he was taking in an orphan. Pierre raised her in a very typical way for a young woman of her status. He sent her to lessons for everything from violin to dancing, ettiquette, literature, Italian. Under his watchful eye, well, the watchful eye of a servant, anyway, she was raised to be the perfect lady. Almost all of her free time was spent with Theodore, who basically just let her hang out with him all the time This meant she was also handing out with the men he trained. When she was six she picked up a rapier and, under the guiding eye of her uncle and his trainees, she was taught to be an excellent sword fighter. She helped her uncle with the stables, she learned how to gamble and excelled at it, as well as learning how to drink copious amounts of alcohol at a shockingly young age. Theodore taught her to be one hell of a man. For a long time she hid it well. In public, she was the epitome of class and good behavior. However, rumors spread. It wasn’t long before she had a reputation for being a bit outrageous. When she was sixteen she left home, an acoomplished young woman who could discuss the written work of Socrates as easily as she could win a duel to the death. She had already had several lovers in the form of her uncles’s men and had a reputation for wearing men’s clothing and fighting duels, however she never tried to hide the fact that she was female. In fact, she flaunted it, wearing clothing that was far too revealing for the time period. When she left home she went with one of her father’s men, Christophe. She traveled back to his home with him and when he was called to serve the King, she remained in his home for three months. This was long enough to become his father’s lover and marry a friend of his who happened to be a Count. The week of their wedding was the last time she saw the Count. Juliette quickly grew bored of him (there were no hurt feelings, really, he was more interested in Cristophe’s father than he was in Juliette and with a little help from her demigod status, she made that happen) and moved on. She spent some time traveling from town to town, earning a reputation for being “beautiful, valiant, and supremely unchaste”. She fought duels, danced at royal balls, won and lost outrageous amounts of money at the poker table, preformed violin concerts and had many lovers, both male and female. One night she danced with a visiting Italian prince who was ignorant to her reputation. He invited her back to his home to join him on a fox hunt to “observe his remarkable skill”. He was beyond shocked when she arrived in men’s clothing and was furious when she proved herself to be the better hunter. So much better, in fact, that when she happened upon Artemis in the woods while retrieving a misplaced arrow, Artemis invited her to join the hunters. Juliette, 18 at the time, declined her offer. She returned with the nobleman and wound up as the prince’s lover. This was when she began to think that maybe not everything was normal with her. A man she had bested in a hunt and had embarrassed so thoroughly was not the kind of man that should have been easy to seduce. Aphrodite appeared to her in a dream not too long after to explain. She did this specifically to prevent Juliette from joining Artemis. For the next year, Juliette continued in much the same way. And she might have continued this way for the rest of her life but for a letter she received from her father telling her of Christophe’s death. She hadn’t forgotten the young man, he had been sweet, intelligent, passionate. She had cared for him very much, even if she had left him behind all those years ago. (That was, and is, always her secret, she always cares.) The same night she received the letter she was injured in a duel. Suddenly faced with her own mortality, immortality seemed a much better option. She took the oath to Artemis in 1688. Her mother did not approve, but had grown fond of Juliette, which protected her from her mother’s anger. For 83 years, Juliette was a model hunter. She never strayed towards men (though there were a few women here and there) and she poured all of her efforts into the act of hunting. She was good at it. Until the year 1771. She had heard rumors, all of the hunters had, of one Giacomo Casanova. Several hunters fell for the man and Juliette was no different. The difference was, all of the other hunters had had their night with him and were discovered by Artemis and banished by the hunters. Aphrodite, seeing a chance to pull one over on the other goddess, helped Juliette to hide from Artemis with a ring that would hide her from any god other than Aphrodite. She traveled with Casanova through Spain and returned to France with him before accompanying him to Venice when his exile was lifted. She actually stayed with him in a sense until he was forced back into exile from Venice again in 1783, even after his youth and celebrity were gone. To this day she remains convinced that Casanova was a son of Aphrodite and that that was the reason for their extended affair. She refuses to even consider that she might have been in love with the man. Their relationship had been an open one and there had been numerous affairs on both their parts. It was not these that drove them apart, but her eternal youth. Casanova grew to resent it, as any aging man who had once been able to get any woman he chose would. Without her realizing it, she also began to resent her eternal youth for this same reason. They continued to cross paths from time to time until his death in 1798 and neither of them ever really referred to their relationship as “over”. He wasn’t the only illustrious lover she had, there were authors and philosophers, scientists, politicians. She spent some time as a courtesan, even. She spent some time as an author herself, and as an actress, though her first love was always the violin. It wasn’t just the scandalous side of her reputation that continued, she also continued to train with a sword, then various forms of martial arts, she even learned how to use a handgun, (the classic guns were nice, but the modern guns have always felt unnatural in her hands). She spent a good length of time as a private detective, and even worked as a spy for France for a bit. In 1924, Juliette fell hard for a dancer named Odette Corsair. Unlike with Casanova, she never refused to admit she was in love with Odette. Also unlike when she was with Casanova, Juliette already knew how difficult it was to be immortal when you cared about someone and when they cared about you. She wouldn’t hurt Odette like that, wouldn’t let her watch Juliette stay young while she aged. However, Juliette was also terrified of her own death. Immortality had come to mean too much to her, so she sought out Artemis not to take away her immortality, but to grant Odette immortality. She figured that since both of them were willing to swear off men, Artemis would be willing to make them both hunters. Artemis had always liked her and she was relying on that. When she removed the ring Aphrodite had given her, Juliette didn’t forsee all of the consequences. Artemis wasn’ the only one who was angry with Juliette, her brother, Apollo, was taking his typical over-protective older brother, you spurned my sister, allow me to make your life hell, stance. While Juliette went to speak with Artemis, Apollo went to Odette. He told Odette that that Juliette had left her to see John McGill, a man who she loved. Odette knew that Juliette had had a lover named John McGill, so the story seemed true. However, John McGill was not the man Apollo swore he was. John was a weekend fling that she had grown bored of quickly. He was also a man who was convinced that Juliette was the perfect woman for him and was as in love with him as he was with her. When Odette went to his home (Apollo told her where he was) to confront Juliette, she only found John, who was not pleased to find that Juliette was in love with someone else. He murdered Odette. Apollo appeared in the forest where Juliette and Artemis had finally met up to find Juliette pleading with Artemis to allow both her and Odette to join the hunters. Artemis wasn’t even considering it. She was still angry at Juliette for leaving the hunters in the first place, and she was humiliated that Juliette had managed to elude her for so long. Artemis was instead trying to decide if she should turn Juliette into a doe or a fox before sending her hounds after her. That is, she was until Apollo told Juliette that Odette had been murdered by her ex-lover. Artemis, having experienced Apollo’s tricks before, saw through his words and knew that something was wrong. When she demanded Apollo tell her the truth, he admitted the role he had played in Odette’s death. Artemis felt pity for Juliette, having lost Orion because of Apollo. However, she was also still upset with Juliette for leaving the hunters for a man and knew she had to be punished. She decided to force the same punishment she had been living onto Juliette: immortality. She forced Juliette to live with her eternal youth until the day Artemis finally forgave her, which doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen anytime soon. She did pay Juliette one kindness by assuring her that Odette had been admitted into the Asphodel Meadows. This was a lie, Odette had actually reached the Elysian Fields and opted to be reborn. Artemis believes it is a kindness for Juliette to believe that Odette’s soul is unreachable so that Juliette will not go searching for her, spending another lifetime trying to love her only to lose her because of her own immortality. Juliette was never the grieving type. She moved on, convincing herself that she would have eventually become bored with Odette anyway. Instead she went back to the life she was living before Odette, taking and leaving lovers on a whim, performing violin concerts, bartending, she spent 8 years as a burlesque dancer. She continued to travel and has visited each continent at least once, including Antarctica, though that was on a cruise so she’s not sure that it counts. She also followed in her uncle’s footsteps and spent some time training others in martial arts. In 1941 she became a private detective again, and was pretty damn good at it. She didn't hear about Camp Halfblood until very recently when a man came into her office searching for his daughter, Melanie. She had gone missing three weeks previously and the police were getting nowhere with the case. As it turned out, Melanie was a daughter of Athena and had been forced to run away to Camp Halfblood when monsters attacked her apartment building. She had been trying to keep her father safe. Juliette reunited Melanie with her father and decided that summer camp was not an adventure she had had yet that might be worth experiencing. She came and went for a long while, but the past two months she’s been at the camp pretty continuously |
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