Lavinia Quinctia Cincinnata

Lavinia Quinctia Cincinnata
Daughter of Bellona • Second Cohort Centurion

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Personal Information

Full NameLavinia Aurelia Quinctia Cincinnata

Birthday3rd June

Age2,827

Zodiac SignGemini

Sex / GenderFemale / Female

SpeciesDemigoddess

NationalityItalian (technically)

EthnicityCaucasian

Sexual OrientationHomosexual

Romantic OrientationHomoromantic

Relationship StatusSingle

AccentNeutral

BirthplaceAlba Longa, Italy

Living SituationSecond Cohort

Languages SpokenLatin, Italian, English, Greek, French, German

Weapon(s)An imperial gold longsword enchanted to transmute between imperial gold and steel dependent on her adversary, and miniaturises into a steel bangle interspersed with bi-coloured tourmaline stones.

Personality

* MBTI: ESFJ
* Enneagram: One with a Two Wing
* Language of Love: Words of Affirmation

Lavinia Quinctia Cincinnata is rather more compassionate than many children of her battle-lustful mother — Bellona — and perhaps that comes with time. As her surname implies, she is a relic of Sabine, Alban and Ancient Roman society, a free-born woman of a noble ( patrician ) family, and thus has walked the earth long enough to understand that not every standpoint of her mother’s is correct, and that there is nobility in order during war as well as the beauty of chaos embraced by Bellona and her kin. However, other elements of her heritage that are deeply ingrained within her have remained — her deep desire to maintain freedom ( only intensified by her experiences of Rome ) and self-control, as well as an incredibly strong self-identity and enjoyment of proving oneself.

There’s an element of natural curiosity to Lavinia. She wants to understand the world as it evolves around her, wanting to understand what provokes change — as well as which changes are for the better, as well as for worse; she’s kept journals throughout her life, documenting things like the teachings of Pliny the Elder, through to the modern day. While it disheartens her when she sees the same old ideas being tried time and time again, with the same failure resulting as it always had, she’s got no arrogance or claim to the moral high ground. She’s fought for causes less than just in the name of Rome, and she knows as such. Her life at Camp Jupiter is almost as though she’s seeking penance for misdeeds at the earliest points of her life, as though no amount of protection could ever justify them.

History

Lavinia Quinctia Cincinnata spent the earliest years of her life in Alba Longa, the ancient Latin city from which Rome’s founders Romulus and Remus had come and where the bloodline of the legendary Aeneas was known to reside. She had been named after Lavinia, the last wife of Aeneas, who seemed to be proof that the gods on occasion walked among men and brought to them offspring, though her parents — for a long while — never told her why. The Quinctii family originated there, and would later become an pivotal patrician dynasty, but until the monsters came, she never knew of her origins. In fact, not even her father understood, her birth coming before the worship of her godly mother became as it is in the present.

Bellona had previously been a Sabine figure — known to the Italic peoples who lived in the mountains, from whom her father Marcus was descended and from where he had come — prior to her first temple being constructed within Rome in 293 BC. He spent a night with the goddess with no idea as to her true identity, believing her merely to be a woman of beauty who mingled amongst the Sabine society and showed no signs of being married, and she seemed to respond to his advances in a surprisingly vehement passion. However, when he awoke the next morning, the woman whose name he had never learned had disappeared as though she was never there, and would lead him on a wild goose chase to Alba Longa, where he would decide to stay.

(If his family back in the mountains found he had seduced and bedded a woman to whom he was not engaged to be married, who knew what would occur? They believed strongly in the sanctity of marriage as an institution.)

He heard nothing of her for many months, until she resurfaced for long enough to pass on their child. Still, she offered the bare minimum of explanation he would accept, giving a name, Aelia, and as little else as he would accept, refusing to commit to a relationship with him on the account that she was on the run from her family. What she did do was offer him a solution, introducing to him a woman — Ilaria — who had recently birthed a child from an affair with Aelia’s brother, Lucius (in actuality Mars) and who would agree to claim Marcus’ child as her own, as a ‘twin’ of her son. Thus, Lavinia grew up with a sibling, named after his father, and a mother that (for the entirety of her childhood) she had no idea was not her own.

They grew up in Alba Longa for a fairly uneventful first decade of life, until the hellhounds came for her and Lucius. Regular mortal weapons would not impact them, and Lavinia to this day remembers the demise of the few evidently clear-sighted mortals who tried to shield the children — bloody, and chaotic, and horrible to watch. And then the hounds were upon them, and all she remembers from that was — as her vision faded — a man with a weapon of shining gold cutting through the monstrous beasts in a way iron could not. The two siblings were cared for and healed by the stranger’s wife, under the watchful eye of both the man and her father.

Such an incident was mentioned in a letter from Aelia, after which he was to give his daughter a gift she left for her on the day she and her brother left Alba Longa. He had tried to open it himself, but had found the lid would not yield; which was why, when he gave it to his daughter, he was surprised when she could simply open the package and uncover an iron bangle engraved in cursive latin with in-set dusky, bi-coloured stones they could not identify. (Lavinia now knows them to be tourmaline stones.)

When one of the stones, that protruded slightly from its setting, was pushed, it expanded into a magnificent steel longsword that was enchanted according to the letter; such that she would always be able to hold it — thus explaining how she did not drop it to the ground — and that, if she pushed in a second stone on the opposite side of the bangle, the metal would transmute to enchanted gold. It was done this way so that Lavinia could abide by the tradition of the Quanctii family when wearing it as a bangle — that none of them, even the women, wore garments of gold. The letter also explained the presence of the beasts that tried to kill her and Lucius, by saying (more frankly than a letter ought) that she was a child of a goddess.

From that day forth, Lavinia was taught to defend herself by her sword-bearing saviour, whose name — she learned — was Marcus, like her father's. A small cluster of them travelled around, finding young demigods who were left without defence. The training Marcus (her cousin, it transpired, as he was a son of Vulcan) gave her enabled her to fend off persistent monster attacks (roughly once a year) with the help of him and Lucius, who was also learning. It was in their fighting styles that there was the most obvious difference between her and her brother, who she still treated that way even since the revelation that he was not, in fact, biologically her brother. Either way, he was still her family. Where Lavinia showed signs of being reckless and lustful for confrontation, Lucius was measured and strategic, and sometimes one strategy would triumph over another, while other times they would wind up at a stalemate.

When Lavinia was seventeen, however, her life was turned upside down when the Romans came for war with the Alban peoples. It was this event that would lead her to identify as Sabine, Alban and Roman all at once, but the result of the war was decided without her having to draw sword. Alba Longa was destroyed upon the command of the emperor and the full population of the city was moved to Rome. It lessened the blow that the Quanctii genus were made a noble family in Rome, with the branch Lavinia belonged to being called the Cinncinatus, or in her case Cincinnata.

One of the more significant points of Lavinia's life came a decade later — how she came to be immortal. As one of the first children of the deity, Bellona — or Duellona, as she was still known — had an attachment to her, and had a pride in the fighting prowess she demonstrated in the name of the empire she now served. Likewise, she noted in Lavinia an unmatched fury for those who tried to disregard the rights of women. The girl grew up with the stories of the Sabine women kidnapped to populate Rome, and how the only reason it had not led to bloodshed was the women themselves standing between the husbands and fathers.

While she was now a Roman, the young woman devoted herself to remembering her Sabine and Alban life and heritage, and to paying respect to the goddess she knew to be her mother. There was something special about her; she would always defend those who couldn't defend themselves, would volunteer for a fight, and embodied her spirit — quite fit to be a legacy of Rome, since all knew that empires inevitably came and fell, but pieces were left behind. Thus, she sought favours from her sister Iuventas, goddess of youth, and Pluto, God of the underworld, to grant upon her youth and life everlasting up until a point she should no longer want it, which they granted after considerable deliberation, both having demigod children of their own, on the condition that Lavinia would serve Rome at such times that it required her.

Thus, she has existed across a wide expanse of time, eventually leaving Rome once her lack of aging became apparent in comparison to Lucius and others, fearing she'd be at risk were she to stay. She became acquainted with various civilisations, living within them and fighting for the causes she believed to be right, until she returned to Rome long after everyone who would remember her had passed on. She was present for the construction of the first temple to Bellona in 293 BC, becoming acquainted with the priests to her, the Bellonarii. She could not become one herself, it being one of the doors closed to women in Roman society, but she dedicated herself to her mother's worship once more, until the door was forced open by her mother in person — while not giving away Lavinia's heritage, she came to the priests and told them of her, saying she had placed her upon the earth and so too explained her apparent immortality to them (notably without specifics.) This allowed Lavinia to stay in Rome, living in the Campus Martius area in the close vicinity of her mother's temple.

Eventually, however, she became restless and began to journey once again with the goal of finding Roman demigods and guiding them to the Wolf House (a prerequisite of the camp) that existed far from Rome — a safe haven, but a place she did not yet feel she belonged. For many a year, that was her life, writing about the societies she encountered and trying to keep in contact with as many of those she escorted to camp as she could — she took up sword when necessary and became more acquainted with war than anyone should ever be, more acquainted with the feel of blood on her skin. It is for these years that she seeks penance, questioning her own judgement during these years, and it was too during this time that Lavinia first fell in love. It was long overdue, of course, but even a lengthy relationship passed like the blink of an eye to an immortal mind, so she swore she would never commit to one again upon its end. Luckily, it wasn't an oath, or that may not be going so well. (Her name was Aurelia. She refuses to speak it even now.)

In more recent history, she was visited by her mother who bid her to finally seek solace at the Camp. This, coming from her mother, was an outright surprise, but she did as bidden, venturing to the Wolf House — being a bizarre case, as she did not require the training most did upon arrival, but she would not turn down an opportunity to sharpen her skills. If living for so long had taught her anything, it was the value of humility. Naturally, she was *quite* capable of fighting off monsters that stood in her way; she knew that residing at Camp would allow her to fulfil her duty to the Gods that have kept her upon this plane.

Upon progressing to legionnaire, she received recommendation letters from several demigods who she had accompanied, across cohorts and positions of seniority. and thus was able to choose her cohort. While her achievements in life could well merit the First Cohort, she chose the Second, and settled in quite happily. After seven years at the camp, she rose to the rank of Centurion of the Second Cohort, and she certainly doesn't have ambitions of progressing any higher. She's quite happy to be a facet of the camp for as long as they will have her, and likewise doesn't plan to take advantage of the fact that — because of her immortality — that's longer than most.

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Appearance

Face ClaimHayley Atwell

Eye ColourDark Brown

Hair ColourBrown

Height5'8"

Weight"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Voice TypeSoprano

Blood TypeAB+

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FatherMarcus Quinctius

MotherBellona

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Given [ Lavinia ]

Middle [ Aurelia ]

Surname [ Quinctia Cincinnata ]

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