Nara Jeong

**Na-Ra/Nara Jeong** is a Greek demigod and the daughter of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, madness, and parties. She works as a lifeguard at Camp Half-Blood during weekends, she also works as an accountant for the Delphi Strawberry Service managing the deliveries for the strawberries together with making sure they pass quality inspection and selling them to a distributor, after Blood of Olympus she decides to go to university to study and become a sales-rep for the Delphi Strawberry Service. She is also the campers respondent being in charge of putting ideas and issues forth to the camp director, her father, Dionysus.

## Between the Series

### Fatal Flaw

Nara's fatal flaw is her **recklessness** and lack of self-preservation, Nara has showcased both a disregard for her own personal safety and a tendency not to think her actions trough. More often than not Nara will take a risk and not think trough any consequences that could follow, it's also noted by several other characters that if any negative consequences follow Nara is quite apathetic towards any that could directly harm her. She will often ignore advice from those close to her and cause herself problems and in some cases gravely injure herself shown when her father warned her not to try and wield his staff saying it could make her go mad, even trough that she ignored his warnings and used the staff to save Percy and Annabeth which almost drove her mad and would have if it hadn't been for Grover and Clarisse knocking her out. The incident caused Nara to struggle with a mood disorder and worsen her bipolar symptoms. Nara has however shown that her care for her friends and the safety of others is more important to her and will often cause her to at least watch consequences that could effect them. Although she seems to struggle with the thought that people care about her own safety.

### Fears

Nara has many irrational fears coming from her autism and mood disorder, she has admitted there are nights where she's too scared to sleep because of irrational reasons, during the quest she's too scared to sleep afraid a monster would kill her while she wasn't looking, both Leo and Jason took her fears seriously and helped her fall asleep. Nara also seems to struggle with minor social anxiety, often overthinking conversations and has gotten herself headaches because of stressing over small things.

## Abilities and Tools

* General Abilities
* Demigod/Magical Abilities
* Magical Items
* Miscellaneous Magic Items

* **Thyrsus Staff**: Erin fights with a magical staff resembling a thyrsus gifted to her by her father for her fourteenth birthday, it is a simple staff made of bronze steel with ivy leaves that will injure anyone upon touch apart from Erin, to be noted however is that gods and other powerful beings can negate this effect, the staff's magical properties strengthen Erin's powers and helps her channel them better. The staff kills monsters by releasing a magical blow upon contact, the staff has a set amount of magical energy when this runs out Erin can funnel it with her own, afterwards the staff needs some time to take up new energy, it generally gets its power from surrounding energies. Since it works by the powers of Dionysus' domain Erin has found several creative ways to power it by bringing it to a party, pouring alcohol on it, bringing it to a play of Hamlet, and also ones performing Macbeth in front of it. After the Lost Hero the staff becomes semi-sentient as a gift from her father which freaks Erin out so much she almost throws it away.
* **Anti-Magic Jacket**: Erin has a black varsity jacket with anti-magic properties, Erin explains it works as a bullet-vest against spells, energy, and celestial bronze. Later it is also revealed to work against Imperial gold, although the jacket gets damaged it fixes itself with time, after the Battle of Manhattan Erin says it needed two months before all the holes had fixed themselves. Erin says she found it in one of the boxes of the Big House.
* **Backpack of Holding**: Erin own a backpack she found in the basement of the Big House while cleaning, she uses it to store all her useless magical items, usually only five other things will fit into it because it's already so full, no matter what the back will be weightless.

Erin owns several magic items with no real purpose that she keeps in her backpack of holding, Annabeth notes that she collects them like she's going to start a museum, most of these items range from useless to absurd.

* **Paradoxical Coffee Mug**: a coffee mug that can only hold coffee and evaporates anything that isn't coffee, it will however also evaporate coffee. Erin says it came in a box that said 'for all your not quite coffee needs!' she still has not figured out what not quite coffee is.
* **Anti-Fly Flyswatter**: A flyswatter that dodges flies.
* **Always Wrong Thermometer**: A thermometer that will give what temperature it isn't.
* **Opera Pearl Necklace**: A pearl necklace that when put on makes you sing everything in a opera song voice, this voice is always the same female one who can't sing opera.
* **Haunted Locket**: a locket with a ghost inside, it's wrapped shut with duct-tape and has a note attached to it saying 'GHOST INSIDE!!!! DO NOT RELEASE!!! HAS BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT ME ABOUT MY CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY!!!!'
* **Pine cone**: just a pine cone
* **No one's number**: a piece of paper with a number on it that doesn't belong to anyone, Erin says that every now and then it changes.
* **Gnome Camera**: a camera that will have a child's drawing of a gnome in every picture you take with it.
* **Punchline**: a punchline to a joke
* **Schrödinger's cat**: Schrödinger's cat is in the bag until the box opens
* **Container of infinite pudding**: a container filled with infinite chocolate pudding

## Trivia

* Her father named her Nara after a main character in a short story his sister wrote called Nara and the Little Joys of Life, calling Nara his little joy
* Nara's therapist is a legacy of a demigod who's family has been running a therapist office for years to help anyone involved in the worlds of the gods, Nara states they even get monster patients although they have a very in depth scheduling system and both demigods and monsters have to sign contracts stating they won't kill anyone they find out about trough the clinic.