Carmelo Ortega

### Oh "Curses!" Moments

"Oh uh, I'm pretty insecure. I mean, i feel like I'm only useful, when I'm someone else..."

## Relationships

### Parents

* Empusa (Mother)
* Martin (Father)

### Other Family

* No Bio Siblings
* No Half-siblings
* Aegialeus, Circe, Medea, Scylla (Aunts and Uncl)
* No cousins

### Best Friends Forever After

"Oh, I have a few! There's Melody, Carlos, Sonny, and Hector"

### Friends

"The UnderSquad! We're a mischievous group of demigods"

## Other Information

### Powers

Can shape-shift into objects, people and animals

### Skills

* Acting skills
* Parkour skills
* Dagger usage
* Flexibility

### Interests & Hobbies

* Shape-shifting
* Pranking
* Acting

Carmelo Ortega is a 2022-introduced and all-around character. He is the son, Empusa, goddess of shape-shifting, from Greek Mythology, and currently attends Ever After High through the Mythology Program. In the destiny conflict, he is on the Neutral Side, since he doesn't care about the destiny conflict as a whole

## Character

### **Personality**

Described as a "theater kid" and natural entertainer, Carmelo is a fun-loving, easy-going, and energetic teenager. Unlike his quiet friend Julia and the timid Marko, Carmelo is more extroverted than them and is the one that takes after his spirited parents the most. Social and charismatic, he is on good terms with many of the campers at Cassandra's claiming ceremony. While not boastful or vain, Carmelo enjoys the spotlight and has a good sense of humor with a penchant for dramatic movements, such as twirls or exaggerating stories based on rumors (his tales about Kronos) for flair. He is noted to enjoy eating, particularly food by his friend Melody, and is seen trying to sneak seconds by pretending to be Damian. Despite his wisecracking and impish demeanor, Carmelo has a very tender, sweet, and responsible side, especially towards his friends. There are many times when Carmelo shows no harm in his pranks, such as when Carlos flicks flowers into his open mouth for his teasing, he merely spits them out with a sheepish look on his face, showing no annoyance when caught when he does mischief.

While not addressed or shown through the years, Carmelo does suffer from pressure and has insecurities, though he hides it under his cheerful demeanor. Although he enjoys his powers, it makes him question his sense of self, and constantly shape shifting for others does tire him out. Much like many of his friends (Aubrey, Evelyn, Emily) is good with children and infants, frequently using his gift to play with them and care for them as part of his service to the camp. Young and still discovering himself, Carmelo enjoys using his shape shifting ability to try different personas and playing pranks or teasing his friends. While mischievous and a bit impertinent, Carmelo’s antics are harmless and are simply playful, often taking to being caught or scolded by Zoe in good stride, such as responding with a good-natured "worth a shot". Although he likes to exaggerate his expressions when he transforms into other people, Carmelo himself displays a dry wit, like when he snarkily emphasizes that the UnderSquad is left homeless with an incredibly neutral expression. Overall Carmelo is a good kid with a love for entertainment and entertaining others, especially his friends.

### **Appearance**

Carmelo is a 17-teen-year-old Colombian boy with a slender build, light golden-brown complexion, curly, dark auburn hair, brown eyes, and freckles across his nose and cheeks, along with a dark tint on his eyelids. He wears a white long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and his collar unevenly unbuttoned with the rest left loose, except for the right side tucked into his pants. He also wears a bright orange ruana with darker orange streaks, black pants, and black sandals with white etchings. Symbolizing his shape shifting ability, Carmelo’s clothes have a chameleon motif, with chameleons on his shirt collar, ruana, and sandals. Another of his casual outfits would be a black zip up jacket with a chameleon patch sewn on it, a orange shirt that says "I'm more confused than a chameleon in a bag of skittles, jeans and gray, dirty sneakers.

### **Hobbies and Interests**

#### Acting

Due to his shape-shifting abilities, Carmelo is very good at acting. He can take on different roles and persona's, whether it be John Laurens from Hamilton or Orpheus from Hadestown, Carmelo is very good at acting

#### Shape-shifting

Carmelo is general loves his powers. He loves turning into his friends and other people to mess with him, but he does suffer from pressure and has insecurities, though he hides it under his cheerful demeanor. Although he enjoys his powers, it makes him question his sense of self, and constantly shape shifting for others does tire him out.

#### Pranking

Much like Hector, James, Maria and Amber, Carmelo loves pranking. He messes with his friends and his pranks are normally harmless, so he's on pretty good terms with everyone

## Myths

### **How does Carmelo fit into it?**

Carmelo, as the son of Empusa is destined to be apart of any myth his mother was in

### **Viewpoint on Destiny**

Carmelo has many feelings about his destiny. For one, he doesn't want to be seen as evil, but he doesn't want to lose his shape-shifting powers. He also want to make his mother proud by following his destiny. But as a whole, he is a neutral

## Powers/Abilities

### Empusa Kid Powers

* He is able to shape shift into anything less than 4 times his size
* He is able to shape shift any object into anything less than 2 times the size of the object
* He is able to shape shift other people into anything that's the size of the human or smaller, however if he shape shifts into other demigods, then he does not get their powers
* He is able to shape shift into any animal he wishes, mythical or real although the animal can't be completely out of the ordinary such as an elephant mixed with a lion.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like all demigods, Carmelo possessed inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he used to analyze the fighting style of his opponent
* Dyslexia: His brain was "hardwired" for Ancient Greek instead of modern languages
* Parkour Skills: Carmelo is shown to be very good at doing parkour and is something he uses to his advantage
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Carmelo is stronger than the average mortal.
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Carmelo is more durable than a regular mortal
* Superhuman Agility: Being a demigod, Carmelo is more agile than a regular mortal
* Superhuman Reflexes: Being a demigod, Carmelo's reflexes are faster than a regular human
* Dagger usage: Carmelo is very skilled at using a dagger
* Spanish: Because Carmelo's family is from Colombia and because he was taught the language, Carmelo can speak fluent Spanish
* Flexibility: Carmelo is shown to be very flexible

## Relationships

### **Family**

#### Empusa (Mother)

Now Carmelo has stated that he and his mother have a distant relationship. He's never met his mother, since she left when he was young. However Carmelo does respect her since she was the one to give him his powers

#### Martin (Father)

Martin absolutely loves his son. He was, at first, unsure about Carmelo leaving for Ever After High, but soon decided that it would be best since Carmelo would be getting a good education.

### **Friends**

#### Carlos Rodriguez (Son of Demeter)

Carlos and Carmelo are pretty close. Carmelo likes to mess with the son of Demeter and Carlos often responds by flicking flowers/leaves in his face, but they get along well.

#### Melody Potvin (Daughter of Apollo)

A dynamic duo that is a force to be reckoned with, Melody and Carmelo are basically siblings. While Melody isn't the pranking type, Carmelo does use his powers to make her happy whenever she's sad. Carmelo often goes on about different musicals and Melody is all just "smile and nod", even though Melody also budded in with her on opinions, jokes and pop culture references \*cough Dream SMP/MCYT cough\* in other words, Carmelo and Melody are a "wonderful" group

#### Sonny Sol (Son of Ra)

When getting to Ever After High, Carmelo was somewhat expecting to be roomed with another Greek demigod or "minor" god, but "horror of horrors" when Carmelo got into the room and found that it was not a Greek roommate. However, Carmelo and Sonny got along well. The two shared the power of shape shifting and the love of theater, so the got along well and soon became best friends

#### Hector Pendia (Son of Hermes)

Ah, the trickster pair. A son of the god of thieves and the son of the goddess of shape-shifting...friends? Dear gods save us all. Anyways, this prankster pair loves messing with everyone and anyone, so be sure to *never* make one or the other or both mad

### **Romance**

Carmelo identifies as Pansexual and is single

## Class Schedule

**1st Period:** FEL

**2nd Period:** Mischief 101

**3rd Period:** Mythematics

**4th Period:** Alchemy

**5th Period:** Olympian Olympics

**6th Period:** History of Heroes

## Quotes

"Sonny, I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet, so give it back"-to Sonny

"I don't know who I am anymore. Ever since the light left my door. I've been feeling like a solider at war, and I fight with cape and the mask you adore"-explaining his insecurities to Melody

”Pull a prank and don’t get caught.”-his motto

"Guys, We're not the 'B-Team', we're the second 'A-Team'."-giving motivation to his friends

"Hey, can we stop telling these children about the futility of life on Minecraft Hypixel and telling them how they're all going to die someday?"-playing Minecraft Hypixel

"Carlos! I will eat your children. Each and every single one that you ever have. I will eat it. I will eat it. I will, I will actually fork and knife medium rare each single one of your children. They are all- I'm- I'm eating them."-to Carlos during an argument

"Accept no-one's definition of your life; define yourself"-self motivation

## Outfits

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## Trivia

* Carmelo was inspired by Camilo Madrigal from Encanto
* Carmelo was born on June 13, 2003, making him a Gemini
* Carmelo own a chameleon plush
* Carmelo has stated that he can no swim
* Carmelo has a fear of growing up
* Carmelo's favorite musical is In The Heights, cause he feels his Latin American Culture is finally being seen

## Gallery

No gallery, just look up Camilo Madrigal fan art then imagine him with an orange ruana. BOOM! Carmelo Ortega