Sapphire Locks

Sapphire Locks is a seventeen year old Greek Demigod daughter of Melinoe and distant legacy of Ares through her father, Harvey locks. She came to camp at 13 years old

## Basic Stuff

### Affiliation

* Camp Olympia
* The Olympians
* The Underworld

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Dover, Delaware (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Melinoe (Mother)
* Harvey (Father)
* Makaria and Zagreus (Aunt and Uncles)
* Isadora Angelos (Cousin)
* The Ares Cabin (distant relatives)

## Items

### Weapons

* Black bow and arrow
* Stygian iron dagger
* Stygian iron sword

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Usually black or dark colors
* Gray jacket
* White shirt
* Jeans
* White sneakers

OR

* Knee length black dress
* Jeans
* White sneakers

## History

### Early Life

Sapphire Locks, born as Shaun Locks, was born to Melinoe, Greek goddess of ghosts, madness, funeral rites, spirits and nightmares and Harvey Locks, a legacy of Ares in Dover, Delaware on October 3, 2004. Harvey Locks was a young legacy of Ares who attended Harvard to get his doctor's degree. Harvey was only 20 at the time so, by the time he was 29, he became a doctor and by the time he was 32, he was one of the best doctors there was. One day, while walking home from work, Harvey came upon a young woman in an alleyway, beaten and bleeding. Harvey took out his kit which he always carried around in his suitcase and got to work on the young lady only after calling for an ambulance. Sadly, Harvey wasn't able to keep the girl alive before the ambulance came and he sat there in the alley, devastated that he couldn't save her. Harvey, being a legacy, prayed to Hades to send the young girl to Elysium so she would not suffer the pain of torture. After a while of sitting in the alley being asked question by the police, a young women approached Harcey. She was very beautiful and something about her radiated power

"Hello, young legacy," Melinoe said which caught Harvey by surprise and reached for his sword. Melinoe took notice and said. "no need for that I am Melinoe goddess of Ghosts. Harvey then began to bow but Melinoe stopped him appreciating the gesture. Melinoe looked to Harvey and smiled, telling him she was grateful for what he did and that he made her job just a tiny bit easier. She explained that she made it so not a lot of people died and there for them not becoming ghosts. Harvey, seeing it was cold, asked Melinoe if she wanted to come to his house with him. Melinoe accepted and both drove to Harvey's apartment. When getting there, they sat on the couch and talked for hours. Little did both know, they were both falling in love with each other. After that night, they dated and on one night after coming home from a bar, they ended up in bed doing the you know what. The next morning Harvey found that Melinoe had left but he didn't think anything of it just that she probably had some business to take care of. Weeks passed and Melinoe never came back. Harvey was devastated, But he understood why she had to leave.

9 mouths later Harvey heard his door being knocked on but when he answered it, no one was there but a baby boy in a ghostly white basket with a note and a box next to the basket. The note read~

"Dear Harvey,

I'm sorry that I left without saying good bye but I just didn't have the strength to tell you I was pregnant with your child. As you know, this child is a demigod so her life will be dangerous. I hope you will send her to Camp when the time is needed and that you will protect him. In the box are some weapons you can give to him when he's older if you choose to keep him."

Harvey opened the box and found a stygian iron sword and spear in the long box. He smiled and picked up the boy deciding to name him Shaun after a patient of his that survived from cancer.

### Childhood

Sapphire as a child never really fit in with the kids at her school or even the kids in her neighborhood. When Sapphire turned 4, Harvey married a women name Mary who seemed nice but ended up being a complete b\*tch. When Sapphire turned 6, Mary would constantly beat her just out of pure annoyance. Sapphire would never tell her dad, afraid Mary would do more horrible things to her. When Sapphire turned 7, she found out she had dyslexia and ADHD which made it harder for her to fit in. Now, if your wondering where her father is, remember he is one of the worlds greatest doctors so he is always at work, coming home late, leaving Sapphire with Mary all day.

By the time Sapphire was around the age of 9, Sapphire discovered that she didn't really fit in as a normal "boy". As a kid, Sapphire loved playing with the girls in their class and playing with dolls and playing dress up, something that Mary would make of them for. Sapphire began to feel like something was wrong with her and began to hate herself because of this. Her father never minded this, and encouraged Sapphire to be herself. In the same year, Sapphire looked up the term 'Transgender' after hearing a classmate say their sibling was trans. After looking the term up, Sapphire felt much better, and relieved, but also nervous, wondering what her father would say. At the age of 10, Sapphire told her father that she didn't feel like a boy, instead like a girl. Harvey listened to his child and when Sapphire was finished, Harvey told Sapphire that he would love her no matter what. Sapphire began growing her hair out and wearing things that would be considered feminine, along with telling her father to use the name "Sapphire" instead of her birth name. Mary and Harvey would argue about this a lot however, but as long as Sapphire had the support of her father, she would be okay

### First monster attack

When Sapphire turned 11 her father threw her a small party which only family showed up to since she had no friends. Sapphire's father gave her the sword which Harvey later found out turned into a necklace and the spear turned into a bracelet. Sapphire loved the present not knowing their true forms. Sapphire walked about the party not interacting due to her whole family, except her dad, hating her for being so weird and many of the Locks family were transphobic towards her. Sapphire then decided to get away for a few minutes and took the garbage out. While doing so no one was around except for a very angry and hungry Harpy. Sapphire was terrified at what she saw and when the harpy swooped down missing but garbing Sapphire's necklace it turn into its sword form. Sapphire not knowing how it happened just picked it up and started hacking at the harpy. Finally she landed a hit and the harpy disintegrated, but not after leaving a long but skinny cut on her arm. She covered it up with some bandages and wore a long sleeve until it went away. Sapphire was to afraid to mention what had happened to her father and she wasn't going to tell Mary she would just get her father to send Sapphire to a mental hospital.

Then when Sapphire turned 12 Two hell hounds, one small and one big, attacked Sapphire and her father, who had the day off, at the store. Harvey being a demigod summons a sword he always kept and attacked the monsters. While fighting one, the other attacked Sapphire who was hiding behind a chip stand. Harvey had just killed his monster and heard Sapphire yell for help. When he turned to Sapphire, he saw the small hell hound on top of her and Harvey killed the monster with a swipe to the side and a strike to the head. Harvey took Sapphire home and told her every thing, from being a demigod to everything that comes with it. Then Harvey and Sapphire took a cab to the location of camp and they both enter camp not being attacked by any monsters. They stayed there for about 3 months before Sapphire found out she didn't belong there either, so she begged her dad Harvey to go back home. Harvey agreed to go back home figuring with his training and Sapphires training they would get by.

### Coming to Camp

It had been a month since Harvey And Sapphire left camp to live back at home, They would get attacked here and there but they managed to survive. Like the time when two Hell hounds attacked them. Harvey easily defeated one of them and helped his daughter defeated the other. Then another month later when about 5 harpies attacked them. It was tough and hard but in the end they both defeated the monsters. And then about 4 months later 2 empousa's attacked them at there house. They were a bit hard to beat but in the end the monsters were killed. Harvey found out Mary was hitting Sapphire because Sapphire told him when they got home, so now finally they got divorced and Mary is out of the picture. They lived a normal life until a huge cyclops barged into there house. So Harvey and Sapphire ran out the door and driving away watching as the cyclopes shrunk in the distance. They then took a private helicopter to camp. They took the private Helicopter to a clearing just by the border of camp and when they were about to pass a huge hell hound popped out of the shadows. Harvey being a camper for a long time killed the beast and ran with his daughter across the border to the big house. Now, when Sapphire got past the border, she was claimed as the child of Melinoe

## Personality

Sapphire enjoys reading books, writing stories, art, playing the piano, poetry, and spending time with her best friends. She is very loyal, and takes things very seriously; Sometimes too much so. She hates when people use the wrong pronouns (her pronouns are now she/her) and are transphobic or homophobic against her or her friends. Sapphire’s fatal flaw is holding grudges. In her case, it can lead to rising in her temper and, though acting as though everything is fine, thinking negative thoughts about people she feels wronged her for some time. through her interests, she reflects more as a child of Apollo though her behavior is more like a child of Melinoe. She strives to learn, and to her, Time is of utmost value. When “sublime” and “resplendent” are part of your title, you really can’t help but develop an ego. And if honesty is at play here, Sapphire displays her own vanity as clearly as a mirror reflects an image. She has a sensational presence others take notice of, and with more than a healthy sense of self-awareness, this is largely by design. Whether on camera or behind-the-scenes, her every action, reaction, and phrase is seemingly exaggerated for dramatic effect. All of Camp is Trixi’s stage, and she’ll be a black cat’s aunt if she’s ever to tone things down. Just the mere request of humility will get her huffy and launch her into what many would call her “diva setting”, which happens to be somewhat of a default. Devoted foremost to herself, Sapphire comes across as utterly self-involved, not to mention self-defined. Garden-variety success isn’t enough for this ambitious demigod. She’s determined to make her own way, and would rather fail on her own shortcomings than obtain her dreams by any other means. Her career is her most precious entity, and she would never accept it merely being gifted to her: her demigod status must not be a factor. Rebel-inclined tendencies aside, Sapphire shares an unfortunate number of traits with her role, and when it comes to the allotment of things, she is prone to taking more than her fair share. Worse still, she’s keen on the “borrowing” of her familiars’ items for her own use, and does not comprehend the concept of returning items in a timely manner, if at all. In fact, “asking” is often not involved as well. Though most put up with this flaw in fear of curses and hexes, it’s an irritating behavior that drives most others to keep precious possessions out of sight when this certain someone is present. Though her vainglorious attitude might imply otherwise, Sapphire isn’t solely attentive to herself. In fact, she’s a pro at detecting the motivations of others, as if in character study. In Hollywood terms, she can read people like a script, and has a shrewd knack for knowing and predicting how certain circumstances will occur and how those involved will respond to them (she thinks of these as “probability hexes”). It’s almost frightening, and if it weren’t for her sheer aversion to paying attention to the issues at hand, she might be able to use it to her advantage. It may be a tad bit ironic seeing as she technically is a witch - but of course, an actress as well - Sapphire is superstitious to the max. The circumstances are irrelevant: she’ll take any and all precautions to ensure no misfortune comes her way. Yet another reason the audience of Camp will pay attention to her, most take note of her eccentric and obvious methods of deflecting so-called “bad energies”. Unfortunately, it’s during these rituals that she’s at her least calculated, and any interruptions will likely result in a curse inflicted upon whoever dares to take them away from her. For all her aspirations, Sapphire has one tragic quality that comes close to keeping her from accomplishing what she’s really capable of. Even her bouts of denial can’t change the fact that she’s insecure, and all too often compares herself to the A-listers in a negative way. It just sort of happens, and while she puts her acting chops to use by appearing as if she’s entirely pleased by where and who she is, the truth is she thinks she should already be on to bigger and better things. All this taken into account, however, Sapphire is more than capable of ensuring her own path to the lifestyle and renown she desires. Royal taboos be damned, once she figures something needs to be done for herself, she’s an unstoppable force of resolution, regality, and magic.

### Fatal flaw

Sapphire's fatal flaw is holding grudges. It takes a long time for her to let go of things and this grudge is shared by many underworld cabins

## Appearance

Sapphire is described as very beautiful seventeen year old transgender woman. Since she was young, Sapphire has always had wavy black hair, pale skin, and dark brown, almost black eyes. By the time she was around ten, she began grown her hair out, getting it a little ways past her shoulders and wearing more feminine clothing but mostly a gray jacket, and a white shirt. Thanks to Octavia and a bit of magic, she was able to transition from a male to a female. She now wears a black knee-length black dress, her black hair now goes down to her waist, and she wears jeans and white sneakers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Melinoe Kid Powers

* She has divine authority of the dead and ghost. Not has much as Hades' Cabin, but more when it comes to ghosts.
* She can speak to the dead and see lost souls.
* She can summon skeletons and ghosts to help fight battles.
* They can shape-shift.
* They have Amokinesis, but to less of an extent than the Aphrodite Cabin.
* They can sap someone's energy making them look like a zombie or ghost.
* She has ghost powers such as, invisibility, and intangibility. (Click >> [1] to see more and all ghost abilities)
* She has Thermokinesis.
* She can manipulate the Mist perfectly. She can teleport herself places too.
* They have Umbrakinesis.
* They can know who, when, where, why, and how a person dies.
* They have perfect authority over nightmares. They can control it and can make others nightmares come true to haunt them.
* She often haunts others in dreams with ghosts.
* She can absorb darkness, making herself disappear. This is associated with Umbrakinesis.
* She can control and summon Hell hounds since her mother is an Underworld Goddess.
* They can control and manipulate illusions, and can make other see things that aren't there.
* They have superhuman speed and can travel very fast but aren't normally as fast as the Iris Cabin (14) or Hermes' Cabin (11). Though, they can work on their speed to be fast or even faster than children of Hermes.
* They can shadow travel since Melinoe is an Underworld Goddess.
* She can use a spirit's skill and impersonate its abilities. Example: summoning a fire spirit gives her Fire Manipulation, or summoning a pro tennis player to use their tennis skills as her own.
* She can reanimate Ghosts as zombies, or even skeletons. They are usually under her control, but because the corpses are likely mindless, they have to be carefully monitored. However, when she is more powerful, she may be able to create sentient or semi-sentient undead. In the past, some of the most powerful children of Melinoe have been able to directly convert the living into the undead, turning an opponent into a mindless zombie at the child's control.
* She can perform a form of magic related to the underworld, (underworld magic) magically manipulating the region’s components and/or channeling its mystical energies to cast spells.
* They have the power of Mystiokinesis, or the ability to manipulate magical energy. They do this by saying Ancient Greek or Latin phrases. Their magic is usually weaker than Hecate cabin but some children of Melinoe surpass them.
* They can physically touch ghosts, even if they're not tangible.
* They can summon ghost as tangible for some time.
* She can have mind control, this works like possessing someone.
* She as a sub-power of ghost powers, can have various forms of psionics.
* She has limited form of Charmspeak, after she uses it there’s the possibility the person affected will be driven a little mad because of her mother. The strength of this depends on her, she can train to make it stronger, but is a uncommon ability so not many can do this
* They can give people nightmares that if intense Enough could drive people to insanity for short or long periods of time

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, Sapphire's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep her ready for, and alive, in battle
* Dyslexia: Her brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek
* Archery: Sapphire is really good at archery
* Underworld knowledge: Sapphire knows a lot about the Underworld
* Swordsmanship: Sapphire is really good with a sword
* Dagger usage: Sapphire is skilled with a dagger
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Sapphire is stronger than the average mortal. Even when battered and exhausted.
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Sapphire has shown countless times their amazing agility
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Sapphire is more durable than a regular human
* Superhuman reflexes: Sapphire has incredible reflexes, which is proven throughout her life
* Magic usage: Sapphire is very skilled in using magic, both regular magic and underworld magic

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Isadora Angelos

Isa, as Sapphire's only cousin, is really close to her. Isadora accepts Sapphire for being trans, and defends her whenever someone is being transphobic to her. Sapphire also loves watching Isa dance and supports her when she preforms

### Family

#### Melinoe (Mother)

If Sapphires unfortunate haughtiness is partially a result of her title, then she ought to have inherited this attitude straight from her own mother: the Sublime and Resplendent goddess of ghosts, Melinoe herself. An immensely powerful woman “wise beyond her years”, as her daughter used to put it, Melinoe commands whole armies of ghosts and puts her underworld home well on the map. Though a strong figure to have as a parent, her preoccupation with the affairs of state have left her daughter feeling somewhat disregarded; a possible partial origin to Sapphire's disinterest in the throne. Despite this bitterness, Melinoe did not feel anything was out of place within her own family’s dynamic, and thus was caught by initial shock and a feeling of betrayal over her daughter’s declaration of rebellion. This, however, eventually subsided mostly in favor of guilt, and the goddess now feels she has failed her heir. Sapphire, too, feels she was too harsh in how she handled things, but as stubborn and prideful as her mother, neither feels particularly inclined to be the one to apologize. Since then, their conversations have largely consisted of a series of curt and formal exchanges, and both secretly hope a third party will become involved to end the tedious nature of their current relationship. Even after all this, though, if either was asked their opinion on the other, they would speak nothing but truthful praise. They do respect and love each other, in The End.

#### Harvey (Father)

Sapphire loves her father very much. Harvey accepted Sapphire for being trans, and protected her as a young child, though Harvey wishes that Sapphire told him about Mary being abusive towards her. Harvey currently lives in Delaware and writes to his daughter a lot

## Etymology

The name Melinoe's daughter chose for herself is Sapphire, which is a girl's name of Latin origin. This sparkling name translates from its mother tongue to mean **“blue.”** You'll be familiar with the glimmering blue gems that share the name, which have always been considered a timeless token of glamour. These stones represent prosperity, beauty, and inner peace.

Locks is a **topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure a place that could be locked** Middle English loke Old English loca. Middle English loke also came to be used to denote a barrier in particular a barrier on a river which could be opened and closed at will and by extension a bridge.

## Trivia

1. Sapphire uses She/They pronouns, but preferably she/her
2. Sapphire loves reading ghost stories
3. She is skilled in both regular magic and underworld magic
4. She has an obscure pet fascination over mines and abandoned places. She can identify a majority of machinery used in mining, and her father has taken her to old abandoned mines to explore. Since her mother is an underworld goddess, she often feels quite safe underground and can navigate underground networks.
5. She hates balloons, and always stares at one intensely when there is one in the room. She hates the sound they make when they pop.
6. Sapphire's middle name, Ren, meaning **Lotus**
7. Sapphire is often called Ghost Girl
8. Sapphire loves being in dark places