Althea Del Rosario

Althea Del Rosario is the seventeen year old Filipino Demigod daughter of Tala and Angelo Del Rosario. She came to camp at thirteen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Zamboanga, The Philippines (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Tala (Mother)
* Angelo (Father)
* Mayari, Hanan, Apolaki (Aunts and Uncle)
* Marikit Santos, Imelda Alcántara, and Crisanto Villanueva (Cousins)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Black and white striped shirt
* Star printed overall shorts
* Purple sneakers

## History

### Early Life

Althea Del Rosario was born to Tala, goddess of the morning and evening star and Angelo Del Rosario on July 5, 2004 in Zamboanga in The Philippines. Papers, pens, books, and late nights. Airplanes, empty streets, and everything in between. Angelo Del Rosario was always known to be a hard worker. He often forgot to eat, sleep, or rest, just to finish the work he started. The only thing on his mind? Perfection. Angelo was a professor in Zamboanga, specializing in Civil Engineering. He worked day and night to create designs, propose new patents for the engineering world, and build. Oh, how he loved to build. Behind his glasses and unruly mess of brown hair, was a handsome, ambitious young man with the brightest smile in the town of Zamboanga. His hair was wavy and brown as mud, eyes the lightest brown. His designs and ideas earned him many titles and acknowledgements, and even reached the ears of Tala. Out of curiosity, the star goddess decided to disguise herself and watch how he worked.

She was awed by his intelligence, his determination, and the smile he bared whenever he taught his class. Soon, Tala became his best pupil, and he slowly began to fall in love with her and her mind. After a month of dating, Tala finally revealed herself to him, and convinced him to join minds with her. Angelo did not fully grasp what she meant by this, and was surprised to find a beautiful baby girl in his room the next day. He was the happiest man alive at that moment. However, it was also at that moment that he learned Tala had gone, leaving him heartbroken and torn. He could never bring himself to look at Althea, who was the constant reminder of her mother. And what did he know about raising children? Thus, he entrusted his Puerto Rican nanny to bring her back to Puerto Rico with to be raised by his sister, knowing he could never raise her properly himself, Angelo once again drowned himself in his work.

### Childhood

Althea spent her early childhood in the outskirts of San Juan, with her aunt; Jasmine Del Rosario, who owns a nature school/cultural center in the village they lived in. Being the tightly-knight community it is, Althea was raised by everyone in the village. By the age of two, Althea was enrolled in her aunt’s nature school, where she learned a lot of her Puerto Rican heritage, such as its general history, its many native languages and songs, and even learning to do several traditional dances and playing several traditional instruments from all over the country. She was raised with as her mother language, later mastering several local languages such as English, picking up other native languages during trips with her aunt to other cities for cultural performances, and some Filipino from her from her aunt and mortal grandparents whenever they visited. By the age of six, along with all her other classmates they were enrolled in a martial arts course. Surprisingly, Althea managed to surpass all expectations and even excel in her class, managing to do complex moves and learn every technique with ease.

Several weeks before her eighth birthday, she and her aunt drove to an airport in San Juan to finally visit Angelo, when it began to hail heavily. It’d been gloomy that day, and everyone had expected it to hail eventually. The roads in the village were small, and left and right, there was nothing but casual houses and apartments. But something odd happened that day, as they climbed on an uphill slope when Althea noticed a flock of birds flying toward their slow-moving car in high speed. They swarmed, blocking the view and causing them to slide off the road, rolling down the hill and crashing into an electric pole which fell over and crushed the car. Jasmine, even though she was pinned in to the steering wheel and door, noticed this, and told Althea to slip on her rubber sandals and get out. The young child cried, as she saw Jasmine to be her mother, and did not want to leave her. However, there was no choice when several beaks ripped Althea's door open. Stymphalian birds. Running on adrenaline, Althea scrammed to the backseat and ran out the door, the flock swarming inside the car in hot pursuit after her. But they did not manage to exit, as Althea slammed the door in their faces, and ran.

Just as the electric sparks ignited the fuel tank. The villagers believed that it was a freak accident, knowing how slippery the road was in the rain. With her guardian gone, Althea was sent back to Zamboanga to be reunited with her father. Permanently. She greeted this idea happily, however, excited to finally meet the man she had heard so much about from her aunt. Unfortunately, she did not receive the greeting she expected to get upon arrival. He shook her hand and gave her a nod. And that was it.

### Back in The Philippines

Angelo never did step up to his position as a father. He did not care for the many impressive poems Althea made for him, or for the many feats of athleticism she tried to show off. All she wanted was his love. So when Althea started school there, she made a vow to be the best of everything and finally earn that love. She learned English rather quickly, studied hard and practiced hard, for she inherited her father’s determination, and consistently earned first rank in all her classes, including P.E. and Gym. Her teachers were impressed, but her father never even blinked. One day, upon seeing her report card, Angelo told her, “The next generation should always be better than the one before. And you, my dear Althea, you are still young. Learn as much as you can, while you can.” And Althea smiled, but her father never saw because he never even looked up from his work. The rest of her childhood was filled with study and clubs. She won many competitions; mostly sports, and academic (Angelo always told her that a healthy body harbors a healthy mind, thus she joined as many sports as she could). But she had absolutely no friends.

A drop in score or achievement what was Althea feared most. Her already high-achieving father would look at her, with a look that she swore was of utter disappointment and frustration before the scolding started, clawing and tearing at her on the inside until she could cry no more. Her father would quickly apologize after each outburst, hug her and whisper comforting words. But by the age of ten, she stopped hugging back. Althea had grown emotionally hollow, and she began to miss her childhood in Puerto Rico. Her father never cared for her smiles, so she stopped smiling. Lonely and starved of affection, Althea began to recede deeper and deeper into her mind, asking questions to which she’d make up an answer for. Creating a world she could escape to. One day, after asking a question, something else asked back. It wasn’t her. It was an odd, new voice that gave her new questions she never thought of. Due to this, Althea became a quiet observer. Watching, thinking, and studying. She studied people. She seemed to like that. However, when a martial arts class opened in her school (and she did join it in a heartbeat), she felt as if she’d regained an old friend, and once again became the star of her class.

### A Monster Attack

Her second monster attack occurred at the age of eleven. A substitute teacher who was filling in for Althea's science teacher during last period. She was an odd woman, the young demigod thought. And for some reason, she kept on imagining a bird. Squawking, baring its talons. And she saw blood. Blood, and blood. She ended up staring at the substitute in an entranced manner until the end of class. Until all the children left and went home. The substitute walked over to the door and locked in, and only until the ‘click’ was heard did Althea snap back to attention. But by then, the teacher had begun to transform. Talons, feathers, and wings. A harpy. But the girl was not as helpless as she looked. She wasn’t strong enough to attack the creature, but she was fast and smart enough. Discreetly opening the storage unit of her pencil sharpener, she threw the pencil shavings into the eyes of the harpy once it charged. Everything moved in slow motion as it screeched and grabbed its eyes, Thea bolted to the laboratory, locked the door, and began working. However, this caught the attention of a young boy using crutches. As Althea dressed the skeleton in her shoes and jacket, threw a black rag over its head and closed all the curtains, the crippled boy with brown hair and blue eyes rushed outside to the laboratory window. The memory of her aunt’s death flashed through Thea's mind as she rummaged through the supply closet for the largest generator she could find.

The harpy began pounding on the door. She connected the generator to the metal pole that kept the skeleton upright, and she knew what it was plaster. It should conduct electricity. Then, she threw water onto the floor from the sink before grabbing a bottle of powdered sulfur and doused it on herself. She switched off the lights. Althea hid under the desk just as the harpy broke the door down. It sniffed about, but the smell of sulfur was sharp and distracted it enough to spot the decoy in the corner. It slipped and rolled about in the soaked floor and once it grabbed the skeleton, it was shocked hard. In the harpy's paralyzed state, the boy broke a window open and drew the curtains back. His skin was fair and glowed with the sunlight. Thea was awed. "Take my hand!" He yelled, and Althea did just that. She escaped through the window and ran with him to the street and onto a downhill road. As they crossed, the harpy regained control and surged after them with blind rage. And dearly forgot to notice the truck that became its cause of death. It hit the harpy and tried to break, but gravity kept pulling and the weight it carried caused it to fall over. It was crushed. She asked the boy questions and he merely told her, "We're special, you and me. Beings like us, we gotta stick together." That day Althea learned of her godly heritage, but she made a friend. Collin was his name.

Entering the sixth grade, Althea had become the school’s star athlete, often working herself relentlessly to her coaches’ worries. She trained to drown her troubles, the memories of the monster attacks when she was young, and the voices inside her head when they grew too overwhelming. Aside from martial arts, she especially excelled in archery, fencing, and obstacle races. She was probably seen to be one of the most popular kids in school. All the girls acted like they were her friend, and all the boys looked at her with awestruck eyes. And she would smile in knowing that they would lie down on their stomachs without hesitation if she asked. This was when her manipulative trait developed, getting people to do what she wanted during group assignments, and set them an impossibly high standard. They’d whine and complain, but once it was done, they’d always get the highest marks. And even with all the achievements and appreciation, Thea knew there was only one person who truly cared for her, and he was a new boy in crutches. The only one who knew what she truly was.

This all changed when she turned twelve. Althea had gone to see her father at his class after archery practice with Collin. On their way there, they saw a black horse with a shining mane. It started to canter furiously toward them, and they realized, this was no normal horse. Everything once again moved in slow motion, and Althea moved in front of Collin and crossed her arms before her chest. There was a screech of an inferno, and she and Collin flew back to the lonely streets of Zamboanga. She began to open her eyes, and what she saw shocked her. A giant spider web, out of nowhere, burning with fire that the horse exhaled. Althea kept doing this as she and Collin tried to escape it in order to slow it down, running into alleyways and crowded streets. Until they found a dead end. The fire-breathing horse managed to catch them and once again blew its flames. Thea could only improvise and weave another barrier. Collin then presented her with an arrow, its head made of Celestial Bronze, and told her it'd been a gift he was wanted to give her and that she needed to use it against the horse. "Only this will work." He told her, and she trusted him. As the barrier of straw burned down, Althea strung the arrow into her practice bow, and shot it through its heart.

But since that day, Althea began to suspect something. Angelo should know about this too, right? Despite her usual contempt towards her father, her curiosity could take no more, and she finally confronted him. Through much convincing, yelling, counters, and unpleasant memories, Angelo finally cracked and told her everything of his experience with Tala, and the rule the gods had established in order to care for demigods. It was like a session of therapy for him, and he finally grew to accept reality as it is after twelve years. Althea on the other hand, saw this as an act of betrayal, but once again managed to lock her emotions away to let reason shine through. Their relationship had finally improved.

### Getting to Camp

Two weeks before turning thirteen, she went with Angelo to California, America so that he may attend a conference. She was left alone at the hotel in Los Angeles that night, when she heard the sound of a scuff happening outside. The young demigod peeked out through her room curtains just in time to see none other than Collin stumble out of an alley. But he didn't have crutches. Instead, he had the legs of a goat. In hot pursuit behind him; a pack of hell hounds. Without hesitation, Althea rushed out and pursued them, bringing only her cell phone and a staff from her martial arts training. She eventually managed to run ahead of Collin and yank him into an unlocked shed. They shared a long embrace, but before she could ask questions, he yanked her back outside and hailed a cab (not before putting on his pants and crutches of course). This was when the interrogation once again occurred. He merely explained that he needed to take her to a safe haven for demigods, and that he'd always been looking after her. They stopped at the forest line and ran into it, where the hell hound pack finally caught up to them. They could move faster now, since Collin didn't need to use his crutches, and began to sprint to the camp. A few meters away from the barrier, a hell hound sprung from a bush and tackled Althea down. Collin bashed its head in with his crutch, which was in fact made of Celestial Bronze. However, this ignited the other pack members to attack him. The young demigod watched in horror as her dearest friend was torn apart, and he told her to run. She didn't move, watching Collin be devoured alive sparked an emotion in her; anger. So instead of retreating, Althea ran back for him, grabbed one of his crutches and hit one away. This turned all eyes on her. The days she spent training with Collin flashed through her head, and suddenly she could see bright spots appear on the hell hounds' bodies. Pressure points. They all charged at once and Althea fought back with the crutch, getting them disoriented with a bash or whack and then striking a pressure point with her middle and forefinger.

This went on until all the hell hounds were wining in pain on the ground, and Thea took this chance to drag her bloodied friend into the safe parameters of the barrier. She held him in her arms through his last dying breaths, and he left her with a smile. Althea felt grief, pain, and guilt. So strong and gripping, yet... She didn’t know why, but it all began to fade away just as quickly, leaving her hollow yet again. She looked back at the flicker of torches in the dark and felt things slowly click into place. Angelo never brought her there to accompany him for a conference. It'd always been to bring her here. So Thea pulled out her phone and dialled Angelo's number. He didn’t answer, but that was to be expected, so she left him a voicemail; "Dad? I wanted to tell you I found the camp. I’m sure you know what I mean. And I just want to say... Thank you. For everything. I finally understand now. You’ve kept me away, because you were always afraid of this day. Of losing me too. But just know that I’ll come back one day, I promise. I love you, dad.” I love you too, Collin. And she kissed her friend's forehead in farewell. She headed into camp and was soon claimed by her mother, Tala

## Personality

Many goddesses often chose the right mortal me to have their children, the same goes for Tala when she had her daughter - a loving, sweet and caring individual with a motherly nature, who cares for others as if they were their children. Althea is, indeed, a perfect fit for her destined role. Your friendly neighborhood Mom Friend, Althea has a maternal, soothing personality that naturally makes everyone around her feel safe and protected. She won't hesitate in taking everyone under her wings and being the best mother figure she could possibly be for them. The title of Daughter of Tala is something easily associated with a caring and affectionate individual, so Althea tries her best to make justice to this association and to the role she is destined to have. It's quite easy to befriend Althea; she's very welcoming to new friendships and loves to make friends. She always considers friends to be a second family, and the bigger the family, the merrier for Althea. Althea also likes to see her friends befriending one another, so she casually chooses a day of the week to gather everyone up for a special lunch or dinner, or a picnic in the Enchanted Forest. As her future role requires, Althea likes to feel helpful to others. She's always very eager to help, even if it's just by giving moral support. If there's anything she can do, then you can bet Althea will do it; it doesn't matter if it's just by shouting "you can do it!" or actively doing something solely by herself. Althea loves to provide, and legitimately feels happy if she's being useful or cooperative. A supportive friend, the daughter of Tala  will encourage you to go after what your heart desires, and if you need her to, she will go to the end of the world to support you... But only if you have virtuous and moral goals. If you have wrong, immoral or unethical goals, then she won't hesitate in showing you how wrong you might be. Althea always sees the "good goals" as something that will make not only you, but also those around you grow; something that will be good for everyone. Her ideals of "bad goal" is something that causes harm or prejudice to absolutely anyone, and that Althea won't accept in any way. As her cousins will take the more “carefree and adventurous” ones, Althea has to be the more logical and grounded cousin. She often has to be very mature and sensible, finding it important to look at things with wisdom and patience and analyze everything with prudence and caution. Althea considers herself to be lucky, and is very thankful for that and for everything that has been so generously given to her. As she likes to say, she was an ordinary girl made extraordinary. She never saw herself as anything but a normal mortal, going on with the family business; but now she is part of something bigger, and Althea lives up for that. She wouldn't want anything other than to follow her destiny, and does it with honor and prestige, always very grateful for the opportunity of having such an amazing legacy. Althea loves her life, and wants to make every moment of it truly worth living. She can't wait for her future, for the amazing things she will live and see thanks to her story. At first glance, Althea comes across as an extremely quiet and thoughtful young woman. She seems to have a million thoughts racing through her head and would often be caught daydreaming and/or staring off into space. Althea doesn’t really care about what people think of her; she’s very confident and well spoken, very smooth and laid back most of the time. Althea is extremely intelligent; her mind is her only friend, which is why you would often see her smiling to herself. She is also very independent, and dislikes relying on other people. She can be friendly, warm, and genuine, but she can be manipulative. Athletic, and a perfectionist to her performance, she works hard to perfect her skills. Althea often incorporates her intelligence into her athletic skills, and is very resourceful. Unfortunately, she is often very judgmental as well, and is extremely intolerant to mistakes. Plus, Althea is brutally honest, and is not afraid to hurt people’s feelings. Occasionally this brings her amusement, making her morally twisted. However deep down, she is just desperately lonely, but is too proud to ever admit it.

### Fatal flaw

Althea's fatal flaw is her anxiety/paranoia. Althea tends to worry about being perfect all time or even just small things, though she is currently working on this.

## Appearance

Althea is a young and athletic looking girl of Filipino and Puerto Rican descent. Althea is described as having medium length curly light brown hair, tanned skin, and hazel eyes that glow like stars. Althea is often seen wearing a black and white striped shirt, star print overall shorts and purple sneakers

## Powers and Abilities

### Tala Kid Powers

* She has the power to tell the date, time, and her location just by looking at the stars/sky.
* She has the ability to control, summon, and make stars from thin air.
* She can memorize any star map and then write it down perfectly.
* She can night-travel. It’s like shadow-travel, but you move on the positions of the stars.
* She can manipulate light, being able to create constructs of it, bend it, reflect it, block it, shape it and brighten it.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Althea's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep her ready for, and alive, in battle
* Astronomy: She is great at astronomy given that her mother is a star goddess
* Filipino: She was taught Filipino/Tagalog by her aunt
* Spanish: She was raised in Puerto Rico and can speak Spanish fluently
* Archery: She is a skilled archer
* Fighting skills: She is a skilled fighter having done martial arts as a kid
* Superhuman strength: Like most demigods, Althea is much stronger than most mortals
* Superhuman durability: Like most demigods, Althea is much more durable than most mortals
* Superhuman agility: Like most demigods, Althea is much more agile than most mortals
* Superhuman reflexes: Althea has shown to have much stronger reflexes

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Eliza Gardner

As the children of Asteria and Tala, Elizabeth and Althea knew early on that they would be working together. Both like to spend their time watching and studying the stars.

### Family

#### Tala (Mother)

Tala isn't that close with her mother, knowing that she is watching from the stars. Tala tries to bee there for her daughter as much as she can

#### Angelo (Father)

Althea has a distant relationship with her father. Angelo didn't raise his daughter until she was around eight and even when he did begin to date her, he rarely saw her as his daughter, never being proud of her, not matter how much Althea try to impress him. In time, when Althea learned of her heritage, she slowly began to understand why her father was so distant. Even so, she hasn't talked to her father since she got to camp, and has lost most contact with him

## Etymology

Althea is a girl's name of Greek origin, meaning **“healer”** and **“wholesome.”** Althea comes from the Greek name Althaea, possibly from althos which means **“healing.”**

Del Rosario, in Spanish and Italian languages, and do Rosário in Portuguese language meaning **"of the rosary"**. Coming from the Latin preposition, "de" meaning **"of the"** and the Latin noun "rosarium", meaning **"rosegarden"** or **"garland of roses"** but in this case, takes the meaning of **"rosary"**

## Trivia

1. Althea is one of a few characters to have "two last names" (by that I mean having de or Del in their last name), some others are
	1. Anora de White
	2. Isla Dela Cruz
	3. Daniela de la Vega
2. Her middle name is Divinia, meaning **“beloved,”** **“divine,”** or **“heavenly.”**
3. Her favorite colors are pink, black, and white
4. Her favorite constellation is the Aries constellaion
5. She is a cancer
6. She is Pansexual
7. She is Filipino and Puerto Rican
8. She is 5'7