Rhiannon Cariad

Rhiannon Cariad is a seventeen year old Celtic Demigod daughter of Branwen and Phillip Cariad. She came to camp at thirteen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Kilkenny, Ireland (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Branwen (Mother)
* Phillip (Father)
* Gwern (Half-brother)
* Bran the Blessed and Manawydan (Uncles)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Light colors/pink
* Light pink Celtic dress that goes down to her shins
* Black flats

OR

* Pink knee length causal dress
* Jean jacket
* Pink and black sneakers

## History

### Early Life

Rhiannon Cariad was born to Branwen, the Celtic goddess of love and beauty, and Phillip Cariad on February 18, 2004 in Kilkenny, Ireland. Phillip Cariad was sitting in a bar nursing a drink when the most beautiful woman he had ever seen walks into the bar. She sat next to him and after a moment of silence she asked why he looked sad. He didn't know why but for some reason he told her everything how his wife of 20 years had just died from cancer and how he now had to raise 5 growing boys by him. It wasn't as if he was poor he just didn't think he could look after 5 kids. the woman comforted him and they talked and talked and talked and one thing lead to another and Rhiannon was born.

### Childhood

Rhiannon had an average childhood she was taught how to stand up for herself young by her brothers so she wouldn't get hurt she was taught how to read and write at school and she had an average childhood until she was about 9 when the teachers at her school began to realize she couldn't actually read very well. At first they thought she was just lazy but it gradually came to their attention she was also always hyperactive and couldn't spell very well either. She was sent to get tests and the family found out she was ADHD and dyslexic. Her father didn't complain once and just took it under his wing and kept going with their lives.

### First And Last Monster Attack

She was always a tom boy she didn't have time for all the talk about clothes and make up or relationships. when she was 13 the monster attacks started she was sitting in the park waiting for her oldest brother to pick her up from football when a giant ferocious dog jumped out of nowhere. "hell hound" her best friend Alex cursed I should have known" the boy pulled out a sword from nowhere and charged the hell hound. Alex fought the hell hound until it just disappeared leaving only golden dust...

### Coming to Camp

"Rhiannon, quick we have to go" he said urgently "Go?" she had asked confused "Go where"

"The only place you can be safe" he says. just at that moment her brother pulled up. "Jake" Alex had said to him "Rhiannon's been accepted to a football summer camp. She needs to leave in a few hours" Surprisingly he bought it and 3 hours later Alex, Rhiannon and Jake were driving to wherever this place was. during the journey Alex told Rhiannon that the mythological gods and goddesses were real and he was a satyr. He proved this by pulling off his fake legs revealing goats hooves. He also explained how she was a daughter of a god or goddess. Upon arriving at camp she was quickly claimed by Branwen the goddess of love. she was confused. It was the complete opposite of her, but she's learned to roll with it.

## Personality

Rhiannon is, as you would expect, a helpless romantic. She loves the idea of a good old romance and often gets lost in fairy tales involving handsome princes charming and damsels-in-distress. She can't help but long for this life, of true love and unrealistic love stories. She partially blames her father for telling her too many fairy tales when she was little. Ingenuous and innocent on the outside, Rhiannon’s soft and naive personality hides someone who has been through a lot and is anything but naive. Rhiannon is more than willing to play a game of cat and mouse and lets people underestimate her, but never allows anyone to mess with her. Rhiannon is very sweet and kind, and her politeness is one of her biggest traits. She always treats people with respect and consideration and encourages everyone to do the same. Very compassionate, Rhiannon has an empathetic heart and always hopes to see through everyone's hearts to understand their pain and do her best to help them out. She loves to be helpful to people and does everything in her power to be that friend everyone can count on. Very strong, to a point she can easily put her pain and tears behind her if that means helping others. She doesn't cry easily and finds that to be useful in her willingness to help everyone. It's hard for Rhiannon to be vulnerable to others and truly seems to be one of the most "resistant" people around. Rhiannon is the kind of person who sees beyond someone's outside. She truly doesn't love people for how they look, but for who they are. Her perceptiveness is a bonus for that trait of hers. She can identify someone's intentions within seconds, and though she does not judge people for who they are, she certainly analyzes them. Additionally, she is very sociable and likes to be among people. She feels truly comfortable around crowds and finds her place to be in the middle of everyone. Deep inside, she also has a thing for the spotlight, and though she would never steal it from anyone, Rhiannon does enjoy being the center of attention. When no one's being, you know. Rhiannon is extremely charming and affable, and sweet in a way that endears herself to others. She is kind and considerate, and has a gentleness that gives her a healing presence. That said, this kindness belies her internal strength and determination. While usually an amenable girl, Rhiannon is determined when it comes to her core beliefs and is stubborn with the sort of persistance that wears a boulder down to a river stone. After interacting with Rhiannon for an extended period of time, one would come to the realization that yes, this *is* the kind of girl who would someday travel across Italy under immense stress for her loved one, even if she has to undergo all sorts of trials and scale over insurmountable tasks. Rhiannon is able to overcome such trials because she doesn't go through them alone. On her own, Rhiannon is a capable girl able to face her challenges, but her greatest strength is her love and faith in people around her. This ability allows her to draw strength from her community and find motivation to continue striving forward. Furthermore, Rhiannon is a girl who is willing to ask for, and accept help from people around her. She knows that the journey she faces is fraught and that people are greater when they help each other. Growing up in a village in the Italian countryside meant that Rhiannon values the importance of her small community. At home, Rhiannon easily helps others and just as readily accepts the help returned. Despite her romantic aesthetic, she is a bit a tomboy, who doesn't mind having fun and adventuring. Overall, Rhiannon is an interesting person.

### Fatal flaw(s)

Rhiannon has two fatal flaws. Rhiannon thinks that everyone a good heart. Her friends help her realize that this a dangerous fatal flaw to have and to try and prevent it from being the death of her. She is also very loyal to her friends, and would give her life for them.

## Appearance

Rhiannon truly makes justice to her title of demigoddess of beauty. She is tall, definitely taller than most girls of her age, with fair, milky skin. Her soft face is framed by her light ginger long, slightly wavy hair, and she sports light pink eyes, which are said to be very intense. Many say that Rhiannon truly looks like a flower, and has the delicacy of such. Her outfits are mainly composed of Celtic-Esque gowns with a touch of Medieval Welsh fashion, to follow her heritage, and her colors are mainly shades of pink. Her motifs include mainly roses, rosemaries, and arabesque patterns. The main one she wears is a light pink Celtic dress with many roses, rosemaries, and arabesque patterns that go down to her shins, and black flats. She also wears a casual light pink dress that goes down to knees, a jean jacket, and black and pink sneakers

## Powers and Abilities

### Branwen Kid Powers

* Since her mother is the goddess of beauty, Rhiannon can alter and control makeup, perfume, clothing, jewelry, and other beauty products (hairbrushes, combs, curlers, straighteners, etc).
* She has the power of amokinesis or love manipulation.
* Like many of her fellow children of love gods, Rhiannon has the power of charmspeak, or the ability to make people do what she wants just by using her voice.
* She can change their physical features.
* She can fluently speak French, as it is the "language of love."
* She can tell what a person's sexuality is.
* She can Love Magic.
* She can cause people of any gender to lose all desire to attack her for a short time. Out of artificial love, the love isn’t necessarily romantic and could be like sibling love. If she attacks while this is in effect, it will automatically wear off.
* She can resist charm speak, charm touch, etc. to an extent.
* She can control the clothing of others, and create and transform it at will (not armor). She could turn a girl’s prom dress into a red bikini, create a scarf around someone’s neck and command it to strangle someone, etc. Commands and transformations only last for a short time and the target’s clothes revert to normal.
* She can change her appearance (i.e. hair color, skin color, eye color, height, gender,).
* She has the ability to turn into a white raven, as her mother's name means white raven
* She can talk to ravens

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Rhiannon's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep her ready for, and alive, in battle.
* Dyslexia: Her brain is "hard-wired" for Ancient Celtic Runes instead of mortal languages.
* Writing skills: Rhiannon aspires to be an author and is very gifted at writing
* Beauty and allure: As the daughter of a beauty goddess, Rhiannon is said to be very beautiful and she often uses this fact to get people do what she wants
* Intelligence: Rhiannon is not just a pretty face and is pretty intelligent
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Rhiannon is much stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman durability: As a demigod, Rhiannon is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman agility: As a demigod, Rhiannon is more agile than the average mortal
* Superhuman reflexes: As a demigod, Rhiannon's reflexes are greater than the average mortal
* Swordsmanship: Rhiannon is skilled with a sword, but it's not her main weapon
* Archery: Rhiannon is very skilled at archery, and uses a bow very often
* Healing skills: Rhiannon enjoys the traditional kind of witchcraft, such as using herbs and plants, and quite often studies that to be helpful to others. She's not Apollo's kid, but does pretty great when it comes to using herbs to help healing people. She tends to help in the infirmary with Melody
* Witchcraft/Magic Usage: Though not a daughter of Hecate herself, Rhiannon can't help but love anything to sorcery and magic. Everyone says that she is a true magical lady, and Rhiannon appreciates that. She knows a lot of spells, hexes, curses and charms, and often practices them.
* Dancing Skills/Irish Dancing: Rhiannon is an avid Irish dancer, and is passionate about it. It truly reconnects her to her origins, and if she were a normal kid, she would definitely follow the path of dance. Rhiannon dances with all her soul and wishes she could indeed become a professional dancer, and dance for a big company or something like that. She trains daily, and enjoys Irish dancing more than anything else.

### Spells

Rhiannon is able to cast these spells

* Carmine Librum Arcesso-Makes Rhiannon's spell book appear
* Incendius-Fire Spell.
* Incendius Lucidus-Even hotter and can't be extinguished with water.
* Frigidus-Ice Spell.
* Fulgar-Lightning Spell.
* Caelestia Fulgura-Stronger version of Fulgar.
* Expiravit Coniurans-Summons ghost that can send messages to people.
* Vocare (actual word for summon in Latin)-Summons whatever object the caster thinks of.
* Crepitus-Explosion Spell.
* Gravitus Flexibus-Reverses gravity in a certain area for a short amount of time.
* Terra Quatiens-Starts an earthquake.
* Mitescere Terram-Ends an earthquake.
* Somnia-Puts the target to sleep.
* Obvolvere-Muffles the targets words.
* Participes Spiritus-Bonds to lives together (whatever bodily injury happens to one affects the other).
* Illusio Hostibus-Creates illusionary people that can distract enemies.
* Arescet-Makes the target wither away very slowly.
* Tenebris-Covers the area in a large shadow.
* Hauriendum Est Lux-Absorbs light making the casters magic stronger.
* Capto Arma Umbra-Creates shadow arms that can grab things.
* Eneras Sacrificium-This spell requires a group of people to cast. It channels the groups life force into a dead person, reviving them. Majority of the time this spell results in the group dying. It has never actually been used.
* Praesidium Vellum-Creates a protective ethereal protective veil of energy that looks like a mini aurora borealis.
* Deflectere-Deflects projectiles.
* Spiritus Serpentis-Summons a ethereal snake spirit that can attack enemies.
* Riming maledictio-The Rhyming curse, a power similar to the Apollo's curse

#### Spells two electric boogaloo

Rhiannon is able to cast these love spells

* Ama me: Causes the victim of the spell to love the caster
* Amor primo aspectu: Works similar to a love potion, in which the victim of the spell falls in love with the first person they see
* De amore: Causes two people to fall out of love
* In amore: Causes two people to fall *in* love
* Rosas arcesse: While not a love spell, this spell summons a cluster of roses/rose petals
* Cerum cordis desiderio: Shows someone's deepest desire
* Snima amantes: Detects if someone is with there soulmate (Pink/red for yes, black smoke for no)

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Noah Gruber

Rhiannon and Noah are good friends, given their both children of love goddesses and Celtic demigods. They both practice their magic together and also talk about fashion and what not. They also hang out together a lot

### Family

#### Branwen (Father)

Branwen is Rhiannon's lovely mother, who does everything for her kids ever since they were born. Rhiannon loves her mother more than anything in this life, and does everything to let her mother proud and happy. Branwen wants nothing but to see her elder daughter happy and satisfied with her life, even if it means she can't be there to watch her

#### Phillip (Mother)

Rhiannon is quite close to her father, along with her step-brothers. Phillip loved and cared for his daughter through out her whole life and they often write to each other

## Etymology

The name Rhiannon means **"great queen"** or **"divine feminine"** in Welsh. In Welsh mythology, Rhiannon was the goddess of fertility and the moon. In Welsh mythology, Rhiannon was the goddess of fertility and the moon.

The last name Cariad is of Welsh origin that means **"Love, Darling."**

## Trivia

1. Her middle name is Primrose, which is the first name of Primrose White.
2. Rhiannon was named after the goddess of fertility and the moon from Welsh Mythology
3. She is currently the only known demigod to be able to cast love spells, though the Aphrodite Kids might able to do so as well
4. She is the youngest of Six
5. She smells like roses and, sometimes, like cinnamon
6. Rhiannon knows absolutely every line to *Romeo and Juliet* and could probably serve as all roles if necessary.
7. She's quite bad at math.
8. She loves wearing clothes related to her Celtic heritage