Despina Ramos

Despina Ramos is a seventeen year old Greek Demigod, the daughter of Deimos and Legacy of Athena through her mother Annabel Ramos. She came to camp at fourteen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Deimos (Father)
* Annabel (Mother, daughter of Athena)
* Erotes, Phobos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, Enyalios, Thrax, Oenomaus, and Amazons (Uncles and Aunts)
* Daniela de la Vega and Horizon Rhodes (Cousins)
* Athena (Maternal grandmother)
* Athena/Minerva Cabin (6) (Distant relatives)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Usually dark colors
* Plaid black skirt
* Black shirt that says "Daughter of Terror in white writing
* Black combat boots

## History

### Early Life

Despina Ramos was born to Annabel Ramos, a daughter of Athena and Deimos, god of dread and terror in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York on October 30, 2004. Now, let me back up a bit. Deimos and Annabel met in a club. Annabel was drunk as hades and was basically shoving her tongue down everyone's throat. Since Deimos had caught her eyes, she had stumbled towards him and well... began kissing him. Deimos was pleased as the young sexy, yet drunk young woman kissed him. One thing led to another and soon enough, Despina was formed. The next morning, the naked woman with a headache, looked next to her and saw the spot empty. Instead of Deimos being there, she saw a Pandora bracelet and a note. She grabbed the note which explained who he really was, about Greek Mythology being real, who they're child really was, and about camp. Now, Annabel, even though she was a demigod herself, denied the possibility of it being real. I mean, she didn't even know the name of the guy she had had sex with the previous night! It was merely a drunken mistake, so she took the bracelet for herself. Nine months of pain, cravings and family moments, baby Despina was born. At least Annabel had the help of her close family and friends unlike other parents of demigods.

### Childhood

Due to Despina being born to a clothes designer and model, she was spoiled. Despina always cried and cried unless she got what she wanted. Growing up, Despina was a very snotty. Everything had to be her way and she was never wrong, much like her mom's family. Despina loved causing chaos with her family. As a toddler, she threw many tantrums, but hey, that's part of her family's personality. She was always around other rich children, as her mom never allowed her to be around poor kids, thus building up her snotty attitude. Despina was very picky with her friends once she started school. She avoided geeks and hung out with more popular people, making her social status level up. Once she turned nine, she began rebelling more and more. By the time she was 10, she was uncontrollable and was always around bad influence, as well as throwing parties. A few weeks after her 10th birthday, she got attacked.

### First Monster Attack

She was walking back to her penthouse, when she got attacked by a wild harpy. She was screaming at the top of her lungs and once the harpy lunged at her, two arrows flew into the harpy, turning it into gold dust. Panicking, she looked at the guy who saved her. A son of Apollo, to be exact. She threated to call the police until Jack, the boy, calmed her down. He explained to her how she was probably a demigod, about camp, and how the Greek Gods were real. He then demanded to speak to her mom. Once they arrived to her apartment, he spoke privately to Annabel. She then began considering the thought that perhaps her daughter was really a demigod, like her. Either way, she lied. Seeing her hesitance, the boy argued that se was a demigod. They fought for a few minutes, until she finally admitted everything, including the godly parent, to him.

He then offered to train Despina with the help of another child of Deimos. Annabel agreed grudgingly, as he looked a little poor. They both then explained everything to Despina, who was still panicking at the earlier events. Despina was quite shocked, but then accepted it, thinking she would gain more popularity once her friends found out. Jack made her swear on the Styx not to tell anyone and even explained why. Grudgingly, she swore. After that, training began. After Annabel gave her the bracelet and explained how to activate them, that is. After the first attack, she never heard of Jack again. A boy did appear out of nowhere, claiming he was her new trainer, as Jack had asked him to train her. A year after the first attack, was good with a bow and very well with a sword. She still sucked at using a dagger, though.

### Second Monster Attack

She was attacked by a hell hound. She summoned her bow and notched an arrow, climbing a nearby tree, as well as releasing the arrow. Before she climbed the tree, though, the hell hound managed to scratch her stomach, leaving a not so deep gash. It hit the hound in it's left shoulder blade. She notched and released two more, one hitting its chest, the other its head, thus turning it into dust. Using the nectar that her trainer had stolen from camp, she healed herself (with the help of her trainer, of course. After another year of even more intense training, the thirteen year old was attacked by a flock of stymphalian birds. She simply took a turn towards a nearby subway station, distracting the birds and giving her time to escape.

### Coming to Camp

After a year of more training with powers and weapons, the fourteen year old was attacked by yet a fire-breathing horse in the middle of the woods. She used her shield to block the fire which came from its mouth and her sword to attack. She swung her sword across its legs, cutting two of them in half. She swung it again, cutting its head off and turning it into dust. Six months later, she was attacked by another wild harpy. She used her dagger to injure the wings by simply aiming and throwing at its wings. She swung her sword across the harpy, but failed killing it. The harpy made a scratch across her left cheek. She swung again and cut the harpy in half, killing it. back at her house, she disinfected the minor injury. Another six months later, she was attacked by a hell hound. The thing is, she was ambushed by two dracaenae in font of camp borders, as well. (Her mom had taken her.) Despina had drove with her mother from Washington Heights, to Los Angeles, California, just to get to camp. They had faced no monsters or delays, thank the Gods. Anyways, Luckily, her mom had already left. She simply laughed and crossed the borders, looking for the camp director. She then explained everything and was claimed by her father. She was then placed into the Cabin Mythos.

## Personality

Despina, much like her grandmother, is a girl of intelligence. Much like her distant relatives from the Athena Cabin, she is an intellectual genius, wise, and very witty. At times, she can come off as aggressive, much like her own father. Despina is noted to be very strong-minded and stubborn, showing to be incredibly determined and daring. Much like girls such as Piper or Melody, she has shown many signs of bravery, courage, and dauntlessness. Despina is noted to be the kind of girl to stare terror and fear in the eyes and not look impressed since she is immune to fear and terror. She is great friends with Piper, Melody, Michelle, and Julia and the five often hang out together. She also gets along with The Athena and The Ares kids and the kids of the underworld cabins. Despite having been raised as a snotty girl, Despina is by far snotty. She's actually quite humble when it comes to that. Of course, Despina also has her sarcastic, stubborn, and rebellious side, but she's actually quite humble and selfless. She isn't afraid of giving her life for an innocent, as long as that person has proved him/herself. Like I'd previously said, Despina has a bitchy side. She's not exactly bitchy, but she isn't someone to be messed with, either. She's well known for her rebellious attitude, always creating fights and disrupting the peace. Although she enjoys disrupting the peace, she knows not to pick fights with those more experienced than her. Sure she's got great skills with her bow, sword, and dagger, but she's just not that stupid. Whenever Despina is tired, she's quite grumpy and easy to annoy. Then again, she's always easy to annoy. It slowly starts to bottle up inside her until she can't handle it no more. *Boom.* You get hurt. How, exactly? She uses her powers on you. Besides that, she's quite laid-back. Despina has a soft spot for young kids (13 and below) and if the need presents itself, she helps them. But if someone teases her for it, well, she uses her powers. Despina does enjoy partying like any teenager, but not to a Dionysus kid level. She knows her limits. Despina dislikes having to follow rules and being closed up, so she breaks them without a care if she thinks they're unjust. Overall, Despina is truly an interesting person

### Fatal flaw

Despina's fatal flaw is wrath. She often lets her anger get the best of her and this causes her to lash out at people a lot, but she is currently going to an anger management class thing

## Appearance

Despina is said to be a beautiful girl of Afro-Mexican descent. She is described as having dark brown skin, curly ginger hair with brown eyes. Around camp and as casual wear, she is normally seen wearing a plaid black skirt, a black shirt that says "Daughter of Terror'' in white writing, and black boots. She is also often seen a red Pandora bracelet that turns into a bow

## Powers and Abilities

### Deimos Kid Powers

* She is able to manipulate the feeling of terror.
* She can sense fear around her.
* She can learn a person's fears and insecurities for psychological warfare by looking at that person, whether incorporeal or corporeal. For example, if a person has an abstract fear, e.g. acrophobia or athazagoraphobia (the former being a fear of heights and fear of being forgotten, ignored, or forsaken for the latter), then she can emit a fog that makes her victim hallucinate that they are suddenly extremely high in the air with the sensation one would get of falling from the sky, when in reality they are still on the ground, or make their think that the people who love them are suddenly forgetting their existence even if that is not actually occurring. The more terrified and frightened the victim is, the more powerful, realistic and vivid the hallucination is. However, she should only focus on one target, otherwise she could become an amalgamate of various fears in an attempt to scare both targets.
* For fears that are corporeal, Despina can shape shift into that object or creature of a person's fear. The more terrified the victim, the more realistic the transformation is (e.g., if someone is terrified of snakes, then she, as a snake will, start to gain actual attributes of a snake due to being more powerful from fear, such as venom, fangs, etc.) and like with incorporeal fears, she should only focus on one target for maximum effectiveness.
* She can absorb feelings of terror and fright from a person's being to either heal or defend, the effect being greater depending on how frightened the victim(s) are. But, those new to this ability can inadvertently calm that person/that group of people down from terror, meaning she has to frighten those people all over again to absorb more fear, or she can spread the collected feeling of terror to multiple targets to distract them.

### Legacy of Athena Powers

* She can conjure weapons. She can summon weapons like children of Ares. She can curse weapons and disarm other's weapons
* She has minor control over owls and serpents just like her grand-mother
* She has enhanced intelligence.
* She can summon weapons and can weave weapons since her grand-mother is the Goddess of weaving.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: As a demigod, Despina possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that she uses to analyze the fighting style of her opponent.
* Dyslexia: Her brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Greek instead of mortal languages
* Intelligence: As a legacy of Athena, Despina has enhanced intelligence
* Spanish: Despina can speak Spanish fluently being taught by her family members
* Swordsmanship: Despina is good with a sword
* Archery: Despina is good with a bow
* Superhuman durability: As a demigod, Despina is more durable than a regular human being
* Superhuman strength: As a demigod, Despina is much stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman Reflexes: As a demigod, Despina reflexes are greater than the average mortal
* Superhuman Agility: As a demigod, Despina is more agile than the average mortal
* Fighting skills: Despina is a skilled fighter
* Intimidation: Despina is the daughter of the god of fear and is known to be very intimidating

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Daniela de La Vega

Daniela and Despina are close as cousins and as friends. Daniela and Despina like causing the younger students to get scared, but usually it's all in good fun and they help the camper calm down. Both also hang out with their cousin Horizon sometimes too

### Family

#### Annabel (Mother)

Despina is pretty close to her mother and often writes to her while at camp.

#### Deimos (Father)

She's never met her fahter, but holds a bit of resentment towards him for not supporting her and her mom. Despina does respect him for being her father and a God, though

## Etymology

The name Despina is girl's name of Greek origin meaning **"lady"**. Despina is best known as the clever and wily maidservant character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte. It is a name of Greek origin, derived from Despoina, who in Greek mythology was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon.

Ramos is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin that means **"bouquets" or "branches"**.

## Trivia

1. Despina is named after two Greek figures the two being the daughter of Poseidon and Demeter, Desponia and the minor goddess of magic, Circe
2. Despina loves horror movies
3. Despina is a day older than George
4. Despina only lets Daniela call her Dessy, The Members of The Family call her Nina
5. Despina like reading fantasy novels
6. She is a legacy of Athena
7. She is a Scorpio
8. She's Asexual