Aurora Spades

Aurora Spades is a seven-teen-year old Greek Demigod, the daughter of Persephone and Maxwell Spades. She came to camp at 11 years old

## Basic Stuff

### Alias

Arie, Rory, Aura, Persephone, Spring Girl (spring and summer), Snow Queen (winter and fall), Our Lady of The Underground

### Affiliation

* Camp Olympia
* The Olympians
* The Underworld

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Madison, Wisconsin (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Persphone (Mother)
* Maxwell (Father)
* Melinoë, Zagreus, Makaria (Half-siblings)
* Hades (step dad)
* Hades Cabin (Step-siblings)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* A mix of Spring and The Underworld aesthetic
* a floral shirt
* a jean jacket
* a black skirt with skulls on it
* Black boots

## History

### Early Life

Aurora Spades was born to Maxwell Spades, a clear sighted mortal and Persephone The Queen of The Underworld and goddess of Springtime and vegetation in Madison, Wisconsin on February 12, 2004. Maxwell Spades was a mortal that could see through the mist who was well aware of the world of demigods thanks to his family. He swore never to get into the demigod business until he attended a party with his friends. He was with his friends playing truth and dare oblivious of those around them. The game went on as usual when suddenly one of them dared him to kiss the first girl he saw. Maxwell bravely accepted the dare and went out and kissed the first girl he saw. Afterwards he explained the situation and offered the girl take her out to show how sorry he was. While they were out the girl introduced herself as Anna and they realized how much in common they had thus talked to each other for hours. Both enjoyed each other’s company as they began to see each other for months before deciding to take it to the next level.

Sadly for Maxwell was the last time he saw Anna who left him afterwards. David was devastated, so to cheer him up his friend brought him to Jordan's Ten Big Pub out of town where they had more than a few drinks. While they were drinking someone suddenly started a bar fight thus both Max and his friend exited the bar. Both extremely drunk noticed a police car and one of the police car's doors was open so they went up to the police car, hot wire the car and drove off with Tora still inside. It didn't take long for them to notice the extra passenger, and once that happened he began to sober up pretty fast. Since it dawned on him that he had now just kidnapped a kid. David then asked Tora where her parents were. Tora refused to tell him, since she wasn't allowed to talk to strangers. Max did get annoyed, but he got an idea and then introduced himself by telling her a fake name. Tora didn't buy it, and after several attempts Max cracked and told Tora his real name, which at this point she told him her name. At this point when Max asked where her parents were, she told him everything about being an orphan and how the orphanage was planning on transferring her to another one.

He felt bad for the girl, and Max knew that they had to get rid of the vehicle, and leave the town with the girl as he hoped she could fill the void of Anna leaving him. Max was wrong as after 9 months Anna did come back but with a baby. Anna explained that she was actually Persephone and couldn’t stay. She also told Max everything and asked him to take care of the baby whom he named Aurora. Max did his best taking care of both until he met up with his family. He and his family decided to split them up for safety. They decided they would each take their own children and move away from each other. They made this decision to keep them safe. The parents did not want to lose their kids, so they decided not to send them to Camp. The family gave their hugs and said their goodbyes and went their separate ways, trying to get as far away from each other as possible.

### Childhood

Max brought both Tora and Aurora to Toronto, Canada where he started a business there in hope for a brand new start. For the next year after separating from his family he tried his best to forget everything by pushing the thought in the back of his mind and concentrating on both Tora and Aurora. Both Aurora and Tora grew up happily together, though she was supposed to be "The Perfect Daughter" as forced by Max. Max was worried about this as he thought that this might endanger Tora as he was unaware she herself was also a demigod thus decided to give her up for adoption. Max convinced himself it was for the better and started to train young Aurora in controlling her powers by selling his business and buying a farm a bit far from the city. Max took a few workers which unknown to him were demigods. Aurora adapted well to it and loved being surrounded by everyone that loved her until someone moved into a house nearby Max’s farm. Max tried to be nice and took Aurora to visit the new neighbor but they were shunned. Max took the rejection and moved on but Aurora, who never heard of the word no all her life continued to go. Each time she went the new neighbor continued to shoo her off ignoring everyone’s words who told her to stop. Soon enough after much try the stubborn neighbor finally gave up and open her doors for young Aurora.

### Meeting the Neighbors

She was a prickly old woman who was suffering from heart failure who didn’t want anyone to bother her as she slowly rotted away as she wanted a peaceful death. Sadly her plan didn’t go well when Aurora entered her life where she actually made it brighter. Aurora brought so much to her life that she even gave her the nickname Dawn as when her eyes were failing her she was the one to give her some hope. But as she got older Dawn began to forget things before were simple things and soon big things which scare those around her even to herself. Soon her condition got the name dementia which made her very sad that it gave her other medical problems which are her panic attacks and anxiety attacks. This made her feel scared that soon the old happy go lucky Dawn was lost like her memories. The old frail women from before refused to let this be thus helped her and soon everyone pinched in. Dawn may not have been the old her but with their help (and Ziva) she was able to accept her conditions. But it didn't help those around her which makes her hide it all from the public.

### Family Reunion and Camp

In the reunion the Spades family was telling each other stories about their lives, jokes, and playing around. It did not stay happy for long, when a crazy lady walked slowly from trees and started to attack Matieus. Tora ran up to them and pushed the woman off who then attacked Tora. The lady killed Tora and then it seemed like she came to her senses and she ran away. The family was shaken up and did not know what to do about Tora and Matieus. To make matters worse a group of Scythian Dracanae came out of the trees and started to attack. The adults started to fight them off with weapons that had morphed from watches, rings, and pens, but the kids had no idea what to do. The adults were holding them off but not doing much. A shadow then passed overhead. Above them were Pegasi! When they landed teenagers jumped off and started to fight. After about 10 minutes there were many piles of golden dust. The teenagers told the kids they needed to get to Camp Half-Blood. So they took them to camp where they were now residing. They found out that the woman who attacked them was Maya Jenson, a past camper. Aurora was claimed as the daughter of Persephone and became friends with her two of her step siblings, Evan and Helen along with befriending Aubrey since both are daughters of The Queens of The Underworld and Olympus. While at Camp, she was finally able to express her self.

## Personality

Aurora’s personality changes with the seasons. In the spring and summer, she is cheerful, fun, kind, confident, and very social while in the fall and winter she is more solemn and melancholy, it’s more anti-social, and self-conscious but she also likes to hang out with the "Familia Demigod". Her best friends are Alexa and Aubrey as they are all the daughters of The Queens of the three domains of the world and she also cares about Evan and his mental health. She normally doesn't expose herself to people. She is not shy, she just keeps her things to herself. If people come to her, she won't reject them, and she will try to make friends with them. But she won't approach people. She is very bold and will do whatever it takes to keep her family and friends (the few she has). However, if someone makes her mad, she will respond....and quite aggressively, she may be ruthless. She is never quiet, although, again she will most probably not talk about herself. Aurora is a very easy-going person. She is what you might call a "flower child". Aurora is very peaceful and calm, even under high stress situations. She can mostly be seen outside near flowers or trees. She loves nature, a lot. Your first impression of her is a happy go lucky kid whom loves to take pictures and write about everything around her. If she takes a picture of you she will tell you to say weird words and might even tell you to do crazy poses for her. Sometimes she'll go to the extend of telling you to change cloths. She has 2 camera's which all has been altered by her fathers worker whom is a child of Hephaestus, 1 is her digital which she use to alter pictures the second is her instamatic camera that she use to put photo's on her album. She tends to put her all in everything she does and hopes people will see that. She someone that's not scared to ask question and tends to write them in her book or maybe behind her pictures but her curiosity will worry loads of people as she suffers from dementia (that only her dad and few other knows) and wont admit people as she doesn't want people to worry.she's a bit scared to go out knows her condition is/will cause trouble so tends to stay put until someone brings her out or has someone accompany her. Aurora also hates when people yell, and has a very low, sweet sounding voice. In cases of fights or disputes, Aurora will let the other person have their way just to avoid physical violence. Aurora is a very nice person all around. She hardly shows anger or yells at someone.

### Fatal flaw

Aurora's fatal flaw is her Curiosity. She loves to explore and know everything. It's easy for her to ask who? What? When? Where? Why? How? She has a passion for learning and figuring things out. This can be good sometimes, but she needs to learn that some things are secret for a reason.

## Appearance

Aurora is often described as having a youthful appearance with wavy, golden blonde hair with flowers in it, sky blue eyes, and light skin. She is often seen wearing a flower shirt, jean jacket, and black boots. Most of Aurora's outfits are either floral styled or something with dark colors. Her main outfit is a mix of both, that being a flower shirt, jean jacket, and black boots. She also has these pomegranate styled earrings.

## Powers and Abilities

### Persephone Kid Powers

The powers and traits can be divided into three groups. They are as follows.

#### Year-round Powers

* She has the power of chlorokinesis, or the ability to control and manipulate plants.
* She is able to sense if a plant is edible or not, similarly she can look at a plant and tell you everything about it.
* She is able to tell when people are dying.
* She can use Stygian Iron.
* She has minor Vitakinesis

#### Spring/Summer

* She has the power of Zoolingualism, or the power to communicate with animals.
* She can create travel roses, which are roses that can teleport you to wherever you want.
* She can manipulate plants.
* She is immune to things like poisonous plants and wildlife.
* She is stronger in direct sunlight or places full of plants like fields and forests.
* She can turn any earth into fertile earth, similarly, she can turn fake plants into real plants.
* She is able to heal plants.
* She can use sunlight as a natural energy source, much like plants.
* She can make spring plants grow when she walks close to them.

#### Winter/Fall

* She has minor control over hell hounds and harpies.
* She has very minor Necromancy and Unbrakinesis (Control of the dead and control of shadows)
* She can create barren wastelands.
* She can shadow-travel short distances, but it makes her extremely tired.
* Since there are less plants around, she has Geokinesis (the ability to control earthen substances).
* She can pinpoint death but she has to be near the grave of the person she wants to pinpoint.

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, she possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of her opponent.
* Dyslexia: Her brain is hardwired for Greek
* Plant Knowledge: As the daughter of Persephone, she knows the name of every plant there is
* Will power: Aurora has a lot of will powers
* Swordsmanship: Aurora is good at using a sword
* Dagger usage: Aurora is good using a dagger, which is her main weapon
* Superhuman strength: Being a daughter of Persephone, Aurora is far stronger than the average mortal and most demigods
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Aurora is a lot more agile than a regular mortal
* Superhuman durability: Aurora is shown to be far more durable than a mortal and most demigods
* Superhuman reflexes: Aurora has incredible reflexes, which is proven throughout her life

## Strengths

### Year-round

* She was given a blessing at birth that allows her to use her seasonal powers during all months.
* She was born with the ability to heal any plant related injuries such as poisonings, cuts, burns, etc.
* She can communicate with animals and plants if they focus enough.
* She has the power of Fertility Manipulation, (being able to manipulate fertility, the natural capability for living beings to reproduce (in terms of animals) or grow (in terms of plants) like her mother.
* She never gets cold in winter because of her connection with her mother.

## Weakness

### Year Round

* She is unable to resist the influence of her mother, similarly she can be controlled by her mother, like children of Loki.
* She can be really dangerous and severe when she wants to fight, so she can get in trouble easily.

## Relationships

### Friends

#### The Jr. Olympians

The Jr. Olympians, or The JO, are some of Aurora's closest friends. Originally, it was made up consisting of the ten sons and four daughters of The Fourteen Olympians, but it later included some of the minor Olympians as well, (ex, Eris, Enyo, Hecate, Thanatos etc). They're a close tight group of friends and they are respected a lot by the camp

### Family

#### Persephone (Mother)

In addition to being Queen of the Dead (or the Goddess of Necromancy and Eternal Life, depending on which cult one belongs to), Persephone is also a great mom, though she can be a little bit embarrassing at times. Persephone also has a tendency to react very strongly when she believes her children are being bullied. People may or may not have been turned into plants. Though Aurora didn't know who her mother was when she was younger, when she finally met her mother, Persephone lovingly embraced her and told Aurora how sorry she was for leaving, so their relationship is pretty good

#### Maxwell (Father)

Maxwell is something of an indulgent parent. Having accrued vast amounts of wealth from his family, but also having nowhere to actually spend it, he tends to spoil his daughter. He helped Aurora with her dementia and loves her very much. Aurora often writes to him from Camp

## Etymology

Aurora is a mystical and romantic name that means **"dawn" in Latin**. An aurora also refers to a natural light display in the Earth's sky called the aurora polaris, or polar lights, visible only in high-latitude regions like the North and South Poles

The Spades surname is **derived from the Middle High German word "späth," meaning "late;"** thus it is supposed that it may have evolved from a nickname for a tardy person.

## Trivia

1. Aurora, as stated many times, has dementia
2. Aurora was forced to be "perfect" nearly all her life, and she was only aloud to be herself until Evan showed her what she can do
	* She is based of Isabela from Encanto
3. According to her, Persephone once attempted to be "cool and edgy" by wearing clothing from Hot Topic, a stunt Aurora refuses to talk about.
4. Aurora has a fear of death and her fatal flaw is curiosity
5. Aurora is the only demigod of Persephone
6. Her power set also changes with the seasons
	* In the fall and winter, her powers become more like those of the Hades cabin, just dimmed downed a bit
	* In the spring and summer, her powers become more powerful and they are like those of the Demeter cabin
7. Aurora’s personality changes with the seasons
	* In the summer, she is cheerful, happy and full of life, much like many of her friends
	* During the winter, she is more “emo-ish” and tends to be more solum and calm. She also tends to be more harsher and closed off
8. She considered the Family to be like stars, referring them as a “perfect constellation”
	* Zoe and Zack also refer to their family like this