Echo Flores

Echo Flores is a seventeen year old Etruscan Demigod daughter of Zerene and Aciano Flores. She came to camp at fourteen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Alias

Ech, Cho, Coco, Etch, Zerenee, Garden Girl

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Zerene (Mother)
* Aciano Flores (Father)
* Persipnei, Arion, Ploutos, Eubouleus, Lityerses, Despoina (Immortal half-siblings)
* Carlos Rodriguez, Talia Prevost, and Caroline Rodriguez (Demigod half-siblings)
* Tinia, Uni, Aita, Nethuns (Uncles and Aunts)
* Harper Samuel, Helen Gonzales, Ophelia Pena, Naomi Portal, Zamaya Reynoso, Emily Garcia, Aubrey Pena, Julian Jove, Hera Fernández, Evan Gonzales, Adelaide Basset, Caspian Portal, Moana de Mare, Isaac Reynoso, Tempest Leos (Cousins)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* White Shirt
* Pink Overalls
* Brown boots

## History

### Early Life

Echo Flores was born to Zerene, goddess of agriculture, the earth, fertile soil, harvest and the sacred law, climate, weather and the seasons, nourishment, bread, fruit, plants and nature and Aciano Flores, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on April 19, 2004. Aciano Flores, was an agricultural scientist whose specialization is crop genetic engineering. He owned a large farm in Tegucigalpa, Honduras a land he inherited from his parents, a woman from Bolivia and a man born in Honduras, where he planted his genetically-altered and improved crops. One day, when the day of the harvest came, Aciano saw a beautiful lady with gentle brown eyes wandering in the fields. Drawn by the lady’s charm, he followed her and asked for her name. She said that her name was Zoe and she lived in a place near the hot springs (Aguas Termales De Azacualpa). Aciano was so mesmerized by Zoe's charm and he was more drawn to her when the latter proved that she is really good with crops- their types, needs and conditions. She also expressed that she admires Aciano's advocacy of improving crop health and quality for his countrymen. Zoe and Aciano met for several weeks and they spent their times together wandering the fields and hiking up Laguna’s numerous mountains. One afternoon, the rain fell unexpectedly while the two were on the fields. The two rushed to a grain storage to be sheltered from the storm and they did “it” in the *bodega*.

After that encounter, Aciano never saw Demi again so he thought that maybe she regretted what they did. Aciano felt down for months but after some time, a baby on a wicker basket arrived at his doorstep with a note saying: “She is our daughter, Aciano Flores. Please always keep her safe for me. Our little girl here is an Etruscan demigod and different kinds of peril awaits her and so, you must protect her with all you can. Give her the dagger when she reach 13. Love, Zoe”. The man was dumb-founded after he read the note. He had always believed that stuff of Etruscan mythology were just from the creative figment of writers’ imagination. Aciano glimpsed at the baby in the wicker basket. She was fast asleep and surrounded with Echo flowers, the flower she first gave to Zoe, and a silver dagger engraved with the inscription "λουλούδι" (louloúdi). When the little creature opened her eyes, her eyes were as brown as her mothers and Aciano had no doubt that the child was really his. “I’ll call you Echo, the symbol of my love to your mother,” he said. Little Echo smiled up at him as if she agreed with what he said.

### Childhood

Echo grew up in the fields. She was the reason why her father learned how to smile again. Even at a young age, Echo showed interest in plants and music. Her father would spend the weekends with her singing and wandering the fields. One night, when Echo was just around three, her father went out of the house to attend to an emergency call from his workers. Aciano, believing that Echo would be safe for she was asleep and the door’s hard to open, left immediately and so Echo was left alone. When the little girl woke up, her father was still out and she saw a celestial bronze blade in the form of a dagger, resting atop her bedside table. Out of curiosity, the little girl went to get the blade. Though the blade was a little heavy, she was able to haul the blade to her bed. She unsheathed it and was fascinated by its glimmer. The blade felt cold then warm to her grip. She immediately felt her "connection" with the blade.

Not long after, Aciano saw her little girl, out of the trick of the mist, holding a long piece of stick that looked so old and asked her how she got it. She told him how and he laughed when she said that it was sharp. She stood up in her bed and held it so high above her head, declaring it her weapon. "Mija, an old stick would do you no good. It's blunt, cariño," he said, laughing at what he thought was his daughter's imaginary weapon. "Mija, why don't you just throw that and I'll buy you a better sword."

"But Papí, I want this!" she pleaded and her eyes began to swell. To prevent her from crying, Nate finally agreed that she could keep it but when she fell asleep, Nate secretly threw the blade out of the back door. When Echo woke up, she immediately went looking for her "toy". Her father said maybe she misplaced it and so she began to search frantically. When she wasn't able to find the blade, she felt down but when her dad tell her that they'll have a stroll in an amusement park, her young mind immediately forgot about the blade. When she was around seven years old, she had began to develop vitiligo on her skin, causing white patches to appear on her skin.

### Monster Attack

When she reached schooling age, she was sent to an expensive school in Tegucigalpa, the same school where his father went to. Her teachers found out that she was dyslexic but her father insisted that she still resume normal schooling. While she was going to school, Echo was bullied because of her vitiligo, which made her rather insecure about her skin. After graduating from elementary, her father decided to let her stay at home and be tutored. One day, 3 months before she got to camp, Echo was alone one Sunday morning. Though it was a weekend, her father was in his lab in the field, watching over a crucial experiment on rice grains. Echo decided to spend the day recording and experimenting on different music compositions she made. While on her ukulele, she saw a huge black dog sniffing its way around the lawn. This same dog has been doing the same thing for a while now so she’s getting used to its presence. However, when she met the eyes of the dog, chills came running down her spine. In a flick of the eye, the black Labrador retriever transformed itself. In an instant, the dog’s tail became long and curled upward with the tip pointing down, dripping some violet liquid that wilted the grass where it fell. The front legs became two huge pincers and the hind legs became six jointed legs.

Echo felt terrified but her fright grew when she saw that the creature was coming for her. The monster was moving towards the house. Because the side of their house were decorated with climbing plants, the giant scorpion was able to climb up the wall and reach the balcony where she was staying. At first, terror paralyzed her but when her reflexes kicked in, she made a run for the back door. For a creature its size, the giant scorpion was moving slightly fast and if Echo wouldn’t run fast, she’ll be scorp-food in no time. After exiting the back door, Echo sat behind a thick bush and began to think hardly. She tried to think of the weaknesses of a scorpion that she heard from her science class. Scorpions, as she recalled had an exoskeleton so strong for its size that animals it size couldn’t crush it. Since the scorpion was as a big as a dog, she’s pretty sure the creature’s armor would be invincible. However, Scorpions are jointed insects, meaning their whole body is just a patch of exoskeleton with soft insides. She smiled, realizing that scorpions have literal chinks in their armor. But the relief of having found the monster’s vulnerable spot was replaced by a new dilemma: she had nothing sharp to kill the monster.

She almost slapped herself for having forgotten the bronze dagger her father gave her but that wasn’t the time to contemplate on something she forgot. She need to be resourceful. She need to be resourceful or else no one knows. She saw the giant scorpion creeping towards her and she saw a long stick about 2 meters long. With the stick, she poked the scorpion on one of the gaps in its skeleton but because the edge was blunt, nothing happened. Worse, the scorpion became more eager to make Echo its lunch. Echo stumbled backwards in fear, and her upper body went through the bush. When she fell, she felt something hard and cold under her and based on its shape, she knew it was a blade, a long one. Oddly, she felt a familiar feeling when she took the hilt of the balde, the same feeling of "connection" she had when she was three. When she emerged from the bush, the scorpion was already near her. Out of panic, she stared at the vines on the side of their home as if asking it for help. To her surprise, the vines moved and bound the giant scorpion. The vine restraint grew thicker and thicker, stopping the monster from moving. Echo seized the opportunity and slashed the monster, changing it to monster dust.  Out of relief, adrenaline and exhaustion, she blacked out.

### Getting to Camp

When Echo woke up, she saw her father watching over her anxiously. She saw the blade, now recognizing it as a dagger, lying on a chair near her. She recounted what happened to her father and though the latter was reluctant at first, he allowed her to keep the dagger.

After the incident, Aciano decided to tell Echo the truth about her mother and that she was a demigod. To relieve his daughter’s trauma, they decided to take a vacation on Los Angeles, California, on one of his cousins there. During their 2nd month stay at Los Angeles, a mysterious visitor arrived. He was limping and walks with the aid of a crutch. The guy was about Aciano's age and asked him to talk in private. The mystery man told Aciano that he was a “guardian” and that he would take Echo to a place where demigods are safe. Aciano doubted him and asked him to reveal his true identity. The mystery man removed his fake shoes and showed his hooves, a proof that he was a satyr, protector of demigods. Aciano's immediate reaction was shock reluctantly allowed her daughter to go and told her to be always careful. Echo, understanding the risks if she’d stay with her father, went with the satyr, Grant.

On their way to what Grant called “Camp Olympia”, the two encountered a bunch of giant scorpions when they were almost at camp. Because there were two giant scorpions this time, they were almost defeated. Grant busted some ninja goat moves while Echo slashed with her blade. They were able to defeat the monsters but before Grant could kill the last monster, the latter stung Echo and because of its poison, she collapsed. Hurriedly, Grant carried her to the camp’s infirmary where she was treated. She woke up three days later. Echo was claimed by her mother, Zerene

## Personality

Echo 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, Echo is determined when it comes to her core beliefs and is stubborn with the sort of persistence that wears a boulder down to a river stone. After interacting with Echo 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. Echo is able to overcome such trials because she doesn't go through them alone. On her own, Echo 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, Echo 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 Tegucigalpa meant that Echo values the importance of her small community. At home, Echo easily helps others and just as readily accepts the help returned. This is why Echo finds it hard to adjust to Camp Olympia. Not only is high school already intimidating to any teen, Camp Olympia is also a whole new world of legacies and destinies. But most importantly, Echo's countries away from everyone at home. School is an overwhelming amount of things to get used to, especially coming from a story where her cousins are “royalty”. Echo is best known for her air of confidence and optimism. The majority of the time, Echo comes off as a quiet and tranquil soul. When paired with other people, she's the one who tends to fade into the background, being far less vocal in large conversations. Being left out of conversations isn't something she minds much since her attention tends to wander. She will only be half-listening most of the time, leading to her frequently missing key information. Very chill, but easily distracted. She likes to make jewelry, especially out of natural things. She's pretty gullible, but is social, flitting from friend group to friend group. However she's not one to make many personal connections, and is bad at remembering names so you'll be lucky if she does. She gives gifts freely to anyone, home-made crafts in particular. She cannot imagine why anyone would dislike autumn ever. Echo is a very shy and polite girl. She is very eager to try and make friends. She's initially portrayed as insecure, doubting her ability to help her allies, however Echo has become more confident and brave as time goes on, and she always tries to be of help wherever she can. Echo has a love of riddles and learning the unknown⎯quite mysterious herself, and tends to use her favorite Disney character's signature quote a lot, "Curiouser and curiouser!". She is highly intelligent and has a very honest personality, is "direct and open with her emotions", and is easily swayed by the people around her. She can be spontaneous and "very ditzy", possibly mad. Echo can also be quite carefree and reckless, she seems to be indifferent to certain things. Often daydreaming during class. Though playful, she can be quite serious at times. When it came to winning the Capture The Flag, Echo cast aside her smile, adopting a serious persona in which she stated she would lead her team to victory, taking charge and giving out orders. Echo was once given the epithet Mad Tactician, as she led her team to many victories thanks to her exceptional skill in making strategies during battles. However, Echo can miscalculate a strategy every now and then, and upon learning one was a failure, she usually doesn't take it well. She is described to act timid and shy to those who don't know her personally but becomes quite eccentric once comfortable. Echo is somewhat insecure about her skin, having been bullied for having vitiligo by kids in her old school, but she is learning to become more confident about her body

### Fatal Flaw

Echo's fatal flaw is her shyness. She is rather quite and has a heard time speaking up for herself

## Appearance

Echo is often described as a young seventeen year old girl of Afro-Honduran and Bolivian descent with vitiligo patches on her skin, green eyes like grass and blonde hair in an afro held up by a headband with a floral design. Echo is often seen wearing a white shirt, pink overalls, and brown boots

## Powers and Abilities

### Zerene Kid Powers

* She has powerful Chlorokinesis, also known as Agrokinesis, Botanokinesis, or Phytokinesis, the ability to mentally and/or physically summon, control and manipulate plants and vegetation. She can control and manipulate wood, rock soil, roots, fruits, and flowers, even moss found in natural fields or habitat.
* She can use this ability to have her enemies ensnared in plants, or even telepathically communicate with plant life and vegetation; an ability known as "green-speaking."
* She has the ability of powerful Atmokinesis, or weather control, allowing to manipulate the climate on large scales, creating scorching heat, blizzards and tornadoes.
* She can communicate with animals.
* She can develop a powerful form of Geokinesis, the control and manipulation of the earth, specifically related to soil and more effectively, fertile soil that can grow plants. This does not include metals, jewels, lava or rocks (Which children of say, Gaia or Hades could manipulate with their respective versions of Geomancy). Despite these limitations, she is powerful enough to have been known to create earthquakes, split the ground and drown enemies in waves of earth.
* She has a limited form of Telumkinesis, the ability to control weapons, specifically limited to gardening and farming equipment. This includes summoning, dispelling, alteration, telekinetic control and rarely, curses and enchantments, as well as the ability to dispel them.
* She has a limited but powerful form of Toxikinesis, the ability to create and control poisons and toxins, she is specifically able to create and control the poison's that can be produced by plants or funguses. This as well makes her immune to the poisonous plants, spores and funguses.
* She can somewhat mimic the effects of Biokinesis, control of living matter, and powerful Vitakinesis, control of the healing process, able to apply the effects of those powers specifically to plants, such as changing the form and shape of a plant, or healing a plant of wounds.
* She can imbue plants with magical attributes, such as a plant that heals those who eat its fruit or a tree that grows fire instead of leaves. This can allow her to somewhat mimic nearly any magical ability or demigod powers, so long as a plant could feasibly do such a thing when radically altered.
* She can summon and control various nature spirits, such as karpoi, satyrs and dryads.
* She can teleport using plants as a catalyst, similar to the shadow travel of a child of Hades.
* She can enter into a hide within plants, trees, crops or garden implements, during which she can control said object and sense what is occuring around her.
* She has plant mimicry, the ability to turn parts of, or her whole body into plant matter, able to manipulate and shape shift this form with various different plants and her physical attributes.
* She can sometimes have the ability to sense the location and presence (or lack thereof) of objects and places related to the domains her Mother rules over (Agriculture, the earth, fertile soil, harvest and the sacred law, climate, weather and the seasons, nourishment, bread, fruit, plants and nature), including and up to foresight/precognition and hindsight/postcognition of what has happened or will happen to such objects.
* She can eat any food and know all of the nutrients in it.
* She has the ability of Taphokinesis, also known as decay manipulation or rot manipulation, the ability to mentally and/or physically make things decompose. Though this ability only works on plants, and can be unreliable as it can come out whenever she is angry, or scared

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, she 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, strangely enough, divine Ancient Greek and Latin, instead of mortal languages
* Archery: Echo is very skilled at Archery
* Plant Knowledge: Echo, as the daughter of Zerene, knows a lot about plants and nature in general
* Garden Skills: Echo is skilled with gardening and planting:
* Spanish: Being raised in Honduras, Echo speaks fluent Spanish
* Dancing Skills: Echo is skilled in dancing traditional dances from Bolivia and Honduras
* Superhuman Durability: Being a demigod, Echo is more durable than the average mortal
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Echo is stronger than the average mortal
* Superhuman Reflexes: Being a demigod, Echo's reflexes are faster than an average mortal
* Superhuman Agility: Being a demigod, Echo is more is more agile than the average mortal

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Talia Prevost

Echo is rather close with her half-sister, Talia, since Talia helps Echo feel more confident about her skin

### Family

#### Zerene (Mother)

Zerene is Echo's beloved mother and the one of the people responsible for building Echo to be the way she is today. Zerene is an extremely gentle, caring mother who always provided the best to her daughter and dedicates every day of her life to Echo. Zerene breaths and lives for her precious daughter and Echo, in return, loves her mother profoundly and does everything she can to be the best daughter she can be, and also to let Zerene proud.

#### Aciano (Father)

Echo and her father are pretty close. Echo loves her father so much, she was and still is mad that her father forced her to come to camp, but she understands that it was for the best and for her safety. Echo loves her father and often writes to him

## Etymology

From a sweet cry to an adorable coo, Echo is a baby girl name of Latin and Greek origin. Meaning **“reflected sound,”**

The surname Flores has existed in Spain since the 12th century, but a common origin has not been found. It is believed to most likely derive from the given name Floro, meaning **"flower"** from the Latin flos

## Trivia

1. Echo's middle name is Magnolia, meaning "Magnol's flower"
2. She is the first character with vitiligo
3. She is Honduran and Bolivian
4. She was inspired by the Harperiman doll, Aaliyah
5. She is an Aries
6. She was named after the cured nymph and Musette's mother
7. Despite their shared last named, Echo and George are not related
8. Carlos, Echo, and Talia all represents their mother's different counterparts
	1. Carlos: Greek Demeter
	2. Echo: Etruscan Zerene
	3. Talia: Roman Ceres