Theia, Themis, Thetys, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Aphrodite and the Furies (paternal aunts)
Hermes (nephew and grandfather)
Affiliation:
Brooklyn Middle School (formerly)
Runaway demigods on the streets (formerly)
Camp Half-Blood (briefly)
Olympus (briefly, formerly)
Kronos
The Titans
Residence:
Brooklyn, NY (formerly)
Camp Half-Blood (canon dependent)
The Princess Andromeda (canon dependent)
Item:
Scythe
Enchanted contacts
Physical Description:
Species: Demititan
Skin: Fair
Hair: Jet black
Eye:
Gold
Amber (Mist disguise)
Height:
5’5 (168 cm)
5’7 (173 cm, with her boots on)
Weight: 116 lbs (52 kg)
Sexuality: Aroace
History
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The Last Olympian:
Lila is born to Deborah Hartnell and Kronos—who was possessing Luke Castellan—during the Second Titan War. By the end of the war she was three months old.
Early Life:
Delilah “Lila” Castellan is the Greek demititan daughter of Kronos, Luke Castellan and Deborah Hartnell under the name Delilah Hartnell. She was born during The Second Titan War after Deborah successfully charmed Luke with Kronos dormant within him. Their union also passed some of Kronos’s essence down to her. She was three months old when the war ended with Olympian victory, meaning she never got to meet her fathers in person after both of them died, marking the end of the war.
CW: This article contains descriptions of child abuse and suicidal ideation, proceed with caution!
She was born on May 8th in Brooklyn, New York to a mundane mortal mother. Deborah’s resentment stemmed not from the circumstances of conception, but from the pregnancy itself, and she directed that resentment toward Lila. At first it was small things, like breaking her toys on purpose or leaving her to cry it out unsupervised while Deborah was out mingling with her friends. By age 8 Lila was left alone for days and often locked in her room after misbehaving, then excused as skipping school, which got her expelled from two schools. After that Deborah decided to homeschool her daughter, which was just keeping her locked in the apartment to do all the chores while her mother was on her daily outings with her partners.
At age 13 Lila attempted to take her life by jumping off the rooftop. That’s when her father intervened without either realizing the connection they shared. By letting his voice echo in his daughter’s mind after she asked for input as a last ditch effort, Kronos managed to get her to go back to the apartment instead. That night, after Deborah and her new boyfriend passed out in a drunken haze, Lila ran away from home and took to the streets. Deborah never reported her missing.
Arrival to Camp Half-Blood:
Lila spent the next three years of her life on the streets with a band of runaways who were—unbeknownst to her—half-bloods as well. Oddly enough the crew encountered no monsters in these last few years, the ones they did see however all decided they were not worth the hassle. On May 13th, only a couple days after her 16th birthday a satyr named Darcy Reed found her and her crew and guided them all to Camp. Lila however could have sworn they were following a disabled girl with crutches. Upon crossing the border however, no claiming symbol appeared above her head, leaving both Chiron and Mr. D questioning her place and origins. After several activities tried to awaken her latent divine blood, Lila found her place among the children of Demeter, tending to the strawberries. However still no claim was made by the gods, thus Chiron and Mr. D had to report the anomaly to the Olympian Council.
The Council’s Concern:
The news of a demigod going unclaimed ruffled numerous feathers atop Mount Olympus and left the court discussing the matter thoroughly. Due to the girl’s interest in working the land, several Olympians and minor gods were ruled out, leaving Demeter, Dionysus and Hades as the prime candidates. Zeus ordered an observation period and immediate reports on the child’s progression but adjourned court as the case ran cold.
Life at Camp:
In the following weeks Lila’s unawareness of the magical properties of Camp gained increasing traction after incidents such as calling the cleaning Harpies seagulls, trying to give a satyr’s non-existent crutches back to them under the assumptions that they are a mobility impaired person or repeatedly asking Chiron to get off his horse just for meals became more common. Campers assumed she was just pushing their boundaries, until she attempted to pet a hellhound that escaped from the woods, resulting in critical injuries that left her unconscious after treatment for days.
Chiron decided they should start an examination into her magic after Lila revealed that she had thought the stray dog was just scared. The results showed that since she spent too much time among mortals and never experienced the childlike wonders growing up, her mind succumbed to the control of the Mist completely, barring her from seeing what any other new demigod would, thus making her completely Mist-blind. Chiron tried using Mistiokinesis to remove it from her eyes, but it kept redeveloping, like a magical cataracts.
As a result Chiron petitioned Asclepius for help, who created a pair of enchanted contact lenses to correct Lila’s Mist-blindness. Adjustment was hard on her mind and she needed frequent counselling to accept her reality, the duty of which fell to Will Solace. Afterwards Lila returned to the strawberry fields as usual.
The First Emergence:
Her powers first emerged on a mundane as possible day. She was picking the strawberries off the vines with the other Demeter kids when she felt a slight jolt course through her and into the plants she was in contact with, escalating the growth of the fruit into triple its original size before finally managing to let go and regain control of herself. Chiron was there in a flash to observe the events, but still no claim arrived from Olympus, even though the Demeter kids proclaimed her to be one of them with such raw talent in chlorokinesis. After a detailed recounting of the events for the report the Council gathered again to discuss the results of the observation period. The Council also brought up Persephone as the culprit, which earned an offended denial from both Hades and Demeter. Zeus rose to return order to the court and escalated the procedure to regular, detailed reports about the power usage, potential triggers, emotional state and other unspecified conditions that could be contributing to the emergence of the girl's powers. But Chiron could tell the King of the gods was already concerned about the delays and potential implications which ranged from a foreign pantheon to other, unnamed worst case scenarios.
The Investigation:
Under direct orders from Zeus, Delilah was encouraged to let her magic show in controlled environments, producing interesting results:
Uneven growth due to power surges where one side of the field was overripe, the other still green
Fluctuation in peak yield and sudden barrenness
Irregular quality ratio compared to the control field
Plants occasionally appear black after contact with magic, like they've been poisoned with acid
Plants age rapidly after peak yield and never yield again
Plants touched by her magic fluctuate in healing property for other users and herself alike
Absorption of healing magic left the plants irreversibly decayed
The healing properties of the plants used became uncertain regardless of type of plant used in the experiment as each specimen within the same genus yielded varying levels of healing on a similar type of injury
Each passing test deepened the contradiction: this was not Demeter’s chlorokinesis, yet it was too similar to ignore, leaving the Council reluctant to draw premature conclusions.
The Campfire Incident:
As the reports continued, Lila joined camp activities more frequently, more certain of belonging to Camp Half-Blood. During the campfire songs on a late, moonlit August night, however a new phenomenon appeared. As one of the Hermes kids played Yankee Doodle on the guitar, they became aware of an irregular shadow disrupting the scene. Upon calling Nico to stop messing around, another camper informed the singer that Nico wasn't present. The music paused immediately, everyone sitting in silence, but the player's shadow refused to settle, lagging behind several seconds and still strumming along as everyone sat motionless. The silence only broke when Lila spoke up, asking the following question: "Guys, am I supposed to be able to... That?" pointing at the shadow everyone was watching while it kept playing until it finally managed to catch up and sway to the rhythm of the fire's dance, like the previous scene never happened. The incident was documented and transmitted to Olympus via Iris Message. There it was determined that the power manifestation was the result of chthonic interference, which Hades denied having anything to do with.
The Calm Before The Storm:
The following months were mostly uneventful. Lila became a year-rounder at Camp Half-Blood, and her powers appeared to settle as she honed them, increasingly suggesting a chthonic alignment despite her attunement to harvest. The Olympians reached a tentative consensus that there was nothing further to uncover. She improved in regulating her power surges and even managed to tame her control over shadows, ensuring the campfire incident would not repeat itself. However, she has yet to tell anyone about the mysterious voice that continues to speak to her—offering guidance that sometimes helps and at other times makes her question its moral alignment. She also adjusted to seeing through the Mist completely and began studying Ancient Greek under Chiron to better understand her still-unconfirmed divine heritage.
Sticky Situation:
The calm, however, did not last. On her seventeenth birthday, Lila appeared to unlock a new application of her Umbrakinesis, though not in any conventional sense. Having taken an interest in how mortals reinterpret mythology, she attempted to replicate an ability analogous to what Nico di Angelo refers to as Shadow Travel. The attempt was, at first, successful. A shadow portal opened beneath her feet, functioning as expected—until she sank approximately waist-deep into it. The construct destabilized shortly thereafter, collapsing and leaving her partially embedded in the shadow. It was at this point that the mysterious voice returned, providing instruction on how to free herself. The method, while unconventional, proved effective: she was advised to treat the shadow not as a passage, but as an unstable medium, akin to quicksand, and to shift her weight gradually rather than force movement. By following these instructions, Lila was able to extricate herself without further incident, even as the senior staff at Camp Half-Blood were still determining the most effective means of rescuing her from the situation. Upon inquiry, she informed Chiron that a mysterious voice had been speaking to her intermittently since the age of thirteen and had advised her to employ what it described as a “quicksand method” to escape. The incident was documented and relayed to Olympus without delay, further supporting the standing assessment of suspected chthonic interference.
