NAME: Nadia Blake.
AGE: 32.
BIRTHDAY: August 16th, 1988.
PRONOUNS: She/Her.
GENDER: Cis woman.
BIRTHPLACE: New York City, New York.
OCCUPATION: Model.
GODLY PARENT: Aphrodite.
FACECLAIM: Summer Bishil.
BIOGRAPHY.
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Nadia doesn’t remember much about her father — warm eyes, a soft smile, and the faint scent of his lemon laundry detergent if she tries hard enough. He’s ripped away from her at the tender age of five after she’s the sole survivor of a car accident. With her mother out of the picture and no immediate family around to take her in, she’s thrown into the foster care system relatively quickly. It’s a difficult adjustment and the workers on Nadia’s case are less than optimistic. She’s labelled as having “behavioral issues” due to her ADHD and they knew parents weren’t too enthusiastic to adopt a child with a disability such as dyslexia. Not the mention her rather overactive imagination as nobody would believe when she said she saw the lady in the hallway molting feathers.
For her first few years in the system, Nadia bounces between homes. It’s odd. Within the first few minutes of meeting her, those looking to adopt are instantly charmed by the small child. There were jokes that she could talk herself out of a murder if she had to. She was in high demand as many were instantly enamored with her when all she did was ask if she could go home with them. She never questioned her unique ability to get whatever she wanted, but the problems would soon come after. Nadia had always been used to people doing what she wanted, she was used to the constant adoration. It never lasted, though, as wherever Nadia went it appeared that trouble followed. There would be calls of missing jewelry, perfumes, and so on and no matter how much Nadia defended herself saying they gave them to her when she asked, no one would believe her. She’s written off as a trouble maker and thief.
Nadia is ten years old when she is finally taken in by Nancy and Felix Devonshire, an eccentric, well meaning couple who were looking to start a family. She’s cautious when she first meets them, far too used to being wrongfully accused of things she didn’t do but to the Devonshires, she was their little miracle. When she asked them for things they never backtracked or yelled at her, they never accused her of wrongful behavior. Nadia soon becomes comfortable around them and is the happiest she’s ever been the day she’s adopted.
Life is normal for the most part. Nadia still gets in trouble in school for causing trouble when she still doesn’t fully know what she did wrong. She would find that she’d be followed, often, by things she swore up and down were not entirely human, running all the way home and crying in Nancy’s arms. They give the girl pepper spray and tell them that if she comes across any “monsters” to use it and run the other way. It’s the first time her fear and confusion is taken seriously.
The night of her thirteenth birthday she’s getting ready to go out on a birthday dinner with her adoptive parents. A dove flies through the window, which was odd since she could have sworn the window had been closed. Another one appears. And another. Nadia screams just as an apple tree appears, growing rapidly through the tiles in the small bathroom. Felix is quick to come to her aid and rushes into the room only to find his daughter standing in the middle of a completely normal bathroom, free of birds and fruit trees, but Nadia swears up and down what she saw was real.
Her case worker, who had already been doing regular visits to the family, comes over that night after a call from the Devonshires who were unsure how to calm Nadia down. The two had grown close during Nadia’s time at the agency, and he asks her parents to leave the room as he says he has to talk to her in private. He starts going off about gods and monsters and halfbloods. Nadia is convinced he’s lying at first, calls him crazy, until he reveals his hooves, and she nearly passes out from the shock. Daughter of Aphrodite was a hard pill to swallow. She didn’t feel particularly loved by the goddess of love who never bothered to show up once in her life. He explains to Nadia that she can’t stay there, that monsters can smell her from a mile away and that it isn’t safe for her. It’s his job to take her to Camp Half-Blood to ensure that she’ll survive the next few years of her life at least. Leaving is the last thing Nadia wants to do, but it was clear she didn’t have much of a choice.
Reluctantly, she leaves with the satyr and asks if she’ll see her family again. He says he isn’t sure as it was too dangerous for mortals.
Despite her background, Nadia has never been a shy child. She was always open about what she wanted and had the ambition do just about anything to get it. When she arrives at the camp, she’s as lost and confused as every other newcomer but she knew she wasn’t going to get anywhere by being a loner. That was just life. She didn’t necessarily want more family, rather just wanted to hold onto what she already had. Nevertheless, Nadia climbs her way up the Camp Half-Blood social circle. She didn’t even have to use her powers every time, rubbing shoulders with the right kids and cabins. She would never call herself a mean girl, but once she was crossed it was arguable just how safe you were. Camp was a chance to hone her abilities and she excelled. She learned to fight as well, and she trained herself to be pretty damn good at it too, but her beauty was always her strongest weapon.
Then where she had grown up was under attack, as well as the rest of the world. Nadia, like many other demigods, never put much of her faith into the gods when they couldn’t bother to see their own children. She joined the battle to keep the world safe for herself, for those few she truly saw as family, and not anyone else. The world ending would have put a damper on things, anyway even if one could argue the world didn’t deserve it. They fight, they win, and Nadia is one of the lucky ones to come out of it alive.
Half-bloods seldom made it into adulthood and Nadia knew that she deserved it. Enough had been taken from her. She doesn’t have the desire to stray far from the place she called home, so when she’s too old for camp she moves to the city and settles in New Greece. It was pleasant, not having to worry for your life whenever you stepped outside of camp, and she wanted to take full advantage of that.
It doesn’t take long for Nadia to make her way into the modeling industry, when you were blessed with naturally beautiful features you could enhance it felt like a no brainer to the young woman. She would be one of the first to admit she used her powers to help her excel her status and why shouldn’t she? To not use her gifts, the only thing her mother gave her, would be a waste. Nadia doesn’t see it as unfair and it’s the least the mortal world can do for her when they helped saved humanity. She thrives under the attention and adoration, no longer the misunderstood little girl.
Played by: Peyton.