How to Make a Demigod: A Percy Jackson Guide

Camp Half Blood

Ok, now Let's talk about Camps

Beginning with the Awesome Camp that started it all

This Section of chapters will be about the Structure, Culture, Cabins, The Camps themselves and alot more

And today will be about Camp Half Blood

today I'm gonna show you the System of Camp Half Blood

Progress Reports, Camp Schedules and Traditions

The  rest of this Section would feature all you need to know about the Camps, Locations and Areas, their respective Systems and All you need to know about Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter in general 

Schedules:
Ok, the Schedule, may not have been clarified or mentioned in the books, but Camp Half Blood DOES indeed, have one, which can be found on the official website and if you google Camp Half Blood on the Percy Jackson Wikia

this is vital if you just want to do a casual story , or the first few chapters where your Demigod is currently in Training  before going on a Quest or something, yes, the Demigods just don't hang out and have the days to themselves, a majority of their time they spend training and learning to survive their harsh environment 

anyways, here's the Schedule

Sample Activity Schedule 

8:00 AM:  Breakfast and Cabin Inspection

9:00  AM : Sword and Shield with Ares Cabin- Cabin Challenge, Full Combat Armor Required.

10: 00 AM - 11:00 AM: Archery with Chiron - Target Practice: Proper use of certain arrows

11:00 AM- 01:00 PM: Winged Horseback Riding with Demeter Cabin - First Hour Trail, Picnic Lunch, Second Hour Aerial Combat.

01:00 PM- 02:00 PM: Monster Assault Techniques with Hermes Cabin

 02:00 PM- 04:00 PM: Free Choice

Activities include 
Arts and Crafts with Hephaetus Cabin and Iris Cabin

Canoe Races with Naiads

Climbing Walls  with Satyrs

Swim & Beach Time with the Nerieds

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM: Free time, Volley Ball, Cabin Clean up

06:00 PM- 07:00 PM- Dinner

(Fridays 5:30 PM- 6:00 PM) 

07:00 PM- 09:00 PM:Capture the Flag- Combat Gear required, all Magical Items allowed

09:00 PM- 10:00 PM: Sing along and Bonfire with Apollo Cabin

10:00 PM: Prepare for Bed - Lights out by 11:00PM

Saturday & Sunday free

Traditions:

Wreaths: Every time a camper wins a event, they get rewarded with a Laurel Wreath and get paraded around the camp. This tradition is deprived from it's Greek roots, and has been going on for quite a few millennia  

Shrouds: Anytime a Camper goes on a quest, their siblings and cabin mates weave a funeral shroud just in case the Camper doesn't survive, if the Camper returns alive and victorious, the others get to burn the shroud. If the Camper doesn't have siblings, other cabins can volunteer to make the Shroud for them. Normally a shroud is decked out in the respective Camper's Godly Parent's symbol and the Cabin's color.

Bead Necklaces:

Easily the Most known tradition, at the end of each summer, Senior Counselors get to vote on what was the biggest event of that summer, and get it painted onto a bead, which is then given to other campers so it can be worn on a leather strap as a necklace. The longer the camper has been at Camp Half Blood, the more beads they have on their necklace. However, this tradition only takes place in Summer, no other season, including Winter, as all the major events that took place in other seasons in the books other than Summer, didn't get a bead for it. A big example of this is The Lost Hero

Progress Report:
Ok, this part works is just like regular school
But the difference is if you get straight Fs? You get fed to the harpies!(yaaaayyyyyy*sarcasm*)

And instead of your teacher's normal ol'commentary you get Chiron's halarious commentary as seen on Percy's sheet

The Catergories include:
Monster-Maiming
Defense
Sword fighting
Team spirit
Greek speak
Chariot racing
Foot racing
Archery
Javelin throwing and
Rock climbing

And possibly more
And no, not everything should be straight As
Only 5 in 20 kids in a class gets full on straight As
And they are most likely one of Athena's kids
A more realistic grading for Demigods is pretty much nearly the same as Percy's grading
Cs, Bs and the occasional A and A+
Like most Amateurs
This is unnecessary story wise
But a extra piece of information that you might like to add to your Demigod's bio
Like if your Character is really good at Throwing the Javelin but sucks at Archery
Chances are he's gonna get an A or B on Javelin throwing and a C-, D or even an F in Archery
Or if your Demigod is good at Running, even better at Rock climbing, but sucks in Greek speak? he'd get a B on Running, a A on Rock Climbing and again, a C-, D or F on Greek Speak, depending on what level they suck at it
And so on

For examples, my OC, Violet is a good archer , has a ok-ish team spirit and is a really good runner, and rock climber and a Defense pro. But she sucks at Sword fighting, Monster Maiming and Javelin throwing and even more in Greek Speak. Because, being an Iris kid, she's all defense but almost no offense, and she can't block out attacks as well as others, so she had to rely on dodging attacks. so for her, she's a pro at running, climbing and defense because she tends to be more agile and would need those more as her way of forming a form of defense from attacks. But she sucks with a sword and javelin because again, they're offense weapons, and for an Iris kid, It's pretty unnatural for them, because they're more prone to use Defense tactics instead of offense tactics and like I said, she sucks at blocking attacks, which is more the sword and javelin's thing. As for Greek Speak? She's South African and not even Dyslexic, so Greek doesn't come to her as natural as Afrikaans.
Another thing that can affect the Progress Report may also be the Godly Parent's nature (for example, Iris, as mentioned above, being all defensive and almost no offense, because well, it's part of her nature)
And even a lack of a condition and environment
Again, as mentioned above with Violet
She has no Dyslexia and only speaks English and Afrikaans, so Greek just doesn't come naturally to her
Since well, it isn't familliar to her
Other than a language like Dutch which Afrikaans originated from

(for those who don't know, Afrikaans deprived from a form of Dutch used by protestant settlers back in 1700's, being an South African myself,that little fact got repeated by my mom alot to other people that were kinda curious about our language's origin)

But we'll get to Nationalities later on
I just used Violet as a example on how certain things can also be involved with certain things on Progress and even activities

(Also the reason why I picked SA as her Nationality I'm gonna explain later on the same topic)

I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter
(I know it isn't much but, the rest is gonna be coming soon, no worries about it)

And as always Demigods
Stay awesome

~Kidatash