TITLE ➛ It's All In The Charm
STATUS ➛ Taken by mrstarkwewon
CAST ➛ Vanessa Morgan as Eleanor Maveth
LOVE INTEREST ➛ Leo Valdez (Jake T. Austin)
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"This is how they made me, Houston, Texas, baby"
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Eleanor Maveth was put into the Texas foster system at a very young age. Tossed from family to family because of her trouble-making nature, she's rarely stayed in the same place for longer than a few months.
Now alone in the streets of Chicago, she's in her element until she's met by a group of people more like her than she ever thought. Demigods.
Eleanor is whirled into a world where gods and goddesses are real and her mother just so happens to be one. A family she never knew she had reveals itself, yet she's unhappy. Haunted by a mysterious scar, Eleanor decides to break all the rules and leave to find her father, all with the help of a certain Leo Valdez, happy to accompany his old friend and help keep her safe.
The expected, unexpected and insanely strange meet the pair on their journey, but for Eleanor, to get what she wants will be easy.
After all, it's all in the charm.✦
PLOT DETAILS ➛
➛ Sixteen-year old Eleanor Maveth has been on the streets of Chicago since she ran away from her last foster home eight months ago.
➛ She's very good at looking after herself and made a name among the teens of the Windy City for being manipulative and ruthless when it came to survival.
➛ One day she walks into a fancy hotel to use their bathrooms and tries to talk her way past a girl, unwittingly using charmspeak, who tells her that it won't work on her. She says her name is Piper.
➛ Piper and a group of demigods take her to Camp Half-Blood, where they take her straight to Chiron. Even though Elle is unclaimed, Piper tells her she's a daughter of Aphrodite and has a gift called charmspeak.
➛ Elle freaks out a bit, but they manage to calm her down, and Piper shows her around the camp.
➛ They meet Leo outside the metal workshop and it takes them a few seconds to realise who they're looking at. Leo and Elle ran away from a foster home in Houston together when they were twelve. He calls her Tie-Dye.
➛ In the end she's settled into the Hermes cabin, because Chiron protests she hadn't been claimed yet and might not be a child of Aphrodite.
➛ At the campfire, Elle sits with Piper and Leo, who she finds out are best friends, and she and Leo reminisce until she's suddenly claimed.
➛ While she's being claimed, she thinks she sees a face in the flames of the campfire, a very beautiful female one. It smiles at her, and then it's gone and Elle wonders what she saw, confused.
➛ She moves into the Aphrodite cabin and spends the next few days bonding with her cabin mates.
➛ She lets Piper help her develop her charmspeak.
➛ Maybe a few weeks in, she has a nightmare about a fire. There's heat and yelling and she sees a man running towards her. She somehow knows it's her father. Then she wakes up and decides she has to find her him.
➛ Elle has a mysterious burn scar on her torso that she never received in the foster system, and thinks he'll know about it.
➛ She packs a bag in secret and is about to leave the camp after stealing a Celestial Bronze pistol from the stores, but she's stopped by Leo coming back from Bunker 9. He notices that she has her 'running away' face on and tries to stop her, then decides to go with her.
➛ She agrees, so he packs a bag and brings Festus and they set out together, Elle hijacking the Camp's strawberry van until they could find a better vehicle.
➛ Elle lies at first about why she's looking for her father. They reminisce on their journey, and slowly fall for each other as they save each other's lives while looking and find things out about each other they never knew before.
➛ Finally they find a monster who tells them he was killed by fire-breathing metal beasts sent by a god because he was a 'known lover of Aphrodite'.
➛ Taunting her, it tells her Hephaestus sent the fire-breathing creatures and Elle is so surprised the monster manages to wound her before she kills it. She understands where her scar came from, but is angry and frustrated and in shock.
➛ When Leo tries to help her she pushes him away, but doesn't know.
➛ They travel to Chicago so she can clear up her sudden disappearance to her friends, but Elle refuses to speak to Leo, unsure how to feel.
➛ They get back to Camp Half-Blood and get into lots of trouble (Mr D threatening to feed them to the harpies, etc.).
➛ It takes a while, but she tells him and Elle eventually accepts its not his fault.OC DETAILS ➛
ELEANOR ➛
➛ Elle often refers to the number of foster homes she had been in as a game of hopscotch. She had been in thirteen different homes before she ditched the system and ran for it.
➛ Everyone calls her Elle, except Leo who nicknamed her Tie-Dye when they were twelve after she tie-dyed all of their foster mother's clothes when she called her a nobody.
➛ Her eyes morph through all the shades of brown from dark coffee to hazel, but it's only noticeable when she cries, which rarely happens.
➛ Her go-to weapon is the Celestial Bronze pistol because it's what she's used to and prefers it to any blade. She thinks it's more effective, especially since it has a round of bullets that return when used up.
➛ Elle is a resourceful and intelligent person with strong survival instincts. She does what she can to protect herself first, but with friends she truly loves, she would sacrifice herself without thinking. Elle once talked down (accidentally charmspeaked) a mugger from attacking her best friend in Chicago.
➛ Leo and Elle ran away from two homes together, when they were twelve and fourteen, but were separated after that.✦
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