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Name: Ellie Romais

Gender: She is a female, though she may sometimes act boyish.

Race/ethnicity: She is British and has an accent, but it is fading since she has arrived in America.

Skin Tone: She has fair skin, dotted with very light freckles.

Eye Color: Her eyes are bright green and they always have a mischevious glint. They sparkle with humor, too, but when she wants, she can pump them up full power and they can bore into you like a drill.

Hair Color:Her hair used to be black, but she dyed it white. It is long and silky.

Hair Length: Long and about 8 inches.

Height: She is about 5'1, short for her age.

Weight: She is very small for her age and weighs about 105 pounds.

Body Type: Her body is small, lithe, agile, and almost anorexic skinny 

Mortal Parent: Ina Charlotte Romais is her deceased mortal parent.

Roman God Parent: Letus, the Roman equivalent of Thanatos the grim reaper.

Place of Birth: She and her twin were born in Yorkshire, England.

Date of Birth: She is sixteen and born on August 20, 1996.

Armor: Her armor fits her perfectly. It is a little run-down, with some chinks and open spaces, but during battle it would protect her well. 
It is made of Imperial Gold and is very strong, but after a few battles it will get beaten up and will have to go.

Powers: Ellie can raise the dead.. She can summon them twice a day with breaks of 2-3 hours. They come in packs of four and can only go back into the earth if they have stayed for at least five minutes, fighting for their master. If they are destroyed, they can only reform once more in that five minutes. Only Imperial gold will destroy or hurt them. After ten minutes, they will fight no longer and will sink back into the ground, unable to come back and fight for 2-3 hours.

Skills/Talents: Ellie is a strong girl. She can take almost anything thrown at her, a word or a punch. She is also very clever and can outsmart most anyone in battle. Ellie is also an extreme fighter and is very good at sword fighting and dueling.

Flaws: Ellie is a bit conceited and thinks about herself and her safety and her happiness. She doesn't really react to her best friend or brother's feelings. She also gets tunnel-vision sometimes. She can hide anywhere, under her bunk, in the bathroom, and never let anyone inside. She will think about a problem and all she could think about was the problem. She is very talkative, too. She always talks and talks, way too much. She'll talk about anything, from trains to eyeliner. Ellie can be very conscious of her looks. She is always re-applying her dark makeup and fixing her hair. You could call her a perfectionist when it comes to style. Also, she is a bit too trusting of some people. She would take a poisoned cup of tea from a stranger any day (without knowing it, of course.) She might go to the enemy in battle if someone seemed kind or cute. Ellie can hold a grudge sometimes. If she gets mad at some one, she'll be mad for a long time. She would never hurt someone in a state of anger or sadness unless they had killed her brother, etc. Also, she has very short endurance and cannot run or be active for very long without getting tired.

Strengths: Ellie is very lithe and agile. She can jump high and sneak behind someone just like a cat. She is caring for her family and friends and would always sacrifice herself for one of them. 

Weaknesses: Ellie is very small and skinny, so she is not very strong. She can't fight for very long and she often forgets or doesn't want to eat because she is doing something pretty much 24/7. She is often tired, too, because she hates to sleep and "it wastes too much time," she said after finding out you sleep for a third of your life. So, she is often weak and tired.

Fears: Ellie is DEATHLY afraid of planes, sharks, and spiders. She is also strangely afraid of death and dying, which is ironic considering her father is pretty much death himself. She also is very scared of everyone close to her dying or turning mental, probably because her mother suffered both (see her history).

Personality: Ellie is overall a very happy, bubbly girl. She jokes and literally bounces around all the time. She can get a little weird sometimes, meaning she says random things and laughs like a maniac. She is a little bonkers, but not so she should be in a mental asylum. Ellie can also get very angry sometimes, over tiny little things like someone calling her "Goth Queen" or giving her a shove. She has every right to be mad about that, but she often overreacts and goes "mad".

Accent/Dialect: Ellie used to have a very strong British accent, but over her years in America it has faded but she still has a very slight accent. She still says "loo" and "bonkers" and other sort of British words, though.

Likes: Ellie really likes animals, though she was not ever allowed to have a pet. She also likes swimming and water in general, it makes her feel relaxed. She always enjoys the company of other living things because it makes her feel safer even though she could definitely fight for herself if someone was to threaten her.

Dislikes: Ellie has an archenemy named Louise Taylor, maker of the original "Goth Queen". Of course she hates her. She also dislikes strawberries, bullies, reading (she can't read because of dyslexia), and television. Her biggest pet peeve is those stereotype girls who are really VERY girly but pretend to be a total tomboy, i.e. saying they "totally hate pink, like soo much".

Social Status (e.g. loner, popular): Ellie was never really liked at her schools. She was labeled as a nerd and a loner. People bullied her because she was smaller then the rest and skinnier and less likely to fight back.

Appearance: Ellie has pale ivory skin dotted with very light freckles. She has long, silky white hair that floats just past her shoulders. Her hair is usually tied up. Ellie wears a lot of dark makeup but not too much, just like violet eye shadow and dark, dark eyeliner. She always wears colorful and casual clothes that are always in style. She likes to wear the Union Jack flag, too. She always looks sort of smug, like she just broke a rule or something.

Summer or Year Rounder: Since her mother is deceased, Ellie is at Camp Jupiter year-round.

Years at Camp: She has been at camp for about a year and a half.

Life Before CJ: Ellie was born on August 20, 1996, in Yorkshire, England, with her twin, Logan. They grew up in England fine. They weren't teased much, and had some friends. Just average popularity. Well, at least Logan was. Ellie was always a bit of an outcast. She was too talkative and too cheerful. Logan always tried to include Ellie, but she wasn't interested in football (the British soccer kind). She liked fashion and more "girly" stuff. She would've fit in with some of the other girls, but she didn't really try. She had seen those girls "cat-fight", as she liked to call it. She had tried to make friends but she always got caught in the middle between their fights. Even though she liked those things, boys, clothes, nail polish, Ellie always thought it silly to fight about that kind of stuff. So she never had friends.
Ellie and her mother had always had a rocky relationship. They would always fight and Logan was often the peacemaker. They would fight about anything. Ellie's mother would take advantage of Ellie and would make her do things. Ellie, being her outgoing self, did not appreciate that. They would always fight and bicker. Logan got mad at both of them eventually and shut himself out of their lives and their arguments. Soon Ellie got fed up with the anger when she was fourteen so she ran away.
She left with little money and little food, but she managed to survive on the cold London streets. She scraped up enough money for a cheap plane trip to Kansas. She got there and lived an okay life. People there were kind to the little British girl and she was fostered into a family with two weary parents and eight rowdy boys. She was always appreciative of the shelter and food, but she was always pushed and shoved by the other boys. So, she got fed up with them and ran away. She is a bit, well, free-spirited.
Finally, Ellie found herself in California. She was in Lake Tahoe and she found an abandoned hotel to call her home. She settled down, and she tried to convince herself that she liked her new home. But the lack of living things made her sick, uncomfortable, and lonely. It just didn't feel right to be the only living thing within dozens of miles, and she would always hyperventilate and have a nervous breakdown. She got tired of the silence and eventually ran from it like it was a monster.
Ellie lived on the streets for a while more. Monsters chased her, but in her perspective, it was so much better than being alone in a creepy old hotel. She met a girl named Astrid. They lived together and were best friends. Astrid knew Ellie was a Roman demigod so she wrote her a letter of recommendation. Astrid and Ellie were chased out of the city by baskilisks. Astrid knew they just wanted blood, one lifeless body. She made Ellie go ahead without her. Ellie didn't want to, but Astrid was already in the snakes's clasps, so Ellie ran. Halfway to the gates of Camp Jupiter she heard Astrid's scream. She was forever haunted by that scream of her best friend.
Ellie entered Camp Jupiter and became a normal girl, for once. She made friends and even reunited with her twin, Logan! She was claimed by Letus. She and her friends went to Lake Tahoe and three of them had a fight so one friend left. He was on the streets, cold and freezing, so Ellie went after him and they took a taxi to the old hotel she used to live in so he could have shelter and food. She didn't mind the hotel much since she had some one with her. That's where they are now still.

Role-playing Example: Ellie lay her head on Astrid's shoulder. She felt like she was seven again, relaxing with her family, feeling so safe and comfortable. But she knew she couldn't think like that. Keep your mind on surviving, she thought. Even though Astrid's nineteen, you can't rely on her to fend for you forever. You'refifteen. But she allowed herself to be enveloped by Astrid's warmth. The cold November air bit her cheeks but it didn't matter to her. She huddled up next to Astrid, closed her eyes, and slept.
Astrid shook Ellie frantically. "Ellie, wake up, it's time to go!" she said urgently.
Ellie woke with a start. "What's wrong?" she asked groggily.
"Monsters."
"Let's go." Ellie jumped up and gathered her things. Astrid did the same and they started running to a large tunnel. Astrid knew it was Camp Jupiter and she knew she had to go. 
Ellie started to hear hissing. "Snakes!" she screamed. She hated snakes, hated them so much. It made her run a little faster, but the snake's slender body caught up to them fast.
"Blood," whispered Astrid.
"What?" said Ellie.
"Me." Astrid stopped.
"Astrid, come on!" Ellie yelled frantically.
"No. I can't. They won't leave you alone if they don't have blood."
"What? No! Stop! Don't!"
It was too late. Astrid was already being strangled by the snake. Ellie knew she had to keep running, though. Halfway to the gates, she heard Astrid's scream.
Ellie woke up with a start. Only a dream, she thought groggily. But then she remembered it had happened, a year ago. Astrid's gone. she reminded herself. The next day is here.