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Legacy of Hephaestus and Aphrodite, future champion of Athena

These are all from Google ouo

Claire was born into a dysfunctional family: a bipolar mother, a drunk father, and a schizophrenic brother. Fortunately, her father wasn't the abusive type, just the mopey depressing kind of drunk. Her mother was tolerable, but whenever she was in one of her fits, Claire knew to steer clear. Claire loved her little brother to bits, always babysitting him after school.

Claire was barely nine years old when she was first attacked. It had been one of the rare days her mother was stable enough to take care of her brother, and Claire was free. Due to aforementioned family problems, Claire had been forced to grow up quickly, and thus tended to play outside without any adult supervision. She was stalked by a seemingly perverted man in a trench coat in the park. When a passing adult threatened to call the police, the man revealed what he really was - a Cyclops. Terrified, all the mortals in the park ran away, no doubt seeing some sort of terrorist or something, leaving Claire all alone.

A frightened Claire tried to run away, but her attempt failed. Scared out of her wits, Claire used her power of technokinesis for the first time on an abandoned popcorn stand. The Cyclops was thus buried under a mountain of freshly popped kernels and Claire managed to get away.

After informing her mother that night, who luckily wasn't in one of her fits, Claire's mother explained who Claire's real father was - Hermes. Claire didn't believe her until her friend Jerry came by two days later, explaining that he was a satyr, and thus Claire's protector. Though it was hard for Claire to accept, she had to leave her family and head for CHB due to the fact she had been marked as a powerful demigod.

Seeing as she lived in the Bridgeport Area of Connecticut, specifically Shelton, it wasn't too hard to get to Long Island. Claire and Jerry hitchhiked all the way, occasionally stumbling upon monsters and narrowly escaping. Upon arriving in Camp Half-blood, they were being pursued by a flock of Stymphalian birds. Claire discovered and had managed to use her power of pyrokinesis, killing the birds, but with the cost of passing out.

Claire was sent to the infirmary for recovery, and for her first week she was nursed back to health. After coming to, she was shown around camp, eventually meeting her first friend - Calliope - in the fighting arena, where her future friend was trying out her daggers on the training dummies. After a small skirmish with some other campers, Claire became fast friends with the Hecate demigod.

Claire is a valuable asset to her team during Capture The Flag, however, standing with her best friend Claire, she refuses to fight against the Athena and Hecate cabins.

Due to her carefree, joking and prankster attitude, Claire is well-liked by most demigods, as she is always fun to be around. However, she tends to cut down any boy who attempts to flirt with her, which is quite often since she is unknowingly a descendant of Aphrodite.

Italics means Claire is mostly unaware and unskilled at using these. Also, once again, this is just a list of what she's capable of. I'm not giving Claire BOOM LOTSA POWERS automatically. If you've read her history, the first time she used pyrokinesis, she passed out. Like all demigods, doing something major has a price.

Hephaestus Inherited Abilities/Powers:
➽ Pyrokinesis: It is the ability to control fire well as being completely immune to being burned by fire

➽ Technokinesis: Technokinesis, or Technopathy, is the ability to either manipulate machines by physically animating them or controlling them like puppets or communicate with machines, technology, lamps, vacuums, or any other machine.

Aphrodite Inherited Abilities/Powers:
➽ Amokinesis: Amokinesis is the ability to control the emotion of love or desire.

➽ Charmspeak: Charmspeaking is a rare type of hypnotism ability that chosen children of Aphrodite possess. (Though, seeing as she's a descendant of Aphrodite, the goddess herself blessed Claire, I guess? Also, some other magical beings, like Circe (daughter of Hecate), can use charmspeak.)

➽ French: Language of love.

➽ Beauty: She is able to radiate beauty, regardless of how she may look. This ability sometimes prevents enemy forces from willingly attacking her, even as she charges them head-on. (Copied straight from Piper McLean's wiki profile.)

Athena's Blessings:
➽ Divine Wisdom

➽ Strategy and Battle Skill: Spending time with Calliope and the other Athenian demigods has enhanced this.

Hermes Inherited Abilities/Powers:
➽ Transgressing Realms: Ability to cross through realms of any god freely.

➽ Enhanced Speed

➽ Lock Manipulation and Intuition: Manipulation causes her to be able to sense the internal structure and mechanisms of any lock she touches, and is almost always able to make it unlock. She can also do this telekinetically. Intuition causes her to be able to instantly identify curses and traps placed on locks, and deactivate them.

➽ Money Manipulation: Manipulating the stock market, cheers!

➽ Enhanced Thievery

➽ Persuasion

➽ Ancient Greek Alchemy: Claire's natural knack for this is helpful when mixing up things for new projects. Her spent time with Hecate demigods has enhanced this ability.

Standard Demigod Skills:
➽ Fighting Skills

➽ ADHD

➽ Dyslexia

On another happy note, she has ichthyophobia (fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish), melissophobia (fear of bees), and coulrophobia (fear of clowns.)