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Name: Raisa Aiyana Briggs
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Godly Parent: Hypnos
Mortal Family: Darion Briggs (Step Father and works as a Forest Ranger), Cheyenne Briggs(Mother and works as a Teacher)
Appearance:
-Blue green eyes
-Dark brown hair ( length: mid back) wavy
-Short sleeve blue-green dress shirt
-Gold bangle on her left arm
-Smoky quarts angel wing necklace (very dark in coloration on the outside but cloudy in the center)
-Black jeans
-Dark brown boots
-5'4" in height when she stands up straight
Weapon of Choice: Celestial Bronze bow
Years at Camp: 1st year at start of summer
Personality: Raisa is normally a pretty mellow person who tries to make people feel right at home. She always tries to say hi to everyone hoping that she will brighten up some ones day. Raisa is also a very good listener even if she falls asleep while someone is talking to her. Her dreams will reflect what the person is talking about and she always finds a way to help if she can. However Raisa does find herself getting jumpy or excitable if she has a nightmare or fantasy based dream that seems to be happening somehow. On occasion Raisa does find herself yelling or mad but it passes rather quickly as she is trying to avoid major confrontation. Raisa doesn't like fighting in any sense of the word but she will fight if there is no other alternative.

Skills:
*Sleeping
*Finding dream meanings
*pretty good at creating stories
Abilities: (added once claimed)
Information: Raisa was born in Kansas and lived there till the age of five when her family was forced to move after their home was destroyed by a tornado. During the night of the tornado Raisa had fallen asleep early that evening but had a dream of monsters and people like her parents fighting. She awoke with tears on her cheeks but when a flash of lightning struck near her window she began to scream in terror remembering the lightning was angry for some reason with the parents. Her mother came running in to check on her daughter when she realized that the weather was indeed becoming much to unstable for her liking. Cheyenne grabbed her daughter while yelling to her husband telling him to go to the basement. The family barely made it into the storm shelter when the tornado hit.

Several days after the event Darion decided to take his family and move back to his home state of Pennsylvania where tornadoes were less common. The moved to the northwestern part of the state where they lived out in the country near the National Forest. There when Raisa wasn't in school she spent a lot of time out doors with the man who she knew to be her father and her mother. They would walk in the woods while her mother would tell her the Native American stories that her great grandmother told her when she was a very young girl.

It wasn't till Raisa got to the age of fourteen when her parents knew that there was something amiss. Raisa awoke the next morning and woke her mother and father. She didnt know why but she felt the need to explain the nights trip to the home of her ancestors. She told her mom about three men who were watching her as she went through her spirit trial. The trial was exactly as her mom told her they were for her great grandmother. She was learning the truths that were hidden from her by her mind and protected in her soul. At the beginning of the trial she found her spirit guide who was a majestic ancient eagle. It led her through her trial of fear helping her to understand why she had a fear of storms and how to raise above it. She relived the day of the tornado and felt a surge of fear as she seen the dream all over again and found herself running away. When she seen the three men she felt like they were somehow connected to her and her eagle. She fought the urge to run and willed herself through it learning to not let her fear cripple her. She looked back at the men knowing that this was only the beginning for her to truly find herself in the most confusing time of her life as a teenager. They nodded to her and then vanished ending the dream before she could wander to close to them.Her father looked down and wiped a tear from his eye. He held onto Cheyenne hand as she then told her daughter that when she turns sixteen that there was a camp she could go to in the summer if she desired to instead of staying at their friends cabin near Long Island.

The next two years were normal for the most part and on her sixteenth birthday her mother gave her a necklace box and told her about the camp once more. She told her that it was for people like her that were talented in many different area's and she would have many new friends if she went. In the box was a smoky quarts angle wing and she instantly fell in love with it. Cheyenne then told her daughter about that her biological father was the one who gave her the present and that he wanted to see her this summer at camp.

Likes: Music (mostly instrumental), walking in the woods or on the beach, dreaming journal writing, and story telling
Dislikes: Loud music, insomnia, forgetting her journal or her pen, forgetting her necklace
Fears: Storms, War, Losing a friend or loved one

Hello,

Thank you for pointing out both area's to me. I kind of figured that those areas would need a bit more work and I do apologize for not editing it after I posted it and read through it last night.