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Anikthea was born an only child to Poseidon and her mortal mother, Elizabeth who worked in a small coastal town in Greece. Her mother worked as a scuba instructor and helped take out tourists to see the wildlife out on the reefs. During one of those trips when she had a diving accident she was ripped in by a strong undertow and by some miracle was saved by a charming man who she later found out was the god poseidon. Supposedly they fell in love but Anikthea doubts her father's capacity for love. She was born about two years after they first encountered each other and while her father made the occasional appearance, it was primarily up to her mom to raise her.

Anikthea wasn't a hard child to please, although it proved difficult to get the girl away from the ocean and to go to school as she was supposed to. It was where she felt at home, rather than in the stone walls of a school. Her mom made sure that she finished school. Over her childhood her abilities started to show, first she discovered that she could talk to aquatic creatures, which only caused it to be more difficult for her mother to get her away from the ocean. Then she discovered that she could breathe under water and dive to depths most people couldn't, no longer having a need for a scuba tank when she and her mother would go diving. The most difficult one was walking on water because it was something she discovered she had to greatly focus on if she didn't want to just fall through the surface and into the water.

It was a few years later that she discovered while on land that she could bend and manipulate water. Having got the hang of her other abilities this one was her new challenge. During her high school years Anikthea joined the school swim team and quickly became the star of the team, setting new records. In her senior year she was sent to the olympics as part of the swim team and came home with several gold medals. After she left high school, she competed for about a decade, building up a line of accolades and awards.


After she retired Anikthea took to coaching at different universities in America, moving to a different university ever three or four years for a change of scenery and to avoid her biological father. Her life became a touch monotonous but it was hers, untouched by her father who insisted that she had 'godly' responsibilities as his child. Occasionally she would help him when she had the time but that changed when she met the man that would become the love of her life, Nikolai Drakos. He wasn't a coach for one of the other teams but a camera man at the event, and she'd been getting ready to head back to the hotel when he struck up a conversation with her. He ended up asking her out for coffee and with the insistence of her swimmers, who claimed that she needed some form of love in her life as they had yet to see any, she went with him.

The two of them really hit it off and they exchanged numbers, they called back and forth for a while and when Anikthea left her coaching job to take a few years off for herself, they reconnected in person. The two of them fell hard and fast, getting married after two years, shortly after which they welcomed into the world a baby girl, Abigail. Life was perfect for several years. Occasionally Anikthea's father would reach out to her and insist that she was neglecting her responsibilities and she refused to acknowledge him. As a result, one day she came home to what was her father's wrath.

Poseidon had killed her husband and daughter, while she had been away at work. It absolutely destroyed her and she shut the world out, moving to Arizona where she was as far away from the Ocean as she could be in the United States. The only source of comfort she had was her one friend, Dante. They had met during 9/11 and had quickly figured out they were both demigods. She had pleaded for him to bring back her daughter and husband but he didn't have that power. So, he offered her what comfort he could and for five years, she seldom left her home. During those years she was in a very dark place, cut off from the ocean which was so often her place of comfort and alone aside from the visits that Dante made periodically.

Finally with a gentle push from Dante and having found her resolve, she has finally left her home and has agreed to help her father. While she has told him that she will help him, she has promised herself that she would one day kill her father, to make him pay the price for how he'd hurt her. She bears a necklace with the names of Abigail and Nikolai and never takes it off. Anikthea is planning her moves carefully, knowing that she is only going to have one shot at striking down her father. If someone has to take up his mantle she will do it, whatever the cost to herself she will pay it.