"If you mean general battle I am better then most with the power to control earth and water I can handle most battles easily however if you mean weapons training hand to hand combat and archery I am not great at it. In all honestly I can fire off ice shards far faster then arrows with more accuracy and use the earth to defend myself so I have never really needed it"
When I first read this it thoroughly confused me, then after looking through the Character Tab it just really bothered me. Honestly I feel like I should just let it go cause this is really just meant to be fun and not taken too seriously. I feel like I might be stepping on other people's ability to enjoy the RP by pointing stuff like this out but I'm a bit OCD which among other things means I'm really bothered when the details are out of sync, I tried to let it go and I just can't, it keeps nagging at me so I'm going to say it here and whatever you want to do with it that's your lookout.
Able to manipulate the earth as well as plants from Demeter
Able to create and manipulate water/ice from Artemis lunar powers
Able to heal herself and others
It seems like Rose has four (possibly five depending on how you divide them up) spheres of influence only one of which actually falls under the realm of her godly parent. Earth is the domain of Gaia, Water belongs to Poseidon, Ice falls under the influence of Boreas: The Cold North Wind, and Healing is one of Apollo's virtues. Only the plant manipulation actually falls under Demeter's abilities.
I can sort of see how you got to each of these,
Earth: Plants grow in the earth so Demeter has some measure of control there
Water: Plants need water to live
Healing: Growth is the process of a plant evolving and repairing itself
The ice abilities become a little more of a stretch. I think the logic goes something like this: Artemis is the goddess of the moon, the moon shines primarily at night, at night the temperature drops, ice forms in cold temperatures thus Artemis controls ice.
The Artemis abilities are the ones that bother me the most. In mythology Artemis is basically only the goddess of the moon to serve as a counterpart of Apollo being the sun god. While a number of his myths involve him driving the sun chariot and so forth Artemis' relationship to the moon is basically limited to her being the sun's twin and no more. She is much more strongly identified as the goddess of the hunt which is what the majority of her stories are about.
Leaving aside however whether Artemis has the kind of domain Rose's character sheet seems to indicate the real problem is her passing those abilities on to her followers. The Hunters of Artemis as we're using them in the RP originate almost entirely from the Percy Jackson book series. They're essentially a merging of the choir of Nymphs and Oceanids that Zeus gifted to Artemis with the idea that any female who joined Artemis on a hunt was required to swear a vow of chastity (the men who joined her on hunt usually ended up dead). In the myths there's no mention of Artemis bestowing special powers on those she hunted with and in the Percy Jackson books the abilities granted to the Hunters was immortality and the training that goes along with joining a group of people who have been hunting divine beasts for thousands of years.
Which kind of brings me to my next issue. Why is Rose severly under trained in the realm of hand to hand combat and archery? She is quite literally a handmaiden to the Goddess of Archery. Why would she be sent off on a solo mission to Olympus Academy if she's such a junior member of the Hunters that she can barely fire a bow?
Okay that went on a bit and I'm really not trying to make you feel bad but I just want to make this point:
The kind of logic that seems to be involved in giving Rose several of her abilities is the same kind of logic that could justify any demigod being able to control the domain of any other demigod no matter how far it is from their godly parent's actual sphere of influence. For instance: Poseidon and Zeus seriously hate each other right? The sea kids shouldn't have any possible way to influence the sky and air kids shouldn't have control over the sea. And yet using this type of logic Poseidon's demigods can control the air because water exists in the air as vapor. Likewise Zeus's demigods can control water because water molecules are one third oxygen.
It creates serious problems over who can do what when a demigod of the harvest is controlling the earth like a primordial and water like a sea god. My best guess is that given the level of some of the other character's powers being able to manipulate plants felt a little bit weak in comparison. That I get but instead of tacking on a bunch of extra things that only sort of fit why not instead focus on the godly parents primary attribute and just run wild with its possibilities.
For example this is a list of some of the abilities of one of the daughters of Demeter from the new Percy Jackson books.
Chlorokinesis: As a daughter of Demeter, Meg has absolute control over plants, manipulating them to a multitude of effects.
- Plant Telekinesis: She is able to telekinetically manipulate fruits and vegetables, thus saving Apollo from two thugs.
- Plant Sensitivity: She can sense the location of various plants with superhuman precision. This is seen when she was able to quickly detect the odor of a golden apple in the Labyrinth. She later claims to have the ability to "hear" trees growing.
- Culinary Arts: As a daughter of Demeter, Meg is a natural cook.
I know this doesn't sound all that impressive but think of it like this. Rose could carry around say a half dozen different seed pouches that spawn a variety of plants. In battle she could thrown down six watermelon seeds which rapidly mature into two pound watermelons that then launch themselves at her enemies like catapults. Smaller fruit would work too, I mean getting pelted with over ripe peaches so they splatter all over you isn't good or under ripe mangos so they're hard as rocks.
In a bind she could cause ordinary things to start growing again. Think of the amount of natural material that goes into basically everything nowadays. She's running from bad guys and as she runs she causes the floorboards beneath her feet to grow into thick clingy branches that block the path of the person or thing chasing her. Get creative with it. You don't need to tack on a hundred different abilities, just one or two really powerful ones.
