"A place for all the unwanted fuck-ups in the world? They call that Juvie in the real world, you do realise that?"
Acacia Blackwood
Age:17
Parent:Dike - Goddess of Justice
Abilities:No Mercy for the Guilty - When fighting someone who has done wrong, Acacia's attacks instantly become a lot more deadly. Any weapons she uses during this fight will be lit with a deep blue flame that will do damage if given the opportunity to. Similarly, if Acacia is fighting someone who is completely innocent, she becomes physically incapable of harming them seriously depending on the level of their innocence. If she does continue to press on attacks at this person, they will have negative effects on her.
The Eyes of Justice - For short, seemingly arbitrary bursts, Acacia is capable of seeing into people's pasts or specifically, the sins they have potentially committed in the past. While she gets these visions, she becomes temporarily blind with other symptoms including migraines and vomiting.
Dike's Binding - Acacia somehow has an affinity with most methods of binding. She'll break out of a pair of handcuffs quicker than any Hermes kid could and she has a great deal of affinity around chains. Don't question it.
Personality:At first glance, Acacia can seem almost quiet. She prefers to ignore others, finding that her visions of their past increase if she engages with them directly. That doesn't mean she's shy or unsociable. Quite the contrary, really. Acacia, if given the chance to, will be playful and a true trickster at heart. Her confidence is palpable as she doesn't find any real shame in her personality or her body. For that reason, she can be a real minx when it comes to others as she regularly leads people just for the sheer thrill of it.
Although those emotions are hers, she regularly covers the deeper ones of inadequacy and loneliness. She grew up without anyone stepping into the mother figure and with a father who was vicious at the best of times and downright inhumane at the worst. She's always been stuck at the lower echelons of society, regularly falling on the wrong side of the justice system and not particularly caring about it. For someone whose powers revolve around doing what's right, she's done more wrong than most could. She has killed, thieved and destroyed and this has taken a serious toll on her mental well-being. In essence, Acacia is a scarred soul carrying the burden of a role she doesn't want on her shoulders.
History:Dike had never had a single child throughout history. Her job was a key one and throughout most civilizations, she was held far above her station as a simple, minor Goddess. For that reason, she never had time to have children. Why she chose Acacia's father, however, the young demigod will never know. He was a detective for the NYPD and although he wasn't corrupt (yet), he wasn't exactly a glittering rainbow. Despite this, her mother had a short fling with him and after a few months, it ended with her disappearance and a new baby girl at his door.
He did alright in terms of a father for her first few years. He had a girlfriend and Acacia had a moderately decent childhood up until the age of six when her father was caught taking bribes from some of the local crimelords. His life fell apart as he lost his job, his girlfriend and most of his friends. There was something he could never let go, however - his daughter. She was there for every bout of anger, every spout of hatred. As she grew, he became more prone to heavy alcoholism. Not only that but he began to develop the idea that all his problems had stemmed from her and her mother. What started with shouting quickly turned to beatings as her father slipped down into sheer madness.
Eventually, he snapped when Acacia began to question him on who her mother was and where she had gone. One evening, when she was nearly twelve, he came at her with a kitchen knife. The first slash nearly gouged her eye out and left her with a nasty scar over it. The next caught her arm and within a second, the knife was embedded in his stomach. She hadn't meant to do it but something inside her kicked in. He actually survived and she called an ambulance but after three months of terrible pain, he died due to a strange blood poisoning.
To say she cared would be a lie - she barely even regarded him as her father. What she did care about was the fact that she was placed into social services. That lasted for about a month before she eventually ditched it for a life on the streets. Petty crime carried her for a year but as she went on with her life, she began to pick up on powers she had. Acacia had the ability to peek into people's pasts, to see what they had done wrong and that was invaluable. Not to mention she was as tough as nails. She got herself involved in some real money-making ventures with drug-runs and was eventually taken in by a local mobster who had a soft spot for her. Life was good for a while - she had a family; a broken, delusional family that loved each other to no end. She always felt like an outsider but she moulded in and for a year or two, she was raised like any teenage girl. The scars began to heal and things were looking good.
Then things took a bit of a dive - although she was the only child of Dike and monsters literally didn't know her scent, they began to pick up on her location and the smarter ones used the criminal underworld to trace her. It should have been her mother who told her but it was Zeus who sent her in the direction of Olympus Academy. Apparently she was too busy for her only daughter in eternity.
Extra: - Hasn't been at the Academy for too long
- Has a small tattoo of the
delta symbol on the inside of her right wrist
