"keira james? don't you mean the death kid from the hades cabin? that's what she's known as around camp anyway. oh she's terrifying, probably everyone will tell you that. she just has this aura around her screaming don't talk to me unless you want a one way ticket to the underworld. i have no doubt she can do that too, so people stay away. i don't think anyone around camp is on friendly terms with her excluding her cabinmates and the kids at the thanatos cabin, but the campers who've been here for as long as i have know that she's not all that bad. she was a cute kid when she first came here. even back then she was obsessed with death, but if you looked at her then, you'd never imagine that she'd grow into the camps scariest camper. she's just an awkward kid who doesn't know how to talk to other people normally, so people should cut her some slack."

keira has a reputation to uphold at camp. she always needs to wear black. she needs to walk as if she's the grim reaper. she needs to be snappy and hates talking to people. why? because in the nine years she's lived at camp, people have come to expect this kind of behavior from her, and keira just lives to please. kidding! she's just like this naturally. not that the expectations of people didn't have even just a miniscule effect in the development of her character, but it's not the only aspect. she actually really likes wearing black because it shows what her heart looks like (that's what she tells people when they ask, anyway). she walks like the grim reaper because sometimes, she has to fill that role when it gets too busy in the underworld, so why not walk the part? she's snappy and hates talking to people because she just has terrible social skills. a fact that she'll never admit ever.

everyone knows that keira is not a people person. campers know to stay away from keira. it's basically in camp rules after "don't ever touch the cereal supply of the demeter cabin." it's just a simple fact in life. it's not all keira's fault. she didn't get enough social interactions with living beings making her grow into an asocial girl. of course, her creepy demeanor that comes with being hades' daughter just has a way of making people steer clear from her. for keira's part, she does occasionally try to make friends. it's just that she needs to learn that growling a greeting doesn't help cause it also scares people. at this point in her life, keira doesn't even try anymore. her reputation precedes her, and she can't do anything about that. so she just does her thing, and nobody bugs her anymore.

"keira? she's a good fighter. i always try to get her cabin in our team for capture the flag. you can'tjust let an asset like her slip away, y'know? she's a beast in the battlefield. i mean, it's pretty rare to see such a determined warrior nowadays, 'specially with teenagers. just don't piss her off. she'll skewer you with your own weapon if you piss her off."

it is known throughout camp that keira is very tempremental. actually, that's putting it lightly. she's as moody as a pregrant woman. except her moodiness has almost nothing to do with her hormones. she's just naturally moody. one second she's fine, the next she's threathening a poor ten year old with decapitation. yeah, she's very moody. no one knows when she'll suddenly change moods so they just stay away just to be safe. her moodiness is probably a reason why she's always alone. she should really work on it, but seeing as she's also as stubborn as a god, that's not gonna happen soon. probably not ever.

being moody + stubborn + hot-headed = impulsive. which is bad, especially for a demigod, and especially² for a child of the big three. she often jumps into a situation, good or bad, without thinking it through, leading her to be stuck in compromising situations. like for example, a pit of monsters who wants to kill her. she's also a crass person, which honestly doesn't help her on said compromising situations. in fact, it often makes it worst. 

"kei? she's really not as bad as the other campers make her out to be. she's pretty nice sometimes. you just have to make sure not to piss her off, that's all. other than that, she's actually nice. we have nice conversations sometimes, when she's not off terrorising other kids. she's pretty smart too, and very observant of people around her. she probably knows everyone's secrets here at camp. yet, not a lot of people actually knows her. i would tell people to go talk to her more, but i don't think she'll appreciate a hoard of campers trying to ask about her interests since she dislikes most people. but she's not bad, i promise."

BACKGROUND  

mami died at childbirth
orphan™
abducted by satyr at age 7
claimed at arrival
nobody was in the hades cabin at the time so she became the counsellor whoops
first quest courtesy of her dad
idk everybody is scared of her lol

keira? please come here so you can tell the people your life story?

"no, you. go away."

*sigh* alright. since keira isn't willing to tell her story, it seems that the responsibility falls to me. hi, i'm the unreliable narrator, here to tell our dear hero's tale. who am i in regards of keira's life? who knows? am i really an unreliable narrator? you decide.

her story starts out at one am, the seventeenth of september. a woman, named elise james was in a hospital quite literally pushing a child out of her vagi---- oh, too graphic? okay i'll skip that part. um okay, wow, surprise! keira is now born! totally without hardships at all. except that's false. her mother died at childbirth, which is unfortunate because unlike her daughter, elise was a very pleasant woman. the personnel at the hospital was at a loss on what to do because dear elise came alone to the er and basically started giving birth to her child the next second. elise just barely gave keira's name "keira jacobs" before dying with her child in her arms. at first, the people tried to find anyone who could be related to keira in the city, then in the country. when they were unsuccessful, they had to give little kei to a local orphanage.

her time at the orphanage wasn't that bad. i mean, it wasn't that pleasant either, but it wasn't like absolute hell or anything like that. yeah, she was a loner even back then. the other kids tended to steer clear of her back then too. must be the aura of death eminating off of keira. she's the daughter of the lord of the underworld. it's hereditary. but back then, she didn't actively scare off people. she just didn't care much about having the company of other humans.

she started schooling soon enough, and with schooling, apparently comes with monsters. once she started schooling, she attracted monsters like a magnet. luckily, a satyr was posted on the school she was going to, and was able to fend off all of them. said satyr soon found out that fending off vengeful monsters from a seven year old child of hades isn't a sustainable plan, and he was getting tired quickly. so he abducted keira and booked it to camp half blood.

well, not really. he didn't actually abduct keira. he talked to her first and explained the situation to the kid. you can imagine keira's reaction to that talk. well, she wasn't really surprised. after all, she can see the monsters coming for her, and her gym teacher always  killing said monsters, so she was able to put two and two together even before mr. ash  (oh yeah, that's the name of the satyr) explained her heritage to her. then mr ash just manipulated the mist so the orphanage forgot about keira. it wasn't that hard, seeing as keira did nothing to make friends in the orphanage. and the journey to camp half blood begun.

wow, i made that last sentence sound like a lot of things happened during the car trip to camp, but to be honest, nothing out of the ordinary happened. it was just a normal car drive. well, as normal as a drive can be with a satyr and a young demigod. they arrived at camp at around dinner time, so there was a lot of people who saw when keira was claimed with a symbol of hades floating above her head. and everyone was just thinking, "wow, a seven year old just got claimed immediately... unfair!" not really everyone, but most did think that it was strange that she had gotten claimed immediately at seven.

i mean, most campers get claimed when they were thirteen cause contrary to popular belief, most gods are procrastinators. apparently that wasn't true for hades. a month or so later, his reason for claiming her so early became clear. a quest for keira. not only that, a solo quest. everyone was surprised, of course. who in their right mind would give a virtually untrained seven year old a solo quest?!? left with no choice but to follow her father's wishes,

keira stays at camp half blood year-round. at least, that's what she should do. truthfully, keira barely stays in camp. she disappears from camp so often, the campers don't even bat an eye anymore. she shadow travels often to places around the world to help her dad with errands or some things concerning the dead. this is kinda grim, but she's often in war torn places cause of the magnanimous amount of casualties. she just helps the lost souls get to the underworld cause often, the casualties of war aren't ready to die, and would try to stay in the world of the living. keira just gently escorts the lost souls(or drags them. take your pick) to the underworld to face their judgement.

when keira isn't off to god knows where, and she's just at camp, she's the cabin counsellor of the hades cabin. she would often be found teaching the class about weapons other than swords, and demonstrating how to fight with them. she teaches this class with a couple of other older campers cause her specialty is fighting with knives, and there are more weapons other than knives and swords. when she's not teaching, she just walks around camp, looking for things to do. she's not pretty good with boredom, tbh.