Regan Mendoza

""I'm just trying to get through all this.""

- Regan Mendoza

Regan Mendoza is the second child of Valencia Mendoza, who had a brief relationship with Hermes, god of travelers and messenger of the gods. She has a biological half sister, Erica Mendoza. She was previously a resident of the Hermes cabin. SHE IS CURRENTLY INACTIVE AND IS ASSUMED TO HAVE LEFT CAMP.

Appearance
Regan has an athletic physique, lean and toned from running and martial arts. She has darker skin based on her family background and enhanced by the sun. Her hair is black, straight, and often tied up in a pitiful ponytail due to its short length. It's still recovering from a few years ago, when she first dyed all of it purple and then chopped it all off.

In summer, she's in shorts and tank tops. Every other seasons, she's bundled in layers upon layers of hats, hoodies, and jackets. Regan tends towards more comfortable clothes, and she refuses to wear shoes she can't run in. She particularly favors beanies, bomber jackets, and boots.

Personality
Regan is an odd mix of introvert and extrovert, switching between the two opposites with ease. While she enjoys regular (if occasionally awkward) conversations with any ones who's willing, her fleeting nature makes friendships difficult. She tends to get along with people who find her aloof demeanor and sarcastic commentary entertaining, but genuine heart-to-hearts seem an impossibility. While Regan would claim to prefer it, her inability to trust most of the people around her seems to be the real culprit. She's especially close to her mom, and bases the majority of her decisions around what she needs.

Flaws
Regan is ambitious. She wants to be successful. She needs to be. She cares deeply.about her family because their success is her success, but she's constantly prioritizing herself and her desire to move forward in life, even to the detriment of others. Her relationships are transactional more than they are meaningful.

It follows that when people don't hold up on their end of the deal, she gets pissed and holds grudges. She neither forgives nor forgets, and it drives her to work harder.

Early Life
Hermes met Valencia as a successful martial arts teacher, single mother, and aspiring stuntwoman for Hollywood films. He helped her find connections in the industry, and they had a short relationship. Enter Regan, and exit Hermes.

Her mom found more and more lucrative offers, eventually making her way into some fairly successful movies, and they lived comfortably but not extravagantly. Erica left to join the military when she turned 18. And when Regan was 13, her mom got into an accident on set that paralyzed her from the waist down. They had to move in with Valencia's brother Antonio for years as they learned how to adapt.

Regan balanced helping her mom, school, and an increasingly apparent talent for both running and acting, despite her mother's wishes to push her as far away from the entertainment industry as possible. A satyr eventually found her, and she tried to ignore his attempts at friendship until he randomly showed up at her home. She tried to refuse going to camp, but her mom's insistence and the looming threat of putting her mortal family in danger forced her hand.

At Camp Half Blood
""Do most people enter... scathed?""

- Regan Mendoza

Regan entered camp unwillingly, in order to prepare for and prevent the plethora of monster attacks Dacher the satyr said would be plaguing her. Though she was 17, she had never knowingly interacted with a monster. She was initially dissatisfied with the laid-back atmosphere and kept to herself, but also regularly participated in meals, lessons, and campfires.

The Olympic Trials
Regan arrived at camp shortly before the Erymanthian Boar Trial. However, she did not participate in any of the trials, citing a lack of training and an absence of desire to injure herself and others in order to receive magic items. In the Mares of Diomedes trial, she was in the stands taking notes on the fighting techniques of her peers.