Regina Squire

"Being a hero sucks. Being a badass hero? That's freaking awesome!"

- Regina Regina Branwen 'Gina' Squire is a Greek demigoddess daughter of Elizabeth Squire, and Zeus, Greek God of the Sky, Weather, Lightning, Honour and Justice.

Early life
"If I could go back in time to see the girl I used to be, you know what I'd do? I'd smack myself in the face and say 'Stop being such an ass!', that's what I'd do!"

- Regina reflects on her past life in front of the Hunters of Artemis. Regina was born in 1989 as a result of the relationship that began between Zeus, and millionaire businesswoman Elizabeth Squire. Zeus became attracted to Elizabeth because he admired her ambition and success, and the fact that she was so similar to him - she was almost the female equivalent, since she had two younger sisters who were both successful in sea tourism and agriculture respectively. The two of them had a relationship which ended in the conception of a demigoddess, which Zeus predicted to Elizabeth. Soon, Zeus left her and she gave birth to Regina - much like her mother, Regina had flame red hair.

Elizabeth refused to have any more relationships with any more men, considering that her relationship with Zeus had been special since she had been with a god. As a result, Regina grew up an only child, but she was not made aware of her special significance - she grew up under the concept that she was simply special as a person. With this in mind, Regina became driven to succeed to an incredible extent - even in elementary school, she was motivated to demonstrate her exceptional prowess as a person. The only thing that stopped Regina from being considered a massive know-it-all was the fact that she was dyslexic - she was unable to read English properly. Also, as a result of her ADHD which was typical of demigods, she was prone to mood swings. She became a bully to other children in elementary school, making friends with Howard Carrigan, Jane Terrance and Georgina Howard, who were respectively the nerd, the jock and the wallflower of her grade.

Spoiled rotten by her mother, Regina also excelled in physical education, becoming the captain of the school netball team by the time she was in high school and being the fastest runner in her year. However, her mother was barely ever around in the weekends due to her job and the fact that she faced constant competition from other tycoons, so a carer was hired when she was a child called Jaqueline 'Jack' Theron. Regina got on well with Jack, but she would have preferred to have her own mother at home as opposed to a surrogate. This made her withdrawn and aggressive towards others out of frustration, and one day she even beat up a fourth-grader who asked her why she was never seen walking home with Elizabeth.

Because of her status as a demigoddess, Regina attracted a considerable amount of trouble in her childhood. When she was eleven, she accidentally accessed her air powers and created a small hurricane nearby that destroyed three houses, while throwing a tantrum. In addition, she developed qualities typical of children of Zeus, including immense pride - the word of mouth was that she campaigned against the other players to be captain of the netball team. When she was thirteen years old, she encountered her first monster - the Manticore. The beast was reinterpreted by mortals for being a lion that had escaped from Central Park Zoo, and while to them it looked like they subdued the beast, to her it looked like the monster had only been injured and it spoke to her, saying it would be back. When she retold this story to Jack, the woman revealed herself to actually be a demigod daughter of Athena, who had been assigned by Hermes to take care of Regina. She explained that Regina herself was a demigod. She decided to take Regina to Camp Half-Blood.

Camp Half-Blood
Regina and Jack hailed a cab to Long Island, and along the way Jack explained to Regina the status of demigods and how Greek Gods were real. Neither of them knew who her godly parent was, since Hermes had never told her, only that she was phenomenally important. They are interrupted when the cab is pulled over by the police, who turn out to be Scythian Dracaenae. They attack the two demigods, and Jack fights them off with an axe. Regina runs, only for Jack to throw her a sword and tell her that it had been meant for Regina. Regina wields the blade against the Dracaenae, but she is outmatched since she is terrified and has no idea what she is doing. Realising this, Jack commands her to use her powers. Originally not knowing what she is talking about, Regina surprises herself when she blasts several monsters back with lightning from the sky. With the blast deterring them, Jack and Regina escaped.

They are pursued by a horde of monsters to Camp Half-Blood, which they reach on foot. When they get there, Dionysus destroys the monsters with his godly powers and allows them passage through. Regina is shocked by the events that she has witnessed, but she slowly begins to accept this. She is introduced to Chiron, who helps acclimatise her to the fact that she is a demigod. Just as they begin to debate as to who her parent is, Chiron points out the lightning bolt hovering over her head and she realises that she is a daughter of Zeus, which alarms everyone around her. After learning more about the Big Three of the Greek Gods, Regina starts to develop delusions of grandeur, which Chiron disapproves of. Regina is introduced to Clarisse la Rue, with whom she strikes up an immediate friendship due to their confident nature, as well as her introduction to Joseph King, a son of Aphrodite who helps to teach her about Greek mythology, while Clarisse trains her in combat.

Upon studying her sword, Regina learns that it is made of Celestial Bronze, and that the name upon it is Orizontas, meaning 'Horizon ' in Ancient Greek. She begins to train with the sword, but finds that she prefers other activities, including archery, netball, chariots and especially horse-riding. She bonds with Joseph, but their conversations are repeatedly interrupted when Dionysus keeps demanding to know what is so special about her. She becomes annoyed, but knows that because he is a god she cannot snap at him or in any way become aggressive towards him.

The Garden of the Hesperides
"At the Red Palace, the Warrior awaits, At the Tomb of Achilles, the Princess awaits, At the Fort of Hyperion, the Monster awaits, At the Garden of Hesperides, the Master awaits."

- The Prophecy of the Garden of the Hesperides After a few days, Regina receives a terrifying nightmare that depicts her mother being chained to a mountain and being visited repeatedly by a silhouetted figure. She reports these nightmares to Chiron, who consults with Hermes via Iris messaging. Hermes searches for Elizabeth, but is unable to find her, which horrifies Regina. She is comforted by Clarisse, but they both learn soon enough that Elizabeth is being held somewhere in the Gardens of the Hesperides. People begin to suspect the involvement of Atlas, which makes little sense since Mount Othrys is under Olympian jurisdiction to ensure that Atlas doesn't escape again. Regina doesn't care about the logistics of the situation and decides to go on a quest to find her mother at Mount Othrys. She is opposed by Joseph and Clarisse, until Regina cites her right as a daughter of Zeus not to be opposed by the likes of Clarisse. Chiron pacifies them all and assures Regina that he will authorise a quest, and she may choose her companions - she chooses Clarisse and Joseph as her companions.

Before leaving, Regina is asked to visit the Oracle of Delphi in the Big House, and when she does, the Oracle reacts violently to her. Regina demands to know what the details of the quest will include, and in response the Oracle voices a prophecy that depicts a Warrior awaiting at the Red Palace, a Princess awaiting at the Tomb of Achilles, a Stranger awaiting at the Fort of Hyperion and a Master awaiting at the Garden of the Hesperides. Regina is baffled by this prophecy, and asks who the Stranger is. Chiron identifies the Red Palace as the temple to Ares, the God of War, in Texas. To ease their journey, Chiron gives them a flying chariot made of silver. They leave Camp Half-Blood that night and fly across America, encountering a violent storm which Regina manages to calm by accessing her powers. Along the way, Regina falls asleep and dreams about her mother being tormented by the silhouetted figure.

She wakes up to reveal that they have reached the temple of Ares - an immense, red-bricked structure that looks like a palace in itself. As they fly in, they are suddenly barraged by heavy projectile fire from catapults and crossbows. The place is revealed to actually be a fortress, and Regina reads the wind in order to navigate around the projectiles, where they return fire with Joseph's bow and arrows. Joseph destroys the main defences very easily, allowing them to land, but Regina wisely insists that the chariot stay afloat in case there are any defences on the ground. They hover a few feet above the ground while the occupants of the temple approach them - there is revealed to be a small army of children of Ares, which Clarisse realises because she can often tell demigods apart from her own siblings. Clarisse manages to speak with the leader of the Templars of Ares, Kevin Thompson, who expresses that Ares has primed them recently in anticipation for a flying chariot to arrive. Regina faces Kevin and asks what is in the Temple, which makes Kevin suspicious since the Temple is theirs to guard.

When Regina explains who she is, Kevin backs off and realises that there is something in the Temple meant for her, if she can reach it. Regina and the others enters the Temple and are confronted by violent visions of a bloody battle, which they realise is a recollection of the battle between the Titans and the Olympians during the First Titanomachy. They navigate through the battlefield and make it to the other side of the temple, where a suit of armour is seen hanging from the wall. Kevin explains that the armour was delivered from Atlantis by Cyclopes, with the news that the person who wears the armour will have to venture next to the Tomb of Achilles. Expecting 'the Warrior' from the prophecy to appear, Regina is careful in approaching the armour, before suddenly Ares appears from behind the armour and asks her whether she came of her own accord, or because the Oracle sent her. Receiving the answer, Ares laughed and allowed her to take up the armour.

When Regina dons the armour, Ares explains that it was made by the Titans for Kronos' children before it was prophecised that one of them would overthrow him. Regina feels honoured to be wearing what would have been her father's armour, which Ares finds entertaining. They leave the Temple, but before they leave Kevin marks her arm with a symbol of a bull's head, stating that if ever they would need the children of Ares she need only press on that tattoo and call out his name. Regina knows that Kevin is flirting with him and sees it as a way of keeping tabs on her, but she resents the gift as she wants to use her own methods to survive. She catches Ares laughing at this. They leave and search for the 'Tomb of Achilles', which is presumably in the Underworld. They enter the Underworld via Charon, and Regina is surprised to find that her authority as Zeus' daughter doesn't work on Charon. After bribing the man with drachmas, they enter the Underworld and go to the River Styx - Clarisse remembers Sylvester Falcone telling of meeting Achilles at the River Styx. However, it is a trap and they are set upon by hellhounds. Regina tries to summon lightning, but is unable to, so she uses her air powers to lift her friends above the hounds. They reach the Tomb, where they find a paralysed Khione trapped inside it: Achilles circles them with an army of hellhounds.

After fighting off Achilles, who injures Clarisse and his hounds overwhelm Joseph, Regina hoists Khione's body out of the Tomb and makes a run for it, pushing back one of the hounds into the other so that they can clear a path. However, Achilles releases a distress signal and the Furies arrive to answer the call. They attack them, and Joseph stays behind to fight them off. Regina begs him to come with them, but he tells them to run for Chiron's portal. Joseph battles the Furies, and is overwhelmed and killed. They reach Charon's portal with Khione, who suddenly wakes up and casts a powerful wave of frost across the River Styx, stunning the hellhounds. Khione teleports them to Central Park, out of the Underworld, and then disappears. Regina despairs for Josephs death and that it should have been her to stand and fight the monsters. Clarisse sates her, and insists that they continue the quest to the Fort of Hyperion - after Iris-messaging Camp Half-Blood, they learn that the Fort of Hyperion is an ancient fortification that the Titans used during the war with the Gods back in the day.

At the Fort, which is revealed to actually be the Central Park Zoo, Regina and Clarisse search for the 'Stranger', until suddenly Hades appears and vents his rage that they have dared to come into the Underworld without his permission. He damns Regina for being a daughter of Zeus and for being a representation of her father's great hypocrisy, and vows that their friend Joseph will suffer in the Fields of Punishment for the offence they have dealt him. Regina turns arrogant and dares Hades to take his rage out on her as opposed to hurting her friends. Hades is enraged by this insult and vows that she will regret her arrogance soon enough. He then disappears, and in his place stands the Manticore that had attacked Regina a while ago. The Manticore runs amok throughout Central Park Zoo, and Regina tries to battle the beast. She has little control over her powers and accidentally sets a hot dog stand on fire, so Clarisse steps in and manages to injure the beast, before Regina holds her back and faces the beast with Orizontas. She fights the beast, and the armour proves to be useless since her right arm is broken by a swipe of the Manticore's tail, but Regina manages to stab her opponent through the upper jaw into the back of its skull, killing it. Upon the Manticore's death, the Fort is revealed and Khione stands at its top - the fort, despite being built for Hyperion, has been extinguished, and inside it is a portal to the Garden of the Hesperides. Regina continues on, even though her arm is broken. She cannot feel the pain enough.

At the Garden of the Hesperides, Khione shows Regina's mother to be at the other side, but she would have to fight her way through Hesperides in order to get there, not to mention the dragon. Regina asks why Khione was in Achilles' tomb, and Khione explains that she received a command from Olympus and was lured into the Underworld, where she was inexplicably put to sleep. They enter the Garden, where Elizabeth is trapped in a cage, hanging from a tree. Ladon appears and attacks them, and Regina manages to lure it away from the tree. Clarisse tries to get to the cage, but suddenly the Hesperides appear and entrance her into dancing with them. Realising that she is on her own, Regina summons a thunderstorm, but weakens herself physically by doing so, allowing Ladon to attack her. However, he is unable to bite through the breastplate, which surprises Regina. While Ladon chews on the armour unsuccessfully, Regina stabs him through his eye socket, then leaps down to his body and summons a bolt of lightning to her sword, before stabbing Ladon in the back, destroying him.

Having killed Ladon, Regina provokes the rage of the Hesperides, and they become violent towards her and Clarisse, who breaks out of the trance. Regina releases her mother and they make a run from the Garden, but the Hesperides are too fast. They overwhelm Regina, who can't focus enough that she can use her powers. They manage to escape the Garden of the Hesperides, before they are stopped by Khione, who sheds her disguise and reveals herself to be Hera, the Goddess of Marriage and Zeus' wife. Hera repels the Hesperides, and congratulates them on their success. Regina demands to know where Khione is, and Hera assures her that Khione is back home, safe and sound, having been rescued from the Underworld. Regina realises that it was Hera who awaited them at the Fort of Hyperion, and that she had orchestrated this whole quest. Hera justifies herself by stating that she wanted to test the daughter of Zeus, and laughingly reveals that the test has been passed - she has killed the dragon and rescued her mother. However, Clarisse realises that there is something else to it, and Hera points out that the apples of immortality are ripe for the taking, except for the fact that the Hesperides are guarding it - Regina has damaged the state of affairs by killing Ladon, who will spend a very long time in Tartarus before he can reform.

Regina deduces that it was Hera who decided that the armour she is wearing right now be for her, and Hera applauds her, explaining that the Armour of Zeus was meant to test the children of the Titans; it is now being used to tempt the daughter of Zeus, since whenever the wearer begins to experience battle hunger or hubris, the armour becomes virtually useless, which explains why the Manticore could damage Regina's arm so badly. Hera heals her arm and states that her armour is a test in itself, and Regina will have to rise to that test if she wants to be like her father. Regina says that she knows Hera hates Zeus' children, and Hera doesn't deny this, but states that she is trying to be cordial to demigods now, since marriages are built on challenges. Regina doesn't buy it, since Hera would have never tested Hercules if she'd believed this to be true. Hera opens a portal back to Camp Half-Blood

Physical appearance
Regina has a long mane of fiery red hair that she has always tried to keep past her shoulders, despite her mother's insistence that she cut it short at some point. She is considered very beautiful, but this concept is ruined by the fact that she refuses often to smile - she often complains that smiling for too long makes her mouth hurt a little. Regina has dark grey-blue eyes and a very stern, cold expression, as if everything around her is something worthy of her suspicion. Percy describes Regina as being Annabeth, 'if Annabeth had smiled less and been made of stone '. Originally her normal dress code included a red zip-up jacket and jeans, with sandals. She always wears her sword, Orizontas, at her hip.

During the Quest for the Garden of the Hesperides, Regina receives the Armour of Zeus, a symbiotic suit of armour that fits perfectly to whomever wears it. The armour includes a silver hauberk, chainmail, pauldrons, a red breastplate and a helmet shaped with an eagle's wings, as well as gauntlets. Regina prefers not to wear the helmet because it only gives her straightforward vision, rather than peripheral as well.

Personality and Traits
"You really ought to be careful how you speak to me, my dear. You think you have a temper? You have never seen your father's temper, and let me assure you he is much more...volatile than you are."

- Hera to Regina Regina, to begin, was extremely arrogant, confident and proud to a fault. She was obsessively competitive, and wanted to be the best she can be. Her arrogance comes across with her naturally aggressive nature and streak of self-righteousness, which only swells after the discovery of her being a demigod. She grows to believe that, because of her status as a daughter of Zeus, she has special entitlements and, while she does to some extent, they are not to the extent she assumes.

She is not only fiercely self-righteous, but also phenomenally independent, always wanting to keep to herself on the premise that she has only ever had to look after herself. While her mother spoiled her rotten, she was rarely ever around due to work and Regina had to grow up very quickly, so to speak. She does not accept gifts that would mean she depended on someone else, lightly, but she will gladly accept gifts that will make her stronger or more impressive. She tends to underestimate her own abilities and limitations, since her usage of the Armour of Zeus went while disregarding the power it held and the ramifications of its use. Her self-dependence is such that she is not the best at working as part of a team, which is partly the reason she lost of her friend Joseph in the Underworld.

Her most redeeming quality, perhaps, is the fact that she is exceptionally brave when she needs to be: she goes out on a quest to find her mother Elizabeth when it is learned that she has been captured, and after losing Joseph laments that she ought to have been the one to sacrifice her life so her friends could survive. Her bravery could potentially be her undoing, however, since she often enters confrontations without considering the consequences - killing Ladon in a battle resulted in the loosed protection of the apples of immortality that Ladon was guarding, which Regina didn't originally notice because her sole priority was rescuing her mother.

Abilities
TBA