<div align="center"><strong>Cabin #9: Hephaestus</strong><br/><br/>Hephaestus' cabin (#9) is made of brick and has a smokestack sticking out of it, like a tiny factory. It is noted for being unclean and messy, filled with junk most of the time. </div><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Details-Ryan.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv306/MrsBr0nxM0bster/TRUE%20BLOOD/293kwantanryan061109.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Vincent "V" Masterarm<br/><strong>God or Goddess Parent:</strong>Hephaestus<br/><strong>Claimed or Unclaimed:</strong>Claimed, Leader of Hephaestus Cabin<br/><strong>Age:</strong>20<br/><strong>Fatal Flaw:</strong>Extreme Pride<br/><strong>Weapon or Skill:</strong>Mechanical Genius<br/><strong>Tattoos:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>A "kiss" mark on his chest, over his heart.(red ink)</li><li>Located on his back, no color yet just the outline. (http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq73/vcherry1313/mans_ruin_lucky_131.jpg)</li><li>Located on the right arm, the flames make a sleeve that end at the bend of his elbow. (http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg218/angelofdeath77/gothic/Lucky_13.jpg)</li></ul><strong>Background:</strong>Having been brought to Camp Half-Blood last year by a satyr in disguise as a cop, Vincent had a rough start, but settled in quickly. At first he thought the camp was some kind of reform place for troubled kids. After being caught climbing out Abigale's cabin window in his attempt to run away, she managed to show him around and slowly work it into his head what Camp Half-Blood, and himself, really were.<br/><br/>Vincent wasn't unclaimed for long. After working for the Hermes cabin in building a chariot for the races and winning the race, his father claimed him. He was the son of Hephaestus.<br/><br/>During his first summer at Camp Half-Blood, he had a small fling with Abigale Norwick, the Daughter of Hermes and Leader of Hermes Cabin. At the end of the summer they had a mutual parting since Abigale was going to try to take some college classes back in New York. He was soon given a quest by his father that took him away from the camp for most of the fall, winter, and spring.<br/><br/>Before Camp Half-Blood, Vincent spent most of his life alone, having left his foster home at the age of fifteen.<br/><br/><strong>Dress Style:</strong><br/>Jeans, leather jackets, cowboy shirts, cowboy hats, cowboy boots, racing boots, sleeveless shirts.<br/><br/><strong>Gamer:</strong>Aiden<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><hr/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Vanessa Concepcion<br/><strong>God Parent:</strong>Hephaestus<br/><strong>Claimed or Unclaimed:</strong>Claimed<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Any Background Info:</strong><br/><br/>Vanessa's grandfather was a laborer from Cuba who immigrated to Miami during the revolution.  He worked his way up to a subcontractor, starting a family with an aspiring actress turned waitress.  Having no son to inherit his business, he was loathed to hand it off to his only daughter despite her constructive ingenuity and ability to build with her mind before her hands got dirty.  It was this mechanical aptitude which attracted divine attention, though Vanessa claims her talents came more from tinkering in her grandfather garage before his death when she was eight than any godly influence.  Vanessa was weak at birth, the doctors blaming her mother's busy pregnancy and exposure to toxic building materials for her disability.  As a single mother running her own business, Vanessa's mom had little time for her daughter, placing her in a school solely for special needs students.  Vanessa chafed under the staff and teachers, being mentally capable but few seeing through her disability.  The one class she enjoyed was photography, an art which allowed her to admire beautiful things and not ruin them with her clumsiness. After years of embarrassingly soft discipline and faded, blurry photos of "monsters", a satyr finally took Vanessa to another "special school".<br/><br/><strong>Fatal Flaw:</strong>Weak-willed to beauty; physical disability [mild cerebral palsy]<br/><strong>Weapon or Skill:</strong>Crafting traps, senors, and mechanical contraptions of every stripe<br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong><br/>(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs6/i/2005/056/c/0/my_photographer_by_bingevil.jpg) (http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/110326/09/4d8e1a198ba5d.jpg)<br/>This is how most people ever get to see Vanessa: a lens in front of a droop of smooth, black hair.<br/><br/>When she lowers the camera, her face is round with the dark eyes and dusky skin of her Latin decent.  Usually she dresses casually in a fitted t-shirt and baggy jeans.  If required to wear shoes, she prefers flip-flops or flexible sandals, having learned from a young age that hard-soled shoes only exasperated her already precarious balance.  Though usually curled around her camera, her right hands retains its loose C shape even when empty, a sign of her poor dexterity in her non-dominant hand.  She does not shy from battle although she is notorious for falling, tripping and missing her blows in a very unendearing fashion.  She dresses for battle in standard camp issue with a few minor mechanical additions.<br/><br/><strong>Gamer:</strong>Star Safyre