Before the events that changed her personality dramatically, Iliana was a sweet girl with a shy personality. This was due to her empathy and she got sick a lot as a child, even before losing her father. Due to this, Demeter had a more direct hand in training her, especially when it wad discovered her emotions were linked to her emotions. Despite all of her training, she still struggled to balance herself out.

At an early age she discovered she had a talent for gardening, and loved doing things with her hands. Loving the earth just as much as her mother, she took every opportunity to be outside just to be around the things she grew. She learned to be patience and this activity always brought her inner peace. Even inside, she had indoor plants in her room.

After being rescued from her recent ordeal though, she became a shell of herself. There’s a part of her that hates what she’s become because she doesn’t want to worry her mother, adopted family, and more recently her new friend Ethan. She is mute now because she can’t find her voice. So for communication purposes, she uses a note pad to write things down. While she’s still recovering, she’s has never given up on herself. She doesn’t want to be a burden and knows somehow she’ll make it through. Finding herself though will still be hard due to her fears. She honestly doesn’t mind her adoptive brother’s protective nature either.

Iliana’s father, Carter Remington, was a philanthropist and traveled a lot to make sure to help those less fortunate then him. It was this kind personality that attracted the attention of Demeter. Carter, a romantic at heart, quickly fell for her and it didn’t take long for the two to get together, but not before Demeter revealed her divine nature to him. He wad dumbfounded at first but after seeing what she could do, did believe her. Soon though Demeter had to leave for a bit and Carter didn’t see her for months, so one could imagine how shocked her was when Demeter suddenly appeared pregnant and about soon to give birth.

Carter doted on Iliana in the short time he had her and called her Lia and his ‘little dove’. It was apparent at an early age she loved being outside around nature and she would travel with him everywhere he went. Iliana doesn’t have many memories of her dad, but she does know she was close to him and loosing him had a major effect on her. When Iliana was 5, someone broke into their home in Atlanta, which woke up Iliana and her father. The intruder ended up killing her father when he tried to stop him and soon came after Iliana, but in her fear, her agrokinesis appeared and the plants in her room started growing and trapping the guy. Demeter was then seconds later, having felt her daughter’s distress, and took care of the human. To help Iliana recover, Demeter kept her daughter around for a few weeks in her own domain, but knew her daughter couldn’t stay with her, especially since she was neglecting her duties. Going to her fellow gods and goddesses, it was Athena who suggested that Iliana live with her son’s, Heath's family, especially since he lived in an area that wasn’t hugely populated. Demeter did just that and Heath’s father and family were more then willing to adopt Iliana.

Iliana was shy but grew to love her new home. Much like her new adoptive brother, Heath, she was homeschooled, but mostly by his aunts since she only retained basic intellect, plus one of the his aunts was an empath herself while the other was a Wiccan who grew her own garden. Both helped Iliana with her empathy and gardening skills. Still, Iliana struggled with her empathy since she could also feel when the earth was suffering. Her powers develop quickly and Demeter visited frequently to help her, much to Iliana’s delight. She was sad when Heath moved out when she was only 15. It was by this time she wanted to try doing things for herself too. Wanting to help others like her biological father did, she started getting into herbalism and would donate some of her things to neighbors. By the time she was 17, she did well enough to graduate early too. Deciding to go to the local college, it would be here that the unexpected happen.

Iliana did her best to conceal her abilities and it was why she didn’t want to go to large university. However, one day she was practicing her skills on her own in what she thought was an isolated area, but someone spotted her meditating while levitating in mid-air. This human just happened to be a student from the same college, who’s father was a scientist. After telling his father about what he saw (and he even recorded her doing it as proof), the scientist got his son to befriend her, which he did. Still, Iliana was wary of her new friend due to feeling that he wasn’t 100% honest. Unfortunately, her instincts would prove to be true. One night, Iliana was kidnapped from her own bed. She had been knocked out and taken to an underground hidden facility. Turns out that scientist was looking for people with ’special abilities’ and wanted to use people like Iliana as ‘test subjects’. Iliana did her best to escape, but every time she tried, she was found. It would be almost a week when the college discovered she was missing, but by this time Demeter had already figured it out and was livid and terrified for her daughter. So much so, she asked for the assistance of several gods to find her. Lucky for Iliana, she was found and rescued by her mother, Hermes, and Athena. The whole facility was destroyed and the humans there felt with. The whole ordeal traumatized Iliana and before taking her back to Earth, Iliana was allowed to heal physically under the careful watch of her mother and Apollo. By this time she was 18.

The young demigod was never the same once she was back home. She refused to leave her room at first and only Heath’s aunts were allowed to see her and they had to physically take care of her at first for she had emotionally and physically shut out everyone. It was one of the aunt’s ideas for Iliana to move in with Heath and his roommate, Ethan, seeing how they were out in the country and the open spaces might due Iliana some good. Also, Iliana slowly starts trying to communicate again, especially after her mother visits her and suggest she write her thoughts down to see if it’ll help. Iliana allows this and being out in the country does help her. She ignores Ethan at first, but his sincerity does slowly get through to her and she slowly opens up to him. Knowing her daughter has to become stronger, Demeter finally decides she wants her to go to Camp Athens and hopes being around more demigods will help her open up more. Iliana is terrified of this idea at first, despite coming leaps and bounds in her recovery, but with the encouragement of her adoptive family and Ethan, she agrees to it. Unfortunately, she still suffers from nightmares and her crying is still the only sound she makes.