History Characters / TheHeroesOfOlympus

* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: With Leo.]]

* NeverMyFault: Zeus blames Apollo and Hera for the second giant war. He claims Apollo appointing a new oracle, revealing the prophecy, and giving his blessing to Octavian speed up the prophecy speed up the rise of the giants and the war between the Roman and Greek demigods. He blames Hera for her meddling narrowed the possibilities on how the prophecy could have unfolded. He is only partially right since Apollo's blessing ignited the war, but Apollo has little control over new oracles and cannot always control when a prophecy is spoken. On Hera's part, several of the giants had already risen and were rising more before any of the Seven were born. Following Zeus' plan of doing nothing would have had Porphyrion rising at full strength, Hera no more, and Olympus imploding without her to hold the Olympians together.

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* DemotedToExtra: In the last series, he featured more often due to him being Percy's dad, but Percy mentions that the last time he'd seen his father was [[Literature/TheLastOlympian on his sixteenth birthday]]. He [[BackForTheFinale finally appears]] in ''The Blood of Olympus''.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: At least as far as Jason is concerned.

* EquivalentExchange: In the original series, she took one of her children's eyes to influence Camp Half-Blood's victory. In ''Mark of Athena'', she offers the same for Leo, a heavy price for her help should he need it.
** [[spoiler: Leo uses her offer to save Hazel and Frank's lives... which comes at the cost of trapping Percy and Annabeth in Tartarus.]]

Once god of the biggest river in Greece; currently stuck on Hercules' island as a punishment (whether it's for him or Hercules isn't clear)

* AbhorrentAdmirer: seems to have been one for Deianara. It's never occurred to him that she didn't want to marry a bull with a human head who lives in a river.
* AntiVillain: tries to drown Jason and Piper, but is really kind of pitiable and, to be fair, they were trying to take his other horn.

* {{Determinator}}: Started with no advantages in life, but still was able to get a PhD and become a successful author, and has no intention of letting gods or monsters get the better of him.

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Counterpart to the Three Fates.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.

* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to his brother, {{Foil}}, and sometime partner Krios.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Krios.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.

* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Hyperion's Red.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Hyperion.

Titan of Foresight and Lord of the North. [[spoiler:Also the grandfather of Artemis and Apollo]].

* CharmPerson[=/=]JediMindTrick: She has the power of charmspeaking.

!![[spoiler:Khione]]
[[spoiler:See the "Wind Gods" folder above.]]

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%%[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]]

Athena's most famous rival and the mother of all spiders. Guards the [[spoiler:Athena Parthenos]] against all of her children who try to claim it.

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* FearsomeFoot[=/=]SmellyFeet: Tells Hazel and Jason that they have to clean his feet to let him go. Neither of them are happy about it, because his feet are absolutely ''disgusting'', but also because as soon as you bend down, he kicks you right off the cliff.

* BadassNormal[=/=]UnfazedEveryman: Despite being the Oracle, she is a mortal amongst demigods. Doesn't bother her.

* Traits carried over from the previous series: FieryRedhead, SignificantGreeneyedRedhead, SecretlyWealthy, SpoiledSweet, TheSmartGirl, ISeeThemToo, {{Bookworm}}, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (to mortals), FanNickname (R.E.D), GenreSavvy, GenkiGirl, GreenEyes, PluckyGirl, RebelliousPrincess[=/=]TomboyPrincess (as a business heiress), SpiritedYoungLady.

* NoNameGiven[=/=]UnnamedParent: The only one of the Seven's mortal parents to not be named. She's finally named by the last book.

* DistressedDude[=/=]ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:He's held hostage in ''The Lost Hero'' to blackmail his daughter]].
* FakeNationality: In-universe, he never plays a Native American in any movie he's in, despite being Cherokee.
* HostageSituation[=/=]IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Gaea kidnaps him so that Piper will do what she wants.]] It doesn't work.

* DyingAsYourself[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Only came back to her normal self before dying with Hazel on the sinking island]].

* AscendedExtra: He's a minor character in ''The Last Olympian'', but makes a return as a more prominent supporting character.
** [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven in the last portion of ''The Blood of Olympus,'' where he partners up with Nico throughout the last battle and afterward.]]

* [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou I Like You Because I Don't Scare You]]: Implied to be part of why Nico likes him. Will doesn't take any of his attitude and isn't afraid to boss the incredibly powerful son of Hades around for his own good.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: A platonic version with Clarisse.

* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Implied to be this to Nico, after Percy, as of the final book]].

* HeavySleeper: See above.

* ShoutOut: He works with handling the camp's Pegasi. He has a rainbow tattoo. Rainbow. Pegasi. [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Do the math.]]

* CharmPerson[=/=]JediMindTrick[=/=]CompellingVoice: She and Piper are the only known demigods capable of charmspeaking as of now.
* EvilCounterpart[=/=]ShadowArchetype: To Piper. They're both daughters of Aphrodite and have the rare "charmspeak" ability, but Drew uses it to bend the other Aphrodite campers to her will, as opposed to Piper.

* {{Adorkable}}

* [[ILetGwenStacyDie I Let My Mother Die]]: Revealed in ''The House Of Hades'' that [[spoiler: while he was bringing Clarisse in to Camp Half-Blood, his mother contacted him in a panic. He couldn't believe anyone would try to hurt a cloud nymph, so he brought the demigod in before looking for his mother. He never found her. Lends his fears for his wife and baby just that extra edge.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: With Mellie, an air nymph.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and His Giant Automaton Dragon]]: With Leo.

** OurRobotsAreNonstandard

* [[SmugSuper Smug Speedster]]: He has an ego to match his top speed.

** AmnesiacDissonance: When he remembers his past, however, he gets darker.

* AscendedExtra: He only appeared in a side story to the original series...
** [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunman]]: ...but later became incredibly important in the fourth book.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With the other Titans. He's the resident Phlegmatic.

* {{Jerkass}}: [[CharacterDevelopment But only as Iapetus]].
** Even then, given Hyperion's words about him [[spoiler:being the only one who felt regret about aiding in Ouranos' dismemberment, it's likely he might have been an AntiVillain]].

* [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Broke Your Arm Punching Out the Titans]]: They're in no shape to defeat the giants because they're still recuperating from the last Titan war, with divine schizophrenia from their Greek and Roman sides as icing on the cake.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld[=/=]TimeAbyss: They've been around since before the fall of the Titans, as they represent humanity's concepts.

* BabysitterFromHell[=/=]MagicalNanny: For Leo.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Goddess]]: Presented as this in ''The Lost Hero''. She is stated to be the primary peacekeeper on Olympus and proposes the compromises that keep Olympus from falling apart thanks to her focus on family and duty. With her missing the egos and personality quirks of the other gods threaten to tear the world apart unless she is returned.

* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]]: Juno briefly pretends to be an old hippie lady dressed in trash bags when she dishes out her SadisticChoice to Percy. She drops the act once they make it to Camp Jupiter.

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* TheComicallySerious

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: He has jurisdiction over borders, and this is used in the fight against Polybotes.

* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder[=/=]EmpathicShapeshifter: She takes the form of those others want revenge on. Leo sees his Aunt that called him a Devil Child for causing her sister's death. Hazel sees her as a long dead SternTeacher.

* TwoRoadsBeforeYou[=/=]AtTheCrossroads: Hecate is the goddess of crossroads, and as such can predict possible outcomes each choice will lead into. [[spoiler:In ''The House of Hades'', she shows Hazel three possible outcomes their crew could end up with given their precarious situation, and none of them are pretty.]]

* [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Attack Of the Forty Foot Night Goddess]]

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** LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine

* EldritchAbomination[=/=]HumanoidAbomination: Seeing as her body is ''the entire planet''.

* BigBadDuumvirate[=/=]TheDragon: Implied by his dialogue, and a logical conclusion given that he fathered the Giants with Gaea and is by far the most powerful of her affiliates.

* EldritchAbomination[=/=]EldritchLocation: The realm of Tartarus is his body, and when he [[HumanoidAbomination assumes a form to deal with them personally]] Percy and Annabeth have a hard time looking directly at him.

* KickTheDog[=/=]KickTheSonOfABitch: We probably weren't supposed to feel bad for [[spoiler:Hyperion and Krios]], but his reason for doing what he did to them just makes it callous.

* TheDragon [=/=] NumberTwo: To Gaea, spanning the time period from the forties to Porphyrion's rise.

* MadeOfIndestructium[=/=]NighInvulnerability: Except if he's out of his homeland Alaska.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Father]]: Takes Tristan [=McLean=] hostage to force Piper's allegiance.

Counterpart to Hecate. [[spoiler:Incinerated by Hecate. With the liberation of the Doors of Death from Gaea's control, he is currently the only destroyed member of the Giants.]]

** EnergyAbsorption: Since his ArchEnemy is the goddess of magic, Clytius was designed to absorb all her magic attacks.

* CreepyBlueEyes: Take one look at his [[http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110906162635/olympians/images/0/04/Octavian_full_body.jpg art]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: [[spoiler:It's implied that he has BelligerentSexualTension with Nico, although it's left ambiguous if it went anywhere]].

* ActionGirl[=/=]{{Badass}}: Causing precious metal avalanches and holding off the Romans atop Arion with her cavalry sword is just another day for her, being one of the seven.

** GemstoneAssault: How she usually attacks with her powers.

** InTheBlood: It's also implied that her mom being a sorceress in her own right didn't hurt.

** JediMindTrick: Hazel uses the Mist to manipulate people's perception. [[spoiler:It's how she defeats Pasiphåe.]]

* HideYourGays Very downplayed, but although his feelings for [[spoiler:Percy]] are addressed directly, the words "Gay", "Homosexual" or any equivalent are never used, referring it only indirectly as "What I am" or similar phrases. His is also the only couple that [[MaybeEverAfter is not outright stated to be one (only heavily implied)]] and gets a NoHuggingNoKissing treatment.

* IWorkAlone: Mainly because he feels ostracised and tends to push people away. [[spoiler: Will Solace tells him off for having this attitude.]]

* IncompatibleOrientation: [[spoiler: With Percy.]]

* [[NiceToTheWaiter Nice To The Janitor]]: Unlike Percy, Nico visited Bob the Titan and spoke with him often, and apparently talked Percy up to him. It serves the dual purpose of saving Percy and Annabeth's lives in Tartarus and getting Percy to realize that he's neglected not just Bob, but Nico himself over the years.

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** TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:A ''cape'' of all things does this in ''The Blood of Olympus,'' when the Athena Parthenos upgrades Reyna's cloak into an aegis.]]

** SupportingLeader: Not in the main cast, but as the praetor she's supposed to lead the Romans.

** CanineCompanion: Both of them accompany her around.
** LivingLieDetector: They serve as this, too, which makes them very useful when she's interrogating someone.
** Her pegasus, Scipio, is one too. [[spoiler:Which makes it all the more tragic when he is killed in the fourth book.]]
** The original Pegasus names Reyna "Horse Friend," seeing how much she loved Scipio [[spoiler:and her pain at having giving him a mercy kill]]. Blackjack's friend Guido adopts her in the end.
* [[{{OneManArmy}} One Woman Army]]: Piper is convinced of this, at least.

* SuperEmpowering: Type 3. As a daughter of Bellona, she can lend her strength to her allies and followers.

* Traits carried over from series one: ActionGirl, ArcherArchetype, HumanMomNonhumanDad, IcyBlueEyes, JediMindTrick (Mist manipulation) MeaningfulName, OlderThanTheyLook (looks fifteen, but is in her twenties), ShockAndAwe (presumably), TheSnarkKnight, [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Heights]]

* ElementalPowers: Annabeth and [[TheBeastmaster Frank]] are the only ones who don't have them.
** BlowYouAway / ShockAndAwe: Jason
** DishingOutDirt: Hazel
** MakingASplash: Percy
** PlayingWithFire: Leo
** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Piper.
* [[JustAKid Just a Puny Demigod]]: They are continuously dismissed by their adversaries with this trope.

* TheTeam: They form one.
** TheLeader: Percy, previous [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]] and [[TheAce the Greek ace]], although this may wind up subverted as the series goes on.
** TheLancer: Jason, being a {{foil}} to Percy in all possible ways.
** TheBigGuy: Frank, being a son of the war god and being the biggest and bulkiest; the series even calls him "the big guy" several times.
** TheSmartGuy: Annabeth ([[TeenGenius daughter of Athena]]) and Leo ([[GadgeteerGenius son of Hephaestus]]) pull double duty, with Annabeth having "the answers" and Leo being "the fixer."
** TheChick: Piper and Hazel, who generally act as {{Team Mom}}s and try to stop everyone from killing each other.
** [[SixthRanger Eighth Ranger]]: Nico, during the fourth book.
* TrueCompanions / FireForgedFriends: Over the course of the series, they slowly, grudgingly grow into this. This is in full force by the end of the fourth book, where they'd willingly risk their lives for another member of TheTeam.

** BrokenAce: His guilt and insecurity about the price of reaching his current status come to a head in ''The House of Hades''.

** BadassBoast: Percy was rather fond of these during the first series, and the trait carries on here. Two particularly memorable ones during ''The Son of Neptune'' were:
*** Percy to [[spoiler: Polybotes]], “You. Me. To the finish.”

*** The Twelfth Legion Eagle he was holding then shot out a thousand blasts of lightning that basically annihilated the Giants' entire center line due to Percy's willpower. BAD ASS.
** BadassInDistress: Gets taken from Camp Half-Blood and is missing for the entirety of ''The Lost Hero''.
** BroughtDownToBadass: In the ''Son Of Neptune'', he loses the “Curse Of Achilles”. This doesn’t stop him from being a Grade A asskicker and having all his abilities as son of Poseidon under his belt.
** TookALevelInBadass: Apparently he learned the Pokemon move [[DeathGlare Glare]] while [[RaisedByWolves hanging out with Lupa]].

* BreakTheBadass[=/=]HeroicBSOD: When Chrysaor curbstomps him, he falls into a bit of a funk.

* [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Did You Just Dump The Queen Of The Gods In The Tiber?]] [[UpToEleven Did You Just Mouth Off To The Second Greatest God Of Rome,]] [[BadAss And Get Away With It!?]]
** Because CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: He says himself he inherited his mother's rebellious streak. [[JerkassGods Though only when the gods are trying to screw with him, or have tricked him in the past like Ares/Mars had]].

* FieldPromotion[=/=]AwesomeMomentOfCrowning[=/=]AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Percy's promotion to praetor, making him a BadassInCharge.

* Traits carried over from series one: AchillesHeel (for awhile), AnimalTalk, FatalFlaw, GreenEyes, HeroesPreferSwords (and CoolSword), HumanMomNonhumanDad, IndyPloy, MakingASplash, MeaningfulName, NighInvulnerability (though he loses it pretty quickly), OlympicSwimmer, OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, PersonOfMassDestruction

** BadassBookworm: As a daughter of Athena, she loves knowledge, and is frequently seen with some sort of reading material.
** BadassNormal[=/=]TheTeamNormal: The only one of the Seven with no magical powers save her intelligence.

* Traits carried over from series one: ActionGirl, FatalFlaw, GrayEyes, KissingCousins, TheSmartGirl, TheStrategist, TeenGenius.

** BrokenAce: In ''The House Of Hades''. He's very hard on himself and can find it difficult to connect to people, but he's getting there.

* CoolSword[=/=]BladeOnAStick: Jason primarily fights with a coin that can turn into either a sword or a spear depending on which side it lands on.
** WreckedWeapon: Destroyed during the fight with Enceladus.

** StraightManAndWiseGuy: With Leo.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain [=/=] IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Even the undead legions in Epirus recognize his subconscious desire to stay at Camp Half-Blood, and thus refuse to recognize him as a praetor. He realizes it himself.]]

* CharmPerson[=/=]JediMindTrick[=/=]CompellingVoice: Like a few other children of Aphrodite, Piper has the ability to 'charmspeak' people, which basically amounts to [[TheCharmer getting people to do things you want them to do]], sometimes without them knowing.

* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She's usually pretty nice, but can be snappy.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway --> HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Charmspeak.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Latino.

* BagOfHolding: Leo's magic toolbelt. It can hold anything that fits into his pockets, and can produce anything that would reasonably be found inside of a garage.
** [[RunningGag As well as breath mints.]]

** ILetGwenStacyDie: He blames himself for his mother's death, which was especially scarring.

* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, at least towards [[spoiler:Calypso when he's marooned on her island.]]

** HistoryRepeats: This time, it's Meleager's story.
* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Chinese-Canadian.

** ScaledUp: In ''Mark of Athena''. He can turn into a dragon at full power, meaning he isn't limited to normal animals.

** HeroicBuild: [[{{GrowingMusclesSequence}} The first thing that jumps out to Percy upon his return from Tartarus is that Frank now looks like a football lineman.]]

* [[LineageComesFromTheFather Lineage Comes From The Godly Parent]]: Played with. Even though he's a son of Mars, Frank's coolest power comes from his mortal mother.

* SitcomArchnemesis: With Leo, though it's kind of understandable as Frank's life is tied to a stick and Leo has hard-to-control fire powers. They seem to be moving past it when [[spoiler:Leo gives him a fireproof pouch to carry his firewood in.]]

** AffirmativeActionGirl: Piper and Hazel, when previously Annabeth was the only female protagonist.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: A lot of people, Greek and Roman, in-universe and out, did ''not'' feel bad when he got himself launched by a flaming catapult and died. Not even the guy who was supposed to guard him didn't bother to warn him that his toga was snagged.]]

* {{Irony}}: She curses the gods for sending her someone who she hates, and for not releasing her from her punishment despite their promises to do so. In fact it's implied the Gods arranged for Leo to free her, using the nature of her curse to ensure she winds up with someone she loves.

* InstantExpert: In ''The House of Hades'', when it comes to Mist manipulation -- over the course of the book she ends up better than it than [[spoiler: a millennia-old sorceress]].
** InTheBlood: It's implied that this is due to her mom being a sorceress in her own right, and a reasonably good one at that.

* LiminalBeing: Doubly, owing not only to being half mortal half god, but having died and come back to life. Hecate (at a crossroads) tell her this gives her power over the veil between the worlds.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Can suddenly do sorcery in the fourth book, with this having never been brought up before and Hazel having received no previous training. (Though it's foreshadowed when her mother reveals that she summoned Pluto with sorcery.)

* AscendedExtra: Many of the minor gods, who were just offhand mentions or nonexistent in the previous series, play large roles this time.

* HiddenDepths: One might expect that a war god is nothing but a brutal BloodKnight, but Mars is actually very smart and kind of nice.

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* DemotedToExtra: In the last series, he featured more often due to him being Percy's dad, but Percy mentions that the last time he'd seen his father was [[Literature/TheLastOlympian on his sixteenth birthday]]. He finally appears in ''The Blood of Olympus''.

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* AllGirlsLoveHorses: Horseback riding is one of her great loves. The Romans look down on her for using a large cavalry broadsword, designed for someone fighting on horseback, because a good Roman is a foot soldier.

* ResurrectedForAJob: Implied as much.

* HideYourGays Very downplayed, but although his feelings for [[spoiler:Percy]] are addressed directly, the words "Gay", "Homosexual" or any equivalent are never used, referring it only indirectly as "What I am" or similar phrases. His is also the only couple that [[MaybeEverAfter is not outright stated to be one (only heavily implied)]] and gets a NoHuggingNoKissing treatment

Ruler of the Underworld and father of Hazel Levesque and Nico di Angelo. He laments the unhappy fates of his children.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Pluto. His deliberately turning a blind eye to her means she won't have to go back to the Underworld, even though she's supposed to be dead. This also means he can never acknowledge her presence, making him one of the Gods to actually obey Zeus' orders to ignore demigods.
** Uniquely, he is also one of the few godly parents who doesn't choose to abandon his kids. Hazel's mom refused him.

* InstantExpert: In ''The House of Hades'', when it comes to Mist manipulation -- over the course of the book she ends up better than it than [[spoiler: a milennia-old sorceress]].

* MeaningfulName: Levesque means either somebody who served in the household of a bishop, or just bishop. Of ancient Greek origin, curiously.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Can suddenly do sorcery in the fourth book, with this having never been brought up before.
** Though it's foreshadowed when her mother reveals that she summoned Pluto with sorcery.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Technically being Nico's sister, she has shades of this for Bianca.

!!Hades/Pluto

Ruler of the Underworld and father of Hazel Levesque and Nico di Angelo. He laments the unhappy fates of his children.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the previous series, he was angry and resentful, and downright abusive to Nico, tricking him and telling him how inept he was compared to Bianca. Since then, he's recognized that Nico was right and tries to get Nico to let go of his anger, too.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He doesn't directly acknowledge Hazel after she comes back to life, with others speculating it's so he doesn't have to enforce his own rules and send her back to the Fields of Asphodel.
* DotingParent: He just wants his kids to be happy. Queen Marie talks about how proud he was of baby Hazel, and he gave Nico a zombie.
* MasterOfIllusion: Pluto shows some skill with Mist manipulation.

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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Black.

* HypocriticalHumor: He's entirely aware of the hypocrisy when he tries to convince Reyna to tell him about her problems. He's genuinely annoyed when he realizes he should take his own advice.