Follow TV Tropes

Following

Characters / The Camp Half-Blood Series: Servants of the Gods

Go To

Over the millennia, the gods have employed a great many servants, from monsters and automata to spirits and mortals. For the full list of characters, click here.


    open/close all folders 

Hunters of Artemis

    General 
"I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt."
The Hunters' vow

Mortals, demigods, nymphs, or other young women sworn to Artemis. They join the goddess on her hunts and are blessed with agelessness and divine hunting prowess so long as they remain perpetual maidens. They are currently led by Thalia Grace.


  • Action Girl: They're called "The Hunters" for a reason and they're all girls.
  • The Ageless: They appear as young as they did when they took the oath, and are immortal, but can still suffer lethal injuries.
  • Amazon Brigade: All-female and all-badass. The Blood of Olympus sees a team-up between them and the other Amazon Brigade of the series, the Amazons.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Many are demigods and suffer from this as a result.
  • The Beautiful Elite: Treated as such by satyrs.
  • Brought Down to Normal: A Hunter who breaks her vow by falling in love will get kicked out of the Hunters and lose her immortality.
  • The Bully: In their first appearance, they can't seem to have a conversation with the campers of Camp Half-Blood that isn't insulting or condescending in some way.
  • Celibate Hero: As revealed in The Dark Prophecy, it turns out that it isn't just men that they have to swear off. All romantic relationships are considered off-limits, including relationships between Hunters (which is what prompted Emmie and Jo to leave). That being said, in the event that a Hunter does end up falling in love, and hasn't done anything to warrant Artemis being pissed off at them, they're allowed to leave peacefully, though at the cost of their immortality.
  • Child Soldiers: Most of them are between the ages of 12 and 16.
  • Color Motif: Silver, like Artemis' moon. They have silver arrows, wear silver ski parkas, use silver flags when playing Capture the Flag, and their leader wears a silver circlet.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: They've beaten Camp Half-Blood 56 times in a row at Capture the Flag.
  • Death of a Child: An unspecified number of Hunters lose their lives fighting Kronos' forces in The Last Olympian. In return for their loyal service, Artemis gets her uncle Hades to fast-track their applications to Elysium.
  • Does Not Like Men: Forsworn to forsake men forever. Most of them actively avoid interaction for fear of losing their divine sponsorship. To the point of being sexist.
  • The Friends Nobody Likes: To Camp Half-Blood. Being Artemis' sworn hunters mean they're on the same side, but rarely if ever do they get along. The Titan's Curse has them arguing and fighting with the campers one after the other. The Capture the Flag match against them in said book, has even the Aphrodite cabin (whom usually don't participate) itching to pound their heads in.
    • Even Chiron has no like or love for them. When they win the aforementioned match (in a 56th consecutive streak), he announces it with no fanfare and barely contained bitterness.
  • Great White Hunter: Blessed with divine ranged capabilities and Improbable Aiming Skills. Although the game they hunt is often mythical in nature.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: If they're a demigod.
  • Heroic Bastard: Many are demigods and as such are this.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: From the blessing of Artemis. They can shoot with even more accuracy than Apollo's demigod children.
  • "L" Is for "Dyslexia": Only if they're a demigod.
  • Noodle Incident: Apparently, their last visit to Camp-Half Blood before The Titan's Curse ended with them burning the cabins down.
  • Pals with Jesus: They hunt with Artemis, the goddess of the moon.
  • Power Glows: Said to have a silver aura.
  • Really 700 Years Old: The more senior members have been around for years and years and don't look out of their teens. Phoebe in particular is mentioned to have been there during the first fiasco with Orion, three or four thousand years ago.
  • The Straight and Arrow Path: They use traditional hunting gear (e.g. bows and arrows) in a story set in the 2010s.
  • True Companions: They're described as being like one big happy family.
  • Vow of Celibacy: A Hunter's oath includes the promise to never have any romantic relationships with either men or women. If she breaks it by falling in love, she will stop being a Hunter.


    Bianca di Angelo 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bianca_di_angelo.png
Daughter of Hades and Maria di Angelo, Bianca and her brother were born in the 1930s.


  • Action Girl: As a Hunter, she's pretty skilled with a bow.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Towards Nico. She practically raised him up until they got to Camp Half-Blood. After she died, she learns that the Vengeful Ghost of Minos has been manipulating her brother into summoning the dead (which has been drawing Kronos' attention). It's revealed that Bianca had been sending Percy Iris-Messages so he can help free Nico from Minos' influence and help him move on and protect him.
  • Braids of Action: After becoming a Hunter, she wears her hair in a braid.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: For Nico. Her death left him shell-shocked and bitter. When we meet him next, he's nothing like the Cheerful Child he was while she was alive.
  • Dead Person Conversation: Nico has a couple with her after her death.
  • Death of a Child: Bianca is only 12 when she sacrifices her life to stop a rampaging Talos automaton and save her friends. Her first quest is also her last.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Her: Her death.
  • Equivalent Exchange: The possibility is brought up that Nico could exchange someone else's life for hers in order to bring her back. However, Bianca is too selfless to want someone else to be sacrificed so she can live again, and ultimately he has to accept that.
  • Fatal Flaw: Holding grudges. Very subtly illustrated in her attitude towards her brother, Nico: she loves him dearly, because she's all he has in the world, but she also resents him because being all he has means she can't do anything for herself. And for bonus points, it's indirectly fatal. When she chose to join the Hunters and leave Nico at Camp Half-Blood, Zoe got the idea that she would be a good choice to groom as the next leader of the Hunters, and drags her along on the quest where she dies. What ends up killing her is guilt: she feels bad for resenting Nico, so she steals a souvenir for him from Hephaestus' junkyard, which activates the automaton defending it. She sacrifices herself to shut it off.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: Born in the 1930s, but she doesn't seem to be having too much difficulty adjusting.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Her parents are Maria di Angelo and Hades.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In order to save the rest of the party.
  • I Coulda Been a Contender!: She is being groomed by Zoe to become the next leader of the Hunters, but she dies before any of that can happen. Her being posthumously revealed as a daughter of Hades suggests she could have grown up into a powerful half-blood, and Hades himself believes she could have done better than her brother Nico.
  • It's All My Fault: This was why she wouldn't let Percy sacrifice his life for hers, since she activated the automaton. Her ghost admits this when she finally talks with Nico, telling him that Percy wasn't to blame for her death, it was all on her. What's more, she tells Nico that he's really angry at her for abandoning him and he shouldn't deny that.
  • Meaningful Name: Bianca is an Italian name that means "white," the color of bone. Her father is the god of the dead.
  • More Expendable Than You: When Percy prepares to enter the automaton to shut it off, she insists on doing it instead.
  • Never Found the Body: Her body is never recovered from the wreck of Talos. Since she got electrocuted, it probably wasn't in good shape.
  • Nice Girl: Sweet-tempered and patient, especially when dealing with her younger brother. See, however, Fatal Flaw above.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She joined the Hunters as soon as she thought Nico would be safe at camp, without even talking it over with her brother. This led to Nico to ask Percy to follow Bianca and make sure she was safe, and to Bianca stealing an action figure from the junkyard out of guilt over abandoning Nico. This led to her death because she refused to let Percy sacrifice his life for hers. Also this then led to Minos tempting Nico to resurrect her and get revenge on Percy, because Bianca didn't have that long-overdue talk and hid her ghost from her little brother.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She nearly gets the Artemis hunting party killed because she stole an action figure from Hephaeustus' junkyard as an Apology Gift for her brother.
  • Poor Communication Kills: She decided to join the Hunters without talking to Nico about it, and then after she dies, she refused to appear to her brother because she thought he would move on if he failed to revive her. Nico took the time to blame Percy for her death because he accidentally broke his promise to keep her safe. She does realize she messed up, fortunately, and finally appears. Nico tells her bluntly that he never would have given up on her, and it's their conversation that allows him to move on.
  • Posthumous Character: She died in the third book of the previous series, but her death still affects Nico and his relationships.
  • Promotion to Parent: With their parents unknown and no relatives to speak of, Bianca had to be the parent to her two-years-younger brother. It's part of why she joined the Hunters because she wanted to do something for herself for a change.
  • The Quiet One: Initially, she's depicted as keeping to herself and not drawing attention.
  • Reincarnation: The sequel series reveals that she chose to be reincarnated after her death.
  • Sacrificial Lion: She's the first character to get Killed Off for Real.
  • Shrinking Violet: Before becoming a Hunter. Afterwards Percy notes she looks more confident.
  • Spirit Advisor: Becomes one of sorts after her death, warning Nico not to summon their mother's spirit.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Looks a lot like her mother. It's implied this is the reason for Hades favoring her over Nico.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off in her debut book.

    Phoebe 
The best tracker and healer in "The Hunters of Artemis".


  • Informed Ability: Tracking and healing.
  • Lifesaving Misfortune: Zoe intends to take her on the quest to save Artemis, but she ends up covered in hives and is unable to go after putting on a shirt that was sprayed with poisonous centaur blood. It might have saved her life, since neither of the two Hunters that go on the quest survive.
  • Mauve Shirt: Supporting Hunter since the first series and mentioned as the best tracker and healer (likely due to her age), is unceremoniously offed by Orion's attack in The Blood of Olympus.
  • Nice Girl: But, only to other girls as seen by her interaction with Reyna.
  • Red Herring: In the prophecy given in The Titan's Curse, one member of the quest to retrieve Artemis was to be lost in the land without rain. So when Phoebe is put out of action thanks to burns received from a shirt laced with centaur blood, Zoe and Bianca thought Phoebe was the one who would be lost there because it doesn't rain at Camp Half-Blood. Instead, it turned out to be Bianca.

    Thalia Grace 

Played by: Paloma Kwiatkowski, Katelyn Mager (young)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thalia_grace.jpg

Daughter of Zeus and Beryl Grace, an eighties starlet. Her birth broke the pact the Big Three had made after World War II to never have children again. She ran away from her alcoholic mother when she was younger, met up with Luke and eventually Annabeth, and made her way with them to Camp Half-Blood. There they were overwhelmed by monsters and Thalia stayed behind to hold them off, dying in the process. Zeus turned her body into a pine tree.


  • Abusive Parents: To say nothing of Zeus' abandonment, Thalia's mother was initially loving but then grew cold and distant, not to mention an alcoholic. The only reason Thalia didn't run away sooner was because of her younger brother Jason.
  • Acrophobic Bird: Kind of sucks that the daughter of lightning and the sky (which gives her wind and electricity powers) is scared of heights.
  • Action Girl: Like most female demigods.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: Defied. Because she has the Fatal Flaw of being weak when offered power, like her father, she avoids being the demigod in the prophecy to make a choice that will save or destroy Olympus upon turning sixteen by becoming a Hunter and staying fifteen.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: In contrast to blonde heroine Annabeth and Fiery Redhead Rachel, Thalia is sarcastic, slightly petty, and cold. She grows into this trope more when she becomes a Hunter, becoming much more mature and aloof.
  • Back from the Dead: More like back from being turned into a pine tree.
  • Broken Bird: She seems to be getting better.
  • Celibate Hero: After she joins the Hunters, she has to swear off men romantically.
  • Cool Big Sis: Was this to Annabeth while the two of them and Luke were on the run; Annabeth remembers Thalia's experience with some reverence.
  • Cool Crown: Wears a silver circlet after becoming Artemis's lieutenant. Percy notes how it clashes with the rest of her punk-style clothing.
  • Dangerous 16th Birthday: Knowing that according to the Great Prophecy a demigod child of Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades might bring about great chaos when they turn sixteen, she defies this trope by joining the Hunters and remaining perpetually fifteen, leaving Percy and Nico as the only candidates for the Great Prophecy's "hero."
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out as cold and arrogant, but mellows down eventually.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: At first.
  • Fangirl: Of punk rock and roll.
  • Fatal Flaw: Ambition. She's said to be weak when offered power, like her father. This is one of the reasons why she deems herself unfit to be the hero in the Great Prophecy and become a Hunter of Artemis to remain fifteen.
  • Forced Transformation: Turned into a pine tree by her father Zeus. Fortunately, this ends up saving her life, giving her time to heal until she's released by the Golden Fleece.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Her dad's Zeus and her mom is a White-Dwarf Starlet.
  • Immortality Begins at Twenty: A day short of sixteen, rather.
  • Ironic Name: Thalia shares her name with the muse of comic theatre, but she's a sarcastic, mistrustful girl with a painful and tragic past. Not exactly comic relief material.
  • The Lancer: To Percy. Also somewhat literal, considering her weapon of choice, aside from her standard bow and arrow, is a spear. That grows out from a can of Mace. She also serves this role to Zoe during The Titan's Curse, where Zoe is The Leader of the quest to rescue Artemis and Thalia is the one who clashes with Zoe the most.
  • Older Than They Look: She's twenty-one, but being a pine tree stunted her aging so she appears fifteen.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted; she shares her name with two of her half-siblings from the Muses and Charites.
  • Perky Goth: More of a goth-punk mix. She wears her hair short and choppy, dresses in dark colors, and likes Green Day a lot, but she's a really nice kid once she defrosts.
  • Plucky Girl: Despite her cold personality and everything she's been through, she's pretty eager to fight and is always brave.
  • Posthumous Character: In the first two books she's remembered through other characters' recollections, but she's brought back to life at the end of the second book.
  • Promotion to Parent: Took care of a seven-year-old Annabeth while they, and Luke, were on the run, living on the streets.
  • Put on a Bus: After she joins the Hunters, she becomes a vaguely mentioned character.
  • Refusal of the Call: On the day before her 16th birthday, she chooses to join the Hunters of Artemis and stop her natural aging so Kronos can't use her as a pawn for the Great Prophecy.
  • Rookie Red Ranger: Eventually becomes the leader of the Hunters of Artemis, despite recently joining and being one of the youngest members.
  • Ship Tease: With Luke in The Titan's Curse and The Diary of Luke Castellan.
  • Sibling Team: When she joins the Hunters, she becomes the lieutenant of Artemis, who is her half-sister through Zeus.
  • Shock and Awe: Part of her dad's domain, allowing her to call down lightning bolts from the sky.
  • The Snark Knight: She's rather sarcastic, emphasizing her somewhat distant personality.
  • Swiss-Army Weapon: Uses a spear that transforms into a mace can as her main weapon.
  • Transflormation: Spent some time as a pine tree for health reasons.
  • We Used to Be Friends: With Luke.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Her acrophobia is said to be ironic, considering she's a daughter of the Lord of the Sky.
  • You Shall Not Pass!: In her backstory, Thalia held a horde of monsters off so Annabeth, Grover and Luke could reach Camp Half-Blood at the cost of her life. As she lay dying, Zeus took pity on her and transformed her into a pine tree.

    Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 
Daughter of Bellona and a former praetor of Camp Jupiter. Her tropes can be found here.

    Zoe Nightshade 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zoelessstars_299x416.jpg

A huntress of the goddess Artemis and her former lieutenant. One of Atlas's daughters, who was disowned by her family after helping Hercules steal from their apple tree. She is replaced by Thalia Grace after her death and turned into a constellation called "The Huntress" by Artemis.


  • Action Girl: Artemis's second-in-command, and thus good in battle.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Cold and distant to anyone who isn't Artemis or a Hunter.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Is described as having "olive" or "caramel-colored" skin, black hair, and dark eyes; but her ethnicity isn't elaborated on beyond that. It's been suggested that in the original mythology, the Garden of the Hesperides (and thus Zoe's home) was located in what is now Libya.
  • Antagonistic Offspring: To Atlas.
  • The Atoner: There are hints of this in her desperation to rescue Artemis, even at the cost of her own life. She's seen clearly wanting to go with Artemis on her quest and later utterly frantic when she has a vision of Artemis' kidnapping; some of her determination to rescue her goddess can be interpreted as feeling guilty that she failed to protect her.
  • Big Sister Mentor: Towards Bianca. It's implied that she wanted to groom Bianca to take up the lieutenant title someday.
  • The Comically Serious: Often put in hilarious situations that highly contrast with her serious persona.
  • Connected All Along: She was the original owner of Anaklusmos, Percy's sword, before she gave it to Hercules (and received no thanks for it). During her last moments, she tells Percy that she is honored that he carries Anaklusmos, because he is a truly selfless hero.
  • Cool Big Sis: To the Hunters of Artemis. Given how protective she is of them, this likely overlaps with Mama Bear tendencies.
  • Cool Crown: A silver circlet braided into her hair, to represent her status as the leader of the Hunters. According to Percy, it makes her look like a Persian princess. It passes to Thalia after her death.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: A non-romantic version towards Percy and Thalia over the course of The Titan's Curse.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: To Artemis, who tried and failed to save her.
  • Does Not Like Men: But is perfectly capable of liking and befriending them, once they earn more than the barest token respect.
  • Fatal Flaw: Her jaded attitude towards men, even if they are siblings, and heroes. She convinces Bianca to leave behind Nico at Camp Half-Blood and join the Hunters, without even considering that it'd be healthier for Bianca and Nico to talk about it before making any serious decisions. This leads to Bianca getting killed, which in turn leads to Nico lashing out and learning he and Bianca were Hades's children. Then on the quest, she ends up dying for Artemis since she knew her family would murder her for helping Heracles.
  • I Have No Daughter: Her family pulled this on her for helping Hercules steal from their apple tree.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In her debut, she comes off as snobby, aloof, and hostile, particularly to Percy. However, over the quest, she starts showing a more caring side, and becomes more sympathetic once her Backstory is revealed.
  • The Lancer: To Artemis.
  • The Leader: Of the group sent to rescue Artemis in The Titan's Curse.
  • Morph Weapon: When she owned Anaklusmos, its "small" form was a long white hairpin instead of a pen like it is today.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her convincing Bianca to join the Hunters and the quest backfires. Bianca feels guilt over leaving Nico behind without even talking with him about it, and ignores instructions to leave all the items in a junkyard alone, because she saw the rare action figure he wanted and was thinking of bringing it as an apology gift. When the defensive automaton goes after the team, Bianca sacrifices herself since she believes no one else should suffer for her mistake. Cue the party having one less fighter, Nico running away from Camp Half-Blood and working with Minos, and a whole slew of problems.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A long time ago, she helped Hercules get into the Garden of the Hesperides and gave him the sword Anaklusmos to help him. She was banished from her family and blotted out of history, and he took all the credit for the deed.
  • Noodle Incident: After two-thousand-plus years, she and Artemis have a lot of them. And they reminisce at the drop of a hat.
    "The last boy to see this camp... when was it, Zoe?"
    "That boy in Colorado. You turned him into a jackalope."
    "Ah, yes. I enjoy making jackalopes."
    • Apparently the last time the Hunters were at Camp Half-Blood, it burned down. Zoe blames the half-bloods.
    • Apollo's poetry phases have apparently been going on for thousands of years. Poor, poor Zoe.
      "'Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. If I'd had to hear one more poem that started with 'There once was a goddess from Sparta'..."
  • Not So Stoic: Very cold and professional, but it's strongly implied she only acts that way because she's not comfortable around half-bloods; we see signs of Zoe having a very active sense of humor and warmth as she relaxes around the quest group, and it's likely that when she's around just the Hunters, that side of her is much more prominent.
  • Number Two: For Artemis, as her lieutenant.
  • Secretly Dying: Knew from the start that going on the quest was a death sentence for her, but went anyway out of loyalty to her beloved Artemis. During the climax, she's also suffering from poison from Ladon.
  • Stellification: At the end of The Titan's Curse, Artemis turns her into a new constellation called the Huntress after she dies.
  • The Stoic: While it's primarily a facade and Zoe appears to be a genuinely loving person when around people she trusts, this is still definitely a huge part of her personality.
    Percy: ...She's kidding, right?
    Artemis: Zoe rarely kids about anything.
  • Straw Feminist: At first appears to be this, but is justified/deconstructed when Riordan reveals a Freudian Excuse for her hating males, and eventually portrays her beliefs in a less radical and ludicrous style. It's not that she hates men, she just doesn't trust heroes because too many of them have betrayed her or turned on the Hunters in the past.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: More ice than sugar, but mostly because we see her from Percy's perspective. With the Hunters, she's like a second mother and is a patient sisterly figure towards Bianca. Her loyalty and devotion to Artemis are unyielding, and she comes to respect Thalia and Percy over the course of their quest.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Artemis, so much that she went on a quest she knew would kill her just to save her. The first words out of her mouth when the Oracle faces her are "What must I do to save my goddess?"
    • She's so obviously a moment away from willingly shouldering an eternal burden that would kill any non-immortal who attempted it, solely because she can't bear to see her goddess in pain, that she has to be given a direct order not to do so. What's more, it's implied that, at that point, Artemis couldn't actually see her face. They just know each other that well.
      Atlas: Perhaps you would like to take it for her, then? Be my guest.
      Artemis: No! Do not offer, Zoe! I forbid you.

Oracles

    The Oracle of Delphi 
The Oracle (real name unknown) that gave the first Great Prophecy. After the Great Prophecy she has been replaced by Rachel Dare. She lived at Camp Half-Blood, so you can see her tropes here.

    Rachel Elizabeth Dare 
A mortal girl who is able to see through the mist and the current Oracle of Delphi. She lives at Camp Halfblood, so you can see her tropes here.

The Underworld

    General 
The various creatures and beings Hades employs in the Underworld.


  • Dark Is Not Evil: He employs a lot of monsters, many of whom have cruel streaks, but inevitably they're just doing their jobs.


    Iapetus/Bob 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iapetus_rr.png
The Titan of Mortality and Lord of the West, mind-wiped by the waters of the Lethe into becoming a janitor for Hades named Bob. He first appears in The Demigod Files, supplementary material of the original series. He appears in the main series in The House of Hades.


  • Almighty Janitor: Literally — he's a Titan, but doesn't remember this and works as a janitor for Hades instead.
  • Amnesiacs are Innocent: He acts very childlike and innocent.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: When he remembers his past, however, he gets darker.
  • And I Must Scream: The Sun and the Star reveals that since Nyx kidnapped him, she has been torturing him inside one of the blobs where monsters and Titans regenerate. In it, she disassembles and reassembles him over and over again so he will give up and reclaim his old personality as Iapetus.
  • Anti-Villain: Implied to be this in some of Hyperion's dialogue. Granted, we don't actually get to see any of this during his debut, but then he seemed more happy to rise above his former self in The House of Hades.
  • Appropriated Appellation: "I am Bob. I choose to be more than Iapetus."
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason he aids Percy and Annabeth. In reality, this was thanks to Nico's doing — he visited Bob in Hades and told him at one point that Percy was a friend.
  • But Now I Must Go: In The Sun and the Star, after Nico and Will save him, he immediately sets off to the west, saying there's somewhere else he wants to be.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: He only appeared in a side story to the original series, but later became incredibly important in the The House of Hades.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Iapetus vs. Thalia, Nico, and Percy would have ended up as this if not for his Laser-Guided Amnesia.
  • Healing Hands: A rare villainous example (at least at first), after his Heel–Face Turn he easily heals Percy's injuries
  • Heel–Face Brainwashing: Due to his dip in the Lethe in The Sword of Hades, Bob's a lot nicer than your average Titan.
    • Heel–Face Turn: When he learns of his past as Iapetus, he initially experiences misgivings toward Percy, but ultimately decides to continue assisting them after Percy apologizes.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In The House of Hades, he decides to side with the heroes at the end, sacrificing his life so Percy and Annabeth can get out of Tartarus. This weighs heavily on Percy and Annabeth. In The Sun and the Star, it is revealed that Iapetus survives the encounter with Tartarus, though he is taken by Nyx to be tortured so he will reclaim his old, vengeful personality.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He was called "The Piercer" for a reason.
  • Jerkass: But only as Iapetus. Even then, given Hyperion's words about him being the only one who felt regret about aiding in Ouranos' dismemberment, it's likely he might have been an Anti-Villain.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Adopts a skeletal kitten and names it "Small Bob."
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: A fight with Percy, Thalia, and Nico ended with Iapetus getting Lethe river water splashed on his face.
  • Messy Hair: Described as Einstein-like.
  • Nice Guy: He's kind and helpful to Percy and Annabeth, at least when in his Bob persona. However, he stays nice after finding out about his past as Iapetus, choosing to put it behind him.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like a silver version of his brother Hyperion.
  • Token Good Teammate: Among his four brothers he seems to have been this as Iapetus, having been the only one who felt regret about betraying and dismembering their father Ouranos. As Bob, he's without a doubt this.

    Cerberus 
The three-headed hound who guards the gates of the Underworld.


  • All Animals Are Dogs: A weird example. Despite appearances he definitely isn't a dog but he sure acts like one.
  • Animalistic Abomination: Sure he looks mostly like a dog, but he's the spawn of Echidna and Typhon.
  • Hellhound: He's a hound and he guards hell.
  • Multiple Head Case: Not obvious, given his lack of verbal capability, but his heads fight among themselves over a tennis ball.

    Charon 
Played by: Julian Richings (films), Travis Woloshyn (TV series)
The ferryman of the river Styx.


  • The Ferryman: Follow that link, see who the page image is.
  • In the Hood: When he's not wearing suits he wears the stereotypical hood and robes.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: He makes souls wait for years before he feels like taking them across to the underworld.
  • Only in It for the Money: May or may not be the source of his loyalty to Hades. At the least, he's always pushing for a raise and will accept hefty bribes.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: He has a thing for Italian suits.
  • Skull for a Head: His true appearance, possibly with a matching skeletal body under those robes.
  • Spotting the Thread: When Percy tries to bluff his way onto his ferry to the Underworld, Charon took note that the boy had trouble interpreting his name on a name tag (due to his dyslexia), and realizes he's a living half-blood.

    The Furies 

Alecto played by: Maria Olsen (films), Megan Mullally (TV series)
Tisiphone played by: Sara J. Southey (TV series)

A trio of vengeance spirits who serve as torturers, messengers, and enforcers for Hades.


  • Adaptational Job Change: In Alecto's case while she worked at Yancy Academy under the guise, Mrs. Dodds. In the books, she was the pre-algebra teacher, while in the film, she was the substitute English teacher.
  • Adapted Out:
    • Mrs. Dodds does not wear her biker jacket in neither the films nor the Disney+ series.
    • Tisiphone and Maegara are not in the films. While Tisiphone does appear in the Disney+ series, Maegara does not.
  • Mook Lieutenant: Alecto seems to serve as the leader of the trio.
  • Gender Bender: Alecto can shapeshift into a male lawyer if needed to do business in the mortal world. She "does lawyers and teachers very well."
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Besides being called the Furies, their names are Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. If you know ancient Greek, or are a demigod with an autotranslate feature, that comes out to The Angry, The Grudging, and The Avenger.
  • Pet the Dog: After Percy retrieves the Helm of Darkness from Ares, Alecto lets the boy live (at least, for now) and returns the helm to Hades to call off the war. She tells him to live well and become a true hero.
  • Revenge: They are vengeance spirits, though their role is more justice than personal revenge.
  • Sadist: They like their jobs, no question about it.
  • Sadist Teacher: When Alecto poses as Mrs. Dodds at Yancy Academy, she's taken an immediate dislike of Percy, suspecting him as the thief who stole Hades' Helm of Darkness, and tries to make his school life a living hell to get him to break.
  • Tuckerization: Alecto's Mrs. Dodds alias is based loosely on a math teacher from a school Rick Riordan taught at.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Using the Mist. Their preferred forms are lawyers, teachers, and other authority figures.
  • Whip of Dominance: Their primary weapons are flaming whips, as much for punishment as they are combat.
  • Winged Humanoid: Leathery bat wings.

    Judges of the Dead 
A group that judges the souls of mortals in particularly interesting cases. Three sit on the panel, rotated out from a larger pool.


    Zombies 
The butlers, cooks, gardeners, guards, warriors, and holders of basically every other job in the underworld.


  • Animate Dead: There's about half a second of delay between Hades deciding he doesn't like you and an army of zombies clawing their way out of the ground.
  • Fearless Undead: They're basically robots made out of corpses.
  • Mundane Utility: Hades keeps legions of zombies around for housekeeping. Justified, as he rarely has need for an army.
  • The Needless: Naturally, as what use would servants be if they needed to take breaks for silly things like sleeping or eating.
  • Undead Laborers: Their general purpose.

Monsters

    General 
Monsters get a bad rep for all the death they cause, but they're little more than tools. Those created by beings like Tartarus or Echidna tend to be vicious beasts, while those created by the gods... are about the same, but working for the gods.


  • Dark Is Not Evil: Being tools for the gods they don't really have enough freedom to be evil themselves.
  • Light Is Not Good: Likewise, being on the side of the gods doesn't make them nice either.


    Tyson 

Played by: Douglas Smith

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyson_299x416.jpg
Tyson is first introduced as a school friend of Percy's, but he is later revealed to be a Cyclops - one-eyed children of Poseidon, therefore making him Percy's half-brother.


  • The Ace: He sounds dumb sometimes, and he can be a bit of a crybaby (to be fair he's a baby cyclops), but he can do anything.
  • Adaptational Attractiveness: In the movie, where he looks like a normal human besides the eye.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Before he came to Camp Half-Blood, he was bullied every day by the students at Meriwether Prep due to being timid and unwilling to stand up for himself. Only Percy was willing to be his friend.
  • Animals Hate Him: Zigzagged — pegasi get skittish around him and horses see him as a monster and horse-eater, with Percy having to bribe them with apples and sugar cubes before they will let Tyson near them. But hippocampi have no problem with him (he even gets attached to one in particular and names it "Rainbow"), and Polyphemus' man-eating sheep are friendly to him because he is a Cyclops like their master.
  • The Big Guy: Already the largest of Percy's main team, as a Cyclops he has superhuman strength. Tyson's strength is considered extreme even for a cyclops though—he was able to defeat a fellow Cyclops named Ma Gasket with two punches, and Ma Gasket was considered powerful for a Cyclops herself. He was also able to bring down a Colchis bull with his bare hands and survive Kampe's poison. Being immune to both fire and water is just icing on the cake.
  • Big Little Brother: He's Percy's younger half-brother, but is bigger, taller, and stronger.
  • Broken Pedestal: He's overjoyed to meet Briares, the Hundred-Handed One, but loses faith in him after seeing that his giant brother is too frightened of Kampe to help the Olympians. He regains his faith in his hero after seeing Briares return during the Battle of the Labyrinth and finally defeat Kampe, crushing her with mounds of boulders.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He seems he's got a few screws loose, but actually has mad engineering skills.
  • Colonel Badass: Promoted to a general in the armies of the Cyclopes after the Battle of Olympus.
    Tyson: (while fighting Ma Gasket) Bad cyclops lady! General Tyson says GO AWAY!
  • Combo Platter Powers: Tyson has more powers than even most half-bloods do. As a Cyclops, he's super strong, immune to fire, resistant to poison, extremely skilled at crafting and engineering, and can change his voice at will to imitate anyone. As a son of Poseidon, he can breathe underwater. And he's also really good at Monopoly.
  • Detect Evil: He can detect hostile monsters, as they smell bad to him. Before a dodgeball match with a bunch of disguised Laistrygonians, he comments to Percy that they "smell funny."
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Tyson seemingly having intellectual capabilities below his perceived physical age is pretty clearly meant to represent kids with mental disabilities. Although, technically speaking, he doesn't have any intellectual disorders on account of actually being a baby Cyclopes (plus Cyclops are established to typically not be that bright to begin with).
  • The Dreaded: Downplayed, but it's implied that Percy's company with Tyson protected him from monsters during his seventh grade.
    Annabeth: Had you had a lot of attacks?
    Percy: None all year... until today.
    Annabeth: None? But how— [Glances at Tyson] Oh.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: During the Battle of Olympus, he and the other Cyclopes help to bring down Typhon by throwing giant iron chains around him and dragging him down into a massive ocean whirlpool that takes him straight to Tartarus.
  • The Engineer: Becomes one after working in the Cyclops's forge.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: As a Cyclops, he has a natural inclination toward crafting and engineering, and he can make items that are both beautiful and functional. He created a shield for Percy that can collapse into a wristwatch, and bronze hippocampi to hang from the ceiling of their cabin.
  • Gentle Giant: Over six foot tall, but really childish and willing to get along.
  • Genius Ditz: He is apparently really good at Monopoly.
  • Homeless Hero: He grew up on the streets of New York. According to him, all young Cyclopes grow up on the streets, learning to fend for themselves and make things out of scraps, a way of life that helps them appreciate blessings.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Before he met Percy, he grew up alone on the streets, learning how to make things out of scraps. He prayed to Poseidon for a friend, and...
  • Interspecies Romance: In The Heroes of Olympus, he has some Ship Tease with Ella the harpy.
  • Misery Builds Character: Young Cyclopes like him grow up on the streets of human cities and learn to make things out of scrap, teaching them to appreciate what they have and not become greedy, mean, and fat like Polyphemus.
  • Missing Mom: His mother is never seen or mentioned, but it is assumed she was a nymph or nature spirit who had a fling with Poseidon.
  • Nice Guy: See Gentle Giant.
  • No-Sell: Being a Cyclops, he's completely immune to fire.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Inverted. Despite being 6'3 and looking at least as old as a middle schooler, Tyson is actually a baby Cyclops.
  • Scars Are Forever: He has a number of scars on his back that he got from being attacked by a Sphinx on 72nd Street.
  • Ship Tease: With Ella.
  • Super Not-Drowning Skills: As a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon, he can breathe perfectly fine underwater.
  • Super-Strength: He's quite strong for a young Cyclops.
  • Super-Toughness: Immune to fire and water, and resistant to poison.
  • Storyboard Body: Ella resorts to tattooing the contents of the Sibylline Books that she can remember, all over Tyson. Apollo is forced to read one portion of the books from Tyson's armpit.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Peanut butter. Apparently it's a Cyclops thing, as the other Cyclopes working at Poseidon's forges also like peanut butter.
  • Voice Changeling: He can change his voice at will to imitate anyone, which is something all Cyclopes can do. He doesn't use it much, though, since it's considered creepy.
  • Weirdness Censor: Outside of magical places like Camp Half-Blood, the Mist makes him appear to have two eyes. Percy spent the entire school year with him without realizing he was a Cyclops.

    George and Martha 

Played by: Craig Robinson (George) and Octavia Spencer (Martha)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/george_and_martha_1111.jpg
The snakes on Hermes's caduceus.


  • Energy Weapon: The caduceus has a laser function.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: They bicker constantly. One of the supplementary stories reveals that they actually are married.
  • Mundane Utility: Played with. The caduceus is Hermes's only real weapon, as well as his phone, clipboard/pen, and every other assorted device one might need. As the messenger of the gods, the latter functions are actually more important than its combat abilities.
  • Servile Snarker: To Hermes.
  • Sssssnake Talk: Completely averted in the film, George speaks with a normal American accent and insists that this trope is racist.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: George really likes rats.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: The caduceus can take many forms and they have some control over it, though the user can still override them.

    Cyclopes 
One eyed giants who serve as blacksmiths and forgeworkers for the gods. While the Elder Cyclopes are loyal servants, the majority of cyclopes we see are of the southern and hyperborean varieties, so their tropes can be found on the Monsters page.

    The Erymanthian Boar 
A titanic boar that heeds the call of Pan.


    Ladon 
A hundred headed dragon set to guard the Apples of Immortality by Hera.


  • Evil Smells Bad: Percy describes the smell of his breath as being like the time a rat died in the walls of his apartment, except a hundred times stronger and mixed with the smell of chewed eucalyptus.
  • Hero Killer: While he can't take all the credit, the wound he dealt Zoe Nightshade definitely played a role in her death.
  • Multiple Head Case: He has so many heads they look like a pile of spaghetti strung together. As Percy put it, he would kill you in the time it took you to count them all.
  • Poisoned Weapons: His bite is deadly poisonous.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Luke's failure to best him, taking away only a claw and a scar, was part of the catalyst that led to his betrayal of the gods.

    Ella 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ella_5.jpg
Click here to see Ella in The Son of Neptune.
"Phineas is bad."

"Words. Words calm Ella down. Words, words, words..."

One of the harpies sent to torment Phineas, Ella is much more shy and bookish than her sisters. She briefly joins Percy, Hazel, and Frank on their quest to Alaska.


  • All of the Other Reindeer: When she's first introduced, she's being bullied and robbed of her food by the other harpies. To be fair, this is less because of maliciousness towards her specifically and more because they're all starving and desperate for any food they can get.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": Her name is apparently Latin for..."harpy", as she says:
    Ella. Aella. 'Harpy.' In English. In Latin.
  • Back for the Finale: Gets a brief appearance in The Blood of Olympus, and is mentioned at the end to be helping with the effort to translate the Sibylline Books.
  • Big Eater: She rarely gets to eat, so she makes the most of her few opportunities.
  • Bookworm: She's read a lot of books.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: When she opens her mouth you may hear dangerous, world-altering prophecies...or statistics from horse-races in the 70s, tips on dog-grooming, or how many seasons Friends lasted. It's generally at least somewhat related.
  • Cute Monster Girl/Gorgeous Gorgon: Considering harpies are supposed to be ugly old hags, Ella's rather cute.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Percy and his friends bring her a bowl of Thai mac and cheese and a cinnamon roll in an effort to befriend her. She mentions that she doesn't like cheese, but likes cinnamon.
  • Encyclopaedic Knowledge: As a result of remembering everything she reads.
  • Harping on About Harpies: She is one.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Tyson, who is a Cyclops.
  • Irony: When discussing the blood moon on which Caligula and Commodus will attack, Ella, a mythological harpy, cites the Farmer's Almanac to state the science behind a blood moon. As Apollo puts it:
    "Nothing is quite so disconcerting as having science explained to you by a supernatural creature."
  • Living MacGuffin: She read and memorized the Sibylline Books, a collection of ancient prophecies leading up to the current day and possibly beyond.
  • Motor Mouth: Ella is constantly talking about the things she's read.
  • Photographic Memory: A variation, with books. Ella can remember everything she reads — just not always when you need it.
  • Red Is Heroic: The only red-feathered, as well as nice, harpy seen so far.
  • Ship Tease: With Tyson.
  • Speaks in Shout-Outs: Ella is constantly talking about the things she's read.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Cinnamon rolls.
  • Winged Humanoid: Comes with being a harpy.
  • You No Take Candle: Played with. Despite her considerable intelligence, Ella speaks like this because she is a harpy.

    Nikai 
Servants of Nike who ensure all participants have a stake in the proceedings.


    Leucrotae 
The leucrotae (singular leucrota) are a species of monster resembling a red furred lion with hooves and a semi-equine face. Three of them were sealed into a mansion along with Halcyon Green, serving as his guards while using him as bait for more demigods.


  • Exact Words: They are invulnerable to any metal known to god or man. Nothing in that description covers other methods of killing.
  • Karmic Death: Killed by the man they were set to guard, using a method thought up by the demigods they attracted to kill.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Averted. Instead of teeth they have solid shearing plates of bone.
  • Voice Changeling: Like parrots they can mimic human voices but don't really know what they're saying. They have picked up a few phrases though, which they'll repeat in various voices in order to lure prey.
  • Voice for the Voiceless: The ones bound to Halcyon Green are telepathically linked to his thoughts and speak for him aa he's cursed with muteness.

    Maenads 
Eccentric nymphs who follow Dionysus.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Dionysus, though as his servants he'll still smite those who harm them.
  • The Alcoholic: Usually, but averted with the group encountered by Leo, as they're underage maenads.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: They act like party girls but even a small group can rip a drakon to shreds.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: It is very hard to hurt them.

    Briares 
The last of the Hecatonchires, or Hundred-Handed Ones.


Automatons

    Talos Prototype 
A prototype of the Talos robot encountered by the Argonauts. Flawed and imperfect, it serves as a guard dog to Hephaestus's junkyard.


    Hank and Chuck 
A pair of automatons shaped like angels that have spent the past few decades posing as statues on the Hoover Dam.


  • Those Two Guys: They only have one scene but they spend most of it bantering with each other.
  • Noodle Incident: They've visited San Francisco before to meet other statues.
  • Winged Humanoid: They're shaped like stereotypical angels.

    Chyrseae Celedons 
Backup singers made by Hephaestus for Apollo.


The Waystation

    The Waystation 
A sentient building built on top of a train station in the 1880s. It serves as a sanctuary for demigods, Huntresses, and the like.


  • Expy: It's basically a non time-trailing TARDIS.
  • Genius Loci: A benevolent example- it can reshape or "move" rooms as needed, and create an elephant-sized driveway to the barn.

    Emmie 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emmie.jpg

Emmie, aka Hemithea, partner of Josie, mother of Georgina, ex-Huntress, ex-Princess. Once a Greek princess, she and her sister jumped off a cliff to avoid their father's drunken rampage. Apollo turned the two of them into minor goddesses (because he was dating their older sister and he thought they were praying to him for help). Retired about 40-50 years ago to be with the love of her life, and now helps run the Waystation.


  • Action Mom: Alongside Jo.
  • Brought Down to Normal: She and Jo were former Hunters of Artemis, but fell in love and decided to retire together, which also meant giving up their immortality.
  • Gratuitous Princess: Though she hasn't been a princess in millennia, she did used to be one, and her former royal status is emphasized.
  • Green Thumb: She keeps a greenhouse on the roof of the Waystation.

    Josephine 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josephine_9.jpg

Partner of Emmie, mother of Georgina, ex-Huntress, ex-con. Retired from the Hunters about 40-50 years ago to be with the love of her life, and now helps run the Waystation.


  • Action Mom: For Georgina.
  • Brought Down to Normal: She and Emmie were former Hunters of Artemis, but fell in love and decided to retire together, which also meant giving up their immortality.
  • Sweet Polly Oliver: Back when she worked with Al Capone. Yes, THE Al Capone.
  • Wrench Wench: Her mortal parent was a mechanic, so she became an expert at magical machines. She basically acts as a mechanic for the Waystation itself.

    Georgina 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/georgina.jpg

A seven-year-old girl who got adopted by Emmie and Josephine.


  • Happily Adopted: She is quite happy with her moms, Emmie and Josie.
  • Luke, I Might Be Your Father: Trophonius, a child of Apollo, calls her his sister. Since his mother died long before Georgina was born, that would suggest that Georgina is also a child of Apollo, but he has no memory of fathering her.
  • Targeted Human Sacrifice: According to prophecy, if The New Hercules sacrifices her and Apollo during the re-naming of Indianapolis, he'll successfully conquer the rest of the midwest.

    Agamethus 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/agamethus.jpg

A headless ghost, and the half-brother of Trophonius, aka the oracle of Trophonius. Currently haunts the Waystation to stay near the caves where his brother's spirit gives prophecies.


The Amazons

    General 
A tribe of female warriors who worship war gods (like Ares, Athena, or Bellona). Unlike the Hunters of Artemis, they are allowed to have relationships and children with men — as long as those men are fine with being treated like second-class citizens. They are lead by Hylla.


    Hylla 
A daughter of Bellona, Hylla and her sister Reyna were born in Puerto Rico to an affluent family. Through unfortunate circumstances they became employees of the sorceress Circe, seen in The Sea of Monsters. After the spa is destroyed and she parts ways with her sister, Hylla joins The Amazons and eventually becomes their leader.


  • Action Girl: She has beaten Otrera in a fight. Twice!
  • Abusive Parents: Apparently, her and Reyna's father was one, which was why they ran away from Puerto Rico to Circe's retreat.
  • Ascended Extra: A background character in The Sea of Monsters and a very important character in The son of Neptune.
  • Badass Family: She and her sister are daughters of the war goddess, Bellona. One of them at a time is awesome, but when they team up, monsters should run screaming.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Her mother is Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, while her father was a mortal soldier.
  • The Leader: Of the Amazons.

    Kinzie 
A member of the Amazons loyal to Hylla.


  • Back for the Dead: She returns in The Blood of Olympus just to get killed by Orion.
  • Mauve Shirt: She is a friend to Hylla and supporting Amazon in The Son of Neptune,and is killed by Orion in The Blood of Olympus.

    Otrera 
The first queen of the Amazons. She was sent to claim the throne from her modern successor through combat and lead the Amazons in service of Gaia. Her tropes can be found here

Other

    The Fates 
A trio of old women who control fate, particularly the time and circumstances of death.


  • Above Good and Evil: As the representation of fate, they are as neutral as they can be. Yes, Atropos's task in ending a person's life is pretty grim but her role is utterly natural in the cycle of life and death and she's not inherently malicious about it even if she's is utterly inflexible when preforming her role.
  • Above the Gods: They have dominion over the destinies of everyone, including the gods themselves, giving them a higher cosmic authority than even Zeus.
  • Adapted Out: From the movie, and they’re reduced to a mention in The Lightning Thief musical.
  • Affably Evil: They're fairly polite, for a trio of ancient hags. They partake in serving as Luke's pallbearers.
  • Almighty Janitor: Calling them "servants" is stretching it, but they're content to sit in the background and let the gods play with their mortal toys.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their robes are white as per the myths.
  • Color Motifs: White is an important color to all three of their designs. They have white hair and wear white robes in the graphic novel.
  • The Hecate Sisters: Clotho the youngest is the Maiden, Lachesis the right hand one to Atropos is the Matron, and Atropos takes on the role of the Crone.
  • The Dreaded: They scare everyone, even the gods. The sole exception was the giant made to kill them, and they killed him without mortal aid. Suffice to say, it's a justified reputation.
  • Pet the Dog: In a series where Demigods are fatalistically aware their lifespan is not long due to the constant fighting against monsters, they outright reveal to Percy that he's destined to die peacefully of old age and their interest in him seem to be oddly benign despite his first encounter with them terrifying Grover.
  • Race Lift: Due to Rick Riordan's preference of ability over appearance, only one of the Fates bears an exact resemblance to her book counterpart in the Disney Plus series. One is Asian and the other is African.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: They have all of three appearances in all the series' but they indirectly drive all of it. Justified, as you can't really avoid fate.
  • Terrible Trio: They're very cruel towards Calypso, or at least, that's her opinion of them. They are also responsible for spinning, stretching and cutting the threads of life.

    The Boreads 
Calais and Zethes, twin sons of the wind god Boreas.


Top