History Characters / TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMortals

** Also to Esperanza, Leo's mom. Like Sally she wanted her lover back, but for her son, while Beryl wanted Zeus for herself. Both died, but while Esperanza was killed by Gaea's manipulation, Beryl's death was her own making.

* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler: great-grandson Leo]] looks exactly like him.

* DrivenToSuicide: Maybe. [[spoiler: Nico is sure he became a mania before his final confrontation with Reyna and Hylla. Only mania's are a type of undead. Whether he faded into a mania without dying, died from his unhealthy crazed lifestyle or killed himself is left to the reader.]]

* FakeNationality: In-universe, he never plays a Native American in any movie he's in, despite being Cherokee.

* Foil: To Beryl Grace, Jason's mother. As Leo notes, while Esperanza truly loved Hephaestus with all her heart, her only wish was for Leo to meet him.

* GenreSavvy: Thanks to being able to see through the Mist, she is never surprised at things that would normally shock a mortal to death. Like Mrs. O'Leary suddenly appearing inside her apartment in the fourth book.

* ActionMom: As of book five when something happens and she unloads on a monster with a shotgun (In Chapter 18, which is aptly named [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "My Parents Go Commando"]]))

* BewareTheNiceOnes: A trait she shares with her son. Uses a ''shotgun'' to fend off a monster in ''The Last Olympian''. [[spoiler:This stretches back as far as ''The Lightning Thief'', where it's heavily implied that she used Medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone once his unwitting protection for Percy was no longer applicable.]].

* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Zeus during World War II. Frankly, even if she had lived, her chance of still living in the present isn't very high.

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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: After his general indifference, he finally lets his daughter to go as she pleases, even for a while, by boarding a helicopter back in time for the battle in Manhattan.]]

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: "Zeus is ''un imbecille''".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse: If Hazel had stayed in New Orleans, she would have grown up to marry Sammy.

Percy's abusive stepfather at the beginning of the series. He isn't the nicest of guys. [[spoiler:By the end of ''The Lightning Thief'', he's turned into a stone statue by Medusa's head. It's heavily implied that Sally used this on him]].

Played by Catherine Keener in the film series.

Played by Creator/JoePantoliano in the film series.

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[[folder:Beryl Grace]]
Jason and Thalia's mother, a beautiful Hollywood starlet.

* EightiesHair: Her description in the previous series includes that she had a "poofy hairdo".
* AbusiveParents: Attracting the king of the gods (twice) had a negative effect on her ego, and eventually she turned to alcohol. This led to many arguments with Thalia. She's not above [[spoiler:offering her son as a peace offering for an angry goddess]], either.
* TheAlcoholic: She turned to drink later in life, which caused her rift with her daughter.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her inability to get over Zeus and her own pride [[spoiler: turned her into a ''mania'', a spirit of insanity, who haunts her son in the last book.]]
* MissingMom: To Thalia and Jason.
* NoNameGiven: The only one of the Seven's mortal parents to not be named. She's finally named by the last book.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's dead by the story proper.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Described in the previous series to be an "eighties starlet with a poofy hairdo."

[[folder:Dr. Howard Claymore]]
For information on Dr. Claymore go to [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Esperanza Valdez]]
Leo's deceased mother.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: When Leo's not angsting about [[spoiler: killing her with his fire powers]], he remembers her fondly.
* DotingParent: As much as she could, when she was alive.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "hope".
* MissingMom: To Leo.
* PluckyGirl: Described as such in the backstory. Despite the discrimination and hardships she faced she was always determined, optimistic, and kind, as well as a doting parent to Leo.
* PosthumousCharacter: Deceased by the story proper.
* SpicyLatina: Averted. She was described as being very warm and friendly, as well as satisfied with her living conditions as long as she had Leo.
* WrenchWench: Very talented with machines, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, attracted the attention of Hephaestus.

[[folder:Frederick and Mrs. Chase]]
Annabeth's estranged father and stepmother, the former of whom is fascinated by historical warfare.

[[folder:Gabe Ugliano]]
Percy's abusive stepfather at the beginning of the series. He isn't the nicest of guys. [[spoiler:By the end of ''The Lightning Thief'', he's turned into a stone statue by Medusa's head. It's heavily implied that Sally used this on him]].

Played by Creator/JoePantoliano in the film series.

* AbusiveParents: He's a downright crappy stepfather to Percy.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Turning someone into stone from cold blood would have ordinary been a rather morally ambiguous act, but by the point it happens, he has proven himself such an asshole that you will at worst not care, at best cheer]].
* DomesticAbuser: Implied to be one towards Sally.
* EvilSmellsBad: Percy describes him as such.
* FatBastard: Very fat, and very mean.
* {{Jerkass}}: Especially to Percy.
* MeaningfulName: His last name should have plenty of hints as to his personality.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Gets turned to stone by Medusa's head. Sally later sells this statue for quite a lot of money.]]

[[folder:Hyacinthus]]
One of Apollo's great two loves.

* TheLostLenore: One of two for Apollo.
* PosthumousCharacter
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[[folder:Jane]]
Tristan [=McLean=]'s secretary, and the one who minds Piper when he's busy.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Looking after the rebellious kleptomaniac Piper can't be easy.
* PrimAndProperBun: She's described as wearing her hair up in a bun at all times.
* ResentfulGuardian: To Piper.
* WeakWilled: [[spoiler: According to Medea, and it's true, seeing how easily Medea was able to order her around.]]

[[folder:Julian Ramírez-Arellano]]
Reyna and Hylla's father, he was an ex-US Army soldier formerly stationed during the Iraq War.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Sadly, unlike the other demigod parents, he wasn't always like this. Due to a severe case of PTSD, he constantly thought that he's in a war zone and acted as such, at one time locking up his daughters inside a room for days. Eventually, he thought of them as enemies and outright tried to physically hurt them.]]
* AmazonChaser: Well, considering that he followed a relationship with a war goddess long enough to have two daughters...
* DisappearedDad: While he's only killed for real shortly before the events of ''The Sea of Monsters'', [[spoiler: his daughters realized that he's already a lost cause by the time he returned home from war.]]
* FamousAncestor: Was descended from notable figures in the history of Puerto Rico, the Ramírez-Arellano family being a Spanish noble house. While Bellona had been the protector of the family for centuries, Julian was the first person she openly had relationship with.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Tried this, after he turned into a mania. Hylla put an end to this, for everyone's best interests.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Died shortly before the events of ''The Sea of Monsters''.
* ShellShockedVeteran: So, so very much.
* SpearCounterpart: Basically a male counterpart to Beryl Grace, whose backstory was revealed much earlier. [[spoiler: They even shared the same fate.]]

[[folder:Maria di Angelo]]
Nico and Bianca's mother, the daughter of an Italian diplomat.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: "Zeus is ''un imbecille''".
* GratuitousItalian: Her most memorable phrase, as described above.
* TheLostLenore: Hades took her death very hard, to the point that he cursed the entire succession of the Oracles of Delphi for ensuring her death.
* MissingMom: Died when Nico was 10 and Bianca was 12.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Zeus during World War II. Frankly, even if she had lived, her chance of still living in the present isn't very high.

[[folder:Marie Levesque]]
Hazel's deceased mother, who worked as a fortune teller in New Orleans.

* AbusiveParents: Became this when possessed by Gaea.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She was very poor and couldn't escape poverty. When the spell she cast summoned Pluto, they dated, and after Hazel was born, Pluto promised her anything she wanted. She asked for all the riches under the earth, and Hazel got the power to summon and control jewels and precious metals... but everything she summons is cursed, unless she or Pluto touches it. Everything Marie sold brought horrible fates to those who bought them, and she ended up just as poor.
* DemonicPossession: She often gets possessed by Gaea.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Only came back to her normal self before dying with Hazel on the sinking island]].
* {{Expy}}: Of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, although she lived significantly later (though considering the rumors that Laveau somehow became immortal, one has to wonder...)
* FortuneTeller: She was a con artist, although [[spoiler:Hecate says she had magic of her own.]]
* GoldDigger: The first thing that she asked when Pluto questioned what she wanted for her future child, she asked for her to be able to sprout rich minerals. Somewhat justifiable considering that she was poor (and black, in 1920s South), but it was kind of excessive.
* MissingMom: To Hazel.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Just before Alcyoneus is about to rise, she realizes what her selfishness caused and is willing to give up her life to save Hazel. However, Hazel doesn't let this happen and instead dies with her to delay Alcyoneus's rise]].
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Died alongside Hazel while trying to prevent Alcyoneus' rise. Initially given a pass to the Field of Punishment, Hazel traded her entry for Elysium, so the two were sent together to the Ashpodel Fields separately. That was the last time Hazel saw her mother.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Alongside Hazel, she was buried somewhere in an island off the coast of Alaska. Unlike Hazel, though, she died for good.]]

[[folder:May Castellan]]
Luke's mother, who is described as kind-hearted and multitalented. Until she tried to become the Oracle of Delphi despite Hades's curse, and paid the price for it.

* FaintingSeer: Became one.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She went nuts after [[spoiler: trying to take in the Oracle's spirit and seeing what would happen to her son.]]
* ISeeThemToo: Born with the Sight. [[spoiler: It ends badly when she tries to become the Oracle.]]
* MadOracle: [[spoiler: Became one.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Taking in the Oracle's spirit drove her mad.]]
* MissingMom: Somewhere in the middle. She's ''there'', but she's ''not'', you know?
* MyBelovedSmother: At her best. No wonder Luke ran away.
* TheOphelia: She's beautiful, but extremely unstable.
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost everything about her in ''The Last Olympian'' is a spoiler.

[[folder:Paul Blofis]]
Sally's boyfriend and eventually second husband, Paul is Percy's English teacher. He finds this arrangement slightly awkward.

* ActionDad: In the fifth book, where he picks up a sword and promptly [[BadassNormal kills a dracaena with it]]. After which he says a memorable quote:
-->"I hope that was a monster I just killed. I was a Shakespearian actor in college! Picked up a little swordplay!"
* BadassNormal: Is a normal human, with no powers, who can't see the monsters attacking his stepson. This does not stop him picking up a sword and killing them anyway.
* HappilyMarried: Marries Sally in ''Battle of the Labyrinth''.
* PunnyName: Percy initially calls him Paul Blowfish behind his back, but stops doing it after he gets to know him better.
* SecondLove: To Sally, after Poseidon.

[[folder:Rachel Elizabeth Dare]]
For information on Rachel Elizabeth Dare go to [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesCampHalfBlood here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rufus]]
A classmate of Hazel and Sammy at St. Agnes School for Colored Children and Indians.

* TheBully: Hazel's primary human tormentor.
* KidsAreCruel: Called Hazel names and other nasty things, because she's the daughter of a witch (which is not entirely untrue).
* PosthumousCharacter: Considering that Hazel's flashbacks take place in TheForties, he, like Sammy, is probably already long dead.
* ScaryBlackMan: A teenage version, but Hazel definitely saw him as this.

[[folder:Sally Jackson]]
Percy's mother, who can see through the Mist. [[MommasBoy A staple in his life,]] she's selfless, funny, and hardworking, and Percy's first and best mentor.

Played by Catherine Keener in the film series.

* ActionMom: As of book five when something happens and she unloads on a monster with a shotgun (In Chapter 18, which is aptly named [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "My Parents Go Commando"]]))
--> '''Percy:''' Mom! When did you learn to fire a shotgun?
--> '''Sally:''' About two seconds ago,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Only in the beginning of the third book, and lovingly so. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments She tells stories about how cute Percy was as a baby, especially naked in the bathtub, in front of his crush]].
* BadassNormal: Though she lacks divine origins, she's a MamaBear par excellence who will attack anyone who tries to hurt her son.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A trait she shares with her son. Uses a ''shotgun'' to fend off a monster in ''The Last Olympian''. [[spoiler:This stretches back as far as ''The Lightning Thief'', where it's heavily implied that she used Medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone once his unwitting protection for Percy was no longer applicable.]].
* DamselInDistress: In the first book, where she is kidnapped by the Minotaur and taken to the Underworld.
* DemotedToExtra: While she is never made to be important to begin with, she always makes at least an appearance in every book of the first series. In the second series, however, she is completely absent, aside from a few mentions in ''The Son of Neptune'' and ''The Mark of Athena''. She finally makes a direct appearance in ''The Hidden Oracle''.
* GenreSavvy: Thanks to being able to see through the Mist, she is never surprised at things that would normally shock a mortal to death. Like Mrs. O'Leary suddenly appearing inside her apartment in the fourth book.
* GoodParents: To note, the only living demigod's parent who is never shown or described in a negative light. She genuinely cares about her son's well-being, and shows it a lot.
* HappilyMarried: To Paul, after [[spoiler:getting rid of Gabe.]]
* ISeeThemToo: Can see through the Mist.
* KaleidoscopeEyes: Described as being blue, but they change color in the light.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She kept her name when she married Gabe Ugliano. Can you blame her? It's not specifically brought up with her second husband.
* MamaBear: She might be just a mortal woman, but she never lets this get in the way of her and Percy. She married Gabe Ugliano specifically because he smelled so strongly that it camouflaged Percy from monsters who would have otherwise smelled ''him''.
* NotSoDifferent: Percy notes near the end of the first book that she has a rebellious streak in her too, mellowed by years and circumstance.
* ParentsAsPeople: Her marriage problems are given extensive focus.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died in a plane crash when she was young.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Uses a shotgun to send a monster flying in the fifth book.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Not the type, but rather the color; she likes to dye her food blue (such as blue muffins), because that's her favorite color. A trait she passed to her son.

[[folder:Sammy]]
Hazel's almost-boyfriend from her time in New Orleans. [[spoiler: His surname just happens to be Valdez, and he's Leo's great-grandfather]].

%%TheCharmer
* ClassClown: Seemed to be one during Hazel's schooling years.
* FirstLove: For Hazel.
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler: great-grandson Leo]] looks exactly like him.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: To Hazel. According to Gaea, had she lived Hazel would have grown up to marry him.
* OnlyFriend: To Hazel.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Sammy, nothing more. [[spoiler:Until ''The Mark of Athena'', where it turns out his surname is "Valdez", same as Leo's]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Died around 15 years before the events of ''The Heroes of Olympus'' series.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Not much is known about him as a character other than being Hazel's FirstLove [[spoiler:and Leo's great-grandfather]].
* TwoferTokenMinority: Mexican-American, so he jokes that the St. Agnes School for Colored Children and Indians should have given him a double scholarship.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse: If Hazel had stayed in New Orleans, she would have grown up to marry Sammy.

[[folder:Tristan [=McLean=]]]
Piper's father, who works as a movie star.

* FakeNationality: In-universe, he never plays a Native American in any movie he's in, despite being Cherokee.
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Gaea kidnaps him so that Piper will do what she wants.]] It doesn't work.
* MindWipe: [[spoiler:Piper gives him a drink that erases his memory of the whole ordeal, even if it helped the two of them grow closer.]]
* ParentalNeglect: While he's presented positively, he tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth once one remembers that Piper rarely gets to spend time with him, and that time is usually ''under a minute''.
* ParentsAsPeople: His difficulties juggling his job and his daughter, as well as his relative weak will compared to other characters, are given extensive focus.
* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:He's held hostage in ''The Lost Hero'' to blackmail his daughter]].
* WindowLove: With Piper, [[spoiler: after he loses his memory.]]
* WeakWilled: Somewhat. He can't handle the existence of the Mist, which Aphrodite cites as her reason for staying away.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William Dare]]
Rachel's father, a very successful businessman.

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Played by Joe Pantoliano in the film series.

[[folder:Frederick Chase]]
Annabeth's estranged father, who is fascinated by historical warfare.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: He tends to lose his train of thought.

* BadassNormal: In ''The Titan's Curse'', he pulled a BigDamnHeroes moment when he flies a Sopwith Camel into battle, shooting monsters with celestial bronze bullets.
* PapaWolf: Turns out to be like this even after all the crap he put his daughter through. During his BigDamnHeroes moment:

* ParentsAsPeople: He cares a lot for his children, but he can be absent-minded at times.

[[folder:Marie Levesque]]
Hazel's deceased mother, who worked as a fortune teller in New Orleans.

* AbusiveParents: Became this when possessed by Gaea.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She was very poor and couldn't escape poverty. When the spell she cast summoned Pluto, they dated, and after Hazel was born, Pluto promised her anything she wanted. She asked for all the riches under the earth, and Hazel got the power to summon and control jewels and precious metals... but everything she summons is cursed, unless she or Pluto touches it. Everything Marie sold brought horrible fates to those who bought them, and she ended up just as poor.
* DemonicPossession: She often gets possessed by Gaea.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Only came back to her normal self before dying with Hazel on the sinking island]].
* {{Expy}}: Of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, although she lived significantly later (though considering the rumors that Laveau somehow became immortal, one has to wonder...)
* FortuneTeller: She was a con artist, although [[spoiler:Hecate says she had magic of her own.]]
* MissingMom: To Hazel.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Just before Alcyoneus is about to rise, she realizes what her selfishness caused and is willing to give up her life to save Hazel. However, Hazel doesn't let this happen and instead dies with her to delay Alcyoneus's rise]].
* PosthumousCharacter
%%RaginCajun

[[folder:May Castellan]]
Luke's mother, who is described as kind-hearted and multitalented. Until she tried to become the Oracle of Delphi despite Hades's curse, and paid the price for it.

* FaintingSeer: Became one.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She went nuts after [[spoiler: trying to take in the Oracle's spirit and seeing what would happen to her son.]]
* ISeeThemToo: Born with the Sight. [[spoiler: It ends badly when she tries to become the Oracle.]]
* MadOracle: [[spoiler: Became one.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Taking in the Oracle's spirit drove her mad.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: At her best. No wonder Luke ran away.
* TheOphelia: She's beautiful, but extremely unstable.
* ParentalAbandonment: Somewhere in the middle. She's ''there'', but she's ''not'', you know?
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost everything about her in ''The Last Olympian'' is a spoiler.

[[folder:Paul Blofis]]
Sally's boyfriend and eventually second husband, Paul is Percy's English teacher. He finds this arrangement slightly awkward.

* ActionDad: In the fifth book, where he picks up a sword and promptly [[BadassNormal kills a dracaena with it]]. After which he says a memorable quote:
-->"I hope that was a monster I just killed. I was a Shakespearian actor in college! Picked up a little swordplay!"
* BadassNormal: Is a normal human, with no powers, who can't see the monsters attacking his stepson. This does not stop him picking up a sword and killing them anyway.
* HappilyMarried: Marries Sally in ''Battle of the Labyrinth''.
* PunnyName: Percy initially calls him Paul Blowfish behind his back, but stops doing it after he gets to know him better.
* SecondLove: To Sally, after Poseidon.

[[folder:Rachel Elizabeth Dare]]
For information on Rachel Elizabeth Dare go to [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesCampHalfBlood here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sally Jackson]]
Percy's mother, who can see through the Mist. [[MommasBoy A staple in his life,]] she's selfless, funny, and hardworking, and Percy's first and best mentor.

Played by Catherine Keener in the film series.

* ActionMom: As of book five when something happens and she unloads on a monster with a shotgun (In Chapter 18, which is aptly named [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "My Parents Go Commando"]]))
--> '''Percy:''' Mom! When did you learn to fire a shotgun?
--> '''Sally:''' About two seconds ago,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Only in the beginning of the third book, and lovingly so. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments She tells stories about how cute Percy was as a baby, especially naked in the bathtub, in front of his crush]].
* BadassNormal: Though she lacks divine origins, she's a MamaBear par excellence who will attack anyone who tries to hurt her son.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A trait she shares with her son. Uses a ''shotgun'' to fend off a monster in ''The Last Olympian''. [[spoiler:This stretches back as far as ''The Lightning Thief'', where it's heavily implied that she used Medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone once his unwitting protection for Percy was no longer applicable.]].
%%GenreSavvy
* GoodParents: Genuinely cares about her son's well-being, and shows it a lot.
* ISeeThemToo: Can see through the Mist.
* KaleidoscopeEyes: Described as being blue, but they change color in the light.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She kept her name when she married Gabe Ugliano. Can you blame her? It's not specifically brought up with her second husband.
* MamaBear: She might be just a mortal woman, but she never lets this get in the way of her and Percy. She married Gabe Ugliano specifically because he smelled so strongly that it camouflaged Percy from monsters who would have otherwise smelled ''him''.
* HappilyMarried: To Paul, after [[spoiler:getting rid of Gabe.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Percy notes near the end of the first book that she has a rebellious streak in her too, mellowed by years and circumstance.
* ParentsAsPeople: Her marriage problems are given extensive focus.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died in a plane crash when she was young.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Uses a shotgun to send a monster flying in the fifth book.

[[folder:Sammy]]
Hazel's almost-boyfriend from her time in New Orleans. [[spoiler: His surname just happens to be Valdez, and he's Leo's great-grandfather]].

%%TheCharmer
* ClassClown: Seemed to be one during Hazel's schooling years.
* FirstLove: For Hazel.
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler: great-grandson Leo]] looks exactly like him.
%%NiceGuy
* TheOneThatGotAway: To Hazel. According to Gaea, had she lived Hazel would have grown up to marry him.
* OnlyFriend: To Hazel.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Sammy, nothing more. [[spoiler:Until ''The Mark of Athena'', where it turns out his surname is "Valdez", same as Leo's]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Not much is known about him as a character other than being Hazel's FirstLove [[spoiler:and Leo's great-grandfather]].
* TwoferTokenMinority: Mexican-American, so he jokes that the St. Agnes School for Colored Children and Indians should have given him a double scholarship.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse: If Hazel had stayed in New Orleans, she would have grown up to marry Sammy.

[[folder:Tristan [=McLean=]]]
Piper's father, who works as a movie star.

* FakeNationality: In-universe, he never plays a Native American in any movie he's in, despite being Cherokee.
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Gaea kidnaps him so that Piper will do what she wants.]] It doesn't work.
* MindWipe: [[spoiler:Piper gives him a drink that erases his memory of the whole ordeal, even if it helped the two of them grow closer.]]
* ParentalNeglect: While he's presented positively, he tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth once one remembers that Piper rarely gets to spend time with him, and that time is usually ''under a minute''.
* ParentsAsPeople: His difficulties juggling his job and his daughter, as well as his relative weak will compared to other characters, are given extensive focus.
* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:He's held hostage in ''The Lost Hero'' to blackmail his daughter]].
* WindowLove: With Piper, [[spoiler: after he loses his memory.]]
* WeakWilled: Somewhat. He can't handle the existence of the Mist, which Aphrodite cites as her reason for staying away.

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[[folder:Lityerses]]
Midas's son.

* BloodKnight: Enjoys swordfighting.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Covered in scars from his swordfights.
%%HotBlooded: Lit.
* InSeriesNickname: He usually goes by "Lit" now.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marie Levesque]]
Hazel's deceased mother, who worked as a fortune teller in New Orleans.

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[[folder:Midas]]
The legendary king with the golden touch. Didn't learn his lesson after all.

* AffablyEvil: Midas acts friendly to his guests while trying to turn them into gold.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Midas forces demigods that find him to choose between being turned to gold or being murdered by his son, he works for Gaea, and runs a gold selling scam.
%%MadHatter: Midas.
* TakenForGranite: Midas's power to turn people into gold.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paul Blofis]]
Sally's boyfriend and eventually second husband, Paul is Percy's English teacher. He finds this arrangement slightly awkward.

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[[folder:Tristan [=McLean=]]]]

[[folder:Marie Levesque]]
Hazel's deceased mother, who worked as a fortune teller in New Orleans.

[[folder:Paul Blofis]]
Sally's boyfriend and eventually second husband, Paul is Percy's English teacher. He finds this arrangement slightly awkward.

A mortal living in Keeseville, New York. A scholar who gives lectures when he's not writing and finds his life and everything he knew turned on its head after meeting Alabaster Torrington. Shows up only in a short story, ''Son of Magic'', at the end of ''The Demigod Diaries''.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He can understand Latin, which gives him an edge when Lamia uses Latin spell incantations, as he can make pretty good guesses what's about to happen. His observations of how quickly Lamia can pull herself together after being wounded also works to his advantage, [[spoiler: or seems to. See UnwittingPawn]].
* BadassNormal: Fights Lamia with just a 9mm pistol and GoodOldFisticuffs.
%%BreakTheHaughty
* {{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.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Attacks Lamia one final time to give Alabaster time to escape]].
* ProperlyParanoid: His outer fence is well away from his house, which has a state-of-the-art security system, and a gun in each room. And he knows how to use them, too.
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: After his death, Hecate makes him one for Alabaster]].
* UnfazedEveryman: Thought he's only just become aware of the existence of gods and monsters, he just considers then another problem to be solved through his usual, logical method.
* UnwittingPawn: After defeating Lamia, he goes off to find Alabaster, unaware that [[spoiler: Lamia let him win and then followed him to the demigod's safe house]].
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Holds his own against Lamia and shows no qualms about beating her up while she keeps trying to regenerate]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Hecate tells him that he reminds her and Alabaster of Alabaster's father]].
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[[folder:Esperanza Valdez]]
Leo's deceased mother.

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[[folder:Sally Jackson]]
Percy's mother, who can see through the Mist. [[MommasBoy A staple in his life,]] she's selfless, funny, and hardworking, and Percy's first and best mentor.

Played by Catherine Keener in the film series.

* ActionMom: As of book five when something happens and she unloads on a monster with a shotgun (In Chapter 18, which is aptly named [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "My Parents Go Commando"]]))
--> '''Percy:''' Mom! When did you learn to fire a shotgun?
--> '''Sally:''' About two seconds ago,
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Only in the beginning of the third book, and lovingly so. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments She tells stories about how cute Percy was as a baby, especially naked in the bathtub, in front of his crush]].
* BadassNormal: Though she lacks divine origins, she's a MamaBear par excellence who will attack anyone who tries to hurt her son.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A trait she shares with her son. Uses a ''shotgun'' to fend off a monster in ''The Last Olympian''. [[spoiler:This stretches back as far as ''The Lightning Thief'', where it's heavily implied that she used Medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone once his unwitting protection for Percy was no longer applicable.]].
%%GenreSavvy
* GoodParents: Genuinely cares about her son's well-being, and shows it a lot.
* ISeeThemToo: Can see through the Mist.
* KaleidoscopeEyes: Described as being blue, but they change color in the light.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She kept her name when she married Gabe Ugliano. Can you blame her? It's not specifically brought up with her second husband.
* MamaBear: She might be just a mortal woman, but she never lets this get in the way of her and Percy. She married Gabe Ugliano specifically because he smelled so strongly that it camouflaged Percy from monsters who would have otherwise smelled ''him''.
* HappilyMarried: To Paul, after [[spoiler:getting rid of Gabe.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Percy notes near the end of the first book that she has a rebellious streak in her too, mellowed by years and circumstance.
* ParentsAsPeople: Her marriage problems are given extensive focus.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died in a plane crash when she was young.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Uses a shotgun to send a monster flying in the fifth book.

[[folder:Paul Blofis]]
Sally's boyfriend and eventually second husband, Paul is Percy's English teacher. He finds this arrangement slightly awkward.

* ActionDad: In the fifth book, where he picks up a sword and promptly [[BadassNormal kills a dracaena with it]]. After which he says a memorable quote:
-->"I hope that was a monster I just killed. I was a Shakespearian actor in college! Picked up a little swordplay!"
* BadassNormal: Is a normal human, with no powers, who can't see the monsters attacking his stepson. This does not stop him picking up a sword and killing them anyway.
* HappilyMarried: Marries Sally in ''Battle of the Labyrinth''.
* PunnyName: Percy initially calls him Paul Blowfish behind his back, but stops doing it after he gets to know him better.
* SecondLove: To Sally, after Poseidon.

[[folder:May Castellan]]
Luke's mother, who is described as kind-hearted and multitalented. Until she tried to become the Oracle of Delphi despite Hades's curse, and paid the price for it.

* FaintingSeer: Became one.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She went nuts after [[spoiler: trying to take in the Oracle's spirit and seeing what would happen to her son.]]
* ISeeThemToo: Born with the Sight. [[spoiler: It ends badly when she tries to become the Oracle.]]
* MadOracle: [[spoiler: Became one.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Taking in the Oracle's spirit drove her mad.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: At her best. No wonder Luke ran away.
* TheOphelia: She's beautiful, but extremely unstable.
* ParentalAbandonment: Somewhere in the middle. She's ''there'', but she's ''not'', you know?
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost everything about her in ''The Last Olympian'' is a spoiler.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Beryl Grace]]
Jason and Thalia's mother, a beautiful Hollywood starlet.

* EightiesHair: Her description in the previous series includes that she had a "poofy hairdo".
* AbusiveParents: Attracting the king of the gods (twice) had a negative effect on her ego, and eventually she turned to alcohol. This led to many arguments with Thalia. She's not above [[spoiler:offering her son as a peace offering for an angry goddess]], either.
* TheAlcoholic: She turned to drink later in life, which caused her rift with her daughter.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her inability to get over Zeus and her own pride [[spoiler: turned her into a ''mania'', a spirit of insanity, who haunts her son in the last book.]]
* MissingMom: To Thalia and Jason.
* NoNameGiven: The only one of the Seven's mortal parents to not be named. She's finally named by the last book.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's dead by the story proper.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Described in the previous series to be an "eighties starlet with a poofy hairdo."

[[folder:Tristan [=McLean=]]]]
Piper's father, who works as a movie star.

* FakeNationality: In-universe, he never plays a Native American in any movie he's in, despite being Cherokee.
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Gaea kidnaps him so that Piper will do what she wants.]] It doesn't work.
* MindWipe: [[spoiler:Piper gives him a drink that erases his memory of the whole ordeal, even if it helped the two of them grow closer.]]
* ParentalNeglect: While he's presented positively, he tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth once one remembers that Piper rarely gets to spend time with him, and that time is usually ''under a minute''.
* ParentsAsPeople: His difficulties juggling his job and his daughter, as well as his relative weak will compared to other characters, are given extensive focus.
* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:He's held hostage in ''The Lost Hero'' to blackmail his daughter]].
* WindowLove: With Piper, [[spoiler: after he loses his memory.]]
* WeakWilled: Somewhat. He can't handle the existence of the Mist, which Aphrodite cites as her reason for staying away.
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[[folder:Esperanza Valdez]]
Leo's deceased mother.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: When Leo's not angsting about [[spoiler: killing her with his fire powers]], he remembers her fondly.
* DotingParent: As much as she could, when she was alive.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "hope".
* MissingMom: To Leo.
* PluckyGirl: Described as such in the backstory. Despite the discrimination and hardships she faced she was always determined, optimistic, and kind, as well as a doting parent to Leo.
* PosthumousCharacter: Deceased by the story proper.
* SpicyLatina: Averted. She was described as being very warm and friendly, as well as satisfied with her living conditions as long as she had Leo.
* WrenchWench: Very talented with machines, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, attracted the attention of Hephaestus.

[[folder:Jane]]
Tristan [=McLean=]'s secretary, and the one who minds Piper when he's busy.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Looking after the rebellious kleptomaniac Piper can't be easy.
* PrimAndProperBun: She's described as wearing her hair up in a bun at all times.
* ResentfulGuardian: To Piper.
* WeakWilled: [[spoiler: According to Medea, and it's true, seeing how easily Medea was able to order her around.]]

[[folder:Sammy]]
Hazel's almost-boyfriend from her time in New Orleans. [[spoiler: His surname just happens to be Valdez, and he's Leo's great-grandfather]].

%%TheCharmer
* ClassClown: Seemed to be one during Hazel's schooling years.
* FirstLove: For Hazel.
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler: great-grandson Leo]] looks exactly like him.
%%NiceGuy
* TheOneThatGotAway: To Hazel. According to Gaea, had she lived Hazel would have grown up to marry him.
* OnlyFriend: To Hazel.
* OnlyOneName: He's only known as Sammy, nothing more. [[spoiler:Until ''The Mark of Athena'', where it turns out his surname is "Valdez", same as Leo's]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Not much is known about him as a character other than being Hazel's FirstLove [[spoiler:and Leo's great-grandfather]].
* TwoferTokenMinority: Mexican-American, so he jokes that the St. Agnes School for Colored Children and Indians should have given him a double scholarship.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse: If Hazel had stayed in New Orleans, she would have grown up to marry Sammy.

[[folder:Dr. Howard Claymore]]
A mortal living in Keeseville, New York. A scholar who gives lectures when he's not writing and finds his life and everything he knew turned on its head after meeting Alabaster Torrington. Shows up only in a short story, ''Son of Magic'', at the end of ''The Demigod Diaries''.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He can understand Latin, which gives him an edge when Lamia uses Latin spell incantations, as he can make pretty good guesses what's about to happen. His observations of how quickly Lamia can pull herself together after being wounded also works to his advantage, [[spoiler: or seems to. See UnwittingPawn]].
* BadassNormal: Fights Lamia with just a 9mm pistol and GoodOldFisticuffs.
%%BreakTheHaughty
* {{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.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Attacks Lamia one final time to give Alabaster time to escape]].
* ProperlyParanoid: His outer fence is well away from his house, which has a state-of-the-art security system, and a gun in each room. And he knows how to use them, too.
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: After his death, Hecate makes him one for Alabaster]].
* UnfazedEveryman: Thought he's only just become aware of the existence of gods and monsters, he just considers then another problem to be solved through his usual, logical method.
* UnwittingPawn: After defeating Lamia, he goes off to find Alabaster, unaware that [[spoiler: Lamia let him win and then followed him to the demigod's safe house]].
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Holds his own against Lamia and shows no qualms about beating her up while she keeps trying to regenerate]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Hecate tells him that he reminds her and Alabaster of Alabaster's father]].