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| 12 | [[WMG:[[center: [- ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' '''[[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeries Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 13 | '''Demigods:''' [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesPercyJackson Percy Jackson]]) | '''Camp Half-Blood''' | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesCampJupiter Camp Jupiter]]\ |
| 14 | '''Gods:''' [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMajorGods Major Gods]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMinorGods Minor Gods]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesServantsOfTheGods Other Servants]]\ |
| 15 | '''Villains:''' [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesForcesOfKronos Forces of Kronos]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesForcesOfGaia Forces of Gaia]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesTriumvirateHoldings Forces of Triumvirate Holdings]]\ |
| 16 | '''Others:''' [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesNatureSpirits Nature Spirits]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMortals Mortals]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMonsters Monsters]] | [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesOther Other]] | ''[[Characters/DemigodsAndMagicians Demigods and Magicians]]'']]-]]] |
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| 18 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/module_300_char_camp_half_blood.jpg]] |
| 19 | [[caption-width-right:250:''[[Theatre/TheLightningThief When you're beaten and you're bloody and you're face down in the mud,\ |
| 20 | When the Harpies try to eat you, you're on fire, there's a flood,\ |
| 21 | You can bet that you're on the shore of Camp Half-Blood.]]'']] |
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| 23 | The residents of "Camp Half-Blood" of ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' (''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' and ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' and companions like ''Literature/TheDemigodFiles'' and ''Literature/TheDemigodDiaries''). The page contains a list of the staff, Camp/Head Counselors. Though the Council of Cloven Elders is also located in the camp, they can be found [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesNatureSpirits here]]. Other full time residents are also listed here. For the full list of characters, click [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeries here.]] |
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| 28 | [[folder:Campers in General]] |
| 29 | [[HeroicBastard Children]] of the Greek gods. They have heightened senses and combat skills that take the form of [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny ADHD]] and their minds are hard-wired to read Ancient Greek, which gives them [[LIsForDyslexia trouble reading English]]. [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Their skills]] and [[GenerationXerox personalities]] are inherited from their divine parents (children of Aphrodite will be [[LoveFreak Love Freaks]], children of Athena will be [[BadassBookWorm highly intelligent]], and children of Apollo will be musically and/or medicinally inclined, as well as a good shot with a bow). |
| 30 | ---- |
| 31 | * AgeLift: Applies to the major characters in the film series; instead of being 12-13 in the first book, they are in their late teens in the first film. |
| 32 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Thanks to their combat skills. |
| 33 | * BadassCrew: They're dozens of teenagers being pitted against monsters that are often twice their size. They still manage to throw down with the best of them and usually win. |
| 34 | * {{Bastard Bastard}}s: Played with in the evil demigods, most of them are fiercely loyal to their mortal parent but not to the rest of the Olympians, believing they mistreated their mortal parent. Percy tries to resolve this at the end of the series by [[spoiler:forsaking godhood in favor of making gods swear on the River Styx to claim their children when they reach 13 and provide cabins to all of the Greek Gods, including the minor ones.]] |
| 35 | * TheBeautifulElite: Aphrodite's children especially, although it's implied that this applies to most, if not all, the demigods due to their divine heritage and the gods' propensity for attractive partners. |
| 36 | * ChildSoldiers: Most of them are between the ages of 12 and 20. Though its somewhat subverted in that they are trained for their ''survival'' as oppose to being trained as soldiers. The children of Ares are literally born as this. |
| 37 | * ComboPlatterPowers: All demigods are able to dip into their parents' divine domains, meaning that they can have any number of powers depending on who their divine parent is. For instance, Apollo is the god of medicine, archery, the sun, healing, and prophecy, meaning that his children can inherit any number of these powers and specialties. SuperheroSpeciation is still in force though, so some children may inherit more of a particular aspect than others. So while all of Apollo's children are excellent archers, some, like Will Solace, are better at healing than shooting. |
| 38 | ** Demigods in general also tend to be physically stronger, faster, and tougher than normal humans once trained. This is more pronounced in the children of gods known to be warriors by nature (i.e. the children of the Big Three and the children of Ares). They also have the ability to eat ambrosia and drink nectar to help themselves heal (at the risk of killing themselves if they take too much of it), have built-in combat reflexes (their ADHD), and possess an innate ability to read Ancient Greek (their dyslexia). |
| 39 | ** This trope is a notable divergence from the original Greek myths, as many demigods, even those as powerful as Heracles[[note]]he got his godly SuperStrength from drinking Hera's breast milk[[/note]], had no access to their parents' domains and were instead just extremely talented at what they did. Alternatively, they ''would'' have a superpower, but it would be [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway something subdued like Bellerophon's skill at riding horses for being the son of Poseidon.]] |
| 40 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Chariot races happen monthly at Camp Half-Blood, during which competitors ride Greek chariots pulled by horses while using various weapons to drive their opponents off the track. Penalty for killing someone is no s'mores at the campfire for a week. |
| 41 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: Being a demigod is very dangerous. Monsters constantly trying to kill you, the gods getting mad at you, getting killed while on a quest, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking reckless chariot racing]]...some demigods don't even live long enough to make it to Camp Half-Blood. |
| 42 | * GangOfHats: As stated below, each demigod shares some parental-domain-related power with their half-siblings - Aphrodite's children are all ridiculously gorgeous, Hephaestus's children are good with machinery, etcetera. |
| 43 | * GreenThumb: Demeter's children. Dionysus' twins, too - they work best with grapes, but since their dad isn't allowed to touch anything vaguely related to wine, they settle for strawberries instead (just them ''walking'' among the strawberry fields makes them of better quality already). |
| 44 | * HalfHumanHybrid: All of the campers are demigods, the children of a god and mortal. |
| 45 | * HeroicBastard: The heroic demigods, anyway, since no one's godly and mortal parents are married. |
| 46 | * IconicOutfit: Their orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirts and bead necklaces, with each bead representing one completed year at camp. Sadly left out of the movie. |
| 47 | * KidHero: Most of them are legally children, though some skirt the line by being in their late teens or cross it entirely by reaching 20 years of age. |
| 48 | * KissingCousins: Due to how interrelated the gods are, almost every case of romance between demigods is this to one extent or another (i.e. Percy is a son of Poseidon and Annabeth is a daughter of Athena, meaning that they're first-cousins-once-removed). This gets a HandWave with the explanation that gods don't really have DNA. So while they're technically related relationship wise, there's no actual blood relation between anyone other than siblings. |
| 49 | * LIsForDyslexia: Their brains are hardwired for Ancient Greek, making it difficult for them to learn to read and write in anything else, not that this stops the children of Athena from being straight-A students. |
| 50 | * MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Demigods emit a scent that attracts monsters, which can have the side-effect of putting their mortal families and friends in danger. It gets stronger when they're aware of their status as demigods. This is eventually revealed to have been deliberately put into place with a spell out of spite towards the gods (Hera specifically). |
| 51 | * NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: Their [=ADHD=] is due to their bodies acting on combat instinct while their dyslexia is due to being hardwired for Ancient Greek. |
| 52 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Their ADHD, Dyslexia, and tendency to bring monsters and trouble wherever they go have made many of the demigods this. |
| 53 | * SemiDivine: Half-mortal, half-Greek god, with superpowers derived from their godly parent. |
| 54 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Athena's children. While most campers tend to share some cursory characteristics like Hephaestus kids being burly or Hermes kids looking mischievous, Athena's are described as allhaving their grey eyes and mortal parents' blonde hair. |
| 55 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Powers relating to the domains of their divine parentage. For example, Demeter's children will have {{Green Thumb}}s, and Athena's children will be crazy-smart. |
| 56 | ** Children of demigods, known as legacies, are unlikely to have powers (though they may retain personality traits) but their children with other demigods are likely to turn out even stronger. |
| 57 | * TeenGenius: Children of Athena and Hephaestus. Athena kids are wise and spend their time reading and researching, while Hephaestus kids are good with machinery. |
| 58 | * VibrantOrange: ZigZagged, as not all half-bloods are extroverted, but plenty of them are. The campers all have an orange t-shirt as part of the IconicOutfit. |
| 59 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Not all of the campers get along and many of them bear grudges against each other for one reason or another, particularly members of the Ares Cabin due to their naturally violent and aggressive tendencies. |
| 60 | * YouCantFightFate: A running theme of the series, justifiable given its origins. However, prophecies being what they are, it's terribly easy to misinterpret one's fate. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | !!Staff |
| 64 | [[folder:Chiron]] |
| 65 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/PierceBrosnan (first film), Creator/AnthonyHead (second film), Creator/GlynnTurman (TV series) |
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| 67 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chiron_2.jpg]] |
| 68 | Introduced as Mr. Brunner, Percy's Latin teacher, Chiron is actually an immortal centaur keeping an eye on Percy. He serves as activities director of Camp Half-Blood and the VoiceOfReason. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | ---- |
| 71 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: In the books, his horse half is a white stallion. The movies, graphic novels, and TV series go with brown instead. |
| 72 | * AntagonisticOffspring: To Kronos, as are all the Olympians. |
| 73 | * BadassTeacher: He'll defend his students however he can, going so far as to battle the Drakon and Kronos when needed. |
| 74 | * BigGood: He is the Activities director and the VoiceOfReason of Camp Half-Blood. He's also the closest thing the series has to one. |
| 75 | * BowAndSwordInAccord: He's best known for his talents as an archer, but is also an outstanding swordsman who managed to stalemate ''Kronos'' while defending Percy. |
| 76 | * CoolTeacher: Head of Camp Half-Blood. |
| 77 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: In the Disney+ series, he has a brace on his left back leg. The creators have explained that this is a war injury, though it will simply be a detail during Season 1. |
| 78 | * GratuitousLatin: Chiron is fluent in Latin (having likely lived all the way through the Roman Empire) and was Percy's Latin teacher until he revealed himself. |
| 79 | * {{Herald}}: Explains the magical world to Percy. |
| 80 | * TheMedic: He's a skilled healer, curing Percy of his pit scorpion bite. |
| 81 | * MoreThanJustATeacher: Disguises himself as social studies teacher Mr. Brunner. |
| 82 | * MrExposition: See {{Herald}}. |
| 83 | * MultiMeleeMaster: He's a master of every form of Greek warfare, including archery, swordsmanship, and Pankraton, having taught these skills to many Greek heroes, including Achilles, Perseus, and (of course) Percy. |
| 84 | * ObfuscatingDisability: He goes undercover among mortals by using a wheelchair as a HammerspaceHideaway for his horse legs. Averted in the Disney+ series, where his wheelchair isn't just a cover; he has a brace on his left back leg that nurses a war injury. |
| 85 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: They can masquerade as normal humans! |
| 86 | * ParentalFavoritism: He has a particular soft spot for some of the demigods under his care, treating Annabeth like his own daughter and teaching Thalia to control the Mist despite not doing so for the rest of the campers, even Percy, whom Chiron is also especially proud of. |
| 87 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Annabeth. According to Percy, he's like a second father to her. She's crushed when he is temporarily exiled from Camp Half-Blood in the second book, due to being accused of poisoning Thalia's tree. |
| 88 | * RaceLift: White in the books and films, Black in the Disney+ series due to Rick Riordan's preference of [[AbilityOverAppearance talent over appearance]]. |
| 89 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The immortal trainer of heroes and all that. At least until it is deemed that his services are no longer needed. |
| 90 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To the rest of the camp. |
| 91 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In Greek Myth, he died after being shot with an arrow poisoned with hydra blood, leaving him in such excruciating agony that he willingly gave up his immortality to be free of the pain. Here he's very much alive and none the worse for wear. That said, AllMythsAreTrue in the series, so it's unknown if this never actually happened or if he was simply revived by Zeus or Hades to train demigods. |
| 92 | * SuperSpeed: By "bending distance", Chiron can travel across great distances in a relatively short amount of time. |
| 93 | * SuperWheelchair: It's a HammerspaceHideaway for his horse legs. |
| 94 | * TeamDad: As camp director, this is pretty much his job, providing much needed moral support and leadership in the camp while keeping the superpowered teenagers from causing each other grievous harm. |
| 95 | * TotallyNotAWerewolf: Chiron may be a centaur, but he's a son of Kronos and thus much older, wiser, kinder, and more powerful than other centaurs, the spawn of Ixion and Nephele, a cloud nymph. |
| 96 | * {{Tuckerization}}: His Mr. Brunner alias is based on a Latin teacher from a school Rick Riordan taught at. |
| 97 | * VoiceOfReason: To the rest of the camp. |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Mr. D]] |
| 101 | For information on Mr. D or Dionysus the Olympian, see [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMajorGods here]]. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Argus]] |
| 105 | The head of security for the camp. |
| 106 | ---- |
| 107 | * AdaptedOut: He's not in the films, and will not show up in Season 1 of the Disney+ series either for budgetary reasons. |
| 108 | * DemotedToExtra: He was always an extra, but he hasn't appeared much after the first series. |
| 109 | * ElectiveMute: He can talk but chooses not to. A rumor around camp is that this is because he even has eyes in his mouth. |
| 110 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: He is covered in eyes, a hundred of them to be exact. |
| 111 | * OhCrap: When Morpheus puts all of Manhattan around the Empire State Building to sleep in ''The Last Olympian'', Percy can tell he's freaking out. |
| 112 | [[/folder]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Oracle of Delphi]] |
| 115 | The Oracle (real name unknown) that gave the first Great Prophecy. Not much is known about her other then that she was the oracle since she was at least 12. She has been cursed by Hades to never rest in peace and let the Oracle's spirit find a new host until after the Great Prophecy. After the Great Prophecy she has been replaced by Rachel Dare. |
| 116 | |
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| 118 | * FaintingSeer: After she gives a prophecy she just becomes a corpse. |
| 119 | * GlowingEyes: Her eyes glow when she's about to give a prophecy. |
| 120 | * {{Mummy}}: Is described as such and openly called one. |
| 121 | * OnlyMostlyDead: Had the Spirit of Delphi despite being a corpse. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Tantalus]] |
| 125 | The sadistic son of Zeus who was cursed to the Field of Punishment with eternal hunger and thirst for offering the gods human flesh. After Chiron was exiled as activities director when Thalia's tree is poisoned, Tantalus temporarily took his place in ''The Sea of Monsters'', until Mr. D reinstated Chiron back upon learning the truth and sends Tantalus back to the Underworld. |
| 126 | |
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| 128 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Absolutely ''no one'' at camp likes Tantalus. Even Mr. D despised him and began having second thoughts of exiling Chiron (and missing his pinochle games). When Mr. D sends Tantalus back to the Underworld after Chiron's innocence is proven, ''all'' of the campers cheer and are overjoyed to have Tantalus gone. |
| 129 | * BystanderSyndrome: Outright demands the campers to not worry about Thalia's poisoned tree and even doesn't allow the campers to worry when mechanical birds that began infesting the chariot races. He also refuses to send out quests to save the camp, and only relents due to the campers' pressure. |
| 130 | * EvilCounterpart: Tantalus is the exact opposite of Chiron. They are both activities directors for camp, but while Chiron cares for the safety and well-being of both camp ''and'' the campers, Tantalus shows no such concern and blindly believes the camp is fine, despite knowing fully well that the tree was the ''only'' thing making Camp Half-Blood a safe haven. |
| 131 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's a complete bastard to all of the campers, treating them even worse than Dionysus. When Tyson is revealed to be a son of Poseidon, he uses it as an excuse to humiliate Percy in front of the entire camp. The only person he treats decently is Clarisse, who he views as his favorite and sends her on a quest... but then Percy points out [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk he chose her because he believed Clarisse would die anyway]]. |
| 132 | * NeverMyFault: He punishes others for his mistakes (which reflects what he did that ''cursed'' him in the first place). He had Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson do dishes just for defending themselves against the Stymphalian Birds ''he'' set loose on the campers in the first place. |
| 133 | * PlotIrrelevantVillain: Other than having an antagonistic relationship with Percy and his friends and is more than willing to endanger all of the campers, he has virtually no impact on the overall narrative of ''The Sea of Monsters'', other than being to one who sends Clarisse on a quest, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk hoping she'd die anyway]]. |
| 134 | * {{Sadist}}: The reason why he starts up chariot races again is because he enjoys watching others get hurt. |
| 135 | --> '''Tantalus''': And here on my first day of authority, I'd like to say what a pleasant form of punishment it is to be here. Over the course of the summer, I hope to [[FreudianSlip torture]]โer, ''interact'' with each and every one of you. [[BlackComedyCannibalism You all look good enough to eat]]. |
| 136 | * YankTheDogsChain: When he ''finally'' manages to grab a burger, he is sent back to the Underworld before he could even take a bite. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Quintus]] |
| 140 | A son of Athena who survived long to adulthood, eventually hired on by Camp Half-Blood as a teacher. He's also [[WalkingSpoiler quite secretive about his past]]. |
| 141 | ---- |
| 142 | * ActuallyIAmHim: Pulls this near the end of ''Battle of the Labyrinth'' [[spoiler:when revealing that he and Daedalus, the inventor of the labyrinth are the same person]]. |
| 143 | * TheAloner: Is a rather lonely person in general, and claims to work only for himself. |
| 144 | * BodySurf: [[spoiler:He's put his consciousness into automatons several times.]] |
| 145 | * DirtyCoward: Tends to run and hide from his problems rather than face them. |
| 146 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: He admits that one reason [[spoiler:he betrayed Camp Half-Blood is that Luke promised he could make amends with Perdix for killing him. Luke mocks him for believing that and betrays him in turn, since even if Daedalus got a chance to apologize to his nephew, there's no guarantee Perdix would accept it. They do make up, while Hades has Daedalus working on the Underworld's worlds and basically putting him under undead house arrest]]. |
| 147 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dies to get the Labyrinth, which is tied to his life force, to collapse, and save Camp Half-Blood]]. |
| 148 | * ImmortalGenius: [[spoiler:Daedalus is the greatest inventor who ever lived, and has escaped death by {{Body Surf}}ing between robot bodies for thousands of years.]] |
| 149 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He made his escape [[spoiler:from Minos, and didn't suffer consequences for creating the Minotaur or the labyrinth. Then he murdered his nephew Perdix, for the crime of surpassing him, and murdered Minos by violating SacredHospitality. Minos then became the newest judge of the Underworld and Athena branded him with a partridge that marks him as a kinslayer. Daedalus became obsessed with avoiding death, and couldn't resist temptation when Luke said they would overthrow the Underworld and allow him to make amends with Perdix and Icarus. Luke then rubs it in his face that ILied and said Minos has dibs on Daedalus's soul when seeming to corner him. ''Whoops''. Daedalus realizes he has to die to truly make amends, and does so]]. |
| 150 | * MeaningfulName: Quintus means "fifth" in Latin, and it's the name for [[spoiler:the fifth body of Daedalus]]. |
| 151 | * TheSmartGuy: A master inventor and a genius of his time. |
| 152 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 153 | ** Athena pulls this on him when he tricks his nephew into falling off a balcony. To be specific, she turns the nephew into a partridge and then brands him with a mark of said partridge, which would never fade. |
| 154 | ** Annabeth tells him that Athena's children are supposed to be wise, not just clever. He realizes she's right, leading to his HeroicSacrifice and his entrusting of his laptop to her. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Rachel Elizabeth Dare]] |
| 158 | [[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/racheldare_299x416.jpg]] |
| 159 | [[caption-width-right:266:''"We have to work together to defeat Gaea."'']] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | A mortal girl Percy befriends, who is later revealed to be able to see through the Mist. In ''The Last Olympian'', she becomes the host for the Oracle of Delphi. |
| 162 | |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * ActionSurvivor: She isn't a fighter, but is pretty adept at surviving dangerous situations with monsters regardless. |
| 165 | * BadassNormal: She hit the BigBad in the eye [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu with a hairbrush]]. |
| 166 | * BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Annabeth's Betty. |
| 167 | * {{Bookworm}}: Mentioned in ''Battle of the Labyrinth''. |
| 168 | * BrickJoke: The blue hairbrush she used to thwack Kronos in the face with in the previous series makes a reappearance in ''The House of Hades'' when Rachel and Grover meet with the Romans. |
| 169 | ** ''And'' in ''The Tower of Nero'', where she [[spoiler:weaponizes it again as a projectile]]. She really likes throwing that thing. |
| 170 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:The power of prophecy still isn't working by the end of ''The Blood of Olympus,'' leaving her without her powers. [[SubvertedTrope She eventually regains her abilities]] at the end of ''The Tower of Nero''.]] |
| 171 | * ChekhovsGunman: Makes her debut as a random bystander who saves Percy's bacon at Hoover Dam in ''The Titan's Curse'', and becomes a key character in the next two books. |
| 172 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Acts like this towards Apollo upon finding out there are four other oracles aside from her. Kind of justified given [[VowOfCelibacy what she has to give up]] as part of that position, only to find herself essentially redundant. |
| 173 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Treated this way by normal mortals, as she can see through the Mist. Ironically, this makes her the OnlySaneMan, seeing real reality. |
| 174 | * DemotedToExtra: Has a far less important role in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' than in the previous series, besides getting some mentions, an appearance in the first book, and an appearance in a dream (alongside Grover) in the fourth. |
| 175 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Famous for hitting [[BigBad Kronos]] in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush. |
| 176 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: Is aware that Annabeth has a crush on Percy and acts rude around her because she's jealous. She's amused that Percy is totally clueless to the fact. |
| 177 | * FaintingSeer: As of becoming [[spoiler:the mortal host for the Oracle of Delphi]] in ''The Last Olympian''. She zones out and [[spoiler:the spirit of the Oracle]] takes over her body, using it to [[spoiler:recite prophecies]]. Lampshaded when Rachel worries about this happening in the middle of class. |
| 178 | ** And then in ''The Tower of Nero'', Python possesses her, being in control of the Delphic Oracle at the time. |
| 179 | * FieryRedhead: Spirited and passionate, with curly red hair. |
| 180 | * {{Foil}}: To Octavian. They serve the same oracular purpose at their respective camps, but Octavian is a cowardly and creepy ManipulativeBastard while Rachel is a straightforward and {{nice|Girl}} PluckyGirl. |
| 181 | * FullNameUltimatum: [[spoiler:In ''The House of Hades'', she addresses Reyna by her full name]]. |
| 182 | * GenkiGirl: A mild form, but she talks a lot and is very enthusiastic. |
| 183 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses, of all things, a ''blue plastic hairbrush'' to smack [[BigBad Kronos]] in the eye with. |
| 184 | * ISeeThemToo: Can see through the Mist. |
| 185 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: See the below trope for elaboration. |
| 186 | * LovingAShadow: [[spoiler:More or less, Rachel's attraction to Percy rooted from her inevitable destiny to become the next Oracle.]] |
| 187 | * OutOfFocus: Doesn't appear in the second and third books, although she returns in the fourth. |
| 188 | * PluckyGirl: Roadtrip to almost-certain-death? Why not? |
| 189 | * RebelliousPrincess[=/=]TomboyPrincess: Modern version, as a business heiress. Prefers hanging in jeans with demigods, than attending the fancy academy her father has planned for her. |
| 190 | * RedheadsAreRavishing: She likes Percy, but so does Annabeth, making a LoveTriangle. Ultimately, [[spoiler:Percy ends up with the blonde Annabeth instead of redhead Rachel, and she's cool with that since she can't date anyone]]. |
| 191 | * RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Rachel advocates for various environmental and social causes against the wishes of her father, a wealthy real estate developer. This causes her immense guilt when she witnesses the death of Pan, as her father's business directly contributed to the destruction of nature that caused Pan to fade. The god didn't blame her though, saying she could be better than him. |
| 192 | * RomanticFalseLead: To the Percy/Annabeth pairing. |
| 193 | * RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:In the end, Percy gets together with Annabeth instead of her. She doesn't mind, though, becoming the host for the Oracle and all]]. |
| 194 | * SecretlyWealthy: The Dares are loaded. |
| 195 | * SeenItAll: Her reaction to the fact that the mythical world is real is "I knew it!"; ARareSentence from any mortal in general that even baffled Percy. |
| 196 | * ShipTease: With Percy. [[spoiler:It's rendered completely moot when Rachel becomes the new Oracle, and therefore, cannot date. She actually doesn't mind and believes Percy and Annabeth are meant for each other long before she came along]]. |
| 197 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: As an AscendedExtra who eventually [[spoiler:becomes the next Oracle]]. |
| 198 | * TrueSight: Rachel is one of the few mortals born with the innate ability to see through the Mist, allowing her to see monsters in their true forms. She didn't have anyone to explain it to her growing up, and thought she was going crazy until Percy explained it to her. [[spoiler:In fact, Rachel's ability was key in navigating the Labyrinth all along as Percy eventually realized, as she could see hidden traps and find the right path to Daedalus' workshop]]. |
| 199 | * UnfazedEveryman: [[spoiler:Until the ''The Last Olympian'', when she becomes the next Oracle.]] |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Cleaning Harpies]] |
| 203 | Three harpies named Aello, Celaeno, and Ocypete. The three work at the camp washing the dishes and eating any demigods they catch out sneaking out of their cabins at night. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | ---- |
| 206 | * DevouredByTheHorde: What they try to do to campers sneaking out at night. |
| 207 | * {{Flight}}: They can fly. |
| 208 | * HarpingOnAboutHarpies: They are harpies. |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | !!Camp/Head Counselors |
| 212 | [[folder:Annabeth Chase]] |
| 213 | For information on Annabeth go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]]. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Butch Walker]] |
| 217 | A son of Iris. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | ---- |
| 220 | %%TheBigGuy |
| 221 | * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: His rainbow tattoo, a tribute to his mother. |
| 222 | * RealMenWearPink: Read: rainbow tattoo. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Clovis]] |
| 226 | A son of Hypnos. |
| 227 | |
| 228 | ---- |
| 229 | * AnimalMotifs: He's described as looking like a baby cow. |
| 230 | * AsleepForDays: Because of being a child of the god of sleep. |
| 231 | * ButtMonkey: To an extent. The last time we see him in ''The Lost Hero,'' Butch is trying to see how many pencils he can shove up Clovis's nose. [[spoiler:Twenty.]] |
| 232 | * DreamWeaver: As a son of Hypnos, he spends most of his time in dreams and has a lot of power over them. |
| 233 | * EruditeStoner: A SleepyHead that has a lot of insight into the fluid nature of gods and the retention and retrieval of memory. |
| 234 | * HeavySleeper: He's very difficult to wake up. |
| 235 | * ReallyFondOfSleeping: As the son of the god of sleep, Hypnos, Clovis is perpetually sleepy and frequently dozes off. Because of this, he's extremely knowledgeable about the nature of dreams and the gods, attempting to use his powers to restore Jason's missing memories before informing him that they were stolen by the gods rather than suppressed. |
| 236 | * RunningGag: Constantly falling asleep. |
| 237 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: He's perpetually sleepy and he dozes off all the time and almost anywhere. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Connor & Travis Stoll]] |
| 242 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/travis_and_conner_stoll.jpg]] |
| 243 | Sons of Hermes--not twins, but a year apart. They succeed Luke as co-counselors of Cabin Eleven and the main pranksters of Camp Half-Blood. |
| 244 | |
| 245 | ---- |
| 246 | * BreakingTheFellowship: Travis is off at college by the time of ''Trials of Apollo'', leaving Connor as the sole Head Counselor of the Hermes Cabin. Connor is said to have mellowed out considerably because of this, but his younger half-siblings pick up the pranking slack. |
| 247 | * ButtMonkey: They frequently get retribution for their pranks. Annabeth nearly killed Connor after he slipped a tarantula into her bunk. The Aphrodite cabin forced Travis to wear permanent makeup that made him look like a clown while Connor's clothes were all shrunk two sizes. Connor also got poked in the eye after doing something that annoyed Meg. |
| 248 | * TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Their father is the god of thievery, but they're [[WithCatlikeTread notoriously bad at stealth.]] |
| 249 | * TheGambler: Both of them love playing poker since their father is the god of money and wealth, meaning that they're ''very'' good at it and use it to get free stuff from the other campers. |
| 250 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: They're not twins but the only way to tell them apart is to remember that Travis is the older one and slightly taller than Connor. |
| 251 | * JavelinThrower: In ''The Sea Of Monsters'', the brothers throw javelins at the Ares Cabin's chariot. |
| 252 | * LetsGetDangerous: Both brothers each lead half of the Hermes Cabin to battle Kronos' forces on the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge, surviving their battles with only minor injuries and few casualties on their side, implying that the Stoll brothers are surprisingly good fighters and leaders. |
| 253 | * MeaningfulName: Lampshaded: their father is the god of thieves and their last name is ''Stoll'' (pronounced "stole"), which Percy found hilarious (not that they got the joke). |
| 254 | * MessyHair: They're said to have mops of curly brown hair that hang over their eyes. |
| 255 | * MomentKiller: The brothers throw Percy and Annabeth into the lake just as Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl were about to kiss, but they just end up giving them the "best underwater kiss of all time". |
| 256 | * MrViceGuy: They're nice, loyal, and fun to be around, but are constantly plagued by their StickyFingers and insatiable need to pull pranks on others, which often gets them into more trouble than it's worth. |
| 257 | * NotMeThisTime: In ''Camp Half-Blood Confidential'', they get blamed when multiple personal items go missing during cabin inspections. It turns out Lou Ellen was using the Mist to hide them. |
| 258 | * ThePrankster: Just like their father, the god of thieves. They enjoy pulling pranks on other campers that can range from harmless (painting a mango gold and labeling it "for the hottest" to watch the Aphrodite's kids fight each other for it or filling a sleeping bag with shaving cream) to mean-spirited (handing Phoebe a T-Shirt sprayed with poisonous centaur's blood so that she would break out in painful hives), but this last one was at the behest of Aphrodite. Percy says that there's always a gleam in their eyes that made you think they were ready to drop a firecracker down your shirt. |
| 259 | * SiblingTeam: They always work together, stealing and playing pranks. |
| 260 | * SkewedPriorities: In ''The Last Olympian,'' when Morpheus puts the entire population of Manhattan to sleep, Connor is delighted because he has an opportunity to loot a massive candy store. Katie Gardner has to remind him that they're in the middle of a massive war. |
| 261 | * StickyFingers: They're nice and easy to get along, but Percy advises the reader to keep one hand on their wallet at all times while around them. |
| 262 | * TrapMaster: |
| 263 | ** Owing to their prankster ways, they're good at setting traps in preparation for oncoming enemies, though they don't always get them right where they want them. |
| 264 | --->'''Travis:''' What do you mean we placed the land mines on the wrong hill? |
| 265 | ** Played straight from both ends, since they stole the land mines in question from where they had originally been planted around the Ares cabin. |
| 266 | --->'''Clarisse:''' How do you steal ''live'' land mines? |
| 267 | * {{Tuckerization}}: They're both named after two of Rick Riordan's former students. |
| 268 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: They look virtually identical to each other even though they're a year apart, causing others to mistake them for twins. |
| 269 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Always around to comment on the camps' goings-on. |
| 270 | * WithCatlikeTread: Even though they're the sons of the god of thievery, Percy says that they aren't particularly stealthy, stumbling over each other and cussing in the middle of Capture the Flag. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Jason Grace]] |
| 274 | For information on Jason go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]]. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Katie Gardner]] |
| 278 | Daughter of Demeter and counselor of Cabin 4 during the summer months. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * GreenThumb: As part of her heritage. During the battle of Manhattan, she and her siblings turned an area into a veritable jungle to hold off Kronos's forces. |
| 281 | * MeaningfulName: Her last name is Gardner and her mother is the goddess of plants. You do the math. |
| 282 | * SitcomArchnemesis: The Stoll brothers are hers. According to Percy, she's hated them ever since they decorated the grass roof of the Demeter cabin with chocolate Easter bunnies. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Leonidas "Leo" Valdez]] |
| 286 | For information on Leo go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]]. |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Lou Ellen Blackstone]] |
| 290 | Head counselor of Hecate Cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Makes a brief appearance in ''The Lost Hero'', but gets an expanded role in ''Blood of Olympus''. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * BackForTheFinale: Her appearance in ''The Lost Hero'' is extremely brief, but her role is expanded greatly in ''Blood of Olympus'', where she fights right alongside Nico and Will during the climax. |
| 293 | * BlackMagicianGirl: Has the powers, and is definitely a bit of a {{Troll}}. |
| 294 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For one thing, at the end of ''Blood of Olympus'' she tries to keep the group of Roman soldiers that she'd previously [[ForcedTransformation polymorphed]] into pigs as ''pets''. |
| 295 | * ForcedTransformation: Can inflict this on enemies with her "pig balls," which, as you might expect, turn people into pigs. |
| 296 | * TheGadfly: Loves to troll her fellow campers. During the counselor meeting in ''Lost Hero'', Jason [[FunnyBackgroundEvent notices]] her using magic to play "Got Your Nose" with a fellow counselor's ''actual nose''. |
| 297 | * MasterOfIllusion: Like, Hazel, she can manipulate [[WeirdnessCensor the Mist]], but isn't quite as good at it. |
| 298 | * SquishyWizard: Powerful magician, but not much of a close-range fighter. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Miranda Gardiner]] |
| 302 | Daughter of Demeter and head counselor of Cabin 4 during the winter months. She's missing at the time of ''The Hidden Oracle''. |
| 303 | ---- |
| 304 | * DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:When Apollo finds her.]] |
| 305 | * ElementalEyeColors: One of Miranda's most notable features is her eye colour, mentioned to be "the color of new foliage". She's also a [[GreenThumb daughter of Demeter]], meaning she has powers over plant life. |
| 306 | * MeaningfulName: Just like her sister Katie. |
| 307 | * OfficialCouple: With Sherman Yang. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Niccolo "Nico" di Angelo]] |
| 311 | For information on Nico go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]]. |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Perseus "Percy" Jackson]] |
| 315 | For information on Percy go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesPercyJackson here]]. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Piper [=McLean=]]] |
| 319 | For information on Piper go [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesMainCharacters here]]. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Sherman Yang]] |
| 323 | Son of Ares and the current counselor for Cabin 5. |
| 324 | ---- |
| 325 | * HiddenDepths: It is revealed in ''Camp Half-Blood Confidential'' that he isn't all brute force and can be quite manipulative, as observed by his brother Ellis. |
| 326 | * ManipulativeBastard: Somewhat parodied in ''Camp Half-Blood Confidential'', where he [[spoiler:manipulates several campers into doing his cabin's chores for them]]. |
| 327 | * OfficialCouple: With Miranda Gardener. |
| 328 | * MeaningfulName: Possibly named after William Tecumseh Sherman, a Civil War general previously stated to be a son of Ares. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Thalia Grace]] |
| 332 | Since the cabin of Artemis is empty most of the time Thalia can be found [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesServantsOfTheGods here]]. |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[folder:William "Will" Solace]] |
| 336 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_olgh8jue3a1qg1e00o1_1280.jpg]] |
| 337 | A son of Apollo. Returning character from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''. |
| 338 | ---- |
| 339 | * AngerBornOfWorry: At the end of ''Blood of Olympus'' he's upset that Nico hasn't stopped to rest after the battle with Gaea. |
| 340 | * AscendedExtra: He's a minor character in ''The Last Olympian'', but makes a return as a more prominent supporting character. [[spoiler:In the last portion of ''The Blood of Olympus,'' he partners up with Nico throughout the last battle and afterward.]] He's given more focus in ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' due to his relation to the main protagonist and accompanies Apollo on his quest in the finale. |
| 341 | ** He's eventually promoted to a protagonist (alongside Nico) in ''The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure''. |
| 342 | * BackForTheFinale: Along with the rest of the Camp Half-Blood crew in ''The Blood of Olympus'', he shows up during the war scenes. |
| 343 | * BelligerentSexualTension: His bickering with [[spoiler:Nico]] in the final book comes off as this. |
| 344 | * BigDamnHeroes: In [[spoiler:''The Tower of Nero'', he shows up with Rachel, Lu and the troglodytes to rescue Nico and Apollo. But mostly Nico.]] |
| 345 | * CombatMedic: Besides the medical skills, he's also an active participant in the final battle against Gaia and the battles in the previous series. |
| 346 | * CatchPhrase: Downplayed, but twice now he's used "Doctor's orders" to boss Nico around. |
| 347 | * {{Fanboy}}: For ''Franchise/StarWars''. Implied to also be one for ''Franchise/StarTrek'', if his conversation with Jason and Leo during Leo's claiming was anything to go by. |
| 348 | * FullNameUltimatum: Receives one from Nico in ''The Tower of Nero''. |
| 349 | -->"[[spoiler:William Andrew Solace]]," Nico said, "do you have something to confess?" |
| 350 | * LampshadeWearing: PlayedForLaughs in ''The Tower of Nero'', where the [[spoiler:troglodytes]] make him wear one as a hat. |
| 351 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: In ''The Sun and the Star'', after recieving advice from Persephone to embrace his own darkness rather than feeling as though he has to be sunshine all the time, [[spoiler:Will is able to reverse his healing powers to [[{{Plaguemaster}} attack Nyx with plague]]]]. |
| 352 | * LightEmUp: It is revealed in ''The Tower of Nero'' that [[spoiler:he can glow in the dark]]. In ''The Sun and the Star'', he starts refining it. |
| 353 | * MakeSomeNoise: His father's role as the god of music lets him whistle in the ultrasonic range. It's bad enough to [[spoiler:stun the entire Twelfth Legion]]. |
| 354 | * MeaningfulName: His surname, Solace, contains the word "sol", which suitably for the son of Apollo, is Latin for "sun." Also, "solace" can be read as a verb, meaning that he is someone who "will solace", which corresponds with the potential of his healing talents. [[spoiler:He also brings solace to Nico di Angelo, child of death, who is perhaps more in need of comfort, appreciation, warmth, and sunshine than anyone else.]] |
| 355 | * TheMedic: As a child of Apollo, he's skilled with healing. He even delivered Mellie and Hedge's baby, though he was squicked out by it. |
| 356 | ** He runs Camp Half-Blood's infirmary for a reason. Apollo admits that Will is the better healer between them. |
| 357 | * NervesOfSteel: By necessity. As head counselor, he tries to keep his siblings calm. |
| 358 | * NiceGuy: Although he has to force Nico to accept his kindness most of the time. He manages to keep his cool under all types of tight situations, never losing his cool with Apollo. |
| 359 | * NoBadassToHisValet: Will being the valet; he's not afraid to tell off either his formerly-divine dad or his scary powerful boyfriend if he thinks they're being stupid. Even in Heroes of Olympus, he refuses to buy Nico's badass-loner schtick and doesn't hesitate to order him around. |
| 360 | * NoJustNoReaction: Basically, the look on his face when a hyper Leo asks him when he will have the chance to use a sword. |
| 361 | ** A more serious version occurs when he more or less orders Nico not to use his shadow-traveling ability. |
| 362 | * NonActionGuy: Admits he lacks many of Apollo's combat skills and his tactic when encountering hostile Romans is to run away and cause a diversion. It's implies this status bothers him. |
| 363 | -->''Will: "I wish I was a better archer. Actually I wish I could use any of my father's gifts to stop this war. Unfortunately I'm just a healer."'' |
| 364 | ** Even in his [[Awesome/TheTrialsOfApollo finest hour]], he uses RefugeInAudacity instead of anything badass with a weapon, and makes no attempt to provide offensive action against the enemy. |
| 365 | * OfficialCouple: With [[spoiler:Nico]] as of ''The Hidden Oracle''. |
| 366 | * PowerGlows: [[spoiler:This turns out to be a power of his, as shown various times throughout ''The Tower of Nero''. He even gets compared with a lamp at least ''twice'' throughout the book.]] |
| 367 | * SecondLove: Crush. To [[spoiler:Nico, after Percy]]. |
| 368 | * ShipTease: [[spoiler:With Nico di Angelo, as of the end of ''Blood of Olympus''.]] |
| 369 | * SurferDude: Has the look, though his personality is more [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Dr. McCoy Jr.]] |
| 370 | * TeamDad: To his cabin mates. Gets kind of awkward when their actual dad is present. |
| 371 | * {{Tsundere}}: His bickering with Nico makes him come across like this -- specifically, a Type B. |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | !!Cabin 4 (Demeter) |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | * GreenThumb: They have the power to make plants grow. Percy grumbles that they have the advantage during cabin inspection because they can cover their cabin with plants and flowers just by snapping their fingers. |
| 379 | * NonActionGuy: Percy describes them as "not very aggressive." |
| 380 | * OutOfFocus: Demeter's children are primarily background characters in the first series. They get more spotlight in ''The Trials of Apollo,'' when Meg becomes a central character. |
| 381 | * SupremeChef: It's part of their mother's domain. |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Billie Ng]] |
| 387 | A daughter of Demeter. |
| 388 | ---- |
| 389 | * NiceGirl: She's very nice to her younger half-sister Meg. |
| 390 | [[/folder]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[folder:Margaret "Meg" [=McCaffrey=]]] |
| 393 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megonemroe2_299x416.jpg]] |
| 394 | A demigod daughter of Demeter, whom Apollo must serve, and one of the primary characters of ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo''. |
| 395 | ---- |
| 396 | * AbusiveParents: Nero was this to her. It helps explain a lot of her stranger behaviors. |
| 397 | * AffectionateNickname: [[spoiler:Called "Sapling" by her mentor and legal guardian, Lu.]] |
| 398 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Prefers not to be called "Margaret." |
| 399 | * {{Familiar}}: Meg has the rare ability to control karpoi, specifically one she calls Peaches. |
| 400 | * DualWielding: Meg can summons two scythes to do battle, and does so quite effectively for an untrained Half-Blood. |
| 401 | * GreenThumb: As the first major child of Demeter, Meg can commune with plants and summon agrarian monsters like Peaches to help her do battle. |
| 402 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She betrays Apollo for Nero, only to help Apollo defeat Nero after discovering the terrible atrocities the latter is planning to commit. Then she leaves Apollo to go back to Nero, only to later run away from Nero's henchmen and rejoin Apollo. |
| 403 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Meg is introduced using her powers to pummel two thugs with a rotting apple. |
| 404 | * IronicAllergy: Despite being a daughter of Demeter, she is allergic to oaks, which poses slight complications when there is an oak tree planted smack in the middle of the Demeter Cabin. |
| 405 | * KiddieKid: Often acts and dresses in ways that make her come across as younger than she is - wearing bright, multicolored dresses and socks, being a messy eater, shamelessly picking her nose, doing random cartwheels as she walks, etc. Apollo sometimes describes her as seeming like an overgrown kindergartener. |
| 406 | * LittleMissBadass: She's no more than 12 years old, yet she kicks an Ares cabin member in the crotch, fights off two street thugs in an alley with nothing but garbage, and can fight giant ants despite being afraid of bugs. |
| 407 | ** Apollo notes she's higher caliber than most of Demeter's offspring being able to summon a karpos. |
| 408 | * MoodSwinger: Meg's normally extremely high energy and can even be a pest, but she'll shut down immediately if she gets uncomfortable or is forced to remember the lesser parts of her past. |
| 409 | * MoreThanMindControl: A particularly horrific case is employed on her by [[spoiler:the Beast]]. Meg is terrified of him from her previous encounters on the streets of New York, [[spoiler:and Nero convinces her the Beast is an entirely different person from him, leaving her both terrified and completely loyal to her abuser.]] |
| 410 | * TheNotLoveInterest: Meg is Apollo's closest friend during his latest expulsion from Olympus, but there's no suggestion of anything romantic between them (obviously, since he's immortal and she's 12). Not only is he [[HeroicBSOD utterly devastated]] when [[spoiler:she betrays him to Nero]], but a lot his motivation for fighting [[spoiler:Nero and the Triumvirate is to [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl free Meg from their grasp]]]]. |
| 411 | * PokemonSpeak: Meg's karpos only repeats his own name; Percy describes it as "[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Groot speak]]." |
| 412 | * SirSwearsALot: While not depicted doing so [[NarrativeProfanityFilter for obvious reasons]], Apollo and later ''Nero'' are described as having learned swear words from her. |
| 413 | * {{Teleportation}}: Much like Nico and shadow-travel, she can transport herself quite a distance away. All she needs is a plant, even a single dandelion will do. |
| 414 | * StreetUrchin: Meg spends most of her time wandering the streets rather than sticking to one place to attract monsters. |
| 415 | * WickedStepfather: Has one of these. Deconstructed as her characterization throughout the series involves her coping mechanisms from having to live with his abusive and gaslighting behaviour, and she eventually [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack confronts and snaps back at him]], and helps Apollo realize the abusive behaviour of his own father and learn to distance himself from Zeus ultimately]]. |
| 416 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Fittingly, bugs petrify Meg and she's not pleased to hear of the giant ants roaming Camp Half-Blood's woods. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | !!Cabin 5 (Ares) |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | * TheBully: Invariably portrayed as this, as well as having [[JerkAss callous personalities]] and [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior a disturbing affinity for violence and killing]]. It's implied that many serial killers and {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s are children of Ares. |
| 424 | * JerkAss: The children of Ares are generally violent bullies. |
| 425 | * ThePowerOfHate: As children of the God of War, they have power of feelings associated with war, such as hate, anger, fear, and panic. |
| 426 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: They have strong pride in their fighting skills. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:Clarisse La Rue]] |
| 431 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clarisse.jpg]] |
| 432 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LevenRambin (films), Dior Goodjohn (TV series) |
| 433 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Marisol Romero (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MutsumiTamura (Japanese) |
| 434 | |
| 435 | Daughter of Ares and head counselor of Cabin Five, Clarisse frequently bullies new campers and her first appearance involves trying to shove Percy's head in a toilet. She and Percy never get along, but they do develop respect for one another. |
| 436 | ---- |
| 437 | * AchillesInHisTent: In a particularly brilliant HistoryRepeats example, Clarisse refuses to let the Ares campers join the Battle for Manhattan because they believed they deserved a chariot they and the Apollo campers had been fighting over (which eventually went to the Apollo cabin). Just when they're on the losing side, [[spoiler:Silena impersonates Clarisse and leads them into battle, getting killed in the process.]] Hence her subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Guess who did this before? [[spoiler:Achilles, after his beloved best friend/cousin/lover Patroclus's death. Then she dragged the Drakon's skeleton behind her chariot, like Achilles did with Hector's corpse.]] |
| 438 | * ActionGirl: She isn't the head counselor of the war god's cabin for nothing. |
| 439 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Percy doesn't describe her as particularly attractive in the books, while the graphic novel depicts her as something of a BrawnHilda. Leven Rambin and Dior Goodjohn, who play her in live-action media, are easier on the eyes. |
| 440 | * AnimalMotifs: [[FullBoarAction The boar]] and, less flatteringly, [[BrawnHilda the]] [[ThePigpen p]][[FatBitch i]][[GassHole g]]. |
| 441 | * BadassBoast: "I AM CLARISSE, [[spoiler:DRAKON-SLAYER]]! I will kill you ALL!" |
| 442 | * TheBigGirl: Of all the female characters in the series, Clarisse is the most adept at physical combat, thanks to her masculine physique. |
| 443 | * BloodKnight: Takes after her papa. |
| 444 | * BoyishShortHair: Hacks off most of her hair during her quest in ''The Titan's Curse'', though she grows it back out in ''The Battle of the Labyrinth''. |
| 445 | * BrawnHilda: She has the body of a huge, musclebound, size XXXL male rugby player, thin stringy-looking hair, foul body odor, and (if Percy's "female(ish)" comment in ''The Demigod Files'' is anything to go by) a rugged, manly face. |
| 446 | * TheBully: Initially. She begins to mellow out as the series goes on and she gets a boyfriend. |
| 447 | * CoolHelmet: Wears a uniquely boar-shaped helmet, presumably to symbolize her status as head counselor of the Ares Cabin. [[spoiler:It becomes a plot point later when Selena impersonates Clarisse to lead the Ares Cabin into battle.]] |
| 448 | * FaceOfAThug: She's ''huge'', built like a swole man, and has a brutish, manly face that is heavily scarred and only capable of emoting "evil sneer[s]". She's also [[NiceGirl Silena Beauregard]]'s best friend and nursed [[SatelliteLoveInterest Chris Rodriguez]] back to (physical) health after rescuing him from the Labyrinth. |
| 449 | * FatalFlaw: Clarisse's inability to cooperate with others has come back to bite her more than once. |
| 450 | ** In the second book, nobody from her cabin wants to accompany her on her quest to find the Golden Fleece, so she has to go it alone with only a fleet of undead soldiers for allies. Later, she blows Grover's cover [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he's pretending to be Polyphemus' bride]] and gets them trapped in a giant stone cave, which they would have died in if Percy and Annabeth hadn't been there. Even later, as the group is escaping the island in a ship, Clarisse loudly taunts the Cyclops as they're sailing away, and he hurls a boulder in their direction and smashes the vessel to pieces ([[NeverMyFault and she blames Percy for screwing things up]]). |
| 451 | ** In the fifth book, she refuses to let the Ares cabin accompany the rest of the demigods to the Battle of Manhattan, costing the camp their best fighters, [[spoiler:which leads to Silena impersonating her, taking the cabin out to fight the drakon in her place, and the Aphrodite girl getting herself killed in the battle]]. |
| 452 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: The other campers may fear her, but they don't seem to respect or like her that much. Someone tapes a "You Moo, Girl!" note to her back in the second book, and everyone calls her electric spear "Lamer" instead of "Maimer" behind her back. |
| 453 | ** The second book also implies that ''nobody'' in her cabin wanted to accompany her on her quest, despite its being vital to saving Camp Half-Blood ''and'' pretty much guaranteed to win them glory if they succeed. |
| 454 | ** In the fifth book, Clarisse flat out ''refuses'' to have her cabin involved in the Battle of Manhattan ([[UngratefulBastard even when given back the chariot she and the Apollo cabin fought over]]). When [[spoiler:Silena pretends to be Clarisse to convince them to fight]], it's implied that some knew [[spoiler:it wasn't Clarisse]], but were more than happy to fight in the war anyway. |
| 455 | * FullBoarAction: Owns a set of boar-themed armor with an [[CoolHelmet appropriately-shaped helmet.]] |
| 456 | * GagNose: Has a huge, aquiline nose in the graphic novels. |
| 457 | * GlorySeeker: Seeks fame and glory, much like Ares's WarIsGlorious mindset. |
| 458 | * HiddenDepths: She turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. She's also secretly afraid of disappointing her father, as shown in ''The Sea of Monsters''. |
| 459 | * HistoryRepeats: See AchillesInHisTent above. |
| 460 | * HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:For a short while during the battle of Manhattan, due to losing a fight with an ice giant.]] |
| 461 | * ICallItVera: She calls her second electric spear "Maimer". (Everyone else calls it "Lamer".) |
| 462 | %%* JabbaTableManners |
| 463 | * JerkJock: Initially, she's the brawny kind who stuffs peoples' heads down toilets. |
| 464 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[CharacterDevelopment Matures]] into this around the fourth book. |
| 465 | * TheLadette: She just as tough, possibly even more, than the other sons of Ares. |
| 466 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: Implied in the books. The graphic novel takes this to the point that her face is indistinguishable from an adult man's in close-up shots, minus the facial hair. |
| 467 | * LargeHam: Clarisse would like you to know that she is CLARISSE, [[spoiler:DRAKON-SLAYER]]! |
| 468 | * AMotherToHerMen: Clarisse may be a big mean bully, but even she cares about her soldiers. In ''The Sea of Monsters,'' she stops yelling at Annabeth to go look after her campers after they're wounded fighting giant bronze bulls. |
| 469 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: Unlike the slender-yet-toned Annabeth and Thalia, Clarisse is introduced as the resident fat girl with StoutStrength who builds up muscle mass during the last two books. By the start of ''The Last Olympian'', she's "as big and beefy as a [male] rugby player" and has the athleticism to match. |
| 470 | * OddFriendship: With Silena. |
| 471 | * OfficialCouple: With Chris. |
| 472 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In any given scenario, if [[BloodKnight Clarisse]] doesn't want to fight, something is ''really wrong.'' |
| 473 | ** In book 4, [[NoodleIncident whatever happened to her in the Labyrinth]] made her so terrified of it that not even [[NobodyCallsMeChicken Travis Stoll calling her chicken]] could make her go back in. |
| 474 | ** In book 5, she is so angry at the Ares cabin being dissed that she and her cabin refuse to join the other demigods in defending Olympus. We repeat: she refused to join what could have possibly been the biggest and most monumental battle of her life. |
| 475 | * PetTheDog: Her concern for and friendship with Chris and Silena. |
| 476 | * PutOnABus: Mostly absent from the events of ''The Titan's Curse''. |
| 477 | ** In ''The Trials of Apollo'' she has stepped down as a counselor and left Camp Half-Blood to attend the University of Arizona. |
| 478 | %%* RaceLift: Due to Rick Riordanโs preference of [[AbilityOverAppearance talent over appearance]], Clarisse is played by African-American actress Dior Goodjohn in the Disney+ series. |
| 479 | * RedIsHeroic: Subverted. She wears bright red armor and is one of the best fighters at Camp Half-Blood but is (to everyone not named Chris or Selena) a selfish {{Jerkass}} bully who at her worst will abandon her allies for the sake of pride or glory. |
| 480 | * RedOniBlueOni: She's the red oni any time she works with anyone else, period. Which is not often. |
| 481 | * TheRival: To Percy. |
| 482 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:When the Drakon fatally wounds Silena.]] |
| 483 | * ShockAndAwe: Likes to use electric spears in combat. |
| 484 | * StoutStrength: Implied to be obese in the first book and has "hands like iron" (referring to her grip strength); even after building up muscle over the course of five books, she's still more burly than ripped. |
| 485 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Silena's girly girl. |
| 486 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Like Percy, she's a sucker for her father's good opinion. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Ellis Wakefield]] |
| 490 | A son of Ares. He's gone missing at the time of ''The Hidden Oracle''. |
| 491 | ---- |
| 492 | * DistressedDude: [[spoiler:When Apollo finds him.]] |
| 493 | * RecognizableBySound: As a son of Ares, he can recognize the sound of anything meant for conflict. This extends to knowing the relative distance, size, and identity of [[spoiler:a giant automaton]]. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Mark]] |
| 497 | A son of Ares. |
| 498 | ---- |
| 499 | * TheGhost: He's never been individually pointed out, though he has appeared in groups along with the other Ares cabin members. |
| 500 | * MeaningfulName: Mark is a derivative of Mars, Ares's Roman form. |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | !!Cabin 6 (Athena) |
| 504 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 505 | * ColorCodedEyes: Almost all of them have gray eyes. |
| 506 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: The trademark sign of a child of Athena is them sharing her gray eyes. |
| 507 | * {{Hubris}}: The fatal flaw of most of Athena's children. |
| 508 | * RuleOfCool: Their existence goes against all traditional mythology, as Athena was a virgin goddess. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in the sense that an In-Universe explanation is given as to how Athena can have kids and still be a virgin. However, Riordan has admitted the real reason she can conceive is because the idea of a demigod child of Athena was too cool to not include. |
| 509 | [[/folder]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Malcolm Pace]] |
| 512 | * ClosetGay: Was apparently this for most of the series, as he's one of the campers Will Solace mentions in ''The Sun and the Star'' as having been inspired to come out by Nico di Angelo's bravery in revealing his sexuality to the whole camp. |
| 513 | * MomentKiller: Walks in on Percy and Annabeth hugging in ''The Battle of the Labrynth''. |
| 514 | * RummageSaleReject: {{Downplayed}} in ''The Hidden Oracle''. He wears a leather cuirass and red boxer shorts when fighting the Colossus. |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | !!Cabin 7 (Apollo) |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 520 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Their father is the god of music, poetry, archery, and healing, meaning they could have one of these skills or any combination of them. |
| 521 | * HealingHands: One of their father's domains is healing magic. |
| 522 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Apollo's sons and daughters are amazingly good at anything projectile-based thanks to the fact that their father is the god of archery. They can shoot baskets as easily as they can nail bullseyes. |
| 523 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Implied to be a common character flaw among them, given that it's one of Apollo's main traits pre-CharacterDevelopment. When Austin and Kayla hear that Apollo has become mortal, their first concern is for how it might affect their respective music and archery skills. |
| 524 | * TheMedic: Thanks to their father being the god of medicine. |
| 525 | * MusicalAssassin: Some children of Apollo have power over music. |
| 526 | * TheStraightAndArrowPath: Their weapons are bows and arrows. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Lee Fletcher]] |
| 530 | Son of Apollo, and the former counselor of Cabin 7 [[spoiler:before his death during the Battle of the Labyrinth]]. |
| 531 | ---- |
| 532 | * BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:The cause of his death was being smashed on the head by a giant.]] |
| 533 | * MeaningfulName: The act of fletching refers to attaching the feathers to the arrow shaft, and a fletcher is a person who makes arrows. Apollo is a god of archery. You do the math from there. |
| 534 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies in the book where he is introduced, ''Battle of the Labyrinth''.]] |
| 535 | [[/folder]] |
| 536 | |
| 537 | [[folder:Michael Yew]] |
| 538 | Son of Apollo, and the former counselor of Cabin 7 [[spoiler:before his death during the Battle of Manhattan]]. |
| 539 | ---- |
| 540 | * MeaningfulName: Yew is a wood popular in the use of bows, befitting a son of Apollo, who is associated with archery. [[spoiler:Yew trees are also associated with graveyards and the dead, foreshadowing Michael's (presumed) death later on]]. |
| 541 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:All that was left of him was his bow]]. |
| 542 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He is the first named character to die in the Battle of Manhattan]]. |
| 543 | * SonicStunner: An archery variation. Apollo gifted him sonic arrows at some point, which emit a screaming sound when released and generate shockwaves that can destroy lesser monsters. |
| 544 | * YouAreInCommandNow: Was Cabin Counselor of Cabin 7 after [[spoiler:Lee Fletcher was KIA in ''Battle of the Labyrinth''. It didn't last long]]. |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:Austin Lake]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/austin_3.jpg]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | ->''"What's going on? Also, where is my saxophone?"'' |
| 552 | |
| 553 | Son of Apollo and Latricia Lake, a music theory teacher. His main gift inherited from his father is skill with music; he favors the saxophone, but he'll challenge himself with other instruments. |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * AscendedExtra: Even more minor than Will -- Will at least had dialogue occasionally. Pre-''Trials of Apollo'', he is mentioned once in ''The Last Olympian'', and... that's it. |
| 556 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Threatens to curse people to speak in rhyming couplets. It's quite possible that he's the one to blame for one Ares camper's predicament in an earlier book. |
| 557 | * InstantWebHit: His last music video got 500,000 views in a week. |
| 558 | * MusicalAssassin: He can cause a stampede by playing ''Pop Goes the Weasel'' on his sax, among other things. |
| 559 | * SkewedPriorities: Shares this with Kayla. Wants to keep his videos up. |
| 560 | * SignatureInstrument: The tenor saxaphone, which doubles as a SwissArmyWeapon due to the various attachments it has. |
| 561 | -->'''Apollo (narrating):''' [Austin] carefully removed a long brass rod from the body of his sax. He had all sorts of nonstandard attachments on his instrument, including a bag of exploding reeds, tone-hole cleaners that doubled as zip-ties, and a stiletto knife for stabbing monsters and unappreciative music critics. |
| 562 | [[/folder]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[folder:Kayla Knowles]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kayla.jpg]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | ->''"I can't even qualify for the Olympics until I'm sixteen!"'' |
| 569 | |
| 570 | Daughter of Apollo and archery coach, Darren Knowles. Kayla is the archery instructor at Camp Half-Blood. |
| 571 | ---- |
| 572 | * AscendedExtra: Even more minor than Will -- Will at least had dialogue occasionally. Pre-''Trials of Apollo'' series, she is mentioned once in ''The Last Olympian'', and...that's it. |
| 573 | * HomosexualReproduction: She is the biological child of Apollo and Darren Knowles. Apollo was a god, so regular reproductive laws might not apply. |
| 574 | * SkewedPriorities: Seems more concerned with Apollo's mortality possibly costing her abilities, making her unable to try out for the Olympics. |
| 575 | * TheStraightAndArrowPath: She leads Apollo's archery class and is shocked by his ridiculous standards for his own archery skills. |
| 576 | [[/folder]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | [[folder:Jerry, Gracie, and Yan]] |
| 579 | Three children of Apollo introduced in ''The Tower of Nero''. |
| 580 | ---- |
| 581 | * AmbiguousGender: Yan's gender is never specified and their pronouns are never stated either. Their name doesn't give many hints to their gender either, as Yan is technically a GenderBlenderName in both [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Cantonese]], the dominant language in Hong Kong, and Mandarin Chinese (with different transcriptions in written Chinese, respectively).[[note]]Several Chinese characters are Romanized as "Yan", and those Chinese characters are different depending on the topolect spoken... and each of ''those'' characters have masculine or feminine or gender-neutral leanings, respectively.[[/note]] |
| 582 | * BritainIsOnlyLondon: Jerry is specifically from London and is the only known demigod to be from Britain. |
| 583 | * ImStandingRightHere: Yan comments this when their siblings mention the newbies' age. |
| 584 | -->'''Will:''' The newbies all look [[KidHero so young]]. [[ImprobableAge Were we ever that young?]]\ |
| 585 | '''Kayla and Austin:''' ''(nod in agreement)''\ |
| 586 | '''Yan:''' ''(grumbling)'' We newbies are right ''here''. |
| 587 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: They make their first appearance in the finale of the final series. |
| 588 | * NoFullNameGiven: None of the three have given surnames. |
| 589 | * SatelliteCharacter: Not much is known about them other than them being newcomers to Camp Half-Blood, where they are from, and all three of them being Apollo's children. |
| 590 | * TokenMinority: Jerry is stated to be from {{UsefulNotes/London}} and Yan is from UsefulNotes/HongKong, the latter being the only known Asian demigod to be specifically born in Asia. Gracie, [[AvertedTrope by contrast]], is from Idaho and is an American like the majority of demigods known in the series. |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | !!Cabin 8 (Artemis) |
| 594 | [[folder:The Hunters]] |
| 595 | While not permanent residents, Cabin 8 is kept for their use during their infrequent visits. For tropes on them, see the [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeriesServantsOfTheGods Servants of the Gods]] page. |
| 596 | [[/folder]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | !!Cabin 9 (Hephaestus) |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | * GadgeteerGenius: Experts at forging weapons and building machines. |
| 603 | * WrenchWench: Daughters of Hephaestus are just as good with mechanics as his sons. |
| 604 | |
| 605 | [[/folder]] |
| 606 | |
| 607 | [[folder:Charles Beckendorf]] |
| 608 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charles_beckendorf_2_299x416.png]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | Son of Hephaestus and constantly hanging out in the camp's metal forges. Can build bombs. |
| 611 | |
| 612 | ---- |
| 613 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the books, he's an archetypical NiceGuy in a loving relationship with Silena. In the musical, he's apparently cheating on her with a nymph. Though, in his favor, this was an assessment made by [[UnreliableNarrator a grumpy Dionysus]] so it might be wrong. |
| 614 | * AffectionateNickname: His girlfriend calls him "Charlie." |
| 615 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a great guy to have around, but he is absolutely brutal when it comes to chariot racing. |
| 616 | * TheBigGuy: Expected from a son of Hephaestus. |
| 617 | * BlackGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The first half-blood to die in ''The Last Olympian.'']] |
| 618 | * CoolBigBro: To Percy. He's older and an experienced demigod, but has no problems befriending Percy. Unlike Luke, he remains this trope throughout the series. |
| 619 | * DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Nico mentions talking to him in the underworld in ''The Last Olympian'', mentioning that Beckendorf appeared to be waiting for someone. It's implied it was Silena.]] |
| 620 | * FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:He just had to show off a picture of his girlfriend right before he raids the Princess Andromeda...]] |
| 621 | * GadgeteerGenius: As a son of Hephaestus, he's very talented with machinery. |
| 622 | * GeniusBruiser: As a son of Hephaestus, Beckendorf has mad engineering skills. |
| 623 | * GentleGiant: Large and well-built, but a down-to-earth NiceGuy. |
| 624 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Blows himself up in order to land a hit on Kronos.]] |
| 625 | * KissingCousins: Averted in the case of his and Silena's relationship, considering the fact that in the fifth book, it is explained that gods do not have DNA, and thus makes any arguments against inter-camp relationships null and void; with the one exception of two people from the same cabin. |
| 626 | * LastNameBasis: Is referred to as Beckendorf by virtually everyone (except Silena). |
| 627 | * NiceGuy: One of the friendliest camp counselors, and looked up to by everyone. He's even kind to Tyson when no one else is, showing him how to forge weapons. |
| 628 | * OfficialCouple: With Silena. |
| 629 | * {{Outgambit}}: [[spoiler:He manages to play ''Kronos'', the BigBad, like a fool. Beckendorf my man, you get mad props for that.]] |
| 630 | * TheQuietOne: Percy notes that Beckendorf was a guy of little words, but when he spoke everyone tended to listen and respect what he was saying. |
| 631 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Killed to show just how dead serious Kronos and co. are.]] |
| 632 | * ScaryBlackMan: A heroic version; Percy describes him as the type that monsters would run from. |
| 633 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Silena.]] |
| 634 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Named after a former student of Rick Riordan's. |
| 635 | [[/folder]] |
| 636 | |
| 637 | [[folder:Harley]] |
| 638 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harley_6.jpg]] |
| 639 | An 8-year-old son of Hephaestus. |
| 640 | ---- |
| 641 | * ChildProdigy: Eight years old, and already designing complex mechanical deathtraps. |
| 642 | * DeathCourse: Designed one for the campers to complete. |
| 643 | * {{Determinator}}: See IWillFindYou below. |
| 644 | * GenkiGuy: One thing that Apollo notices about him is that he jumps up and down ''constantly''. [[spoiler:He obviously doesn't do it when the Three-Legged Race goes into disarray.]] |
| 645 | * TheHeart: Apollo notes that it just takes one look at Harley to realize why anyone would be willing to go through all his games: he's just too damn cute, adorable, and happiness-bringing. |
| 646 | * IWillFindYou: He is quite adamant on using his beacon to call to Festus, even after six months of Leo being missing. |
| 647 | * ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:When Austin and Kayla went missing during the race, he breaks down and starts to blame himself.]] |
| 648 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After finding out Kayla and Austin went missing during his death race.]] |
| 649 | * NightmareFetishist: Seems rather excited at the prospect of people dying during his death course through the reformed Labyrinth. Subverted later when [[spoiler:two campers actually do go missing during the race]]. |
| 650 | [[/folder]] |
| 651 | |
| 652 | [[folder:Jake Mason]] |
| 653 | The head counselor of Cabin 9 after Beckendorf's death. |
| 654 | ---- |
| 655 | * BandageMummy: When he's first introduced. |
| 656 | * FieldPromotion: How he got his job. Averts it himself, as he willingly gave the position to Leo after the discovery of Bunker 9. |
| 657 | * MeaningfulName: A mason is a builder, albeit one of buildings rather than machines. |
| 658 | [[/folder]] |
| 659 | |
| 660 | [[folder:Nyssa Barrera]] |
| 661 | Daughter of Hephaestus and temporary head counselor during Jake Mason's injuries. |
| 662 | ---- |
| 663 | * ClusterFBomb: Delivers one [[ForeignCussWord in Spanish]] to [[spoiler:Leo after his return]]. |
| 664 | * MsExposition: Her role in ''The Lost Hero''. |
| 665 | [[/folder]] |
| 666 | |
| 667 | |
| 668 | !!Cabin 10 (Aphrodite) |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | * TheBeautifulElite: Noted to be supernaturally beautiful. In fact, they actually ''do'' have the power to radiate beauty and always come off as looking glamorous [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished no matter the circumstances]] due to their mother being the Goddess of Beauty. |
| 673 | * CharmPerson: A rare few of Aphrodite's children have the ability to "charmspeak". |
| 674 | * TheFashionista: The worst punishment they can imagine is having to wear ugly nurse shoes that don't go with anything. |
| 675 | * GossipyHens: They spend most of their time spilling the tea and doing their hair instead of participating in camp activities. |
| 676 | * HeartBeatDown: As children of the Goddess of Love, they have power over love, beauty, and desire. |
| 677 | * MakeupWeapon: Children of Aphrodite all have magical control over makeup and cosmetics. |
| 678 | * NonActionGuy: Aphrodite's children prefer to stay out of combat. Before the battle against the Titan forces in ''The Battle of the Labyrinth,'' they are seen straightening everyone's armor and offering to comb the tangles out of other campers' horsehair plumes. |
| 679 | * {{Shapeshifting}}: As children of the Goddess of Beauty, they have minor shapeshifting abilities that allow them to change their hair and eye color to whatever they want. |
| 680 | * ValleyGirl: Almost all of them fit the trope to some degree, regardless of gender. They tend to be ''very'' fashion-conscious with a preference for designer brands, and their sentences are usually peppered with "like", "totally", "so", and "oh my gods". The only complete exception is [[UnkemptBeauty Piper]], who ironically actually ''does'' live just a few miles outside the San Fernando Valley when not at camp. |
| 681 | |
| 682 | [[/folder]] |
| 683 | |
| 684 | [[folder:Drew Tanaka]] |
| 685 | A daughter of Aphrodite and also [[spoiler:former]] head counselor of her cabin. She also appeared in ''[[Literature/TheKaneChronicles The Serpent's Shadow]]''. |
| 686 | ---- |
| 687 | |
| 688 | * AlphaBitch: She fits the general trademarks: snotty, beautiful (she ''is'' one of Aphrodite's daughters, after all), and always gets her way. [[spoiler:Until the end of ''The Lost Hero'', where Piper kicks her out of the role as head counselor of the Aphrodite cabin]]. |
| 689 | * AsianAirhead: She isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, to say the least, and she's specifically described as Asian (presumably Japanese because of her surname). |
| 690 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts nice, but it's a only a front for her rather nasty personality. |
| 691 | * CharmPerson: She and Piper are the only known demigods capable of charmspeaking as of now. |
| 692 | * EvilCounterpart: To Piper. They're both daughters of Aphrodite and have the rare "charmspeak" ability, but Drew uses it to bend the other Aphrodite campers to her will, as opposed to Piper. |
| 693 | * GenderBlenderName: A female camper named Drew. |
| 694 | * GirlPosse: Outside of camp, she has one at her school in ''The Serpent's Shadow'' of ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles''. |
| 695 | * {{Jerkass}}: She deliberately antagonizes everyone who isn't on her side. |
| 696 | * JerkassHasAPoint: No one contests her when she mentions [[spoiler:Silena betrayed them]] because it was true. |
| 697 | * PopularIsDumb: Drew is the AlphaBitch at camp, but doesn't have the smarts to back it up. |
| 698 | * TheRival: To Piper in ''The Lost Hero''. |
| 699 | * SpeakIllOfTheDead: She's the only one who calls [[spoiler:Silena Beauregard]] a traitor. |
| 700 | * TookALevelInKindness: Possibly. Although Piper describes her as bratty, she's apparently become at least less enough of a {{jerkass}} to be relieved at Piper's survival and return in the final book, though it's also mentioned it's "probably because [Piper] could run things and give Drew more time for gossip and in-cabin beauty treatments". |
| 701 | [[/folder]] |
| 702 | |
| 703 | [[folder:Lacy]] |
| 704 | A daughter of Aphrodite. Along with Drew, she appears briefly in ''[[Literature/TheKaneChronicles The Serpent's Shadow]]''. |
| 705 | ---- |
| 706 | * GirlishPigtails: How she wears her hair. |
| 707 | * NiceGirl: She helps out Piper when she's new to the Aphrodite cabin. |
| 708 | [[/folder]] |
| 709 | |
| 710 | [[folder:Mitchell]] |
| 711 | A son of Aphrodite. |
| 712 | ---- |
| 713 | * NiceGuy: He's friendly to Piper and helps her settle in at the Aphrodite cabin, even when Drew antagonizes her. |
| 714 | [[/folder]] |
| 715 | |
| 716 | [[folder:Silena Beauregard]] |
| 717 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silena_beauregard.jpg]] |
| 718 | !!!'''Played by:''' Zoe Aggeliki |
| 719 | |
| 720 | Daughter of Aphrodite, ergo stunningly beautiful and [[LoveFreak in love with love]]. Extremely talented with handling [[CoolHorse pegasi.]] Hooks up with Beckendorf between the fourth and fifth books. |
| 721 | ---- |
| 722 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, she's a sweet girl and a good friend, [[spoiler:and worked as Luke's spy against her will and ultimately died a hero's death in the end]]. In the film, she's introduced to be helping Luke take over the world full-time, alongside Chris Rodriguez and Ethan Nakamura. |
| 723 | * AllGirlsLikePonies: She is the best pegasus rider at camp. |
| 724 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler:In the final book, she turns out to be TheMole for Kronos, but only because she'd been charmed by Luke into telling him everything and then blackmailed into keeping it a secret]]. |
| 725 | * TheBeastmaster: Pegasi, although we never see her use it in an actual fight. |
| 726 | * BerserkButton: [[LoveFreak Children of Aphrodite]] don't usually participate in capture-the-flag. But when it's against [[DoesNotLikeMen the Hunters]]... |
| 727 | -->"I'll show them 'love is worthless'. I'll pulverize them!" |
| 728 | * DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler:Her face is burned off by acid.]] ''Ouch'', Silena. |
| 729 | * DeathByIrony: A daughter of Aphrodite [[spoiler:dies as a result of horrific acid burns]]. |
| 730 | * ElCidPloy: [[spoiler:Disguises herself as Clarisse in order to fool the Ares cabin into fighting in the war. It works, but [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of her own life]].]] |
| 731 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:She dies with a smile on her face, thinking of Beckendorf.]] |
| 732 | * HardWorkHardlyWorks: For all the combat training they go through at Camp, Silena's not that great in a fight. Attributed to her being a daughter of Aphrodite. |
| 733 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:As mentioned, she sacrificed her life to trick the Ares cabin and turn the tides of war in the campers' favor.]] |
| 734 | * HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:Fulfills the Patroclus role in the Trojan war. See AchillesInHisTent in Clarisse's folder above for elaboration.]] |
| 735 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:She was TheMole, but didn't tell anyone that Luke had blackmailed her. Then her boyfriend Beckendorf dies protecting the camp. Silena dies making up for being TheMole by posing as Clarisse despite not being a good fighter. And at least some campers refuse to see her as a hero considering she nearly got everyone killed]]. |
| 736 | * KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Manages to eke out "See Charlie..." just before dying.]] |
| 737 | * LovableAlphaBitch: Head counselor of the Aphrodite cabin and daughter of a rich man, yet Percy describes her as one of the nicest Aphrodite girls. |
| 738 | * LoveFreak: Comes with being a daughter of the love goddess. Percy describes her as being picky when she does cabin inspections. |
| 739 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: When she says [[spoiler:Luke charmed her, it's unclear if he actually seduced her or cast a spell on her to be the TheMole. Given she was wearing a bracelet that she shakes off when dying, there are hints towards the latter]]. |
| 740 | * MeaningfulName: Although it literally translates as "handsome gaze", her name means "regarded highly". |
| 741 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:She was the reason Kronos knew exactly what Camp Half-Blood was planning: she had been charmed by Luke into telling him everything.]] |
| 742 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After learning of Charles' HeroicSacrifice, it's implied that the true reason for her breakdown -- as eventually revealed -- was also stemming to the fact that ''she'' is indirectly responsible for her boyfriend's death, since Kronos knew from Silena that Charles and Percy were plotting to sabotage the ''Princess Andromeda''.]] |
| 743 | * NeatFreak: The Aphrodite cabin is always spotless. This is why Percy hates it when she does cabin inspections -- she likes things to be pretty, and he doesn't do "pretty". |
| 744 | * NiceGirl: Nice and amiable to everyone, in contrast to the other Aphrodite girls. |
| 745 | * NotWhatISignedUpFor: [[spoiler:Inverted. She was charmed by Luke to be TheMole and she told him everything. As time went on, however, after her actions have indirectly caused many of her friends to get hurt and[=/=]or killed, she rethinks on being Luke's spy and wanted to quit. However, Luke blackmails her that he'll harm her crush, Charles Beckendorf, and expose her if she doesn't continue reporting to him.]] |
| 746 | * OddFriendship: With Clarisse. |
| 747 | * OfficialCouple: With Beckendorf. |
| 748 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Like her siblings, Silena is not usually aggressive, but the appearance of the Hunters gets her so angry that she's raring to beat them in Capture the Flag. |
| 749 | -->'''Silena''': ''(strapping on her armor)'' I'll show them "love is worthless." I'll pulverize them! |
| 750 | * RaceLift: White in the books, played by Black actor Carrie Compere in the musical. |
| 751 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:ZigZagged. She dies and is remembered as a hero, despite being TheMole the whole time. Except her replacement counselors mention that she was a failure for that reason]]. |
| 752 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Clarisse's tomboy. |
| 753 | [[/folder]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | [[folder:Valentina Diaz]] |
| 756 | A daughter of Aphrodite. |
| 757 | ---- |
| 758 | * DreadfulMusician: In her hands a clarinet, sounds like a whimpering dog. |
| 759 | * HolidayMotifs: She's the daughter of the goddess of love, and her name is a play on "Valentine's day." |
| 760 | * MeaningfulName: Daughter of Aphrodite and has a name one letter away from Valentine. |
| 761 | [[/folder]] |
| 762 | |
| 763 | !!Cabin 11 (Hermes) |
| 764 | |
| 765 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: This cabin contains all the campers who are undetermined or children of minor gods, as well as the actual children of Hermes. |
| 768 | * TrashOfTheTitans: The Hermes cabin is always a mess, which doesn't do them any favors when it comes to cabin inspection. |
| 769 | |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[folder:Cecil Markowitz]] |
| 773 | A son of Hermes. He's missing at the time of ''The Hidden Oracle''. |
| 774 | ---- |
| 775 | * DistressedDude: When Apollo finds him. |
| 776 | [[/folder]] |
| 777 | |
| 778 | [[folder:Chris Rodriguez]] |
| 779 | !!!'''Played by''': Grey Damon (film), Andrew Alvarez (TV series) |
| 780 | Son of Hermes and boyfriend of Clarisse. He's introduced as working on Luke's side and having gone insane when he went on a mission into the Labyrinth, but Dionysus heals him at the end of ''Battle of the Labyrinth''. |
| 781 | ---- |
| 782 | * AllThereInTheManual: According to ''The Ultimate Guide'', he's a son of Hermes. |
| 783 | * HeelFaceTurn: He was on Luke's side until he went into the Labyrinth and grew close to Clarisse. |
| 784 | * FaceHeelTurn: He was a camper before going over to Luke's side. |
| 785 | * MoralityPet: One of two people (the other being Silena) Clarisse shows a softer side to. |
| 786 | * NiceGuy: In contrast to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Clarisse]]. |
| 787 | * OfficialCouple: With Clarisse. |
| 788 | * SatelliteCharacter: He's only relevant because of his relationship with Clarisse. |
| 789 | * TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: He was driven mad from his time in the [[EldritchLocation Labyrinth]], and no amount of nectar or ambrosia could cure him. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Minos' ghost]] was responsible for driving the poor boy insane, which only [[spoiler:Mr. D can cure him from his madness]]. |
| 790 | [[/folder]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | !!Cabin 12 (Dionysus) |
| 793 | |
| 794 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 795 | |
| 796 | * GreenThumb: Like the Demeter kids, theyโre capable of controlling plants, but likely limited to grapes and strawberries and vines. |
| 797 | * OddNameOut: Normally, male god cabins are odd numbered, but Dionysus' cabin is even numbered alongside the females. This would make sense because the goddess Hestia gave up her throne for Dionysus and she, as a virgin goddess, doesn't have demigod kids nor an honorary cabin. |
| 798 | ** Becomes downplayed after ''The Last Olympian'' when cabins for the minor gods[=/=]goddesses were constructed at camp. |
| 799 | * OutOfFocus: The twins were background characters and we donโt learn their names until ''The Battle of the Labyrinth'' [[spoiler:when one of the twins was killed during Lukeโs invasion. Percy felt ashamed since heโs seen the twins for three years but never bothered to know their names until then.]] |
| 800 | [[/folder]] |
| 801 | |
| 802 | [[folder:Castor and Pollux]] |
| 803 | Twin sons of Dionysus. |
| 804 | ---- |
| 805 | * AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Castor is killed in battle while his twin brother, Pollux, survived. During the shroud ceremony, Pollux could barely form a sentence for his fallen twin.]] |
| 806 | * KarmicJackpot: One of the perks of having their godly parent punished to act as director of Camp Half-Blood, Castor and Pollux get to have a lot of direct interactions with their father. [[spoiler:Thereโs also the fact that Dionysus is seen comforting Pollux after the death of Castor and wants him safe]]. |
| 807 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Castor is one of the campers killed during the Battle of the Labyrinth.]] |
| 808 | * MeaningfulName: Castor and Pollux are named after the twins of the ''Gemini''. |
| 809 | ** โPolluxโ is the Latin version of Polydeuces, which means 'much sweeter wine', a suitable name for a son of Dionysus. |
| 810 | ** Like the original story in mythology, Castor [[spoiler:is killed, but thereโs no attempt to restore him to life.]] |
| 811 | [[/folder]] |
| 812 | |
| 813 | |
| 814 | !!Other Campers |
| 815 | [[folder:Ben]] |
| 816 | A wheelchair-using demigod of unknown parentage. He first appears in ''The Tower of Nero''. |
| 817 | ---- |
| 818 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:He uses his wheelchair to mow down monsters in his path.]] |
| 819 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: First introduced in a scene in the last book of the last series. |
| 820 | * NoFullNameGiven: His surname is not given in the book he appears in. |
| 821 | [[/folder]] |
| 822 | |
| 823 | [[folder:Blanche]] |
| 824 | Daughter of Iris. |
| 825 | ---- |
| 826 | * CreepyChild: A teenage version; she dresses in all black, her artistic photography is focused on dead or dying plants and animals (all in black and white), and sends the entire camp into a panic with her ghost story. |
| 827 | * DeadpanSnarker: [[RefugeInAudacity Towards her own godly mother]], no less. |
| 828 | -->'''Iris:''' And I see you're still wearing all black. Didn't you like the scarf I sent you?\ |
| 829 | '''Blanche:''' Yeah, it was great. The pink hummingbirds were totally my style. |
| 830 | * EmotionlessGirl: Usually acts very disinterested in everything except her photography (or scaring the crap out of the entire camp). |
| 831 | * {{Goth}}: Definitely gives off this vibe with her all-black wardrobe and makeup, shaved head except for a topknot, and her fascination with death and decay. |
| 832 | * {{Irony}}: A daughter of the goddess of ''rainbows'' who wears all black, focuses her artistic endeavors on monochrome photography, and uses her powers to actively ''remove'' color. |
| 833 | * MeaningfulName: Blanche is a French name meaning "white", appropriate for her artistic interest in monochrome photography. Also counts as an IronicName considering her mother. |
| 834 | * MonochromeToColor: Has the power to invert this, temporarily absorbing the colors of creatures or objects into herself, an ability she uses to great effect at the climax of her campfire ghost story. |
| 835 | [[/folder]] |
| 836 | |
| 837 | [[folder:Chiara Benvenuti]] |
| 838 | ->''"C'รจ un karpos!"'' |
| 839 | Daughter of Tyche. |
| 840 | ---- |
| 841 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Damien White. |
| 842 | * GratuitousItalian: Refer to the quotation above, among other examples. |
| 843 | * InSeriesNickname: Damien calls her "Lucky". |
| 844 | [[/folder]] |
| 845 | |
| 846 | [[folder:Damien White]] |
| 847 | Son of Nemesis. |
| 848 | ---- |
| 849 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Chiara Benvenuti. |
| 850 | * RedScare: He freaks out and calls Meg a Communist when he sees the sickle appear over her. |
| 851 | [[/folder]] |
| 852 | |
| 853 | [[folder:Paolo Montes]] |
| 854 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paolo_6.jpg]] |
| 855 | Son of Hebe. |
| 856 | ---- |
| 857 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Or, in this case, adjust to having reattached limbs. |
| 858 | * InformedAttractiveness: When he's not bleeding out from dismemberment, according to Apollo. |
| 859 | * LanguageBarrier: Claims to be able to understand English fluently, but only speaks Portuguese, which none of the others understand, except apparently Nico. |
| 860 | [[/folder]] |
| 861 | |
| 862 | !!Surrounding Woods |
| 863 | [[folder:Grove of Dodona]] |
| 864 | A grove of oaks planted by Rhea that give prophecies. Burned down in ancient times, it has since regrown in the woods surrounding Camp Half-Blood. |
| 865 | ---- |
| 866 | * MadOracle: They're not all there, often talking about irrelevant or nonsensical things. |
| 867 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: When they focus and give a specific prophecy they all speak at once. |
| 868 | * WiseTree: When they aren't babbling incoherently. |
| 869 | [[/folder]] |
| 870 | |
| 871 | [[folder:Myrmekes]] |
| 872 | A nest of giant ants. |
| 873 | ---- |
| 874 | * AirborneMook: The winged ants. |
| 875 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: They're ants the size of cars. |
| 876 | * LargeAndInCharge: The myrmeke queen. |
| 877 | * SuperSpit: They can spit acid or immobilizing goop. |
| 878 | * TheSwarm: They are ants. |
| 879 | * TunnelKing: The queen can burrow through the ground much faster than her brood. |
| 880 | [[/folder]] |
| 881 | |
| 882 | [[folder:Pete and Paulie]] |
| 883 | A pair of palikos, spirits of geysers and sacred oaths, who live in the woods. |
| 884 | ---- |
| 885 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Pete refers to Paulie as his partner, but the exact meaning is unclear. Given how close they seem, it could easily be in a romantic sense. |
| 886 | * MakingASplash: As geyser spirits, with the bonus that it's hot enough to broil their foes alive. |
| 887 | * MonochromaticEyes: Their eyes are solid white. |
| 888 | [[/folder]] |
| 889 | |
| 890 | !!Other Residents |
| 891 | [[folder:Blackjack]] |
| 892 | Percy's trusty horse, who he rescued from slavery in Luke's ship. Percy can talk with him because he's a son of Poseidon, who made horses. |
| 893 | |
| 894 | ---- |
| 895 | * CoolHorse: He's Percy's trusty steed, ''and'' he's cool. |
| 896 | * DontCallMeSir: Most subjects of Poseidon insist on calling Percy "lord," but he insists they use his name. Blackjack compromises by calling him "boss." |
| 897 | * HorsebackHeroism: Much of the [[FinalBattle Final Battle]] is done with Percy riding him. |
| 898 | * JustWhistle: This is how Percy can summon him, as well as additional pegasi (Guido and Porkpie say hi) if needed. |
| 899 | * LoyalAnimalCompanion: He's one to Percy. |
| 900 | * {{Pegasus}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That's what he is.]] |
| 901 | * {{Retcon}}: He was referred to by Percy as female in ''The Sea of Monsters,'' but in all books after that he's male. |
| 902 | * SapientSteed: He is, technically, a person, but he doesn't seem to mind serving as a mount. |
| 903 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Being a horse, he loves sugar cubes. |
| 904 | [[/folder]] |
| 905 | |
| 906 | [[folder:Calypso]] |
| 907 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/calypso_299x416.jpg]] |
| 908 | [[caption-width-right:299:''"The gods have placed ancient magic on this island to keep me here. A hero can leave. I cannot."'']] |
| 909 | Atlas's daughter, who was punished after the first Titan War by being imprisoned on the island Ogygia. She looks after Percy when he washes up onto her island, and gives him moonlace before he leaves. She has become somewhat embittered and angry after the gods bailed on their promise to release her from her isolation. She was occasionally visited by demigods who couldn't leave until she fell in love with them. The most recent of these was Leo Valdez, who has rescued her. |
| 910 | |
| 911 | ---- |
| 912 | * AdaptationalHeroism: She's much kinder than she is in the original mythology, where she's a seductress who kept Odysseus prisoner for years. |
| 913 | * AmicableExes: Not that they have ever actually formed a relationship, but she is very civil to Percy here, even when she flat-out ''hates'' him in the previous series. She even manages to give him a peck to the cheek as a parting gift. Towards Apollo, on other hand... |
| 914 | ** Justified, as Percy ''did'' petition for Calypso's release, and Leo probably told her how Percy felt guilty for not doing enough to help her. |
| 915 | * AndIMustScream: Has been trapped on a island for 5,000 years with no company. The only visitors she ever mentions? Hermes, Hephaestus, Odysseus, Sir Francis Drake, Percy Jackson [[spoiler:and the unmentioned one she is telling this to: Leo Valdez]]. Odysseus was around 1000 BCE, Drake the late 1500s CE, Percy [[spoiler:and Leo]] in the early 2000s. Yeah. |
| 916 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The very last scene of ''Heroes of Olympus'' is her and Leo departing Ogygia for parts unknown. Subverted when they arrive at Camp Half-Blood in ''The Trials of Apollo.'']] |
| 917 | * AscendedExtra: She's officially joining Apollo's Trial Team at the end of the first book. Compare to her previous two appearances in the last two quintets, where she serves only in romantic sidequests. |
| 918 | * BrokenBird: This side of her is explored more than in the previous series; as she's clearly quite bitter after centuries of being alone and under a curse, even after the gods promised to free her from it. |
| 919 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Leaving Ogygia caused her to lose her immortality and magical powers. |
| 920 | ** [[spoiler:Her magic begins to return in ''The Dark Prophecy''.]] |
| 921 | * {{Curse}}: [[spoiler:Indirectly inflicts one on Annabeth in ''The House of Hades'' due to her jealousy over Percy leaving her for Annabeth and bitterness over him not keeping his promise to get the gods to set her free.]] |
| 922 | * ILied: [[spoiler:Has this inflicted on her between the first and second series, since no one has freed her even though Percy ordered her release.]] |
| 923 | * {{Irony}}: She curses the gods for sending her someone who she hates, and for not releasing her from her punishment despite their promises to do so. In fact it's implied the Gods arranged for Leo to free her, using the nature of her curse to ensure she winds up with someone she loves. It's even possible they ''couldn't'' free her themselves, [[EternalRecurrence due to the nature of Gods in this series.]] But that's what they have heroes for. |
| 924 | * LeaveYourQuestTest: The island of Ogygia, which is basically a paradise meant to trap heroes. |
| 925 | * LotusEaterMachine: Discussed, when she says that "time flows differently" on Ogygia. |
| 926 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: She's the daughter of Atlas and supported her father in the first war, which is why she's in exile on an island in the first place. |
| 927 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: Once, she's the December to Leo's Mayfly. [[BroughtDownToNormal But not anymore.]] |
| 928 | * MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Is kind-hearted and empathetic despite the lack of company. |
| 929 | * NiceGirl: Is depicted as genuinely caring and kind, despite her awful punishment. The [[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus sequel series]] plays around with this set-up. |
| 930 | * NoodleIncident: Apollo once tried to prevent her petition to get an early release from Ogygia because of...some drama. She presently doesn't like him because of this, among other reasons. |
| 931 | * OfficialCouple: With Leo. |
| 932 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She appears to be fifteen or sixteen, although she's been around for millennia. Though she does lose her immortality permanently. |
| 933 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: In the first series, she has basically no characterization besides being a NiceGirl who falls in love with Percy. Averted in the second and third series, where her personality and desires are explored much more. |
| 934 | * SignificantWardrobeShift: For over 5,000 years her fashion sense didn't change from wearing an ancient Greek-style white robe with a golden belt. After [[spoiler:Leo Valdez]] shows up on her island she switches to jeans and red t-shirts because she realised how much more practical they were. |
| 935 | * SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: Starts doing this once [[spoiler:Leo]] lands on her island, ranting about how the gods are apparently trying to make her suffer even more by sending someone who can't leave and she hates, rather than one who can (and does) but she loves. She may have engaged in this before then too. She isn't happy that the gods haven't set her free yet. |
| 936 | * SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler:With Leo Valdez.]] |
| 937 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed from her [[NiceGirl previous characterization]], with the harsh {{Tsundere}} tendencies she displays initially. |
| 938 | * {{Tsundere}}: Turns out to be a Type B. From what's seen of her in [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians the previous series]], she's a sweet and helpful NiceGirl, but she shows a cranky side [[spoiler:[[SlapSlapKiss towards Leo.]] Weirdly enough, Leo is the first person to fall in love with her.]] |
| 939 | * UnrequitedTragicMaiden: Justified. She's doomed to always fall in love with the hero who washes up on her island, but never have her affections returned, and the heroes ''cannot leave until she falls in love with them''. [[spoiler:It's finally subverted when she falls for Leo, who actually reciprocates her feelings]]. |
| 940 | * WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:''The Blood of Olympus'' ends with her and Leo flying off on Festus together to see the world]]. |
| 941 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-universe. After turning down her offer to stay with her on the island, Percy wonders what would have happened if he'd accepted it. His narration even calls her his biggest what-if. |
| 942 | * WrenchWench: On Ogygia, her divine strength and intuition means she can outpace [[spoiler:Leo]] when it comes to working on constructing mechanical devices. She's good enough that [[spoiler:Leo suggests they should open an Auto Repair Shop together when they leave Ogygia.]] |
| 943 | [[/folder]] |
| 944 | |
| 945 | [[folder:Festus]] |
| 946 | [[quoteright:321:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/festus.png]] |
| 947 | A dragon automaton and returning character from ''The Bronze Dragon'', an ancillary story from the previous series. At the beginning of the series, he's gone haywire as a result of Beckendorf's death. Currently the figurehead and AI of the ''Argo II''. |
| 948 | |
| 949 | ---- |
| 950 | * AIIsACrapshoot: In his first two appearances, he's crazed and violent as a result of his damaged control disk. This problem is mostly remedied by Leo later on. |
| 951 | * BreathWeapon: As one might have guessed, he breathes fire. |
| 952 | * FluffyTheTerrible: A giant, firebreathing, flying dragon automaton... named, what is essentially, "Happy." Lampshaded by Jason. |
| 953 | -->'''Jason:''' You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon? |
| 954 | * GemTissue: Has ruby eyes. |
| 955 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: [[spoiler:Piper's charmspeak managed to bump him up to full sentience.]] |
| 956 | * ImpossiblyCompactFolding: Can somehow compact himself into a box the size of a suitcase for ease of transport. Unfortunately, it's still just as heavy as a sixty-foot-long bronze mecha-dragon... which is why it also has a carry-on handle and wheels. |
| 957 | * ItCanThink: When Cabin 9 was trying to capture him, they found he was more intelligent than initially assumed. |
| 958 | %%JustWhistle |
| 959 | * LivingShip: Seems sentient. [[spoiler:Piper manages to temporarily charmspeak Festus's head into proper sentience in ''The House of Hades'', after which the crew notes he seems more alive.]] |
| 960 | * OnlyMostlyDead: Sliced to pieces by lasers when he crash-lands on Midas's lawn, but this doesn't stop Leo from having Hephaestus take his head back to Camp Half-Blood so he cam become the ''Argo II'''s living figurehead. |
| 961 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: A robotic one. |
| 962 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: When first introduced, he was an uncontrollable mechanical monstrosity with glowing red eyes. His eyes are still red, but the rest no longer applies. |
| 963 | * ShockAndAwe: He can electrify his outer plating to dislodge enemies. |
| 964 | * TeamPet: Jason, Piper, and Leo see him as one. |
| 965 | * ThisIsADrill: His teeth are drill bits. |
| 966 | * TransformingMecha: Can fold into a suitcase-sized box for convenience. [[spoiler:And the framework of the Argo II.]] |
| 967 | [[/folder]] |
| 968 | |
| 969 | |
| 970 | [[folder:Mrs. O'Leary]] |
| 971 | [[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrs_oleary.jpg]] |
| 972 | Quintus's dog. Later becomes Percy's after Quintus/Daedalus dies. |
| 973 | |
| 974 | ---- |
| 975 | * ActionPet: Loves to give licks and kisses to those she cares about. She's also bigger than a tank and can barrel through monsters and demigods alike and went to take on the Drakon before injuries forced her to retreat. |
| 976 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the books, she's said to be a mastiff, like most hellhounds. In the graphic novels, she's instead depicted as far more wolflike in design. |
| 977 | * BigFriendlyDog: "Big" is an understatement. She's at least the size of an SUV. |
| 978 | * DarkIsNotEvil: She's a hellhound and also a BigFriendlyDog. |
| 979 | * FaceOfAThug: She's definitely a BigFriendlyDog, but she looks just like any other hellhound. Percy actually hesitates during the Battle of Manhattan while fighting a hellhound, forcing him to remind himself that the hellhound he was fighting was a killing machine and not Mrs. O'Leary. |
| 980 | * FluffyTheTerrible: A hellhound that can chew apart bronze constructs with her teeth and play with shields designed to protect against the attacks of other monsters the way most would play with a Frisbee. She's also named "Mrs. O'Leary." |
| 981 | * {{Glamour}}: Under the Mist, she looks like a large poodle to Percy's classmates. |
| 982 | * {{Hellhound}}: Is one. |
| 983 | * JustWhistle: In the fourth book, she can be summoned by a whistle made of Stygian Ice. But ItOnlyWorksOnce, since said whistle shattered after a single use. |
| 984 | * MightyRoar: Her barks are louder than artillery cannons. |
| 985 | * OnlyFriend: She was Daedalus's only companion for thousands of years while he was hiding from death. |
| 986 | * PetMonstrosity: To Quintus and later Percy. |
| 987 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's at least 2,000 years old, having been Daedalus's pet for that long. |
| 988 | * ThinkingUpPortals: Like all hellhounds, she has the ability to Shadow Travel across vast distances, but doing so tires her out. |
| 989 | [[/folder]] |
| 990 | |
| 991 | [[folder:Peleus]] |
| 992 | A dragon bought by Chiron to protect the Golden Fleece. |
| 993 | ---- |
| 994 | * BreathWeapon: He's never been seen to use it, but the smoke he produces indicates fire. |
| 995 | * MacGuffinGuardian: For the Golden Fleece. |
| 996 | * SnakesAreSinister: He's serpentine in appearance and quite dangerous. Averted if he knows you, as he'll let campers walk right up to him. |
| 997 | * StrongerWithAge: He's fairly young, less than a decade old, but he's constantly growing. |
| 998 | [[/folder]] |
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