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[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Percy Jackson
FANDOM: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
CHRONOLOGY: I would like to bring Percy in from pre-The Lost Hero, at a point mentioned in the story – from just after he has walked his girlfriend back to her cabin, but before he was taken by Hera and had his memories erased.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Percy does not have a superhero name. If he was to chose one, it would be something along the lines of “Trident”
ALTER EGO: Percy Jackson, and most likely to be a student.
BACKGROUND:
Perseus Jackson – Percy to most – is the demigod son Poseidon, god of the sea, and Sally Jackson, a mortal who can see through the Mist. He was named after the Greek hero Perseus by his mother in the hope that the relative good luck of the hero would rub off on Percy himself. For his part, Percy is only irritated when called by his full name. When we first meet him in The Lighting Thief, he is a very troubled 12 year old who did not get along with his foul step-father, and had been expelled from every school he had attended – the first one we see being the Yancy Academy, where he had only one friend – Grover Underwood.
During a field trip to a museum, Percy is annoyed at the school bully for annoying Grover and accidentally summons waters from the nearby fountain to pull her in in his anger. He pre-algebra teacher, Mrs Dodds, sees the whole scene and instructs him to follow her into the museum for a 'talk'. It is then that she turns into the Fury Alecto and attacks Percy. Percy managed to destroy her when his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, throws him a pen which transforms into the sword Riptide when uncapped. After this – as a result of the Mist – no one remembers Mrs Dodds. Except, perhaps Grover, who always hesitated when Percy questioned him on it, and possibly Mr Brunner who Percy overheard discussing the matter with Grover. At the end of the school year, Percy was not invited back to the Yancy Academy. At the bus stop, he and Grover see the Three Fates looking at Percy while knitting socks. They snip the string and Grover, recognising them as what they are, asked Percy to wait for him. However, having heard them talking about him, Percy goes home on his own.
Arriving home, his horrible step-father demands the change from the cab drive, and shortly after Sally arrives to inform Percy that she and him will be spending the whole weekend at the beach in Montauk. It is when they are at the beach that Grover arrives, revealing himself to be a satyr and telling Percy and Sally to leave. Sally, worried for Percy, drives both him and Grover at daring speeds through a blinding hurricane away from the beach. The car is blasted off the road by a blot of lightning, and they are attacked by a Minotaur. They managed to dodge, but Grover is injured by the Minotaur, before it becomes distracted by Sally, grabbing her by the neck and forgetting Grover. Sally disappears in a flash of golden light, and Percy in a surge of power and angers, defeats the Minotaur by stabbing it with part of its own broken horn. He drags the unconscious Grover past a hill with a tree into Camp Half-Blood, before passing out.
Percy is cared for in the infirmary by his soon-to-be-friend Annabeth Chase, a girl who he initally describes as pretty and “what a typical California girl would look like.” Annabeth, being rather blunt, informs him that “he drools when he sleeps”. He is taken to meet the director of the camp, Mr. D – really Dionysus, the god of wine and madness – and re-meets Mr Brunner, who is really the centaur Chiron, best known as being the trainer of heroes. He is told that the Camp is for demigod – the half-mortal offspring of the Greek Gods – and that he is also a demigod, though they do not know who his godly parent is. He is shown around the camp, and is introduced to Luke Castellan, head counsellor of the Hermes cabin where Percy will be staying until such times as he is claimed. He then meets daughter of Ares, Clarisse La Rue, who sticks his head in a girls' bathroom toilet. Somehow water shoots out of the toilet to blast back at Clarisse and her friends. This makes him a target in the camp-wide game of Capture the Flag. However, he manages to defeat Clarisse and three others single-handed after touching the creek, which heals the wounds he had received from fighting them. The flag is captured by Luke, and Percy hears a mysterious howling. A hellhound comes out of the forest, and heads for Percy, attacking anyone in its way, before being shot down by campers. Annabeth, who has been watching Percy, instructs him back into the water. Once again, his wounds are healed. A holographic trident floats over his head, showing that he has been claimed; his father is Poseidon.
It is shortly after this that Percy embarks on his first quest. Zeus' master bolt has been stolen and he is believed to be the thief. He is accompanied on this quest by Grover and Annabeth, and together they face the monster Medusa, Procrustes, and the Furies. They are sent on a 'side-quest' by Ares, to fetch back his shield. It should come to no surprise that Percy and Ares do not get on, though Ares admits it is only because he is Poseidon's child that he won't touch Percy. Eventually, the main three end up in the Underworld having believed Hades, lord of the Dead to have taken the bolt since surely he would benefit most from a war of the Gods. It is revealed that Hades does not have the bolt, in fact he believes that Percy has stolen his Helm of Darkness. It is also revealed that Hades took Sally before she died at the Minotaur's hands, and he promises her return should Percy return his Helm. On their return from the Underworld, they are greeted once again by Ares, who has both the Master Bolt and the Helm of Darkness. Percy battles Ares for them, managing to stab him in the ankle, drawing first blood and thus winning the fight. Ares is stopped from killing Percy by a dark force – later shown to be the Titan Kronos who had been manipulating events - and Percy gives the Helm to the Furies to return to Hades, before returning to New York to present the bolt to Zeus. Hades keeps his promise, and returns Sally to whom Percy gifts the Medusa head that had been a spoil of his fight with the monster. Percy is informed in a later letter that his abusive step-father has left, and that his mother has made a little bit of money on a modern art sculpture, but that she does not think she'll return to the art.
Percy, Annabeth and Grover are treated as heroes on their return to camp, and are congratulated by everyone. Percy is in a bit of dilemma as he does not know whether to remain at the camp, or return to New York and enrol in the seventh grade at the end of the summer. Deciding to clear his mind, he goes to train and sees Luke, who invites him to drink a soda with him, and they enter the forest together. Luke reveals that he was behind the theft – he is a Son of Hermes – and summons a pit scorpion to kill Percy. Percy is healed, but Luke has fled. It is following this that Percy opts to return to his home, choosing to return to camp the following summer.
The next time we see Percy is in the second book, The Sea of Monsters, when he is being attacked by monsters at his school at the end of the school year. He, along with his new friend Tyson, are rescued by Annabeth and they quickly make their way to camp in the Grey Sister's Taxi. During the ride, Percy is given three numbers – co-ordinates to something he needs. Arriving at the camp, they find it is under attack. The protection provided by the tree – really Thalia the demigod daughter of Zeus with whom Annabeth originally came to camp with – is failing as the tree is poisoned, weakening the borders. Tyson is claimed by Poseidon, he is a Cyclops and half-brother to Percy, something which Percy is initially annoyed by. In a dream, Percy discovers that Grover – who left at the end of the previous on a quest to find the god Pan – is on an island, held sort of captive by the Cyclops Polyphemus who believes the satyr is a female of his kind and intends to marry him. Grover also tells Percy that the Golden Fleece is at this island.
At the camp fire, Clarisse is given the quest to go and retrieve the Fleece by the new activities director, Tantalus – who is replacing Chiron as it is believed he may have poisoned Thalia's tree. The numbers Percy received are quickly worked out to be directions to the Sea of Monsters, and the location of the island. Percy, Annabeth and Tyson are also set on the quest, unofficially, after Hermes speaks with Percy and gives him provisions for the trip. As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they must get past Scylla and Charybdis. Having joined up with Clarisse, they try to advise her to sail between the sisters. She does not listen, and goes automatically for Charybdis. The ship malfunctions and blows up, and it is believed Tyson has died. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous island during which Annabeth tells Percy about Thalia and mentions her prophecy. The obstacles they have to fight their way through include the Sirens, and Circe's island, where Percy spent a brief period of time as a guinea pig. They find themselves on the island finally, joining up with Grover, Clarisse, and joyfully Tyson – who was saved by a friendly hippocampi named Rainbow. After a fight with Polyphemus, they send Clarisse quickly on to the Camp with the Fleece. After she has left, they find themselves kidnapped by Luke – who poisoned the tree in an attempt to get them looking for the Fleece. Percy is almost killed by Luke in a duel, but thanks to a secret Iris message Percy manages to send, the entire camp overhears Luke's confession, proving Chiron's innocent. They are rescue by Chiron and the Party Ponies.
When they return to camp, the fleece is place on the tree, and does its job too well. It revives not only the tree, but Thalia herself, looking just as she has in Percy's dreams, which is what alerts him to her identity. It becomes apparent that this was Kronos' plan all along, bringing forth another child of the Big Three that would allow him to manipulate the Great Prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians. Percy, at this point, has only heard a small part of the Prophecy.
The next time we see Percy is in the third book, The Titans Curse. Percy is now 14, and it is the following winter. Percy, Annabeth and Thalia have been driven to Westover Hall by Sally Jackson, the three having been called there by Grover as he has discovered two powerful half-blood siblings: Bianca and Nico di Angelo. A fierce battle with the monster, Dr. Thorn, takes place on the roof of the building, and with help from the goddess Artemis, and her Hunters, he is defeated. However, to the stunned shock of Percy, Annabeth falls from the roof. It becomes clear that Kronos has come up with perhaps his most devious plan yet, and Percy and Thalia have fallen prey to it.
Artemis hears rumour of an ancient monster having arisen. This monster is rumoured to be so powerful that it could destroy Olympus, and so she sets out alone with the intention of capturing it. They return to Camp by catching a ride with Apollo who allows Thalia to drive. Percy appears to still in a stunned shock about Annabeth. Percy is equally as shocked when Bianca chooses to join the Hunters, especially as it means she will have no contact with her little brother from then on, but he admits he could maybe understand it.
In the Camp vs Hunters game of Capture the Flag is it clear that Percy and Thalia are too alike, butting heads over leadership of their team in the game and ultimately costing the camp the win. While Percy does seem to like Thalia, he admits jealously over her friendship with Annabeth, without whom he seems lost, quicker to snap than ever before. Artemis does not return as hoped, and it becomes clear that she is missing. The Oracle – a mummy-like figure who speaks in prophecies – gives direction to Zoe Nightshade, who arranges a team of five to go on the quest with her to find the goddess. Bianca, Grover and Thalia are included. Percy is not.
Percy skips out of camp to rescue a sea-creature – something he mentions that has become a regular occurrence – with Annabeth's cap and his pen-sword. On his way back in, he finds Nico spying on the quest group as they leave. Nico makes Percy promise to watch out for his sister, and Percy leaves, flying on the horse Blackjack in an attempt to catch up with the group. At a museum, he discovers that Luke is involved in this mission, along with someone known as the General. Percy joins the group as their fifth – one of the Hunters chosen was not able to make it having foul fall of a prank played by Conner and Travis Stoll of the Hermes Cabin. They travel for a while and are stopped by the appearance of Ares and a limo. Ares is dismissive towards the rest of the group – including Thalia – and speaks only to Percy, telling him to get in and to be polite.
Inside the limousine, Percy meets Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, who always looked like people Percy has loved. At first, she looks like Annabeth. Aphrodite is delighted to meet Percy, squeeing about how he is on a quest for true love. Percy is very quick to deny this, but when Aphrodite hints that Annabeth was planning on joining the Hunters – a girls only group who shun any male – he is very notably worried. Aphrodite tells him that there is a romantic future for him and Annabeth, and that she'll make the relationship 'interesting' for them, before sending him on his way – warning him to watch out in her husband's territory. This turns out to be a warning that should have been heeded more. Like was told to Zoe in the prophecy for the quest, Bianca is killed in the junk-yard – a land with no rain.
From there they travel onwards, making a brief stop at Hoover Dam where Percy meets Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a clear-sighted mortal like his moth. She helps the group escape from undead skeleton warriors. They go to the Mountain of Despair, and Thalia is tempted by Kronos to destroy the sea monsters Percy had previously saved - it being the rumoured monster who could destroy Olympus. With Percy's help, she is able to resist and they go on to fight the General – who is Zoe's father, the titan Atlas, and Luke. Thalia takes Luke on herself, and Percy joins the others in the fight against Atlas, who tells them that he has had both Annabeth and Artemis hold up the sky for him. Artemis is struggling under this bond, and Percy takes the weight of the sky from her, managing to hold it up until they have managed to trick Atlas back under, at which point he lets go, forcing the Titan to reclaim the burden. Due to the effort of holding up the sky, Percy has a streak of grey in his hair. Thalia appears to win the fight with Luke, and due to injuries sustained before and during the battle, Zoe Nightshade dies, informing Percy that he was not as bad as some heroes she has known. In her honour, a new constellation is created in the sky, in the shape of a hunter. Thalia joins the Hunters, eliminating her from the prophecy and seemingly leaving it all on Percy's shoulders, and the sea-creature – now named Bessie – is kept safe on Mount Olympus. Poseidon informs Percy that Luke is not dead, and Percy is unsure of how to take this news.
Percy does not know how to tell Nico what has happened to his sister on their return to camp, and appears to feel slightly put out that it has been left to him, though he does know why and is simply lost on what to say. He seems to see Nico as a sort of little brother figure, and does not look forward to having to inform him of the terrible truth. He tells him, however, and Nico flees, bringing forth skeleton warriors to allow him to do so. Percy, along with Annabeth and Grover, search for Nico but have no luck. It is when Percy holds up a small figurine Bianca died to get for Nico that he realises that Nico is the son of Hades, and another possibility to be the hero of the prophecy. The story ends with Grover rushing to tell Percy that while under the influence of a lot of coffee in New Mexico, he heard Pan speak in his head. Just three words: “I await you...”
The fourth instalment for the story Battle of the Labyrinth, informs us that Percy has not given up the search for Nico, while Grover has resumed his search for Pan. He has gotten into freshman year at Goode High School, re-meeting Rachel Elizabeth Dare, and then having to run from empousai with her. They bump into Annabeth – who is apparently jealous of Rachel being with Percy though Percy is oblivious to this - and instead of heading to the movie like they had planned, they go straight to Camp Half-Blood. Percy is reunited to his delight with his half-brother Tyson, meets the new swordsman trainer, Quintus, who brings pet hellhound with him, by the name of Mrs O'Leary. During a new game implemented by Quintus, with Annabeth, Percy falls into a dark cavern which is later discovered to be an entry to the Labyrinth.
Percy joins Annabeth on her quest to enter the Labyrinth and find Ariadne's String before Luke, who is planning on burning down the Camp, using the Labyrinth to gain entry. Percy had been concerned when Annabeth went to receive the prophecy about the quest, as it took a long time and then she wouldn't tell the ending of it, saying she had forgotten. This struck Percy as strange as Annabeth wouldn't forget something so important. Along with Grover and Tyson, they enter the maze and briefly meet Hera, who informs them that Percy knows the way. When they take a wrong turn, they run into Nico, son of Hades, whom Percy has been looking for since the last book, and has seen through mysterious Iris messages, using his powers to great effect. Nico is accompanied by King Mino's ghost, who Percy does not trust, and who tries to convince Nico that they are not his friends. When they leave – minus Nico – they run into a sphinx, who Annabeth manages to upset.
They travel to a forge of Hephaestus on his orders, and Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. Saint Helen's, battling fierce water demons. Before he had parted with Annabeth, she had kissed him for good luck, leading to confusion of feelings in Percy. He faces four fully grown telkhines, who attempt to burn him with lava but being the son of Poseidon, Percy is hard to burn. In desperation, Percy unleashes an incredible amount of power and creates an explosion that damages Mt. Saint Helens, stirring Typhon in his sleeping, and causing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. He falls unconscious, and awakes in Ogygia, meeting Calypso, who he thinks is prettier than Aphrodite herself. Calypso has fallen in love with Percy, and he suspects he loves her as well, but he knows he can't stay on the island forever, and beside, there's Annabeth to consider.
It emerges that he has been lost for at least two weeks, and he returns to Camp in the middle of his funeral. Annabeth is speaking at it, stating that Percy: “...was probably the bravest friend I've ever had. He...” cutting off when she spots him, and hugging him fiercely until she remembers they are in front of the entire Camp. Percy realises that he does know the way through the Labyrinth – they need a mortal with clear-sight to guide them. This means Rachel must accompany them, much to Annabeth's displeasure. With Rachel they run into a wide arena, where Percy battles a dracaena, and Ethan Nakumura, a fellow demigod who has joined Luke's army. He then challenges his giant half-brother, Antaeus, who is accompanying Luke to let his army pass. Percy lures him off the ground, which weakens him as he is no longer gaining strength from his mother Gaia, and is able to defeat him. When he catches up with Annabeth and Rachel, they are lead straight to a workshop, finding Quintus – who is really Daedalus. They are told Luke got there first, but that Rachel is more accurate than the String. The workshop is then attacked by monsters, who drag in Nico in chains. Percy, Annabeth, Rachel, and Nico escape, leaving Daedalus and Mrs O'Leary to fight the remaining monsters.
They enter the maze once again, navigating through, and Percy hears Kronos speaking to him. He takes Annabeth's invisibility cap and enters the room, opening the coffin. Not fully formed, but there, is Luke and as much as Percy hated him, he did not draw Riptide. Ethan enters and joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to list. Percy only escapes thanks to the help of Nico and Rachel. They meet up with Tyson and Grover again, and the group finds Pan, the God of the Wild, who is dying. As his spirit dies, it goes into the mouths of all in the group except Nico, and it seems Grover got a little bit more than the rest. Rachel leads them to New York, where Pegasi take the group – excluding Rachel – back to camp to help prepare for the Titan army's arrival. Percy is battling by Annabeth's side and they fight an evil monster Kampe. Grover, in a panic, screams so loudly it scares the army back into the Labyrinth. As Daedalus dies with the Labyrinth, Percy inherits Mrs O'Leary. However, he parts with Annabeth on bad terms
He returns home to celebrate his birthday with his mother and her fiancée. Poseidon comes and tells him that Luke/Kronos is only temporarily defeated, and informs him of Typhon stirring in his sleep. When Poseidon leaves, Percy goes to his room, where Nico is waiting. Nico has a plan. Percy invites the younger boy into celebrate his birthday with him.
The last book in the main series is The Last Olympian, and we re-meet Percy going on a drive with Rachel, who is attempting to flirt her way into a relationship with Percy, who admits to not being sure of his feelings for Rachel, and besides which, he is still unhappy about how he parted with Annabeth. The drive is interrupted by Beckendorf – an older camper who and Blackjack, whose arrival is a sign to initiate their plan to destroy Luke's demon cruise ship which is inhabited by Kronos' Army. Percy tries to distracts some telkhines to give Beckendorf time to lay the bombs but the other demigod is captured – thankfully after setting the bombs. Beckendorf sacrifices himself to help Percy escape and carry out the plan. In the water, Percy loses consciousness and awakens in his father's palace under the sea, meeting Tyson again, as well as his godly brother Triton and other relatives.
Poseidon is aging rapidly due to the fight with Oceanus and his army damaging his kingdom. Percy wants to help his father, but he had to return to Camp to inform the others of what happened on Luke's ship. It is now that he is shown the entire Great Prophecy, which shows his fate is to make am important choice, and to have his soul reaped by a cursed blade. It takes a confrontation with Annabeth – in which she calls him a coward – for Percy to have any sort of acceptance with this fate. Nico returns to discuss the plan mentioned at the end of the previous book – for Percy to bathe in the River Styx, gaining invulnerability. They go to see May Castellan, the first step in being able to do so, and find her insane and unstable, realising that Luke would have grown up in this household, Percy can sort of realise why he ran away. May tells them that Luke came to gain her blessing for something he needed to go. After leaving Ms. Castellan, they meet Hestia, who gives Percy vision of the destruction, and tells them she will always be at the hearth if needed.
Percy and Nico go to see Sally to gain her blessing, which she gives, informing Percy that he is own person and she can't tell him what to do any more. They go to the Underworld, and Hades reveals that it was all a trick to make Nico the child of the prophecy. Though Nico rescues Percy from Hades' trap, Percy appears to have lost all trust in the younger boy, even threatening him in his anger. However, Nico keeps his word and leads Percy to the Styx. Percy submerges in the water and is almost dissolved but sees Annabeth, pulling him back up, with the rope he imagined to be tied around himself. When he emerges he is invulnerable save for one tiny spot on his lower back.
The war begins, and Percy leads the group of demigods into a sleeping Manhattan to protect the city, battling monsters and demons while the Gods battle Typhon in the east. Rachel arrives, having had a vision which read: “Perseus, you are not the hero. It will affect what you do.” Percy is distracted by this news, and Ethan takes aim – unknowingly directly at Percy's Achilles Spot. Annabeth steps in the way, ending up getting stabbed, saying she felt Percy was in danger. Percy is furious, knocking Ethan unconscious. Kronos' threatens Annabeth's life, but she is removed to a hotel in a plaza. She is seriously injured, and Percy tells her where his Achilles spot is, and that she saved his life. Annabeth remarks that he looks “cute when you're worried.”
Kronos makes it to the Hall of the Gods, and Annabeth is able to convince Luke to resurface. Luke had promised once to protect her, and she reminds him of that. Percy is asked to give over Annabeth's knife – a long ago given present from Luke – and it then that he understand the who the hero of the prophecy is, but that his choice to give the Luke the knife was the important decision which had to be made. Kronos is blown to dust, and Luke dies a hero's death.
Percy is offered the gift of becoming a God but declines, his feelings for Annabeth being his main motivation for doing so. Instead he requests that all Gods are represented at Camp, and that all children are claimed by age 13. When he returns to Camp, he finally manages to express his feelings for Annabeth, and they find their first kiss interrupted by their fellow campers dumping them in the lake for taking too long to work it out. Their second kiss is something Percy describes as “pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.” The book ends with he and Annabeth running back into the mortal world, having shared a moment of bliss, and for once, not looking back at Camp Half-Blood.
Though Percy is not actually in The Lost Hero, we hear that is has been four months since the end of the previous book. He is in his second year of high school and has just stopped for winter break. He and Annabeth are still dating, and it is mentioned that prior to his disappearance he had walked her back to the Athena cabin, and kissed her goodnight.
PERSONALITY:
Percy is very brave, and a natural leader, willing to risk his life to save his friends, strangers, and sometimes even his enemies. If there is a choice between his being safe, and having to face danger to save his friends, without a single doubt Percy would chose the danger. He has an extremely sarcastic and smart sense of humour, combined with a laid back demeanour, and has managed to earn the respect of many of the Olympians – though it is safe to say that he and Ares will never be best friends. Percy will always be true, and never goes back on his word if he can help it. Despite all of this, he is far from perfect.
Percy is somewhat short-tempered, and can have trouble controlling his anger sometimes – like when he sees bullying. He will feel a need to stand up for the little guy, leading to him often being seen as unpopular in school as he will try to be friends with the one that is the most popular target; becoming a target himself. He also tends to blurt things out, and act without thinking, no matter of the consequences may be, which often lands him in trouble. Technically speaking, Percy is smart, but he seems to act dumb and obtuse, meaning that he often doesn't see the obvious even when it is right in front of him. This also shows itself in the fact that he seems to be more affected by the Mist than other demigods 'in the know'. As mentioned, he is sarcastic and can be moody. He dislikes being retrained or forced to obey, and has happily described himself as “impertinent”. He does not like being controlled or constrained in any way, a aspect of his personality that Poseidon claims comes from him – the sea does not like this either.
Though he is considered a leader at the Greek Camp Half Blood, at school Percy is considered a troublemaker, having a long track record of expulsions, something which most demigods share. His ADHD and dyslexia make learning difficult for him, and he often mentions that he is ever considered one of the “cool kids” at school. As mentioned, he also tends to make friends with kids who are otherwise picked on – his best friend Grover and his half-brother Tyson being the best examples – thus Percy is often seen as very uncool amongst his mortal peers. This is a stark contrast to his time at Camp, where he is often amongst one of the most liked of the Campers.
As often mentioned within the series, all people have a 'fatal flaw', something that could possibly end up leading to their downfall should it go unchecked. In the case of Percy, his fatal flaw is his own excessive personal loyalty. As pointed out by Athena, he would risk the world, not to mention his own life, to save a loved one. (Athena was displeased that her daughter was an object of this loyalty). Percy does not see personal loyalty as a bad thing – despite clear cases of it having being used against him previously by Kronos. As Athena stated “the most dangerous flaws are good in moderation.”
POWER:
Hydrokinesis: Since Percy has the power of the sea within him, he can control every form and great volumes of water, even being able to summon and heal his wounds with it. Simply put, Percy can control water. This can take the form of;
1. Healing most wounds and cure most poisons when in contact with water
2. Being able to propel himself through water by controlling the water around him.
3. Percy can shoot water from not only being in water, but also in a blast for of the water he can create.
4. He can create water from petrified seashells, as well as being able to create it with his own will, and summon the “force of the ocean” to his will.
5. Can harden water into an almost solid shape. This allows him to walk on water and make water shields
6. He can diffuse oxygen bubbles in the water to create 'air-bubbles' that allow non-hydrokinetic people to breathe underwater.
7. As well as being able to breathe underwater, Percy can fall from great heights into water and remain unaffected by the change in pressure. He also cannot get water when submerged, unless he wants to.
Son of Poseidon: As a son of Poseidon, Percy has a lot of inherent skills, such as being able to communicate with equines and sea creatures, inherent sailing skills. Being the son of Poseidon means that he also has many 'disabilities' that are seen as talents. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, which allows him supernatural alertness, and keen senses that can keep him ready – and alive – in battle. He is also dyslexic, as his brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek. Due to his limited clairvoyance, Percy is able to watch events in distant locations and times, including otherwise 'hidden' things because of his father's unpredictable nature. This clairvoyance occasionally allows him to take the 'place' of a different person in the visions – a notable example being Hercules. Percy is an expert swordsman, fully capable of holding his own against larger, more experienced, and more powerful opponents, including Gods and Titans.
These fighting skills are helped along by his bearing the Curse of Achilles; the third person in history to do so. He gained the 'burden' after bathing in the River Styx. This granted him with invulnerability, which means that nothing touching his skin can harm or kill him. Things that are ingested are another matter. This burden also gave him supernaturally superior speed and strength as well. As the name would make one assume, Percy does have an 'Achilles heel' a part of his body which remains mortal. This 'heel' is a spot on the small of his back, directly opposite his navel. It can also be said that Annabeth is also his Achilles Heel, as it was an image of her that came to him when bathing in the Styx, and she is what is directly typing him to the mortal world.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[The screen flickers slightly, the static breaking up slowly to reveal sea-green eyes, and dark hair. The boy looks confused, and the light beside the screen blinks]
Erm, hey? Is this even … how do you know if this thing is …
[The voice cuts out, as the picture flickers again rapidly, before settling back on the boy's face. It's clearer now, any static long gone]
Okay, I hope this is on right. Also sort of hope I'm not just talking to myself here, 'cause that would just be a sort of odd I don't think I can deal with right now. But... Wait, I hope no one's expecting me to know anything, 'cause I'm... I don't know what's going on. At all.
[He blinks, and looks just past the screen, as if trying to see something in the mid-distance. He shakes his head, and the screen jostles slightly as he turns it round to show the street he's standing in]
I know, well, I think I'm in New York but … it can't be New York. Can it?
[He turns the camera back to himself]
I'm Percy Jackson, anyone out there know that name...? No, didn't think so. I just got here, somehow, and got this camera thing and these... I think they're tags, but I don't know what they're for. Actually, there's a lot I don't know.
… Is there even anyone listening?
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It wasn't that Percy could say he wasn't used to weird things happening. Actually, he would love to be able to say that, but it simply wasn't true. He was used to weird things happening, it was pretty much common-place by now. It had to be, when you were a demigod, you either got used to the fact that normal as the rest of the world defined it wasn't exactly going to be normal for you, or, well, you just had to get used to it. At least, most of the time, the weird came with long periods of not-so-weird-really. The thing was, well, he just wasn't particularly used to waking up in a place he didn't recognise, with no idea as to how he got there in the first place.
Usually, when the weird stuff happened, he had some sort of idea as to why, and had a little bit of a heads-up.
He looked around himself, trying to work out what was different as he pulled himself up off the ground,. He was in a city, which was odd because last thing he remembered, he had been at Camp. None of the buildings around him were familiar. At least it seemed to be the same time of day as he remembered it being, but he was sure that it had been slightly darker as he had been walking back to his cabin.
“What the...” Percy began looking around with more conviction, determined to find something that would explain this situation to him. He spotted something lying on the ground, near where he had pulled himself up from. He frowned, bending down to pick it up. It looked like one of those phones he had been hinting to his Mom about as a possible Christmas present. Like a cross between a Blackberry and an iPhone. It looked brand new, and Percy couldn't help but wonder who was able to just lose something like there. The phone – since that's what he had opted to describe it as – was stuck to the ground by some silver chains. On closer inspection, he realised they weren't chains but dog tags. Sort of like the ones a few of the Ares' kids took to wearing but he was pretty sure that they had been stolen from someone's older brother who was in the Army and he was really getting away from the point now, he should stop that.
Actually, now that he thought on it, the tags would probably tell him whoever it was the phone belonged to. He reached out, and managed to pick both items up, staring down at the tags. Etched in the metal with a single name: TRIDENT. Percy frowned, running his thumb over the etching slightly. “Trident...?” he muttered to himself, before looking up and around. Yes, there were people around, but no one seemed to be looked for anything they maybe dropped. No one seemed surprised that he had suddenly appeared either. He had just appeared, and beside him was this phone and these tags. “Are... are these mine?” he wondered out loud. He moved forward, starting to look around, realising that he was wrong. He did know this place. At least, he was fairly sure he did.
“It can't …”
He stopped mid-thought, looking down at the phone and the tags once more. They had just been there, when he woke up, maybe they were meant for him. To help him out. He turned the phone over in his hand. He'd never had his own cell phone before, it wasn't safe for demigods but... this wasn't a cell, was it? Not really. There were a lot of different buttons, and Percy stared at them for a few moments. This could be his way of finding out... just finding out.
He stared for a few moments longer, and pressed one of the buttons. Time to try to get some answers.
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CHARACTER NAME: Percy Jackson
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CHRONOLOGY: I would like to bring Percy in from pre-The Lost Hero, at a point mentioned in the story – from just after he has walked his girlfriend back to her cabin, but before he was taken by Hera and had his memories erased.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Percy does not have a superhero name. If he was to chose one, it would be something along the lines of “Trident”
ALTER EGO: Percy Jackson, and most likely to be a student.
BACKGROUND:
Perseus Jackson – Percy to most – is the demigod son Poseidon, god of the sea, and Sally Jackson, a mortal who can see through the Mist. He was named after the Greek hero Perseus by his mother in the hope that the relative good luck of the hero would rub off on Percy himself. For his part, Percy is only irritated when called by his full name. When we first meet him in The Lighting Thief, he is a very troubled 12 year old who did not get along with his foul step-father, and had been expelled from every school he had attended – the first one we see being the Yancy Academy, where he had only one friend – Grover Underwood.
During a field trip to a museum, Percy is annoyed at the school bully for annoying Grover and accidentally summons waters from the nearby fountain to pull her in in his anger. He pre-algebra teacher, Mrs Dodds, sees the whole scene and instructs him to follow her into the museum for a 'talk'. It is then that she turns into the Fury Alecto and attacks Percy. Percy managed to destroy her when his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, throws him a pen which transforms into the sword Riptide when uncapped. After this – as a result of the Mist – no one remembers Mrs Dodds. Except, perhaps Grover, who always hesitated when Percy questioned him on it, and possibly Mr Brunner who Percy overheard discussing the matter with Grover. At the end of the school year, Percy was not invited back to the Yancy Academy. At the bus stop, he and Grover see the Three Fates looking at Percy while knitting socks. They snip the string and Grover, recognising them as what they are, asked Percy to wait for him. However, having heard them talking about him, Percy goes home on his own.
Arriving home, his horrible step-father demands the change from the cab drive, and shortly after Sally arrives to inform Percy that she and him will be spending the whole weekend at the beach in Montauk. It is when they are at the beach that Grover arrives, revealing himself to be a satyr and telling Percy and Sally to leave. Sally, worried for Percy, drives both him and Grover at daring speeds through a blinding hurricane away from the beach. The car is blasted off the road by a blot of lightning, and they are attacked by a Minotaur. They managed to dodge, but Grover is injured by the Minotaur, before it becomes distracted by Sally, grabbing her by the neck and forgetting Grover. Sally disappears in a flash of golden light, and Percy in a surge of power and angers, defeats the Minotaur by stabbing it with part of its own broken horn. He drags the unconscious Grover past a hill with a tree into Camp Half-Blood, before passing out.
Percy is cared for in the infirmary by his soon-to-be-friend Annabeth Chase, a girl who he initally describes as pretty and “what a typical California girl would look like.” Annabeth, being rather blunt, informs him that “he drools when he sleeps”. He is taken to meet the director of the camp, Mr. D – really Dionysus, the god of wine and madness – and re-meets Mr Brunner, who is really the centaur Chiron, best known as being the trainer of heroes. He is told that the Camp is for demigod – the half-mortal offspring of the Greek Gods – and that he is also a demigod, though they do not know who his godly parent is. He is shown around the camp, and is introduced to Luke Castellan, head counsellor of the Hermes cabin where Percy will be staying until such times as he is claimed. He then meets daughter of Ares, Clarisse La Rue, who sticks his head in a girls' bathroom toilet. Somehow water shoots out of the toilet to blast back at Clarisse and her friends. This makes him a target in the camp-wide game of Capture the Flag. However, he manages to defeat Clarisse and three others single-handed after touching the creek, which heals the wounds he had received from fighting them. The flag is captured by Luke, and Percy hears a mysterious howling. A hellhound comes out of the forest, and heads for Percy, attacking anyone in its way, before being shot down by campers. Annabeth, who has been watching Percy, instructs him back into the water. Once again, his wounds are healed. A holographic trident floats over his head, showing that he has been claimed; his father is Poseidon.
It is shortly after this that Percy embarks on his first quest. Zeus' master bolt has been stolen and he is believed to be the thief. He is accompanied on this quest by Grover and Annabeth, and together they face the monster Medusa, Procrustes, and the Furies. They are sent on a 'side-quest' by Ares, to fetch back his shield. It should come to no surprise that Percy and Ares do not get on, though Ares admits it is only because he is Poseidon's child that he won't touch Percy. Eventually, the main three end up in the Underworld having believed Hades, lord of the Dead to have taken the bolt since surely he would benefit most from a war of the Gods. It is revealed that Hades does not have the bolt, in fact he believes that Percy has stolen his Helm of Darkness. It is also revealed that Hades took Sally before she died at the Minotaur's hands, and he promises her return should Percy return his Helm. On their return from the Underworld, they are greeted once again by Ares, who has both the Master Bolt and the Helm of Darkness. Percy battles Ares for them, managing to stab him in the ankle, drawing first blood and thus winning the fight. Ares is stopped from killing Percy by a dark force – later shown to be the Titan Kronos who had been manipulating events - and Percy gives the Helm to the Furies to return to Hades, before returning to New York to present the bolt to Zeus. Hades keeps his promise, and returns Sally to whom Percy gifts the Medusa head that had been a spoil of his fight with the monster. Percy is informed in a later letter that his abusive step-father has left, and that his mother has made a little bit of money on a modern art sculpture, but that she does not think she'll return to the art.
Percy, Annabeth and Grover are treated as heroes on their return to camp, and are congratulated by everyone. Percy is in a bit of dilemma as he does not know whether to remain at the camp, or return to New York and enrol in the seventh grade at the end of the summer. Deciding to clear his mind, he goes to train and sees Luke, who invites him to drink a soda with him, and they enter the forest together. Luke reveals that he was behind the theft – he is a Son of Hermes – and summons a pit scorpion to kill Percy. Percy is healed, but Luke has fled. It is following this that Percy opts to return to his home, choosing to return to camp the following summer.
The next time we see Percy is in the second book, The Sea of Monsters, when he is being attacked by monsters at his school at the end of the school year. He, along with his new friend Tyson, are rescued by Annabeth and they quickly make their way to camp in the Grey Sister's Taxi. During the ride, Percy is given three numbers – co-ordinates to something he needs. Arriving at the camp, they find it is under attack. The protection provided by the tree – really Thalia the demigod daughter of Zeus with whom Annabeth originally came to camp with – is failing as the tree is poisoned, weakening the borders. Tyson is claimed by Poseidon, he is a Cyclops and half-brother to Percy, something which Percy is initially annoyed by. In a dream, Percy discovers that Grover – who left at the end of the previous on a quest to find the god Pan – is on an island, held sort of captive by the Cyclops Polyphemus who believes the satyr is a female of his kind and intends to marry him. Grover also tells Percy that the Golden Fleece is at this island.
At the camp fire, Clarisse is given the quest to go and retrieve the Fleece by the new activities director, Tantalus – who is replacing Chiron as it is believed he may have poisoned Thalia's tree. The numbers Percy received are quickly worked out to be directions to the Sea of Monsters, and the location of the island. Percy, Annabeth and Tyson are also set on the quest, unofficially, after Hermes speaks with Percy and gives him provisions for the trip. As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they must get past Scylla and Charybdis. Having joined up with Clarisse, they try to advise her to sail between the sisters. She does not listen, and goes automatically for Charybdis. The ship malfunctions and blows up, and it is believed Tyson has died. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous island during which Annabeth tells Percy about Thalia and mentions her prophecy. The obstacles they have to fight their way through include the Sirens, and Circe's island, where Percy spent a brief period of time as a guinea pig. They find themselves on the island finally, joining up with Grover, Clarisse, and joyfully Tyson – who was saved by a friendly hippocampi named Rainbow. After a fight with Polyphemus, they send Clarisse quickly on to the Camp with the Fleece. After she has left, they find themselves kidnapped by Luke – who poisoned the tree in an attempt to get them looking for the Fleece. Percy is almost killed by Luke in a duel, but thanks to a secret Iris message Percy manages to send, the entire camp overhears Luke's confession, proving Chiron's innocent. They are rescue by Chiron and the Party Ponies.
When they return to camp, the fleece is place on the tree, and does its job too well. It revives not only the tree, but Thalia herself, looking just as she has in Percy's dreams, which is what alerts him to her identity. It becomes apparent that this was Kronos' plan all along, bringing forth another child of the Big Three that would allow him to manipulate the Great Prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians. Percy, at this point, has only heard a small part of the Prophecy.
The next time we see Percy is in the third book, The Titans Curse. Percy is now 14, and it is the following winter. Percy, Annabeth and Thalia have been driven to Westover Hall by Sally Jackson, the three having been called there by Grover as he has discovered two powerful half-blood siblings: Bianca and Nico di Angelo. A fierce battle with the monster, Dr. Thorn, takes place on the roof of the building, and with help from the goddess Artemis, and her Hunters, he is defeated. However, to the stunned shock of Percy, Annabeth falls from the roof. It becomes clear that Kronos has come up with perhaps his most devious plan yet, and Percy and Thalia have fallen prey to it.
Artemis hears rumour of an ancient monster having arisen. This monster is rumoured to be so powerful that it could destroy Olympus, and so she sets out alone with the intention of capturing it. They return to Camp by catching a ride with Apollo who allows Thalia to drive. Percy appears to still in a stunned shock about Annabeth. Percy is equally as shocked when Bianca chooses to join the Hunters, especially as it means she will have no contact with her little brother from then on, but he admits he could maybe understand it.
In the Camp vs Hunters game of Capture the Flag is it clear that Percy and Thalia are too alike, butting heads over leadership of their team in the game and ultimately costing the camp the win. While Percy does seem to like Thalia, he admits jealously over her friendship with Annabeth, without whom he seems lost, quicker to snap than ever before. Artemis does not return as hoped, and it becomes clear that she is missing. The Oracle – a mummy-like figure who speaks in prophecies – gives direction to Zoe Nightshade, who arranges a team of five to go on the quest with her to find the goddess. Bianca, Grover and Thalia are included. Percy is not.
Percy skips out of camp to rescue a sea-creature – something he mentions that has become a regular occurrence – with Annabeth's cap and his pen-sword. On his way back in, he finds Nico spying on the quest group as they leave. Nico makes Percy promise to watch out for his sister, and Percy leaves, flying on the horse Blackjack in an attempt to catch up with the group. At a museum, he discovers that Luke is involved in this mission, along with someone known as the General. Percy joins the group as their fifth – one of the Hunters chosen was not able to make it having foul fall of a prank played by Conner and Travis Stoll of the Hermes Cabin. They travel for a while and are stopped by the appearance of Ares and a limo. Ares is dismissive towards the rest of the group – including Thalia – and speaks only to Percy, telling him to get in and to be polite.
Inside the limousine, Percy meets Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, who always looked like people Percy has loved. At first, she looks like Annabeth. Aphrodite is delighted to meet Percy, squeeing about how he is on a quest for true love. Percy is very quick to deny this, but when Aphrodite hints that Annabeth was planning on joining the Hunters – a girls only group who shun any male – he is very notably worried. Aphrodite tells him that there is a romantic future for him and Annabeth, and that she'll make the relationship 'interesting' for them, before sending him on his way – warning him to watch out in her husband's territory. This turns out to be a warning that should have been heeded more. Like was told to Zoe in the prophecy for the quest, Bianca is killed in the junk-yard – a land with no rain.
From there they travel onwards, making a brief stop at Hoover Dam where Percy meets Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a clear-sighted mortal like his moth. She helps the group escape from undead skeleton warriors. They go to the Mountain of Despair, and Thalia is tempted by Kronos to destroy the sea monsters Percy had previously saved - it being the rumoured monster who could destroy Olympus. With Percy's help, she is able to resist and they go on to fight the General – who is Zoe's father, the titan Atlas, and Luke. Thalia takes Luke on herself, and Percy joins the others in the fight against Atlas, who tells them that he has had both Annabeth and Artemis hold up the sky for him. Artemis is struggling under this bond, and Percy takes the weight of the sky from her, managing to hold it up until they have managed to trick Atlas back under, at which point he lets go, forcing the Titan to reclaim the burden. Due to the effort of holding up the sky, Percy has a streak of grey in his hair. Thalia appears to win the fight with Luke, and due to injuries sustained before and during the battle, Zoe Nightshade dies, informing Percy that he was not as bad as some heroes she has known. In her honour, a new constellation is created in the sky, in the shape of a hunter. Thalia joins the Hunters, eliminating her from the prophecy and seemingly leaving it all on Percy's shoulders, and the sea-creature – now named Bessie – is kept safe on Mount Olympus. Poseidon informs Percy that Luke is not dead, and Percy is unsure of how to take this news.
Percy does not know how to tell Nico what has happened to his sister on their return to camp, and appears to feel slightly put out that it has been left to him, though he does know why and is simply lost on what to say. He seems to see Nico as a sort of little brother figure, and does not look forward to having to inform him of the terrible truth. He tells him, however, and Nico flees, bringing forth skeleton warriors to allow him to do so. Percy, along with Annabeth and Grover, search for Nico but have no luck. It is when Percy holds up a small figurine Bianca died to get for Nico that he realises that Nico is the son of Hades, and another possibility to be the hero of the prophecy. The story ends with Grover rushing to tell Percy that while under the influence of a lot of coffee in New Mexico, he heard Pan speak in his head. Just three words: “I await you...”
The fourth instalment for the story Battle of the Labyrinth, informs us that Percy has not given up the search for Nico, while Grover has resumed his search for Pan. He has gotten into freshman year at Goode High School, re-meeting Rachel Elizabeth Dare, and then having to run from empousai with her. They bump into Annabeth – who is apparently jealous of Rachel being with Percy though Percy is oblivious to this - and instead of heading to the movie like they had planned, they go straight to Camp Half-Blood. Percy is reunited to his delight with his half-brother Tyson, meets the new swordsman trainer, Quintus, who brings pet hellhound with him, by the name of Mrs O'Leary. During a new game implemented by Quintus, with Annabeth, Percy falls into a dark cavern which is later discovered to be an entry to the Labyrinth.
Percy joins Annabeth on her quest to enter the Labyrinth and find Ariadne's String before Luke, who is planning on burning down the Camp, using the Labyrinth to gain entry. Percy had been concerned when Annabeth went to receive the prophecy about the quest, as it took a long time and then she wouldn't tell the ending of it, saying she had forgotten. This struck Percy as strange as Annabeth wouldn't forget something so important. Along with Grover and Tyson, they enter the maze and briefly meet Hera, who informs them that Percy knows the way. When they take a wrong turn, they run into Nico, son of Hades, whom Percy has been looking for since the last book, and has seen through mysterious Iris messages, using his powers to great effect. Nico is accompanied by King Mino's ghost, who Percy does not trust, and who tries to convince Nico that they are not his friends. When they leave – minus Nico – they run into a sphinx, who Annabeth manages to upset.
They travel to a forge of Hephaestus on his orders, and Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. Saint Helen's, battling fierce water demons. Before he had parted with Annabeth, she had kissed him for good luck, leading to confusion of feelings in Percy. He faces four fully grown telkhines, who attempt to burn him with lava but being the son of Poseidon, Percy is hard to burn. In desperation, Percy unleashes an incredible amount of power and creates an explosion that damages Mt. Saint Helens, stirring Typhon in his sleeping, and causing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. He falls unconscious, and awakes in Ogygia, meeting Calypso, who he thinks is prettier than Aphrodite herself. Calypso has fallen in love with Percy, and he suspects he loves her as well, but he knows he can't stay on the island forever, and beside, there's Annabeth to consider.
It emerges that he has been lost for at least two weeks, and he returns to Camp in the middle of his funeral. Annabeth is speaking at it, stating that Percy: “...was probably the bravest friend I've ever had. He...” cutting off when she spots him, and hugging him fiercely until she remembers they are in front of the entire Camp. Percy realises that he does know the way through the Labyrinth – they need a mortal with clear-sight to guide them. This means Rachel must accompany them, much to Annabeth's displeasure. With Rachel they run into a wide arena, where Percy battles a dracaena, and Ethan Nakumura, a fellow demigod who has joined Luke's army. He then challenges his giant half-brother, Antaeus, who is accompanying Luke to let his army pass. Percy lures him off the ground, which weakens him as he is no longer gaining strength from his mother Gaia, and is able to defeat him. When he catches up with Annabeth and Rachel, they are lead straight to a workshop, finding Quintus – who is really Daedalus. They are told Luke got there first, but that Rachel is more accurate than the String. The workshop is then attacked by monsters, who drag in Nico in chains. Percy, Annabeth, Rachel, and Nico escape, leaving Daedalus and Mrs O'Leary to fight the remaining monsters.
They enter the maze once again, navigating through, and Percy hears Kronos speaking to him. He takes Annabeth's invisibility cap and enters the room, opening the coffin. Not fully formed, but there, is Luke and as much as Percy hated him, he did not draw Riptide. Ethan enters and joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to list. Percy only escapes thanks to the help of Nico and Rachel. They meet up with Tyson and Grover again, and the group finds Pan, the God of the Wild, who is dying. As his spirit dies, it goes into the mouths of all in the group except Nico, and it seems Grover got a little bit more than the rest. Rachel leads them to New York, where Pegasi take the group – excluding Rachel – back to camp to help prepare for the Titan army's arrival. Percy is battling by Annabeth's side and they fight an evil monster Kampe. Grover, in a panic, screams so loudly it scares the army back into the Labyrinth. As Daedalus dies with the Labyrinth, Percy inherits Mrs O'Leary. However, he parts with Annabeth on bad terms
He returns home to celebrate his birthday with his mother and her fiancée. Poseidon comes and tells him that Luke/Kronos is only temporarily defeated, and informs him of Typhon stirring in his sleep. When Poseidon leaves, Percy goes to his room, where Nico is waiting. Nico has a plan. Percy invites the younger boy into celebrate his birthday with him.
The last book in the main series is The Last Olympian, and we re-meet Percy going on a drive with Rachel, who is attempting to flirt her way into a relationship with Percy, who admits to not being sure of his feelings for Rachel, and besides which, he is still unhappy about how he parted with Annabeth. The drive is interrupted by Beckendorf – an older camper who and Blackjack, whose arrival is a sign to initiate their plan to destroy Luke's demon cruise ship which is inhabited by Kronos' Army. Percy tries to distracts some telkhines to give Beckendorf time to lay the bombs but the other demigod is captured – thankfully after setting the bombs. Beckendorf sacrifices himself to help Percy escape and carry out the plan. In the water, Percy loses consciousness and awakens in his father's palace under the sea, meeting Tyson again, as well as his godly brother Triton and other relatives.
Poseidon is aging rapidly due to the fight with Oceanus and his army damaging his kingdom. Percy wants to help his father, but he had to return to Camp to inform the others of what happened on Luke's ship. It is now that he is shown the entire Great Prophecy, which shows his fate is to make am important choice, and to have his soul reaped by a cursed blade. It takes a confrontation with Annabeth – in which she calls him a coward – for Percy to have any sort of acceptance with this fate. Nico returns to discuss the plan mentioned at the end of the previous book – for Percy to bathe in the River Styx, gaining invulnerability. They go to see May Castellan, the first step in being able to do so, and find her insane and unstable, realising that Luke would have grown up in this household, Percy can sort of realise why he ran away. May tells them that Luke came to gain her blessing for something he needed to go. After leaving Ms. Castellan, they meet Hestia, who gives Percy vision of the destruction, and tells them she will always be at the hearth if needed.
Percy and Nico go to see Sally to gain her blessing, which she gives, informing Percy that he is own person and she can't tell him what to do any more. They go to the Underworld, and Hades reveals that it was all a trick to make Nico the child of the prophecy. Though Nico rescues Percy from Hades' trap, Percy appears to have lost all trust in the younger boy, even threatening him in his anger. However, Nico keeps his word and leads Percy to the Styx. Percy submerges in the water and is almost dissolved but sees Annabeth, pulling him back up, with the rope he imagined to be tied around himself. When he emerges he is invulnerable save for one tiny spot on his lower back.
The war begins, and Percy leads the group of demigods into a sleeping Manhattan to protect the city, battling monsters and demons while the Gods battle Typhon in the east. Rachel arrives, having had a vision which read: “Perseus, you are not the hero. It will affect what you do.” Percy is distracted by this news, and Ethan takes aim – unknowingly directly at Percy's Achilles Spot. Annabeth steps in the way, ending up getting stabbed, saying she felt Percy was in danger. Percy is furious, knocking Ethan unconscious. Kronos' threatens Annabeth's life, but she is removed to a hotel in a plaza. She is seriously injured, and Percy tells her where his Achilles spot is, and that she saved his life. Annabeth remarks that he looks “cute when you're worried.”
Kronos makes it to the Hall of the Gods, and Annabeth is able to convince Luke to resurface. Luke had promised once to protect her, and she reminds him of that. Percy is asked to give over Annabeth's knife – a long ago given present from Luke – and it then that he understand the who the hero of the prophecy is, but that his choice to give the Luke the knife was the important decision which had to be made. Kronos is blown to dust, and Luke dies a hero's death.
Percy is offered the gift of becoming a God but declines, his feelings for Annabeth being his main motivation for doing so. Instead he requests that all Gods are represented at Camp, and that all children are claimed by age 13. When he returns to Camp, he finally manages to express his feelings for Annabeth, and they find their first kiss interrupted by their fellow campers dumping them in the lake for taking too long to work it out. Their second kiss is something Percy describes as “pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.” The book ends with he and Annabeth running back into the mortal world, having shared a moment of bliss, and for once, not looking back at Camp Half-Blood.
Though Percy is not actually in The Lost Hero, we hear that is has been four months since the end of the previous book. He is in his second year of high school and has just stopped for winter break. He and Annabeth are still dating, and it is mentioned that prior to his disappearance he had walked her back to the Athena cabin, and kissed her goodnight.
PERSONALITY:
Percy is very brave, and a natural leader, willing to risk his life to save his friends, strangers, and sometimes even his enemies. If there is a choice between his being safe, and having to face danger to save his friends, without a single doubt Percy would chose the danger. He has an extremely sarcastic and smart sense of humour, combined with a laid back demeanour, and has managed to earn the respect of many of the Olympians – though it is safe to say that he and Ares will never be best friends. Percy will always be true, and never goes back on his word if he can help it. Despite all of this, he is far from perfect.
Percy is somewhat short-tempered, and can have trouble controlling his anger sometimes – like when he sees bullying. He will feel a need to stand up for the little guy, leading to him often being seen as unpopular in school as he will try to be friends with the one that is the most popular target; becoming a target himself. He also tends to blurt things out, and act without thinking, no matter of the consequences may be, which often lands him in trouble. Technically speaking, Percy is smart, but he seems to act dumb and obtuse, meaning that he often doesn't see the obvious even when it is right in front of him. This also shows itself in the fact that he seems to be more affected by the Mist than other demigods 'in the know'. As mentioned, he is sarcastic and can be moody. He dislikes being retrained or forced to obey, and has happily described himself as “impertinent”. He does not like being controlled or constrained in any way, a aspect of his personality that Poseidon claims comes from him – the sea does not like this either.
Though he is considered a leader at the Greek Camp Half Blood, at school Percy is considered a troublemaker, having a long track record of expulsions, something which most demigods share. His ADHD and dyslexia make learning difficult for him, and he often mentions that he is ever considered one of the “cool kids” at school. As mentioned, he also tends to make friends with kids who are otherwise picked on – his best friend Grover and his half-brother Tyson being the best examples – thus Percy is often seen as very uncool amongst his mortal peers. This is a stark contrast to his time at Camp, where he is often amongst one of the most liked of the Campers.
As often mentioned within the series, all people have a 'fatal flaw', something that could possibly end up leading to their downfall should it go unchecked. In the case of Percy, his fatal flaw is his own excessive personal loyalty. As pointed out by Athena, he would risk the world, not to mention his own life, to save a loved one. (Athena was displeased that her daughter was an object of this loyalty). Percy does not see personal loyalty as a bad thing – despite clear cases of it having being used against him previously by Kronos. As Athena stated “the most dangerous flaws are good in moderation.”
POWER:
Hydrokinesis: Since Percy has the power of the sea within him, he can control every form and great volumes of water, even being able to summon and heal his wounds with it. Simply put, Percy can control water. This can take the form of;
1. Healing most wounds and cure most poisons when in contact with water
2. Being able to propel himself through water by controlling the water around him.
3. Percy can shoot water from not only being in water, but also in a blast for of the water he can create.
4. He can create water from petrified seashells, as well as being able to create it with his own will, and summon the “force of the ocean” to his will.
5. Can harden water into an almost solid shape. This allows him to walk on water and make water shields
6. He can diffuse oxygen bubbles in the water to create 'air-bubbles' that allow non-hydrokinetic people to breathe underwater.
7. As well as being able to breathe underwater, Percy can fall from great heights into water and remain unaffected by the change in pressure. He also cannot get water when submerged, unless he wants to.
Son of Poseidon: As a son of Poseidon, Percy has a lot of inherent skills, such as being able to communicate with equines and sea creatures, inherent sailing skills. Being the son of Poseidon means that he also has many 'disabilities' that are seen as talents. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, which allows him supernatural alertness, and keen senses that can keep him ready – and alive – in battle. He is also dyslexic, as his brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek. Due to his limited clairvoyance, Percy is able to watch events in distant locations and times, including otherwise 'hidden' things because of his father's unpredictable nature. This clairvoyance occasionally allows him to take the 'place' of a different person in the visions – a notable example being Hercules. Percy is an expert swordsman, fully capable of holding his own against larger, more experienced, and more powerful opponents, including Gods and Titans.
These fighting skills are helped along by his bearing the Curse of Achilles; the third person in history to do so. He gained the 'burden' after bathing in the River Styx. This granted him with invulnerability, which means that nothing touching his skin can harm or kill him. Things that are ingested are another matter. This burden also gave him supernaturally superior speed and strength as well. As the name would make one assume, Percy does have an 'Achilles heel' a part of his body which remains mortal. This 'heel' is a spot on the small of his back, directly opposite his navel. It can also be said that Annabeth is also his Achilles Heel, as it was an image of her that came to him when bathing in the Styx, and she is what is directly typing him to the mortal world.
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COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[The screen flickers slightly, the static breaking up slowly to reveal sea-green eyes, and dark hair. The boy looks confused, and the light beside the screen blinks]
Erm, hey? Is this even … how do you know if this thing is …
[The voice cuts out, as the picture flickers again rapidly, before settling back on the boy's face. It's clearer now, any static long gone]
Okay, I hope this is on right. Also sort of hope I'm not just talking to myself here, 'cause that would just be a sort of odd I don't think I can deal with right now. But... Wait, I hope no one's expecting me to know anything, 'cause I'm... I don't know what's going on. At all.
[He blinks, and looks just past the screen, as if trying to see something in the mid-distance. He shakes his head, and the screen jostles slightly as he turns it round to show the street he's standing in]
I know, well, I think I'm in New York but … it can't be New York. Can it?
[He turns the camera back to himself]
I'm Percy Jackson, anyone out there know that name...? No, didn't think so. I just got here, somehow, and got this camera thing and these... I think they're tags, but I don't know what they're for. Actually, there's a lot I don't know.
… Is there even anyone listening?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
It wasn't that Percy could say he wasn't used to weird things happening. Actually, he would love to be able to say that, but it simply wasn't true. He was used to weird things happening, it was pretty much common-place by now. It had to be, when you were a demigod, you either got used to the fact that normal as the rest of the world defined it wasn't exactly going to be normal for you, or, well, you just had to get used to it. At least, most of the time, the weird came with long periods of not-so-weird-really. The thing was, well, he just wasn't particularly used to waking up in a place he didn't recognise, with no idea as to how he got there in the first place.
Usually, when the weird stuff happened, he had some sort of idea as to why, and had a little bit of a heads-up.
He looked around himself, trying to work out what was different as he pulled himself up off the ground,. He was in a city, which was odd because last thing he remembered, he had been at Camp. None of the buildings around him were familiar. At least it seemed to be the same time of day as he remembered it being, but he was sure that it had been slightly darker as he had been walking back to his cabin.
“What the...” Percy began looking around with more conviction, determined to find something that would explain this situation to him. He spotted something lying on the ground, near where he had pulled himself up from. He frowned, bending down to pick it up. It looked like one of those phones he had been hinting to his Mom about as a possible Christmas present. Like a cross between a Blackberry and an iPhone. It looked brand new, and Percy couldn't help but wonder who was able to just lose something like there. The phone – since that's what he had opted to describe it as – was stuck to the ground by some silver chains. On closer inspection, he realised they weren't chains but dog tags. Sort of like the ones a few of the Ares' kids took to wearing but he was pretty sure that they had been stolen from someone's older brother who was in the Army and he was really getting away from the point now, he should stop that.
Actually, now that he thought on it, the tags would probably tell him whoever it was the phone belonged to. He reached out, and managed to pick both items up, staring down at the tags. Etched in the metal with a single name: TRIDENT. Percy frowned, running his thumb over the etching slightly. “Trident...?” he muttered to himself, before looking up and around. Yes, there were people around, but no one seemed to be looked for anything they maybe dropped. No one seemed surprised that he had suddenly appeared either. He had just appeared, and beside him was this phone and these tags. “Are... are these mine?” he wondered out loud. He moved forward, starting to look around, realising that he was wrong. He did know this place. At least, he was fairly sure he did.
“It can't …”
He stopped mid-thought, looking down at the phone and the tags once more. They had just been there, when he woke up, maybe they were meant for him. To help him out. He turned the phone over in his hand. He'd never had his own cell phone before, it wasn't safe for demigods but... this wasn't a cell, was it? Not really. There were a lot of different buttons, and Percy stared at them for a few moments. This could be his way of finding out... just finding out.
He stared for a few moments longer, and pressed one of the buttons. Time to try to get some answers.
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