Percy Jackson

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is the protagonist in Rick Riordan's fantasy series, Percy Jackson & The Olympians.

History

Percy Jackson was raised as a single child to a single mother-his birth mother. When he was at the right age of being discovered by a satyr, one satyr named Grover found him (disguised as a human.) At a school field trip Mrs. Dodds turns out to be a monster and attacks him. Mr. Brunner, a Centaur disguised as Percy's Latin teacher, gives him a pen which turns into a sword (later on mentioned as Riptide) and Percy barely beats Mrs. Dodds.

After some events, in which his mom "dies", Percy ends up at Camp Half-Blood. He is at first sent to Hermes' Cabin led by Luke. After a capture the flag game he is found out to be the son of Poseidon, which means Poseidon broke the Promise of not having any more children.

Percy is then selected to go on a mission to retrieve Zeus' Thunderbolt. He does this with Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood. After they discover the thief was Ares, Percy challenged him and managed to beat the God of War by stabbing him in the ankle. He also managed to bring his mom back, as she never died.

After a whole school year, he goes back to camp in which he discovers Grover is missing. Percy and Annabeth go on a long mission to save him, while Clarisse is also sent.

In the 3rd book, Percy Jackson goes to a school, where Grover found two new half-bloods, Bianca and Nico di Angelo. In the battle, Annabeth jumped onto the monster, who jumped off a cliff, and Percy, Grover and Thalia, are in a long mission to save her, especially Percy.

The Lightning Thief

Main article: The Lightning Thief

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is introduced as a troubled 12-year-old boy who has been kicked out every single school he has attended. His most recent is Yancy Academy where his usual trouble seems to be worse than usual. He has few friends at the school one of which being the satyr-in-hiding Grover Underwood.

During a field trip to a museum Percy annoyed by a bully in a fit of rage summons water in a nearby fountain to pull the bully in. Fleeing the seen he arrives in the museum to meet Mrs. Dodds his math teacher. Suddenly she attacks him and transforms into a Fury, he manages to evade for a miraculously long time until the arrival of Mr. Brunner who throws a pen at Percy who instinctively transforms it into the bronze sword Anaklusmos or Riptide. Percy manages to destroy the Fury and Mr. Brunner walks inside the museum picks up his pen and walks away as though nothing happened.

As Percy questions him Mr. Brunner says he saw nothing in particular and is happy Percy found his pen. Percy runs out of the museum into Grover and says if he saw what happened, Grover as well acts cogitated. Percy arrives back at the school and hears Grover and Mr. Brunner talking about him. Deeply hurt that his favorite teacher and best friend are talking behind his back he goes home on his own, knowing though it would lead to another suspension. Arriving home to his horrible step dad, Gabe, and friends playing poker Percy rushes upstairs.

But not before being taunted and made fun of by his step dad as usual. His mother arrives soon after word and tells him that they can go to his favorite beach for the whole weekend. Percy happy that finally something good has happened packs his things leaving but not before being jeered further by his step dad. Arriving at the beach Percy is shocked to see Grover coming to him and his mom telling them to leave. Percy is confused but his mother takes both in the car and begins driving at daring speeds.

It begins to rain and Percy hears a loud growl. Percy's mom arrives at hill and makes both come out of the car. Percy then sees the thing chasing them is a Minotaur who charges them. The three of them manage to dodge it but Grover is too slow and the Minotaur charges him Percy again in a surge of power manages to defeat the Minotaur but not before a bolt of lighting takes both the nearly dead Minotaur and his mom to the Underworld. Grover takes Percy to Camp Half-Blood and he is introduced to the other campers, who Percy learns are all demigods.

Percy also meets a future friend Annabeth,leader of the Athena cabin. Percy himself is one but no knows who his divine parent is . He learns that Mr. Brunner is actually a centaur and is the camps director. He also learns that the warden of the camp is the god Dionysus. After a long interval he is introduced to Luke the leader of the Hermes cabin. Later in a capture-the-flag game Percy single-handedly defeats Clarisse,leader of the Ares and three others when he learns that he is the son of Poseidon. Soon after learning that Zeus's lighting bolt has been stolen, Percy embarks on the quest of his life with Anaklusmos Grover and Annabeth.

The Sea of Monsters

Main article: The Sea of Monsters

Thalia's tree, that serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood formed to prevent a daughter of Zeus from dying, has been poisoned mysteriously by unknown forces. After Chiron is dismissed from camp, blamed for poisoning the tree, Tantalus, who came from the Fields of Punishment and can not have food or water, has taken the job. The only thing to get rid of the poison is to the Golden Fleece, which is located on Polyphemus's Island, in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle).

Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans. Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus's cave somewhere in the Sea of Monsters. Percy and Annabeth go along with Tyson, a young Cyclops (Poseidon's son, thus Percy's half-brother) whom Percy befriended at school that year, joins them on their journey, after saving Camp Half-Blood from two fire-breathing bulls. Polyphemus believes that Grover is a female cyclops and not a satyr.

As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of at least trying to sail in between, Clarisse automatically goes for Charybidis and Tyson almost dies in Clarisse's ship. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy many things about how Thalia died and she also mentioned his prophecy. Fighting their way through many other obstacles, like the Sirens and Circe's island, they join up with Clarisse, Grover, and later Tyson, and leave with the Golden Fleece.

When they get back to the mortal world, they send off Clarisse on an airplane to camp alone, and Percy, Annabeth and Tyson get kidnapped by Luke. He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals Chiron was innocent, and Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed relatives. When they get back to camp the Fleece is put on the tree. The Fleece not only revives Thalia's tree, but it makes Thalia come back to life too. It's Thalia who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams. He remembers the dream and realizes that it is her. It turns out that this was actually Kronos's plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians.

The Titan's Curse

Main article: The Titan's Curse

The demigods, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia rushed to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: he has found two powerful half-blood siblings whose parentage is unknown: Bianca di Angelo and Nico di Angelo. A fierce battle awaits... and a surprise from a group of Hunters with Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.

They're not the only ones in danger. An ancient monster has arisen -- one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus, and Artemis, the only one who might know how to track it, is missing. Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess, find Annabeth who supposedly got kidnapped by the evil Dr.Thorn, and solve the mystery of the monster Artemis was hunting. Along the way Grover makes a very important discovery about Pan. Along the way, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who can see straight though the Mist. She helps him escape from dead warriors. While warning them about the junk yard of the gods, Aphrodite tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth .

Once at the other side of the country, they go to the Mountain of Despair to fight Atlas and Luke. Thalia was fighting Luke, and everyone else was fighting Atlas. Artemis was struggling against her bond, the weight of the sky. Percy took the sky from her and held it while Artemis and Zoë lured him back to where the sky was being held. While this was happening, Thalia was fighting Luke, and Luke was winning. Finally, Artemis threw Atlas over to Percy. He knocked Percy from under the sky and Atlas had to hold his burden once more. Thalia and Luke were still fighting but finally Thalia shoved him off the edge with her shield, Aegis, but Zoë had gotten hurt badly. She got poisoned from her old friend, Ladon, and her father, Atlas, made the final strike that killed her. Artemis put her out of her pain and she turned into dust. The dust flew into the stars, creating a new shape in the sky in the shape of a hunter. On Mount Olympus, Thalia becomes one of Artemis' hunters. On the way back to camp, Percy was trying to figure out how to tell Nico her sister died because of some crazed robot in the junkyard of the gods. Once at camp Percy told Nico the horrible truth and he went sprinting into the woods. Annabeth, Percy and Grover looked for Nico for over 2 hours, but no luck. Percy held the figurine of the god Bianca got for him at the junk yard. Suddenly, he realizes who Nico's dad was, Hades, Lord of the Dead. Many weeks later, Grover was drinking a lot of coffee, trying to get a connection with Pan, like he did in New Mexico. He came running towards Percy to tell him Pan spoke in his mind. Pan only said three words, "I await you."

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Main article: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, and that itself proves to be when he is accompanied by a mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Rachel tells Percy to get out of the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel. As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the demons and runs into Annabeth Chase, a friend from camp along the way. She takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp just for demigods like them. Percy finds his half-brother Cyclops Tyson waiting for him in his cabin.

Quintus, the new swordsmen teacher, is accompanied by Mrs. O'Leary, a hellhound that develops a soft spot for Percy. But during a game that Quintus made up, Annabeth and Percy go through the rocks of Zeus's Fists and are stuck in a dark room. Though it was only a few minutes, when they came back up it was almost an hour since they went in. Annabeth is offered the quest she has been waiting for since age 7. She must enter the Labyrinth, find Daedalus and get Ariadne's String before their arch enemy Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, does.

Luke has been planning on burning down Camp Half-Blood, and using the Labyrinth to get there guided by Ariadne's String. Annabeth gets her prophecy from the Oracle: You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, the child of Athena's final stand, destroyed with a hero's final breath, and lose a love to worse than death. Annabeth takes Percy, Grover, and Tyson along with her. Together, they enter the maze. They are accompanied by Hera, who tells that Percy knows the way.

When they take a wrong turn throughout the maze they run into Nico, son of Hades. Nico is accompanied by King Minos, who tries to convince Nico to try to kill them and that they are not his friends. Once they get out, Percy and the others run into a monster-run quiz show. Once they get out, Hephaestus has them go to one of his forges. Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. St. Helens while battling fierce water demons. Before parting with Annabeth, they find themselves kissing for good luck.

Percy blasts out of Mt. St. Helens while escaping and ends up falling into Ogygia, a tiny island mortals don't know about. There, he meets Calypso, a young girl whom Percy thinks is much more pretty than Aphrodite herself. Percy must leave the island and the love-blinded Calypso behind. When he finds Annabeth again, Percy realizes that he does know the way. Once they are accompanied by Rachel again, they run into a wide arena, where Percy must battle demigod Ethan Nakumura. Sparing Ethan, Percy challenges his giant half-brother that is accompanying Luke. Percy kills him by having him off of the ground, for the earth helps him heal.

When he finds Annabeth and Rachel again, Rachel leads them straight to Quintis, who whom tells them that he is Daedalus. He explains that Luke got there first. He also says that Rachel is better and more accurate than the string.Then monsters attack the workshop dragging Nico Di Angelo in chains.Percy, Rachel, Annabeth and Nico escape and leaves Daedalus to fight the remaining monsters.They find another entrance and enters the maze once again. Once they navigate through the maze, Percy hears the Titan Lord speak To to him. Taking Annabeth's invisibility cap, he goes into the room and opens the coffin.

There, not fully put together is Luke. As much as Percy hated him, Percy did not draw out Riptide. He finds the demigod whom he spared earlier in the maze, Ethan. Ethan joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to life. Percy barely escapes thanks to Nico Di Angelo. While they were going through the Labyrinth, they meet up with Tyson and Grover. Together, they all found the wild god Pan, who tells them he is fading. As his spirit fades, it goes into the mouths of each of them, and it seemed like Grover got a little bit more than the rest. They lead Rachel to New York, who gets a ride from a taxi driver, who leads them straight to camp.

Once they get to camp, leaving Rachel behind because she is mortal, they get ready for the Titan army. Battling side by side are Annabeth and Percy. Percy, remembering what Annabeth had did earlier in the maze, gets to her side and they both fight a fierce monster of the Titan's army. Grover, in panic makes a scream so loud that it scares the Titan army back into the Labyrinth. Grover's Dryad girlfriend, Juniper, insists that it was Pan's wild scream that had scared the Titan army the first time. As Percy gets up, Quintus comes and tells them that he is Daedalus, and that the Labyrinth is tied to his life.

The child of Athena (Deadalus/Quintus) dies, and so does the Labyrinth. Percy, Annabeth, and the other uninjured campers take the wounded to the Big House. Percy decides to leave camp and go celebrate his birthday with his mom. Two surprising visitors stop by while Percy, his mom, and Paul Blofis (Percy's mom's boyfriend) are celebrating. First, Percy's father Poseidon comes and tells him that he fears Luke/Kronos is only temporarily kept back. Finally departing with Poseidon, Percy decides to go to his room to plant the garden he had earlier promised Calypso. As he does, Nico di Angelo stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. Percy then invites him for cake.

Powers/Abilities

• Percy has ADHD, which actually is his battle senses that make half-bloods more aware in battles.
• Percy is dyslexic, since his brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek.
• Percy has control over water (and bubbles in water), and he is able to manipulate it to his will.
• Percy is given more energy and strength and is healed when out at sea or in water.
• Percy is able to breathe underwater.
• Percy can manipulate ships with his mind in order to make them sail.
• Percy can sense the change of saltwater to freshwater.
• While at sea, Percy has perfect bearings.
• Percy can communicate with equestrian animals (horses, zebras, etc.), as his father created them out of sea foam.
• Percy can communicate telepathically with sea animals.
• Percy can sense where objects are underwater, as well as the ocean's warm and cold currents.
• Since Tyson is his half-brother, he can communicate with him underwater.
• Percy has a psychic connection with Grover called an empathic link.
• Percy is an excellent swordsman.
• When Percy touches objects underwater, they become dry.
• Percy knows the exact coordinate location, when he is in or sailing on water.
• Percy can withstand great pressures underwater.
• When Percy is underwater, he stays dry, unless he doesn't want to be dry.
• The water cushions Percy if he falls from a high altitude.
• Percy takes a long time to burn, including against lava.
• Percy can make water appear from nothing, though it takes much energy to do so.
• Percy also appears to possess more power than any living half-blood (excluding Thalia and Nico di Angelo); when he was attacked by the telekhines in Hephaestus' forge he was in such danger that his powers acted on instinct and unleashed a tsunami burst that was powerful enough to kill the telekhines, destroy the forge, and awaken the imprisoned Typhon.
• Percy has aquakinetic powers; he is able to move water from a river or even the ocean with his mind.
• Percy can command the ocean to some extent by making waves or holding waves back.
• He has showed the ability to summon oxygen while underwater to form a large air bubble around himself and others that cannot breathe underwater.
• It has been hinted that he can summon earthquakes.

Fatal Flaw

It is said by Athena that Percy's fatal flaw is personal loyalty. He will sacrifice anything to save his friends and loved ones.

Many times in the series Kronos or Luke uses Percy's fatal flaw to manipulate him.

Relationships

Calypso After Percy is stranded on Ogygia Island, he is healed by the girl named Calypso. She is stranded on the island after helping her father, Atlas, in the Titan War. She gives him the offer of immortality, and to live on her island forever. But he turns her down, even though it could save him the trouble of the prophecy. (The prophecy states the next child of the Big Three to turn sixteen decides the fate of Olympus.)

Rachel Even though Percy is not known to like Rachel in this way, it is known that she likes him. In the preview of The Last Olympian, Rachel kisses him, although he didn't have any say in it. But she also knows Annabeth likes him.

Annabeth (Otherwise known as 'Percabeth') Perhaps the most popular, is his relationship with Annabeth. Aphrodite has even told him they will have a 'tragic love life'. Even as the tragic is not seen yet, Annabeth does kiss him twice. Once, after winning the chariot race in Sea of Monsters, and the second as she leaves him to fight the telekhines at Mt. Helens in The Battle of the Labyrinth. Although, Annabeth also has a crush on Luke Castellean. And Annabeth is known to be jealous of Rachel. The mortal girl who steals her 'Seaweed Brain' while she's in San Francisco.

Relationship with Olympians

• Poseidon: Percy is on good terms with Poseidon mainly because he is the sea god's son. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Poseidon says that Percy is his favorite son.
• Zeus: Zeus currently has mixed feelings about Percy because he is upset about his birth as a demigod child of the big three but Percy saved his lightning bolt which was a tall order. Zeus voted to let Percy live at the Winter Solstice in the Titan's curse though this may have been because his daughter's fate was involved as well(Since Thalia had become a hunter so it's possible that it wouldn't have mattered).
• Hades: Hades had mixed feelings about Percy; Percy accused him of stealing Zeus' master bolt when it was, in fact, Luke that stole the master bolt, but he also returned Hades' Helm of Darkness, which turn him into darkness, and cleared his name.
• Ares: Percy is on Ares' bad side because of insults and injuries, among other things. It is extremely dangerous that they are not on the best of terms because Ares, being the God of War, thinks highly of revenge, and is usually violent.
• Athena: Athena has mixed feelings about Percy. She disapproves of his friendship with Annabeth since she and Poseidon are something of rivals, but he hasn't done anything against her directly. In The Titan's Curse, she may have helped guide him at the Hoover Dam. However, she also voted to destroy him.
• Hera: Percy got on Hera's bad side near the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth since he (and Annabeth) both disagree on her view of families having to be perfect, siding with Hephaestus on the matter instead, though she helped them out numerous times during the book. He also insults her by mentioning Thalia, one of Zeus' children not born by her.
• Hephaestus: Hephaestus is grateful to Percy for having discovered who was using his forge under Mt. St. Helens, even though he caused an eruption that destroyed the forge and awakened Typhon (who had been imprisoned under the volcano), but also dispersed and/or killed the users. Historically, Hephaestus and Poseidon have close ties in the terms of the Cyclopes, who work for both of them.
• Dionysus: (aka "Mr. D") Percy is primarily on Mr. D's bad side, even from the very second they met. Dionysus constantly antagonizes Percy (and all other demigods, for that matter) by never calling them by their real names (preferring to call him "Peter Johnson"), but he saved Percy's life in The Titan's Curse. One of the other reasons he may dislike half-bloods is because of the way they treat mortals; he mentioned Theseus and Ariadne, Jason and Medea, and alluded to Hercules and Zoё Nightshade in The Titan's Curse, mentioning how the former in all three cases used and later abandoned the latter. Percy doesn't much like Dionysus, either, because of the way he treats the campers. However, at the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth, they had something like a (temporary) truce, when after one of Dionysus' sons died in the final battle, he voted that he believed Grover's news that Pan was dead, disbanded the council when they were at a tie, and cured Chris (a previously traitor half-blood and Clarisse's friend if not her crush) of the madness he got in the Labyrinth. And most shockingly called Percy by his real name. Although he denied it.
• Artemis: Percy is on Artemis' good side since he helped find and save her in The Titan's Curse. She even declared him a hero in the halls of Olympus itself and started calling him a man rather than a boy after he helped her defeat Atlas.
• Hermes: Percy is on good terms with Hermes, who convinced him to go on a quest in The Sea of Monsters and gave him magic items to assist him in his journey. He also explained the relationship between gods and heroes to him.
• Aphrodite: Aphrodite was intrigued by Percy's desire to save Annabeth. She expressed an interest in their relationship, meaning that she plans to meddle with it in some way. She also said she would make Percy's love life hard, just because she likes him.
• Apollo: the sun god helped Percy twice in The Titan's Curse so that they could save Artemis, his sister. Being the god of prophecy, he also told Percy how important dreams could be.