Pegasus (Kate O'Hearn)

Pegasus is the son of Neptune and Medusa, the nephew of Jupiter, Pluto, Vesta, Stheno and Euryale, the cousin of Perseus, Hercules, Diana, Apollo, Minerva, Mercury, Vulcan and Mars, the second cousin of Cupid, the grandson of Saturn and the title deuteragonist of the Pegasus book series.
He is based on the mythical being Pegasus from Greek and Roman mythology.
==Biography==
===Backstory===
Prior to Pegasus' birth, his parents Neptune and Medusa went to a sacred temple of Neptune's niece Minerva and made out. Outraged by this, Minerva took her anger out on Medusa and turned her and her two sisters Stheno and Euryale into Gorgons.
Sometime after this, Medusa was beheaded by Neptune's nephew Perseus. Pegasus along with his brother Chrysaor (a winged boar) sprung from Medusa's neck stump. Pegasus was later tamed by Bellerophon and aided him in slaying the Chimera.
Later Bellerophon became overconfident and attempted to fly to Olympus with Pegasus. Outraged, the king of Olympus Jupiter knocked Bellerophon off of Pegasus, but allowed Pegasus to enter Olympus.
===Pegasus series===
===="Pegasus and The Flame"====
In the present day, Olympus comes under attack from a race of creatures called Nirads and the Flame of Olympus is extinguished. Pegasus is sent out by Jupiter to find the Daughter of Vesta (the name given to the host of the heart of the Flame of Olympus) to bring to Olympus to restore the Flame. However an Olympian thief named Paelen goes after Pegasus wishing to take his golden bridle so he could use it to control Pegasus to take him wherever he wants. However both are struck by lightning and crash land in New York after going through the Solar Stream (which is used to travel to other worlds).
Pegasus lands on the rooftop garden of an apartment building. He is discovered by one of the apartment's residents, a 13 year old girl named Emily Jacobs. Pegasus is tended to by Emily and her classmate Joel De Silva. They pair later meet Pegasus' cousin Diana and they have to keep ahead of Nirads and a government group called the CRU.
They are eventually captured by the CRU, but are helped to escape by a redeemed Paelen when Nirads invade the CRU's base on Governor's Island.
It is also discovered that Emily is the Daughter of Vesta and goes to Olympus with Pegasus and the others and sacrifices herself to restore the Flame and is then reborn.
===="Pegasus and The Fight for Olympus"====
A few months later, Pegasus returns to Earth with Emily, Joel and Paelen to rescue Emily's father Steve from the CRU.
They are later captured by Chrysaor and the Nirads and are brought to the Nirad world. It is then discovered that the Nirads are actually a peaceful race, who had been enslaved by Pegasus and Chrysaor's aunts Stheno and Euryale, who wished to have Emily use her powers to destroy Jupiter as revenge for his son Perseus killing Medusa. Pegasus is among whose turned to stone by the Gorgons, but is restored to life by Emily, who defeats the Gorgons.
===="Pegasus and The New Olympians"====
Pegasus, Emily, Joel, Paelen, a reformed Chrysaor and a sphinx named Alexis travel to Earth after reading about a racehorse named Tornado Warning whom they suspect to be a clone of Pegasus. They plan to see if Tornado Warning is indeed a clone without letting Jupiter know as he would destroy Earth if he heard about it.
Their fears are confirmed and they learn that the CRU had created Tornado Warning from Pegasus' DNA and have made clones of Olympians and Nirads at their base at Area 51. During the confrontation with the CRU, Emily accidentally causes Pegasus, Alexis and a young boy named Frankie to disappear, causing Emily to think that she killed them.
However near the end of the book, Pegasus, Alexis and Frankie reappear just as Emily begins to liberate the clones from Area 51. They reveal to Emily that she had sent them to a jungle planet at the end of the Solar Stream.
After Emily destroys Area 51, leaving a large crater, Pegasus fills the crater with water and makes a lake.
===="Pegasus and the Origins of Olympus"====
In this book, it is discovered that the jungle planet that Emily unintentionally sent Pegasus, Alexis and Frankie to is called Xanadu, which was home to the Xan, who created and originally guarded the Solar Stream.
After the Olympians make a portal to Xanadu, Pegasus along with Emily, Joel and Paelen join several other Olympians in going there to investigate it and find out that it is serves as a sanctuary for different species. Soon after, Mercury arrives and reveals that Juno, Minerva, Vesta and Ceres have fallen ill, causing Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto to return to Olympus to investigate and task the others to carry on investigating Xanadu. 
Afterwards, it is discovered that Emily is sharing her body with the last of the Xan Riza. Apollo goes to Olympus to inform Jupiter of this but comes back soon after to reveal that Jupiter has fallen ill. Pegasus, Emily, Joel, Paelen and the others return to Olympus and go to Jupiter, who has aged rapidly. He reveals that what is happening is the Titans final revenge. He explains that many years ago, the Olympians fought the Titans led by Saturn (the father of Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto), who created Shadow Titans and a boulder like weapon to kill the Olympians. However, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto managed to get hold of the weapon and placed it in a box and hid it before defeating the Shadow Titans. However, Jupiter says that the box has now been opened and it is in Greece and is where a temple honouring Poseidon (Neptune's Greek name) is located. Soon enough, Pluto and Jupiter pass away with Neptune close to death, much to Pegasus' sadness as he cannot say goodbye to his father. Pegasus and the other Olympians soon began to age. Emily and Joel begin to escort the several of the ageing Olympians through the portal to Xanadu with hopes that being there would slow down the aging though Pegasus is reluctant to leave Emily.
===Titans series===
Set 15 years after the events of the Pegasus series, Pegasus is the grandfather of a winged horse named Zephyr, who is the best friend of the books protagonist Astraea.
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