Leo Valdez

Leonidas "Leo" Valdez is one of the protagonists of The Heroes of Olympus book series as well as a supporting protagonist in The Trials of Apollo. He is the 15-year-old demigod son of Hephaestus and the late Esperanza Valdez, the best friend of Jason Grace and Piper McLean, and Calypso's boyfriend.
==Biography==
=== childhood ===
Leo was born in Houston sometime between 1994-1995 to Esperanza Valdez and Hephaestus, the Greek God of Fire and Blacksmiths. Because of being a Hephaestus child, Leo got a rare ability to produce fire. From the ages of two to five, Leo was babysat by Tia Callida (actually Hera in disguise) who put him in a fireplace to sleep, let him play with knives, tried to make him fight a rattlesnake and had him make a fire out of crayons. One night when he was eight, Leo helped his mother out at her machine shop and when they where closing it up, Esperanza went back in to get the keys. However the minute she went back in, the door locked by itself and the Earth goddess Gaia appeared to Leo and tried to get through the door to attack Esperanza this caused Leo to try and protect his mother and his fire powers got out of control and caused the machine shop to burn down and kill Esperanza. Leo survived, but his relatives wouldn't take him in as they blamed him for his mother's death, because of this, Leo was put into many foster homes but he always ran away from them and was eventually sent to a boarding school in Nevada called The Wilderness School where he met Piper McLean who was also a demigod.
=== The Heroes of Olympus ===
==== The Lost Hero ====
In The Lost Hero, Leo is one of the three main characters.
==== The Son of Neptune ====
Leo does not appear in this book. He does come up in one of Percy's dreams and in the scroll message he sends to Camp Jupiter to tell them the Argo 2 was coming.
==== The Mark of Athena ====
In this book, Leo is one of the seven main characters.
==== The House of Hades ====
In The House of Hades, Leo is one of the seven main characters.
==== The Blood of Olympus ====
Leo sacrifices himself to finally defeat Gaea and is presumed dead by all of his friends. However, the rebuilt Festus resurrects Leo with the Physician's Cure and he finally fulfills his vow to rescue Calypso from Ogygia. Leo, Calypso and Festus then fly off together into the unknown for adventure.
=== The Trials of Apollo ===
==== The Hidden Oracle ====
Leo finally returns to Camp Half-Blood six months after Gaea's defeat and agrees to help the now-mortal Apollo in his quest to save the five Oracles alongside Calypso and Festus.
==== The Dark Prophecy ====
Leo, Calypso and Festus accompany Apollo to Indianapolis where they battle the god-emperor Commodus. Leo and Calypso decide to stay at the Waystation and settle into a normal life, although Leo travels to Camp Jupiter to warn them of an upcoming attack first.
==== The Tower of Nero ====
After becoming a god again, Apollo visits Leo who is currently in a fight with Calypso. Leo has begun teaching homeless mortal kids shop skills using Festus as his workshop.
==Personality==
Despite how horrible his life is, Leo is a good-natured teen who is constantly making jokes. His Genius also helps him and his friends in several
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===Images===
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== Trivia ==
* Leo's godly parent is ironic, as Jason's first impression of him is "someone who shouldn't be trusted around sharp objects"
* Leo is the second demigod know to possess Pyrokinesis, with the other being Thomas Farynor who caused the Percy Jackson universe's version of The Great London Fire of 1666, making Leo the first pyrokinetic son of Hephaestus in 348 years
* Leo is one of the three zodiac signs to have the fire element
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