List of Percy Jackson and the Olympians characters

This is a '*list of characters in the *Percy Jackson & the Olympians* series** of fantasy novels by the author Rick Riordan.

## Main Characters
* **Percy Jackson*': The protagonist and narrator of the series and the son of Poseidon. Being a child from one of "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades), Percy is possibly the child referred to within the prophecy, which says that the next half-blood child of the "Big Three" to reach the age of sixteen would make a decision that would either save or destroy Olympus. He was technically only selected to go on two of the five quests in the series, the first being the retrieval of Zeus' master thunderbolt. He is the leader of this quest. In *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Percy has to go through the Labyrinth (a big subterranean maze) created by Daedalus, in order to defend the camp against Luke (a son of Hermes and servant of the Titan lord Kronos). The quest in *The Sea of Monsters* was actually led by Clarisse (a daughter of Ares), but Percy sneaks out of camp because he needs to find Grover, his best friend/protector. In ''The Titan's Curse'', he is also not selected to go on the quest, but he follows the group because he needed to help Annabeth, who is in love with Percy. Percy has a crush on Annabeth, but his love life has been difficult as a result of Aphrodite's promise she made to him when she met him in the desert. After he helps Zoë, Bianca, Grover, and Thalia, Zoë reluctantly allows him to become the fifth member of their team . He leads the army against Kronos in The Last Olympian. Aphrodite is the mother of Silena Beauregard.
* **Apollo**: The god of the sun and archery. The campers in Cabin #7 are his children. He drives a flying red convertible, a Maserati Spyder, that glows brightly like the sun. He appears to be about 18 years old and has sandy colored hair and dazzling white teeth. Apollo wears Ray-Ban sunglasses and sports an iPod. He also loves to recite poetry, especially haikus; Percy describes them as so bad that he would rather be shot by an arrow than listen to one, but Zoë says his limerick days were much worse. Apollo helps Percy Jackson in ''The Titan's Curse* by disguising himself as a homeless man. She is notably much kinder and more beautiful in the spring and summer.
* **Zeus**: The King of the Gods and the god of the sky. He is a principal character in the first book He appears in all the books. In *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, he goes out to search for the minor gods and returns at the end of the book. He rarely bothers to call the campers by their proper names, calling Percy Jackson names such as "Peter Johnson, "Perry Johannson", or "Pierre Jorgenson" throughout the series. He also calls Annabeth "Annie Bell", regardless of the fact that she has been in Camp Half-Blood since she was seven years old.

## Minor gods
* **Aeolus**: Greek gods of the winds. They never made an appearance, but they were mentioned in *The Last Olympian*. They made it hard for the Titan army to hit Olympus by air. Consequently, it also made it harder for Pegasi to fly.
* **Nemesis**: The goddess of revenge and balance. She never makes any actual appearances in the books, but she is the mother of Ethan Nakamura, who appears in *The Battle of the Labyrinth* and *The Last Olympian*. Ethan mentions her in both *The Battle of the Labyrinth* and *The Last Olympian*. She is mentioned by Grover as a "god" when he talks to Percy at the start of the series.
* **Pan**: The god of the wild. Satyrs have been looking for him for two thousand years. He appears in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*. Once Percy and the others find Pan in *The Battle of the Labyrinth'', Pan dies peacefully.
* **Eurytion**: A worker of Geryon and the owner of Orthus. He is usually seen with a huge club. He is a son of Ares. He is unenthusiastic about and later rebellious against working for Geryon. When Geryon is defeated, he starts planning to take over the Triple G ranch. He gives Annabeth a mechanical spider to find Hephaestus.
* **Phoebe**: The best tracker of Artemis's hunters. She hit the Stoll brothers with arrows in a game of Capture the Flag. She was supposed to go on the quest in''The Titan's Curse*, but the Stoll brothers gave her a poisoned (but non-lethal) shirt that prevented her from going. Percy ended up replacing her.
* **Zoë Nightshade**: The lead Huntress of Artemis. She is a daughter of the Titan General Atlas and the sea goddess Pleione. Percy later discovers she made his magic blade, Riptide. She uses a hunting knife and a bow as her weapons. She is a former Hesperide, Most members of Camp Half-Blood call him by his surname, Beckendorf. He sacrifices himself at the beginning of *The Last Olympian* to destroy the *Princess Andromeda'', a ship that was Kronos' headquarters, unaware that it was actually because of Silena (a spy on the camp) that he lost his life. Beckendorf was named after one of Riordan's former students.
* **Clarisse La Rue**: One of the children of Ares and the head of Cabin #5. She is hot-tempered, arrogant, big, tall, strong, and is known to dislike Percy. Despite her brash nature, she is capable of compassion, shown when she cares for Chris Rodriguez, a half-blood who became a traitor and was later found crazed and stumbling within the Labyrinth during his bout of madness. She is later seen holding Chris's hand at a campfire after Dionysus cures him of his madness. She later befriends Silena Beauregard, apparently after Silena gives her advice on her first boyfriend. She and her cabin later fight with the Apollo cabin because of a flying chariot. She and her cabin later do not join in the battle of Manhattan because of the chariot, though Michael Yew gives it to them. Silena later impersonates her to bring the Ares cabin into the battle by taking her armor and spear. Later, Silena is killed by a drakon while she leads the cabin into fighting. Clarisse then grabs her spear back, runs up the drakon and stabs its eye, fully blinding it (Percy already blinded the other eye). The spear then breaks, electrocuting, and killing, the drakon. She then runs at Kronos's armies, acting as invulnerable as Percy is even though she does not have the Curse of Achilles. Percy recognizes that an aura around her highly resembles that of Ares when Percy fought him. Thalia remarks that it is a blessing of Ares and that she has never seen it before in person. She is later frozen by a giant, and, after thawing, is welcomed to Olympus by her father, who is very proud of her.
* **Daedalus**: Inventor of the Labyrinth and son of Athena, he killed his nephew and took his notes, which he then used to cast his animus (soul) into automatons after Athena branded him with the murderer's hand. He originally owned a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary and fights the Titan army toward the end of the fourth book. He later decides that it is time to go to the Underworld and leaves. He gave his laptop to Annabeth. It is filled with his notes and ideas. He also may have been the one that Percy awoke from a midday nap in ''The Titan's Curse*. His siblings are Kottos and Gyes. Like all other Hundred-Handed Ones, he has fifty different "faces" indicative of his moods.
* **Cerberus**: The three headed dog who guards the Underworld entrance to the living. In *The Lightning Thief'', he befriends Annabeth. He also appears in "The Last Olympian" when he is playing with Mrs. O'Leary. He is the son of Echidna and Typhon. The last one, Briares, was imprisoned by Kampe in the fourth book. It is implied that, at least once, he hit Percy's mother. Grover later tells Percy that Sally (Percy's mother) married Gabe to protect Percy from monsters who would have tracked him down otherwise. He stinks so bad that his smell confuses monsters and they could not smell him. If she did not marry him, monsters would have found Percy a very long time ago. At the end of Book 1, he is turned to stone by Percy's mother (using Medusa's severed head) and sold as a statue, "The Poker Player", earning lots of money in the process.
* **May Castellan**: Luke's mother who had attempted to become the new Oracle of Apollo. Since Hades' curse prevents her from taking it, she was driven crazy and receives small glimpses of her son's future.
* **Dr. Frederick Chase**: Annabeth's father and he first appears in ''The Titan's Curse''. He allows Percy, Thalia, Zoë, and Grover to borrow his car to drive to Mt. Tamalpais (Mount Othrys). Annabeth's father is a professor who knows a lot about war. He also owns a plane. He and his daughter have had a lot of problems in the past, which is why she ran away home when she was seven years old. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons. In ''The Titan's Curse'', he helps Annabeth and Percy battle Atlas and his troops.
* **Mrs. Dare**: Rachel's mother. She briefly appears in *The Last Olympian*. She went to Clarion Ladies' Academy, a finishing school for society girls in New Hampshire, and wants Rachel to go there as well.
* **Nancy Bobofit**: A freckled, redheaded, kleptomaniac girl that went to Yancy Academy with Percy in *The Lightning Thief*. Percy finds her very unkind and annoying. She bullies Grover and Percy at any chance she has. She only appears in the first few chapters of Book 1.
* **Paul  Blofis**: Sally Jackson's boyfriend and later fiancé, and thus Percy's stepfather. Percy and his mother reveal to Paul the truth, and at first he only half believes them. When Percy, Nico, and Mrs. O'Leary come unexpectedly into Sally's apartment, Paul fully believes, and thinks it's "awesome!". Paul turns out to be an excellent swordsman and assists in the fight to save Olympus in *The Last Olympian*. He seems to have a good father-son relationship with Percy.
* **Preacher**: A preacher who raised money supposedly for orphans and spent it instead on his mansion. He died in a police chase when he drove his "Lamborghini for the Lord" off a cliff. He was sent to the Fields of Punishment, but believed that he was in the Christian hell.
* **Rachel Elizabeth Dare**: A clear-sighted mortal girl who is able to see through the Mist. She is first encountered by Percy during ''The Titan's Curse* as he flees from the skeletons summoned by Atlas. After mistaking her for a monster and realizing she is human, Percy discovers that she can see through the mist. She leads the skeletons away from Percy. Rachel is encountered again in *The Battle of the Labyrinth'' and aids Annabeth and Percy through the labyrinth. Later, at Percy's request, she uses her clear sight to guide them through the labyrinth to Daedalus's workshop, from where she, Percy, Annabeth, and Nico escape, only to enter again to locate Grover and Tyson. She is present at the deathbed of Lord Pan and, like the others, takes part of his essence within her. By throwing her hairbrush at Kronos, she provided enough of a distraction for Percy to escape the Titan Lord's time manipulation. It is hinted throughout the series that she harbors romantic feelings for Percy. In *The Last Olympian*, she turns into the Oracle, who should stay as a single woman (unless they are already married).
* **Sally Jackson**: The daughter of Jim and Laura Jackson, who died in a plane crash. She is the mother of Percy; she was married to Gabe, then turned him to stone with the head of Medusa, and marries Paul Blofis in the fifth book. In the beginning of the series, it is indicated that Sally works at a candy shop called "Sweet on America" and said that she wanted to be an author when she was young. In the third book, Percy guesses that Sally can see through the Mist and she says that was probably the reason Poseidon took interest in her. She said that Poseidon was walking along Montauk Beach when she asked him why he had a trident in his hand. They fell in love in the middle of the conversation.
* **William Dare**: He is Rachel Elizabeth Dare's father and first appears is in *The Last Olympian*. He owns a land developing company and is very wealthy. His family lives in a mansion in Brooklyn, where Rachel lives on the top floor. Rachel hates her father because of his job, but he seems to care about her. He said him and her mother had really been looking forward to the vacation, but, according to Rachel, they both hate the beach, and are just too stubborn to admit it. He walked into Rachel's room in Percy's dream, wearing pajamas with "WD" monogrammed on the pocket.
* **Sisyphus**: A man that cheated death many times. His punishment in The Fields of Punishment was to roll a boulder up a hill. He appears in *The Demigod Files* in *The Sword of Hades* when Percy, Thalia, and Nico ask him advice. He does not really help them much, but he does say that he had helped someone else. He said that he told that other person to go see Melinoë. After that, Percy and his friends go to see her.
* **Tantalus**: Tantalus is a spirit from the Fields of Punishment who becomes the activities director at Camp Half-Blood after Chiron is fired. He appears in *The Sea of Monsters* as a minor character. He is shown to hate Percy and his friends even more than he hates most half-bloods, yet shows favoritism to Clarisse, such as naming her hero when the camp was attacked by Colchis bulls, or when she wins the chariot race, he throws a banquet in her honor. When the camp is attacked by a large flock of Stymphalian birds, Tantalus blames it on Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson's "bad chariot driving", despite that they were the ones who defeated the birds. When Tyson is brought to camp, Tantalus insults and makes fun of him, even when Tyson is claimed by Poseidon. He is cursed so that he cannot eat or drink, and this is made a joke when at the end of the book his curse is lifted just before he is sent back to the underworld, though none of the campers were sad to see him go.

## Others
* **Blackjack**: He is a pure black pegasus and one of Percy's many companions. He is first introduced in the second book *The Sea of Monsters* on the *Princess Andromeda*, Luke's demon cruise ship, where Percy rescued him from Kronos's minions. Ever since then, Blackjack has felt like he has to pay Percy back for saving him and he does whatever Percy asks.
* **Juniper**: Juniper is a tree nymph. She is Grover Underwood's girlfriend.
* **King Minos**: King Minos is a ghost that Nico summons in book four that is pretending to advise him on how to bring Bianca back from the dead, when really, he is trying to bring himself back. He is also seen as a live king in Percy's dreams/flashbacks. Near the end of the book, it is revealed that he is serving his own dark purpose when he kidnaps Nico and tries to kill Daedalus and use his soul as ransom.
* **Leneus**: Leneus is a member of the Council of Cloven Elders. He is killed in *The Last Olympian* and is reincarnated as a laurel. He hates Grover and thinks he is a liar. When he dies, Grover takes his spot in the Council of Cloven Elders.
* **Maron**: Maron is a member of the Council of Cloven Elders. He only appears in book four, when he, Silenus and Leneus try to exile Grover because they think that  Pan, the god of the wild, is still alive and Grover is a just lying about his death. He and the other members of the Council are described as being old and fat satyrs.
*  **The Oracle of Delphi**: Apollo's Oracle of Delphi used to live in the mummified remains of its host until its spirit was transferred to Rachel Elizabeth Dare in *The Last Olympian*. The Oracle's spirit originally passed from the deceased oracle to a newly chosen oracle; however, at the end of the second world war, the oracle gave a Great Prophecy predicting a child of the Big Three (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) would determine whether or not the gods would be preserved or destroyed. Using this information, the Big Three entered a pact in which none could continue to sire heroes. In spite of this, Hades bore two young children, Nico di Angelo and Bianca di Angelo. Zeus, fearing that either were the children of the prophecy, destroyed the hotel where the di Angelo's lived with his master bolt, killing Maria di Angelo, Hades' lover. In revenge, Hades cursed the Oracle to ensure that the spirit of the Oracle of Delphi would not pass to a new host but be trapped inside the body after the death of its host in hopes that it would soon return to the dust along with its bodily prison. After the Battle of Manhattan in which Hades and Nico successfully assist in the defense of Mount Olympus, Zeus honors the Lord of the Dead. In response to his newfound respect from the other gods, he lifts the curse, allowing the Oracle's spirit to pass on into Rachel Elizabeth Dare, effectively releasing the trapped soul of the last host of the Oracle.
* **Party Ponies**: They are Chiron's kin. As their name suggests, they are a vast clan-like extended family of rowdy centaurs who live in the United States with chapters hailing from each respective state. They are key players in two major incidents in the series. In *The Sea of Monsters*, they along with Chiron rescue Percy from Luke during their duel on the *Princess Andromeda*. In *The Last Olympian*, they help Chiron and the others fight the major battle between the Gods and the Titans.
* **Silenus**: Silenus is a minor character, appearing in books four and five. He is the leader of the Council of Cloven Elders and is shown to hate Grover, calling him an "outcast" and a "liar".

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