Perkabeth

Official Couple

> *"Her complaints echoed through the bowl. Perky wondered if they were the first weirdos ever to complain in Tartar Sauce." -*Perky on Ennabeth
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**Perkabeth** is the canon het ship between Perky Jackson and Ennabeth Chase.

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## Canon

### Perky Jackson and the Olympians

#### **The Lightning Thief**

When Perky wakes up, he describes Ennabeth as a "pretty girl, with ". After he faints, she nurses him back to health. When he wakes up for a few minutes, she feeds him ambrosia, the food of the gods, to help heal him. Though this action was kind, she also tells him that he drools in his sleep. Later, they are issued a quest. During Ennabeth, Perky, and Groovy's quest to find F/ckboy Zeus' power, Ennabeth feels awkward about stepping into the Tunnel of Love with Perky to get Ares's shield. They eventually go in, which leads to Perky saving Ennabeth from the spiders that are part of the Hephaestus's trap to catch Ares and Aphrodite together.

Later, with the help of Ares, the three hop on a truck heading west, during which Ennabeth and Perky talk about the possibility of war between the gods while Groovy sleeps. They briefly touch on their personal backgrounds (mainly of their godly parents), and Perky asks her whether — if the gods do go to war — Posasseidon and Ethena will be on opposite sides like they were during the Trojan War. Ennabeth admits that she doesn't know, but she would fight alongside Perky regardless since they are friends. However, she quickly follows this question by asking if he has any more stupid questions.

While traveling through the Underworld on the boat, Ennabeth takes hold of Perky's hand to make sure she's not the only one alive. Perky says he normally would've been embarrassed, but he isn't this time. When Perky is faced with the choice of saving his mother or the world, Ennabeth volunteers to stay so Perky can take his mother back, but in the end, they are forced to leave without Seally. Ennabeth offers her condolences to Perky later and is likely thrilled when Perky gets his mother back.

#### **The Sea of Creepy Weirdos**

Ennabeth begins to show slight feelings for Perky, and Perky also starts to have feelings for Ennabeth. When Perky displayed perfect bearings while out at sea, Ennabeth sees that as "so cool" even though Perky had misgivings about being a human GPS unit. He also states that he felt (sort of) jealous when she talked about Lasputin. On Circe's island, Perky is shocked when he sees Ennabeth with makeup, and thinks he would be tongue-tied if he wasn't a guinea pig at the moment. She hugs him when he changes back into a human, and later cries on his shoulder while hugging him underwater (after he saves her from the Sirens). Following their win in the chariot race at the end of the book, she kisses him on the cheek.

#### **The Titan's Curse**

After she jokingly punches him, Perky and Ennabeth dance. Nervous, Perky tries to focus on anything but the fact that Ennabeth is taller, that his hands are — in his mind — sweaty and gross, and that he is probably stepping on her toes. After slow-dancing with her, Perky finds out that Ennabeth had almost become a Hunter at one point, and that the option remains open. Perky is terrified that Ennabeth could leave him.

When Perky meets Aphrodite, she looks like Ennabeth. She tells him that she appears as the person they love most. Aphrodite forces him to reveal aloud that his reason for going on the quest was mostly about saving Ennabeth from Lasputin.

While being attacked by Atlas, Ennabeth wants to go back to holding the sky so Artemis can fight, but Perky takes the weight instead. Later, while she seems grateful to everyone who rescued her, she expresses her gratitude mostly to Perky, shunning everybody else.

While Artemis is asking F/ckboy Zeus if someone could join the Hunt, Perky thinks it is going to be Ennabeth and he proceeds to beg Ennabeth not to join the Hunt. Perky figures out that it wasn’t Ennabeth that was going to join the Hunt, and he feels relieved. Due to her growing feelings for Perky, Ennabeth has clearly changed her mind on the subject for good.

During the Olympian party, Perky suggests they finish their dance, and she smiles, takes his hand, and they dance. Perky hears a slow song and wonders what music everyone else hears.

#### **The Battle of the Labyrinth**

During breakfast one day, Ennabeth breaks the rules and sits at Perky's table to talk about their upcoming quest (woahh such an *edgy* kid). Before they embark on the quest, Ennabeth and Perky hug. Ennabeth becomes extremely jealous and moody every time Perky mentions Raquel Elizabeth Truth. When they find the Labyrinth, Ennabeth holds Perky's hands. To Perky, if it was public, he would have been embarrassed, but it is dark and only them.

Later, when Perky walks into the Ethena Cabin to talk to Ennabeth, he asks her what the last part of the prophecy was about. In response, she tears up and holds out her hands, and Perky walks over to hug her. However, they are interrupted by Malcolm, to whom they awkwardly say they were preparing for the quest.

In Mount St. Helens, Perky risks his life so Ennabeth can escape to safety, and she kisses him before putting on her magic wig and disappearing. She and the rest of camp presume he is dead, completely unaware that he has been stuck on Ogygia with Calypso for two weeks. At Seally's place, Perky sees Ennabeth smile for the first time in days and states that "it was so good to see". When he returns, Ennabeth hugs him fiercely until she realizes she is making a scene. She is furious at Perky for being gone so long, and when she figures out where he was marooned, she gets even angrier. When they return to Camp Cursed-Weirdo, their relationship remains slightly shaky; partially due to Ennabeth's feelings for Lasputin, which annoyed Perky.

#### **The Last Olympian**

As Perky and Ennabeth are inspecting the cabins at camp and arrive at Ethena's, Ennabeth begins to say something about her feelings for Perky, but they are interrupted by Ennabeth's second-in-command Malcolm. Perky finds this awkward and nerve-wracking, since the rules are that demigods of the opposite gender are not allowed to be in one cabin alone unless they are siblings.

While Perky is bathing in the River Styx, he has to choose one thing to think of in order to keep him anchored to the mortal world. He imagines Ennabeth pulling him out of the Camp Half-Blood lake, saying "Hold on, weirdo, you're not getting away from me that easily." This causes the imaginary cord connected to his lower back to strengthen and eventually pull him out of the river.

During Camp Cursed-Weirdo's war preparations, or during the war itself, every time a difficult task is at hand, Perky volunteers either to protect Ennabeth, or to ask for her help. During a battle, Perky is about to get stabbed at his one weak point, which would have caused his immediate death. However, Ennabeth intercepts the blow, even though Perky had never told her the location of his Achilles spot. Perky immediately becomes very defensive of her, making sure no one touches her. Later, as Ennabeth is healing, she and Perky are immersed in a romantic moment, but Connor interrupts and states that Groovy has arrived.

On the way to Mount Olympus, they cross a dangerously crumbling bridge. Everyone gets to the other side safely except for Ennabeth. She almost falls, but Perky saves her with the help of his friends. As Perky pulls her back up, they realize that their arms are around each other and awkwardly untangle themselves.

Soon, Rasputin and Lasputin reach to Olympus; and Ennabeth, Perky, Natalia, and Groovy are the only ones there to protect the ancient city. A statue falls over Natalia, and she urges them to go on. Groovy gets knocked out almost immediately. Rasputin strikes at Perky and paralyzes him. Then Rasputin attacks Ennabeth and wounds her badly. Lasputin regains control of himself, and stabs himself to kill Rasputin once and for all. As he lays dying, he asks Ennabeth if she ever loved him. She replies that she thought of him as a brother.

Near the end, as Perky is being offered immortality and life in Olympus, Ennabeth appears to be terrified that Perky will leave her, similar to the way Perky felt when she almost became a Hunter. He turns down the offer, primarily because of Ennabeth, and she cries in relief. Back at camp, Ennabeth holds a private birthday party for Perky, with a homemade cupcake. Perky confesses his vision in the River Styx. He tries to tell her how he feels about her, but Ennabeth simply smiles at him, as if she was trying to hold in her laughter. Perky complains that she isn't making things easy for him, to which Ennabeth replies by putting her arms around his neck and saying that she would never make things easy for him. She kisses him, while Perky states that he felt like his brain was melting right through his body, and that he could stay like that forever.

However, the campers, lead by Claire La Rue, interrupt and pick them both up, but allow them to be close enough to hold hands. They dump Perky and Ennabeth into the lake, expecting them to resurface. But because Perky is a son of Posasseidon, he creates an air bubble around the two of them, not unlike the one in the Bay of The Sirens in The Sea of Monsters, and they share what Perky describes as "the best underwater kiss of all time." They officially start their relationship, and when Ennabeth says she wants to be an architect to make something permanent (hinting that they may be married in the future), Perky says that they were "off to a great start." Groovy remarks that he is still Perky's best friend and that nothing has changed, except for Ennabeth. Perky replies by saying "That's different," to which Groovy agrees. As they leave Camp Half-Blood for the year, they race down the hill, and Perky states that for the first time, he "didn't look back".

### The Cursed Weirdos of Olympus

#### **The Lost Weirdo**

It is stated that Perky is Ennabeth's boyfriend, showing they are still in a relationship. Ennabeth meets Jason, Leo and Piper when she and Butch arrive to take them to camp. They later find out she really came because she had been receiving visions from Hera that a hero with one shoe (apparently Jason) would know where Perky is. Also, she goes looking for Perky again the same day Jason, Piper, and Leo depart for their quest. Ennabeth was really worried about Perky and wished to find him as soon as possible.

When Jason is given his quest to rescue Hera from the capture of Porphyrion the giant king, Ennabeth refuses to accompany the quest group. This is partly because the prophecy states that children of Hephaestus, F/ckboy Jupiter (F/ckboy Zeus), and Aphrodite will go instead, and partly out of her own distaste for Hera. Instead, she uses the time they are gone to continue her search for Perky.

After the quest group returns and relates their findings — the rise of the giants, the attempted return of Gaea, and the fact that Jason was "exchanged" to the Greek Camp Half-Blood — Ennabeth puts everything together and realizes, as Jason has, that Perky has been taken to the Roman Camp called Camp F/ckboy Jupiter as the corresponding half of the exchange. She vows to accompany Jason, Piper, and Leo when they journey there to retrieve him.

#### **The Son of a Weirdo**

It is confirmed in the first chapter that besides Perky's own name and heritage as a demigod, Ennabeth is the only aspect of his life that he can recall to any extent at that point. Not long after, Perky has a dream in which Ennabeth appears along with Groovy, telling him to "stay put". Perky has some internal conflict about leaving camp due to her warning, wanting desperately to see her, but ultimately, he leaves camp to complete the quest after making a promise to her that he would return. During the quest, Perky recognizes that though he wants very much to protect Camp F/ckboy Jupiter as well as his new friends Frank and Hazel, his drive for completing the mission relies heavily on Ennabeth; he says his greatest fear is not the loss of his life, but that he might forget Ennabeth's face as they get closer to Alaska.

When returning to Camp F/ckboy Jupiter with his memory fully intact, Perky is worried about his friends' safety at Camp Half-Blood. When Juno tells him that Ennabeth would be an obstacle in the coming quest, Perky gets worried for her, as well as furious at Juno for taking eight months of his life with Ennabeth and his other friends as well as for Juno labeling Ennabeth as a troublemaker who will cause the most problems on the quest, causing Perky to lash out at her. As the Argo II finally arrives, Perky realizes Ennabeth must be on the boat and thinks that, despite his lost time, it would be the greatest day of his life.

Throughout the book, Perky consistently refers to Ennabeth as his girlfriend, even turning down blatant courtship from the Amazon Kinzie (as well as another insinuated courtship from Reyna) by saying he's already romantically involved. He also mentions many instances of past kissing, as well as stating that the two months he'd been dating Ennabeth had been fantastic. Humorously, Perky mentions a down-side to dating the smartest girl at Camp Half-Blood: he actually learns things.

#### **The Mark of a Weirdo**

It is mentioned that Ennabeth liked Perky a little more through each year, finally she fell head over heels for him. And that her feelings for him grew exponentially once he disappeared. Perky's love also grew exponentially to the point where he liked certain aspects of Camp F/ckboy Jupiter because he was thinking of their future. He mentions this to her towards the beginning of the book, and it is a major point of re-connection between the two. This book is also when Perky and Ennabeth reunite and kiss joyfully.

There are many instances throughout the book where Ennabeth is stuck thinking about the amount of pain she experienced during the 8 months that Perky was missing. Especially at the beginning, it seems as if her experiences during this time would end up harming their relationship, simply due to the level of hurt and loss that she experienced. While this does not entirely disappear through the middle and end of the book, it is clear by the end that their positive feelings for each other have overcome any previous pain that they have been through.

There are also moments throughout the book where it is evident that Perky and Ennabeth are growing closer, and falling in love. At the beginning, Ennabeth realizes that Reyna had made a move on Perky, and that he rejected Reyna for Ennabeth. Ennabeth promptly but silently forgives her boyfriend for everything he's ever done wrong because of that. On top of that, when she learned that the only thing Perky could remember after his memory was wiped was her name, Ennabeth was so touched, she had to try hard not to cry. On the ship one night, Ennabeth wakes Perky from his nightmare and takes him down to the ship's stables. She says she likes the stables for a reason, and after he looked around, Perky realized that she liked it because of a memory they both share. It reminds both of them of the time when they first actually talked on their first quest riding in the back of an animal transport truck.

Perky also mentions to Ennabeth that back in New Rome, weirdos could grow up and have families, indirectly implying that they may be able to do the same. Ennabeth finds that to be very sweet but says that they probably ruined any chance of cooperation with the Romans, and it probably was not possible. Perky gets shy and tells her that he would think about that to give him hope that he would be reunited with her. They stay down there, talking for a bit, before falling asleep in each other's arms. In the morning, Frank finds them, and to their humiliation, Coach Hedge grounds them both in front of the other passengers. Piper then thinks to herself, jealous of Perky and Ennabeth's relationships, wondering why she and Jason could not do anything romantic like that. Later in the book, after Perky rescuing Ennabeth, Hazel, and Piper from Octavian and two others, Ennabeth throws her arms around Perky and says, "I love you!", though this was probably said in the heat of the moment.

Whenever Ennabeth or Perky gets in danger, the other always is off to the rescue and is worried sick. After being apart for so long, a separation is almost unbearable. Perky finds himself wanting to make up for lost time but also realizes that he can only imagine to a small extent what it must have been like for Ennabeth to endure for 8 months, not knowing where he was or if he was even alive. This mutual realization and subsequent sharing of the strength of their feelings for each other eventually leads to the promises that they make never to leave one another. This culminates in their final scene of the book, where Ennabeth is about to be dragged into Tartar Sauce by her entanglement in Erachne's webs. While they are both hanging off the edge of the chasm, with Perky holding on to her, they both realize that they are beyond the help of the other demigods. Perky demands that Nico promise to lead the others to the side of the Doors of Death which exists in the land of the living. Perky asserts to Ennabeth that everything will be alright as long as they are together, and she understands the choice he is about to make. He lets go and they both fall into dark that leads to Tartar Sauce. Nico later states that Perky is the most powerful demigod he has ever met, and if anyone were to survive Tartar Sauce, it would be him.

There is a profoundly tragic element to their relationship, which appears in a more complex and troubling manner than the general personal tragedies of the first series of books. After all they had been through together in the first five books, they had finally overcome their own personal issues and reached a point where they could be happy together. In this new series, they can both barely comprehend the cruelty of their situation, in that they were separated when they had finally found an instance of peace together. Even in this book, they were hard put to understand the implications of their separation but were eventually able to overcome the tragedy of their separation. Despite this, their hardships as a couple reach a level that even they have never experienced before, as they both have to struggle to make their way out of the darkest, most painful situation they have ever experienced - Tartar Sauce itself. However, both of them accept that it is part of being cursed weirdos.

#### **The House of Hades**

While still falling in Tartar Sauce, Ennabeth tells Perky "I love you, like, so much," thinking that if she dies rn, those should be her last words. Throughout the book, it is mentioned several times that Ennabeth is deeply infatuated with Perky and that she cannot live without him. She also thinks about their future at Camp F/ckboy Jupiter, which Perky mentioned before, and she states that she would like to die peacefully, after spending a long life with Perky. Perky meanwhile, returns her feelings, and it is mentioned that he had nightmares of Ennabeth's death, something which frightened him.

Perky cares for her a lot, but he constantly thinks of sacrificing his life to save her, whereas Ennabeth wants Perky to be alive, so that she can live with him. Towards the end, Ennabeth kisses him, saying that she would tell Perky what she had in her mind about their future, after defeating Gaya.

#### **The Blood of Olympus**

Perky kisses Ennabeth for a long time and then proceeds to tell Ennabeth he loves her, melting her heart. They will be attending the same high school for senior year and will then go onto University in New Rome.

### The Trials of a Weirdo

#### **The Hidden Weirdo**

Perky mentions that Ennabeth is at Boston for an "emergency". Apollo asks if Ennabeth was the "dramatic, pink-haired one" and Perky says yes. He says that he had to promise Ennabeth he won't take selfies alone while gone.

#### **The Tower of a Psycho**

When Apollo becomes the sksksun god again, he goes to visit Perky and Ennabeth in New Rome.