Lydia Brown (character)

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**Lydia Brown** is a demigod and the main character of Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus. She is an orphan and lived in a boarding house before a dragon destroyed it and chased her and her friends out. She wandered the wilderness with her friend Kyle before finding their way to an academy for demigods.

## Lydia Brown

Lydia Brown is a demigod and the main character of the Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus books

## Current/Previous Status

### Residence

Current: Camp for demigodsPrevious: Boarding school, wandering the mountains, Elysium

### Previous

Homeless, adoptive child, boarding school resident, wanderer

## History

### First Draft

Lydia goes over her history to the readers. She was orphaned and ran away from the police when they offered to place her in a foster home. She took up residence at a park, hid in the bushes all day, and slept under the stars at night. The police eventually caught Lydia and placed her in the custody of Mr. Hillard. She escapes from him, makes a cardboard house, and lives in it until a street kid told her that a local boarding school will take kids in if they're homeless. One day, she gets out of bed and goes to the bathroom to wash her face, but she sees her roommate Howard speaking with a vampire creature. She is perturbed, but ignores it and goes into the cafeteria. Lydia gets her food and sits down with her friends Kyle and Kyla. Kyle talks to the group about Jaden, who threw a fork at a girl named Reagan's eye; Lydia is shocked. She watches Jaden approach the group, demand Kyla's eggs, and transform into a dragon. She runs out of the cafeteria screaming with her friends.

Outside, Lydia can't spot Jaden and sits down, dejected, letting rain and the mist soak her. After a few moments, she looks down and sees that the water rose up to her chest. She yells and face-plants into the pool. When she notices Kyla isn't bothered by it, she becomes mad at her but doesn't say anything. Lydia goes over to Kyle and asks what's going on, and he doesn't give her a straight answer. They stare at each other for a few minutes, and in that time, the water rises high enough to require them to tread water. Lydia is confused about it, but before she and Kyle can talk about it anymore, a wave causes the water to rise an extra foot, and she has to swim up to get air. She is confused when Kyle mentions Poseidon. Another wave carries the three up and slams into Jaden's tail, and Lydia notices that he had caused the water to pool up and watches his tail curl in tighter to trap them. She breaks a scale off Jaden and scratches the exposed skin, causing him to roar. The dragon's head appears over her, and she slaps it. He bellows again and blows fire at her, sending her flying out of the water, drying her clothes immediately, and crashing into a car tire that explodes on impact.

Lydia stares at the car and Jaden before the dragon unravels his tail, sending the gathered water in all directions. Lydia gets into the car, turns it on, and drives away from the waves. She passes other cars who traveled in the direction of the school before turning around and screeching away. In order to avoid the water, she drives into the forest, and outruns it. After a while, she gets out to examine any damage to the car, then goes back to the school and meets up with Kyle, who is surprised she drove. He tells her that Jaden captured Kyla and took her with him. The two then ran for the mountains.

Lydia and Kyle enter the "forever-ending-woods." She makes a wooden spear, heads over to a river, and stabs at a fish, but she flips over it and crashes into the water. The current brings her into the lake, where she has to tread water in the middle of it until Kyle saves her. The two rest on the bank for the rest of the day. Another day, Lydia gets bit in the leg by a huge, brown spider; Kyle has to make her a crutch from a branch from a birch tree in order to help her get around, but when he's not looking, she throws it out. In their final adventure, the two run from an angry wolf, and Kyle throws a stick at a bees nest. The bees scare off the wolf, but they also chase Kyle and Lydia. They jump into a river to avoid them. While traveling, Kyle gets a thorn stuck in his leg, and Lydia uses bark from a tree to soak up the blood. When he gets up, he mentions Chiron and that they have to be in Greece in less than a month; Lydia is appalled by that and kicks a rock in frustration. A squirrel gets startled and scuttles across her face. They banter light-heartedly for a little bit before continuing.

The two travel through a wolf's territory, get chased by a fox, and cross a lake. They find themselves at the base of a mountain, and they decide to climb it. At the top, they overlook a desert and city, and trek down it, where they encounter Jaden. They hide in the bushes, and Kyle tells his friend that it's Jaden. When the dragon hears his name, he roars, and Kyle grabs her hand and races out of the brambles. Jaden hits her in the chest, sending her flying and hitting her head on a rock. Kyle helps Lydia up to her feet, and she growls and snarls at the dragon. She then watches Kyla suddenly appear with a giant sword, injure the dragon, and hug her brother. Then, Jaden swats her off the mountain. Lydia and Kyle use Kyla's sword to chase Jaden off; then, they go looking for their other friend. They find her body partially submerged in a small pool, and Lydia offers her condolences to Kyle. She helps him bury Kyla.

### Second Draft

Lydia regets that she ignored the initial sighting of the "new kid" Jaden. That day, she walks to her boarding school's cafeteria with a slight sashay and her uniform hanging loosely on her shoulders. She gets a breakfast consisting of pancakes, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, and orange juice, and goes to sit next to her friends Hannah and Owen Jenkins. Owen tells Lydia to look at the new kid Jaden. Then, Jaden catches Lydia's eyes and she stiffens as she watches his erratic behavior. Owen asks her what her deal is, and she tells him the new kid is rather creepy. Lydia proceeds to eat her food and becomes so engrossed in it that she doesn't notice that it starts raining suddenly. Hannah breaks her out of her trance and her orange juice spills all over her. Lydia yells at Hannah, but her friend interrupts her, telling her its raining. Lydia is baffled that Hannah would cause her to spill her drink because it's raining, and Hannah protests that it started to rain suddenly. Lydia doesn't believe her but doesn't try to fight back.

Lydia tries to go back to eating her breakfast, but Hannah keeps pestering her. Finally, her friend grabs her head and turns it to her's. When Lydia asks what her problem is, Hannah tells her it's Jaden. Lydia turns around and sees Jayden staring at her, frightening her. However, she tries to act tough when she asks Hannah what her deal is. Hannah responds by talking so quickly Lydia can't understand. Then, Jaden comes to the table and demands Hannah's food. When he doesn't get what he wants, he transforms into a dragon, and Lydia and her friends watch on in horror. They run out of the cafeteria just before it explodes from Jaden.

They run down the hallways, speeding up when they see the sparks Jaden's wingtips cause while scratching the walls. She watches Hannah get injured and Owen throw a fork at Jaden's eye. She follows Owen's move by chucking a heavy textbook at his head. She and Owen run over to Hannah to help get the locker off her foot by removing everything in the locker. Jaden strikes Hannah and sends her flying. Lydia asks her friends what she should do, but doesn't get a response. She grabs the fork Owen through at Jaden off the ground, but before she can throw it at him, the dragon snatches it out of her hand, biting her finger in the process. The pain from her finger causes her vision to go blurry. Jaden swats Owen out of the air when he jumps at him, and the dragon tells them they cannot take on him. Lydia asks Jaden what his purpose is, and he tells them that they are part of a prophesy. Lydia doesn't believe what she's hearing.

## Personality

Lydia doesn't like living as an orphan and has escaped anyone who would take care of her. She becomes angry when people don't notice the things she does. Lydia also finds hurting her enemies exciting. She is protective of her friends and has decent medicinal knowledge.

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## References and citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, chapter 1, page 1
2. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, chapter 3, page 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, chapter 1, page 5
4. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, chapter 3, page 1
5. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 1
6. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 3
7. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 4

## See also

* Katria Westover
* Crystal Philips
* Sapphire (BO)
* Characters in Rise of Olympus