Annabeth Chase

**Annabeth Chase**, also known as **Architect of Olympus**, **Daughter of Athena**, **Wise Girl**, **Owl Head**, **Miss Princess**, **Annie Girl**, **Annie Bell**, **Annabell**, is one of the main characters from the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Annabeth is the literal brainchild of Athena and military historian Frederick Chase (kids of Athena are just special that way). Her pastimes include architecture, Ancient Greek, killing monsters, and practicing how to stab things. Annabeth ran away from home when she was seven and met up with Thalia and Luke; eventually they made their way to Camp Half-Blood, but lost Thalia in the process.

As a child of Athena, Annabeth is gifted with divine intellect and a natural talent towards strategy. Despite not having any offensive superpowers, she is still a competent warrior, fighting with the Celestial Bronze knife given to her by Luke Castellan. Annabeth is stern and strict, but ultimately deeply caring and loyal.

Following Percy's disappearance prior to the second series, Annabeth struggles to balance searching for him, being head counselor of the Athena cabin, holding the rest of Camp Half-Blood together, and undertaking the task presented to her in the previous series of redesigning Olympus. As such, she's mostly out of the picture for the first two books beyond briefly mentoring our new protagonists, but returns in the third, with a divine quest from her mother on her hands — to find the Athena Parthenos and return it to the gods, at whatever cost. As one of the most experienced on the team, she serves as an adviser and Cool Big Sis to the more inexperienced heroes, as well as The Leader and mastermind of all of the Seven.

## **Appearance**

### **Literature**

* Demigods & Magicians
* Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
* Percy Jackson and the Olympians
* Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo
* Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
* The Heroes of Olympus
* The Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Diaries
* The Trials of Apollo

### **Movies**

* Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
* Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

### **Video Games**

* Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

## **Trivia**

* When Rick Riordan chose the name Annabeth, he modeled Annabeth after Atalanta, a great Greek heroine with blond hair and fierce eyes.
* Her first name, 'Annabeth' is an anagram of 'Athena' with a few extra letters (N and B).
* According to the *Magnus Chase* series, Annabeth has Swedish ancestry on her father's side.
* She is one of the only known demigod's to have family with connections to the other pantheons, as her cousin Magnus is the son of the Norse god Frey.
* She could be a legacy of Frey: In *The Hammer of Thor*, Loki mentions that the sword Skofnung can only be wielded by the descendants of Swedish nobility, an act that her uncle was able to do. In *The Sword of Summer*, Gunilla mentions that the kings of Sweden were descendants of Frey. Assuming that at least one of his noble ancestors was a descendant from Frey's line of the family, this theory could be possible.
* Annabeth and Percy's partnership mirrors the creation of the chariot - Athena made the body of the chariot, while Poseidon created the horse as a creature to supply the muscle to make it move. Likewise, Annabeth is usually the one who comes up with the plan and Percy is the one who supplies the strength to make it work, even though sometimes this is reversed.
* Circe's offer to help her realize her potential in magic alludes to Athena (and more often Minerva) being recognized as a goddess of magic by some cults.
* She has been asked to leave Camp Half-Blood more than anyone else in the series:
	+ Circe invited Annabeth to become a sorceress and stay on her island in *The Sea of Monsters*.
	+ Annabeth was invited to join the Hunters of Artemis, but turned it down in *The Titan's Curse*.
	+ Luke invited Annabeth to join him before he became the vessel for Kronos in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*.
* As of *The House of Hades*, she, Percy, and Nico di Angelo are the only demigods known to have gone to Tartarus and survive the experience.
* When teaming up with Carter and Sadie Kane against Setne, Annabeth volunteered to host the goddess Nekhbet instead of Percy. However, Nekhbet found Annabeth unsuitable due to her more complicated mind, whereas Percy had a simpler mind.
* Like Percy, Annabeth dreamed of getting her parents back together at one point.
* Annabeth always yearned to visit the Parthenon in Athens, both because she loves architecture and for being her mother's greatest temple.
* As revealed in *The Mark of Athena*, the most annoying question that she would get from fellow demigods was whether or not she had a belly button, due to her being a "brain child."
	+ Children of Athena were born from her head, as Athena sprouted from Zeus' head, fully grown and fully armored. According to Greek mythology, Zeus had swallowed Athena's mother, Metis, whole.
* She is extremely touchy about people messing with her stuff. Percy made a joke that she has her knife reserved for two uses: monsters, and people who touch her things. Coincidentally:
	+ She is one of the few people in camp who secretly carry their cellphones.
	+ She carries a teddy bear in her camp bag with the caption,"Don't tell anyone!"
* Despite her experiences with Rome, she admires the design of New Rome and wants to change her redesign of Olympus based on some of their work.
* She is very fond of animals. In *The Staff of Serapis*, she couldn't bring herself to kill a statue of a dog with her bronze dagger, even though she knew it wasn't a real dog.
* Strangely, Annabeth said that she didn't know the whole Great Prophecy, but she might have lied to Percy to protect him after being told to do so by Chiron.
* Annabeth is the first child of Athena noted for having a romantic relationship with a child of Poseidon.
* She is the only demigod in the series to encounter a god from every Pantheon that has its own canon series (as opposed to the various pantheons that are mentioned as existing or at least having people that believe in them, such as Apollo mentioning the Hindu god Indra and a man in Alaska telling Percy about the Inuit gods, and not counting the non-canon series of Rick Riordan Presents), as she has met all the Greek Gods, briefly encountered her mother while she was in her Roman state as Minerva as well as meeting the Roman gods without Greek equivalents Janus and Terminus, met the Egyptian goddess Nekhbet during a team up with the Kane siblings, and encountered the Norse god Loki at her cousin Magnus' funeral (though she wasn't aware that this was Loki due to his disguise as the priest conducting the service). She also met the Egyptian-Greek hybrid god Serapis in a team-up with Sadie Kane.
* When Rick Riordan originally told the story of Percy Jackson to his son Haley Riordan, Annabeth had brown hair.
	+ In the film adaptation of *The Lightning Thief*, Annabeth has brown hair, which came under ​​​​heavy controversy from fans and led to the actress dying her hair blonde for the film's sequel. Ironically, in *The Mark of Athena*, Annabeth states that she wishes she had brown hair, as she believed that people would take her more seriously if her hair wasn't blonde. As *The Mark of Athena* came out two years after the release of the first film, it is possible this statement was a subtle reference to the film and hair controversy.
* Annabeth is the only character to appear in every book in *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* and *The Heroes of Olympus* series to date. However, she only appeared in *The Son of Neptune* in a dream using Grover's Empathy Link.
	+ She also appears in every book in the *Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard* trilogy.
* She is the only one of the three main protagonists from the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series to be seen in *The Lost Hero*, with Percy missing and Grover out searching for him.
* Along with Percy, Annabeth is one of two characters in any of the series to have their their POV told in both first- and third-person. In her case, she had several third-person chapters in *The Heroes of Olympus*as well as having her perspective of *The Staff of Serapis* written in third-person, and a first-person chapter in Camp Half-Blood Confidential.
* Annabeth dislikes empousa more than most monsters because of their powers (Mist Control and Charmspeak) and that Kelli encouraged Luke to do darker and darker deeds in the name of Kronos.
* Annabeth is the only member of the seven to not be involved in the Great Imperial War to any extent.