Characters in Rise of Olympus

The following is a list of **characters from the Rise of Olympus**. They are listed under this page because of their scant history and do not qualify for their own pages.

## Characters

### Main character

"*Being an Olympian is not awesome. Well okay, in somethings, it can get a little abnormal and funish, but besides that, it’s scary, and sometimes deadly. If you do something wrong, like try to take on a Sky Demon, then you’d die in one of the most hideous ways known to mankind. And being an Olympian is harder than you think.*"
―the main character to her readers *Rise of Olympus*, page 1

A girl and an Olympian. She expresses that being one is not awesome and it's harder than one thinks, but admits that there are some abnormal and fun-ish aspects of it. She retells an experience when at an aquarium, she presses her back against a fish take to cool her off, but she somehow tips it over, turning the room into a massive swimming pool. The main character goes with her class to the beach and listens to a lesson from her teacher. She looks at a lifeboat when her teacher tells the class not to go past it. The main character goes and gets changed into her swimming suit and meets up with her friends Crystal and Nika. She expresses that it's a beautiful day and giggles at Nika's comment on the boys. She warns them not to get near Tanner, then follows the two girls into the water.

### Seventh-grade class

They all go to the beach for a hands-on science lesson. They are difficult being herded into the buses. A short drive later, they crowd around Ms. Burling for their lesson. After listening to her for twenty minutes, some boys in the group bang their fists on the sand and whisper, "Beach, beach!" Ms. Burling sends them off, and they all get changed into their swimming suits and go play on the beach.

### Seventh grade teachers

They have a hard time getting their students onto the busses.

### Ms. Burling

"*And finally, make sure you remember the reason why you were here.*"
―Ms. Burling to her class *Rise of Olympus*, page 2

She gathers all the seventh graders around her for a twenty-minute lesson on the ocean. Afterwards, she sets some rules on where the students can go once they're set free and how to treat each other.

### Crystal

"*Yeah, perfect day for a beach day.*"
―Crystal to the main character *Rise of Olympus*, page 2

She meets up with the main character and Nika at the beach. She agrees that it's a beautiful day for a beach day. She giggles at Nika's comment on the boys. Crystal looks at Tanner when the main character mentions him and warns her friends that they're gossiping about him. She breaks the uncomfortable silence that follows by telling the girls to go "party."

### Nika

"*And, hanging out with hunky boys!*"
―Nika to her friend *Rise of Olympus*, page 2

She meets up with the main character and Crystal at the beach. Nika jokes that she gets to hang out with hunky boys. She turns to look at Tanner and remarks that he punched a girl in her cooking class a bloody nose because she was gossiping about him. Nika jumps into the water with her friends.

### Tanner

"He was a tall, lean kid with mismatched eyes—one green, and the other yellow—and strong muscles. He looked like someone you wouldn’t want to mess with." He caused a girl in Nika's cooking class a "major" bloody nose because she was gossiping about him.

### Cooking class girl

A girl Tanner punched for gossiping about him with her friends.

## Trivia

### Interesting facts

* Ms. Burling is named after Ms. DeeLing.
* Nika is the name of a Scratcher from the coding website Scratch that Adira admired.
* Tanner is based off Tanner from Myths of Legend.