Arachne

### Family

Ben Walker (son), Kaya Walker (daughter), Louis Walker (son), May Jefferson (daughter), Alan Parker (son), Alan Walker (husband), Ethan Jefferson (husband) several unknown children

## Physical Description

### Species

Mortal (formerly), Half-Spider, Greek Goddess

## Other Information

### Cause of Death

Poisoned-Ben Walker

Arachne is a Greek goddess, formerly a mortal turned into a half-spider monster by Athena, and she became the goddess of spiders, though still resides in Tartarus the majority of the time. She has several half-spider children with the Egyptian god Set, but has one demigod child, Ben Walker.

**Series**

Arachne is featured in the following series:

* Camp Trinity
* Defenders of the Duat
* Demigod Quest
* Elementalist

**Early Life**

Arachne was a mortal weaver who challenged Athena to a competition. When she won, Athena angrily turned her into a half-spider monster. Arachne was made the goddess of spiders by Poseidon, who wanted to spite Athena, and Arachne still spends the majority of her time in Tartarus until around the 1990s where she started having children with Set, half-human and half-spider. In 1994, she had a daughter, Kaya, with Alan Walker and in 1995, she had a son, Louis, with Alan. In 1998, they had their son, Ben, who she intentionally made deaf and she raised him in Chicago. She set up Alan, Kaya and Louis to all die while raising Ben in an abusive home. She marries Ethan Jefferson in around late 2006 and allows him to physically and sexually abuse Ben, who she has already made anorexic because she wants to hurt him every way she can. Ethan abandons her after she becomes pregnant and she has a miscarriage, then leaving her two sons to go into foster care for three years so she can attend to godly business while pretending to be a recovering addict. Around 2010, she gets Ben and Louis back, but in 2011, Louis gets emancipated and moves out. She has him killed in prison after he is arrested for involuntary manslaughter. She later brings Ethan back in 2012 so he can rape Ben again and then she wipes Ben's memories of it happening and him killing his stepfather. She continues to raise Ben and pretends to be becoming a good mother by manipulating his memories as well as by trying to make him feel guilty for anything he says or does.

**Camp Trinity**

Camp Trinity #2, The Eternal Empire: Arachne's son, Alan Parker, who is half-spider monster attacks the demigods in France before Alan's half-brother, Jackson Stevens, kills him.

Camp Trinity #3, Immortal Death: Three of Arachne's sons attack Camp Trinity and they are killed by their half-brother, Jackson, after they explain that Set and Arachne are their parents.

**Defenders of the Duat**

Defenders of the Duat #4, The Aquatic Shrine: Apophis mentions Set having children with Arachne.

**Demigod Quest**

N/A

**Elementalist**

Elementalist #1, Timekeeper: When the demigods explain their former quests, they mention that Arachne's son attacked the demigods in France, referring to the second book of the Camp Trinity series.

**Personality**

Arachne is a mean, spiteful woman who wants to kill children of Athena because their mother turned her into a monster. She hates that even as a goddess, she cannot manipulate her appearance to stop looking like that of a spider for more than a few hours every couple of days. She hates all demigods except children of Poseidon and Set because she is in love with Set and she owes Poseidon a debt for making her a goddess.

**Appearance**

Arachne had black hair and her eyes were once blue, but now are red. She once had the body of a mortal Grecian girl and still appears that way when she makes herself look human for a short time, but as a spider, she has a large black body with eight legs and several eyes appear on her torso and on her face. Her blood is also a green acid.

When she is appearing as Ben's mother, assuming the age of around her late forties or early fifties, she has dark brown hair and brown eyes and is kind of heavyset.

**Powers**

* Immortality
* Webbing
* Weaving
* Human Form
* Acid Spitting

**Love Interests**

* Set--lover, father of her many children
* Alan Walker--husband, father of her three children
* Ethan Jefferson--husband, father of her unborn daughter

**Friends and Enemies**

* Poseidon, Fates (friends)
* Athena (enemies)

**Dream Cast**

\*as of 9/13/2020

* UNKNOWN

**Trivia**

* She was turned into a goddess by Poseidon.
* She is not a goddess in real mythology, only in this series.
* She is one of few goddesses who actually raised their mortal children.