Annabeth Chase

**Annabeth Chase** is one of the main characters of the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* franchise.

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.

In the AWA fics, Annabeth is a purchased slave from the Slave Fortress and is later rescued. She later attends the AWA Academy as a student.

## **Appearance**

Annabeth has tanned skin and a slender, athletic body. She has long, curly honey-blond hair similar to "a princess." Percy said that she "looked like a typical California girl, except her stormy gray eyes ruined the image." As revealed in The Mark of Athena, she has a belly button despite not being born in the usual way. In the same novel, Aphrodite/Venus noted the beautiful young lady she's grown into.

Despite being taller than Percy originally, Annabeth is now shorter than him, standing at about 5'10.5 while Percy stands around 6'0. Although her hair was said to have a streak of gray as of The Titan's Curse due to the pressure of holding up the sky, she already lost it by The Mark of Athena. By The Hammer of Thor, Annabeth has started growing out her hair and the way it caught in the sunlight briefly reminded Magnus of Sif.

Annabeth often wears a ponytail, an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, and/or her magical Yankees cap (though only during a fight, since it turns herself invisible). She also wears her father's college ring and later a coral pendant that Percy gave her on a leather necklace with the clay beads that she earned every year at Camp Half-Blood. Because she came to camp at age 7, she would have 9 or 10 beads.

## **Personality**

Like her mother, Annabeth is an intellectual genius, wise and very witty. Her eyes look calculating, like she is analyzing whoever she is looking at during a first meeting, as if "thinking of the best way to take the person down in a fight". She loves architecture and spends her free time designing new buildings or visiting national monuments. She has a soft side for those who seek knowledge. She sometimes gets too philosophical, which makes the less complicated Percy to glaze his eyes.

Annabeth is very strong-minded and stubborn, showing to be incredibly determined and daring. Much like Percy and Thalia, she has shown many signs of bravery, courage, and dauntlessness. One of her most impressive displays was in The Titan's Curse, where after holding the sky for hours and starting to die, she vehemently protested against Artemis for taking her burden. Even beings like Kronos acknowledged that she is very spirited and understood why Luke wanted to spare her from the destruction.

Though she is very kind-hearted, Annabeth can be very harsh and judgmental during first meetings, but she is very loyal to those who later had win her approval. She isn't quick to give up on those cares about: even after learning Luke was a traitor in The Lightning Thief, she never completely stops caring about him and quickly took the sky from him in The Titan's Curse to save him from death.

According to Sally Jackson, Annabeth is the most level-headed demigod she has ever met. She hardly ever shows her true feelings, often hiding worry or upsetness with raw or teasing anger. When she assumed that Percy was dead in The Battle of the Labyrinth, she said to the crowd "He was probably the bravest friend I ever had", but when he emerged and she figured out that he recuperated on Calypso's island, she said he was "the single most annoying person I've ever met!" Since Percy left the camp for months, Annabeth has become reckless when a situation concerns him and developed a fear of being separated from him for a long time. She is greatly relieved when seeing him, but that quickly turns to anger with her judo-flipping him and threatening him to never leave her again.

## **Abilities**

Annabeth can kick a lot of ass, and is a more experienced warrior than Percy. Even with no special powers other than her wits to aid her, Annabeth is quite the terror with a dagger.

### **General Abilities**

* **ADHD**: Annabeth's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep her ready for, and alive, in battle.
* **Dyslexia**: Annabeth's brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Greek instead of mortal languages.
* **Fighting Skills**: As the leader of the Athena's Cabin, Annabeth is a highly proficient combatant. She trained during her long stay at Camp Half-Blood. Though she is more capable with weapons, her hand-to-hand combat skills are considerable. She held off dozens of arai without a weapon, hold off an army of monsters in Tartarus, held her own against the giant Mimas and defeated the giant Enceladus with Athena's help.
	+ **Weapon Proficiency**: She can instinctively know how to use any weapon.
		- **Knifemanship**: Unlike most demigods who use mid-range weapons, Annabeth is shown to prefer and fight better with a knife rather than with a sword. She trained in knife fighting since the age of seven. Her skill is great shown enough to fight on par with a skilled fighter of Ethan Nakamura's caliber. She was capable enough to even fight against Kronos' Scythe, a weapon made by Gaea. Percy described this event as only the 'quickest and most skilled knife fighter could have managed', if only for a very limited time.
* **Archery:** Annabeth is shown to be somewhat skilled combatant with a bow.
* **Swordsmanship**: Annabeth is very skilled with swords, able to hold her own against larger, stronger opponents at the Parthenos.
* **Disarmament:** She can easily disarm almost anybody from their weapons.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Being the daughter of a war goddess, Annabeth has shown countless times her amazing agility. She is able to make incredible feats, such as vault over tall objects with ease and grappling over a railing of a helicopter in mid-air.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Being the daughter of a war goddess, Annabeth is stronger than the average mortal. Even when battered and exhausted, she was able to physically hold the Titan Kronos (who was inside an equally tired demigod host) to a standstill with her knife.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Being the daughter of a war goddess, Annabeth is more durable than a regular human. She fell from a great height but only suffered a hurt ankle and managed to keep going with insufferable pain in Tartarus.
* **Genius Intellect**: Due to her heritage as a daughter of Athena (Goddess of Wisdom and Strategy), Annabeth holds outstanding intelligence. She is very knowledgeable in history and Greek myths, which is very useful in journeys and battles. She is the first child of Athena to uncover the mysteries of the *Mark of Athena* and solve it. Hazel has described Annabeth as being the brains of the Seven.
	+ **Strategic Skill**: Like her mother, Annabeth is a master tactician herself. Her analytical skills are extremely sharp, which helps her to try to outsmart her opponents through creative plans. She has continuously proven to be able to formulate effective pre and mid-battle strategies. Her skills are more prominent in *The Last Olympian*, where Athena and her made numerous battle plans of various lethal degrees. Percy acknowledges that Annabeth is the best strategist he knows.
* **Craftsmanship**: Because her mother is the goddess of crafts, Annabeth inherited her skill to certain extent.
	+ **Architecture**: Annabeth often studies ancient buildings and designs her own works, such as a temple for the gods in *The Demigod Files*. She can calculate the respective weights of several construction materials with few glances. Her skill was enough to actually redesign the Olympus after the Second Titan War. She plans to study architecture in school.
	+ **Expert Technician**: Through her study of Daedalus' notes of flying machines and her father's experience, Annabeth learned to control and maneuver a helicopter. Her skill allowed her to save a falling helicopter at her first try. In *The Demigod Diaries*, Annabeth supervises actual construction equipment during the reconstruction of Olympus. Besides Leo Valdez, the inventor of the ship, she is the only one who can operate the engine room of the *Argo II*.
	+ **Weaving**: In *The Mark of Athena*, Annabeth's hands move with "blazing speed" to make a rope with threads, even though it was her first time weaving and eventually stopped thinking about the task.
	+ **Memorization**: She can never forget what she hears.
	+ **Persuasion**: She is shown to be very manipulative and eloquent, as she has easily manipulated mortals, monsters, and gods.
* **Morse Code**: As show in *The Blood of Olympus*, Annabeth can both understand and communicate with Leo Valdez via Morse code.
* **Willpower**: Annabeth has amazing will power, as she was shown to hold the weight of the sky in a long period of time and survived Tartarus without going insane.

### **Demigod Abilities**

* **Audiokinesis**: Being a daughter of Athena (a goddess of the arts), Annabeth has an affinity for arts and music.
* **Telumkinesis** (limited): Since she is a daughter of Athena (Goddess of Warfare), Annabeth has great control over weapons, though to a much lesser degree than the children of Ares.
* **Mystiokinesis** (possibly): According to Circe in *The Sea of Monsters*, Annabeth has potential to perform magic.

### **Egyptian Magic**

In *The Crown of Ptolemy*, Sadie Kane told Annabeth her secret name, which gave the latter the temporary ability to use Egyptian Magic.

* **Hieroglyphic Spells:** Annabeth could temporarily cast Hieroglyphic Spells. She used this when she, Percy and the Kane siblings fought Setne on Governors Island.

### **Magical Items**

* A **Celestial bronze knife** that Annabeth uses as a weapon to kill monsters. It is said that the dagger will always protect the person wielding it, though this has yet to be confirmed. This knife was given to her by Luke Castellan, but it was later cursed for his betrayal. It was lost at the end of *The Mark of Athena*, but she briefly gains another after touching Sadie Kane's wand, causing it to transform into a celestial bronze dagger.
* Her **magical Yankees baseball cap** that makes anyone turn invisible when put on. Its usefulness of stealth is an important factor in battle, which along with Annabeth's ingenuity makes it invaluable. It seems to have different levels of efficiency depending on the type of wielder and opponent. The cap was given to Annabeth as a gift from her mother on her twelfth birthday. In *The Mark of Athena*, it lost its magic after meeting Minerva. It is restored to Annabeth by Athena in *The Staff of Serapis* to aid her daughter against the hybrid god Serapis in the Battle of Rockaway Beach.
* A bottle of **Medea's Sunscreen**, which makes the user invulnerable to certain types of fire, but it doesn't last forever. Annabeth's is tropical coconut scented.
* A waterproof yellow duffel bag from Hermes.
* A **light javelin** created by Tyson that Annabeth uses in the Chariot Races. It has buttons to decide if it would explode on impact, make a blunt spearhead, and active a grappling hook.
* A **silver coin** which leads chosen demigod children of Athena to *Athena Parthenos*, a 40-foot tall statue infused with their mother's power. Even if Annabeth tries to throw the coin, it reappears on her pocket.
* A **Drakon Bone Sword**, which Annabeth uses as a weapon to kill monsters. It was given to her by Damasen after she lost her knife.
* A **Mechanical Spider** that helped Annabeth, Percy, Grover and Tyson find Hephaestus. She is quite scared of it because of her arachnophobia. It is unknown what happened to it after *The Battle of the Labyrinth*.
* A pair of **Daedalus' Wings** which will copy the movement of the user's arms and have limited flight or glide. Annabeth received them after the fight in Daedalus' Workshop in the Labyrinth. They were damaged and had to be thrown away to prevent mortals from seeing them.
* A Celestial bronze **Video Shield** that allows the user to see anywhere once sunlight hits it as long as they concentrate enough. The users might get motion sickness the first time. It was designed by Daedalus and forged by Charles Beckendorf. It was lost in *The Demigod Diaries*.
* A **laptop** with Daedalus' several notes and unfinished designs. It can change its size, show schematics, create scans, and produce an emergency credit card. It was given to Annabeth by Daedalus in hope she would improve his own ideas at the end of *The Battle of the Labyrinth*. Some of her ideas included the redesign of Olympus and 3D Chinese handcuffs inspired by Frank Zhang. It isn't clear whether or not the laptop was irrevocably lost in Tartarus.
* Carter Kane's **Khopesh**, a weapon designed to disarm an enemy by hooking the weapon. Annabeth traded this weapon to Carter for her Yankees cap to fight Setne in *The Crown of Ptolemy*. It was returned to Carter after the battle's end.

## **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. Coincidently:
	+ She is one of the few people in camp who secretly carry their cellphones.
	+ She carries a teddy bear in her camp bag.
* 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 net be involved in the Great Imperial War to any extent.