Percy Jackson

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Percy Jackson
Camp Half-Blood character
File:Percy-jackson-orig.gif Percy as depicted by John Rocco
First appearance	The Lightning Thief
Portrayed by	Logan Lerman
Species	Demigod
Parent	Poseidon

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional and central character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series, appearing as the main protagonist and narrator in the series and a major supporting character in its sequel, The Heroes of Olympus series. He is portrayed by Logan Lerman in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a film adaptation of the series' first book, The Lightning Thief.

At the start of the series, Percy is introduced as a troubled twelve-year-old who is diagnosed with both ADHD and dyslexia. After being attacked by a Fury at school, he is escorted to Camp Half-Blood, a secret camp built to train and protect Greek demigods. At camp, Percy learns that his father is Poseidon, the god of the sea. As a son of one of the Big Three gods, Percy becomes a child mentioned in the Great Prophecy, a prophecy that was given by the Oracle seventy years ago. Throughout the series, Percy embarks on several quests to save his friends and, ultimately, the gods of Mount Olympus.

Physical description

As described in the books, Percy is a Caucasian with sea green eyes and jet black hair. In The Demigod Files, he is said to have a lot going for him and to be good-looking, though he does not seem to know it himself. He has been through a lot of schools and has ADHD and dyslexia. In The Lightning Thief, Percy is portrayed as unfit, but eventually becomes more muscular and athletic due to his training. In the same book, it is mentioned that he resembles his father, Poseidon; this is one of the reasons why Medusa wanted to keep him as a statue. Percy is described as being around the same height as Annabeth, who is considered tall in The Lost Hero; on the UK Percy Jackson website, he is said to be 5'10" and "kinda slim". After the events of The Titan's Curse, Percy and Annabeth both gain gray streaks in their hair after taking Atlas' burden of holding up the sky. It is unknown if it fades or disappears over time, as it is never mentioned again.

Personality and fatal flaw

Percy is usually portrayed as being good-natured, friendly, brave, and often willing to risk his life to save his friends, strangers, and even his non-monstrous foes. He also tends to do things and blurt things out before thinking, regardless of consequences, causing him to get in a lot of trouble sometimes. In The Demigod Files, Annabeth Chase mentions that he is technically smart but seems to act dumb, and is obtuse; he does not get obvious things, such as people's feelings. He is angered by Thalia Grace often, as their similar personalities and leadership styles tend to clash. However, they are still very good friends. Percy has a sarcastic sense of humor and is wry in his narration.

Percy seems to dislike titles being given to him, as he always tells horses, which his father is said to have created, not to call him "boss" or "lord" when they talk to him, though he does allow Annabeth to dub him "Seaweed Brain". He also has a strong sense of loyalty and fairness, as he turned down godhood when it was offered to him in order to remain with his friends Annabeth and Grover. Instead, he asks that the gods, especially the minor ones, recognize and claim all of their children by the time they turn thirteen years old. Although apparently considered good-looking, Percy has trouble talking to girls.

He is also the only living demigod to have duelled a Titan and lived, besides Jason Grace, who has dueled Krios. He has duelled four Titans: Atlas, Iapetus, Hyperion, and Kronos (numerous times). He is also one of the only demigods, besides Jason, to have defeated a Titan (Iapetus) without any help.

Percy's fatal flaw is loyalty. He will risk his life for anyone he cares for. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, tells him this. Kronos exploits this flaw many times in the series.

In the books

The Lightning Thief

Main article: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson is introduced as a 12-year-old boy diagnosed with both dyslexia and ADHD, who has been expelled from every school he has attended in the past for behavioural problems. As the action begins, he is enrolled at Yancy Academy, New York. There, Percy exhibits supernatural capabilities of which he seems unaware, such as controlling water. One of his teachers transforms into a Fury and attacks him; Percy defeats her, aided by another teacher, who throws him a pen which transforms into a sword. After the incident, all act as if nothing ever happened. Other incidents and denials further confuse Percy, who starts to suspect his friend Grover, and his teacher Mr Brunner. On a weekend excursion to Montauk Beach with his mother, they are advised to leave by Grovel who appears as a satyr. They drive towards Half-Blood Hill but crash and are attacked by a Minotaur. Percy defeats it and saves Grover but not his mother, who is sent to the Underworld; they then reach Camp Half-Blood.

At Camp, he learns about his true nature (he is a demigod) and that of his peers: Mr Brunner is really Chiron, and Grover really is a satyr. He overpowers his campmates during a game of capture the flag, an proof of unusual power which is explained after he is designated as the son of Poseidon. Later, he embarks on a quest to retrieve Zeus' lightning bolt with two friends. Notable encounters include Medusa and Hades. He discovers it is a campmate who has stolen the bolt, under the orders of the titan Kronos. He also finds and saves his mother out of the Underworld.

The Sea of Monsters

Main article: The Sea of Monsters

Thalia's tree, the magical border of Camp Half-Blood, has been poisoned. The only means of ridding the tree of its poison is the Golden Fleece, which is located on the island of Polyphemus, in the Bermuda Triangle.

Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go to the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece. Percy and Annabeth decide to go as well, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus' cave. Tyson the Cyclops, whom Percy befriends at school that year, joins them on their journey. Tyson is also Poseidon's son, and therefore Percy's half-brother.

Entering the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of trying to sail in between the two, Clarisse goes for Charybdis, and Tyson appears to die in Clarisse's ship after it sinks from a blow. Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy how Thalia died. She also mentions the prophecy and tells Percy that he has a choice to make when he turns sixteen years old. Fighting their way through obstacles, such as the Sirens and Circe's island, Percy and Annabeth join up with Clarisse, Grover, and later Tyson, and escape with the Golden Fleece.

When they return to the mortal world, they send Clarisse on an airplane with the Fleece to camp. Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson are kidnapped by Luke. In a duel with him, Percy is nearly killed. He is saved by Chiron, who is proven innocent, and his relatives, the Party Ponies. When they return to camp, the Fleece is put on the tree. It not only revives Thalia's tree, but Thalia too, who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams. It is revealed that this was Kronos's plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians.

The Titan's Curse

Main article: The Titan's Curse

The story begins with Percy embarking on a rescue mission. It is revealed that Grover has found half-bloods. They arrive at a military school and realize that they are not the only ones who have recognized the two half-bloods. In order to remain inconspicuous, they try to blend in with the crowd. A school dance is taking place, and Percy and Annabeth dance together. The two half-bloods, Bianca and Nico, are discreetly taken away by the school principal, and Percy, going against his better judgement, follows them, instead of consulting Grover, Thalia, and Annabeth. Percy is almost killed by the principal, who is really a manticore, but Annabeth saves them. Artemis's Hunters also come to the rescue, but not in time to prevent Annabeth from plummeting to her assumed death over a cliff with the manticore. Artemis counsels Percy, telling him that it is unlikely Annabeth survived the fall. She also offers Bianca the chance to become one of her Hunters, which would give her immortality and eternal girlhood. She agrees, believing that her brother, Nico, will be safe with Percy. At Camp, Percy becomes angry with Thalia for calling him "Seaweed Brain", Annabeth's pet name for him. In his anger, he summons water, which splashes on her, and she pricks him with static electricity. Percy summons the entire creek and builds it up but, when he sees the Oracle walking towards them, he lets go.

When Percy cannot go on a quest on Chiron's orders, he runs away on his favorite pegasus, Blackjack. He is found and accepted, reluctantly, by the Hunters. While at Hoover Dam, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare who can see through the Mist. She helps him escape from skeletal warriors who are trying to attack Percy and his friends.

While warning them about the junkyard of the gods, Aphrodite, goddess of love, tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth. Shortly after a battle with Atlas, Blackjack comes with his friends, and they fly to Olympus. Upon entering Olympus, the gods try to decide whether or not to kill Thalia, Percy, and Bessie (the Ophiotaurus), as they may hold the means to destroy Olympus, according to the Great Prophecy. Thalia becomes one of Artemis' Hunters, eliminating her as a potential recipient of the Great Prophecy, as Artemis' Hunters do not age. The gods decide to leave Percy alive and keep the Ophiotaurus safely in the throne room. Afterwards, a feast is held in honor of the heroes, and Athena tells Percy that she disapproves of his friendship with her daughter. At camp, Percy tells Nico that his sister has died. From then on, Nico loathes Percy, blaming him for his sister's death. Percy then holds the figurine of the god that Bianca gave him at the junkyard. Suddenly, he realizes who Nico's father is: Hades, lord of the dead.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Main article: The Battle of the Labyrinth

In book four, a door to the Labyrinth of Daedalus is discovered in the woods of Camp Half-Blood. The camp is in danger of being invaded by Kronos' army by means of the Labyrinth. Chiron sends Annabeth along with Percy, Grover, and Tyson into the Labyrinth on a quest to find Daedalus, in hopes that they might use his knowledge to help thwart any attacks that are carried out using the giant underground maze. They eventually find Daedalus, who has made himself a new body, and has disguised himself as the swordplay counselor.

Hera opens a door to Mount Othrys (Mount Tamalpais), where the Titans are staying until Kronos gains a new body and is able to invade the camp. Annabeth gives Percy her magic invisibility hat and he goes up to investigate. There, he sees a coffin. He flips the top off of the coffin and is stunned to find that it contains the body of his old enemy, Luke Castellan. There is one small hole in his body right where his heart was, because Kronos is reforming in Luke's body. Ethan Nakamura, a son of Nemesis, is the last demigod to join the Titan lord's cause. When he pledges to renounce the gods and join the Titans' army, the last piece of Kronos is risen from Tartarus. Luke's body rises out of the coffin, the hole healed, and his eyes solid gold.

There is a battle, as Kronos' army attacks Camp Half-Blood through the Labyrinth. Many are injured and some are left dead. Daedalus shows up to help along with his giant pet hellhound, Mrs. O'Leary. Daedalus has escaped death for centuries, but gives himself over to Nico di Angelo, a son of Hades, so he can accept his punishment in the Underworld, and also so he can see his son Icarus, who was accidentally killed by one of his own inventions, and his nephew Perdix, whom he had regrettably killed out of rage. Percy inherits Mrs. O'Leary, who seems to prefer him to any other demigod. Percy and Annabeth's relationship starts to change. Annabeth saves Percy several times and kisses him once because she thinks he is going to die. She also makes a big scene in front of all the campers when she realizes that Percy is alive.

The Last Olympian

Main article: The Last Olympian

In the beginning of book five, Percy and Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus, are sent on a quest to blow up Luke's demon cruise ship, the Princess Andromeda. However, Kronos knows of the plan, and captures Beckendorf even as Percy attempts to create a diversion. Beckendorf manages to detonate the Greek fire charges as Percy breaks through Kronos' forces and dives off the ship, heading for his father's domain. Percy feels guilty about leaving Beckendorf, although Nico says he saw him in the Elysian Fields, and was told to tell Percy not to blame himself. Percy and Nico, the son of Hades, sneak out of camp, and meet Hestia, who shows Percy part of Luke's past, after they meet Luke's mother, who tried to become the Oracle, and was thus driven insane by a curse of Hades' working. Luke has bathed in the River Styx to become invulnerable, allowing him to survive the presence of the Titan Lord in his mortal body.

A war between the Titans and Olympians ensues, one that has been in the making for much of the series. Through the information they find from Hestia and Luke's mother, Percy learns how to gain the invulnerability Luke has. He travels with Nico to the Underworld, where he bathes in the River Styx, thus becoming invulnerable.

As he returns to the surface, a silent Manhattan is assaulted by several demon armies. Percy leads forty demigods in a defense effort, activating the many statues Daedalus has planted throughout Manhattan for more manpower. He is also joined by the Hunters of Artemis and many nature spirits under Grover's direction. Even with these forces, Percy cannot hold back the tide of monsters, and is slowly forced backwards to the Empire State Building.

In the end of the book, Luke is revealed to be as invulnerable as Percy himself, and Achilles before him. As a result, Percy gives Annabeth's cursed knife to him, allowing him to reap his own soul by stabbing his own weak point.

As Luke's life seeps away, Annabeth admits she never loved Luke except as a brother. She and Percy finally cement their relationship, building, for the first time, something permanent she could trust. They kiss in the dining pavilion after Annabeth says, "I am never going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it." The other campers catch them in the act and playfully toss them into the canoe lake, where Percy creates an air bubble, and then they have what Percy describes as "the best underwater kiss ever".

The Lost Hero

Main article: The Lost Hero

Percy Jackson is mentioned regularly throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, he is revealed to have disappeared three days before the books begins, leaving Annabeth and the rest of the camp worried. Annabeth goes on a search for him but comes back unsuccessful, with no idea where he might be. At the end of the book, it is revealed that Hera sent Percy to the Roman Camp Half-Blood. Just as Jason was sent to Camp Half-Blood, Percy was sent to the Roman camp as a form of exchanging leaders, in order to make the two camps aware of each other, so they could try to unite. However, there is a possibility that Percy may not remember who he is or who his friends are. Jason and Annabeth realize this and discover that Percy might not make it out alive, because Roman demigods are much more "warlike" than their Greek counterparts, and if not deemed worthy, they are made the meals for wolves at the Roman camp, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Annabeth then makes a plan to find the Roman Camp and bring Percy with them on their trip to Greece to defeat Gaea. Jason, Son of Zeus, and his two friends Piper, daughter of Aphrodite, and Leo, son of Hephaestus, go on a dangerous quest to save Hera, find the Roman Camp Half-Blood, and possibly save the missing camper, Percy Jackson.

Film

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Logan Lerman as Percy in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy was played by Logan Lerman in Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, a film adaptation of the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief. In the film, all the characters have been "aged up" to be seventeen as of the first book, instead of twelve, moving the film from the young readers target audience of the book to a teenage target audience.

Powers and abilities

Percy, like most demigods, has certain disabilities and traits. He has ADHD, which is actually heightened alertness that allows demigods to keep track of multiple things simultaneously during combat. In the case of Percy, he can even extrapolate where his enemies will strike simply based on how their muscles tense. He also has dyslexia, since his brain is hard-wired for reading Ancient Greek instead of modern languages. Percy has clairvoyant dreams, allowing him to see events in distant locations in out-of-body experiences. This is a general feature of demigods, but becomes even more intense during times of strife and when pivotal events are in motion. Percy has an inherent knack for seeing otherwise hidden things thanks to his unpredictable, changeable nature, inherited from his father, Poseidon.

In The Lightning Thief, Percy is given a enchanted sword called Anaklusmos (Riptide). It is made of celestial bronze, a fictional metal which will injure immortals and monsters, but not mortals. Many demigods use celestial bronze weapons, though Anaklusmos is shown to be a far more powerful weapon against monsters than most other blades of its kind. In its dormant form, it appears as a ballpoint pen, though in a dream, Percy sees it in the form of a hairpin. Percy is unable to lose it as it will always return to his pocket soon after being dropped.

Children of the "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades) are far more powerful than demigods of the other Greek gods and goddesses. Hence, Percy has a wide range of abilities. He is a naturally talented swordsman, often able to hold his own against larger, stronger, and more experienced opponents, even the god of war, Ares. He possesses incredible physical strength. He is able to tear a horn off the head of the Minotaur, and is able to bear the weight of the sky for some time, the curse of Atlas. Percy has a psychic connection with his friend Grover, called an empathy link. According to Grover, if either of them dies, the other might as well. In The Last Olympian, Percy bathes in the River Styx (like Achilles), making him nearly invulnerable except in one weak point, analogous to Achilles' heel (the small of his back, directly opposite the navel) and also granting him highly increased strength, speed, and endurance.

Aquatic and hydrokinetic abilities

Percy has numerous powers specifically connected to the domains of Poseidon: seas, horses, sea creatures, storms, and earthquakes. His water-related abilities tend to be stronger in sea water than in fresh water. Like most other demigods, using his abilities tires him in proportion to the intensity and duration of whatever he does.

Upon contact with water (or later, with his abilities more developed, near water), Percy gains a disproportionate amount of strength, combat skill, and speed. This effect wears off soon after leaving the water. He can control large volumes of water with great force (hydrokinesis). For example, he can redirect rivers, create currents to push boats or himself, or even increase surface tension to the point where it is firm enough to stand upon. On a smaller scale, he can also hold back the tide and redirect waves, apparently relying on pressurization. In the end of the first series, he pulls air bubbles together to form one larger one for Annabeth and himself. Percy can breathe underwater (excluding the River Styx's waters). He is unharmed by water pressure of any amount, or by falling from great height into water. When Percy is underwater, he stays dry unless he consciously forces himself to become wet. When Percy touches objects underwater, they also become dry.

Percy can create seawater with little effort with things that used to be in the sea (such as petrified seashells, as in the book The Battle of the Labyrinth). With effort, he can also do this without any derivatives. He can communicate telepathically with marine life, horses, horse-related creatures (including mythical horses, such as pegasi), most of whom also obey him and treat him with respect. They tend to treat him with some deference and work to accommodate him; a notable exception are the flesh-eating horses in The Battle of the Labyrinth.

While at sea, Percy has perfect bearings on his exact coordinates. He can control all parts of boats telekinetically, especially sails. He can sense objects if they are underwater, and can communicate with children of Poseidon, such as the Cyclops, underwater. Percy is very resistant to burning, and is able to survive for a time while immersed in magma because of the power of the ocean inside of him. He can summon water from bodies of water that are hundreds of miles away from him. However, doing this nearly killed him the one time he tried in Mt. St. Helens. Percy can also summon hurricanes, as he does in The Last Olympian, and earthquakes, as he does in The Battle of the Labyrinth, since his father is the god of the sea and storms, though he cannot sustain such tremendous force for very long.

Percy can release the oxygen diffused in water and force the surrounding water to recede, making an air bubble so his friends with non-hydrokinetic abilities can breathe. He can control ocean currents to propel him at great force underwater, or even up into the air, as he does in his duel with Ares. He can cause water to form stronger-than-normal hydrogen bonds on the molecular level to form shields strong enough to deflect shards of glass. Percy has an accelerated healing factor when standing or immersed in water, quickly healing any wounds and curing him of most forms of poison.

Romance

• Calypso: Percy, stranded on the island of Ogygia after being badly burned, is then nursed back to health by Calypso. She appears to be around sixteen with almond eyes and caramel hair; Percy thinks she is more beautiful than Aphrodite (the goddess of love). Percy enjoys her company and admires her beauty and grace. When leaving the island, he says she will always be his biggest "what if". She extends him an offer to stay, which would make him immortal, saving him from the prophecy predicting his death when he turns sixteen. However, his friends and family need his help, so he chooses to leave. Before he goes she kisses him on the forehead and gives him a magic raft to take him to Camp Half-Blood. In the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, he plants a sprig of moonlace in Manhattan, fulfilling his promise to her to plant a garden at his home. In The Last Olympian, he demands that Calypso should be excused and released; whether or not the gods live up to this promise is not revealed.
• Rachel Elizabeth Dare: Even though Percy is not known to love Rachel, it is known that she likes him. Percy is unsure about having a crush on Rachel and never truly admits it. His feelings are mixed mainly because of his feelings towards Annabeth. In time, his growing feelings for Annabeth stop him from ever developing a relationship with Rachel. In The Last Olympian, Rachel kisses Percy in Paul's Prius right before he sets off to the Princess Andromeda, where it was very likely he could have died. On Olympus, Rachel tells Percy that he was just a distraction for her. She tells him that they can never be together because she took on the spirit of the Oracle, restricting her from dating. Percy thinks of this as Rachel "dumping" him but takes it very lightly and says he intends to continue to be friends with her. Also, she expresses that the only reason why she showed an interest in him at all was because Percy was the one that introduced the mythological world to her.
• Annabeth Chase: Annabeth is Percy's primary love interest throughout the series. In each book there are hints of complicated romantic tension, which she attributes to the conflict between their god-parents over the naming of Athens. (Both Poseidon and Athena wanted the city named after them, but the people chose Athena as their deity.) Percy and Annabeth first meet in The Lightning Thief when Percy wakes up after passing out to see Annabeth, whom he describes as "pretty", spoon-feeding him nectar and ambrosia, the food of the gods. Percy is confused and irritated by Annabeth's behavior in the beginning of The Lightning Thief, but they develop a solid friendship at the end of the novel from all they have experienced together. In The Sea of Monsters, Annabeth kisses him once on the cheek after winning the chariot race. In The Titan's Curse, Percy and Annabeth share a slow dance while in the school trying to save Bianca and Nico di Angelo. They are interrupted in the middle of the song when Percy loses sight of Bianca and Nico. At the end of the book, at a party, Percy tell Annabeth he owes her a dance and they dance again. Also, Percy meets Aphrodite, who tells him that he will have a tragic love life; incidentally, Percy meets Rachel a little while after. At the end of the book, he nearly has a heart attack, thinking Annabeth is about to join the Hunters of Artemis. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Annabeth kisses Percy before he goes to fight the telekhines, for good luck. She also hugs him after his return from Calypso's island, making a scene in front of the other campers. In The Last Olympian, when Percy goes to the River Styx to bathe, he is supposed to envision the one thing that keeps him tied to the mortal world. He thinks of Annabeth pulling him out of the water at the canoe lake. When Kronos is spotted during the battle in The Last Olympian, Percy orders a retreat, but Annabeth stays behind to help him cover the Apollo cabin's retreat, taking a knife that would have struck his Achilles' heel. Near the end of the first series, when Luke is dying, he asks Annabeth if she ever loved him, to which she replies that she only loved Luke as a brother. At the end of the novel, Annabeth kisses Percy after giving him a cake for his birthday, which he had forgotten in the midst of the battle. Soon after, Clarisse, the Stoll brothers, and various other eavesdropping campers stage an ambush and drop the two into the canoe lake, cheering, less than twelve hours after skirting Western civilization's doom. Percy uses his hydrokinetic powers to create an air bubble around himself and Annabeth so they can stay submerged and share yet another kiss. He describes it as "pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time", indicating his intentions at a long-term relationship. In The Lost Hero, Percy and Annabeth are dating. Since Percy has been missing for several days, Annabeth is understandably short on temper. She gets into a bad mood every time someone mentions Percy. She mentions that he kissed her good night the night before he disappeared from his cabin. She is morose over the fact that he likely cannot remember who he is, let alone her.

Relationship with Olympians

• Poseidon: Percy is on good terms with Poseidon primarily because he is his son and even gives him a birthday present. At the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, Poseidon states that Percy is his favorite son. He even forgives Percy for sitting on his throne in The Last Olympian and states that not even Hercules is as good a hero as Percy.
• Zeus: Zeus, the king of the Gods, has mixed feelings for Percy. He is upset over Percy's birth because it violates the pact that he, Poseidon, and Hades made after World War Two to not sire any more children, but is pleased when Percy returns his Master Bolt to him in The Lightning Thief and admits a certain respect for Percy accomplishing this. During the winter solstice in The Titan's Curse, Zeus votes to let Percy live, but this may have been tied to the fate of his own daughter, Thalia, as well. However, Thalia had agreed to become one of Artemis' Huntresses before this, so it is possible that this may not have mattered. In spite of all of this, Zeus tells Percy that if he ever finds him in his realm (the sky), he will strike him down. After Percy fights in the battle at the end of The Last Olympian, Zeus offers Percy godhood, and therefore immortality, for saving Olympus from the Titans.
• Hades: Hades, the lord of the underworld, has mixed feelings about Percy. Percy previously accuses him of stealing Zeus' Master Bolt when it was in fact Luke who stole it. Later however, he returns to Hades his Helm of Darkness and clears his name of all charges pressed against him. In The Last Olympian, Hades is shown assisting Percy during the war, even talking with his son, Nico, who also has a decent relationship with Percy, afterward. When mentioned by Percy during his decision of rejecting immortality, Hades is shown casually addressing him, with none of the malice that he normally shows throughout the series.
• Ares: The god of war despises Percy. He started off thinking to manipulate Percy into unknowingly starting a war of the gods in The Lightning Thief, but held a grudge against Percy after Percy wounded him in their battle, due to the insult to Ares' pride. It is dangerous for Percy that they are on bad terms because Ares, being the god of war, thinks highly of revenge and is quite violent. Ares puts a curse on Percy, saying that when he needs his sword the most, it will fail him. He only goes along with granting Percy godhood because he can fight him as many times as he wants and Percy will just keep coming back.
• Athena: The goddess of wisdom, war, strategy, industry, justice and skill disapproves of Percy's "friendship" with her daughter Annabeth because of the historical rivalry between herself and Poseidon and the unpredictable, uncontrollable element Percy represents, but Percy has not done anything against her directly. In The Titan's Curse, she may have helped to guide him at the Hoover Dam. However, in the same book, she also voted that he be destroyed. In The Last Olympian, Athena is on good terms with Percy, with the exception of his relationship with Annabeth.
• Hera: the goddess of women, marriage and family, neither likes nor dislikes Percy. Near the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth he and Annabeth both disagree with her views of families having to be perfect, siding with Hephaestus on the matter instead, even though Hera helped them numerous times in the book. Percy also insults her by mentioning Thalia, one of Zeus' children not borne by her, whom Hera historically despises, along with Hercules. She swears to make Annabeth regret her decision, much like Ares did to Percy, but it is not directly stated whether she included Percy in this statement. In "The Lost Hero", Hera sent Percy to the Roman version of Camp Half Blood, making him lose his memory.
• Dionysus ("Mr. D"): Percy primarily has been on Mr. D's bad side from the very second they met. Percy does not like Dionysus very much either, for he constantly antagonizes Percy (and all other demigods, for that matter except his twin sons) by never calling him by his real name (preferring to call him "Peter Johnson" or "Perry Johansson"), but he saves Percy's life in The Titan's Curse. One of the other reasons he may dislike half-bloods is because of the way they treat mortals; he mentions Theseus and Ariadne, Jason and Medea, and alludes to Hercules and Zoё Nightshade in The Titan's Curse, mentioning how the former in all three cases used and later abandoned the latter. However, at the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth, their relationship comes to better terms after one of Dionysus' sons dies in the final battle. Later, he calls Percy by his real name, although he later denies this. They are on much better terms by the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth. Although Dionysus denies this, he favors Percy with his judgment, help, and advice, more than any other god in the series.
• Demeter: Percy is on Demeter's bad side for his lack of respect towards her, even though Demeter had unkindly criticized Percy and Nico's personalities, body images, and postures and the fact that she did nothing to keep Typhon at bay from destroying Olympus. Near the end of the war, however, she had participated in the fight by turning an entire group of Kronos' minions Percy was fighting into a field of wheat along with Hades (who was convinced by Nico to help his godly family despite he being a little mistreated by them), and Persephone who turned the dracnaes spears into sunflowers.
• Hephaestus:He is grateful to Percy for having discovered who was using his forge under Mt. St. Helens, even though he causes an eruption that destroyed the forge and awakened Typhon (who had been imprisoned under it), but also dispersed and/or killed the users. At the end of the 5th book, Hephaestus said that Percy had done "a pretty bang up job, mostly." This does not stop Hephaestus though from calling Percy a "young upstart" in The Lost Hero, when discussing how his importance in the second Titan war embarrassed the gods.
• Artemis: Percy is on Artemis' good side since he helped find and save her in The Titan's Curse. She even declared him a hero in the halls of Olympus itself and started calling him a man rather than a boy after he helped her defeat Atlas. His respect for Zoë Nightshade, and his deep loyalty, regardless of gender, has also improved her view of him.
• Hermes: Percy is on good terms with Hermes, who convinced him to go on a quest in The Sea of Monsters and gave him magic items to assist him in his journey. He also explained the relationship between gods and heroes to him. Their relationship took a turn for the worse after realizing that Percy could not save Luke and Hermes grew bitter to all heroes. He is angered by Percy in the "Last Olympian", yet later he finds out that he is truly angered with Annabeth for not having made the choice of running away from all of their problems in the year following "The Battle of the Labirynth" But after the war, their relationship was mended upon Percy's counseling and sympathy of Luke's situation and prophecy as well as how powerless Hermes was.
• Aphrodite: Aphrodite likes Percy and the situation his "friendship" with Annabeth creates. She expressed an interest in their relationship, meaning that she plans to meddle with it in some way. Percy is understandably ambivalent towards this because Aphrodite sees it easily becoming a romantic tragedy—and likes the idea. She also stops from the God Ares from crushing him to pieces by showing the special interest in him and Annabeth. She also said she would make Percy's love life hard, just because she likes him. The way she meddled with it was by making Percy meet Rachel and causing him to be confused about Annabeth. In The Lost Hero, Aphrodite expresses support for Hera's approach - which includes Percy's disappearance (and suspected memory loss) and thus forced separation from Annabeth. There is, of course, the chance he might meet someone else while without memory of Annabeth.
• Apollo: Apollo treats Percy like a younger cousin (which he is). The sun god helped Percy twice in The Titan's Curse so that they could save Artemis, his sister. Being the god of prophecy, he also told Percy how important dreams could be.
• Hestia: Percy and Hestia have a good relationship. In The Last Olympian, Percy entrusts her with Pandora's pithos that contains the spirit of hope, Elpis, saying that "hope is best kept by the hearth". She also helps him and shows him the stories of Luke, like that of his childhood and relationships with this family because she says that he needs to 'know about his enemy' to be able to confront him and make his final decision. He also call her the "Last Olympian", and the most important of all the Gods because she is the one that always stays behind when all the other Gods are gone.
• Persephone: Persephone and Percy meet in the Underworld, where Persephone says she likes Percy because he is "Brave". You would often see, during a conversation between Hades and Percy, that Persephone saves Percy several times from Hades wrath.

External links

• Official Percy Jackson Site