Percy Jackson

Perseus (Percy) Jackson
Perseus (Percy) Jackson
First appearance	"The Lightning Thief"
Created by	Rick Riordan
In-universe information
Alias	Percy
Nickname	Seaweed Brain (by Annabeth and Thalia); Peter Johnson or Perry Johansson (by Dionysus)
Family	Olympians, Sally Jackson, Tyson, Theseus (Half-brother), other half-bloods

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is the protagonist in Rick Riordan's fantasy series, Percy Jackson & The Olympians.

Percy is set to be played by Logan Lerman in the upcoming movie.

History

Percy Jackson was raised by his mother as a single child. When he was at the right age of his powers being discovered, he was found by a satyr named Grover, who disguised himself as a human. He was Percy's best friend at his school. On a school field trip, one of Percy's teachers, Mrs. Dodds, turns out to be a monster and attacks him. Mr. Brunner, Percy's favorite teacher but actually a Centaur in disguise, gives him a pen which turns into a sword (later on mentioned as Anaklusmos (Riptide)). Percy wins a close victory on Mrs. Dodds, but afterwards no mortals remember that she ever existed.

After some events, in which his mom "dies", Percy ends up at Camp Half-Blood. He is at first sent to Hermes' Cabin, led by Luke. After a capture the flag game, he is found out to be the son of Poseidon, which means Poseidon broke his oath to not have any children.

Percy is then selected to go on a mission to retrieve Zeus' Master Thunderbolt. He does this with Annabeth and Grover Underwood. After they discover the thief was Ares, Percy challenges and manages to beat the God of War by stabbing him in the ankle. He also manages to bring his mom back, as she never died. She was in the Underworld with Hades the whole time.

After a whole school year, he goes back to camp in which he discovers Grover is missing. Percy and Annabeth go on a long mission to save him, in the Sea of Monsters while Clarisse is also sent.

In the 3rd book, Percy Jackson goes to a school, where Grover found two new half-bloods, Bianca and Nico di Angelo. In the battle, Annabeth jumped onto the monster, who jumped off a cliff and Percy, Grover, Thalia and two of Artemis' hunters, Zoë Nightshade and Bianca, must go on a quest to save Artemis.

Personality

Percy is usually portrayed as being good-natured, friendly, and often willing to risk his life to save his friends, strangers, and even his enemies. He also has a very sarcastic sense of humor and is wry in his writing style. Percy seems to dislike titles being given to him as he always tells the horses not to call him "boss" whenever they talk to him. Percy is occasionally shown to be fairly childish, such as when he compares Artemis' chariot to Santa's sleigh. Despite not being very popular at school, Percy's compassionate and good natured personality has caused several girls to develop feelings for him including Annabeth, Rachel and Calypso. He also has a sense of loyalty for he turned down godhood when it was offered to him in order to remain with his friends Annabeth and Grover (mainly Annabeth though).

The Lightning Thief

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is introduced as a troubled 12-year-old boy who has been kicked out of every single school he has attended. His most recent is Yancy Academy, where his usual trouble seems to be worse than usual. He has few friends at the school, one of which being the satyr-in-hiding, Grover Underwood.

During a field trip to a museum, Percy is annoyed by a bully and, in a fit of rage, summons water in a nearby fountain to pull the bully in during lunch. He is summoned inside the museum by his math teacher, Mrs. Dodds, where, inside the Ancient Greece exhibit, she turns into a fury and attacks him. A moment later Mr. Brunner, Percy's favorite teacher, throws his pen at Percy, who receives instead a bronze sword. Percy manages to destroy the Fury and returns outside with the sword, that all of a sudden was a pen again.

As Percy questions him, Mr. Brunner says he saw nothing in particular and is happy Percy found his pen. As Percy questions his classmates, they act as though there was never any "Mrs. Dodds", but Percy realizes that Grover is lying when he says that Mrs. Dodds never existed. As the school year winds down, Percy overhears Grover and Mr. Brunner talking about him. Percy is plain freaked out by know and his grades (not the most envious in the world) go down drastically. As he's going home on a bus with Grover, he sees three old ladies knitting a giant sock. Percy ditches Grover and takes a taxi to his apartment on his own. Arriving home to his horrible stepdad, Gabe, and friends playing poker, Percy clashes with him.

His mother arrives soon afterward and tells him that they can go to his favorite beach for the entire weekend. Percy, happy that finally something good has happened, packs his things and leaves, but not before being jeered further by his stepdad. Arriving at the beach, Percy wakes up in the middle of the night, in a storm, shocked to see Grover coming to him and his mom, telling them to leave. Percy is confused, but his mother takes them both in the car and begins driving at daring speeds.

It begins to rain and Percy hears a loud growl. Percy's mom arrives at a hill and forces both boys out of the car. Percy then sees the thing chasing them is a Minotaur, who charges them. Percy and his Mom manage to dodge it, but Grover is too slow and the Minotaur charges him. Percy, again in a surge of power, manages to defeat the Minotaur, but not before a bolt of lighting takes both the dying Minotaur and his mother to the Underworld. Grover takes Percy to Camp Half-Blood and he is introduced to the other campers, who Percy learns are all demigods.

Percy also meets a future friend Annabeth, leader of the Athena cabin. Percy himself is a demigod, but no one knows who his divine parent is. He learns that Mr. Brunner is actually the centaur Chiron and is the camp's activity director. He also learns that the director of the camp is the god Dionysus. After a long interval he is introduced to Luke, the leader of the Hermes cabin. Later in a capture-the-flag game, Percy single-handedly defeats Clarisse, leader of the Ares cabin, and three others when he learns that he is the son of Poseidon. Soon after learning that Zeus's lighting bolt has been stolen, Percy embarks on the quest of his life with the bronze sword Anaklusmos (also known as riptide), Grover, and Annabeth.

The Sea of Monsters

Thalia's tree, that serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood (which was formed to prevent a daughter of Zeus from dying), has been poisoned mysteriously by unknown forces. After Chiron is dismissed from camp (he is blamed for poisoning the tree), Tantalus, who came from the Fields of Punishment, and can not have food or water, takes the job. The only thing able to rid the tree of its poison is the Golden Fleece, which is located on Polyphemus's Island, in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle).

Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans. Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus's cave somewhere in the Sea of Monsters. Percy and Annabeth go along with Tyson, a young Cyclops (Poseidon's son, thus Percy's half-brother) whom Percy befriended at school that year, joins them on their journey, after saving Camp Half-Blood from two fire-breathing bulls. Grover does have tim to be saved, as Polyphemus believes that Grover is a female cyclops, and not a satyr.

As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of trying to sail in between the two, Clarisse automatically goes for Charybidis and Tyson supposedly dies in Clarisse's ship. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy many things about how Thalia died and she also mentions her prophecy. Fighting their way through many other obstacles, like the Sirens and Circe's island, they join up with Clarisse, Grover, and later Tyson, and leave with the Golden Fleece.

When they return to the mortal world, they send off Clarisse on an airplane to camp alone, and Percy, Annabeth and Tyson get kidnapped by Luke. He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals Chiron was innocent, and Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed relatives. When they return to camp the Fleece is put on the tree. The Fleece not only revives Thalia's tree, but it revives Thalia too. It's Thalia who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams(a punk). He remembers the dream and realizes that it is her. It turns out that this was actually 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

The demigods, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia rush to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: he has found two powerful half-blood siblings whose parentage is unknown. They are Bianca di Angelo and Nico di Angelo. A fierce battle awaits... and a surprise from a group of Hunters with Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, but that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.

They're not the only ones in danger. An ancient monster has arisen -- one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus, and Artemis, the only one who might know how to track it, is missing. Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess, find Annabeth who supposedly got kidnapped by the evil Dr.Thorn, and solve the mystery of the monster Artemis was hunting. Along the way, Grover makes a very important discovery about Pan. Also during the journey, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who can see straight through the Mist. She helps him escape from dead warriors. While warning them about the junk yard of the gods, Aphrodite tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth .

Once at the other side of the country, they go to the Mountain of Despair to fight Atlas and Luke. Thalia was fighting Luke, and everyone else was fighting Atlas. Artemis was struggling against her bond, the weight of the sky. Percy took the sky from her and held it while Artemis and Zoë lured him back to where the sky was being held. While this was happening, Thalia was fighting Luke, and Luke was winning. Finally, Artemis threw Atlas over to Percy. He knocked Percy from under the sky and Atlas had to hold his burden once more. Thalia and Luke were still fighting but finally Thalia shoved him off the edge with her shield, Aegis. During the battle, Zoë receives deadly injuries; she is poisoned by her old friend, Ladon, and her father, Atlas, who made the final strike that killed her. Artemis put her out of her pain and she turned into dust. The dust flew into the stars, creating a new shape in the sky in the shape of a hunter. On Mount Olympus, Thalia becomes one of Artemis' hunters. On the way back to camp, Percy was trying to figure out how to tell Nico his sister died because of a crazed robot in the junkyard of the gods. Once at camp, Percy told Nico the horrible truth and the boy sprints into the woods. Annabeth, Percy and Grover search for Nico for a long time, but have no luck. Percy then holds the figurine of the god Bianca got for him at the junk yard. Suddenly, he realizes who Nico's dad is: Hades, Lord of the Dead. Many weeks later, Grover was drinking a lot of coffee, trying to get a connection with Pan, like he did in New Mexico. He comes running towards Percy to tell him Pan spoke in his mind. Pan only said three words, "I await you."

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, and that itself proves to be when he is accompanied by a mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Rachel tells Percy to leave the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel. As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the demons and runs into Annabeth Chase, a friend from camp along the way. She takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp just for demigods like them. Percy finds his half-brother Cyclops, Tyson, waiting for him in his cabin.

Quintus, the new swordsmen teacher, is accompanied by Mrs. O'Leary, a hellhound that develops a soft spot for Percy. During a game that Quintus made up, Annabeth and Percy go through the rocks of Zeus's Fists and are stuck in a dark room. Though they are there for only a few minutes, when they return truly almost an hour had passed since they entered. Annabeth is offered the quest she has been waiting for since age 7: She must enter the Labyrinth, find Daedalus, and get Ariadne's String before their arch enemy, Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, does.

Luke has been planning on burning down Camp Half-Blood, and using the Labyrinth to get there guided by Ariadne's String. Annabeth gets her prophecy from the Oracle: "You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, the child of Athena's final stand, destroyed with a hero's final breath, and lose a love to worse than death." Annabeth takes Percy, Grover, and Tyson along with her. Together, they enter the maze. They are accompanied by Hera, who tells that Percy knows the way.

When they take a wrong turn throughout the maze they run into Nico, son of Hades. Nico is accompanied by King Minos, who tries to convince Nico to kill them and that they are not his friends. Once they get out, Percy and the others run into a monster-run quiz show. Also, once they return to camp, Hephaestus has them travel to one of his forges. Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. St. Helens while battling fierce water demons. Before parting with Annabeth, she kisses him for luck, and vanishes under her cap of invisibility.

Percy blasts out of Mt. St. Helens while escaping and ends up falling into Ogygia, a tiny island undiscovered by mortals. There, he meets Calypso, a young girl whom Percy thinks is much prettier than Aphrodite herself. Percy must leave the island and Calypso (who has fallen in love with him) behind. When he finds Annabeth again, Percy realizes that he does know the way. Once they are accompanied by Rachel again, they run into a wide arena, where Percy must battle demigod Ethan Nakumura. Sparing Ethan, Percy challenges his giant half-brother, Antaeus, that is accompanying Luke. Percy kills him by having him off of the ground, for the earth helps him heal.

When he finds Annabeth and Rachel again, Rachel leads them straight to Quintis, who tells them that he is Daedalus; he reveals that Luke got there first. He also says that Rachel is better and more accurate than the string. Monsters then attack the workshop, dragging Nico Di Angelo in chains. Percy, Rachel, Annabeth, and Nico escape and leave Daedalus to fight the remaining monsters. They find another entrance and enter the maze once again. Once they navigate through the maze, Percy hears the Titan Lord speak to him. Taking Annabeth's invisibility cap, he goes into the room and opens the coffin.

There, not fully formed, is Luke. As much as Percy hated him, Percy did not draw Riptide. He finds the demigod whom he spared earlier in the maze, Ethan. Ethan joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to life. Percy barely escapes, thanks to Nico Di Angelo. While they were going through the Labyrinth, they meet up with Tyson and Grover. Together, they all find the wild god Pan, who tells them he is fading. As his spirit fades, it goes into the mouths of each of them, and it seems that Grover got a little bit more than the rest. They lead Rachel to New York, who gets a ride from a taxi driver, who leads them straight to camp.

Once they get to camp, they leave Rachel behind because she is mortal, they then readying for the Titan army's arrival. Battling side by side are Annabeth and Percy. Percy, remembering what Annabeth had done earlier in the maze, gets to her side and they both fight a fierce monster of the Titan's army. Grover, in a panic, screams so loudly that it scares the Titan army back into the Labyrinth. Grover's Dryad girlfriend, Juniper, insists that it was Pan's wild scream that had scared the Titan army the first time. As Percy gets up, Daealus comes and tells them that the Labyrinth is tied to his life.

The child of Athena (Deadalus/Quintus) dies, and so does the Labyrinth. Percy, Annabeth, and the other uninjured campers take the wounded to the Big House. Percy decides to leave camp and go celebrate his birthday with his mom. Two surprising visitors stop by while Percy, his mom, and Paul Blofis (Percy's mom's boyfriend) are celebrating. First, Percy's father Poseidon comes and tells him that he fears Luke/Kronos is only temporarily defeated. Finally departing with Poseidon, Percy decides to go to his room to plant the garden he had earlier promised Calypso. As he does, Nico di Angelo stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. Percy then invites him for cake.

The Last Olympian

Percy is in the fifth book, in which a war similar to that of the Olympians and Titans ages ago is waged; he is expected to challenge Kronos. It has been both hinted that Luke had visited the river Styx to make his body a great vessel for Kronos. It has also true that Percy has visited the Styx with Nico di Angelo to make him invincible. He takes on the curse of Achilles and ends up defeating the minotaur and almost each of Kronos' bridge attack force. He has a weak point on his lower back that electrifies him on contact. Percy also visited Poseidon's undersea kingdom for the first time. At the end, Percy turns down immortality, preferring that new cabins be built to honor every minor god, as Tyson and some cyclops are mentioned starting on a Hecate Cabin, with Nemesis being kept in mind.

Powers/Abilities

Percy has ADHD, which actually is his battle senses that make half-bloods more aware in battles.
Percy is dyslexic, since his brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek.
Percy is a superior swordsman, even though he has never bested Luke in a fight, except for during practice in the Lightning Thief.
Percy has control over water (and bubbles in water), and he is able to manipulate it to his will.
Percy is given more energy and strength and is healed when out at sea or in water.
Percy is able to breathe underwater.
Percy can manipulate ships with his mind in order to make them sail.
Percy can sense the change of saltwater to freshwater.
While at sea, Percy has perfect bearings on his current coordinates.
Percy can communicate with equestrian animals (horses, zebras, etc.), as his father created them out of sea foam.
Percy can communicate telepathically with sea animals.
Percy can sense where objects are underwater, as well as the ocean's warm and cold currents.
Since Tyson is his half-brother, he can communicate with him underwater.
Percy has a psychic connection with Grover called an empathy link.
Percy can withstand great pressures underwater.
When Percy is underwater, he stays dry, unless he doesn't want to be dry. When Percy touches objects underwater, they become dry.
The water cushions Percy if he falls from a high altitude.
Percy takes a long time to burn, including against lava.
Percy can make water appear from nothing, though it takes much energy to do so.
Percy also appears to possess more power than any living half-blood (excluding Thalia and Nico di Angelo); when he was attacked by the telekhines in Hephaestus' forge he was in such danger that his powers acted on instinct and unleashed a tsunami burst that was powerful enough to kill the telekhines, destroy the forge, and stir/awake the imprisoned Typhon.
Percy has aquakinetic powers; he is able to move water from a river or even the ocean with his mind.
It has been hinted that he can summon earthquakes.
Ever since the Titans Curse, Percy dreams himself into the heart of the Princess Andromeda, and Luke's planning. This could be the work of Apollo, the God of Prophecy, because he told Percy,"How important dreams could be."
Though it has not been properly explained, it is shown in the fifth book that he can presumabley manipulate water and wind to create a small hurricane which he can use to attack or blow away enemies.
Percy has the curse of Achilles, making him nearly invincible.

Fatal Flaw

It is said by Athena that Percy's fatal flaw is personal loyalty. He will sacrifice anything to save his friends and loved ones. Kronos or Luke has used this flaw of Percy to manipulate him several times in the series.

Romance

Calypso: After Percy is stranded on Ogygia Island, he is healed by the girl named Calypso. She is stranded on the island after supporting her father, Atlas, in the Titan War. She gives him the offer of immortality, and to live on her island forever, but he turns her down, even though it could save him the trouble of the prophecy (The prophecy states that the next child of the Big Three to turn sixteen decides the fate of Olympus).

Rachel: Even though Percy is not known to like Rachel in this way, it is known that she likes him. Percy was unsure about having a crush on Rachel, as he never truly admits it. However, Percy's growing love for Annabeth stopped Percy from developing a true relationship with Rachel. Percy always knew deep down that he never really loved Rachel. In the Last Olympian, Rachel kisses Percy in Paul's (his moms boyfriend) prius right before setting off to the Princess Andromeda. On Olympus, Rachel tells Percy that he was just a distraction for her. She tells him that they could never be together and he senses that he had just gotten 'dumped'.

Annabeth: Percy and Annabeth have been best friends since the beginning of the series. Aphrodite has told him that they will have a 'tragic love life'. Annabeth has kissed him twice, once, after winning the chariot race in Sea of Monsters, though that was only on the cheek, and the second time as she leaves him to fight the telekhines at Mt. Helens in The Battle of the Labyrinth. Also Annabeth is known to be jealous of Rachel, the clear-sighted mortal girl. Annabeth seems to be hinting quite a bit that she is interested in Percy, and it seems to not matter to her that Athena does not approve of them even as just friends. In the Last Olympian, when Percy and Annabeth are inspecting the cabins, she tries to hint that she loves him, but Percy,flustered, changes the subject, leaving Annabeth disapointed. He also finds himself staring at her and says that she is looking more mature and is becoming seriously beautiful. When Percy goes to the river styx 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 canoe lake.. When Kronos is spotted, Percy order a retreat, but Annabeth stays behind to help him. She ends up taking a knife for him that would have killed him. As he sees what has happened, he becomes enraged and calls Blackjack to take her away. Percy then rushes to Annabeth and stays by her side, thus showing some love for her. When Rachel shows up in her helicopter, Annabeth saves her, but is later shown to have been crying and jealous. When Kronos is up at Olympus, Percy, Annabeth, Grover,and Thalia go up the elevator only to find that the bridge that connects Olympus to new york is shattering. Percy, Thalia, and Grover jump, but Annabeth is too weak to. She stumbles and Percy catches her. They lie together until they realize the are practicaly hugging. After Luke stabs himself he asks Annabeth if she loved him, but she says that she only loved him as a brother. After that, she looks up at Percy and they share a moment. When Percy is offered immortality, he looks over at Annabeth and sees that she has turned pale and won't meet his eyes. He recalls how he felt when he thought that she would join the hunters of Artemis, and due to this, turns the Gods down. They are upset at him, but he looks over at Annabeth and she has her hands over her mouth and starts crying for joy, and decides that he had made the right decision. Later at camp, he confides to her the vision he had at the Styx and the reason he turned down immortality. He looks over at her and she is trying not to laugh as he says 'you are so not making this easy' she laughs and tells him 'I'll never,ever let things be easy for you, seaweed brain' and puts her arms around him as they share a kiss. However, eavesdropping campmates rush forth and dump them, hand in hand, into the lake. However, as percy is the son of Poseidon, he is able to create an under water bubble and they kiss yet again. It is signaled that they may get married by Annabeth saying that they would build something permanent.

Relationship with Olympians

Poseidon: Percy is on good terms with Poseidon primarily because he is the sea god's son. At the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, Poseidon stated that Percy is his favorite son. Poseidon didn't even get that angry when Percy sat in his throne.

Zeus:, the King of the Gods, currently has mixed feelings concerning Percy: he is upset over Percy's birth because it violated the pact that he, Poseidon, and Hades had made, but Percy returned the Master Bolt to him in The Lightning Thief. At the Winter Solstice in The Titan's Curse, Zeus voted 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' Hunters before this, so it is possible that this may not have mattered. In spite of all of this, Zeus has told Percy that if he ever found him in his realm (the sky), he would strike him down.

Hades:, Lord of the Underworld, has mixed feeling about Percy: Percy had previously accused him of stealing the Master Bolt when it was, in fact, Ares who stole it. However, he returned Hades' Helm of Darkness and cleared his name of all charges.

Ares:, god of War, hates Percy because of both insults and injuries, among other things. It is extremely dangerous for Percy that they are on bad terms because Ares, as the god of war, thinks highly of revenge, and is quite violent. Ares put a curse on Percy that, when he needs his sword the most, it will fail him. He only went along with granting Percy godhood because he could smash him as many times as he wanted and Percy would just keep coming back.

Athena: disapproves of Percy's friendship with her daughter, Annabeth, because of the historical rivalry between herself and Poseidon, but Percy hasn't 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. As of The Last Olympian, Athena is in good terms with Percy.

Hera: has mixed feeling about Percy. Near the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth since 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. He also insults her by mentioning Thalia, one of Zeus' children not born by her, whom Hera historically despises.

Dionysus: (aka "Mr. D") Percy is primarily on Mr. D's bad side, even from the very second they met. Dionysus constantly antagonizes Percy (and all other demigods, for that matter) by never calling them by their real names (preferring to call him "Peter Johnson" or "Perry Johansson"), but he saved 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 mentioned Theseus and Ariadne, Jason and Medea, and alluded to Hercules and Zoё Nightshade in The Titan's Curse, mentioning how the former in all three cases used and later abandoned the latter. Percy doesn't much like Dionysus, either, because of the way he treats the campers. However, at the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth, they had something like a (temporary) truce, when after one of Dionysus' sons died in the final battle, he voted that he believed Grover's news that Pan was dead, disbanded the council when they were at a tie, and cured Chris (a previously traitor half-blood and Clarisse's friend if not her crush) of the madness he got in the Labyrinth. And most shockingly called Percy by his real name, although he later denies this. Percy's relationship with Dionysus appears to be improving. They are on much better terms after Percy finished the war.

Hephaestus: 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. Historically, Hephaestus and Poseidon have close ties in the terms of the Cyclopes, who work for both of them. It is unknown if they are still on good terms because Percy jumped on his thrown during the final battle versus Kronos though he seemed only a little grumpy.

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.

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.

Aphrodite: Aphrodite was intrigued by Percy's desire to save Annabeth. She expressed an interest in their relationship, meaning that she plans to meddle with it in some way. She also said she would make Percy's love life hard, just because she likes him.

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.

Demeter: Demeter and Percy have a poor relationship due to Percy's lack of respect and not caring much for her when she talked about cereal.

Hestia: Percy and Hestia have a good relationship. In The Last Olympian Percy entrusts her with Pandora's Box that contains hope saying that hope is best kept by the hearth.