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=== Jason Grace ===

 

* [[Ambadassador]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[The Chosen One]]: The person who Annabeth would find missing a shoe from a prophecy turned out to be Jason, not Percy.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]

* [[His Story Repeats Itself]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Yes, just like [[Greek Mythology|''that'']] Jason.

* [[Mysterious Past]]

* [[New Transfer Student]]: Jason is technically one at the Wilderness School. Inverted in that the Mist creates fake memories for everybody so they think he'd been there for months already.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[Standardized Leader]]

Son of Poseidon. A lost hero.

 

* [[Action Hero]] / [[Action Survivor]]: On the run from monsters during his two-month search for the Roman camp, Percy has no trouble killing the monsters that track him, [[Death Is Cheap|but then they don't stay dead]], keeping him on the run.

* [[Amnesiac Lover]]: Subverted.

* [[Amnesiac Hero]]

* [[Badass]]: So far, the only demigod to basically {{spoiler|fight and beat a Giant completely unaided. Sure, there was a god there, but come on.}}

* [[Babies Ever After]]: Starts thinking about living in New Rome with Annabeth when he sees all the children running around...

* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Tricks Gaia into this, knowing that she considered him more useful than Phineas. It works.}}

* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]

* [[Death Glare]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by Percy in ''Son of Neptune''.

** [[Up to Eleven]] Did You Just Mouth Off To The Second Greatest God Of Rome,]] [[Badass|And Get Away With It!?]]

*** Because [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority]]

**** [[Jerkass Gods|Only when they're trying to screw with him or have tricked him in the past like Ares/Mars]].

* [[Easy Amnesia]]

* [[Fight Magnet]]

* [[The Heart]]: What Hera/Juno intends him to be for the Seven.

* [[Hero Protagonist]]

* [[History Repeats]]: As in the previous series, Percy's deeds are mirroring those of Herakles.

* [[Humble Hero]]: Lampshaded by Frank and Reyna.

* [[Indy Ploy]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Strong enough to hold the world on his shoulders. Fast and agile enough to shatter a ''Roman military formation comprised of other demigods.'' And all that's ''without'' water, which only magnifies these traits.

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Why Juno picks him as one of the seven. He is unfailingly loyal and inspires loyalty in others.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: In ''The Lost Hero''.

* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: When Percy forgets the supplies back in the boat and has to go back for them, allowing the karpoi grain demon things to kidnap Hazel. He even lampshades it.

* [[Quest for Identity]]

* [[Team Dad]]: Shaping up to be like this, since he isn't the official leader of the quests he's going on. Also part of the reason Hera actually ''wants'' him on the quest.

* [[Two Roads Before You]]: A happy life under the sea, or misery and world-saving.

 

=== Piper McLean ===

 

* [[Action Girl]] / [[Action Girlfriend]]

* [[Brainy Brunette]]

* [[Charm Person]] / [[Jedi Mind Trick]] / [[Compelling Voice]]: Like a few other children of Aphrodite, Piper has the ability to 'charmspeak' people, which basically amounts to [[The Charmer|getting people to do things you want them to do]], sometimes without them knowing.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Is the daughter of famous actor Tristan McLean and isn't fairly spoiled, other than her justified desire to spend some quality time with said busy parent without any interruptions.

** And by the way, when we say 'quality time', we mean 'longer than five minutes'. Seriously.

* [[Tomboy]]

* [[Unkempt Beauty]] --> [[Beautiful All Along]]/[[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: {{spoiler|After she receives Aphrodite's blessing.}}

* [[Well Done Daughter Girl]]

 

* [[Badass Spaniard]]: Of the Latino variety.

* [[Bag of Holding]]

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: He talks back to his dad in a way that not even Percy Jackson would've, and he doesn't even get struck down- if anything, it actually gets him respect.

** Said grandmother was actually {{spoiler|Hera, or rather, Juno}} in disguise.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]

* [[The Engineer]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]

* [[Generation Xerox]]: He’s a dead ringer for his grandfather, {{spoiler|Sammy Valdez}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Identical Grandson]]: Is one of these, so much so that Percy and Hazel couldn't believe it when they saw him.}}

* [[Infinite Supplies]]: That toolbelt of his is enchanted to "contain anything that could be found in a garage", which includes everything from small tools and materials, to a sledgehammer, to taco ingredients, to [[Running Gag|breath mints.]]

* [[Keet]]

* [[Man On Fire]]

** {{spoiler|[[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]}}

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]

* [[The Runaway]]: Ran away from home six times.

* [[Sad Clown]]

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Type A.

* [[Team Chef]]

A resident of Camp Jupiter.

 

** [[History Repeats]]: This time, it's Meleager's story.

* {{spoiler|[[Animorphism]]}}: The Zhang family gift.

* [[Big Fun]]

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Determinator]]: Fights to free Thanatos even if it means {{spoiler|''literally'' burning his life away}}.

** Mentioned in universe - because of his powers from his mom's side, as WELL as being Mars' son and having his tactical powers, he has "too many gifts." Ergo, Fate basically decreed he have a limit.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Frank's grandmother is the only one to call him by his Chinese name, Fai.

* [[Everyone Is Related]]: {{spoiler|he’s a descendent of Poseidon on his mother’s side, making him a distant relative of Percy.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, but it's a very narrow thing. See [[Determinator]] above.}}

* [[I Got You Covered]]: Frank to Hazel and Percy while {{spoiler|they were escaping from the Zhang residence}}. Percy to Frank in Alcyoneus’ lair.

* [[Lineage Comes From the Father|Lineage Comes From The Godly Parent]]: Subverted. Even though he's a son of Mars, Frank's coolest power comes from his mortal mother.

* [[Military Brat]]

* [[Second Love]]: To Hazel.

* [[Secret Legacy]]: {{spoiler|Descended from Periclymenus, one of the Argonauts, on his mom’s side.}}

* [[The Strategist]]

 

 

 

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Got picked on a lot as a kid in New Orleans. Camp Jupiter wasn’t all that much better.

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Pulls up cursed riches due to mommy's request gone wrong.

* [[The Big Easy]]

* [[Cool Horse]]: Is the only person ''the'' [[Cool Horse]], Arion, will listen to (thanks in no small part to her gold-producing powers).

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]] / [[Dark Secret]]: {{spoiler|Was forced by Gaea to use her powers to reconstruct Alcyoneus in Alaska.}}

** [[Gemstone Assault]]: How she usually attacks with her powers.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Justified. She’s the daughter of the god of wealth.

* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: "As Hazel marched up the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got ''son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake,'' and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife."

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Killed herself and her mother to stop Gaea from raising Alcyoneus and then gave up Elysium so her mother wouldn’t go to the Fields of Punishment}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Levensque means either somebody who served in the household of a bishop, or just bishop. Of ancient Greek origin, curiously.

* [[Pensieve Flashback]]: Hazel has some pretty powerful "blackouts". {{spoiler|Even manages to pull Frank into one.}}

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Mentally, anyway. Being a child of Pluto, she remembered everything during her 70+ years in the Fields of Asphodel.

* [[Ragin Cajun]]: Lived in New Orleans until she was 13.

 

=== Annabeth Chase ===

 

* [[I Will Find You]]: Towards Percy.

* {{spoiler|[[Human Popsicle]]}}: For a short time during the battle in the Wolf House.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]

 

=== Nico di Angelo ===

 

* [[Aloof Ally]]

** Here's hoping third time's the charm. {{spoiler|Nico is the likeliest candidate to be his father's demigod partner during the actual battle with the Giants, as Hades cannot interact with Hazel without having to enforce his own rules of death.}}

* [[Ambadassador]]

* {{spoiler|[[Badass in Distress]]: At the end of the second book as a result of some [[Reckless Sidekick]] behavior investigating the Doors of Death himself.}}

* [[Black Eyes]]

* [[Black Sheep]]

** [[Informed Loner]]

** [[I Work Alone]]

** [[Mysterious Watcher]]

* [[Troubled but Cute]]

* [[We Do Not Know Each Other]]: To Percy.

* [[Wrong Name Outburst]]: Well, slip, anyway. He ''almost'' calls Hazel {{spoiler|Bianca}}.

 

=== Reyna ===

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Shares quite a few personality traits with the original Octavian, including ambition and being a smooth talker.

 

=== Will Solace ===

 

* [[The Archer]]

* [[Combat Medic]]

* [[The Medic]]

 

=== Clovis ===

*** [[Take a Third Option|Can be both]]. Contrary to modern sanitized versions (including this one, obviously), practically everyone on Greek mythology was at least bi.

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]

 

* [[Evil Counterpart]] / [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Piper. They both have the rare "charmspeak" ability, but Drew uses it to bend the other Aphrodite campers to her will, as opposed to Piper.

* [[Popular Is Dumb]]

 

=== Hylla ===

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Boreas is acutally quite jolly.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Khione.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Cor and Calais.

* [[French Jerk]]: Of the French-Canadian variety, actually.

* [[Hulk Speak]]: Cal, who can't say words of more than two syllables and is generally not a fan of sentences.

* [[An Ice Person]]: All of them.

* [[Love God]]

** [[Hot God]]: Naturally.

 

=== Hera/Juno ===

* [[Character Development]]: Compared to how she was in the previous series, she's far nicer to demigods. {{spoiler|She's shown Jason AND Percy respect and even been supportive, not even getting mad when Percy was basically chewing her out in his dreams. While Jason has some leeway as his [[Patron Saint]], Percy has only the fact that he's one of the seven, and while she could try to boss him around, she's being pretty nice about everything. She extended Frank's life as well.}}

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: She seems to be pulling this considering {{spoiler|the whole Jason/Percy switch was her idea}}. Bonus points for working on this {{spoiler|long before the first series, considering her actions with Frank and Leo.}}

* [[Patron Saint]]: For Jason. And of Rome in general.

* [[King Incognito|Queen Incognito]]: {{spoiler|Juno briefly pretends to be an old hippie lady dressed in trash bags when she dishes out her [[Sadistic Choice]] to Percy. She drops the act once they make it to Camp Jupiter.}}

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Only inverted towards Jason.

*** It could just be [[Fridge Brilliance]]. {{spoiler|Why wouldn't Hera be nice to a demigod son of Zeus on the eve of the Gigantomachy? during the last one, Porphyrion nearly raped her until Hercules managed to kill him, which is what caused Hera to accept him in the first place. Maybe she just wants to be sure she'll be saved again.}}

 

* [[Blood Knight]]: Subverted as Mars. He’s not about endless bloodshed without resolution.

* [[Character Development]]: Gets some on Son of Neptune.

* [[Colonel Badass]]: Mars's preferred form.

* {{spoiler|[[Doting Parent]]: Compared to how Ares treated Clarisse, his Roman counterpart nearly rivals Poseidon.}}

* [[Compelling Voice]]

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Not particularly gentle and a [[Scary Black Man]] with some shades of [[The Stoic]], but obviously not malicious or cruel.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]

* [[Number Two]]: Lieutenant of Pluto (Hades). Thanatos acts as border control to keep souls from crossing between life and death without his permission.

* [[Pretty Boy]]: Hazel calls him the prettiest man she's ever seen.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Somewhat, although he's just doing his job.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Super OCD]]: Part of his charm.

 

=== Gaea ===

* [[The Dreaded]]

* [[Evil Matriarch]]

 

=== Enceladus ===

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Zeus.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: When at full strength

* [[Large and In Charge]]

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Poseidon

* [[Informed Ability]]: Supposed to be the anti-Poseidon, and his mere presence left Percy in a shivering pile the first time he saw the giant. {{spoiler|Percy proceeded to open up a can of [[Curb Stomp Battle|whoopass]] on him when they encountered one another during the last battle, and Polybotes became the first giant to lose against a demigod in single combat (okay ''technically'' a god was there). Some anti-Poseidon.}}

*** The book specifically states that looking at Polybotes made Percy feel the major nausea, though.

* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: Simultaneously Type I and Type II.

 

* [[Fauns and Satyrs]]

* [[Fearless Fool]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cinnamon rolls.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

 

=== Medea ===

* [[Love Martyr]]

* [[Straw Feminist]]

* [[Yandere]]: [[Ur Example]].

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Midas acts friendly to his guests while trying to turn them into gold.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Applies to Midas's son.

* [[Mad Hatter]]: Midas.

 

=== Mellie ===

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Hedge.

 

=== Phineas ===

A blind man with the gift of prophecy brought back to life by Gaea.

 

* [[Blind Seer]] / [[Disability Superpower]]

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]}}: He still had some, just not as much as Percy.

The fastest horse on the planet.

 

* [[Cool Horse]]

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Arion eats gold.

* [[Jerkass]]: "I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man!"

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]

* [[Smug Super|Smug Speedster]]: He has an ego to match his top speed.

 

== Mortals ==

Piper's father, who works as a movie star.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Mind Wipe]]: Piper gives him a drink that erases his memory of the whole ordeal, even if it helped the two of them grow closer.}}

* [[Window Love]]: With Piper, {{spoiler|after he loses his memory.}}

 

=== Marie Levesque ===

* [[Demonic Possession]]: She often gets possessed by Gaia.

* [[Fortune Teller]]

* [[Ragin Cajun]]

 

Frank's grandmother, who was his guardian after his mother's death.

 

* [[Cool Old Lady]]

 

* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Frank remembers her fondly.

* [[Doting Parent]]: When she was alive.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Several characters describe her as being beautiful.

* [[Lady of War]]: Described as being very calm and graceful, but an excellent fighter.

* [[The Squadette]]: Was one of the first female Canadians to serve on the frontlines during the war.

 

 

=== Jane ===

 

* [[Prim and Proper Bun]]

 

=== Sammy ===

* [[Only Friend]]: To Hazel.

* [[Satellite Character]]: Just Hazel's ex-boyfriend, nothing to see here. {{spoiler|Sightly subverted, being Leo's (great?) grandfather as well complicates things.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: In-universe: If Hazel had stayed in New Orleans, she would have grown up to marry Sammy.

 

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