Rachel Elizabeth Dare

Rachel Elizabeth Dare, unlike other prominent members of the series, is born of two mortal parents. However, what sets her apart from normal mortals is that she has the ability to see through the Mist, an ability thus far known only to be shared by Ariadne, Sally Jackson, May Castellan, and a few small children. (However when the children try to point out the strange things they see to their parents, their parents never listen to them.)

Physical description
Rachel wears over large shirts, and doodles on them and pokes holes in them when she is bored. She has frizzy red hair and green eyes, and is noticed as attractive by jealous Annabeth.

History
Percy first meets Rachel in The Titan's Curse at Hoover Dam, where he mistakes the sound of her blowing her nose for a skeleton soldier speaking, and tries to swipe his sword through her. She sees that Riptide is a sword, and Percy is dumbfolded that a mortal is seeing through the Mist. Rachel then sees the skeleton soldiers, and tells Percy to hide. He runs into a bathroom, and she acts freaked out and tells the skeleton soldiers that 'some guy with a sword' ran that way. They believe her, and Percy tells her to forget what happened. She tells him her name, and asks for his. His answer is 'Percy....gotta go!'

Percy does not see Rachel again for some time, and he always assumed she lived in Hoover Dam.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy runs into her at the orientation of his new school. He tries not to run into her again, because that will cause awkward questions, but she instead finds him, and warns him about the two cheerleaders that have been following him.

They hide, and Percy tells Rachel that the Greek gods are real, and just about when he is going to tell her that he is a demigod, the cheerleaders find them and attack.

After a skirmish with the two Empusa (or vampires) there is an explosion, and Rachel rushes Percy out the back exit, and they run into Annabeth. Rachel tells them to run, and that she will make up some story. She writes her numbers on his hand with a permanent marker, telling him to call her, because he owes her an explanation.

Later, after wandering through the Labyrinth for a while, Percy goes to her for help in navigating Daedalus's Labyrinth in order to locate Daedalus. She sets off with Percy and Annabeth through the maze. The demigods are worried someone will miss her, but she explains that no one would care if she were gone and leaves it at that. After finding that Daedalus has struck a bargain with Kronos, she escapes with Percy and Annabeth. Eventually the trio finds Kronos's headquarters. Kronos has, however, inhabited Luke and attempts to chase Percy down. Rachel appears with Annabeth and Nico and throws her hairbrush at Luke's face, which momentarily confuses Kronos. She also mysteriously manages to convince a limousine driver to ditch his client and take her and the others around to look for an entrance into the Labyrinth. She also assists in finding the lost god Pan and is present for his death. Later she parts ways with Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Grover, and Tyson, but not before revealing that her father is a wealthy businessman who buys up land and turns it into malls. Pan's death affects her, mainly because of her father's job. She expresses interest in hanging out with Percy again, much to Annabeth's dismay. Percy promises to call her and mentions that he has memorized her number, much to Rachel's delight. Later, during his birthday party, Percy laments not thinking of inviting her over, but was too afraid to try.

Rachel grows more and more fond of Percy as a good friend throughout The Battle of the Labyrinth, just as Annabeth grows very jealous of her. Rachel sees that Percy and Annabeth seem to have a lot more feelings for each other then they will admit. She can also see that Annabeth is jealous of her hanging out with Percy and tries to give him the hint that Annabeth likes him, too, but Percy doesn't seem to get it. It is, however, made clear that Percy does have some feelings towards Annabeth.

The Last Olympian
In The Last Olympian Rachel and Percy are on the beach, driving Percy's stepdads car around when Beckendorf comes to take Percy away. Rachel then must go with her parents on a vacation, but she soon realizes something is wrong. She begin painting things she had never seen, such as Luke as a young boy. She heads to New York to find out what is happening with Percy, and when the battle is over and she returns to Camp Half Blood, she realizes that she can take in the spirit of the oracle, and become Priestess of Delphi. She was born with the gift, and with the curse of Hades lifted, successfully becomes the new oracle. She decides to still go to school but shortly before she leaves she recites a prophecy which is assumed to be the next great prophecy.

Powers/Abilities

 * Has the ability to see through the Mist to an extent where she can navigate through the Labyrinth and foresee it's various traps
 * Can use the influence and wealth of her father to arrange services
 * Can see past and future events as well as make prophecies.
 * Can annoy Annabeth really easily (though this is mostly due to the jealousy Annabeth holds due to Percy hanging out with Rachel so much. That conflict is resolved when Rachel becomes the Oracle).

Film
Rachel has not yet been cast, and presumably will not be until the film version of The Titan's Curse starts production