Jason Grace

For other uses of the name Jason, see Jason (disambiguation). "I'm the son of Jupiter! I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster. I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed the Titan Krios with my own hands. And now, I'm going to destroy you, Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves."

- Jason confronts Porphyrion.

Jason Grace, is one of the main protagonists of the second Camp Half-Blood series, The Heroes of Olympus. He is a Roman demigod, a son of Jupiter, and full-blood brother to Thalia Grace. He is a demigod from Camp Jupiter.



History
Jason is the son of Jupiter and Ms. Grace. His older sister is Thalia, his mother's daughter by Zeus (Jupiter's Greek counterpart) who raised him in the absence of their alcoholic mother. When he was two years old Jason, was turned over to Juno (Hera) who placed him in Lupa's care. Jason practically was raised in the Fifth Cohort of Camp Jupiter. There, he became friends with Dakota, Gwendolyn, Hazel Levesque, Bobby and Reyna.

While the Greek campers, headed by Percy Jackson, protected Manhattan and brought the downfall of Kronos, Jason headed the Roman attack on Mount Tamalpais and defeated Krios. One month later, he is switched with Percy.

The Lost Hero
Jason wakes up on a bus belonging to the Wilderness School holding hands with a girl he doesn't even know. He finds that he has no memory of even going to the school or having a best friend named Leo and a girlfriend named Piper. Gleeson Hedge, his supposed gym teacher and satyr protector (though Jason doesn't know that yet), tells him that he's never seen him before today and that the Mist has been manipulated to make everyone think that they know him. He also reveals that he, Piper, and Leo are demigods and that an extraction team (Annabeth and Butch) is coming to get Piper and Leo to camp along with an unknown "special package", which turns out to be Jason. This story is confirmed when Jason sees Leo make a working mechanical helicopter out of pipe cleaners. Later, an unnaturally powerful storm arrives and the class bully Dylan revealed himself to be a Ventus, or Venti (storm spirit), Greek form anemoi. Jason instinctively took out his gold coin (Ivlivs), flipped it, and it became a well balanced sword made of Imperial Gold. While he and Piper fought off Dylan, Hedge (who revealed himself to be a middle aged satyr) climbed down the canyon wall to retrieve Leo when he was thrown down. Jason also survived a lightning bolt with which Dylan attacked him that could have killed twenty men, blowing off his shoe and when Piper is thrown off the sky-walk Jason jumps after her, discovering that he can manipulate air. After a long battle, Dylan takes Hedge away and leaves Leo, Jason, and Piper on the canyon sky-walk. Just then two half-bloods arrive on a chariot pulled by pegasi; a guy named Butch, son of Iris (the Rainbow goddess), and Annabeth, daughter of Athena. When Annabeth and Butch notice Jason only has one shoe on (as the other one was blasted into bits by the lightning bolt), Butch tells them that Annabeth had a vision that a boy with one shoe would help her find one of the campers, who has been missing for three days, her boyfriend Percy Jackson.

After they arrive at Camp Half-Blood, they find out Hera (goddess of marriage) is in danger, and Jason must lead a quest in order to save her. He chooses Piper, who is now claimed by Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Leo, who was claimed by Hephaestus when they got to Camp Half-blood, to go with him on his quest. Jason also receives a Prophecy saying that he must beware the earth, possibly because Gaea, the Earth, is his enemy and that she bears arms to the Doors of Death. He meets Medea, a mortal who was supposed to have died more than 3000 centuries ago. In the middle of the book, Jason and his companions meet another mortal who was supposed to have died millions of years ago, Midas. That's right, Midas, the one who wished for the golden touch, then learned to bring back people from their golden state, running water.

When he, Piper and Leo arrive back at camp, he is visited by Juno when he is in his cabin alone, and is given a new gladius as a replacement for the one he lost while fighting the giant, Enceladus. After this, a head counselor meeting was called, where he then revealed that he is from a Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood, and that is where Percy is most likely at. Jason also reveals that if the campers at the Roman Camp discover that Percy's from Camp-Half Blood, they may not be that nice. It is decided that he, Leo, Piper and Annabeth will go and find Percy at the Roman Camp and then set sail for Greece.

The Son of Neptune
Percy has a brief dream vision of Leo working on the Argo II with Piper and Jason behind him.

Personality
Even after losing his memory, Jason's foremost characteristic is his loyalty to friends. A serious young man with a moderate sense of humor, Jason is a born hero who hates cruelty and injustice. Though a natural leader, he can be plagued by doubt and criticizes himself whenever he makes an error. Jason has several personality traits that are similar to Percy Jackson's such as his loyalty to his friends, his natural leadership and his sense of justice. As a Roman, though, he can also be merciless.

Appearance
Jason Grace is described as handsome, having the features of a Roman Statue, with electric blue eyes, tidily/military cropped blond hair, and a small scar on the corner of his lip from trying to eat a stapler when he was two years old (which Thalia revealed). He is of average height with an athletic build, having muscular and tanned arms. He has an intimidating tattoo etched deeply under his forearm: twelve straight lines like a bar code with an eagle (his father's sacred animal) and the letters SPQR (which stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus or The Senate and People of Rome) over the lines, having received them at Camp Jupiter.

Abilities

 * ADHD: Like all demigods, Jason possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent.
 * Fighting Skills: Jason is an expert spearman and swordsman due to his legion training.
 * Dyslexia: Jason's brain is hardwired for Latin (although strangely, in The Lost Hero, he could read King Midas' pamphlet for investing in gold just fine. This is possibly because he is a Roman demigod, and because Latin and English are very similar, so he may not even have dyslexia).

Demigod Abilities
Being the son of Jupiter; Jason holds divine authority over the creatures of the sky as well as weather, having powers that are greater than the children of nearly every other god and he may have the ability to talk to the eagles, as his father sacred animal are the eagles.
 * Aerokinesis: Jason can control the forces of the atmosphere such as:
 * Manipulating air currents allowing him to fly.
 * Sensing wind magic (e.g. Aeolus's vapor trail).
 * Electrokinesis: Jason can control the forces of electricity such as:
 * Calling down lightning bolts.
 * Send powerful amounts of static shock through someone's body through physical contact, can also emit static sparks, which are described as being blue.
 * Shooting arcs of electricity capable of shocking or stunning someone (Thalia has this power, so Jason would likely too).
 * Dominating the will of venti.

Magical Items

 * Ivlivs, a coin made of Imperial Gold, it turns into a golden sword on heads or a golden javelin on tails when flipped. The weapon hasn't been named yet in the series, but the coin has the word 'Ivlivs' on it, which is Latin for 'Julius.' It was destroyed by Enceladus during the fight on Mount Diablo.
 * Juno's Gladius which she gave him after the coin was destroyed towards the end of The Lost Hero. Likely made of imperial gold.

Jupiter
Zeus sired Jason, his second child with Ms. Grace in his Roman aspect. Like all the Roman Gods, Jupiter rarely involves himself in the life of his child. Although it is unlikely that he has ever met his father, Jason is still given his aid when it is most needed.

Ms. Grace
Since Jason has forgotten his memories, we can imply that he wasn't taken care of by his mother, since Thalia said that she was the one who took care of him until Ms. Grace gave Jason away to Hera's Roman form, Juno.

Thalia
Jason's sister, Thalia Grace, was born by Zeus. Thalia is a Greek demigod, because when Zeus visited her mother the first time, he was in his Greek form. When Zeus came to Jason's mother for the second time, he came in his Roman form, Jupiter. Jason is therefore a Roman demigod, while his sister is Greek. It is shown that Jason cares for his sister. He feels somewhat depressed that Thalia has found a new family in the Hunters of Artemis. However, its shown that when Jason first saw her picture and Annabeth told him her last name, his instincts told him she is dangerous, as Juno left enough memory to know that digging up his past could be disastrous and that she was his sister.

Piper
She and Jason share many romantic moments throughout The Lost Hero. He has much concern for her, as he does everything to help her, such as when she says they should get together he says in his thoughts together, yes. He puts his hand on her waist to support her when she collapsed due to hypothermia. At the end of The Lost Hero, she and he, have a romantic moment at the end of which they repeat what they said in Piper's Mist induced memory of them kissing. Also, Jason really likes Piper, but he is worried for their future.

Reyna
The memory of her makes him rethink what he is doing with Piper, though he does not know why. It's revealed in The Son of Neptune by Reyna to Percy that if Jason hadn't gone missing a romantic relationship would have developed.

Leo Valdez
The Mist gives Leo and Piper fake memories that they knew Jason for months. Later on in The Lost Hero, he and Leo became very good real friends.

Bobby
Jason starts to remember him at the end of The Lost Hero. When Juno returns some of Jason's memories, he remembers several of his friends, with Bobby being one of the names mentioned. Not much is known about him but his name.

Hazel
Jason remembers her in the last part of The Lost Hero as being his friend back at the Roman Camp. It has been confirmed that she is one of the main characters in The Son of Neptune.

Gwendolyn
Because Jason kind of remembers her, it can be assumed they had been friends. Nothing else is known about her yet. It is assumed that she will be mentioned again in The Son of Neptune.

Dakota
A Centurion of the Fifth Cohort, he and Jason were friends at Camp Jupiter.

Trivia

 * Jason was named after the original Jason, a mortal, by Jupiter to please Hera/Juno after being conceived.
 * Similarly to the original Jason, he was aided by Hera/Juno and was recognized by the fact that he was wearing only one shoe.
 * It is revealed that Jason and Thalia Grace are one of the few demigod pairs to be full siblings (having the same mortal mother and godly parent) beside Nico and Bianca di Angelo, Connor and Travis Stoll, and Castor and Pollux.
 * They are the only known siblings to be from different aspects of the same God. Thalia is a Greek demigod (being a daughter of Zeus), and Jason is Roman (being a son of Jupiter), as stated by Hera/Juno herself.
 * Unlike other children of Zeus/Jupiter, Hera doesn't hate him or try to kill him like his other siblings. Hera said that she is Jason's patron and Jason is her champion.
 * Jason is the only known living demigod child of the Big Three that doesn't have dark hair.
 * Jason is the only demigod to survive seeing a god's divine form (Hera).
 * Thalia and Jason are both mentioned to like cheeseburgers.
 * The scar in Jason's mouth came from eating a stapler when he was (apparently) 2 years old before he was taken to Lupa.
 * It is mentioned by Aeolus that Jason was once stayed with him on a quest to kill a sea monster. It is later revealed Jason had killed the Trojan Sea Monster.
 * Although one of the demigod "afflictions" is supposed to be dyslexia, Jason could read Midas' brochure for Gold: Invest for Eternity just fine.
 * While Jason claims to be the Praetor of the First Legion in The Lost Hero, Camp Jupiter is only made up of the Twelfth Legion.