Piper McLean

Piper McLean is a character in The Heroes of Olympus. Piper is the demigod daughter of Aphrodite and a Cherokee movie star. According to Leo, she has been Jason's girlfriend for some weeks at the beginning of the story, although Coach Hedge states that he sees Jason for the first time and there seems to be a manipulation of the Mist causing the others to think that they know Jason. Jason doesn't know that the girl he was holding hands with was Piper.

Family
Piper's dad, Tristan McLean, is a well known actor with a powerful position. Leo says of her dad, "...if those girls found out the truth about her dad, they'd all be bowing down to her screaming, 'We're not worthy!'. Her mother is Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and lust.

Description
Piper is a beautiful girl of Cherokee decent. She has chocolate brown hair which is cut, choppy and uneven (Though she often ties then in thin braids). Her eyes change color, going from brown, blue and green. She wears faded jeans, a snowboarding jacket and hiking boots. After being claimed by Aphrodite, she became beautiful with her hair braided into a pony tail, a white Greek dress with a V-neck and gold rings on her arms.

Personality
Piper is cute and smart but she is also violent. Despite her violent nature, she is very caring and loving towards Jason and is frightned, sad and angry at any thing that may pose a threat to her bond with him, she also becomes violent, agressive and angry at anyone who would stand in the way of her love for Jason, such as her half-sister Drew. She is greatly saddened by the possibility that her first relationship with Jason was a Mist-induced illusion. Its mentioned by some of the other girls at Wilderness School that she is a kleptomaniac, but it isn't clear if this is true. She was sent to Wilderness because allegedly she stole a BMW (she claimed just having talked the dealer into lending the car to her because of her ability to charm-speak).

The Lost Hero
Piper appears the first time in the bus driving towards the Grand Canyon, holding hands with Jason. She's the first to realize something's wrong with him. Shortly afterwords she is torn away by Dylan, who declares her his partner for the school work.

As a strong storm starts, Piper and Dylan help the others to leave the skywalk, until only she, Dylan, Leo, Jason and Coach Hedge are left. As Piper loses the door, which suddenly seems to be magically locked, Dylan reveals to be a Ventus, a storm son of Typhon, and battles the four of them. With Hedge's baseball bat as weapon Piper fights alongside Jason against the venti, while Hedge tries to retrieve Leo, who was thrown off the skywalk by Dylan. As Dylan tries to take Jason with him, Piper hits him to prevent him from doing so. In an act of revenge he creates a torrent that throws Piper off the skywalk. She is then saved by Jason, who, after jumping over the railing, stops in midair and catches her, thus returning her onto the skywalk safely. After Hedge is abducted by Dylan, Piper and the other two are picked up by a chariot, driven by Annabeth Chase and Butch. Soon after they arrive at Camp Half-Blood, Annabeth gives her a tour of the camp and helps her pick out her weapon (a dagger previously owned by Helen of Troy). Called Katoptris that has the ability to show much more than the users reflection when looked at. Later, that night when Jason is picking the two others to come on his quest, after he picks Leo, Piper says she has to go to while trying to compete with Drew to be on the quest. She was claimed by Aphrodite. Later she becomes friends with two of her half-siblings and learns of her ability to use charmspeak. The next day, Piper, Jason, and Leo take Leo's new "pet dragon" and begin their quest.