Grover Underwood

"Stop it! You're as bad as Juniper. I think she wants me to run for president next."

- Grover to Percy, in The Last Olympian.

Grover Underwood is a satyr and a friend of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. He's the satyr who found Thalia Grace, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, and Percy. He is currently the Lord of the Wild. Grover is portrayed by Brandon T. Jackson in The Lightning Thief.

History
Not much is known about Grover's past before he met Percy, but Grover is a young satyr and spent his time as a protector (like most satyrs). However, because he was not granted a Searcher's License before bringing Percy back to camp, he may not have had a completely successful quest to bring back demigods. At one point, he ran across Thalia, Luke, and Annabeth traveling together and tried to get him back to camp while at the same time avoiding the forces of the Underworld. Hades, after learning that a child of Zeus had been born sent hellhounds after her. Along the way, Grover made a few wrong turns which led them into danger with other monsters, including a cyclops that gave Annabeth a fear of the species for a long time. While Grover claims it is his fault that they kept making wrong turns, Thalia later tells Percy Luke was the reason as he kept looking for fights with monsters as he was angry with his father, who he had met at his mother's home. As they came close to the edge of Camp Half-Blood, Thalia held back and told Grover to take Luke and Annabeth back to camp. He did as he was told and got the two back to camp, but at the cost of Thalia's safety. Grover was later assigned to Percy's school and spent enough time with him to know he was a demigod. He eventually called in Chiron who took the form of Percy's Latin teacher.

The Lost Hero
Grover doesn't appear in the book, but was mentioned by Annabeth to be looking for Percy Jackson.

The Son of Neptune
When Percy is in the mess hall trying to eat, Don the Faun found his way inside and started to sniff Percy, saying that he has an empathy link with a faun, but it is being suppressed somehow. However, the empathy link he could smell was actually with Grover, satyrs being the Greek form of fauns.

Later when Percy was dreaming, he sees Grover, but doesn't remember him as Hera had taken his memory. When Grover tries to talk to him, he says he doesn't have any spare change (as the fauns at camp constantly ask for change), but Grover obviously doesn't know what Percy is talking about. He also tells Percy to stay put.

The Mark of Athena
While not physically present in the book, Grover is mentioned several times throughout the novel. He is first mentioned when Percy thinks about his fear of suffocation and wonders if it is connected to his fatal flaw. He mentions that he doesn't want anyone to get hurt on his own account and recalls how Grover tried to protect him while taking him to Camp Half-Blood almost getting killed by the Minotaur. Later, while on her quest for the Athena Parthenos. Annabeth sprains her ankle and lands in an unknown area. She remembers a course that Grover had taught her at Camp Half-Blood. Although she dismissed it as silly, Annabeth changes her mind when she uses it to set her ankle with bubble wrap, and continues on her way.

Personality
"Grover, you're the bravest satyr I ever knew."

- Luke Castellan Grover is usually cheerful and upbeat. He cries when he is upset, which makes him an easy target for bullies. He can often be philosophical. He sometimes mopes around a bit though. He has an obsession with coffee (due to feeling the presence of Pan in New Mexico while drinking it), tin cans, and enchiladas. He believes that cheese enchiladas are better than chicken ones. This may be due to the fact he is a vegetarian. His girlfriend is Juniper, a wood nymph. They deeply care for one another. It is also revealed in The Last Olympian that he has leporiphobia, (which Thalia calls his "bunny phobia"). He and Tyson don't seem to get on very well but he is helped looking for Pan by Tyson in The Battle of the Labyrinth. It is mentioned in The Lightning Thief that two of the only songs he knows how to play on his reed pipes are "So Yesterday" by Hilary Duff and Mozart's 12 symphony. In the beginning of the series, his reed pipe music is so bad it makes the strawberry plants try to strangle people, but by the end of the series, he can play multiple tunes (which came in handy multiple times). It is said in The Demigod Files that his favorite song to play is Muskrat Love.

Irrational Fears
Grover is afraid of many things. He is most terrified of:
 * Underground places (which smell of death and monsters)
 * Cyclopes (Which is why he initially did not get along well with Tyson.)

It was also mentioned that he has leporiphobia (fear of rabbits) and describes them as "big bullies who always steal celery from defenseless satyrs." He is also terrified of Dionysus, Juniper's anger, and ghosts. He cries when he is upset, which makes easy prey for bullies, but it seems that he has grown out of this.

Appearance
Grover is described as a tall satyr with curly brown hair, brown eyes, small horns, caucasian skin, chin wispy beard and hairy brown goat legs.

Abilities

 * He can talk to animals.
 * He has an empathy link with Percy (They can speak to each other mentally).
 * His music can affect things in nature.
 * He's a great climber.
 * He can smell when gods/goddesses, demigods, powerful creatures, or monsters are near. (He cannot use this power underground because the underground smells like monsters).
 * Grover can use Panic to instill fear into enemies, a gift from Pan. It creates a horrible fear in you that urges you to flee.
 * He can read emotions.
 * He is able to use woodland magic.
 * He can preform a Satyr's Sanctuary.

Juniper
Juniper is a wood nymph and Grover's girlfriend, and the two seem to have a deep and caring relationship. In The Demigod Files, during his interview, he comments on the dryads up in Lake Placid, New York before remembering Juniper; which is when he asks the interviewer if they could edit that part out for fear that Juniper would kill him. Also, when Grover comes back to the Camp in The Last Olympian, Juniper tackle/hugs him. Grover is also known to have had a crush on a blueberry bush and Artemis, but he loves Juniper more than them.

Percy Jackson
Grover met Percy in Middle School at Yancy Academy, and realizing that he was a demigod (and a powerful one), he befriended him and helped Percy reach Camp Half-Blood. Percy often ends up saving Grover and laughs when Grover says he had been protecting Percy, which he has but in a different way Percy has. The two are best friends, have an empathy link, and have gone on many quests together. In The Lost Hero, Grover is heard to be looking for Percy and this is proven correct when Percy has a dream/empathy link connection with Grover in The Son of Neptune.

Annabeth Chase
Annabeth is one of Grover's closest friends, ever since he helped her get to Camp Half-Blood with Luke. They talk to each other often, and both share the feeling of protecting Percy (though for different reasons).

Thalia Grace
Thalia is one Grover's closest and oldest friends who also traveled with him. Grover felt guilty for her death, and she often had to tell him it was her own choice and not his fault.

Tyson
Despite Grover's fear of cyclopes, Grover has grown to like Tyson, and becomes one of his best friends in the Labyrinth.

Council of Cloven Elders and Satyrs
Though originally ridiculed for claiming to have found Pan and that the great god Pan was dead. Grover was accepted after being proclaimed a member of the Council after the events of The Last Olympian.

Achievements

 * Best Seeker - Grover is the only known satyr in the series to have found four children of the Big Three, namely: Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, children of Hades.
 * Greatest Searcher - He is the searcher who found Pan.

The Lightning Thief
Grover Underwood PLHjjv5UlfA Grover is played by Brandon T. Jackson. Aside from his ethnicity being changed from Caucasian to African American, Grover's personality is also changed from being somewhat timid and self-doubting, to being confident and smooth. He also wears a hoodie and long pants to cover up his goat legs. Where in the books he physically looks to be 12 years old, in the movies he's between 16 and 17 in appearance, and uses cruches now. He not only hits on the daughters of Aphrodite who attend the camp, and the naiads or nymphs at camp when they asked if Percy can come to their party and asks if he can come too, telling them he is available; but also assorted women in Las Vegas (when he is in a trance and wants to marry a lot of girls and go to a chapel). He then spends some time as a lover of Persephone in the Underworld when they have dinner and talk about them (this highly implies he's not yet met Juniper).

Video Game
Grover is one of the main characters in the video game for The Lightning Thief. He has no resistance or vulnerability to any types of moves.

Trivia

 * His favorite song to play on his reed pipes is "Muskrat Love."
 * His favorite food are cheese enchiladas, with a minor love for chicken enchiladas.
 * Grover was the last Searcher.
 * Grover found or protected all the children of the Big Three in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: Thalia, Percy, Nico, and Bianca
 * In the books he is Caucasian, but in the film, he is African-American.
 * Grover is known to have had a crush on a blueberry bush and Artemis, because of her love for nature. He acts on his crush in The Titans Curse when he is one of the first to join the quest to save her, and apologizes to Percy later for this.
 * Grover is a member of the Council of Cloven Elders.
 * Grover was the first Searcher to return from searching for Pan alive.
 * Along with Gleeson Hedge, Grover is the only known satyr who has a surname.
 * When he plays "YMCA" on his reed pipes, the strawberry bushes at Camp Half-Blood try to strangle him.