Piper McLean



Piper is a character in The Heroes of Olympus. 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 is of Cherokee descent who, according to Leo, has some sort of powerful position by saying, "...if those girls found out the truth about her dad, they'd all be bowing down to her screaming, 'We're not worthy!' " Her dad has been missing for three days since the start of the book, as has the title character of the previous series, Percy Jackson. She has never known her mother due to the fact her mother is one of the Olympian gods, though it is not known whom.

Physical Description
Piper is described as a cute girl wearing faded jeans, a snowboarding jacket and hiking boots. She has chocolate brown hair, which is cut "choppy and uneven". She also normally doesn't wear make-up. It is stated by Jason that her eyes seem to change color, going from brown to blue to green.

Personality
Piper's character is described by Jason as "cute, smart and violent" and as a girl he would even with amnesia remember. She is very caring towards Jason. Piper is frequently mocked by the other girls because of her father being Native American, but it is stated by Leo, that the others would "be all bowing down to her and screaming: 'We're not worthy'" if they knew who her dad was.

Its mentioned by some of the other girls at Wilderness School that she is 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).

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.