Piper McLean

"Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loved. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good times. Good deeds. Not just looking good. Silena made mistakes, but in the end she stood by her friends. That's why she's a hero. I'm going to set things right, and I've got a feeling Mom will be on my side. Want to find out?"

- Piper challenges Drew.

Piper McLean is one of the main character in The Heroes of Olympus. Piper is the demigod daughter of Aphrodite and a Cherokee movie star, Tristan McLean. She is also the new counselor of the Aphrodite Cabin, after she challenges Drew to a battle. According to Leo and her memories, 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, although later she decides she still likes him. She is unsure whether Jason likes her back, though, at the beginning of The Lost Hero.

Family
"...if those girls found out the truth about her dad, they'd all be bowing down to her screaming, 'We're not worthy!'."

- Leo

Piper's father is Tristan McLean, a well known actor with a powerful position and is of Cherokee descent. Her father is always at work and busy. Piper wants her to feel recognized by him which is why she gets in trouble and "steals" things (charmspeaking).

Her mother is Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and lust.

Description
"Beautiful. Piper, you ... you're a knockout."

- Jason's reaction when Aphrodite claims Piper.

Piper is a gorgeous girl of Cherokee decent. At first, she has chocolate brown hair that is cut choppy and uneven. Her eyes change color like a kaleidoscope going from brown, to blue and green. She wears faded jeans, a snowboarding jacket and hiking boots. After being claimed by Aphrodite, Piper appeared even more beautiful, due to Aphodite's blessing. Piper's hair had turned thick, long, lush braided with gold ribbons so it fell across one shoulder. She wore a beautiful white sleeveless Greek dress that went down to her ankles and a low V-neck, perfect makeup, delicate gold armbands on her biceps, a necklace of amber, coral, and gold flowers on her chest. Unfortunately, when Aphrodite claimed her, this meant she had to lose her snowboarding jacket, and obtain magical makeup and hairdo, which Piper was not pleased about. Later during her quest, after her mother "fixed" her up again, she was dressed in a turquoise dress with black leggings and black boots. She wears her favorite silver charm bracelet and her snowboarding jacket, and it went well together.

Personality
Piper is cute and lovable but also violent. She is very caring and loving towards Jason and is frightened, sad and angry at any thing that may pose a threat to her bond with him, she also becomes violent, aggressive 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. She also likes to touch Jason in very intimate and loving ways such as holding his hand, leaning against his chest, resting her head on his leg, wrapping her arms around him and having his arms around her, probably since they were together in her Mist-manipulated memories. Compared to the other children of Aphrodite, Piper is much more aggressive and down to earth, not focusing on themselves and their looks constantly. Before she was claimed by Aphrodite, Piper expressed that she wanted to be the daughter of Athena, Artemis or any goddess that wasn't Aphrodite, and when she was claimed, she didn't fit in at all, and still doesn't. According to Rachel, the oracle, she thinks even Annabeth wants Piper to be a child of Athena. Aphrodite herself also said that she was much smarter than most of her other children. She also does not like when Drew bullies the other Aphrodite children. Piper can charmspeak people. She a vegetarian.

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 is wrong with him. Shortly afterwards 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 sky-walk, until only she, Dylan, Leo, Jason and Coach Hedge are left. As Piper loses control of 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 along with his fellow Venti (plural form of Ventus). Piper tries to fight the Venti along Jason with Hedge's baseball bat as weapon but when she hits Dylan to prevent him from taking Jason, she is thrown off the skywalk by Dylan. Jason jumps after her and saves her, stopping in midair before flying back up safely to the skywalk.

Dylan takes Hedge away after Hedge saved Leo. The three 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 too 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 in the Aphrodite cabin and learns of her ability to use charmspeak.

The next day, Piper, Jason, and Leo take Leo's new "pet dragon", Festus, and begin their quest. They arrive in Quebec and they visit Boreas and they meet his children including Khione. While she is sleeping, they fall of the dragon and they crashland into a supposedly abandoned car shop. But they don't know that cyclopes live there. Jason and Piper are held captive, but Leo rescues them and they find out he has fire abilities. After they escape, they stop to rest but they meet Medea who nearly causes Jason and Leo to turn against each other, but Piper gets them out of the trance and they fight Medea. They also find Coach Hedge and the storm spirits to trade with Aeolus. When they escape, the building explodes.

Soon, Festus crash lands again and they fall in front of a mansion. Inside they meet king Midas and Jason helps them escape after Leo and Piper get turned to gold, by calling down lightning. After they get turn back to normal they run into Lycaon and the rest of his pack but the hunters save them. Thalia, Artemis's lieutenant and Jason's sister leads them to Aeolus's palace before getting separated when the ice bridge crumbles. They meet Mellie the aura and they meet Aeolus who, in the end, tries to kill them on the order of their patron. When they escape winds shoot them to California. They confront the giant Enceladus to rescue Piper's dad, Tristan McLean. After that they go to the wolf house to rescue Hera. They find out that Khione has been spying on them and they plan to help the rise of Porphyrion, the giant king. They battle against her until Porphrion rises and Jason keeps him occupied while piper and Leo try to cut Hera free.

Abilities

 * She has the power of charmspeaking, allowing her to influence others with her opinion. She is such a powerful charmspeaker that she put Gaea to sleep near the end of The Lost Hero and brought Jason back to life after he saw Hera in her Divine Form.
 * She can read body language.It is unknown if it is a skill or an ability.
 * She can speak perfect French naturally, as a child of Aphrodite usually can, because it is considered the "language of love".
 * Like most other demigods, she has ADHD and dyslexia.

Weapons/Items
Piper uses the dagger Katoptris, a wedding gift for Helen of Troy. The dagger seems to show a scene of something that has importance to whoever looks at their reflection in the blade.

Trivia

 * Leo calls her "Beauty Queen" ever since she was claimed by Aphrodite, much to her dismay.
 * Leo also once referred to her as "Pipes", which she also did not like, but apparently prefers it when her dad calls her so. Leo notices that Piper 'does not like any of the names he makes up for her'.
 * She calls Jason " Sparky " in the same way that Annabeth calls Percy " Seaweed Brain "