Travis Stoll

"Come on, guys. Let's give Annabeth some space. We've got a drugstore to raid... I mean visit."

- Travis in The Last Olympian.

Travis Stoll is a demigod attending Camp Half-Blood. He is a son of Hermes, and loves to play practical jokes and steal things with his younger brother, Connor Stoll. They both took this trademark from their father, Hermes. Percy differentiates Travis from his sibling, Connor, due to their height.

The Lightning Thief
Travis does not appear in this book, but in The Sea of Monsters it is mentioned that Percy first met him while they were in the Hermes cabin together. Percy tells him and his brother a joke about how their surname "Stoll" sound just like the word "stole" and it was ironic that their dad was the god of thieves, but they didn't get the joke.

The Sea of Monsters
Because Luke betrayed the camp, Connor and Travis are now the councellers of the Hermes' cabin. Percy says he can never remember who is older, although later in the series it was that Travis is the older sibling. In the chariot races, Travis and Connor manned the Hermes chariot. Percy states that he shudders to think what schemes they have cooked up. Unfortunately, right after the race begins, they ram into the Apollo chariot and both chariots flipped over.

In the next race, the Stoll brothers attack Clarisse in the Ares chariot with javelins. They fall behind as Connor has a fierce fight with Clarisse as Travis drives. They end up coming in third, behind Percy's chariot and the Ares chariot.

The Titan's Curse
When Percy first arrives at camp, he sees Travis and Connor trying to break into the camp store. In the game of Capture the Flag against the Hunters they are both on defense with Percy and a few others. Unfortunately, they both get wounded by the hunter Phoebe and Connor ends up with two arrows in his helmet.

Later, when Chiron calls a meeting, Travis and Connor go to represent the Hermes cabin. Connor and Travis give Zoe a collector's T-shirt to give to Phoebe. It is later revealed that the T-shirt was sprayed with poisonous centaur blood and that Aphrodite gave it to them so that Percy could go on the quest.

Travis and Conner also try to teach Nico that Poker is much better game than Mythomagic.

The Battle of the Labyrinth
When Percy arrives at camp, he sees Connor and Travis in the driveway of the Big House, trying to hot-wire the camp's SUV. In the scorpion war game, they are paired together, which is no surprise, because they do everything together. They aren't very stealthy, as Percy and Annabeth both hear them stumbling through the woods, cursing.

They both attend the war council with the other head counselors of the other cabins. Travis offends Clarisse by saying she is too chicken to enter the Labyrinth, which he then says he didn't mean to get her so upset. They both fight bravely in the Battle of the Labyrinth and both survived.

The Demigod Files
Connor and Travis were both interviewed by Rick Riordan, they told him about the Golden Mango prank they pulled on the Aphrodite Cabin. They tossed a mango painted gold into the cabin with the words for the hottest on it so they would fight each other for it. They ended up getting busted however and the Aphrodite campers used permanent makeup on him so he looked like a clown for a month, while Connor's clothes were made two sizes too small.

This prank mirrors the prank Eris pulled on Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite by tossing a golden apple between them and the three fought over it, eventually leading to the Judgement of Paris and the Trojan War.

The Last Olympian
Travis and his brother attend the war council that Chiron calls. Neither of them seem to be bothered by the fact that Clarisse isn't speaking to any of them. When Percy mentions that there is a spy, Connor says that they have suspected a spy for years and that it is probably someone who knew Luke well. He glances at Annabeth, but then quickly looks away, stating "It could be anybody".

It is revealed that the Stoll brothers have somewhat of a rivalry with Katie Gardner, the head counselor of the Demeter cabin ever since they decorated the roof of her cabin with chocolate Easter bunnies. Travis and Connor both get very angry when she suggests that the spy is one of Luke's siblings. When Percy says that Kronos must have another attack planned, Travis tells him that he did, but then Percy blew up his ship. They both later attend Beckendorf's funeral.

They both come along with most of the camp when Percy calls them into the city and they go up to Olympus. Their father, Hermes arrives and is not happy. It is unknown if this was the first time Travis and Connor met him, but they don't speak to him, and are happy when Annabeth tells them to lead the group into the city, giving them an important job right in front of their dad.

After a while they run back in and show Percy and Annabeth that Morpheus put the entire island of Manhattan to sleep. Both brothers are interested of taking advantage of the sleeping city and raid a candy store, which Katie Gardner scolds them for. Connor takes half of the Hermes cabin and defends the Manhattan Bridge, and Travis takes the other half and defends the Brooklyn Bridge. Most of them survive.

Travis leads a small group of demigods in a raid of a close by drug store for medicine and painkillers. He stays in fairly good shape throughout the battle, not being majority wounded and continuing to fight throughout the battle, implying he is a decent fighter. After Silena's death, Travis and Connor ask Percy about her death. He refuses to let her be known as a spy, although they had already heard it. They discuss the advantage of the elevator and tell him they already tried to disable it, but it is magic and they can't. Connor complains that there are no more reinforcements, giving Percy the idea to send a message to Nico.

After the battle, Travis and his brother come to Olympus and report to Percy that his parents and Chiron are alive. Travis ultimately survives and Connor does as well, and they head back to camp to share the duty as the counselors of the much-less-crowded Hermes cabin. Both brothers were involved on the eavesdropping of Percy and Annabeth and it was Connor who has the idea of throwing them in the lake.

The Lost Hero
Travis sat at the campfire when Jason Grace was given his quest and was the first to think Annabeth would go on the quest. Travis was also seen trying to light a ping pong ball on fire at the council meeting. (Apparently, it worked, since Chiron asked him to extinguish it when the meeting started.)

Abilities
It is not mentioned what supernatural powers Hermes has, but this much can be gleaned from what he is known for.
 * Hermes is the god of thieves, so Travis might have a supernatural way of stealing things without others noticing.
 * Hermes is the god of speed, travel and roadways, and is the messenger of the gods. His children might be able to teleport places (Luke did this at the end of The Lightning Thief).
 * Hermes is the god of athletes, so they should be athletic.
 * Travis may inherit Hermes' persuasiveness, being the god of thieves.
 * Travis is a practical joker and can be very cunning.

Personality
"They are both so unlike my old enemy Luke that it's hard to believe they're all sons of Hermes."

- Percy

Travis is a fun-loving and mischievous prankster. But he is also nice, loyal and brave enough to be willing to fight for Olympus and his father, Hermes. He likes to play pranks, and is also quite a pickpocket. He takes these traits from his father, Hermes, and share them with his brother, Connor. They are seen by Percy trying to pick the lock on the camp store and trying to hijack the camp's SUV. Because of their mischievous ways, they are not on good terms with some people. Katie Gardner has had a rivalry with them since they decorated the Demeter's cabin's roof with chocolate Easter bunnies. They are also shown to dislike Clarisse but have always gotten along with Percy. Percy states that they are pretty nice guys, but one should always keep one hand on your wallet when they are around and never give them access to shaving cream "unless you want to find your sleeping bag full of it". He and his brother Connor also played a prank on the Aphrodite cabin by spray painting a mango gold and wrote "For the hottest" on it and leaving it in the Aphrodite's cabin while they were at archery class so the cabin would start fighting over it. The Stoll brothers said that when they came back the girls had all started fighting over it. They were ripping each others' clothes and throwing lipstick, jewelry, and Gucci shoes out the windows. Eventually the cabin found out and put Permanent Makeup on the brothers' faces, and Travis commented that he "looked like a clown for a month."

Appearance
Travis is tall and skinny with a mop of curly brown hair that hangs in his blue eyes. Like most of the other children of Hermes, he has upturned eyebrows, a sarcastic smile and a gleam in his eyes, and freckles. He has a crooked smile to match his personality and is a little bit taller than his brother, Connor, which is the only way people can tell them apart.

Name Etymology
Being the sons of Hermes, the god of thieves, Percy jokes about their last name "Stoll" as it is a homonym for "stole". However, neither Travis nor Connor appear to understand the joke.

Also, the character Travis Stoll may be inspired by a real person of the same name. In the acknowledgments of "The Lightning Thief," Rick Riordan thanks his "cadre of middle-school beta testers," including "Travis Stoll, clever and quick as Hermes." Also, on Riordan's website it says that Travis Stoll was one of his former student.

His name is also a play on Travel as Hermes is the God of Travelers.