Clarisse La Rue

Clarisse La Rue is one of the major characters in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Character's background
Clarisse La Rue is one of the children of Ares. She is hot-tempered, arrogant, big, tall, and strong. She is also known as a bully in Camp Half-Blood. Clarisse is a well-trained camper, which can be a bad thing depending on whose side she's on, and shows mastery at using her favorite weapon, an electrical spear that was given to her by her father- which Percy manages to break. In the second book, she brings the Golden Fleece back to Camp Half Blood, with help from Percy and his friends, to heal Thalia's tree. She believes that all problems are solved by blowing them up; as shown when confronting Charybdis, the whirlpool monster. She is stubborn and has a deep dislike of Percy, because he managed to humiliate her on all of her attempts to bully him when they first met in The Lightning Thief, but starts to respect Percy after he helps her recover the stolen chariot in The Demigod Files. It was also in that book that Ares established a grudge against Percy and so Clarisse feels she must hate Percy as well out of loyalty to her father. Clarisse does her best to continue disliking Percy, even in the face of all his selfless acts toward her. But her loyalty and desire to please her father seems wasted as he is harsh toward her. In book two, The Sea of Monsters, while talking to Clarisse via an Iris message, Ares taunted and mocked her and proceeded to degrade her by saying she was not as good as her brothers, which made her angry but nonetheless sad.

Clarisse is absent during the third book, and a member of the Ares cabin tells Percy that she is away on a secret scouting mission for Chiron, but has not been heard from and he considers her M.I.A. What this mission comprised of is revealed in The Battle of the Labyrinth, but it was apparently very difficult, as when she returned she was mildly scruffed-up and "didn't even try to pulverize Percy." She reported that Luke has been trying to get into camp through the Labyrinth.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, it is revealed that Clarisse's scouting mission involved her watching over one of the entrances to the Labyrinth near her mother's house in |Phoenix, Arizona. She finds a fellow half-blood, Chris Rodriguez, who was driven to insanity by Minos. She takes him back to Camp Half-Blood and tries to nurse him back to health and cries often because of Chris's condition, which shows she has strong feelings for him. Mr. D is able to reverse the insanity and the two are seen together, happy and holding hands at the campfire while singing camp songs.

At the end of The Last Olympian, she appears to at least have a sort of respect for Percy as she is among the campers that eavesdrop on him and Annabeth before throwing them into the lake. She is also vital in the final battle because Kronos had sent a Drakon to attack the Heroes and it was foretold only a child of Ares could slay it; but the cabin had been duped into not helping thanks to a spy in the camp. Finally they arrive when Silena dresses in Clarisse's armor and fools the cabin into joining the battle. After Silena is fatally wounded Clarisse charges the Drakon on her magic chariot and brings the beast down, avenging her friend. The deed also earned her the respect of her father who said it was the best Drakon slaying he had ever seen.

Power/Abilities

 * Like other half-bloods, Clarisse has ADHD, which is said to make half-bloods more aware in battles.
 * Clarisse has been trained in hand-to-hand combat during her stays at Half Blood Camp.
 * She is very strong and swift.
 * Clarisse may have some small degree of powers that Ares himself possesses.
 * Being a child of Ares would make her an expert in all weapon usage and may even have some degree of magical control over them.
 * In the fifth book, Clarisse received the blessing of Ares, which made her near invincible.

Weapons/Magical Items

 * A spear that can spark electricity. It was destroyed by Percy in a capture the flag game in The Lightning Thief.
 * A second electric spear called Maimer (also called Lamer) that was also destroyed when she used it to kill a drakon in The Last Olympian.
 * An ironclad warship courtesy of her father, Ares (destroyed by Charybdis on her quest for the Golden Fleece).
 * On occasion a chariot that belongs to her father that she may borrow. It may change form (motorcycle, tank, convertible, etc.)
 * Expert control over all weapons.

Film
Clarisse has not been cast in the film adaption of The Lightning Thief.