Thalia Grace

"I will not turn sixteen tomorrow. I will never turn sixteen. I won't let this prophecy be mine. I stand with my sister Artemis. Kronos will never tempt me again."

- Thalia Grace

Thalia Grace is a Greek half-blood daughter of Zeus. Her Mother was a TV actress with the surname Grace, but because Thalia was never close to her mother, she doesn't like to use her mother's surname. Her brother (revealed in "The Lost Hero") is Jason Grace. She was a friend of Annabeth (niece) and Luke (nephew) on their journey to Camp Half-Blood years ago before Percy Jackson. She was turned into a pine tree by her father, Zeus upon their arrival at camp in which she sacrifced herself to save the lives of Annabeth, Luke, and Grover. She is was then later revived by the Golden Fleece in The Sea of Monsters when it "worked its magic too well". In The Titan's Curse, she later joined the Hunters of Artemis to prevent herself from being the hero of the Great Prophecy.

History
Thalia is a daughter of Zeus. Her mother was a beautiful actress but was also an alcoholic. Zeus had to keep coming to her house to give her presents, but left because Thalia's mother kept pushing him to grant her eternal beauty or to visit Olympus. For this reason, Thalia was not on good terms with her. Therefore, she ran away from her home. The true reason was that her brother Jason, disappeared, as said in The Lost Hero. In The Last Olympian, when the Titan Prometheus calls Thalia 'Thalia Grace', she is said to have stiffened up and replied, "'''That's my mother's surname. I don't use it." '''Her mother died in a car accident two years before Thalia's resurrection.

Thalia had a little brother, Jason. When he was two, their mother gave Jason to the mysterious "Lupa", a she-wolf and the Roman counterpart activities director of Chiron at the Roman Camp Half-Blood. That was the last straw for staying with her mom, and ran away soon after. They were reunited thirteen years later in The Lost Hero, much to Thalia's joy, as she (and Chiron) believed he was dead.

After she ran away she met Luke Castellan, and they teamed up together. It is assumed that they started a romantic relationship. Luke and Thalia wandered around, and eventually ran into Annabeth Chase, a plucky seven year old. Luke admired her courage, and gave her his knife, and promised that he wouldn't fail her like her family had.

Eventually, Chiron found out about Thalia, Luke and Annabeth and sent out a Protector to retrieve them (Grover Underwood). Together, the quartet traveled to Camp Half-Blood but were chased by monsters from the Underworld. They would have escaped, except for the fact that a Cyclops stopped them so that monsters could catch up. The cyclops held Thalia, Luke, and Grover in the air to direct the monsters in their direction, but Annabeth saved them by stabbing the Cyclops in the foot.

The monsters began to catch up, so Thalia made the ultimate sacrifice: she elected herself to stay behind so they could make it safely to Half-Blood Hill. It is unknown whether she actually fought the monsters or not, but she most likely fought them and was mortally wounded. Zeus, feeling sorry for his daughter, saved her life by turning her into a pine tree, Thalia's tree. This tree became a constant barrier against monsters and mortals unless they were invited by someone inside.

Physical Description
Thalia has shoulder length spiky black hair, electric blue eyes, and freckles across her nose. She is described as being "extremely pretty" by fellow campers and Apollo, (in The Titan's Curse, when he says "Man, I hate it when pretty girls get turned into trees,") and is "beautiful", according to Artemis. She wears punk styled clothes, and she has a magic bracelet that turns into Aegis, a modified version of Athena's shield. In the books, Percy describes Thalia's sheild to have the head of Medusa imprinted in the center to strike fear into her opponent's hearts. Many campers and monsters cower at the sight of Medusa's head on Thalia's shield. Thalia also carries a collapsible mace canister which changes into a spear.

Thalia has been described as "punk" or "goth" with a forever present silver circlet on her head, which looks like a tiara and according to Percy, symbolizing her position as the first lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis.

Thalia makes another appearance in The Lost Hero, where Leo, upon immediately seeing her, developed a crush on Thalia. He thought Thalia was way too pretty to be Jason's sister, and over the fire, Leo thought she looked like the goddess Khione, just as cold and beautiful. Leo also states that "Nahh, (while assuring Jason) we were absolutely destined to meet your hot sister," although Thalia ignored this completely.

The Lightning Thief
In The Lightning Thief, Thalia is mentioned once in one of Percy's dreams. Curiously, she was said to have stormy green eyes.

The Sea of Monsters
In The Sea of Monsters Thalia's tree is poisoned and the magical borders around camp are failing. Clarisse is sent on a mission to find the Golden Fleece and revive the tree, but Percy and Annabeth don't want to risk Clarisse failing, and also go on a separate quest.

Percy asks Annabeth about Thalia, and whether she would have agreed with Luke. Annabeth was exasperated by the question, and asked Percy if he would ever betray Olympus, of which the answer was no. Annabeth said that Thalia got angry with her father a lot, but her personality and heart resembled Percy, and she would never have betrayed her family.

Thalia later appeared in Percy's dreams and it is shown she might be the one to bring back Kronos to life.

She comes back to life to conclude the second book after Clarisse places the Golden Fleece on her tree, which is good and bad because it means that Thalia can also be the one of the prophecy and Kronos would take advantage of that. Annabeth, Grover and Chiron are stunned at Thalia's return. Curiously, again, they say she has electric blue eyes, counterparting Riordans first mention of Thalia, when he said she had stormy green eyes.

Westover Hall
Grover is sent on a mission to find more half-bloods, and he sends a distress call from a military school, Westover Hall where he has found two. Thalia, Percy, and Annabeth go to Westover Hall, at the time of the school dance. Thalia manipulated the Mist to trick a resident teacher, but it doesn't convince the vice principal, Dr. Thorn, who is a Manticore. Thorn takes the two demigods Bianca and Nico di Angelo, and Percy goes after them, ignoring Thalia's orders to wait. Thorn is about to take the demigods away when Grover, Thalia and Annabeth arrive, but he is thwarted by Artemis and her hunters. Annabeth tries to protect her friends but ends up disappearing with the Manticore. Thalia is upset the hunters have arrived, especially their lieutenant Zoe Nightshade.

Thalia is disgusted when Bianca joins the hunt. Artemis sends the campers and hunters with he brother Apollo to go to Camp Half-Blood. Thalia is frightened when Apollo allows her to drive his sun chariot and terrifies Percy and Grover with her driving. They land in camp where Apollo slyly warns Thalia to be good, knowing something she didn't.

The groups is greeted by Chiron and Mr. D. Percy and Dionysus get into an argument, but when Nico distracted Mr. D, Thalia took Percy away and warned him not to get on another god's bad side. Percy is still distressed by Annabeth's disappearance, and Thalia agrees that they should not give up hope on her.

The Quest
Zoë asks for the quest, and Chiron gives it to her. They decide to take two Campers, and three Hunters. Thalia quickly volunteers. In the end the group is: Zoë, Thalia, Phoebe, Bianca, and Grover. Percy is shocked and upset that he can't go.

(After going back to his cabin Chiron comes in and when Percy sets down his sword. He hints that that just may be the reason Zoe doesn't want Percy coming along.)

However, the Stoll brothers give Phoebe a poisoned T-shirt that covers her in painful hives as revenge for Phoebe's actions against them in Capture the Flag. Even though they only have four questors, Zoë insists they leave, because she does not want anyone else to be in danger, but Percy follows them, determined to rescue Annabeth.

The Hunters, Thalia, and Grover stop at a museum after many hours and from a distance Percy sees Dr. Thorn confirming that Annabeth is alive and that his dream had been true. Dr. Thorn does not go into the museum with the rest of them and instead goes somewhere else. Percy follows, and soon he sees the General and Luke.

Percy quickly escapes using Annabeth's cap and notifies Thalia and the others. Though the group (Zoë and Thalia in particular) was rather surprised and angry (especially Zoe) to realize he had followed them, they are interrupted when the Nemean lion attacks. Nothing is able to pierce its armor, much to the displeasure of the group. However, Percy discovers a weakness and has an idea to expose it. He finds astronaut food in a gift shop and throws them into the Nemean lion's mouth. It causes the creature to expose his mouth long enough for Zoë to finish him off with an arrow.

Percy soon encounters Apollo again when they get on a train headed west. Apollo advises him to seek out Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.

Thalia and Percy both sit together, and Percy discovers that Artemis had offered to make her a Hunter, and that is why she didn't like them. Thalia is quiet at first, and then tells him that she didn't join them because of Luke, and then says that Annabeth had been thinking about joining them, and that he should figure out why.

New Mexico
With help from Apollo, they reach a small town in New Mexico. There they are surrounded by the skeletal warriors. Grover then senses Pan's presence and a wild gift from him, the Erymathian Boar. The boar comes to carry them further on to San Francisco. It takes them to the junkyard of the gods, and Percy meets Ares and talks to Aphrodite, at which point it is hinted that Annabeth and Percy will most likely have a romantic future, and she warns him against picking up anything in her husband's junkyard.

Eventually, the group enters the junkyard, where Bianca tries to steal something, but she awakens a defective Talos and enters via a maintenance hole in his left foot to destroy him. She succeeds in destroying Talos, but goes missing. At this time it is undetermined if she is alive or dead. Zoe is devastated and searches for Bianca. To no success. All of them realize that Bianca was the one they would lose in the land without rain.

Mount Tamalpais
They go to see Annabeth's father in San Francisco to ask for help and he lends them his car, which cannot be returned to him as it explodes due to a lightning bolt that Kronos threw to make Thalia angry at her father. Thalia is shaken by this, thinking that Zeus tried to kill her, remembering the part of the prophecy one shall die by the parent's hand, but Percy comforts her and tells her it is just Kronos, trying to make her angry with her father. His words convince her, and she manages to stay focused.

They all then climb to the Garden of the Hesperides, where Zoë meets her sisters and is poisoned by the dragon, Ladon. They continue to the place where Atlas used to hold up the sky, and they see Artemis taking on his burden. Annabeth is bound and gagged by Luke and Atlas.

They discover that Kronos used Thalia to twist destiny into her hands, since she would be turning sixteen on the day following the Winter Solstice.

Thalia demands answers from Luke, as to why he has betrayed them all, and Luke tries to pacify her, but she takes out her spear and says," you're not Luke, I don't know who you are anymore." and attacks him.

Thalia and Luke battle each other fiercely, fierce anger on Thalia's side, desperation on Luke's. Thalia gaining the upper hand, and in the battle, Thalia manages to take his weapon, saying that he could never beat her. Luke tries to grab his weapon, and as pure instinct, Thalia kicks him, and Luke falls into a chasm. She is very shocked and sad, having tears in her eyes having done so, that she just killed Luke, but it is confirmed by Poseidon that the traitorous demigod had survived. Thalia decides to become a hunter of Artemis at the end of the book.

The Battle of the Labyrinth
Thalia was absent from Camp Half-Blood this summer due to her adventures Artemis and the Hunters, but she is mentioned once by Percy when talking to Hera, the goddess of marriage, about Zeus and Ms. Grace's past relationship.

The Last Olympian
Thalia and the Hunters come to New York City to help the campers to help fight Kronos's army off, and the Campers are very relieved to see them. Thalia says she has been on a great many adventures, and she, Annabeth, and Percy promise to buy cheeseburgers after the battle and talk about what they've been doing since they saw each other last.

Thalia goes with Percy, Annabeth, and Grover to Mount Olympus to defeat Kronos, but she ends up getting left behind when a statue of Hera that was actually intended to fall upon Annabeth falls on her instead. However, she appears to survive and continue to work in Artemis's Hunters, and will presumably be immortal for the rest of time, unless she falls in love or dies in combat, or if she decides to leave, as her joining the Hunters was only to escape the Great Prophecy.

The Lost Hero
Thalia was mentioned in the beginning to be searching for Percy with the Hunters. Later she was talked about when Jason being a son of Zeus (Roman counterpart: Jupiter) sees a picture of her in Cabin one to which he stares at before Annabeth comes in. After a conversation about Thalia's past life with Annabeth and Luke, Jason asks what her last name was to which Annabeth responds "Grace". After remembering his dream about Lupa saying he was their "saving Grace", Jason claims to be her brother. Later on in the story, after Jason meets Lycaon king of the wolves, Thalia and the Hunters kill some of Lycaon's wolves and managed to injure Lycaon himself before they fled. After sending Piper and Coach Hedge off to Phoebe to heal Piper's injuries Thalia and Jason talk about Jason's life before he disappeared.

After their talk about Jason's life they move on to Jason's quest and how they can get to Aeolus. Thalia shows them the way to Aeolus' palace but splits up with Jason, Piper, and Leo to join the Hunters to protect Hera so that while Jason's group could rescue Piper's dad, the Hunters could protect Hera until Jason arrives. While Jason was away to see Aeolus, Thalia and the Hunters were attacked by Lycaon and his wolves. After Jason gets back with Leo and Piper from saving Piper's dad they meet up with Thalia, who says nothing worked on the cage and they should just leave Hera. Hera and Thalia fight, ending with Thalia leaving, but first she tells Hera every bad thing she did to children of Zeus, ending with Thalia reminding Hera that they are at the spot when Hera took Jason. Later, Jason, Piper, Leo, and Thalia were ambushed by Khione and Thalia was frozen by her, along with the rest of the Hunters. Soon after Thalia was frozen, Leo fought Khione while Jason and Piper battled and defeated the venti and the Earthborns. Quickly after, the Giant Porphyrion was reawakened by the powers of Gaea and Hera was being buried by Gaea. Like the prophecy Jason had recieved "The forge and dove shall break the cage", Leo, a son of Hephaestus (forge) and Piper, a daughter of Aphrodite (dove), worked together to break Hera's cage with Leo trying to saw of the lock of the cage while Piper used charmspeaking to slow Gaea down.

Meanwhile Jason was distracting the Giant Porphyrion taking him on barehanded. While Jason distracted the giant, Leo and Piper finally broke Hera's cage free. The fight between Jason was quickly over with Jason on the floor and Porphyrion's spear at his chest. Just before Porphyrion struck, Hera quickly assumed her Divine Form while telling everyone to look away. Jason was too tired and was nearly killed. Thalia is then seen telling Hera to save Jason. After Piper telling him to awaken, he did as everyone around him gathered. As Jason got up, Hera was arguing with Thalia but Piper told them to stop. Before Hera sent Jason, Piper, and Leo back, Thalia had told Jason she would attend the council meeting at camp. At the council, Thalia didn't show up but Chiron had said she had other matters to attend to.

Powers and Abilities

 * Thalia is an extremely powerful half-blood and is on par in strength and abilities with Percy, Jason, Bianca & her brother Nico because they are also children of the Big Three.
 * Thalia can send powerful amounts of static shock throughout another person's body on contact.
 * Thalia can manipulate the Mist, which means she can make things as she wants them to appear to the eyes of a mortal (taught to her by Chiron).
 * Things that belong to her father's domain can do as she asks, such as statues of the angels in The Titan's Curse, which were gifts to her father. They, on her request, flew her and her friends to San Francisco.
 * Thalia has a strong leadership quality, possibly a result of being the daughter of Zeus.
 * Thalia has electrokinesis (control over electricity and lightning) due to Zeus, the god of lightning, being her father.
 * It is assumed that Thalia has aerokinesis (the ability to control air) like her brother Jason, as her father Zeus is Lord of the Sky, but has not used it due to her acrophobia, fear of heights.
 * Thalia became Artemis' lieutenant (replacing Zoë Nightshade) in the end of The Titan's Curse, and as a result she is immortal, unless she falls in battle, chooses to leave, or falls in love.
 * ADHD, which actually is heightened alertness that keeps half-bloods ready and alive for battle.
 * Dyslexia, since her brain is hard-wired for reading Ancient Greek instead of modern languages.

Weapons

 * A copy of Aegis that expands from a shiny silver metal bracelet that she wears on her wrist, which many of the campers and monsters cower. In front, it has a picture of Medusa's head in the middle of her shield.
 * A collapsible spear that expands from a Mace canister that she uses to manipulate her powers.
 * A Hunter's bow after joining the Hunters.
 * Two hunting knives that she can use to send electro blasts from the curved blades.

Fatal flaw
It is implied that she has a weak resistance when she is offered power (mirroring Zeus's power struggle with his brothers, as she also conflicted with Percy over capture the flag). She is also afraid of heights, a quality Percy finds strange and funny, as her father is the Lord of the Sky. In the short story, The Sword of Hades, in The Demigod Files, she also shows to be very determined. Thalia has trouble abandoning a difficult task that she has started but is not able to complete.

She also feels massive amounts of guilt about her brother going missing when he was little, as she more or less raised him on her own (her mother was unstable); she had believed for years that her mother had killed or abandoned him on a family vacation. She never told anyone about this when she ran away, not even Luke or Annabeth.

Film
The role of Thalia has not yet been cast, but is mentioned in a deleted scene in The Lightning Thief DVD by Grover Underwood. Since she is not seen until Sea of Monsters, she probably won't be cast until Sea of Monsters starts production.

Trivia

 * If Thalia had never been turned into a pine tree, according to her date of birth, she would be 21, so the prophecy would have landed on her, not Percy, but her aging slowed during her time as a tree, so at the conclusion of "The Titans Curse" she had not yet reached 16 years of age. Consequently, upon joining the Hunters of Artemis, she is a day younger than 16 years of age, leaving Percy responsable for the next Great Prophecy.
 * In Greek mythology, Thalia is the name of the muse of comedy.
 * Thalia, ironically, has a fear of heights even though her father, Zeus, is the god of the sky.
 * Since Zeus' godly children are Persephone, Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Athena, Dionysus, Hephaestus; any of their offsprings would result in Thalia having numerous nieces and nephews. This would result in the Ares, Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus, Hephaestus and Athena's cabins having Thalia as an aunt. Also, this makes Annabeth her niece, Luke her nephew, Percy her cousin, because Poseidon is Zeus' brother, and Nico and Bianca di Angelo her cousins because Hades is Zeus' brother, also. Since all the original 12 Olympians (with Dionysus, not Hestia) except Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, and Demeter, and Aphrodite were children of Zeus, nearly all half-bloods at Camp before the Last Olympian were related to Thalia and Jason.

More Information

 * The Muses - Thalia - muse of comedy
 * Jason Grace - younger brother
 * Percy Jackson - cousin
 * Annabeth Chase - niece
 * Zeus - father of Thalia and Jason
 * Mrs. Grace - Thalia and Jason's mortal mom (deceased in series)