Annabeth Chase

Annabeth Chase is a female Demigod and the main love interest of Percy Jackson. She is the daughter of Athena, and has inherited some of her wisdom, although she still has the standard condition of ADHD and dyslexia, the latter of which gives her difficulty in spelling sometimes. Annabeth, is tall, athletic and tanned, and has blonde, curly hair, and intimidating but 'pretty' grey eyes. When they first met (other than when Percy was slipping in and out of conciousness) She reminded Percy of a stereotypical Californian girl, but her eyes 'ruined the image'. She and Percy start going out, after much flirting and romantic tension prior to the end of the 5th book. Her life ambition is to become an architect, and she is fascinated by famous structures. Annabeth has a troubled history with her father, whom she ran away from when she was seven after he remarried. Annabeth patched things up with her father at the end of The Sea of Monsters, and went to live with him in a cave after The Titan's Curse. She has a streak of gray in her hair as a souvenir of her holding up the sky in The Titan's Curse.

Her fatal flaw is Hubris or extreme pride, as made known in ''The Sea of Monsters. ''Another fatal flaw of her's could be her fear of spiders.

In the books
Annabeth is one of Percy's best friends throughout the books. They go on many quests together. Though they argue relentlessly, they actually have feelings for each other.

In The Lightning Thief
Annabeth first appears in The Lightning Thief and is twelve years old. She initially was nicknamed "Wise Girl".

She first met Percy Jackson after he was attacked by the Minotaur while fighting his way to the top of half-blood hill. While he is recovering from his battle wounds, she feeds him ambrosia and nectar, food of the Gods, in the Big House. The first words she spoke to him were, "You drool when you sleep," though this was once he was conscious, having earlier asked him about the Summer solstice when feeding him ambrosia. Afterward, she is very hostile until she hears that he is to go on quest and wants to go along, thinking Percy is "the one" from Chiron's prophecy. Together, Annabeth, Percy, and Grover go searching for Zeus's lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Annabeth showed her unique intelligence, which she inherited from her mother, as well as her arachnophobia that she shared with all of her siblings on her mother's side (originating from the story of Arachne and Athena). At the end of the book, Annabeth is deeply hurt by Luke's betrayal.

In The Sea of Monsters
Annabeth returned once again to help Percy save the camp, though this time as friends, the previous tension between them as a result of their parentage resolved at Percy's offer to put their differences aside. Together, they journeyed to the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which was essential in the effort to Thalia's tree at half-blood hill, thereby preserving the magical barrier to monsters around the Camp. A secondary goal (though not secondary to Percy) was to save Grover from Polyphemus, a huge cyclops, who had used the Golden Fleece to lure in unsuspecting satyrs searching for the long lost Pan. Annabeth hears the Sirens' song after convincing Percy to tie her to the mast and confirms that her fatal flaw is hubris, being a child of Athena. She learns to accept Tyson, Percy's young Cyclops brother, overcoming a "bad experience," with a cyclops as, Annabeth put it, that she had encountered in her past. When the foursome returned back to camp, Annabeth and Percy teamed up to win the chariot race waged between the cabins of the Camp. Following their victory, Annabeth's perpetual facade of calm cracked slightly when she kissed Percy on the cheek.

In The Titan's Curse
Annabeth was kidnapped after a battle with Dr. Thorn, a Manticore, and was taken prisoner by the Titan king Kronos' minions. The Oracle of Delphi gave one of her ever-cryptic prophecies, and off went Percy, Thalia, Grover, Bianca di Angelo (a young girl whom Percy, Annabeth and Thalia were attempting to recruit when Annabeth was taken) and the huntress Zoë Nightshade in pursuit. Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, convinced Percy about his love for Annabeth, though she also made it exceptionally harder for them to fall in love. Though Percy was originally not included in the quest, Hermes appeared to him and convinced him to follow. He was seemingly unable to leave the fate of his best friend in the hands of others. After a prolonged quest, which included the losses of Bianca De Angelo and Zoë Nightshade, the group arrived at the ruins of the Titans' palace, and found Annabeth a captive of Luke and Atlas, and the goddess Artemis who was struggling under the weight of the sky. Upon the reimprisonment of the Titan and the apparent death of Luke, Annabeth was saved by Percy and the others, along with her father, who strafed monsters chasing the group using celestial bronze bullets he made from Annabeth's materials that she left behind.

In The Battle of the Labyrinth
Annabeth was fifteen years old, and she and Percy find an entrance into the Labyrinth. She realizes that Luke may try to use this entrance to invade the camp and she is starting to realize she has feelings for Percy when she and Percy were supposed to go to the movies, alone, together. But is jealous when she finds out that Percy was accused of setting fire to his future school, (again) Goode High School, because Rachael Elizabeth Dare, a mortal girl, is with him. When he gets back from Ogygia, the island of Calypso, she knows that he is hiding something about where he was.

Annabeth leads the quest into the Labyrinth, fulfilling one of her ambitions at last. Annabeth descends into the Labyrinth with Percy, Grover, and Tyson to find a way to stop Kronos's evil forces from entering the borders of Camp Half-Blood by searching for its inventor, Daedalus. The prophecy the Oracle gave her appears to have scared her and she refuses to say the last line. As they go into the Labyrinth, they face many wonders. Annabeth faces a Sphinx and finds the riddles (which are actually factual questions) not challenging and an insult to her intellect. They escape the claws of the Sphinx and continue on to find Hephaestus so he can tell them about where to find Daedalus.

Annabeth believes that Percy dies when Mount St. Helens erupts but right before he goes in she kisses him, but this is not the case. Percy has instead been marooned on the island of Ogygia, where the sad but seductive Calypso resides. When she sees Percy return from Ogygia (whilst she is burning his shroud, believing him to be dead) she hugs him ferociously, scolding him; but quickly lets go when she realizes she is making a scene. Whilst she finds out what happened to Percy after he tells her and Chiron, she angrily leaves, figuring out where he was stranded, obviously jealous. Percy takes a human Rachel Elizabeth Dare, (much to Annabeth's delight, who is jealous of their closeness) to help them on their way through the labyrinth, and the three of them discover Luke, who has become Kronos's vessel. After a battle, Luke is forced back into the Labyrinth, leaving two casualties. Annabeth is last seen in Battle of the Labyrinth, leaving Percy on the hill, not looking back.

In The Last Olympian
Annabeth joins forces with the Campers and goes to New York City to save Manhattan from Kronos' army. At one point, she takes a poisoned knife for Percy, that Ethan was using to try to stab Percy. Percy gets Blackjack to fly her away, and takes Kronos on, and has to retreat.

She saves Percy and Olympus by finally realizing for whom the prophecy is truly meant for: Luke. She convinces Percy to give Luke her knife (that was given to her by Luke when she was seven) so he can stab himself, which would banish Kronos to Tartarus.

Annabeth is rewarded by the gods, now being able to fulfill her dreams and design the gods a new city on Olympus, as the old one was ruined by the battle, she is also allowed to design the new cabins.

She and Percy celebrate his 16th birthday privately, in the apparently empty dining pavillion of Camp Half-Blood. Percy attempts to tell her he has strong feelings for her, but she is amused, up until the point he states that she is not making it easy for him to admit it. She laughs and warns him that she 'will never ever make things easy for him,' and that he should get used to it, then kisses him. Clarisse and several other nosey campers eavesdrop on the whole episode, and they throw Percy and Annabeth into the canoe lake. But Percy creates an air bubble, and in there they share 'the best underwater kiss of all time'.

Powers/Abilities

 * Like other half-bloods, Annabeth has ADHD, which is supposed to make half-bloods more aware in battles, and like most other half-bloods she has dyslexia, due to the fact that she is 'hard-wired' from birth to read Ancient Greek and because of her instincts of fighting and being a daughter of Athena.


 * Annabeth is very knowledgeable in architecture, history and Greek myths, which is very useful in her journey and battles.
 * Annabeth is also a master strategist.
 * Annabeth is trained in hand-to-hand combat during her stays at Camp Half-Blood.
 * Annabeth is extremely intelligent, wise, and clever.
 * Due to the fact that she is a daughter of Athena, Annabeth is good at arts and crafts.
 * Annabeth is very skilled at using her knife, as Percy noted in The Last Olympian - "Somehow Annabeth caught the strike on her dagger hilt. It was a move only the quickest and most skilled knife fighter could have managed."

Romance
A key subplot in the series is the relationship between Annabeth, Percy, and Luke. Luke is Annabeth's hero and one of her first half-blood friends. Annabeth likes Percy, which she hints at, but she still has lingering feelings towards Luke. At the end of The Last Olympian, Luke shows slight feelings for her, sort of like an older brother. These feeling are present despite the fact that Luke and Percy are arch enemies and he has attempted to kill Percy numerous times. In The Sea of Monsters, it emerges that one of her life's wishes is to save Luke.

In the beginning of The Lightning Thief, Annabeth is shown to dislike Percy when she discovers that Percy is the hero of the prophecy (maybe also him being Poseidon's son). She thinks he is weak, and is influenced by the rivalry between her mother, Athena, and Percy's father, Poseidon. At the very end of The Sea of Monsters, Annabeth kisses Percy on the cheek after winning the chariot race. In The Titan's Curse, there are suggestions of some romance between Annabeth and Percy, although this is complicated by her lingering feelings towards Luke and the fact that her mother, Athena, disapproves of her "friendship" with Percy. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Annabeth finally expresses her feelings for Percy by kissing him good luck before vanishing using her Yankee's cap. When Percy returns, she is highly jealous, because she knows he has been with the sad yet seductive Calypso. It is implied that Percy is trying to tell Annabeth about his feelings, but Annabeth remains distant due to her lingering feelings towards Luke. In The Demigod Files short story the Bronze Dragon, Annabeth asks Percy out to the Fourth of July Fireworks, the biggest dating event of the summer at Camp Half-Blood. What they did is unknown.

In The Last Olympian, after the defeat of Kronos and the saving of Luke's soul, the romantic relationship between Percy and Annabeth is solidified. Annabeth confides to Luke as he dies that she always saw him as a brother, but never loved him. (Part of the prophecy demands that she understand Luke's 'family') Later, she and Percy share their third kiss after she tells him that she will never, ever make things easy for him. He describes it as if his brain felt it was melting through his body. But, nosy campers snoop on this and throw them into the camp lake. Then comes to a fourth kiss underwater in an air bubble made by Percy.

They are together as of the end of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is hinted that they might be married one day in the future, as Annabeth said she wanted "to build something permanent".

Fatal Flaw

 * Hubris, or deadly pride. Annabeth believes that she's able to do anything: get her parents back together, build great monuments, and save Luke as shown in The Sea of Monsters. She sometimes even thinks she could recreate the world, even better than how the gods did it.

Fear
Like all other Half-blood children of Athena, Annabeth has a immense fear of spiders, freezing up just when she sees one or anything that bears a close resemblance to them. This fear is because of Athena's bad history with Arachne the Goddess of spiders and Arachne's hatred of Athena. A long time ago, the goddess Arachne challenged Athena to see who could make the best tapestry. Athena accepted the challenge, and the two both made a tapestry. Athena's was of the gods punishing mortals for being to full of pride. Arachne's showed the gods in insulting ways. Athena destroyed the tapestry and turned Arachne into a spider out of rage (supposedly after Arachne tried to kill herself). Ironically Arachne could still probably use the web from her spinnerets to make silk. Ever since then Athena's children have been paranoid that every spider they see is out to get them.



Weapons/Magical Items

 * A magical Yankees cap that turns her invisible.
 * A celestial-bronze knife that she uses as a weapon. This knife was given to Annabeth by Luke. It was cursed when Luke betrayed Annabeth.
 * A laptop with ideas and information from Daedalus.
 * Used a video shield during The Last Olympian, made by Charles Beckendorf.
 * A necklace with beads from every year at Camp Half-Blood. It also has her father's college ring on it.

Film
In the film The Lightning Thief, Annabeth is portrayed by Alexandra Daddario. In the film, Annabeth is seen at Camp Half-Blood after Percy's battle with the Minotaur, fighting several campers at once and beats them all. She later takes on Percy during a game of Capture the Flag and easily defeats him, until he goes to the water to heal himself, which he then proceeds to fight her more forcefully and successfully disarms her. Later, Annabeth decides to go the quest with Percy and Grover. Medusa specifically wants to kill her because it was her mother, Athena, who cursed her. Percy saves her and she drives the car that knocks Medusa to the ground to give Percy time to escape. She is a formidable fighter and shows her book counterparts ability to react events that happened in Greek mythology, such as warning Percy about the Hydra and the story of Hercules and Hermes going to the Underworld.

Trivia

 * Although Annabeth is said to have a streak of grey in her hair (like Percy) as of The Titan's Curse due to having taken the weight of the sky from Atlas, throughout the rest of the series this is not mentioned once or no one seemed to notice.
 * Annabeth ran away from her home at the age of seven and then met Luke and Thalia.
 * Even though Luke is a bad guy, Annabeth continued to have feelings for him until he died and she then realized that she only loved him as a brother.